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Ignore the hate… hear me out
Not every story needs a happy ending. The point of this series was to display different types of love, different ways people love, different endings and truly, the IMPERFECTIONS of love.
There were so many different lessons in this series and though series are meant to entertain, I feel that the writers, directors, and actors did a great job communicating through their art the lessons/messages they wanted to while still keeping the audience engaged, entertained, feeling all the feels, and routing for each character.
Many wanted to, and did, drop the series after the tragedy out of protest for not getting the happy ending for that couple. (I get it. Bee and Year deserve thier own series and STAT. Thier acting is incredible.)
But, if you keep watching, the lesson/message is the point. Everyone involved did a wonderful job conveying exactly what was meant to be communicated to the viewers. The mix of happy and unhappy endings proved the imperfections of love, of life, relationships, and choices. It pulls you out of the delulu world of always needing a happy ending and into the reality of our messy world where our choices influence those around us. And sometimes, a wake up call, isn’t always a good one. It took Don’s death to wake Than up and finally communicate.
As the viewer, we “see” every side. When you’re actually living through something like that, it truly does take a wake up call sometimes to snap you out of your own mind and question the conclusions you’ve come to.
This series is clearly aimed at mature minds in the way that BLs are migrating past the typical university setting to explore life in the real where it is messy and imperfect. Every character felt real with thier own story that was explored enough in such a short time and that alone is so rare these days.
You’ll laugh, cry, and your stomach will do the thing, then you’ll laugh and cry again, scream at the screen, cry again, then finally, smile because you got the message. Watch it. You won’t regret it.
There were so many different lessons in this series and though series are meant to entertain, I feel that the writers, directors, and actors did a great job communicating through their art the lessons/messages they wanted to while still keeping the audience engaged, entertained, feeling all the feels, and routing for each character.
Many wanted to, and did, drop the series after the tragedy out of protest for not getting the happy ending for that couple. (I get it. Bee and Year deserve thier own series and STAT. Thier acting is incredible.)
But, if you keep watching, the lesson/message is the point. Everyone involved did a wonderful job conveying exactly what was meant to be communicated to the viewers. The mix of happy and unhappy endings proved the imperfections of love, of life, relationships, and choices. It pulls you out of the delulu world of always needing a happy ending and into the reality of our messy world where our choices influence those around us. And sometimes, a wake up call, isn’t always a good one. It took Don’s death to wake Than up and finally communicate.
As the viewer, we “see” every side. When you’re actually living through something like that, it truly does take a wake up call sometimes to snap you out of your own mind and question the conclusions you’ve come to.
This series is clearly aimed at mature minds in the way that BLs are migrating past the typical university setting to explore life in the real where it is messy and imperfect. Every character felt real with thier own story that was explored enough in such a short time and that alone is so rare these days.
You’ll laugh, cry, and your stomach will do the thing, then you’ll laugh and cry again, scream at the screen, cry again, then finally, smile because you got the message. Watch it. You won’t regret it.
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