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Housing: I am pretty sure the current house is because it was the only available housing due to the scramble for the reshoot. They need a house that is available at short notice, that they can book out completely for 1+ week, allow them to do filming for a gay dating show, and let them make some temporary modification to the location. You can see from the unreleased clip on youtube that the house in the original shoot seems more like the regular house you see in previous seasons.

Winter Season: This is again due to the reshoot. The original shoot took place around Sept or Oct, when the weather was much warmer. Considering they had to make the release date of Jan 2026, it pretty much meant they had to film it during the winter season

Selection: Agreed that it seem to be the same people going on dates over and over again. Hopefully now that the number is cut down, they can do the usual select a date with someone you haven't been on a date with before.

It isn't very clear what he got, just that he is happy with any heart above 5. But the only viewable heart you can see on the table are two 9s. I think it is just a case of bad subtitles?

I liked the bowling, but my issue with group outings is that it usually never advance any budding relationships and for a show with limited time, it just isn't very conducive to the purpose of the show which is finding a relationship

Since they seem to be doing 2 ep = 1 day in the house, we probably have 3 weeks of 2 episodes lefts?
* 10-11: Day 4 Phone call + Day 5 dates
* 12-13: Day 6
* 14-15: Finale Day 7 + catching up with the end couple(s)

I still think there is a chance that HyeongJun won't chose anyone in the finale and chose to reconcile with JaeHa afterwards. Maybe JaeHa's absence would remind HyeongJun of the love he has for JaeHa.

As you said, it is a week long dating show. Expecting a lasting couple is too much to ask for considering their format. There been multiple couples that lasted a little while before breaking up, and that is probably as much as we can expect from a show like this. Do the non-gay dating shows that last a week have a much better last couple rate than His Man?

My reasoning is that the cast is too large at 11 ppl when the usual max size after catfishes are 8. So eliminating 2 just get the number back down the the usual size so it is more manageable

Now that they are down to the usual max cast size, that probably mean there won't be any more elimination or midweek catfishes

It is also something safe for them to release that for sure won't contain the problematic contestant. I assume they haven't released much of the non-date content from the old shoot is that the problematic person was such a social person that it is hard to find interactions that doesn't have him as least partially involved.

I agree with your assessment. Personally, I think Lee Hyeok Jin and Min Seong have the highest chance of being eliminated. The others, while they don't have people crushing on them, are pretty friendly with the other cast. So they will probably get enough points from their friends ranking them middle of the pack to keep them in the house. LHJ and MS however, don't seem too friendly with the others (aside from HyeongJun for MS), so they are probably at risk

Yes, SW and HY had more time together from the first shoot, but you could also say that they already had a week together and didn't end up a couple then. If there is no spark (at least on HY's side), having more time may not make any difference.

I thought there was one couple that was keeping things private (the one that didn't get featured in the finale). Did that one not last either? Oh well, even if they didn't last long term, they had a decent length relationship at least, so I wouldn't say the season was unsuccessful.

Considering how messy the relationship was during the show, not surprised that not everyone is friends with each other. Especially between Youngjoon and Meongkyun. Not every season can be S2. After all, you are only living with a bunch of stranger for a week. Hard to expect all the cast to hit it off with each other

Meongkyun doing BL isn't too surprising, he was introduced on His Man as an aspiring actor,

In case you are still trying to make sense of it: They filmed S4 of His Man around Oct. Completely done, and ended with an end game couple as well. However, after filming was completed, something came out about one of the contestant that was too scandalous to keep that contestant in the show. Instead of digitally editing out the contestant, which might not even be possible, they decided to reshoot the entire season in Dec, which is what we are now watching. They offered all the previous contestants (except for the problematic one) the opportunity to come back for the reshoot. They agreed, which is 8 of the current cast. They brought in two new cast, HanGyeol and YunJae, and one returning cast from S2, MinSeong.

He seems to be friends or at least friendly with the rest of the cast though, so I doubt he will be eliminated. I think it is more likely that one of the HyeokJin get eliminated, as they don't seem particularly close to the rest of the group.

MinSeong might be a possibility as well, as the only one who would give him high points would be HyeongJun. He doesn't seem close to anyone else, so I can see a lot of people ranking him near the back when they are are trying to save their crushes and friends

I am not claiming it make sense to have Elimination in a dating show. Just that it make sense to end the week on the Elimination so the results of the Elimination can be done next week.

You and I might be the only one left on the sinking ship. I am withholding judgement until we get some information that isn't from those interview segments

If you can't wait, you can always watch some of the previous seasons of His Man. I think the general consensus is S2 > S3 > S1, in terms of the popularity of each season, with S3 and S1 somewhat interchangeable.

It made sense they want to end on the Elimination. They want the tension to last the week instead of 10 minutes because they release 2 ep at once

When I started this episode, I can't believe it is almost double the size of the other episodes. I guess that is required so they can fit in everything.

The dates: What the... did everyone get a relaxing date to talk with your date while HanGyeol & Taichi are the only ones sent on an exercise date?!? They would have done better with the formats of any of the other dates. Also, it is weird that they showed the dates from the last episode only doing one activity, while all the dates in this episode had multiple activities. I'm glad YunJae got the lowdown on the previous shoot, but they should really tell MinSeong as well

YunJae & SuMin: YunJae need to be a lot more active. He gives up too easily, and since people are not mind readers, it just come off as him being disinterested. Same for Sumin actually, though I really like both of them. I am glad YunJae finally get to talk with HyunJun and HyunJun was open to going on a date with him, but he definitely doesn't seem as talkative as with SunWook. Maybe he just need to warm up to YunJae more first.

Jenga: None of the answers were that surprising, but it was nice for them to include the game for some group bonding. Interesting they showed the HanGyeol & Taichi flashback from the youtube Unreleased clip instead of the scene from Ep 1. I am glad HyunJun didn't give that breakup question to HyeongJun or JaeHa, that would have been super awkward. So surprised that both YunJae and MinSeong did not put their crush in their top 3, which is a weird move when you see some of the other cast being pretty aggressive in their advances. Be like SuMin, who is clear about his focus on SunWook. Kinda surprised they didn't get dares until almost the end though

Phone Call: Just realized, we are at the end of Day 3 and we only had the phone call session in the first night. MinSeong haven't even had a chance to call yet. Seems weird that one of the hallmark of the show basically sidelined.

HanGyeol & Taichi: Unlike most people here, I am going to withhold judgement about them until we get more information. So far, they been very positive about each other in the show, but very negative in the interview segments. We had HanGyeol saying he didn't like the mystery chat with Taichi while smiling and happy. Then we had HanGyeol saying the date was bad and Taichi may be an airhead, but later rate the date as 4/5. On Taichi's side, he say he is feeling unsure in the interview segment, but all his actual speech and action seem to indicate he is interested in HanGyeol still. So I think I will wait until we get more from either of them that isn't from an interview segment.

From the interview segment, it is clear that Taichi's answers from the last few episodes were all filmed together at a future date since it was all of him in the green outfit during daytime while most of the time the interview segment is about stuff that happened at night. It is harder to tell with HanGyeol since he is always wearing that grey hoodie

Also lol that Minseong didn't chose HyeongJun either in his top 3