The concern for protecting the kiddies from seeing two men in love is discriminatory at best and bigoted at worst.
Meanwhile it's okay to produce articles celebrating the m/f relationships in dramas -- some of which depict toxic relationships and/or have quite provocative or even violent sex scenes.
Unfortunately, as much as I love this site I have found that decisions like this are usually made arbitrarily and never reconsidered. So, just another day on MDL.
For me, the absolute best of these two-parters so far.
The writing is insightful and restrained and the performances are pitch-perfect. The sex is realistic without being over the top, and sorry folks but I think it's an essential element to the story. Sex is what Kaeng has come to substitute for real intimacy, and as such a person his performance in bed is one of his greatest sources of self-esteem. His dwindling ability to use it to keep Puth at his side will be a big factor in the emotional crisis that he's about to descend into.
By the end of Part 1 you can already sense how Puth's slow withdrawal from their 'arrangement' is knocking Kaeng off-balance. I felt so bad for Kaeng when he showed up wearing the eyeglasses, as though he really thought that such a superficial detail would be all it took to keep Puth from abandoning him.
It made me wonder: was the invitation to the movies real, or was it a test -- another sign of Kaeng's growing desperation? Looking at what Kaeng and Puth have in each other I tend to doubt they've ever really gone to see a movie together, or had a civilized sit-down dinner, or even engaged in a real conversation -- one that wasn't just a form of foreplay to get them back in bed again.
I'm pretty sure Ryan Ren has two tattoos in his neck region. In the series, one of them does seem to be covered with makeup while the other has the bandage on it.
I checked back with Chuang 2019 and saw that during a performance he had the bandage on the LEFT side of his neck. (In the series the bandage is on the right side.) In a pic that I found of him online where there's no bandage on the left side, you can see a tattoo of Chinese symbols in a horizontal line leading down from his ear.
That's the tattoo that actually did get covered with makeup during the series. Somewhere around Episode 11 there's a close-up side of the left side of his head and you can see the makeup in a line that is covering that tattoo.
Meanwhile, what we see in the series is a bandage on the RIGHT side of his neck, lower down and partially touching his shoulder. That one might have been too difficult to cover with makeup since the makeup would wear off as they did all the different takes of the scenes. Clothing would rub against it and eventually the tattoo would show.
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Meanwhile it's okay to produce articles celebrating the m/f relationships in dramas -- some of which depict toxic relationships and/or have quite provocative or even violent sex scenes.
Unfortunately, as much as I love this site I have found that decisions like this are usually made arbitrarily and never reconsidered. So, just another day on MDL.
The writing is insightful and restrained and the performances are pitch-perfect. The sex is realistic without being over the top, and sorry folks but I think it's an essential element to the story. Sex is what Kaeng has come to substitute for real intimacy, and as such a person his performance in bed is one of his greatest sources of self-esteem. His dwindling ability to use it to keep Puth at his side will be a big factor in the emotional crisis that he's about to descend into.
By the end of Part 1 you can already sense how Puth's slow withdrawal from their 'arrangement' is knocking Kaeng off-balance. I felt so bad for Kaeng when he showed up wearing the eyeglasses, as though he really thought that such a superficial detail would be all it took to keep Puth from abandoning him.
It made me wonder: was the invitation to the movies real, or was it a test -- another sign of Kaeng's growing desperation? Looking at what Kaeng and Puth have in each other I tend to doubt they've ever really gone to see a movie together, or had a civilized sit-down dinner, or even engaged in a real conversation -- one that wasn't just a form of foreplay to get them back in bed again.
I checked back with Chuang 2019 and saw that during a performance he had the bandage on the LEFT side of his neck. (In the series the bandage is on the right side.) In a pic that I found of him online where there's no bandage on the left side, you can see a tattoo of Chinese symbols in a horizontal line leading down from his ear.
That's the tattoo that actually did get covered with makeup during the series. Somewhere around Episode 11 there's a close-up side of the left side of his head and you can see the makeup in a line that is covering that tattoo.
Meanwhile, what we see in the series is a bandage on the RIGHT side of his neck, lower down and partially touching his shoulder. That one might have been too difficult to cover with makeup since the makeup would wear off as they did all the different takes of the scenes. Clothing would rub against it and eventually the tattoo would show.