you missed nothing they just stayed delulu lol don’t mind them
You are right to question the narrative.
This is why I like the “innocent until proven guilty” principle. “Fans” of many actors here on this site alway love to “cancel” the actors based on any and all hearsay and accusation, showing their are mindless drones of mob mentality that have zero critical thinking but lots of posturing and virtue-signalling. Those people often are the worst hypoctes in real life in terms of how they behave.
The best way is just to not trust any accusations and smears unless a really good independently verifiable evidence is available.
THE FIRST THING to remember about this series is that this is a complete farce and fantasy.
Nearly nothing at all is remotely close to how things happen in organised crime and security service in real life.
So just watch it for the lads and passion between them. The series provides that a hundred percent (this is the opposite to what you see in eunuch bromances that pretend to be BL series like 2gether).
The only truly bad thing about the series is the endless propaganda of tobacco and alcohol, which are not only disgusting and detrimental for looks and general health, but are banned for high performance workers like bodyguard everywhere, including gangs. The speed and accuracy of reaction and endurance, tenacity degrade drastically.
The “victim blaming” is complicated often by the fact that some people can only consider one circumstance at a time, not two. The first being that the culprit is to blame, but the second being that e.g. if due to criminal negligence someone has forgot to close or even has intentionally left doors to a elevator shaft open, you still supposed to have agency and reason to not go there, unless you are a toddler or something.
I would rather call it gay themed general drama, so it can raise subjects that are way too serious (e.g. domestic abuse and the Stockholm syndrome that makes people stick to their beloved serial criminals) for the fluffy, silly and cute BL genre.
Sadly, the storytelling uses a number of soap opera tools that make it longer than necessary. Viewers have to be prepared to watch characters in “can't see the forest for the trees” state, spending dozens of hours of the screen time to learn things that were one question away in the first place.
That said, if you like the mood of the series and be able suspend disbelief not only in the magic setting but also in some other aspects, you would not mind the slow pace and enjoy the submerging into the world the authors create. Especially if you like the actors, so seeing them act would already more than enough.
Your review represents this feeling very well, thanks.
I just want to complement the job Job has done with his dramatic characters like Nut in the Miracle of Teddy Bear series, where he was fully committed to portray a deeply disturbing and violent criminal. Lots of people like this exist in real life, and their stories need to be told, too.
People are not all about ponies and rainbows, and yet they both love and get loved, however detrimental it is for their partners. This is a great lesson for viewers to be careful and warned.
The way the lad was playing is a hundred percent believable: you see a dangerous psycho.
Too bad it was such a repulsive, horrible criminal character to play, but he did it convincingly, a great job…
There is nothing more complex in this character than in the character of — let’s take an extreme example for the sake of clarity of the point — Hitler who has loved the German people (in a twisted way, though), his family and dogs dearly, and was a pretty decent painter.
The main thing about those characters is that they are fundamentally criminal in their nature, it is just how their psyche works. Their other quirks and characteristics are completely superfluous to their dangerous being.
I think you have some issues handling good actors like Job playing criminal characters like Nut, and doing it great with nuance that make them three-dimensional but not diminishing the fact of how horrible they are.
You might want to watch The Godfather film for more cases like this. There, actor Brando plays a criminal, even though it is not a caricature, so it is done well. This is not a “reductive” description, either; this is what the character was.
Finally, what it is the point of going to actors’ pages to round and soften realistic characters they play? It devalues, cheapens their work which was good specifically because how committed they are to portraying some of the most repulsive human behaviours.
What do you mean by Mame? One person writes all the scripts for years? Why? There is a monopoly?
Thanks. I did not know that she (co-)owns the company itself so she is unavoidable. I liked the lad’s first series Love In The Air very much (even though it has its series faults), but newer series are too focused on the type casting then that might be going overboard.
Too bad it was such a repulsive, horrible criminal character to play, but he did it convincingly, a great job…
Well, the character has repeatedly assaulted and kidnapped a person in the series, which results in many years of jail time. The character’s abusive nature could only ever result in more home abuse and violence and years in jail, so no person should be ever close to a character like this. However, this character is absolutely real, there are many people exactly like this, and lots of tragically unhappy people are in love with them still, sometimes leading to their demise.
LOVED him as Nut. I wish he had taken he had taken more bl roles after TMOTB
Too bad it was such a repulsive, horrible criminal character to play, but he did it convincingly, a great job (pun intended): such people do exist in real life.
But this also explains why he has took the role: that series was not a BL, but a regular drama that had core gay theme. It is a different genre and a different set of actors who play in those projects, they are general roster actors, not BL ones. Hence, no regular BL series.
The same has happens with actors from other gay (not BL) series e.g. Golden Picture (Rup Thong, 2018).
This is why I like the “innocent until proven guilty” principle. “Fans” of many actors here on this site alway love to “cancel” the actors based on any and all hearsay and accusation, showing their are mindless drones of mob mentality that have zero critical thinking but lots of posturing and virtue-signalling. Those people often are the worst hypoctes in real life in terms of how they behave.
The best way is just to not trust any accusations and smears unless a really good independently verifiable evidence is available.
Anyway, his acting skills are top notch.
Nearly nothing at all is remotely close to how things happen in organised crime and security service in real life.
So just watch it for the lads and passion between them. The series provides that a hundred percent (this is the opposite to what you see in eunuch bromances that pretend to be BL series like 2gether).
The only truly bad thing about the series is the endless propaganda of tobacco and alcohol, which are not only disgusting and detrimental for looks and general health, but are banned for high performance workers like bodyguard everywhere, including gangs. The speed and accuracy of reaction and endurance, tenacity degrade drastically.
Directors often only as good as the source material. Maybe in this case it is worse?
Especially since most is series are sloppily written anyways?
Or you mean that it is so bad that even the most adorable lads are not worth it?
Nothing to do with anything BL. Barely even a bromance, really. The tags are wrong for this database entry.
Sadly, the storytelling uses a number of soap opera tools that make it longer than necessary. Viewers have to be prepared to watch characters in “can't see
the forest for the trees” state, spending dozens of hours of the screen time to learn things that were one question away in the first place.
That said, if you like the mood of the series and be able suspend disbelief not only in the magic setting but also in some other aspects, you would not mind the slow pace and enjoy the submerging into the world the authors create. Especially if you like the actors, so seeing them act would already more than enough.
Your review represents this feeling very well, thanks.
People are not all about ponies and rainbows, and yet they both love and get loved, however detrimental it is for their partners. This is a great lesson for viewers to be careful and warned.
The way the lad was playing is a hundred percent believable: you see a dangerous psycho.
The main thing about those characters is that they are fundamentally criminal in their nature, it is just how their psyche works. Their other quirks and characteristics are completely superfluous to their dangerous being.
I think you have some issues handling good actors like Job playing criminal characters like Nut, and doing it great with nuance that make them three-dimensional but not diminishing the fact of how horrible they are.
You might want to watch The Godfather film for more cases like this. There, actor Brando plays a criminal, even though it is not a caricature, so it is done well. This is not a “reductive” description, either; this is what the character was.
Finally, what it is the point of going to actors’ pages to round and soften realistic characters they play? It devalues, cheapens their work which was good specifically because how committed they are to portraying some of the most repulsive human behaviours.
But this also explains why he has took the role: that series was not a BL, but a regular drama that had core gay theme. It is a different genre and a different set of actors who play in those projects, they are general roster actors, not BL ones. Hence, no regular BL series.
The same has happens with actors from other gay (not BL) series e.g. Golden Picture (Rup Thong, 2018).
Super adorable and huggable.