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In the promotional slide show on their main page Gaga also says they become "100% lovers".

I assume Gaga takes an initial look at the shows they carry to make sure they're in line with the site's mission, so it's possible that "100% lovers" is what we'll get, but on the other hand I can't be sure that the person who did the web marketing would have the same insight into the plot.

As for "half brothers", that could be true only in two ways.

The first would be if Wu Bi's mom had had an affair with Su Yu's dad and got pregnant by him. Hardly seems likely.

But, if Su Yu's mom was having an affair with Wu Bi's dad long before they dated and got married, and if she got pregnant with Su Yu as a result, then maybe we're in for a surprise twist that will make this comment section blow up like crazy.

I watched the first six episodes of "Addicted" yesterday and the biggest thing that stood out was how different Wu Bi's characterization is from Gu Hai's.

Wu Bi's tough exterior is much easier to get past than Gu Hai's, and his focus is not on his dad's betrayal of his deceased mother but on the absence of his mother. He's had several years to adjust, but he hasn't. The statue that was her last work of sculpture is like a talisman that he keeps with him in her memory, so when he realizes who Su Yu is, it shakes him to his core. He immediately stops bullying Su Yu and becomes permanently attached.

In "Addicted" there is no statue, and there's no other object that serves as its counterpart. Gu Hai doesn't show any emotional after-effects of losing his mother. He's protective of her memory but I get the sense that this is to punish his dad. There's the implication that she died because his dad had her killed.

So, the two series are so different in how they approach the story that I think anyone who skips this one out of anger that it's not the original is really missing out.

"Addicted" will never be remade or continued using the same cast and crew. People need to get this into their heads and accept it, and be glad that someone else is at least trying to bring the story to life in a fully conceived form. Personally I'm loving it so far.

This is the ultimate hate-watch. Abundant incompetence in every aspect.

I think it's dropped way lower than "Fahlanruk" and is now in "My Boy" territory.

A suicide attempt and attempted sexual assault in one episode, which includes a scene where the assaulter gets comforted by his manager(?) while we hear tender soundtrack music playing.

Thank you!

It might be the translation. The line is subtitled that way on Viki. The subs on Gaga have the dialog as "How are things with the Taiwanese girl?".

We need someone who knows the language to tell us which is closest to what is actually spoken. :)

No, you're not overthinking.

My other favorite moment was when Su Yu introduces Han Bokuang to Wu Bi as his childhood friend. The other friend (forgot his name) says that the two are like "peas in a pod" (in the Viki translation he says they're like brothers), and a scowling Wu Bi immediately drags Han Bokuang out to the field to do some judo to him.

This version of the story seems to be setting up Wu Bi's issue as being a hunger for family rather than a lover, but the conversation about bullying really makes me pause, as do the lyrics of the opening OST.

Oh.. in that case I yield to you on this. But Wu Bi wouldn't know he'd been discovered by that point, so felt it would be necessary to tell Su Yu's dad to keep it a secret.

A gentle reminder that the tags on MDL are voted on by the membership, so you should not interpret them as etched in stone by the series producers. Everybody started out assuming this is a Mainland series subject to censorship, whereas it comes from Hong Kong/Singapore/Thailand.

And all dressed head to toe in black, no less. 😆

I think when Su Yu made the comment about Wu Bi being a rich kid it was sarcasm, more along the lines of "what's your problem, do you think you're a rich kid or something?"

OMG OMG, what a waste of screen time that was.

Why would JS have any reason to "reject" SW? SW is not interested in JS. What JS did was get mad because he has competition and feels at a disadvantage. So he lashed out. In the long run that kind of attitude is a turn-off.

JS is missing out on the full experience of the house by being singularly obsessed with SH. Which is unkind to SH because it puts a lot of pressure on him. It wouldn't surprise me if SH never makes a decision between SW and JS because he prefers SW and doesn't want to be responsible for JS having an emotional collapse over not prevailing. This says a lot about JS's selfishness. He should do like SW and let SH know of his interest, then back off a bit to let SH decide.

But, none of these relationships is likely to persist after the series anyway. It's essentially an experimental ecosystem for dating, surfacing all sorts of interesting dynamics and behavior, but due to the tiny pool of candidates the likelihood of any two guys lasting as a couple outside the house is extremely small. (This seems to apply to all dating shows.)

This is spectacular. Being a big fan of "Youth With You S3", I get a kick out of seeing Xu Bin as one of the leads.

My only gripe is that it's dubbed. The first couple of episodes did mostly a good job hiding it but in Ep3 and Ep4 it's more obvious.

One thing I hate about dubbed productions is that they often have grown women dub the voices of the little girls and even the little boys. It sounds so bad. Here, I think sometimes we're hearing Duo Duo with her real voice but I detected the fake voice at a couple of points. It makes me cringe.

"Addicted" has so much sexual content and innuendo, including comments about Gu Hai's (ahem) endowment, that I think it will take some work to have this avoid being BL. What's cool is that I like it so much that I won't care, provided we get a happy ending.

To wade further into the "Is it a BL?" debate, the last part of the closing credits says it's a joint production by three companies based out of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Thailand.

People have said the series is not showing in China, and if Hong Kong productions don't have to undergo the same censorship review as Mainland productions then we might get a more intimate story after all.

This is what that time travel HIStory series SHOULD have been.

The episode is subbed on YouTube now. :)

I don't think anyone could write a script like what we saw at the pool party, so I doubt these are actors, but one thing I believe happens in this kind of show is that the producers ask the participants to do certain things, like approach certain people and bring up certain topics. The conversation between Justin and Stanley being an example. It wouldn't surprise me if Stanley was urged to talk to Justin for the sake of capturing it on camera.

I'm curious about how they spend the overnights, too. Are they separated? Because when the cameras are off is when I think some really juicy stuff would get talked about.

Bong sees Alex as a trophy. Everybody praises him for going after what he wants but I can't imagine Alex opening up to him the way he did with Karl. It seems Bong might be in for a rude awakening next week.

Figures that what is probably the most interesting episode still has no subs. 😑