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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.
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Red Flag Trope Cram session
Lemme save your brain from needing a good mentalbleaching.
1) Student/ Teacher
2) Child/ Adult
3) Half-Brothers
4) Rape and NonConsentual: Multiple times (A different couple)
5) You see all the human anatomy. All of it.
6) They hide the truth of their relationship until the very end. Which is the ONLY reason why I finished it. If I had known the truth, I would have never even attempted it. You THINK you’re watching a super artsy movie with a message waiting for you at the end… and then they smack you in the face with the truth and you want to take acid to your retinas because of the regret you feel from watching the depiction of so much wrongness. I feel lied to.
7) NO. Don’t do it. Just… No.
8) How did this get published for public viewing?
9) Did I mention it was awful? It’s awful.
10) The ACTORS do their job. They were great. Still… don’t do it. K? K. You’re Welcome.
Now go watch something lovely and fluffy. Like Moonlight Chicken or Reset or Your Sky.
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Perfection.
This is my first review on MDL. Before watching this series, I’ve watched nearly 30+ series. Nothing, and I mean nothing, holds a candle to this.The story guides these two male leads and JimmySea deserve Oscar’s for their performances. Truly.
I slept on this show for so long, having been spoiled by the current NC scenes and the high tension between the “official” BL pairs. And believe me, they are incredible actors and I haven’t had a single BL I didn’t like.
But this, this is a masterpiece, even over Century Of Love and I think so highly of that one too.
This series is more than just a BL. It is an important story to humankind. To love naturally and fiercely no matter if it’s a partner, parent, sibling, friend, or stranger. To learn to be brave enough to let yourself grow. To see through someone else eyes and what that overly used phrase actually means. To the broken families of messy relationships, single moms that leave they deserve love, fathers that made good and bad decisions, and to siblings that overcome challenges that seem impossible. I hope that people of all walks of live in every aspect find this series and their eyes are opened by this love letter to humanity. Genius writing, directing, and acting.
Don’t sleep on this. Watch it. Like, yestersay. It will change your life.
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