Nothing that truly stood out to me
I have my fair share of BL dramas with plain plot, one dimension character and not much substance and Tharntype definitely falls into one of those categories.
The plot was simple. Could have been an excellent one of a homophobic character with a tragic back story that left him traumatized slowly accepting his sexuality and getting over the trauma through the help of a gay man. Yet they needed to mess it up by making both he characters always taking stupid decisions and being toxic, messy and outright assaulter. The main problem of the characterization and writing is, it showed incidents that shouldn't have been normalized and made it a part of the plot that directly affects it. This was a product of a bad writing. I wished they explored each of the characters and their background story even more. However the romance aspect of the series was much more better and enjoyable. Every romantic scene was well written and directed.
The direction and pacing of the drama was too slow. They kept extending the minutes by showing clips that could have been edited. For a 2019 drama the quality was not bad. The frames and the sets looked good.
Gulf was a newbie in TharnType so I will exempt his acting skill from judging. However gradually as the show progressed it became much better. Mew was good with his characters. Overall the acting was average. But MewGulf truly served great on screen chemistry. The romantic scenes looked really cozy, realistic and domestic. The last 2 episodes were best in terms of acting. The kissing scenes were not awkward so was the NC scenes. This was kinda ground breaking in terms of on screen physical affection because most dramas airing before or around the same time didn't have as much well executed romantic scenes as this one.
It wasn't a bad show but a bad characterization of the characters and a linear plot. If you don't want to miss out on the classics then this is a must watch/ There were definitely pros and cons.
The plot was simple. Could have been an excellent one of a homophobic character with a tragic back story that left him traumatized slowly accepting his sexuality and getting over the trauma through the help of a gay man. Yet they needed to mess it up by making both he characters always taking stupid decisions and being toxic, messy and outright assaulter. The main problem of the characterization and writing is, it showed incidents that shouldn't have been normalized and made it a part of the plot that directly affects it. This was a product of a bad writing. I wished they explored each of the characters and their background story even more. However the romance aspect of the series was much more better and enjoyable. Every romantic scene was well written and directed.
The direction and pacing of the drama was too slow. They kept extending the minutes by showing clips that could have been edited. For a 2019 drama the quality was not bad. The frames and the sets looked good.
Gulf was a newbie in TharnType so I will exempt his acting skill from judging. However gradually as the show progressed it became much better. Mew was good with his characters. Overall the acting was average. But MewGulf truly served great on screen chemistry. The romantic scenes looked really cozy, realistic and domestic. The last 2 episodes were best in terms of acting. The kissing scenes were not awkward so was the NC scenes. This was kinda ground breaking in terms of on screen physical affection because most dramas airing before or around the same time didn't have as much well executed romantic scenes as this one.
It wasn't a bad show but a bad characterization of the characters and a linear plot. If you don't want to miss out on the classics then this is a must watch/ There were definitely pros and cons.
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