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What a delightful drama to watch. The beautiful writing, narrative and cinematography makes my heart sour. Watching Jae Won in obvious deep depression, not hearing anyone - so completely zoned out in his head, trying to feel nothing, numb to the world, lost in his own thoughts, seriously touched my heart.

I adore how Ji Hyun is so understanding of his man's feelings, even though he knows he's being ghosted. I feel he totally understands his man and gets where his head is at - losing brother and potentially him). Brave. So brave in his love. Adore this.

So looking forward to next episodes...

Come on Viki. Make it snappy crocodile face. Looks like we’re looking at another 26 minutes and 12 seconds. Not that I’m obsessed or anything. #JustSayin’

Hey. Absolutely I've given thought to how different gay cultures are around the world, after all, I'd be very naive not to. However, I'm talking about Thailand. A country, who is one of Asia's most open and visible about its gay culture. Hey, in June 2022, they passed their first reading on same-sex unions, so I'm not ignorant and praying it eventually goes through 😃

Too different from reality would be as said above, but to go further...
Long pauses and silences between sentences in an effort to build suspense, but in my mind has the opposite effect.
The whole prehistoric toxic work environment from the dark ages which dominated the episode. I get it, they want us to see how Yeng will see and change it. Today, employees have KPIs, performance evaluations, Managers, Team Leaders, Mentors etc. etc and absolutely in what appears to be a £billion corporation, which this drama is portraying.

Everything else, I think I've explained in my first post opening para.

And... thank you for asking me.

Hey there, because it is in no way retrospective or true to life, as to how the gay community acts or indeed interacts with one another, either with friends or in most parts when thinking, considering and acting upon an adult relationship with another gay man at 25-years old.

This was delightful, yet so bloody heart wrenching. Amazing acting for one so young - so many emotions and especially when he asked his mother: " Am I not allowed to be true to my feelings?" I just wish we had heard the thoughts of the other boy, as I felt he had feelings for him too.

Hahaha! So very true and especially in Chinese dramas. Drives me crazy when looking at all that delicious food, the effort that went into preparing it, only for it to be left.

Being a European. I can honestly state in my lifetime, I have never, ever seen anyone eat a croissant with a knife and fork. We rip, tear and devour, as that's the whole point. However, as @hitze has pointed out, they were speaking about how bloody fantastic this croissant was and then he proceeded to leave over half.

Not only disgraceful, but also disrespectful to their audience and the gay community. I just find it all so very lazy, lame and indeed shameless, because it is simply about cashing in and continues to get worse in this respect.

And here we go again. Welcome to the treadmill of BL dramas, Thailand stylie.

Handsome males. Tick. Special shout out to the stunning lips of Ben (I was truly mesmerised by them) and Jaab's overall beauty coupled with a great hairstyle. Overacting galore. Tick. To the point it made for uncomfortable and annoying viewing, especially in terms of the character, Ying - she has to be the worst depiction of a character I've ever witnessed coming out of Thailand. Even Pat's childish overacting I found hard to stomach at times. However, I thought Man delivered his lines well - I got a real sense of the character he was commissioned to play. Long pauses and silences between sentences. Tick. What is that all about, it doesn't in the least make it suspenseful, because very few people react in this way. Useless filler conversations that have no relevance to the story. Tick. That whole nonsense in the café over not sharing the ice-cream with Jaab was so pointless. I thought this could have been better used to introduce the characters as I liked the fact they spoke openly about Pat being gay and could see their obvious friendship.

So, lets see. Do I think it will be a much needed memorable drama from Thailand? No. Do I think I'll be enthralled by the acting? No. Do I think this is going to be yet another mass ball of unrealistic silly childish fluff? Yes. The office culture alone has told me this much. Am I here to see how it evolves? Oh yes, I'll definitely be here for the next episode and perhaps further, because right now, the only character I'm buying into is Yeng's and I'm interested enough to see how his relationship will build with Pat.

See you next week...

I wouldn’t settle for anything less than breakfast, lunch and dinner 🤣

I so hear you in the main. However, I didn’t find it cliché ridden, more like a lost opportunity in the fact that had something good that they didn’t take to fruition.

Hmmm... I hear you. However, I still think it is a mix of both.

In my brain, gay culture is exactly the same as heterosexual culture. A man meets a man. Desires him. Wants to either fuck him instantly or is so turned on and excited by the thought of getting to know him and his personality, they take the time to know and learn about each other to grow a relationship. To me, that's true life, irrespective of whether you're gay or straight. This show disappointed me in the fact that it chickened out when it set us up for so, so much more.

Maggi, I feel so cheated in terms of the narrative of the 2nd leads, as they would have made for a lovely story, but instead they chose their narrative to be mostly about Kim Dong Hee punching Go Ho Tae constantly hitting him in the chest. WT

I honestly think the dead kissing scenes were all about the Director and why? Simply because it is South Korea. Homophobic restrains me thinks. Why set up such beautiful chemistry not to turn it into realism and all the dramas you quoted back up what we both believe.

Awww... this is heart-warming. Delightful viewing. I don't do kids, but Tane so touches my heart.

...Hilarious. We meet again Dear Maggi.

Japanese culture when it comes to their off the scale, fucked up in the head, incredible style for telling a quirky story leaves me mesmerised. No other culture can tell a story like the Japanese. FACT. I'm here for this. It makes me laugh and smile, whilst going WTAF is going on here. Love it.

We do indeed lovely human. Looking forward to your thoughts x

Aw, Maggi lovely, hit me up with your thoughts once you've watched! I've shared mine recently above x

For me, this was a beautiful drama. Stunning cinematography, a beautiful script and narrative and the writing of the lines for our two leads really beautiful and delivered effortlessly with so much feeling. I felt it. Yes, I hated the fish kisses, but I did adore and feel the amazing chemistry of all those beautiful hugs. In fact, I would have happily continued to enjoy the series, minus the terrible fish kisses and just go with the hugs, even though that's simply not logical behaviour between gay or even heterosexual couples.

I found it a shame that they didn't build out and develop the relationship between Kim Dong Hee and Go Ho Tae our 2nd leads. It left me feeling, what was the point of including them. Week after week of asking date me for a month, for nothing to evolve - a wasted opportunity me thinks!

Now this is what really pissed me off and so typical of South Korea. You give us in the main, beautiful writing (lacking depth at times), storytelling, cinematography and stunning looking actors. However, you rarely commit or indeed take that much needed step to wholeheartedly own, understand and embrace gay culture. FACT! This series in the final two episodes, has once again hit the 'curse of the South Korean final episode homophobic culture', quite like many this year have done. We see you as an audience as we're realists and as realists, we demand realism to true life. You want that lucrative revenue stream gained from BL culture, but until you commit, embrace and indeed understand gay culture, I will continue to berate you for your shortcomings. #JustSayin'