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Gyeon is a mercurial Teddy Bear with an aggressive streak; not some raving, violent psycho. Your analysis of his character considers about 10% of what's going on in him.

Agree with pretty much everything you wrote, and you made the points well.
That said, please consider using paragraph breaks. It was a visual slog to get through your comment.

Ummm...jokes aside, not having been kissed or laid by 31 is exceedingly rare. Get out there and do it!

Your basically describing this series if it had been well-written, correct? :D

Hi, Se Jin's mom!
I agree, though. Say hi to your son for me. :D

Lord, this lame old saw.

ummm...because he has no personality, uses fake, child-like shyness/poutiness as a manipulation tactic, and at 28, has the social skills of a prepubescent girl?
Oh, and then there's the fake Vestal Virgin, sex-phobic act.
After knowing Gyeon for ten years, he's embarrassed to see his bare shoulder?
I don't think so.

Either Jung Su Bin is a lousy actor, or the director messed up, or both, but Do Ha came off as a one-note, borderline intellectually disabled chap whose signature pouty face is a manipulative and tedious tactic, rather than a natural inclination. No 28-year-old professional male acts like that and gets respected.
The last straw was the demure, shy Vestal Virgin act, which he maintained even when alone with Gyeon after they were regularly doing the deed. "I asked you to put on clothes even when we're home..." puh-lease. Gyeon's reply, a hearty "I refuse," was one of the show's best lines. Even worse was when, after ten years of best-friendship, DoHa acted mortified to see Gyeon's bare shoulder. Good lord.
DoHa never did take his mother's wise advice to be the first to give in once in a while, to heart. He was a simpering wimp to the bitter end.

I was glad to see the coffee man fess up and be forgiven for his misdeeds, then move on.

Overall, the arc of the plot, especially in the last two episodes, felt kind of blah. I was team Gyeon from the beginning, but it seemed so logical/natural that those two should be the endgame, that when it ended up that way, and with a full episode to go, that to me the show kind of fizzled out. Where we needed some fireworks, we got one lone sparkler.

Ep. 7:
Unlikely that three of Korea's tallest, hottest, most eligible men would be fighting over this boring, midget bottom.
Gyeon's boyish masculinity is made all the hotter by the psychosis ever-simmering behind his puppy dog eyes. I realized during this episode that I am in love with him.
Do Ha's mom: "You're gross now that you're all grown up," made all the more hilarious by the lack of any indication that she was kidding. hahahahahaha...
I never expected it from this show, but the __________________ scene outside the hospital is one of the most touching I've seen in a BL. Their acting was admirably understated, which made it all the more effective. I had to reach for my roll of paper towels.

"Code Red" lol

Ep. 8:

Hmmm...kind of anticlimactic. I took episode 7's "code red" ending to mean there were fireworks ahead. Not so.

6.5/10
Kudos to Kbls for finally bringing the lip-locks we've been waiting for.
Other thoughts behind the spoiler button below.

Ep. 2:
Def not generally a fan of supernatural/time travel/body-switch BLs, but this one's working for me, due to the writing/acting/charm of the characterizations. Kano's reactions to the behaviors of his colleagues in the "parallel world" are amusing. The Japanese male habit of reacting to a surprise with a subdued cock of the head, followed by "hmmm?" always kills me. Even better when the surprise is particularly outrageous, and we get a shrieked "huuu-uuuh?!!!" :)

Kano's tininess next to Ogami is striking...and appealing. Gee, I wonder who the bottom will be? :)

The drunk office mates were funny. It's a pleasure to see drunkenness portrayed more realistically, as goofy loss of inhibition, rather than cliche'd sleepiness and slurring. When the one dude bent over backward near to the ground for the group selfie, I guffawed. :D

oooh...next week; An out-of-town business trip with the inevitable Onsen visit and plenty of booze...oh my. :O

You too!

Eps. 1&2:

Now, THAT's what I'm talkin' about, baby...wow.
At last, a BL goes where its source material tells it to go, knows what it's doing, and doesn't puss-out on the heat or the kink.

Jeong Ri U has tremendous screen presence/charisma/sexual heat, plus he's a good actor.
I find his kind of looks even more attractive because his features aren't necessarily the most classically handsome. Yet he exudes sex in the way that the biggest stars do, and perfect looks have nothing to do with it.
I'm not surprised, as I saw him in at least two different Youtube short-length BLs and couldn't take my eyes off him.
It's nice to see him moving on to full-length shows like this.
It's also nice to see an actor like him, with such potential, totally commit to the guy/guy making out. Refreshing! And arousing! :)

Yoon Ji Sung isn't really my type, but goodness, his cheekbone-to-cheek-to-chin line is remarkably beautiful. I do portraits. I'm compelled to draw that face.

Finally, thank you to Wavve for releasing two episodes per week.
It's less painful to wait when you know you're going to get 50 minutes each time around.

Bravo, and looking forward to more.

Also, do you mind sharing where you saw "Sensei no Shiroi Uso ?" I have been unable to find it with english subs. Thanks!

Perhaps I'm confusing you with someone else, which is entirely possible as my brain occasionally farts. :D

Wow, I couldn't agree with you more about Ryan Murphy's work. I liked his Menendez Brothers series, but checked out of the Jeffrey Dahmer and the more recent Ed Ghein series after two episodes because the darkness (and I love dark themes) was dialed nearly to black in such a way that it was making me nauseous.

Did you see either of those?

In the case of Ed Ghein, when he dug up the dead woman's body, dressed her in panties, fishnets, red heels, etc., then the camera slowly panned up her corpse to her face, just as though she was alive, I reached my limit. I felt something along the lines of "this dude (Murphy) isn't trying to tell me this story in the most intense possible way, but the grossest possible way, and he's pushing buttons for button-pushing's sake." He seems to have no grasp of the fact that often, intense subject matter can be more powerfully conveyed by what we DON'T see but what is implied, rather than showing everything and everything in minute detail.

It wasn't that I felt he was eroticizing the grotesque, but that he was showing the grotesque in such surreal detail that it grossed me out, and not in a good way. I've always been a fan of shows that terrify me, most often with what I can't see but suspect is there, rather than smothering me in gore. I'm no fan of slasher/torture porn fort this reason, and I just don't like to watch people suffer for extended periods of time.

For me, advances in makeup and cgiAI, which can now make even the most hideous sights look absolutely real, factors into this also. While I adored much of Murphy's American Horror Story seasons, these latest efforts have turned me off.

Both halves of the MC have the faces and bodies of tall, lithe Lipstick Lesbians. "Lipstick Lesbians" is slang for gay women who present, act, dress, and wear makeup/hair much as most straight women do, including the use of lipstick. :)

Your presuppositions are born of your inferiority complex, which is also a "thing," "dear." Just because you presuppose something doesn't mean your presupposition exists in reality.

My brain is never off, unlike yours, which, clearly, was once again in that setting when you left this latest reply.

I disagree with all of that, of course, but that's cool.

Take care. :)

Oh, look, desperation.

As the arguments of the imaginary degrees/fangirl fujoshi/imaginary degrees shrivel and dwindle, she resorts to claiming thousands of hours studying at the imaginary university she attends, using brilliant, childish insults like "dumb," and checks my profile to find I'm an American, then shows her inferiority complex by slamming my country.

If any of the above had anything to do with this show or this discussion, I might respond.
But, I don't play stupid games, "girl."

Except, I never said I was better than anyone.
Apparently, your brain was turned off again as you read my comments.

"Crime Against Morality" lol