The cats are very fluffy, so there's that
Nobody held a gun to my head and told me to keep watching. But why did nobody force me to drop this show? Now I have to make peace with my masochism.
I'm not going to pretend that I was never touched by what was happening on the screen or that I hated absolutely everything. For example, the whole thing about Tiger and Lynx approaching each other the way a human would a cat is very cute in theory and sometimes even in execution. Khaotung has played characters with dead mothers beautifully before and does so believably once again. First gets to showcase the effortless charm that had already made Yok, Kant, and Sand so likeable, despite battling frankly ass writing this time around.
Speaking of which, wow. Allow me to use just one scene from episode 9 as an example: First, we see Tiger's mother and father talk through her prejudice about her son's relationship. Then, we see Tiger trying to reach his parents because he's anxious about her reaction. The tension is palpable because we just learned that everything's fine. Then his father calls him, and Tiger asks him whether he got to talk to his wife, to which he replies that he did and that everything's fine. Yes, we know. That literally just happened. Then Leo comes by to tell Tiger to comfort an anxious Lynx. Do you think Tiger would have ever done so without prompting? Methinks not. Naturally, we then need to watch Tiger turn around and enter the house to go to Lynx, because we are not padding the runtime. Guess what happens next? Tiger tells Lynx that his father talked to his mother and that everything is indeed fine. I am understandably shocked since it is only the third time this information has been relayed to me in the last 2.5 minutes.
Cat for Cash is 10% comedy that made me cringe, 10% romance that made me question whether I hallucinated FirstKhaotung's chemistry in their previous roles, and 80% Lynx working through the stages of grief, but without wreaking me emotionally (would have loved that) and without satisfying my secondary need for poetic, whimsical slice of life. If this series is what FirstKhaotung have always wanted to make, more power to them. As for me, it had me questioning my life choices whenever it wasn't boring me to tears.
I'm not going to pretend that I was never touched by what was happening on the screen or that I hated absolutely everything. For example, the whole thing about Tiger and Lynx approaching each other the way a human would a cat is very cute in theory and sometimes even in execution. Khaotung has played characters with dead mothers beautifully before and does so believably once again. First gets to showcase the effortless charm that had already made Yok, Kant, and Sand so likeable, despite battling frankly ass writing this time around.
Speaking of which, wow. Allow me to use just one scene from episode 9 as an example: First, we see Tiger's mother and father talk through her prejudice about her son's relationship. Then, we see Tiger trying to reach his parents because he's anxious about her reaction. The tension is palpable because we just learned that everything's fine. Then his father calls him, and Tiger asks him whether he got to talk to his wife, to which he replies that he did and that everything's fine. Yes, we know. That literally just happened. Then Leo comes by to tell Tiger to comfort an anxious Lynx. Do you think Tiger would have ever done so without prompting? Methinks not. Naturally, we then need to watch Tiger turn around and enter the house to go to Lynx, because we are not padding the runtime. Guess what happens next? Tiger tells Lynx that his father talked to his mother and that everything is indeed fine. I am understandably shocked since it is only the third time this information has been relayed to me in the last 2.5 minutes.
Cat for Cash is 10% comedy that made me cringe, 10% romance that made me question whether I hallucinated FirstKhaotung's chemistry in their previous roles, and 80% Lynx working through the stages of grief, but without wreaking me emotionally (would have loved that) and without satisfying my secondary need for poetic, whimsical slice of life. If this series is what FirstKhaotung have always wanted to make, more power to them. As for me, it had me questioning my life choices whenever it wasn't boring me to tears.
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