i agreeee i couldnt even watch the drama properly because of how awfully (and shallow) the characters were portrayed
omg...and all the awful gay screaming queen stereotypes in the lead's friends group. 🤢🤮 The biggest NO for me was how the lead, after every time he dumped another guy, immediately had some other fool panting after him at a nightclub, as if he were the hottest thing on two feet, when in fact, he was damn near repulsive and NOT physically attractive at all. 😂
I suspect that is a fantasy the author of the source material imposed on his "memoir." Give me a break.
This show is so corny and cringe I'm baffled how you loved it this much
I know...it took me by surprise that I liked it so much, too. 🤪
Currently, I'm operating under the theory that the primary reason it worked for me is that it thoroughly embraced the corn and cringe to such a degree that it got away with it. Kind of like a comedian that makes themself the butt of their jokes. People find that endearing.
Also, this show has that ephemeral thing that so many other, far bigger budget shows lack: HEART. 💘
I LOVE a great sports-themed flick, and this is one. Just excellent all-around. Great acting, direction, and sports action sequences. Fandy Fan and Barent Zhu must have trained their butts off to prepare for this; it paid off: all their on-court action scenes feel 100% authentic.
The film is emotional but never rah-rah saccharine.
The double-basketball dribbling drill with both arms/hands blows my mind.
I get Hsiu Yiu's anger, but if I were the dad, I'd want both of them to keep playing their BB games with their full attention. They can sit and stare at me in my hospital bed after they've finished the tournament.
9.5/10
By the way...Kagami Kota, who I watched this to see just as much as Fandy Fan, is NOT in this movie, at least that I ever saw. No idea why he's in the cast list.
Here after A Balloon's Landing and Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars. May have to check this one out.
Me too, but Kagami Kota, who I watched this to see just as much as Fandy Fan, is NOT in this movie, at least that I've seen. No idea why he's in the cast list.
LOL So this dude never seeks out work, eh? He just lies around his palatial home, waiting for directors to crawl to his door, begging him to star in their projects- is that correct? 😂🤪🤣
What a ridiculous, ball-licking puff piece, Lily Malice. You did not write this trash, that's for sure, though we know you're more than capable of writing trash.
As for the young man, it's nice to see a natural nose on a Korean actor.
Episode 6: THAT is one of the most sweetly heartbreaking scenes in BL history.
And the acting...Harutora dissolving into tears and Sui already shedding a couple...so real and believable. Both actors are exceptional. The way they're written, and the actors playing them, have made these two of my fave-ever BL characters.
I'm glad the manufactured conflict/misunderstanding wasn't dragged out and that we quickly got to the heart of the matter, Harutora's agony at being separated from his beloved Muchkin, Sui. I was finding the ease with which they parted a tad not-believable, so it makes total sense that it WAS unbelievable because they've both been faking it. And I love that it's the usually totally butch BL top who is suffering the most in this situation; that Harutora is being shown as a fully vulnerable/intensely sensitive young man, especially when it comes to Sui. How great is it that little Sui is the one doing the comforting? 😊
Sui's brave confession to his ex-middle school crush about who Harutora is, had me beaming. So proud of my little man.
I always have to chuckle at Sui's habit of going out in public looking like the unmade bed he just got out of. 😊I wonder if we'll start to see him dress less chaotically as he becomes more confident.
Takashi I think is a bit to easy, laid back when it comes to his ex's, and not enough when it comes to talking…
You're overthinking it. Takashi is a grown-ass man in his 30s with a romantic past, as any normal man would have. Is he supposed to do a power-point presentation for Akihiro detailing all of his past romances? What about sex-only one-night stands? Should he cover those, too? If he did so, Akihiro would have to be hospitalized.
I don't really mind the story line with them running into exes, but it could be a lot more entertaining than this, especially if they went over-the-top comedic with it. As it is, Akihiro comes off painfully insecure and petty.
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Me, rude? 😮😉
It's adorable, but also sad, that you're desperate for my attention again today.
Get a life.
"children?" 🤪🙄
You're feeling extra, super-duper melodramatic today!
The biggest NO for me was how the lead, after every time he dumped another guy, immediately had some other fool panting after him at a nightclub, as if he were the hottest thing on two feet, when in fact, he was damn near repulsive and NOT physically attractive at all. 😂
I suspect that is a fantasy the author of the source material imposed on his "memoir." Give me a break.
Currently, I'm operating under the theory that the primary reason it worked for me is that it thoroughly embraced the corn and cringe to such a degree that it got away with it.
Kind of like a comedian that makes themself the butt of their jokes.
People find that endearing.
Also, this show has that ephemeral thing that so many other, far bigger budget shows lack: HEART. 💘
How's that?
Just excellent all-around.
Great acting, direction, and sports action sequences.
Fandy Fan and Barent Zhu must have trained their butts off to prepare for this; it paid off: all their on-court action scenes feel 100% authentic.
The film is emotional but never rah-rah saccharine.
The double-basketball dribbling drill with both arms/hands blows my mind.
I get Hsiu Yiu's anger, but if I were the dad, I'd want both of them to keep playing their BB games with their full attention.
They can sit and stare at me in my hospital bed after they've finished the tournament.
9.5/10
By the way...Kagami Kota, who I watched this to see just as much as Fandy Fan, is NOT in this movie, at least that I ever saw.
No idea why he's in the cast list.
No idea why he's in the cast list.
So this dude never seeks out work, eh?
He just lies around his palatial home, waiting for directors to crawl to his door, begging him to star in their projects- is that correct?
😂🤪🤣
What a ridiculous, ball-licking puff piece, Lily Malice.
You did not write this trash, that's for sure, though we know you're more than capable of writing trash.
As for the young man, it's nice to see a natural nose on a Korean actor.
THAT is one of the most sweetly heartbreaking scenes in BL history.
And the acting...Harutora dissolving into tears and Sui already shedding a couple...so real and believable. Both actors are exceptional.
The way they're written, and the actors playing them, have made these two of my fave-ever BL characters.
I'm glad the manufactured conflict/misunderstanding wasn't dragged out and that we quickly got to the heart of the matter, Harutora's agony at being separated from his beloved Muchkin, Sui.
I was finding the ease with which they parted a tad not-believable, so it makes total sense that it WAS unbelievable because they've both been faking it.
And I love that it's the usually totally butch BL top who is suffering the most in this situation; that Harutora is being shown as a fully vulnerable/intensely sensitive young man, especially when it comes to Sui.
How great is it that little Sui is the one doing the comforting? 😊
Sui's brave confession to his ex-middle school crush about who Harutora is, had me beaming.
So proud of my little man.
I always have to chuckle at Sui's habit of going out in public looking like the unmade bed he just got out of. 😊I wonder if we'll start to see him dress less chaotically as he becomes more confident.
This show is excellent.
What did I miss?
That's a favorite angle of mine, too, but I can't think of a single BL I've seen where that happens. Maybe I'm forgetting...?
The show: TWO men.
Takashi clearly has moved on from both so far.
He's the star of the show for me.
Takashi is a grown-ass man in his 30s with a romantic past, as any normal man would have.
Is he supposed to do a power-point presentation for Akihiro detailing all of his past romances?
What about sex-only one-night stands?
Should he cover those, too?
If he did so, Akihiro would have to be hospitalized.
I don't really mind the story line with them running into exes, but it could be a lot more entertaining than this, especially if they went over-the-top comedic with it.
As it is, Akihiro comes off painfully insecure and petty.
His suits are badly tailored, though. 😊