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Yes but No
I want to start by saying it was absolutely not the worst series I ever watched, but omg was it mid or even bad.
I have a lot of reasons for saying it, but let's start with some things I actually liked about this series.
Actors/acting was good, and I'm not only talking about main characters but side characters as well, there were few people I did enjoy seeing.
I also really liked the story, while I do think there was much more better ways they could've done it the idea was good, and I would love and see someone try to make something similar.
Chemistry between Gulf and Mew was there, it was nice and while I wasn't too much over the moon for it, I still found it enjoyable to watch these two to interact. I do have to say tho in my personal humble opinion Tharn and Type should've not ended up together. Because honestly, I cannot imagine a single good reason why any of them would want to be with another.
Tharn is just a spineless guy with no self-respect or dignity, who also has no concept of consent. He forgave Type multiple times without even him apologising for what he did first. Throughout the whole series I just wanted to grab Tharn by his shoulders, shake him and say “WAKE UP” because the way he would never stand up for himself when it came to Type is diabolical.
Also, the fact that he sexually assaulted Type not once is crazy and often overlooked by TharnType fans, but definitely shouldn't be. It was clearly shown multiple times how he would kiss Type while he is sleeping, gave him hickeys while he was drunk and blacked out, and the shower scene? Like let's not ignore it and instead of calling it cute, hot or sexy let's call it what it is, a sexual assault.
Type is a toxic asshole who doesn't respect a single person around him. While I know that Type has trauma, it absolutely doesn't excuse his behaviour towards people around him, people who care and love him. He disrespected and physically assaulted multiple people who absolutely did not deserved it and wouldn't apologise unless he gets some kind of “punishment” for doing so. And the way everybody around him act like it's normal is insane to me. It's important to acknowledge his traumatic experience, but let's not try to excuse his behaviour just because of something like this.
And while I'm talking about traumatic experience, I want to talk about Tar. I've seen multiple people say how tar was annoying, stupid and stuff like this. I want to start by saying that victim-blaming is a terrible thing, and y'all doing it is just disgusting.
There wasn't a single thing that he did that would make him as bad as y'all trying to paint him to be. Throughout his whole story, I was just feeling so sorry for him, and he absolutely did nothing to deserve what happened to him.
He was so scared, traumatised and broken I cannot imagine blaming him for anything at all, all the “bad” things that he did were just a Lhong's disgusting plan, and he is the only one to blame here.
Now for the Lhong and oh do I have a thing or two to talk about. First off, the fact that he didn't get any jail time or ANY repercussions for that matter is CRAZY to me. He was so disgusting, everything about him made my skin crawl. He is not just a bad guy he is a devil himself, and there are still people trying to defend him saying he was misunderstood, he is so UNDERhated.
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, could excuse his behaviour, the things he did are literally illegal. Sabotaging all of the Tharns relationship, paying three man to gang-rape a high-schooler (Tar), and then also blackmailing the same boy and pressuring him into doing things he was not comfortable with to break Tharn and Type up.
He is the worst of the worst, he is a terrible human being and all that he deserves is a jail time!!!
Honestly, there is so much more bad people in this series, since most of the characters were kinda good until they did something crazy and made my opinion about them fully change. But there were also characters that I liked, but they are not worth mentioning except for the one character that I liked the most, and it's Techno. Techno would always add this nice and comedic feel to the series when needed the most, as well as being a great supportive friend and trying to help Type with anything he could. There was one thing that made me a bit uncomfortable is when he really would not believe Tar even when he has seen a proof, and tried to tell Type that as well. But other than that, I would say that he is my favourite character.
In conclusion, I am kinda happy that I watched this series, since I wanted to give it a try all the way from 2019. I first tried watching it back then when it was just coming out, but it was too much for me, so I dropped it. But I am happy that I came back, but I am even happier that I finally finished it.
I did enjoy it to some degree, but of course all of the red flags were really hard to close my eyes on and just try to push through.
I do think though that this series is overrated, and it is really toxic, so for anybody to enjoy it at least a little, you need to be able to “ignore” a lot of stuff. Otherwise, it is definitely unenjoyable to watch.
I have a lot of reasons for saying it, but let's start with some things I actually liked about this series.
Actors/acting was good, and I'm not only talking about main characters but side characters as well, there were few people I did enjoy seeing.
I also really liked the story, while I do think there was much more better ways they could've done it the idea was good, and I would love and see someone try to make something similar.
Chemistry between Gulf and Mew was there, it was nice and while I wasn't too much over the moon for it, I still found it enjoyable to watch these two to interact. I do have to say tho in my personal humble opinion Tharn and Type should've not ended up together. Because honestly, I cannot imagine a single good reason why any of them would want to be with another.
Tharn is just a spineless guy with no self-respect or dignity, who also has no concept of consent. He forgave Type multiple times without even him apologising for what he did first. Throughout the whole series I just wanted to grab Tharn by his shoulders, shake him and say “WAKE UP” because the way he would never stand up for himself when it came to Type is diabolical.
Also, the fact that he sexually assaulted Type not once is crazy and often overlooked by TharnType fans, but definitely shouldn't be. It was clearly shown multiple times how he would kiss Type while he is sleeping, gave him hickeys while he was drunk and blacked out, and the shower scene? Like let's not ignore it and instead of calling it cute, hot or sexy let's call it what it is, a sexual assault.
Type is a toxic asshole who doesn't respect a single person around him. While I know that Type has trauma, it absolutely doesn't excuse his behaviour towards people around him, people who care and love him. He disrespected and physically assaulted multiple people who absolutely did not deserved it and wouldn't apologise unless he gets some kind of “punishment” for doing so. And the way everybody around him act like it's normal is insane to me. It's important to acknowledge his traumatic experience, but let's not try to excuse his behaviour just because of something like this.
And while I'm talking about traumatic experience, I want to talk about Tar. I've seen multiple people say how tar was annoying, stupid and stuff like this. I want to start by saying that victim-blaming is a terrible thing, and y'all doing it is just disgusting.
There wasn't a single thing that he did that would make him as bad as y'all trying to paint him to be. Throughout his whole story, I was just feeling so sorry for him, and he absolutely did nothing to deserve what happened to him.
He was so scared, traumatised and broken I cannot imagine blaming him for anything at all, all the “bad” things that he did were just a Lhong's disgusting plan, and he is the only one to blame here.
Now for the Lhong and oh do I have a thing or two to talk about. First off, the fact that he didn't get any jail time or ANY repercussions for that matter is CRAZY to me. He was so disgusting, everything about him made my skin crawl. He is not just a bad guy he is a devil himself, and there are still people trying to defend him saying he was misunderstood, he is so UNDERhated.
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, could excuse his behaviour, the things he did are literally illegal. Sabotaging all of the Tharns relationship, paying three man to gang-rape a high-schooler (Tar), and then also blackmailing the same boy and pressuring him into doing things he was not comfortable with to break Tharn and Type up.
He is the worst of the worst, he is a terrible human being and all that he deserves is a jail time!!!
Honestly, there is so much more bad people in this series, since most of the characters were kinda good until they did something crazy and made my opinion about them fully change. But there were also characters that I liked, but they are not worth mentioning except for the one character that I liked the most, and it's Techno. Techno would always add this nice and comedic feel to the series when needed the most, as well as being a great supportive friend and trying to help Type with anything he could. There was one thing that made me a bit uncomfortable is when he really would not believe Tar even when he has seen a proof, and tried to tell Type that as well. But other than that, I would say that he is my favourite character.
In conclusion, I am kinda happy that I watched this series, since I wanted to give it a try all the way from 2019. I first tried watching it back then when it was just coming out, but it was too much for me, so I dropped it. But I am happy that I came back, but I am even happier that I finally finished it.
I did enjoy it to some degree, but of course all of the red flags were really hard to close my eyes on and just try to push through.
I do think though that this series is overrated, and it is really toxic, so for anybody to enjoy it at least a little, you need to be able to “ignore” a lot of stuff. Otherwise, it is definitely unenjoyable to watch.
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