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The Writers Room Bingo Goes BRRRRRRRR
William and Est are two of my favourite actors in the BL scene and they did great in this series too, let's get this straight. HOWEVER, that doesn't erase the dissapointment I feel seeing how this turned out.
GMMTV had 2 good actors and, for reasons unknown, thought they couldn't sell them in a more intense story even though their CP debut is a very intense story. Go figure. So they had this series marketed as something it is not: a crazy dark romance between 2 awful ppl where sex plays a major role in their relationship.
So we started off on the wrong foot.
But hey, the series developed well, actually, for those who were willing to sit with something they didn't sign up for: they had characters with intense backgrounds and the conflicts, although repetitive, made sense for who these people were and the cycles they were stuck in. Every setback made since and the progress was slow but steady.
And then ep.9 happens. And Dean and Moth cannot seem to fix their issues alone even though that was the lesson they had learned the previous episode. And there's the disgrace of ep.10 and its p'Aof crazy line of endings with the USA scholarship, a huge unexplained timeskip and more OOC moments that you have fingers to count.
Sincerely: what was that?
It wouldn't be the series of the year, but it had touched some interesting subjects and explored modern dating in a cool way (even if the side couple could've been used better). It could've been a cool series.
Instead, the screenwriters got insane and started crossing things from a 2018 BL Trope Bingo just for the sake of making this 10 episodes. I cannot stress this enough how you didn't have to.
But, oh well, I suppose this is what it is. I wish sooooo damn much that this had ended differently, that it could keep the dignity it had built up until the last 2 episodes. But I suppose you're never out of the woods yet in BL territory until the series really ends. And, friends... We're still amidst the damn trees.
GMMTV had 2 good actors and, for reasons unknown, thought they couldn't sell them in a more intense story even though their CP debut is a very intense story. Go figure. So they had this series marketed as something it is not: a crazy dark romance between 2 awful ppl where sex plays a major role in their relationship.
So we started off on the wrong foot.
But hey, the series developed well, actually, for those who were willing to sit with something they didn't sign up for: they had characters with intense backgrounds and the conflicts, although repetitive, made sense for who these people were and the cycles they were stuck in. Every setback made since and the progress was slow but steady.
And then ep.9 happens. And Dean and Moth cannot seem to fix their issues alone even though that was the lesson they had learned the previous episode. And there's the disgrace of ep.10 and its p'Aof crazy line of endings with the USA scholarship, a huge unexplained timeskip and more OOC moments that you have fingers to count.
Sincerely: what was that?
It wouldn't be the series of the year, but it had touched some interesting subjects and explored modern dating in a cool way (even if the side couple could've been used better). It could've been a cool series.
Instead, the screenwriters got insane and started crossing things from a 2018 BL Trope Bingo just for the sake of making this 10 episodes. I cannot stress this enough how you didn't have to.
But, oh well, I suppose this is what it is. I wish sooooo damn much that this had ended differently, that it could keep the dignity it had built up until the last 2 episodes. But I suppose you're never out of the woods yet in BL territory until the series really ends. And, friends... We're still amidst the damn trees.
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