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Really enjoyed the first episode. It's a perfect Friday mood and the roles suit both guys to a tee.

I'm intrigued by how it seems their pairing gets heated up pretty fast .... it makes me wonder what the overall plotline will be, since it seems like the initial chase will be brief.

I like creating BL Cuts. I worked on one for Mi Ling and Heart while MC was airing and today it's finished. I think it turned out really nice if I do say so myself.

I thought I'd offer it here, at least for now, to anyone who wants it. It's three files to be downloaded from Dropbox, HD 1080p. Total time is roughly two hours.

If you'd like to download the cut just send me a message and I'll give you the links. Free, no strings attached.

"Heart & Mi Ling" BL Cut ....
for info read "spoiler" below ↓↓↓↓↓↓

Good point! I thought that reunion was very blah too. It was like he was greeting a friend who'd just got back from a two-week vacation.

I'm not feeling a lot of chemistry between the two leads, either.

Given the potential rival from the office and other misunderstandings, it looks like the series could be a ten-episode slog through one miscommunication after another. And since I think Phu is a selfish jerk I'll find it hard to care.

I'll give it one more episode and if nothing improves I'll drop it.

A series about a thoughtless jerk named Phu, who spent his childhood making eyes at his best friend then abandoned him for ten years without a word.

I hope it doesn't turn out to be ten episodes of Nan being a doormat.

I get the sense that the story arc for Mi Ling and Heart is nearly concluded and that the final episode might focus more on Jim and, possibly, Gaipa. The crisis about Mi Ling having to move away from Pataya with his mom has passed, and the "gay son/gay nephew" situation has become a non-issue. Heck, Jim even made a sexual joke about it to Mi Ling.

It looks the last episode will deal with whether Mi Ling moves to the States (he's welcome to stay with me if he does), and there's a possibility that Heart's parents don't yet comprehend the full extent of the boys' relationship, and might object.

I'm glad that both the relocation issue and question of sexuality have been addressed, though, and I'm looking forward to the finale.

Finally someone mentions that! What wonderful casting.

Now, if she shows up in Fourth's next series (whatever that is), that will be pretty funny.

That was a long drive to the hospital .. it was mid-afternoon when King stopped curbside to pick up Uea and pitch-dark when they got there.

LOL ... this went completely off the rails in Ep 6. The "dead student" in the finale isn't even the same one as in Ep 1!

King and Burger are cute together but Burger's acting is terrible. His furtive glances left and right while being interrogated ... too funny. What a ham. 😂😂😂

So frustrating to watch. I wonder at what point the G-group will realize that it's not possible to win.

If they really wanted to compare Korean contestants with non-Korean, they should have just let every boy fend for himself -- mix them all together from the start, like they did on the Youth With You shows.

At this point, if I were a producer of this show, seeing the incredibly lopsided results would make me realize that the system that we set up to score the contestants is severely flawed. There's simply no way that the K team is *that* much better than the G team.

But maybe that flawed system was the whole idea from the start.

I'm so confused lol

Yes! This is the whole point of the kiss debate for those of us who are fed up with all the fake-outs.

In Episode 11, when I saw that the scene was going to be Tinn dropping off Gun at Gun's house at the end of the day, I literally said out loud, "Here we go again." And I was right.

Nobody is saying that a BL series without a kiss on the lips is a waste of time.

The writers ... and therefore the characters ... are who have made it a big deal for this particular series.

That last fake-out made me finally lose patience. I'm ready for the series to end. It's been stuck in neutral for the last few episodes anyway, so it's time to go. Let's hope it does so with dignity and not more manipulation and disappointment.

You can count me as a Ken fan. He strikes me as a more complex character than the rest, and while he started out as a complete jerk he has shown a willingness to change. And he's hot. 😏

I can't tell if he's bisexual or just gay and dating a beard. There's that scene where he was fucking his girlfriend and unable to cum until he finished on his own while fantasizing about Shogun, but it's not clear if his inability to perform was typical or if the breakup with Shogun brought it on.

If Ken ends up the murder victim they could be setting up his ex as the culprit. Losing both her boyfriend and the leading role in the play might end up pushing her over the edge.

It's been treading water lately.

It's still charming but the initial spark started to fade a few episodes ago. I think they've been banking on Fourth's cuteness and Gemini's earnestness to carry the day, but there's only so much those two can do without a script that moves their story forward.

I'm disappointed that Pat hasn't had an episode that focused on him in some way.

And I suppose it's too late for that now.

MSP has made it a significant thing by including so many near-miss kisses in the story.

If they hadn't teased a lip-kiss so many times I'm sure there'd be far less static on here.

A sure sign that a person knows they have a losing argument is when they have to distort the viewpoint of the people they disagree with before attacking it.

Nobody is saying that there has to be a kiss scene because a BL without a kiss scene is boring .... we're saying that to tease a kiss over and over and over is getting tiresome and irritating.

As always, you hit the nail on the head.

The first scene (the "resume" scene) had been posted as a preview the day before the episode aired and it got me intrigued by the idea that King (whose reaction to learning about Shogun and Ken hadn't been the best) had found he liked the feeling of being liked by Burger. I was willing to accept that King would be confused enough by that feeling to claim that he didn't "like" Burger in return and simply liked feeling wanted, because it seemed to promise a new take on how a guy might process what was awakening in him.

But then they gave us the shenanigans at King's house -- sometimes cute and naughty, but that earlier premise seemed to be forgotten as King went into full seduction mode.

As for Matteo, I think he felt he should make his feelings for Shogun public because his classmates were treating Shogun like an outcast.

On a side note, I used Google Translate to read King's resume and one of the first things it says is that he likes to eat burgers. 😂

Thank you for being such a dedicated champion for this amazing series 🎉🎈🥳💖

Ken's earring comes and goes. In the first episode when he's with Shokun in the locker room, Ken has earrings in both ears. Then later when they're together in the shower Ken has no earrings at all.

Plus the dead kid had multiple earrings in his right ear. So far, Ken has worn only one per ear. The dead kid's nose also looks different to me than Ken's.

But maybe I'm just hoping that Ken survives. I think he's hot. 😏

I'm wondering if the nasty intolerant teacher will turn out to be the murderer.