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This is an odd one
A couple of days ago, I watched the film “Call Me Chihiro” and really liked the actress who played the main character. So I searched for more of her work. I saw that this show was already on my Netflix watchlist and decided to watch it.
From the jump, I thought the kid was 18-19. Given the show's context, the age gap is risky but not illegal. I didn’t find out the kid was 15 until episodes 2-3. This really irked me. I know the actor playing the character was of age. It’s still fucking weird. If she had a crush, she was ashamed of it, she left, and they met years later. That, whilst still weird, would’ve been more acceptable. I thought that was how it was going to go until that beach scene. I just felt weird watching this whole drama. Everything about the show is great aside from the story, which could’ve been altered.
This show is also so inconsistent, genuinely all over the place. Characters say stuff and declare some change, and then in the next episode, they’ve changed their mind. It also feels like key scenes were cut. Characters talk about things, and it seems like the context of what they’re talking about is in a scene that didn’t make it into the show. Hell, there’s no scene where the woman’s fiancé finds out she’s interested in this school student. It just happens off-screen.
Could’ve been great. But the show’s age gap is just unforgivable, which is a shame because everything else about the show (not story-related) I really enjoyed.
From the jump, I thought the kid was 18-19. Given the show's context, the age gap is risky but not illegal. I didn’t find out the kid was 15 until episodes 2-3. This really irked me. I know the actor playing the character was of age. It’s still fucking weird. If she had a crush, she was ashamed of it, she left, and they met years later. That, whilst still weird, would’ve been more acceptable. I thought that was how it was going to go until that beach scene. I just felt weird watching this whole drama. Everything about the show is great aside from the story, which could’ve been altered.
This show is also so inconsistent, genuinely all over the place. Characters say stuff and declare some change, and then in the next episode, they’ve changed their mind. It also feels like key scenes were cut. Characters talk about things, and it seems like the context of what they’re talking about is in a scene that didn’t make it into the show. Hell, there’s no scene where the woman’s fiancé finds out she’s interested in this school student. It just happens off-screen.
Could’ve been great. But the show’s age gap is just unforgivable, which is a shame because everything else about the show (not story-related) I really enjoyed.
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