This is some crazy toxic mess going on here. Only the first two episodes and I know we are in for a roller coasterride.…
This is kind of where I am at the end of episode 2. The show is badly written/acted/directed/costumed/etc. but now that I saw how horrendously messed up the Pencil Necks are I have to come back for at least one more try.
As for your family...lol. I wish I was like you. I'm a codependent, drama-addicted type by nature who thrives (or thinks he does) on such insanity. I know that about myself now and avoid such messes, but it took me 38 years and much subsequent therapy to begin to get a clue as to that side of myself. :P
Episode 2:HOLY SHIT. Wow. These characters are deeply, appallingly fucked up. This could be an awesome plot if…
Episode 2: omg...did anyone else LOL when his nose bled at the beginning? "Help, someone, anyone! I just saw my crush with a pencil-necked Yakuza and I'm suffering a spontaneous brain aneurysm!"
Why was everyone at the coffee shop staring at the cock-teaser? If you write a character as drop-dead gorgeous, please hire an appropriately hot actor. Oh, and he's a liar ("I'm at school..."). Good to know.
Why do BL dudes, especially in Korea, so often meet at coffee shops to talk, then walk out, leaving their untouched beverages behind?
The cock-teaser and the Yakuza look disconcertingly alike...an incest subplot...?
Cute niece = "See? He's really not a bad guy..." lol
Pharmacist: "But...these are for hemorrhoids." Goofball: "That's cool. We'll need them later in the story."
Woman office worker: "Hey everybody! Some crazy dude's freaking out in the lobby! Let's all leave work and go stare at him!"
Post-lobby scene cliches: Horrible people snubbing him and tsk-tsking right behind his back. Horrible co-workers looking RIGHT AT HIM and gossiping/snickering in his face. Coworkers immediately starting a group chat THEY KNOW HE CAN READ to gossip and trash him with the most absurdly cliche'd mean Korean netizen snark imaginable. "I should have known, since he wears 'designer...'" lol Designer, my ass. Those clothes are ten sizes too big.
When RedLips wiped the rice kernel off Goofball's lips, is it just me or did GB c*m in his pants?
CockTease is creepily manipulative of RedLips. Giving his gambling addict dad $$$? Paying for his sister's expenses? Smoothing his hair/touching his cheek as if humoring a child.? Those are things you do if you want to keep someone off balance...EVIL.
All characters: Please block numbers of people you don't want texts or calls from. All characters: Please don't answer the phone when you don't want to answer the phone.
CockTease: "He punches me in the face. He smashes wine bottles on my head. Should I get back together with him...?" lol
HOLY SHIT. CockTease is a real psycho! "Manipulative" doesn't do him justice. Wow. These characters are deeply, appallingly fucked up. This could be an awesome plot if it were well-written, acted, directed, costumed, and not full of tropes/cliches/LOLs.
lol...omg, why did he just faint? hahaha Oh, that's right. He got wet in the rain so naturally he almost died. My bad.
Wow. These characters are deeply, appallingly fucked up. This could be an awesome plot if it were well-written, acted, directed, costumed, and not full of tropes/cliches/LOLs.
Nevertheless, the two Pencil Necks are scary-messed up and this is the type of disturbing shit I live for. I'll be back for more.
Meanwhile...behind the spoiler button below is my first episode running commentary. Doing this is the only way I could think of to keep watching without slashing my wrists. And it worked! I'm alive.
Please proceed at your own risk. Massive and numerous spoilers this way lay:
Episode 1: Sigh...my life is one disappointment after another. The only three countries I hope for decent BLs out of are Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. Just lately, I've suffered through two lousy Taiwanese shows, and now Korea is letting me down too.
So far, nothing but tropes, cliches, mid-to-bad acting, ill-fitting clothing (shoot the costumer, please), red lipstick (apparently, what has been saved on white face powder-unblended at the jawline-is being spent on lipstick here), stock characters, and oh, everyone is gay. I see that the screenwriter is a first-time fujoshi-scribe slumming in BL world. She must have watched about 200 (Thai) BLs before putting fingers to keyboard though, and copied everything she saw into this script. How do such people get hired for such jobs?
Almost as annoying as the wrinkled shirt collars loosely orbiting pencil-necked clavicles, and sport coats that appear to have been snatched from a professional Sumo wrestler's closet, is the fact that three of four mains are douchebags. In the first episode.
One rewards a kind gentleman for saving him from being obliterated by a motorized kick-scooter (naturally, approaching at 5mph max from 20 ft. away, yet neither pedestrian nor rider had time to avoid the other, as is customary in BL land) by cursing and insulting him. The watch was broken (watches, especially supposedly top-drawer watches like this one supposedly is, do not break this easily) due to the ungrateful jerk not paying attention to where he was going, not by a nice guy trying to save his ass.
Another one has been cock-teasing and leading on the first one, pretending not to know he is doing so, for ELEVEN YEARS. Enough said.
A third one, who is evil, mean, and laughably unconvincing as a smoker, exists to torture the first and second ones but in two different ways. And again, what's with the pencil necks?
Only the goofy, life-saver is potentially likable, but it's borderline.
All of this rests at the feet of the director of course, who wisely prevented their photograph from appearing in this page's credits. This person needs to be hunted down and run out of the business.
Thank god for the grandmother and the office manager, two actors I have seen and liked elsewhere. I'd hope for an affair between the two but our screenwriter is clearly not that creative.
Let's see if this improves in episode 2...god help us...
There is a new Korean BL that started today called Secret Relationships. Maybe give this one a try. https://kisskh.at/723559-secret-relationship
Oh my gosh, I had this on my PTW list but forgot. Thanks for the reminder. Very cool to see that Ahn Ji Ho, who is fairly well known, is starring in this.
I will be eternally confused with Korea being overtly conservative and still producing a lot of BL content. How…
Don't forget, Korea is supposedly overtly conservative, but kpop has reigned for nearly 20 years, and the little girls dance around in their panties and pasties onstage, while (gay) boys prance around in makeup/pink hair in incredibly homoerotic videos but yeah, ,Korea meanwhile, is "conservative."
On a related note, I watch LOTS of Korean feature films; all my fave features are out of Korea. Anyway, there are a great many Korean movies going back as far as 2000, with the most semi-explicit sex scenes I have ever seen in film. I'm jaded af and the flicks that have dropped even my jaw showing famous mainstream actors/actresses going at it stark-naked, asses, tits, and bush everywhere (of course no dicks, unfortunately), are all Korean, with a few Japanese ones here and there. But yeah...Korea tells us it's "conservative."
I love Korean movies/BL/some music, but the culture/society is deeply messed up and hypocritical. Which is why Korea has the highest rates of suicide and alcoholism in the developed world. The mixed messages drives everyone insane. As a gay dude, I'd have killed myself long ago if I had grown up there. It's hard enough still to be gay in the U.S. I can't imagine how bad it is for Koreans, though it's improving rapidly.
so how old is the younger one meant to be? cause he acts like a 14 year old and it makes the older/younger teacher-student…
It was made clear early on that the character is 18, so that MDL Church Ladies wouldn't wet themselves over the, gasp!, "age gap." However, you are correct that the actor way overdoes it in trying to play the character as "young." In so doing, he comes off as extremely immature/annoying for an 18-year-old, or even most 14-year-olds, and makes the viewer wonder why the teacher would be interested, other than for his cute face and hot bod.
Episode 8: The only thing this series is good at is getting worse with every episode.
The hot scene was fine, but you know, I have porn sites for that sort of thing so if they're not going all out, why bother? By the way, the director is god-awful in many ways, but his direction of kiss/sex scenes is downright bizarre. He has his actors turn into catatonic fish when smooching anytime other than during sex, and then in sex scenes, they suddenly become human for some reason. If this is some sort of artistic commentary on...what am I saying? The director is just bad.
I was hoping the coffee guy's dead wife's ghost would appear while he was doing the hotel guy to liven things up, but no such luck.
One consistently hilarious plot point has been how god-awful the artwork done by these magnificently-talented artists is. My god, the beach scenes that guy paints are worthy of a fifth-grader. And the portrait of himself the teacher raved about to the student, was amateur city. lol
The acting overall keeps deteriorating. The only semi-talented one is the coffee-shop-with-no-customers owner. The writing is horrendous. Everyone's married off after one date, everything is predictable, everything else is a cliche or a trope.
God help us, another TOOTW (Turd Out Of TaiWan). At this rate, that island paradise will soon catch up with the land of TOOTLs (Turds Out Of ThaiLand) in sadly-terrible BLs. Not something to celebrate.
Does anyone know of new Korean/Japanese/Taiwanese BLs? I've hunted of WOBL and BLWatcher with no luck. There is one new Taiwanese show, but I dropped it in an all-time record four minutes, 46 seconds.
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The show is badly written/acted/directed/costumed/etc. but now that I saw how horrendously messed up the Pencil Necks are I have to come back for at least one more try.
As for your family...lol. I wish I was like you. I'm a codependent, drama-addicted type by nature who thrives (or thinks he does) on such insanity. I know that about myself now and avoid such messes, but it took me 38 years and much subsequent therapy to begin to get a clue as to that side of myself. :P
omg...did anyone else LOL when his nose bled at the beginning? "Help, someone, anyone! I just saw my crush with a pencil-necked Yakuza and I'm suffering a spontaneous brain aneurysm!"
Why was everyone at the coffee shop staring at the cock-teaser? If you write a character as drop-dead gorgeous, please hire an appropriately hot actor. Oh, and he's a liar ("I'm at school..."). Good to know.
Why do BL dudes, especially in Korea, so often meet at coffee shops to talk, then walk out, leaving their untouched beverages behind?
The cock-teaser and the Yakuza look disconcertingly alike...an incest subplot...?
Cute niece = "See? He's really not a bad guy..." lol
Pharmacist: "But...these are for hemorrhoids." Goofball: "That's cool. We'll need them later in the story."
Woman office worker: "Hey everybody! Some crazy dude's freaking out in the lobby! Let's all leave work and go stare at him!"
Post-lobby scene cliches:
Horrible people snubbing him and tsk-tsking right behind his back.
Horrible co-workers looking RIGHT AT HIM and gossiping/snickering in his face.
Coworkers immediately starting a group chat THEY KNOW HE CAN READ to gossip and trash him with the most absurdly cliche'd mean Korean netizen snark imaginable. "I should have known, since he wears 'designer...'" lol Designer, my ass. Those clothes are ten sizes too big.
When RedLips wiped the rice kernel off Goofball's lips, is it just me or did GB c*m in his pants?
CockTease is creepily manipulative of RedLips. Giving his gambling addict dad $$$? Paying for his sister's expenses? Smoothing his hair/touching his cheek as if humoring a child.? Those are things you do if you want to keep someone off balance...EVIL.
All characters: Please block numbers of people you don't want texts or calls from.
All characters: Please don't answer the phone when you don't want to answer the phone.
CockTease: "He punches me in the face. He smashes wine bottles on my head. Should I get back together with him...?" lol
HOLY SHIT. CockTease is a real psycho! "Manipulative" doesn't do him justice. Wow. These characters are deeply, appallingly fucked up. This could be an awesome plot if it were well-written, acted, directed, costumed, and not full of tropes/cliches/LOLs.
lol...omg, why did he just faint? hahaha Oh, that's right. He got wet in the rain so naturally he almost died. My bad.
Thus concludes episode 2's running commentary.
HOLY SHIT.
Wow. These characters are deeply, appallingly fucked up. This could be an awesome plot if it were well-written, acted, directed, costumed, and not full of tropes/cliches/LOLs.
Nevertheless, the two Pencil Necks are scary-messed up and this is the type of disturbing shit I live for. I'll be back for more.
Meanwhile...behind the spoiler button below is my first episode running commentary. Doing this is the only way I could think of to keep watching without slashing my wrists. And it worked! I'm alive.
Please proceed at your own risk.
Massive and numerous spoilers this way lay:
Sigh...my life is one disappointment after another.
The only three countries I hope for decent BLs out of are Korea, Japan, and Taiwan.
Just lately, I've suffered through two lousy Taiwanese shows, and now Korea is letting me down too.
So far, nothing but tropes, cliches, mid-to-bad acting, ill-fitting clothing (shoot the costumer, please), red lipstick (apparently, what has been saved on white face powder-unblended at the jawline-is being spent on lipstick here), stock characters, and oh, everyone is gay. I see that the screenwriter is a first-time fujoshi-scribe slumming in BL world. She must have watched about 200 (Thai) BLs before putting fingers to keyboard though, and copied everything she saw into this script. How do such people get hired for such jobs?
Almost as annoying as the wrinkled shirt collars loosely orbiting pencil-necked clavicles, and sport coats that appear to have been snatched from a professional Sumo wrestler's closet, is the fact that three of four mains are douchebags. In the first episode.
One rewards a kind gentleman for saving him from being obliterated by a motorized kick-scooter (naturally, approaching at 5mph max from 20 ft. away, yet neither pedestrian nor rider had time to avoid the other, as is customary in BL land) by cursing and insulting him. The watch was broken (watches, especially supposedly top-drawer watches like this one supposedly is, do not break this easily) due to the ungrateful jerk not paying attention to where he was going, not by a nice guy trying to save his ass.
Another one has been cock-teasing and leading on the first one, pretending not to know he is doing so, for ELEVEN YEARS. Enough said.
A third one, who is evil, mean, and laughably unconvincing as a smoker, exists to torture the first and second ones but in two different ways. And again, what's with the pencil necks?
Only the goofy, life-saver is potentially likable, but it's borderline.
All of this rests at the feet of the director of course, who wisely prevented their photograph from appearing in this page's credits. This person needs to be hunted down and run out of the business.
Thank god for the grandmother and the office manager, two actors I have seen and liked elsewhere. I'd hope for an affair between the two but our screenwriter is clearly not that creative.
Let's see if this improves in episode 2...god help us...
On a related note, I watch LOTS of Korean feature films; all my fave features are out of Korea. Anyway, there are a great many Korean movies going back as far as 2000, with the most semi-explicit sex scenes I have ever seen in film. I'm jaded af and the flicks that have dropped even my jaw showing famous mainstream actors/actresses going at it stark-naked, asses, tits, and bush everywhere (of course no dicks, unfortunately), are all Korean, with a few Japanese ones here and there. But yeah...Korea tells us it's "conservative."
I love Korean movies/BL/some music, but the culture/society is deeply messed up and hypocritical. Which is why Korea has the highest rates of suicide and alcoholism in the developed world. The mixed messages drives everyone insane. As a gay dude, I'd have killed myself long ago if I had grown up there. It's hard enough still to be gay in the U.S. I can't imagine how bad it is for Koreans, though it's improving rapidly.
Turds Out Of ThaiLand and their new companion category, Turds Out Of TaiWan!
Joking aside, I'm bummed that now I'm losing Taiwan out of three countries (Korea and Japan) I could hope for at least occasionally good BLs out of.
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The only thing this series is good at is getting worse with every episode.
The hot scene was fine, but you know, I have porn sites for that sort of thing so if they're not going all out, why bother?
By the way, the director is god-awful in many ways, but his direction of kiss/sex scenes is downright bizarre. He has his actors turn into catatonic fish when smooching anytime other than during sex, and then in sex scenes, they suddenly become human for some reason. If this is some sort of artistic commentary on...what am I saying? The director is just bad.
I was hoping the coffee guy's dead wife's ghost would appear while he was doing the hotel guy to liven things up, but no such luck.
One consistently hilarious plot point has been how god-awful the artwork done by these magnificently-talented artists is. My god, the beach scenes that guy paints are worthy of a fifth-grader. And the portrait of himself the teacher raved about to the student, was amateur city. lol
The acting overall keeps deteriorating. The only semi-talented one is the coffee-shop-with-no-customers owner. The writing is horrendous. Everyone's married off after one date, everything is predictable, everything else is a cliche or a trope.
God help us, another TOOTW (Turd Out Of TaiWan). At this rate, that island paradise will soon catch up with the land of TOOTLs (Turds Out Of ThaiLand) in sadly-terrible BLs. Not something to celebrate.
Does anyone know of new Korean/Japanese/Taiwanese BLs? I've hunted of WOBL and BLWatcher with no luck. There is one new Taiwanese show, but I dropped it in an all-time record four minutes, 46 seconds.
Sad.