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If it's just comedic I can get past it - but so often it's the actual reason the characters fall in love, which borders on homophobic, i.e. only some sort of external force can get boys to like each other intead of them just being attracted to each other like normal people. Plus BL charactere are almost always athletic and in great shape, yet can't go five minutes without tripping, suffering a sports injury, or slicing themselves open whenever there's anything vaguely sharp in the room. I had a hard time enjoying Ingredients because Gameplay was always chopping things and I have PTSD over this.

Maybe familiar formulas are comforting to people.

There isn't any context around the bullying, and so it doesn't feel authentic - really cute rich kids are not typical targets, and if nothing else the girls would want to protect him.

Also, he's lived with Tae Sung for 11 years - their interaction makes no sense. I suppose that can be covered, but there are just too many things that seem unmotivated in this.

Oh - that makes a lot more sense. They definitely didn't structure this series that way.

Ok, but juat be warned it's terrible and keep your finger near the FF button. I've gotten a repetitive stress injury from hitting the advance 10 seconds button thousands of times to get through the endless lean-ins for forehead kisses. Pha's illness is LOL. I was hoping some hot male nurse would give him a sponge bath at some point, but alas.

This is terrible. I like that it tried somerthing different, but the resources available are not equal to the ambition. You can't tell a story like this is 40 minutes. And with non-actors.

This is not for me - it's so generic and shallow that I had a hard time even paying attention to it. Ok Jin Uk is very cute, but his character, like all the others is just a template grabbed off a shelf. Stock uke, stock bully, stock seme, stock seme entrance with shameless screaming girls, stock plot, stock everything. I'm just grateful nobody tripped and was caught. Fortunately there's Semantic Error and Oh! Boarding House to fall back on.

What's wrong with being superficial? I just hope he has cause to take a shower at some point.

I guess you're right. I have an irrational hatred for the trip/catch/stare trope - I think it's the unoriginality that bothers me more than anything, but as you said, it's supposed to be ridiculous here.

I totally agree - I'd prefer "economy of force" like this to a meandring 45 minutes. This is one of my favorite series airing. Also, Park Seo Ham. Jesus.

I was liking it, but come on. He trips twice in 5 minutes? I get sliding while wearing socks on a smooth floor, but the second time was really stupid and ruined this for me. BL has an international addiction to this awful, cliched plot devide. Ugh. However the leads are so beautiful I'll probably watch it anyway.

I love how totally in love Jae Young is and how confused but not confused.

I'm surprised people think the eps are too short - they're three times longer than most K-BLs.

Thank you! I suffer from an inability to remember long scientific words. It's probably called something like scientificverbumoblitus.

That's a problem with adapting to live action - it's simply not credible that Sang Woo wouldn't remember Jae Young's face - it works in a webtoon because people aren't so distinct, but given how aggravatingJae Young is, it just wouldn't make sense unless he had that disorder I can't remember the name of that prevents you from remembering faces - but even then they can recognize voices and how people walk, etc. I mean, he's really tall and always wears red. It's just not possible to forget.

There was a Thai BL based on a novel with a character that lost his smile - that works in print, but when you have an actor never smile, he comes off as a serial killer.

I'm watching it on Viki right now - maybe it was temporary?

There haven't been any assaults in this. How deep into the story is that? 4 of 10 eps have aired.

All four episodes are subbed with high-quality translations.

They go to a creepy little amusement park in their daily lives?

OK, I have to admit, I love that Ryo's wooing strategy is to employ all the BL tropes he can find in his manga and failing miserably with all of them. They even had him lose a tooth with the accidental kiss! I also really like how much Anda's brother loves him, misguided though he may be. The first episode was a real dud for me, but it's picked up a lot since then.

But how could they eat roast lamb in front of the sheep? Barbaric! And how is it that even when he's in disguise, everyone immediately recognizes Ryo, but he gets up and dances on stage in a radioactive yellow jacket and nobody notices him?

Did you notice the giant penis Thee and his friends were hiding behind at the ice cream place? Or how Ando was nakedly feeling up Ryo's pecs and abs and would have gone lower if not stopped? Not that I blame him because someone had been working out a lot...

I like how they play with an violate BL cliches in this, although it would have been better if Ryo had gotten his hand stuck in the seatbelt an/or thrown out his back giving the piggy-back ride.

That was a sad park - like the type of place a serial killer would lure children to.

I'm not bitter, I think it's funny.

I'm starting to think the problem with Oxygen was the directing. I didn't think so because the PhuKao pairing was so good, but Nut isn't just slightly better in this, it's going from two to eight or nine in one leap. The Phat role isn't too challenging, but Plan's acting is natural and effective.

But I am seriously amped for The Tuxedo with Green (Ben) as the lead.

And I agree - Nut is so funny and charming in real life I never understood how he could be so bad in Oxygen, but I think he was directed to be expressionless.