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I wanted someone to drag her out by her hair 😅 but her interference did lead to Thame claiming his man's space-- he went from taking it slowly to having Po get rid of his ex's clothing and moving his own things in, changing the mug and finally led to a healthy resolution, for Po, regarding those sandwiches. Without her interference and stoking Thame's jealousy (he gets jealous very easily), Thame would likely have been tamer. Po needed those firm but gentle kicks to his butt to fully let go of his parasitic ex.

I smiled the entirety of this episode and found myself blushing and kicking my feet like an overly excited and shy schoolgirl. which I haven't been in years. What a wonderful episode! A well-deserved round of applause to everyone involved. 👏🏽👏🏽

Their appearances, separately and together, are gifts for the eyes, but what I really appreciate about this duo is that they are both excellent actors. As a pairing, they are incredibly strong.

There are some duos that are as beautiful to look at, in their own unique ways, but either one or both lack the acting chops to keep me invested beyond the superficial appeasement phase. For example, I stopped watching THE HEART KILLERS because I couldn't get beyond Dunk's passable acting performance. He's OK, but when judged against Joong's, there's a clear difference. I always felt that Joong was the much better actor, but this was the first time I really saw that he was miles ahead of Dunk in the acting department and the discrepancy deflated my interest to such an extent that I stopped watching the series midway through episode 5.

😌 At least you were allowed a choice. Usually, I skip spoiler tagged comments until after I've watched a series in its entirety.

@romulo -- As @Itoldsunsetaboutmystar shared, the original commenter provided details of the story in the book this series is based upon. If the show follows the book's developments, then that person revealed things in their comment that wouldn't have been known to audience members who haven't read the book. I haven't read the book; therefore, I'm now anticipating developments that I wouldn't have before reading that comment. In a way, I'm now less excited about the series than I had been before reading that comment. I'm holding out hope, though, that the screenwriter changed certain details.

You likely didn't mean to do this, but you've provided a contextual spoiler within your comment. Now, those who haven't read the book and aren't interested in knowing details beforehand now know that something terrible is going to happen. Please think of turning on the SPOILER notice on your comment.

Spoiler warning would have been appreciated. I stopped reading your comment, as soon as I realized you were broadcasting story details I have no interest in knowing. You're responsible to place a spoiler warning on your comment to ensure those of us who aren't in the know don't receive carelessly delivered spoilers. If others spoiled for you, I'm sorry, but please think of the rest of us.

Your Sky-- Teerak and Muenfah's.

I loved this series.

I initially began watching the series due to the hype over the pairing of RealHia, but to my surprise I completely fell in love with the dynamics of the lead couple, Thomas (Muenfah) and Kong (Teerak). These youngsters are so sweet together, in a way normally reserved for female + male pairings. Both characters appear to be neurodivergent-- on the spectrum, in different ways. On the surface, Muenfah is emotionally cold and closed off to everyone, even with his younger brother, while Teerak is happily surrounded by the love of his parents and sister and is a sweet ray of sunshine who, unfortunately for him, has poor boundaries. When, due to circumstances, they come together, they address the under-developed aspects of each other's personalities and grow, slowly and naturally, in trust and love.

In the end, Meunfah gains a partner who loves him, deeply, despite his faults, and because he knows he's loved, regardless of those faults, he wants to change them to be a better man for his partner. This change also generates beautiful changes in his relationships with his own family members and friends. Teerak gains a partner who will always choose to be gentle with him, who will wholeheartedly love him and protect him, just as his mother, father and sister do, and that safety allows him to be more emotionally honest with those in his life, thereby setting gentle but necessarily firm boundaries with some problematic individuals. As with any healthy relationship, Meunfah and Teerak end up as each other's emotional safe spaces.

I'm thankful that the screenwriter chose to deviate from the usual shtick of having characters breaking each other's trust for dramatic effect. For other couples and dramas, that's fine, but for this couple, it was unnecessary.

I want to also add that the cinematography and directing were top-notch and all the support actors did excellent work! Thank you creators and actors for bringing your A-games.

And, yes, the RealHia story line was greatly entertaining. They're such cutie-pies. It was refreshing to have a series based in college where the majority of the actors looked the appropriate age for the characters they were portraying.

The Dr Lin character is played by Sam Lin, the same actor who portrayed Gao Shi De in WE BEST LOVE; so, I am all in if they decide to do a sequel focused on the doctor and Le.

Hi!

I hope you enjoy the 8 you have yet to watch. 😺

Regarding Eternal Yesterday, yes, it does have a sad ending, but it's such an incredibly beautiful love story. It addresses love, loss, grief and hope-- not just those feelings when they're tied to a romantic partner, but those we all eventually navigate by the very fact that we are lucky to have the gift of life. It's a reminder that we are truly blessed whenever we love and are loved.

These aren't necessarily similar to Love Mechanics and Jack & Joker, but they're excellent. If you've been watching a lot of BLs, you've likely seen some of them already. Good luck!

KOREAN
• Semantic Error (2022)
• The Eighth Sense (2023) (has some similarities to Love Mechanics)
• Let Free the Curse of Taekwondo (2024)
• The Time of Fever (2024)
• Unintentional Love Story (2023) [Time of Fever is the prequel to this series]
• To My Star (2021)
• To My Star Season 2: Our Untold Stories (2022)
• Where Your Eyes Linger (2020)
• Our Dating Sim (2023)
• Bad Guy (2024)
• Cherry Blossoms After Winter (2022)
• Love Class (2022)

TAIWANESE
• We Best Love: No. 1 For You (2021)
• We Best Love: Fighting Mr. 2nd (2021)
• Unknown (2024)
• Kiseki: Dear to Me (2023)
• HIStory4: Close to You (2021)

JAPANESE
• Utsukushii Kare (2021) [My Beautiful Man]
• Utsukushii Kare Season 2 (2023) [My Beautiful Man Season 2]
• My Beautiful Man: Eternal (2023) MOVIE
• Miseinen: Mijukuna Oretachi wa Bukiyo ni Shinkochu (2024) [Our Youth]
• Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu (2023) [The End of the World, With You]
• Eien no Kino (2022) [Eternal Yesterday]

Sadly, these deeply disturbed people are indeed the true representation of fans, which is short for fanatics. Fanatics are zealots who are prone to extremist thinking and behaviors. The admiration and appreciation of a person's work, which most people who enjoy this actor's work likely would admit to feeling, doesn't mean they would ever dream of crossing over into fanatical stalker-like behavior.

I think this @atom951 is either one of those deeply disturbed fanatics or just comes on the site to rile people up.