FreshKicks

Thank you for the link. For some reason, when I was on iQiYi and searched for the series by title it didn't come up.

First episode is really good. Good chemistry for both couples, and it's great to see Ngern again after all these years. He has aged nicely.

Offroad is unrecognizable, but not in a bad way. I kept trying to find the sexy heartthrob from "Our Days" but his look and his acting completely put him past that.

I'm sure Offroad's character will tone it down as the series progresses. They needed to showcase his immaturity at the outset so that we'll better appreciate how working with Yen Feng (and eventually falling in love with him) will make him grow up.

This series was completely off my radar but now I'm onboard.

I think he got triggered because he's been in love with his friend for a long time (hence his quick little dream there) and when he saw his friend singing a love song to someone else, it freaked him out. His word choice might be because he has had to watch from afar as his friend dated a series of other people. (His friend's not a slut, he's just able to find people to date.)

This looks like it has the makings of a love triangle. The boss is in love with the slut-shamer while the slut-shamer is in love with his friend.

The writing for this series is exceptional. It just feels like how real people talk.

The men are all beautiful, each in his own way, and the stories are all interesting, although not equally so.

I kinda wish the "mystery" story wasn't the centerpiece. It seems pretty pointless when everything would be solved if that one guy would just share what happened. To me the other two storylines are more compelling, partly because they seem more like the kind of situations we can all recognize and might have experienced ourselves.

Despite the "2" in its name this isn't a sequel, thank goodness. I thought the first "Love Class" was stupid as hell, and I'm so glad I gave this one a shot despite that clunker of a first season.

One of the most useful apps on my phone is Google Translate. It can use the camera to view the Chinese and then overlay the English translation.

The texts were about Jiang Chi backing out of a prestigious law school debate event in order to stay back with Bu Xia.

LOL

I enjoyed the first episode, although it nagged at me that Kang's posse is just three guys, two of whom are as nerdy as the ones hanging out with Sailom. I'm not sure that JJ even pulls off the "bully" aesthetic at all.

It will be a fun watch but I think I expected more.

That's what I was thinking too. F4 Thailand with the "my tutor" trope mixed in.

I'm also starting to wonder if there are any cities in Thailand besides Bangkok and Chiang Mai.

I can't remember the last time a series had a character go anyplace else. 😆

Thanks.. maybe I can start watching this tired thing again

I can't with the face smoothing. The actors look like they're wearing masks. It's so distracting.

"BL" is about love, and I don't see how this could be anything but a love story.

The first use of the word "love" is when Wu Bi tells Auntie Zhao that he wants to learn to cook "for someone I love". Auntie Zhou says that the girl in question is very lucky, but Wu Bi's encounters with girls in this story are negligible. Auntie is making assumptions, but the reference to a girl also serves to reassure the censors.

Later Wu Bi confides to Duoduo that he's "tormented by love". Now, I can say that I love some of my closest friends, but I'd never go so far as to say I'm tormented by that love. Unless Duoduo is lying (which is highly unlikely) Wu Bi is referring to a deeper kind of love.

I think the harder task is to explain how Wu Bi is *not* talking about Su Yu when he says stuff like this. He invests no time in anyone else, either during school or out of school. Su Yu is his life. Ergo, Su Yu is the love of his life. If that doesn't qualify as "boys' love" then I don't know what does.

LOL the way he stated his opinion like it was the last word on "BL or not BL" was a bit much, don't you think?

"Read this first!!"

Please.

Bravo.

For me, artists who attempt to break through a veil of censorship are worth supporting. As we all know, in China the people behind a series like this are literally risking their careers and possibly the livelihood of their families. Boycotting their work does nothing but encourage the censors and discourage others who might otherwise be brave enough to produce something of their own. So, I disagree with so much of what you said here.

I have no problem supporting and enjoying a Mainland series on its own terms. For "Stay With Me", I hope that the production company and actors are thrilled with the reception of their work, even as they might also be a bit fearful over the visibility that has resulted. It's probably naive of me, but I like to think that the more we support them, the less likely the authorities would come down hard on them.

Sure, the requirement for subtext made it necessary for this series to encode almost everything, but that turned out to be artistic in its own way. I was impressed with the subtle and sometimes ingenious way this was achieved, starting with the new kid at school, Wu Bi, sitting in the back row of the classroom and shooting Cupid's arrows at his future beloved -- only for his beloved to steal the bow so he could reciprocate by shooting the arrows back at Wu Bi. What a clever way to foreshadow their relationship! When was the last time a run-of-the-mill BL did anything like that with their story?

It boggles my mind that so many people insist this is not a love story.

thank you!

Just tremendously entertaining and touching.

And Greg Hsu! (And we see a LOT of him ... *wink wink* ... )

I watch so many series now that it's a little strange to watch a production out of Asia that is over after a single, two-hour "episode". 🙂

I wouldn't mind seeing this expanded into a series that expands on the relationship between Ming Han and Mao and adds to the crimefighting aspect, kinda along the lines of "Oh No! Here Comes Trouble".

God love you, sis!

Wishing to "separate" Su Yu and Wu Bi, Wu Bi's cousin cut all the break lines in Su Yu's car and jammed the gears so that once it was in "Drive" it couldn't be shifted to any other gear.

He then conned Su Yu into thinking he'd be meeting a doctor in the morning, and made sure that he also demanded that Wu Bi join him for separate appointment.

What the cousin didn't anticipate was Wu Bi driving Su Yu's car to drop off Su Yu before joining the cousin. So, Wu Bi was with Su Yu when the car eventually crashed.

Wu Bi is in the hospital, presumably in a coma.

The final shot is of the "wish box" having been dug up from beneath the tree at the family house. There are three shovels, implying that Su Yu, Wu Bi, and Duoduo were all there to dig it up. It's not clear how far into the future that is, but some time has passed based on the way the house looks half-empty.

So, it is an open ending. Wu Bi will survive for Season 2. We just don't know what kind of time skips might be involved, etc.

At least we'll have that series to enjoy in the meantime. :)