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Hmm. The thing is, Tai started it and got Patts all revved up and then brought it to a halt. I think it was quite nice that he at least helped him finish. It's not easy to just stop like that - very frustrating and upsetting. And that was the second time.

The head teacher, but in a just world, both.

There was a lot of good stuff in this episode, and a lot of first-class cringe, like the mutual massage scene with Fifth's parents. I need therapy after that. And to go from that to what happened - how unfair to a great actor.

And I won't even get into the headmaster asking who's top and bottom - that was a new low.

But this did bring out a good performance from Miko, and Fifth & Zeke are just amazing - one of the best and most realistic couples of all time. I wish Thai BLs would encourage that level of improv because it works. Also, Hiro may not be as beautiful as Jericho, but he sure is sexy.

In the US you'd be fired for that - no warning, just fired.

The role of Pisaeng is really well-written and acted. It's unusual and special,

A lot of people here are really, really invested in Krist.

What a meaningful and insghtful comment,

Nothing is either all or nothing when it comes to emtions, and if it is, it comes off as cartoonish or inauthentic. It's very easy for chemistry to be one-way. The way Pisaeng looks at Kawi, leans into him, finds excuses to touch him, makes it clear how he feels - I don't need to be told how he feels or be shown a flashback. Kawi is too self-absorbed and obsessed with the idea of Pear to reciprocate.

I'm sure many people would love to have someone treat them like Pisaeng treats Kawi. Nobody wants a partner who acts like Kawi. And I don't mean a partner who acts like Krist, I mean like Kawi.

That's a good question - Mike could do it, and he's got better comic timing. I'm sure he could do a good job, but I like Gawin in the role.

That's the problem. Kawi is 30 years old and acts like he's 12 .

I don't want a perfect character with no flaws - I just don't want him to act like a petulant 12 year old.

There's a bit of dissonance between the drama and the cartoonish antics of Kawi - Gawin is playing a dark and complex role with a lot of skill, and Aye is great as Pear - both are nuanced and subtle - but if feels like Krist's character escaped from Pee-wee's Playhouse and stumbled into a serious story. I don't know if he's deliberately playing (or directed to play) Kawi as artificial and shallow, but Kawi isn't very likeable - he's awful to Pisaeng and just not very nice in general.

The chemistry between Pisaeng and Kawi is one-way - it's enough to keep me watching, but I wish they had cast First in Krist's place - those two were on fire in Not Me. An attraction to Pisaeng is buzzing around in Kawi's head, but instead of seeing that in the acting, we're shown flashbacks to moments to indicate he's thinking about things (like the kiss).

The writing is pretty good - the dialog is natural and keeps in character, the premise is interesting, and the rich attractive character is struggling with depression instead of being confident and perfect. The scene between Pisaeng and Pear where she was obviously concerned he was slipping into a depressive state was very well written and acted.

I agree that Gawin is great. The chemistry with Krist is one-way, though - I wish they had cast First in that role, or maybe Boss Thanabat.

That was the worst thing I've ever seen. The writing is so incompetent, awful, lacking in intelligence and ability, lazy, and predictable that to say it appears to have been written by a mentally deficient junior high school student is vastly unfair to mentally deficient junior high school students.

So Souta drives three hours from Tokyo and arrives at just the exact moment that Mahiro is hugging a guy and astonishingly misinterprets it as a relationship, despite a total lack of evidence in the months they've been cooking together. Then Mahiro drives 3 hours to Tokyo only to arrive at the exact instant he can overhear something (on a STREET IN TOKYO at rush hour where there is absolutely no noise to interfere with a conversation being conducted in soft voices) that, I must at least admit, he didn't misinterpret.

That is the stupidest, more cliched, hackneyed, lazy, monumentally tiresome plot device achievable.

That episode was actually enraging. From now on I'm hate-watching this at 2x. Souta does look pretty good naked, (even if there is zero explanation for why he does it) so there's at least that.

The writer's purpose is evidently to piss of and frustrate the audience as much as possible so that we all rate this disaster a "2".

It's a "2" for me. I really think it's that bad. Not just trhe stupid and frustrating plot, but the reliance on cliched and extremely, breathtakingly lazy writing. Seeing someone hug and thinking they're in a relationship despite months of contrary evidence, not to mention Souta lives in Tokyo and just happened to arrive at the very second of the hug... UGH.

I don't think Mahiro is any better, other than that he doesn't talk much and is therefore less annoying than everyone else.

That was really bad. It started well, and was good up until the confession, and then it completely fell apart and depended on a really lazy implausible misunderstanding and then just jumped over their getting together, presumably so nobody had to do any icky gay stuff. There was zero romantic chemistry, and this would actually have worked much better if it weren't a BL. It would have been interesting if Yoo Jae needed Han Joon given his awful family situation and they found some way to make their friendship work despite Han Joon's feelings.

But as it was, the last 2 episodes were... I'd say "disappointing", but that doesn't seem to cover it. Maybe "deficient and pitiful".

Nobody. In general, actors with Euro-ish features seem to get the most admiration. People like Bright, Cooper, and Pee, independent of acting ability, although two of those are at least decent. It's a general observation, not specfic to anyone.

I would consider this poor if you told me it was a high school project. It's really that incompetent.