MidnightReader

One of the better vertical series I've watched.

English voice-over may have made it better or worse, I'm not sure.

This would have been a good series if it had been longer and we had to sit with the betrayal. Xing was bullied by a fake and punished and neglected by her family for two years, but it didn't feel that way. It also didn't feel like they all had 12 years of loving each other because they turned on Xing so quickly. How could they believe someone they just met over someone they raised? Then their feelings suddenly flip on a dime again once they realise they forgot her birthday? It just didn't feel believable.

This is one of the reasons I don't like vertical series. This was a good plot; it just needed more time to flesh out the characters and make their actions make sense.

You're also telling me that this family never once looked at their camera footage in 2 years? Their cameras were also all perfectly placed to catch almost every evil act as well.

They wait for 30 years for her to wake up, only to have her pretend not to remember them. I mean, they kind of deserve it, but also they waited for 30 YEARS. I felt only a little bad for them.

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Teenage miscommunication with not enough begging for forgiveness.

I was very bored for the majority of this series. Anytime there was a flashback? Bored. There were dozens of them as well, placed literally everywhere in the story. Side couple time? Bored to yawning, which is sad because I liked Ki. My attention drifted so much during their scenes that it was a full-time job staying focused. Anytime Ji and Achi were in Ji's apartment? You guessed it, bored. Honestly, bored and annoyed.

The acting didn't help. Poppy was the best actor in the series. The girl who played Song did a good job as well. Junior was okay, but to be honest, his excessive smiling creeped me out, and I just wanted him to stop. None of the couples really had chemistry, and it left even the non-intimate scenes feeling stiff and awkward. Fluke did get better as the story progressed, and he even made me cry in episode 7.

I cried not because of Money (okay, maybe a little) or Achi leaving, but because I could tell how Ji felt truly small, powerless, and abandoned in that moment, and he wanted to hold onto the only thing he had left of Achi and was scared that his mom wouldn't let him.

If Achi hadn't lied and fled the country and left things unresolved, they could have been together MUCH sooner. I do understand it, though, because they are teenagers and they don't fully understand their feelings, let alone know how to express them. Communication is the most important and difficult thing in a relationship.

As much as I wasn't enjoying the majority of the show, Achi and Ji getting together felt very abrupt, and they had no problems with anything after. It was literally like 4-5 episodes of Ji pushing Achi away because he doesn't want to be hurt again, a couple of episodes of Ji giving in and letting Achi get closer, and then last episode BOOM together and happily ever after. I get that they both never stopped loving each other, and they don't want to waste any more time, but you'd think that they would talk a little bit. I don't consider the flashbacks to be them talking. Show us the flashback; we needed it, but show them talking things out. It would have also been nice to see if their being in a relationship had a positive or negative effect on their lives because of Achi's job.

In my opinion, Ji gave in way too easily. Make him beg a little bit! Achi's smile would have already had me creeped out, but this man showing up in the random places I am, and then at my home? Combined with the sudden kiss that he did not have permission for, it would have had me telling him off and avoiding him, and if he wouldn't leave me alone? Restraining order. But Ji is still in love with him and gave in to everything Achi wanted. Achi should have been working for forgiveness every step of the way, but it felt like he had to put almost no work at all into it because Ji loved him more than he loved himself.

The plot had a lot of potential, but not enough time was spent forming, breaking, and then fixing the main relationship. They did an okay job at breaking it, but it still felt very surface-level. It's hard to put my thoughts on it into words. Like I felt the pain Ji was going through, but I felt nothing from Achi. If they are limited to just 8 episodes, they should have just cut out the second couple altogether, given us a full episode ( & maybe a half) of just flashbacks, then spent the rest of the time with Achi begging for forgiveness, them working things out, and then given them a happily ever after. As it stands, their finally getting together was unsatisfying. I found myself actively not wanting them to get together because it didn't feel like Achi put in enough effort after the pain he caused. I don't care if it was 10 years ago, and Ji is still in love with him. It clearly left scars on Ji.

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This is what people should be afraid of AI becoming

Am I the only one thinking that this is showing us what they are trying to do with AI? It's terrifying to think about not being able to tell a robot from a human.

There are two reasons I didn't like the romance (even though I enjoyed the show). 1.) The main love interest, Immortal Four, is an AI biometric robot. Being in a romantic relationship with a robot screams of mental problems that we know Luo Bushi definitely has (and for good reason). 2.) Luo Bushi literally had to buy him. I don't know how else they would have been able to be together, but this rubs me the wrong way, robot or not.

Don't get me wrong, the romance could be cute at times, and honestly, I wish that Immortal Four would have kept his "sadistic switch" glasses on, but I'm also a person with common sense, so I was thinking the whole time about all the things that could go wrong if this were a real-life scenario, God forbid, so all the dates and sugery sweet moments felt hallow because I was not only thinking about how emotion even worked for an AI, AKA it shouldn't, and if Immortal Four would need actual maintenance over the years. Lou Bushi keeps planning things like he was going to kick the bucket first when Immortal Four could literally die first. They don't really go into much detail about how the Immortal line of robots works, but I doubt their storage capacity is infinite. They can probably get viruses like a computer. Could they break a limb, say, from being hit by a car, and need replacing? Also, why do they bleed blood and not oil? Does that need to be replenished or replaced after so many miles, like a car?

These are only a few of the things that went through my head while watching. I'm too tired to list everything, it is 3:30 a.m.

Also, how was this kid made? Does he age pretty much normally? Why don't we see any pictures of him growing up?

The overly dramatic shots were so over the top that they became funny. I couldn't hold in my laugh at the dart-catching scene in episode 1. Thankfully, as the series progressed, these kinds of shots became fewer and fewer . . . or maybe I got so used to them that I stopped noticing? I'm gaslighting myself.

One of the little things that got very annoying was the inconsistencies. A phone not being where it should have been, a head tilted one way in a camera shot to be tilted the opposite way in another, a phone being dead and then suddenly not, and a very dark hicky being there only to be gone a couple of hours later. These are just a few examples, and they are very noticeable and just little things that didn't need to be there.

Acting was good. I normally don't like tsundere or masochist, but Luo Bushi was both without being overbearing or annoying. Kevin did a good job at playing a robot, and he really had the body built for it *whistle*. The characters were built up enough to make me care about them, even though the emotional investment was low.

Our second couple was cute, but I'm also really glad they didn't steal the show for me. Normally, I'm more interested in the second couple than our mains, and even though I liked Lin Jia and Zhen together, I was more interested in our main pair. And it wasn't just because Lin Jia's problem was solved almost right away by Luo Bushi, the chemistry wasn't there, or anything like that. It was because Luo Bushi's attitude and past hooked me from the very beginning.

Speaking of his past, I wanted more. The trauma is there, but I wanted to see the build-up to that trauma and how fast things went from happy to devastating. I wanted to see the aftermath of everything, about how Luo Bushi went from the well-behaved studious kid to the boy we are introduced to. There was a lot of wasted potential here.

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It had it's moments

Most of the good moments in this series were because the actors were doing their best with what they were given, which wasn't much. The script made things 10X more confusing than they needed to be.

I can't tell you how many times I thought the characters were dating because of something said, only to find out five to 20 minutes later that no, they aren't. I know it happened three times with just one of the main couples, which is three times too many. I was also really confused about the family situation with Per and Knight's parents since they all seemed to live together and have a good relationship. I legit thought that their dad was married to both their moms until the last episode, where we finally got some answers.

What happened to Mud? We see him a few times up to episode 6, then for some reason we never see him again. Why? There was supposedly some serious shit going on with his ex-bestfriend and brother, but he just never showed up again during or after the conflict. We don't know if he accepted the relationship, became friends with Knight again, or what happened. He just disappeared like he never existed. His part in the story was to fight Knight over his brother, whom Knight supposedly raped while drunk one night, and somehow the scriptwriters thought it was okay to never resolve that after Mud found out it was a misunderstanding. Mud never went to the cops, talked to his brother about it, nothing, and Knight never tried to explain things after the fact. It was already a poorly written plot point because not only would Mild have known that he had been raped, but who would sleep through that? He would have at least been in pain the next morning because I doubt a drunk man would have had any control. The flashes that Mild saw made actual rape feel cheap after it's revealed that nothing happened. Not only was it handled poorly, but they also stretched it out over two episodes when it didn't need to be. This whole part of the story rubbed me the wrong way.

Mayo was a plot point that felt forced and didn't have a good enough lead-up, considering he stabbed Per. We saw him for all of five minutes over the whole series before this point.

The main reason I decided to watch this series was because of a few clips I saw, and I've enjoyed series with low ratings, so I gave it a chance. I watched a lot of it at 2X speed because some moments had too many long, drawn-out stares between the characters, but it wasn't the worst series I've seen by a long shot.

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Too much fluff, not enough Investigating, and as you will find out, no mystery.

Let's start with the parallel worlds, which, for some reason, everyone believed Mum about without question. We have the main world, which is Mum's, then Dew's world that exists parallel to it. The interesting thing about the parallel worlds in this series is that it only works in room 609 from 12 am to 1:05 am. The month and years are the same, but the days are different; for Mum, it all starts on the 6th, and for Dew the 24th, and each day forward for Mum is a day backward for Dew.

I both love and hate this late detail. On the one hand, it adds a layer of complexity that I hadn't seen before; on the other, it creates a couple of problems with the plot. First, because everything works backwards in Dew's world, that means at the starting point for Mum, Dew already knows everything that has happened to that point, especially when we learn that Mum told him everything on Dew's day one. Why didn't Dew tell him everything when he learned they were working in reverse order? Search me. To build suspense and tension? Didn't work. When I found out that Dew knew who killed him and why all along, I was so annoyed for reasons I will get to in a minute. The second problem is that it took the suspense and tension out of the 2 or 3 times someone tried to or thought about killing Dew (we didn't know it wasn't real at the time). We knew it wouldn't happen because we knew when it would happen. Dew's fate was sealed, and there was nothing that would change it because everything Mum was doing in Dew's world had already happened for Dew, just not for Mum.

Now, to the reason I was so annoyed with Dew when I learned he knew everything. I won't go into too much detail as I don't want to spoil too much, but to fix everything, all he had to do was break up with Mint. That is it. He didn't need to get An to keep her busy & avoid her. Just break up. It wasn't like he liked her as more than a friend anyway.

Mint is a good, if not overbearing and insufferable, sister. Honestly, I was confused when I learned she's the younger one. I get that she cares, and Mum is the only family she has left, but she was a bit much at times. That being said, Dew's world Mint has some mental problems. Not only does she badger him to date her for literal years, but she also fantasized about killing him when she thinks he might be cheating on her. Breaking up never entered her mind! Mum's world Mint was just as badgery, but she at least was happy that Dew was honest with her. I don't think Dew's world Mint would have been, not based on the amount of yelling and refusal to listen.

An should have been able to tell her that Dew wasn't cheating on her since he was following the boy. I mean, he would have told her he was, but his telling her Dew was gay didn't work out too well either. He was a headache; the only time I liked him was in the little time that he was helping Dew with Mint. He was an angry, drunk 95% of the time, who seemed to do nothing productive but follow Dew around. No idea what Joey sees in him.

Honestly, I hated both Mint and An's characters. An because of how entitled he felt he was to know everything about Dew and Mint's relationship, just because he liked Mint, and he accused Dew of a lot of stuff based on messages Mint posted on her social media. I didn't like Mint because she couldn't accept that Dew only sees her as a friend. After years of constantly asking someone to be your boyfriend, it should be obvious that they said yes, so you'd leave them alone. If I had a friend who wouldn't take no for an answer, I would simply cut ties with them. It could easily turn into something life-threatening if it goes on too long, or maybe I just watch too many crime shows and am paranoid. Based on Mint's reaction, I would like to think I'm not being paranoid.

If the goal was to make me hate Mint, Emi did a great job.

The last episode has an alternate ending, which I sadly couldn't find to watch. The canon ending, Wake Up, saw our characters getting their happy ending, but a lot of it felt unrealistic, and it happened too fast. Mint accepts that her brother loves Dew and helps get them together, and the parents are told about the relationship, and they are okay with it. To make it even more convenient, Mum's world Dew also somehow remembers things that happened between them in Dew's world, and after an encounter with a Mum from another universe, he falls in love with Mum. Almost no time went into building up the relationship between Mum and his world's Dew.

As a side note, these guys are having sex on the first meeting, 3 different times, and at least one of them each time didn't think they were gay . . . Why? And one of those times, life or death information needed to be given, but no let's bone first! I rolled my eyes so hard it hurt.

Probably my favorite thing about the series was Mum morning Dew, whether he knew what happened to him or not, is unclear, but regardless, he knew they wouldn't meet again. Then he picks himself up for the Dew of his universe, only for reality to crash in. His distancing himself from the situation and the people involved was very realistic. The ups and downs of Mum's emotions and mental state were well portrayed by Ohm.

I wish we could have seen a bit of the fallout in Dew's world. It's clear what happened, but I would have liked to have seen the other character's reaction, not just a fade to black.

I also liked Wee and Game as a couple. A was a grade A asshole, and I'm glad that Wee has Game to support and love him.

Overall, the series wasn't bad; I just couldn't stand a couple of characters, and that really brought down my enjoyment of the show. I also wish there had been some actual mystery to solve; we had mostly cute couple moments, not detective work.

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Good, but I enjoyed H2H more

My only complaint is that the series felt longer than it needed to be. In episode 8, I felt like we were getting a lot of filler and NC scenes just to expand the show out to 12 episodes, and by episode 10, I was watching at 2X speed so I wouldn't DNF it because I found my attention drifting.

Despite that, I liked the acting, except for JJ's, because it felt very stiff, but I've seen him in other things, and it's been fine, so it's probably because it was his first drama, or that's how they wanted him to act.

Didn't care about the singing. I rarely do unless music is the main focus of a character or plot, like Kim from Kinnporche, or ThamePo & Cutie Pie.

I love this kind of plot because it dives into something that many people experience, but don't really talk about. I have these kinds of dreams a few times out of the year, and it always leaves me feeling disoriented when they start happening in real life, and I think this show captured that feeling very well. I also like that in this series, it's an inherited gift.

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OMG please stop making vampire stories

If you are going to do a story centered around vampires, please take the time to build up the world. Logically would be nice.

The Lore is better than in My Golden Blood, which basically had no lore, but it's all over the place and felt like it was more to make sure everyone got their happy ending than to make actual sense.

First off, the vampire city was called Thaiwilight City, so already we were off to a great start (not). And for some reason in this city, they have a population problem, so no romance! Especially not the gay kind, because for some reason, the older vampires are homophobic even though that would help them with their problem. Couldn't they have come up with a form of birth control?

The vampires are literally humans that grow fangs to drink blood, and have a special city to themselves. You can kill them by breaking their neck. I'm still not convinced they actually live longer. Explain the passing of time, please, because if it does move more slowly, you did a piss poor job of showing it. In the vampire city, 100 years is 3 years in the human world, but when we are going back and forth between the worlds, it's like the passage of time is the same.

A human can become a vampire by either falling in love with a vampire and the vampire bites them, which will then turn that vampire into a human, or by a human who is dying being bitten by a vampire that loves them. A vampire can also become human by biting another vampire they are in love with on the full moon (does it have to be red?). So, for some reason, love is always involved, and it would have been interesting if this had been the reason for the "no love" rule instead of population control.

Why does Phum have a human counterpart? He is from the human world. He was once human before he was tricked into being a vampire, so he should be his own counterpart. I'm still confused on this point. The whole part about that counterpart having to be dead for them to go into their bodies is also very confusing. I mean, it takes the guilt away from them taking over their bodies, but why does it then make their bodies "vampire bodies"? It's an instantaneous process as well, which makes no sense if their bodies are changing at all. If they are "replacing" their human counterparts, you would think they would just be able to enter the human world once the counterpart died without taking over their actual bodies. I'm assuming it was done the way it was so that they all had a human life already set up for them, but it frustrated me throughout the whole show because they never explained how it works!

What was the recipe for the red wine? Nothing in your world makes sense, so don't tease me like this!

As far as comedies go, I did laugh a few times somewhere in the middle of the series, and I honestly don't think this series could have been good if it weren't a comedy. I feel weird saying that about a vampire show.

Frank and Lee have good chemistry. All the actors did a great job; I honestly don't know how some of them kept a straight face while saying some of their lines. I also have a new appreciation for Mod; his acting really stood out to me in this series.

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Waste of time

This is my first review on here, so I'm sorry if it's all over the place.

I watched this drama despite the poor rating because I like watching shows about time travel. Said time travel was pretty much the only thing I liked about it.

First off, the camera work was all over the place, giving us angles we didn't need, and the slow-motion shots (which I don't like in a good drama) were WAY too long.

The only thing I have to say about the actors and make-up is that Marc's eyes are bloodshot throughout pretty much the whole series, and it was very distracting.

The pacing of this show was okay at first, but by episode 7, I was watching it on 1.5 & sometimes 2x speed to get through it because I was interested to see how they would end it.

Soda's character is a silmball. He was already an asshole for hitting on someone else's boyfriend, but then he encouraged Bamee to treat Kiao like shit, and fired Kiao so he wouldn't be around Bamee.

The series could have also just been 10 episodes. We didn't need the drama of Bamee getting amnesia. In fact, the way he was acting during that time is something that would have driven me back to the past if I were Kiao.

Now to the biggest problem. WHAT THE F**K WAS THAT ENDING!? How was anyone working on this project okay with it? Did no alarm bells go off, or flags go up when they read the script? Why? It could have ended in several better and less creepy ways. Kiao could have just never returned to the past and lived his life the best he could. Everyone could have forgotten about each other, and they all live happily ever after in their separate lives. If Kiao needed to remember because it was a lesson than he could have moved on romantically to someone else! Why did we have to end this with a 40+ Kiao kissing Bamee who is under half his age!? You can't tell me that anyone is going to be happy about their relationship when they find out. Also, Kiao is so much older that there's a major power imbalance in the relationship, and unless something happens, Bamee is going to live a long time after Kiao dies. I just don't understand what they were thinking. Were they thinking?

Overall, this series was a waste of my time and left me feeling disappointed. CREEPY ending with no satisfaction.

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This was BL light

BL takes up a large part of the story, but it's not the focus.

This series is mainly about an orphanage and the family running it trying to save it after they run out of money to pay off their debt. It also focuses on the health troubles that can occur as you get older, the struggles of daily life, and how AI is abused both in good and bad ways.

This series also did a good job of showing how well BL sells.

* Kong's acting has gotten better since Dinosaur Love, but there was only room for improvement.

* Watched at X2 speed because the show felt like it was dragging a lot. I'm honestly not sure if I would have finished it if I hadn't watched it sped up.

* AI is used too much. It wasn't needed in 100% of the scenes it was in. The money AI scam? Not only do you never give money to anyone who calls you, but if it's the hospital (correct me if I'm wrong), in an emergency they don't ask for payment first. I get that grandpa, mom, and dad were in a panic, but even if the call didn't register as spam, that doesn't mean it isn't.

* I never needed to hear a grandpa reading yaoi/BL to me. The long hair on the grandpa's face is also very distracting and annoying. I couldn't stop looking at it.

* Save is a really great guy; the only bad thing he actually does is start a relationship with Guy for the wrong reasons.

* Guy's character was kind of one-dimensional. I understand that the relationship was never the main focus of the story, but you still expect to want to root for the only romantic relationship you are getting. I mean, I'm glad they got together because I love BL, but at the same time they could have changed the plot to Guy being asked to help by pretending to be a couple, and they slowly fall for each other. That would have been more interesting than Save being an ass during this one moment, which felt out of character, and then realizing his feelings while trying to make up with Guy.

* All the kids are really good, behavior- and acting-wise.

* Weirdly enough, this series made me want to write at a couple of points.

* Is Grandpa's novel about him and his friend?

Overall, the series was fine, but sometimes it felt like too many bad things were happening at once, like the writers were just trying to keep the plot interesting only for their luck to pull a 180 at the end and everything falls into place. It also felt very unbelievable that anyone would let themselves get this far into debt. Hell, would the bank even let them get that far before just taking the property? That amount of debt is insane.

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Why does this feel like a student project?

TRIGGER WARNING for self-harm and sexual assault

The sexual assault scene is blurred out; you literally see nothing, but I'm still warning you it's there.

Watched at X1.5 speed.

Too many visual and audio effects.

Bad acting and zero chemistry between the main actors. The best acting was from Sammy and Tonnam (who was also one of the directors--no comment).

Dino looks too old to be in college. He's also a walking red flag, and not the good kind. He's controlling, bossy, and possessive, but in a "I wouldn't touch you with a 50 ft pole" kind of way, not in a "that's hot" way.

Rek looks like a space case most of the time, and has zero personality. Kong's (the actor) face is also very stiff. Don't understand what these boys like about him. Not that they are very likable either; one tries to kill himself, and the other tries to rape Rek.

I watched 4 episodes thinking it would be at least bearable, but it wasn't. I'm not going to tell anyone not to give it a try, but please try to go in with no expectations.

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This series is a merry-go-round

First off, I didn't really pay attention to the music; it was nothing special.

When I say the series is a merry-go-round, I mean it. This plot goes in circles. We start out with our main character, Keen, facing a lot of personal turmoil and money problems because his father borrowed money from a loan shark, Than is used to solve those money problems. Immediately after that problem is solved, someone else has money problems with a different loan shark. How is this problem solved? With Than and everyone else at the gym fighting in a tournament. This happening twice already felt very repetitive, and I looked at episode summaries, and sure enough, it was going to happen again, so I dropped the show.

Do I think the show is bad? No. I've watched way worse. The thing is, I've finished those shows because they weren't as time-consuming as this one. If these episodes had been shorter, around 40-50 minutes, I probably would have continued. I was already watching it at 2X speed. But no, all but one of the episodes I watched was over an hour. One was almost an hour and a half long! That it too long to sit in an episode, even if I hadn't been bored with the plot.

I couldn't even get into the relationships because both of them just fell together with no real buildup. They weren't together, and then they were so fast that I had to pause and try to figure out where in the hell the attraction started because there was no tension and only a couple of "moments" that hinted at them liking each other. From the moment Keen and Than got together, it also got very physical, between them and the second couple's NC scenes. It became repetitive, and they became moments that I only half paid attention to. Than also pays off Keen's debt after barely knowing him for a few weeks, which felt very unrealistic. Ait and Win will probably have problems down the road because it seems like Ait was doing something shady for his "boss" (probably a loan shark if I had to guess), but I wasn't interested enough to continue the series just for that.

I didn't care enough about the characters or the plot enough to continue the series. The show was missing a strong antagonist that our characters could work to overcome. Instead, we are thrown from one person causing a problem to another with no link between them, which made it feel like the plot had no clear direction or goal.

The actors overall did an alright job, I don't really have any complaints. They did what they could, given that the characters they were playing had no real depth.

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This could put you to sleep

It's cute, I guess, but there's no substance, and I was bored the entire time. We didn't even get into the trauma that Amagi apparently had. His love for Takara just cured it without Takara even knowing he had trauma. If I hadn't watched the last 4 episodes at 2x speed, I don't even think I would have finished it because nothing was happening.

The conversations that our main characters have with their friends are also pure nonsense and not things actual friends would talk about. If you have dead space and don't know what to fill it with, please just use schoolwork next time or anime, manga, video games. Literally anything but Senatra because wtf. Amagi's blond friend may as well have not existed for all the screen time he got.

The actors also don't really have any chemistry, and the kisses are bland, like if you kiss your sibling by accident.

This is a show that you let play in the background while you do something else.

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Like most Japanese dramas, there are a bit of overly exaggerated expressions & actions. I normally hate this, but it wasn't really annoying in this series because the concept alone is ridiculous. We are supposedly in a BL manga universe, so it makes sense for there to be these overly exaggerated moments.

All the romances around the main character are speed-running it. They see each other, say a couple of words, and then suddenly they are together. You really can't get invested in any of the characters because they don't get any real screen time outside Mob's observations. While I expected this to a degree, I prefer to not have this level of involvement with a character if they mean nothing to the plot. I don't really like shows that have no real characters outside the main character. Even the parents barely have any lines; they may as well be cardboard cutouts.

There are just too many nothing characters thrown in our face to show that everyone, but Mob, is literally pairing off.

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Good thing the acting is good.

I don't know what it is about this series, but every 20 minutes felt like an hour. I watched this at 1.5 & 2X speed, and it still felt like it took forever to get through. I had to do this in season 1 as well, and it had a lot more funny moments.

Also, can I just say that I love that they made Me and Thee a series inside the series? So what we watched was them acting out everything that already happened. I also liked that they inserted the series title and did a callback to We Are at the end.

The acting was really good. I liked the cameos at the end, but it got a bit much; it went from funny to being WAY too dragged out and not funny anymore, then back to funny when we got to PerthSanta. I have to give Junior credit for bringing the crazy. And have Pond & Phuwin's kisses gotten a bit better, or am I imagining things? William's English is so cute. William also did a scary good job making his eyes look "dead" when he was killing the guy who shot Mok. That was the first time I believed anyone in this crazy family is actually part of the mafia.

Now the things I didn't like are actually very few.

1. The fighting looked so fake that it hurt to watch.

2. The side couples. Why was a new one introduced? This show can barely handle the two we had in the first series. I still don't even know if Tawan & Aran are together, which pisses me off. Rome & Mok get a bit more screen time, but it still wasn't enough to make me care about them & at least we get to see a ring on Rome's finger to confirm that they are official. I get that Thee and Peach are the main couple and they are the most important, but this series had more than enough time to give the side characters more development.

3. Throughout both series, I didn't grow attached to any of the characters. Maybe it being a comedy makes it more difficult to really get you emotionally invested; IDK, I just know that I hate coming out of a series and not being sad to say goodbye to any of the characters.

As a sequel, this was good, but it's not one that I will rewatch. The series as a whole I wouldn't rewatch.

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