Gendli

Not too great

I feel like it could've been much better if it was longer, cause then they would have more time to explain everything better.

The things I liked:
1. Wu Zheng. I both liked and hated this character. But I'll start with what I liked about him. He was pretty respectful and understanding of the Yu Shi's situation, even if he didn't have much to go off of. He didn't push him or Noah for more information, and just let him open up about it on his own.
2. Noah. There is not much to say since he didn't have that much screen time, but I did like this character.
3. Great idea. I feel like they didn't do that great of a job with this story but the whole idea for this plot was so interesting, and I really liked it even though it wasn't portrayed the best in here.
4. Good acting from Yu Shi/Noah's actor.

Things I didn't like:
1. I don't understand what was the girl for. This entire series could've perfectly survived without adding her for this unnecessary 2 seconds of “drama”.
2. The way Wu Zheng's friend handled Yu Shi. It was so weird for me that when he was looking for Yu Shi and found him, his first thought after clearly seeing that Yu Shi is not trusting him was to grab him. I didn't like this at all, and I don't understand how he thought that would be a good idea.
3. Wu Zheng. As I said previously, i both liked and hated this character, so now I'm going to explain what I hated about him. And it's the fact that he flirted, kissed and had sex with Yu Shi before even learning about his condition. And all of that after he clearly states in the start of the series that Yu Shi acts like a child. So he fully acknowledged what he was doing. As much as I can understand that, yes Yu Shi is an adult with an adult body, it doesn't take from the fact that in his head he was 5 years old. So yea, I don't think I have to explain what exactly I found disturbing about this whole situation.
4. Side couple. Again the same thing as with the girl, it was so unnecessary, and instead of giving them all this screen time they should've used it to give us more info about other things.
5. Really choppy and rushed. They didn't give us any info on how Yu Shi and Wu Zheng met and why are they living together until almost at the very end. Even then, there were still questions that I never got my answers to. And overall it was so rushed and everything happened so fast, at times I were quite literally confused trying to understand what is going on.
6. Sharing personal information of your patients with anybody as a doctor is illegal, so yea definitely didn't like how this doctor just let his boyfriend go through patients notes. That was really icky and disrespectful to the patient, apart from the fact that it's also illegal.
7. Not a thing I necessarily disliked, but I did kinda expect it to be more melancholic, that is just my personal opinion and I didn't lower my rating because of that.

Overall, it wasn't too bad nor too good, it was just alright.

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Cute but extremely boring

Sadly, it took me dropping it and then taking a break for 4 months to finally comeback and finish it, it was honestly a hard watch. It is just so boring in my opinion.

One of the reasons to why I dropped it is that the main character, while I guess was made to be cute, is kinda feels like too much. Some moments with him were hard to watch because of the way he acts.
This series has some cute moments, but other than that it's really lacking in any significant plot. While it is just a slice of life series, I don't think it means having no plot and just kinda freestyling each episode with a different relationship problems for the main characters to resolve.

The biggest reason to watch this series is Katori, he is a great friend, so supportive and always there to help mc. At times, he acted like their parent, gentle parenting them into the right direction, it was funny and adorable, I loved seeing all of his reactions to the cute couple moments.
While at first I really disliked Tanaka, he really did improve a lot and was shown to us in a better light. And even though, as I said already, at first I wasn't his fan he still at least added some substance to the story.
I have also seen a bit of a chemistry between Katori and Tanaka, so I would love to see a second season or better yet a spinoff with them.

There is not much more to say since it is pretty much the same thing, just going around in circles until the sixth episode. They have some kind of problem with their relationship, they resolve it over time, done, and then in the next episode it's all over again.
Overall, it wasn't too disappointing, but could've been 10 times better if they worked on the plot more.

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It was

There is so much to say about this series. It was weird but enjoyable in a way, like bad to the point where it's kind of good.
I'm gonna talk about things I liked and disliked more in depth.

Things I liked:

1. Cinematography. A lot of beautiful shots and scenes, made watching it 10 times more enjoyable.
2. Story. Or more of an idea they had for this series, I feel like they didn't execute it in the best way, but it was still interesting and quite original.
3. LGBTQ+ representation. In my opinion, the representation was great and there were few truly important talks about the equality and gay marriage.
4. Acting. It was excellent, all the actors did amazing, I especially loved NuNew's acting, he's a great actor and did a beautiful job in my opinion.
5. Intimacy. The intimacy with all couples was good, the chemistry between actors was incredible, and it was really nice to see them together.
6. TutorYim couple. Totally my favorite couple, they had a lot of sweet and cute moments, great chemistry. And honestly, it was such a palate cleanser and breath of fresh air in between watching other couples interact.
7. Foei. Might be my favorite character, he is such a goofball, the funniest character in this whole series, just seeing him on the screen made me smile.

Things I disliked:

1. MaxNat couple. Really toxic, and I will even go as far as calling it an abusive relationship. Constantly telling a person, that you aren't even officially dating (not that it would be better if they did) to report on where you are, who with, when you are coming home, etc. is borderline insane and pretty much abusive. Even though it's all because of Yi being worried, it is absolutely does not excuse his behavior. There was no talk on whenever Diao is okay with Yi controlling him 24/7, and from what I've seen, I can assume he really isn't. So for me, this whole “relationship” and its dynamic was too toxic. While I can understand dom/sub dynamics in relationship, it is absolutely something that needs to be talked about, and it needs to be mutual, which in my opinion isn't really the case here.
2. Lies and manipulations. The amount of times Lian lied and manipulated Kuea is insane. The way Lian treats Kuea like a child instead of treating him as an equal, as a partner and the person he respects is just diabolical. I hated every part of Lian, to be completely honest, he is just as toxic as Yi just in a bit different way.
3. Toxic masculinity. What I am referring here is a Lian being really weird about the whole proposal thing. He was really against the idea of Kuea being the one proposing, and even almost walked out when Kuea went above and beyond organizing a surprise for him with the proposal in the end. Him being so weird and full on toxic about this whole proposal thing made me grind my teeth with anger. He made up a problem that wasn't even there out of thin air just because “Oh I'm the MAN, so I will be the one proposing”. What kind of logic is that?
4. Weird logic. The whole logic with Kuea having “secrets” that probably the whole world knows about and thinking that for some reason Lian doesn't know anything. This whole thing with these secrets was super weird.
5. Non-con. It wasn't that big, but honestly the whole scene with Lian taking drunk Kuea home made me quite uncomfortable, and I don't think it was a good idea adding that weird non-con kissing.

Overall, it wasn't the worst, but I would probably enjoy it much more if I would just turn off my brain from time to time.

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Not bad

It was not bad at all, I can even say I enjoyed watching to some degree.
I don't get the insane hate around this movie, while the way they went about some stuff could be considered cringy and cliche. It still, in my opinion, doesn't take that much from the fact that the movie was actually not that bad.

I do think it would be much better if it had more horror stuff. I got really excited when I read that this movie is a horror movie, but it was nothing close to what I expected. It was more of just mystery, I guess.
I enjoyed the acting and the story was pretty good, sadly the way they executed it wasn't the best.
I really dislike the fact how they never explained to us why exactly does Rawee had to move in with their family. That felt like a really important piece of information that was never shown to us.

The thing that I disliked the most is the way Rawee was portrayed as pretty much stereotypical “uke” from some dubious bl manga. The way he would always accidentally cut himself on everything and stumble on nothing, and of course his knight in shinning armour was always there to save him. While it could rarely be seen as cute if it happens once throughout the whole movie, the amount of times it had happened here made it genuinely annoying.

I would say that overall this movie is worth watching it, it's just the fact that while watching it don't try too hard to find some logic in it. Because it's definitely lacking in that department. It's a nice movie to watch when you don't really want to think. While I know that this is definitely not the way it was intended, it is the way it turned out to be.

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Not it

It wasn't the worst, but neither was it great.
There were good and bad things, but the one thing that made me really feel nothing towards the end of the series is a main character. His character is so ridiculously stupid that it made me just lost any hope, I'm sorry, but there is no better way to describe it.
At the start, I was fully on the main character's side, supporting his decisions since they didn't seem like too much at that point for me. But the further into the series I went, the more I wanted to rip the hair off my head from how actually ridiculous some things the main character did are.

Let's start with the good things, though:
1. Acting. I would like to point out the acting was actually exceptional, emotional moments were shown perfectly, and I enjoyed watching it.
2. Past. I loved watching their memories from the past of how their relationship were starting to develop. I also enjoyed seeing how much of different memories they had, and how differently two people can perceive the same situation.
3. Cute moments. Even though there weren't a lot of them, it was a nice break from everything else that was going on.

And now to the things I didn't like:
1. Father drama. I honestly didn't dislike it, rather found it unnecessary since it was short and didn't do much for the plot. I know that the series itself was pretty short, but maybe instead of only relationship drama they could've added more of the drama related to Chae Jin Hwan's father.
2. No communication. From the both main character and his boyfriend. A lot of the problems could've been resolved in less than 5 minutes if only the main characters learned to respect each other and try to fix a problem when there is one.
3. Main character. Pretty much self-explanatory, as I said before, at some point I just couldn't care less about what's going to happen to their relationship since main character seem to not care much for them too.
Honestly, as bad as it sounds, I would've personally preferred if the two main character's didn't end up as a couple. It's really rare when I feel this way, but I just think that they are really not a great fit and should not be together.

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Could've been 8 or 9

When I just started watching it, I was super excited and hyped for it, but the further it went, the worse it got.

First thing's first I want to say that there was almost no romance from the main couple until the very end, while they did end up together there were almost no romance or story really leading to that. They just kinda jumped into it.
My mistake was that I started watching this series mostly for the BL romance part of it and not as much for the story itself, which I instantly regretted.
But I did after all only enjoy this series for the side characters and the overall story with the students going through the training. The struggles and obstacles they got on their way and the character's development, it was pretty enjoyable to witness all of that. Sadly I cannot say the same about other things.
I liked the comedy side of the series, it wasn't annoying and good timed in my opinion.

Now the things that made it a 7.5 for me:

1. So much of an unnecessary and out of character drama. What I'm talking about is a conflict, if you can call it that, surrounding Ba-Mhee, Tae and Judy. What was this even about? I guess it was added to show Tae's and Ba-Mhee's personal growth. But I'm sure there were so much more ways of doing it without adding some insane drama with cheating.
While I can slightly understand why Ba-Mhee do what she did, the fact that Judy—the person that was shown to us as a very professional, smart and mature woman. Not only kissed Ba-Mhee back, but also had thought's about getting together with her afterwards, makes no sense. I might be wrong, but that was extremely out of character for her.
The fact that Tae just blamed himself in everything and then immediately forgave Ba-Mhee made my blood boil. That was insanely stupid, and I would probably enjoy it so much more if there was none of this absurd drama.

2. Not enough romance from main couple. Since I already said about that, I just want to add some more context to why in my opinion there were not enough romance. Firstly, for the first half of the series the two main characters rarely interacted at all not only romantically. I would prefer if there were at least some kind of friendship leading to them getting together, instead we got Ryan confessing his feelings out of blue, blushing around Jane for few days and then them becoming a couple. It's just honestly felt really disappointing to look at them act like that.

3. Jane suddenly disappearing for 5 years. Okay so that just left me confused, not the fact that Jane went to study, because that I was fully supporting. No, the fact that he literally disappeared for 5 years without contacting the person he supposedly was in love with. And then trying to justify it all by saying that the only reason he wasn't keeping in contact with him is because he was scared that he would miss him too much and come back earlier. That is one of, if not, the stupidest thing I ever heard. I would understand if it was for a month or something, but even then he should've at least warned Ryan that he won't be keeping in contact with him for the time being. But FIVE years is insane, and the fact that he came back and acted like nothing happened expecting Ryan to just take him back like he didn't just leave for 5 freaking years makes me so upset.

Other than that, I did enjoy watching this series to some degree. I might even watch again in some future, but of course the next times I will at least be prepared for some absurd moments this series has to offer.

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Sweet and fun but rushed

It was definitely nice and heartwarming, but it felt like it would be even better if the series were longer, otherwise the story felt rushed.

I liked almost everything about it, there were no unnecessary drama and no stupid jealousy over nothing. You know, in a way it felt refreshing, I started with little to none expectations and the first episode felt kinda mid, but the closer I was to the end the more I wanted this series to be longer. The music was good, and the food looked really appetising. Characters were really cute and actors had some chemistry.

But if I had to talk about the things I disliked about it, it would be these two things:

1. Not enough romance, it was enjoyable and warm but in my opinion there were just not enough skinship, not enough kisses, not enough even basic holding hand's. Of course, they had their cute moment's, but I would just love if there were more of them.

2. Too short/rushed. As I previously said, this series felt rushed. Especially the story around why Gi Hun were so against drinking alcohol as well as selling it in his restaurant. While they did tell us why, it was so short and seemed like it was an unimportant part, while it's literally a thing that the whole series is build around. The same goes for the fact that Gi Hun started drinking alcohol towards the end, I was supportive of his boundaries around alcohol, so I was caught of guard when this man bent under no pressure and just started drinking. While, yes, he wanted to change and understood that maybe his views were a bit harsh.
It doesn't change the fact that there were actually no time in between him screaming at people because of his hate for alcohol and him drinking like it's water. And it's again comebacks to the point that the series were definitely rushed because otherwise they could've done much better job if only they had more time.

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Interesting, sweet and mature story

It's great, I loved it a lot. I was a bit unsure about watching the second season, especially after watching the special episode, but I'm really happy that I watched it after all, because that was perfect!
I do appreciate the maturity that this show has, especially with all the themes that were included here. The mental health problems and the problems that some people have to go through because of them.

The main couple was great and had an interesting story line. I was a bit disappointed when I realised that the dinner with main character's father that Shi De suggested won't be shown to us. I think that would be a great way to show that their previous conflict is resolved, or at least they are working on it.
I did however was really pleased to see main character's dialogue with his father, I'm happy that father found his peace and accepted main character because that's what makes him happy.

I also really enjoyed the side couple, I was extremely happy for them even in the first season, after i first time saw them interact with each other I was hoping that they could at least be good friends, so I was really happy when I saw them together.

Of course, I would prefer for CEO and Pei Shou Yi to have more of a happy ending, but as much I wanted it, I'm more than pleased with how everything ended. Not everything in this world is rainbows and unicorns, so I cannot expect a happy ending from a "couple" that was doomed for the worst before it even started.
I did enjoy the second season a bit more than the first.

Will definitely rewatch it again!

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Too short for it to become any good

YouTube playlist link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNd7BhdAz80qVJk7itfRXCdPNMTvPAVYd

Things I liked:
1. Funny/silly moments.
2. Side characters.
3. Beautiful views.
4. Good acting.
5. The idea they had for the plot. The whole idea of the main characters switching their bodies was interesting and exciting, but they definitely did not have enough time to make the whole thing actually good.

Things I disliked:
1. Almost no chemistry between the main characters.
2. Everything is happening way to fast due to how short this series is.

Overall it was a nice and funny watch for the most part, but there wasn't much time for the main characters to open up more and have a genuine connection, in my opinion.

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Do you believe in karma?

You can watch it onIQIYI: https://www.iq.com/play/payback-uncut-episode-1-1h8pgey90dg?lang=en_us

This whole year most of the BL series have done nothing but greatly exceed my expectations. And I'm happy to say that this series also falls under this category. While I definitely had pretty high expectations for this one, it somehow still exceeded them. This BL is definitely a BL of the year 2026 for me.
Excellent acting, a fantastic plot with intriguing and surprising plot twists, stunning visuals, and everything else are truly exceptional. And of course I want to mention the music, which is also quite a highlight for me in this series.

Things I liked:
1. Plot twists. Genuinely made it so much better for me.
2. Even every small detail counts.
3. Sun. The greatest main character in BL history! The growth, maturity, and general intelligence of that guy are just off the charts.
4. Khajorn. The best father figure, together with Sky, he became a family that Sun so badly needed without even realizing it.
I will forever miss his kind, funny, and just all-around great character, as well as his goofy laughs.
5. Sky. The sweetest sunshine that helped a lot with all the heavy themes of this series with his cheerful character.
6. Action. Great action, the fighting scenes were actually interesting instead of being cringy and felt more or less realistic.
7. Acting. Just pure perfection.
8. Music. It is well-timed and fits the series so nicely.
9. Everyone got what they deserved, so how can I complain?

Things I disliked:
1. Pakin and Sky not becoming anything. Fear of Boss's fans or fear of wasting screen time—either way, I really felt like something would happen. We ended up just getting teased.
2. The end felt rushed. I'd say they would've benefited from at least 2 more episodes, but oh well.

Overall this was an incredible series, and I definitely will be rewatching this masterpiece again!

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The end is inevitable

Even though i knew it was a possibility, the way it all ended broke my heart. This is an incredible work with one of the greatest representations in BL history.

GagaOOLala: https://www.gagaoolala.com/en/videos/7592/the-boy-and-i-who-will-break-up-in-100-days-2026-e01

Things I liked:
1. Acting. So good it felt real.
2. Scenery.
3. LGBTQ+ representation. I can really appreciate how this series shows so much about the real struggles all LGBTQ+ folks have to endure and go through. In my opinion, they did an incredible job at doing so.
4. Sexism representation. While I love that this series shows so much about the struggles that LGBTQ+ people go through, I also truly respect that they show the struggles other parts of society go through.
Specifically, I can greatly appreciate how they show what a lot of women go through with Mori Naomi and Kayano Shiho.
They both are female characters that are here to show/represent so much more than just being a female side character. That's why I really love this series so far; it's portraying real-life problems.
5. Postpartum depression representation. Even though it wasn't that long of a moment, it really is a big deal, and I love that they included it here.
6. The ending. While of course I had my moments of hoping for them to have their happy end together, I still loved the way everything played out, and I think they did their best.

Things I disliked:
1. Terrible communication on Itsuki's part. Sleeping with someone in your ex's house where you live for free because you have no job is a ballsy move for sure. I definitely lost a lot of respect for Itsuki after that one. While I understand that they are broken up, there are a lot of other reasons for why he at least shouldn't have brought this guy into Yuma's house.
This moment actually shook me, I genuinely didn't expect something like that to happen.
I really think it wouldn't have killed Itsuki to have a one-on-one adult conversation instead of whatever this was.

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