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I disagree - I think Weir needed to be slapped a lot more. Leading on someone sweet and innocent like Pooh is like child molestation. Punn and Pooh are family, and Weir promised Punn his creepy gay conquerorness would not be an issue in the workplace, so Weir most definitely does owe Punn an explanation as to their "status". This is the workplace, not some social encounter - Punn is responsible and liable for anything that happens. Weir deserved to be fired, so he should consider himself lucky. A light slap on the face is technically assault - you don't actually have to touch someone to be guilty of assault (in common law - I'm not sure about Thai law), but it's not like he have him an injuring punch.

I suppose you're right. Also, the current generation seems to "get things going" much, much later than mine. I hit that age in the 1980s, when it was totally unacceptable to be gay, and I still got more action than this, with boys way more repressed (including myself), in a culture where boys aren't allowed to touch. Not to mention girls - I had a girlfriend, and I did way more with her and I wasn't even interested. At all.

But really, I don't so much mean the lack of experience as the childish way Aoki has of dealing with any awkwardness, like when Ida pulled his hand away. A tortured inner monologue would have been fine, but his bizarre outburst is even less mature in a Japanese context than it would be most other places. Even then, I get that it's comedy, it's just that we're on Ep 8 and there's no progression - I'd like a character arc and not just running in circles at full speed.

I agree on both your conclusions, although I really liked Neo's storyline in FUTS. I don't dislike Phuwin, but I didn't feel much chemistry between the two. Maybe this time it will work better, and it's always nice to see Chimon.

I've been absolutely loving this series, but this ep I got really tired of the primary school antics. IF the idea of holding hands is that terrifying, then they're too young to date. Maybe things have changed, but we went way, way beyond that in primary school and it's a little ridiculous in a high school student. Maybe it's made worse because they actors are adults.

They said he's a college student intern, not a TA, but I'm not sure how either would be creepy. They weren't talking about anything beyond 3rd grade level. This way saves them the expense of having to get another location to shoot at. Also, the TA is so gorgeous if he wanted to talk about detailed analysis of poop I'd be on board. If he weren't a bigot like that.

The Penelope character is just awful. Way too much time is spent on it - is it intended to be funny, because sustained and obviously deeply unwanted sexual harassment is not funny.

I'm happy the actors don't have a problem with kissing, and the one at the end was hot, but it came out of nowhere - if there's some backstory that makes it comprehensible, we really needed to see it. Gameplay's character is really unappealing, and he appears to feel that way too, because he's clearly not into it. I didn't feel any chemistry between anyone. Think about Gameplay with Jeff Satur or Best's on-fire chemistry with Chahub in Check Out. The direction and cinematography are also profoundly uninspired.

Wow, Mike in a lead BL role - it's about time. I'm curious to hear Krist's explanation. I guess the career in straight roles didn't work out as hoped, eh? I'm glad this is a more interesting plot than many of the other upcoming series.

In the USA, a lot of people who are successful on TV quit to become movie stars. That rarely works out, and they all come back. Something similar here, I'll bet.

Wow, finally something different! I'm excited for this one - and I love the cast.

They probably have several series that were interrupted by COVID, so there's a backlog.

I call this "BL Plot #3" - an heir to a criminal empire is assigned a bodyguard by a parent. They fall in love, which is unacceptable to the parent, and the bodyguard is shot protecting heir-boy. But don't worry, he won't die. Starting to get very old, very fast, but still fresher than BL Plot #1 (boy trips and is caught by other boy - they stare at each other until they turn gay, but it takes 11.5 eps to get rid of one or both of their evil girlfriends.) and BL Plot #3 (Boy opens food establishment. Other boy shows up to work there. They fall in love.)

Was this pairing so compelling that it needed to be repeated? I would rather see Pond with someone else, but I'll watch it just for him.

What, no chefs? With no chefs, engineers, or medical students I can't tell what genre this is. Is it a BL? :) Anyway, this looks like something different and interesting. BL has been missing the classic soap opera evil twin trope,

I guess chefs are the new engineers. I wonder what it is about BL that makes more imitative than Holly wood. The trip and fall made me have zero interest in watching this. That trope is so horrendously overused that it's become a reliable indicator that a series will be bad.

That's interesting. What struck me is that many characters keep SAYING the owner is creepy, but to me he's not at all and is very charming and attractive, whereas Weir is the stuck up creep. As for the murder plot, it's in the source material, and sort of IS the plot, so I think you're stuck with it. unless they take a radically different approach to the story, which would be nice since I've already seen it twice. (There are Japanese and Korean versions.)

What was the depth of the story? Two boys meet and like each other, the end. It was very cute, but there wasn't any depth - what were the character's motivations? Backgrounds? Why did they like each other (answer: they were both really cute)? What personal conflicts had to be resolved? It was short and self-contained, so a normal sequel would be pointless. This idea for S2 is actually interesting - I probably wouldn't have watched a straight sequel.

This is unwatchably terrible - it's just a checklist of tired cliches and everything about it is 100% predictable. Did anyone doubt for even one second who would be the occupant of the room when Nathee got there? Is there anyone who didn't know what would happen the moment Prin said "Get out" and pushed Nathee?

How does garbage like this get made? There are so many talented writers in the world - can't we go with one of them every once in a while?

It's funny, my mother is not perfect at respecting boundaries, but if she did this to me I would never speak to her again. I would, but there would be a few weeks' break. That was crossing the line into abusive - maybe even pathology - that was deliberate sabotage. Could you ever trust someone again after that?

Anyway this is an interesting approach to take to the story - I'm looking foward to it, but if I had one complaint about the first season is that it was shallow and forgetable - the preview looks equally so, but I hope it surprises me - the boys are very cute together. I hope we get some character development.

Season 1's story was so shallow there's not really any reason to continue it - this is way more interesting.

I understand why people might feel like that, but insane shippers are going to be insane shippers regardless - if someone can't tell the difference between fiction and reality, it doesn't matter whether they're watching this or any other BL. The series' only responsibilty is to entertain us, not babysit crazy people.

I watched it on PH?

https://upstream.ph/series/quaranthings/