I am enjoying this series so much. The political atmosphere, the activism, the relationships, the clothes, the music, the retro feeling of the late 60s, the hair.....everything is just done so well.
And the acting is fantastic. The entire cast is great, but Apo is the real standout.
The relationship between Krailert and Naran, while definitely full of real chemistry, has been bugging me. Something about it makes me feel that they won't have a good ending, but I couldn't quite pin it down.
I just realized what they remind me of.
Is anyone else besides me old enough to remember the movie, The Sound of Music? It's set during WWII, in Austria.
The daughter of the large Von Trapp family falls for a local boy, and they are very sweetly in love. But sadly, the boy joins the Hitler Youth movement. At a point in the movie, the daughter and her family are trying to escape Austria because they realize the Nazis are taking over. The father asks the boy to go with them, But he ends up choosing to follow the Nazis instead, and he blows a loud whistle to have them arrested as they're trying to leave.
^^^^^ THAT feels like Krailert and Naran, to me. They are in love, but I have a suspicion that Krailert will betray Naran and try to have him arrested.
I could totally be wrong, of course. But my sense of impending doom won't go away.
lol ikr! With Wen Lang & Gao Tu's scene, the light was already on when Wen Lang walked into the room, but…
It reminds me of another series - can't remember which one - where the actor had a real phobia of the dark.
The power went out, and the character started freaking out.....even though there was a huge window with a clear view of the outside, the moon and other lights outside. Instead of staying by the window, they went to the DARKEST part of the room, sat down with their arms around their knees and trauma-rocked back and forth. LOL
"The ban for BL actors appearing on any drama projects will start this September. Whether Tian Xuning and Zi Yu will be included in this ban, remains up in the air."
It seems that chubby friend Yoo Ho Jin is actually a cop who is the leader of a small group of cops who don't like the fact that many violent scumbags escape justice from the legal system.
So they've been feeding info on potential targets to Nam Yun Je, who agrees to kill them because he is fed up, too, as a result of what happened to his Dad years earlier. But I get the feeling he agrees to do all of that with the understanding that he will be the fall guy if he gets caught, and he has promised not to rat out the cops that are helping him.
Because the cops obviously know who the vigilante killer is, they have been protecting him and creating just enough diversion re: evidence so that NYJ isn't implicated. Which is why no one ever calls him in for questioning, why no one goes to his apartment (where they would see the map of all of his targets), etc.
And once Nam Yun Je leaves and goes off the radar for a while, Han Jin Hyeok goes back to playing baseball, which gives him a pretty good cover as HE, then, becomes the vigilante killer. The cops start feeding info about targets to him, instead.
Interesting notes:
1) When HJH delivers a (most likely) fatal brain injury by throwing a baseball at the cop that was trying to kill NYJ (the same cop whom, years earlier, killed Nam Yun Je's father in the car accident and got away with it), that was the first time HJH is able to throw an accurate "pitch" in a long time, having lost his pitching accuracy years before. His accuracy comes back in a flash, I'm guessing, because the man he loves is being threatened.
2) With the bad cop's fatal brain injury, that's the first official "kill" for HJH. Thus starts his journey as a vigilante hitman while NYJ is gone.
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Although the series is now over, I wonder how the next part of the story plays out.
Once Nam Yun Je comes back, do one or both of them continue as vigilante hitmen, or do they decide to quit and begin a happy life as a couple, instead?
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Separately......is this series based on a manga? Because it TOTALLY has manga vibes.
But I DESPERATELY long for the day when Japanese dramas overcome the prevalent stereotype of men being deeply repressed and absolutely paralyzed by the prospect of any form of intimacy.
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*sigh*
I hope this series gets darker. I feel rather misled by the trailer that made it look like more of a serious story.
I was not expecting such a comedy element for a vampire series, and I am not happy with all of the "comedy sounds." I really, really hate those.
Please, please let it get darker like a vampire story SHOULD be.
And the acting is fantastic. The entire cast is great, but Apo is the real standout.
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The relationship between Krailert and Naran, while definitely full of real chemistry, has been bugging me. Something about it makes me feel that they won't have a good ending, but I couldn't quite pin it down.
I just realized what they remind me of.
Is anyone else besides me old enough to remember the movie, The Sound of Music? It's set during WWII, in Austria.
The daughter of the large Von Trapp family falls for a local boy, and they are very sweetly in love. But sadly, the boy joins the Hitler Youth movement. At a point in the movie, the daughter and her family are trying to escape Austria because they realize the Nazis are taking over. The father asks the boy to go with them, But he ends up choosing to follow the Nazis instead, and he blows a loud whistle to have them arrested as they're trying to leave.
^^^^^ THAT feels like Krailert and Naran, to me. They are in love, but I have a suspicion that Krailert will betray Naran and try to have him arrested.
I could totally be wrong, of course. But my sense of impending doom won't go away.
The power went out, and the character started freaking out.....even though there was a huge window with a clear view of the outside, the moon and other lights outside. Instead of staying by the window, they went to the DARKEST part of the room, sat down with their arms around their knees and trauma-rocked back and forth. LOL
They somehow forgot how to turn on a light switch to see who's in the room with them.
There are well-lit bedside lamps mere INCHES away, yet somehow they don't shine enough light to see each other's faces.
They can't see each other's faces in the "dark," but somehow they CAN see an Adam's apple move and suddenly they need to kiss it.
OMG I was ROLLING, lolololol.
"The ban for BL actors appearing on any drama projects will start this September. Whether Tian Xuning and Zi Yu will be included in this ban, remains up in the air."
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14GgXFjjC7H/
It seems that chubby friend Yoo Ho Jin is actually a cop who is the leader of a small group of cops who don't like the fact that many violent scumbags escape justice from the legal system.
So they've been feeding info on potential targets to Nam Yun Je, who agrees to kill them because he is fed up, too, as a result of what happened to his Dad years earlier. But I get the feeling he agrees to do all of that with the understanding that he will be the fall guy if he gets caught, and he has promised not to rat out the cops that are helping him.
Because the cops obviously know who the vigilante killer is, they have been protecting him and creating just enough diversion re: evidence so that NYJ isn't implicated. Which is why no one ever calls him in for questioning, why no one goes to his apartment (where they would see the map of all of his targets), etc.
And once Nam Yun Je leaves and goes off the radar for a while, Han Jin Hyeok goes back to playing baseball, which gives him a pretty good cover as HE, then, becomes the vigilante killer. The cops start feeding info about targets to him, instead.
Interesting notes:
1) When HJH delivers a (most likely) fatal brain injury by throwing a baseball at the cop that was trying to kill NYJ (the same cop whom, years earlier, killed Nam Yun Je's father in the car accident and got away with it), that was the first time HJH is able to throw an accurate "pitch" in a long time, having lost his pitching accuracy years before. His accuracy comes back in a flash, I'm guessing, because the man he loves is being threatened.
2) With the bad cop's fatal brain injury, that's the first official "kill" for HJH. Thus starts his journey as a vigilante hitman while NYJ is gone.
-------------------------------
Although the series is now over, I wonder how the next part of the story plays out.
Once Nam Yun Je comes back, do one or both of them continue as vigilante hitmen, or do they decide to quit and begin a happy life as a couple, instead?
------------------------------
Separately......is this series based on a manga? Because it TOTALLY has manga vibes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVHz3Saa7jc&list=OLAK5uy_msoy90m35I5AoQRPW4tx0iRRXT3U2igGY&index=5
But I DESPERATELY long for the day when Japanese dramas overcome the prevalent stereotype of men being deeply repressed and absolutely paralyzed by the prospect of any form of intimacy.
https://news.mydramalist.com/article/tving-confirms-the-production-of-study-group-season-2
Spare Me Your Mercy
The Sign
https://www.bumc.bu.edu/sexualmedicine/publications/the-central-mechanisms-of-sexual-function/