I understand your frustration. I wanna reach up to episode 4 as welll lol. After all these a groupie or gangbang are not unlikely for a next step. Actually after that "butter wouldn't melt in your mouth" scene in the teaser last week, I was absolutely positive he also wants Vee for himself.
After such a shit trailer, I really did not expect that. An intriguing, mesmerizing blend of erotic occult thriller and BL with a surprise-packed narrative, engaging characters, extremely hot, sultry and steamy love-making scenes and, for all its low budget, a rather slick and stylish production. I am hooked.
I had put off watching this and now I'm wishing I'd put it off longer so I could binge the whole thing! I'm completely…
Actually, considering its low budget, the production is quite slick and stylish in its own way. I love the cold, dark blue filter. Also, it is extremely sultry and steamy.
Uhh also, why's there no info about the second lead actor who played Hao Wen? What's his name?
It was made in 2017 and Chinese censorship stepped in after Addicted-Heroin in 2016. All three leads are Taiwanese and most of the locations seem to be in Taipei to me. I guess it is a Taiwanese movie badly considered as Chinese everywhere.
oh boy, but at this point I'm just desperately waiting for them to address each other by their first name! I'll…
Japanese guys very often call each other by their surnames, even if they are best friends (Adachi and Tsuge, for example), and it is not rare for Japanese BL couples either. The couple of Ai no Kotodama have been living together as a couple for several years and they still call each other that way. The protagonists of No Touching At All remained Shima and Togawa to each other even at their most romantic moments and even after several sexual intercourses. The leads of Junjou/Pure Romance swithced to Keisuke and Shoushei from Tozaki and Kurata in the final scene only.
If that is how it keeps going then we are about to see another groundbreaking BL classic. An intriguing forensic mystery thriller with a carefully assembled narrative, excellent high-budget production with Netflix A look, breathtaking locations, showy camerawork and editing and two natural, fine performances form Tul and Max whose chemistry is as sparkling as ever. The supporting cast is quite solid as well.
Thanks for posting this. I was going to post something similar but you saved me the trouble. Apparently viewers…
This certainly has a lot to do with the "bury your gays" trope that was so rife for long decades in the mainstream media. People, especially LGBT viewers, are understandably tired and frustrated by that. I am personally not a big fan of tragic ends in BL but I can accept is when it is efficiently done and dramatically justifiable. I hated the end of MODC and My Extraordinary because they were abrupt, clichéd, manipulative and trashy. But I was totally fine, while clearly devastated, with the tragic end of Dew the movie, because it fitted the narrative and it was in line with its style, despite the car accident cliché.
Cheating once could be a mistake that one could excuse but the way the both of them are acting isnt something…
Making such a heavy weather of cheating, or more precisely judging it in totally black and white manner - while this is one of the most complex and difficult aspects of the human nature - is indeed beyond me. I find it particularly amusing and hetero-normative in LGBT themed subjects - not Oh Mando, that is another case - regarding the large number of open relationships in that milieu.
But that is my opinion and it is not my main issue here. My issue is, like so eloquently put below by liquidburner that some "viewers are incapable of enjoying a show with flawed characters". As I have noticed this is a lot more rampant under BL shows, but I might be wrong. Yet when it comes to BL shows at least, this is all over the place. I have checked the page of Ben x Jim. Another great and complex series I have thoroughly enjoyed exactly because it has very human and flawed characters who take several wrong steps and hurt others, but one could still sympathize with them, as you know why they do what they do. But instead of trying to analyze and balance their character developments, examine their psyches deep inside and the interactions of characters, some viewers just self-admittedly decide to HATE them for not being perfect. I find this appalling.
You mischaracterized or misunderstood the critique. I don't see the hypocrisy or "Christ on a bike" attitude you…
I usually stand by my opinion even if I am alone with it. so you can spare your patronising remarks. That was meant to be an illustration that wishing an unhappy end for the protagonists just because they cheated is not the most polished way of thinking when you are about to judge a complex creation like human being, to put it mildly, and I am not the only one with my observation that some of the viewers act like emperors after a gladiator fight. For Barry's motivations there are plenty of suggestions down there, well before episode 4 aired. I am not sure whether they will be right, but they do make sense.
But that is my opinion and it is not my main issue here. My issue is, like so eloquently put below by liquidburner that some "viewers are incapable of enjoying a show with flawed characters".
As I have noticed this is a lot more rampant under BL shows, but I might be wrong. Yet when it comes to BL shows at least, this is all over the place. I have checked the page of Ben x Jim. Another great and complex series I have thoroughly enjoyed exactly because it has very human and flawed characters who take several wrong steps and hurt others, but one could still sympathize with them, as you know why they do what they do. But instead of trying to analyze and balance their character developments, examine their psyches deep inside and the interactions of characters, some viewers just self-admittedly decide to HATE them for not being perfect. I find this appalling.