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I like the premise because it could have done so much with grief, survivor guilt, age gap discomfort, reckoning with our loved ones being someone other than who we thought they were. It could have used generational divides for comedy and social commentary. It could have eschewed all that and just done a competent romance! Instead, it failed at every point.

Acting and writing: The MC, once a relaxed and fairly poised elder, somehow becomes pouty and dependent on the 20 y/o. Literally POUTING in several scenes. There's no continuity of characterization. These are not legible as humans, they're just annoying clowns bouncing from one overused cliché to the next.
There's only ever lip service, 2-liner asides that are supposed to indicate that the grandfather is dealing with the loss of his grandson, all delivered like commenting on the weather. There's never any confrontation of the fact that from the grandfather's POV he has cannibalized his own grandson. What an extraordinary waste. At that point, just drop the blood connection! It's fine, we're used to regression/reincarnation plots, we don't need some bloodline magic.

I really do want to be able to just say, "Well, this one wasn't for me," and move on, but every trash BL is a limited budget and pool of acting talent willing to do BL being drained once more. For nothing. How did the production team let this absolute dross leave the writing room? How did the director tolerate this from the actors? Does no one involved have eyes? Taste??