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Awesome - I'm glad to hear it. He's not my favorite BL actor, but he may be the cutest. That smile and those dimples. Ugh, kills me.

It's probably for the best. They won't make any money if their entire audience bursts into flame.

I'm glad at least one person agrees!

Why is everyone gang-piling Jimmy? I think he's doing a great job - he's playing a super-sweet guy, which is admittedly not much of a stretch, but it's not like Jae Hyun is particularly hitting it out of the ballpark. Maybe the problem is the mother is such a great actress that she outshines the boys - who are still better than 95% of BL actors.

I'm surprised to hear that, although I'm only half through the series so far. His suit in the first half is too big for him and the glasses and greased hair are not pretty - but he is, so he can wear whatever he wants and I'm still in.

It was OK. Nothing really happens and it's tropey, and Ep 2 was about 7 minutes - at this pace I'm not sure how they'll get through the story in such a short runtime.

I set it on 1.5x and barely noticed except when music was playing. First we got a static 5 minute scene of Kaleb pretending to work. Then other stuff happened, but I don't really remember it. Except at the end when they were putting living room furniture into Kaleb's office. There was 5 minutes of content in this - although there were some cute Lemuel & Omeng scenes.

If they're not going to move the romances forward, they could at least have gratuitous slo-mo shower scenes, preferably featuring Axl.

March has a surprisingly sexy body - it doesn't look like it when he's dressed, but styles are so loose now. I'm not sure about this series - I'm not sure I get what the point is.

I agree this ep was an improvement, and I thought Mark was good when his eyes were watering - it's just that it didn't make much sense. I don't by any means think he's a bad actor - I'm just not sure he's the right one for the role. Or it may just be the directing. But Aek does seem almost the same as Kengkla, so I wonder if he has much range.

This is not an attack or criticism, just curiosity - what do you like about Aek? He's a really dull character to me. Is it mostly a looks thing? I guess he doesn't do too much for me - or maybe it just seems like that because Aue does so much for me that everyone else pales in comparison, but we all have different tastes. I did notice he looked pretty good in the towel. :)

I have an unfair avantage in that I can see the Golden Gate bridge from my window. :P

I don't know. I think maybe there's a miscasting issue here. All the characters are the same - totally calm, talk incredibly slowly, and stare for 15 minutes between each line uttered. Mark doesn't have the charisma or interest to pull this off IMO - and I still feel no chemistry between the leads, or rather I don't feel it from Aek. I don't really feel any connection to his character at all. I almost wish he'd go away and Aue could marry his mother, who is a much more compelling character to me. She says and does even less than Aek, but the actress is way more capable.

This was better than last weeks' ep, but Aek's weird reaction to Aue telling him he wants to enter him in the contest was unmotivated and unexplained - why would he get that upset? If Aue had said "I have entered you", then yes. But that's not what happened. There was never a discussion, nor did we see any processing from Aek - he was so upset that he cried and fled all the way across the country, then suddenly he was OK with everything. And the line about hating himself... What? Shouldn't we explore that a little? It seems completely at odds with everything we've seen so far.

Again, all style, no substance. The style is beautiful, but we're five eps in now - nearly half over - and so little has happened that the only thing I really look forward to is food porn and the happiness that comes from Aue being on my screen. I think it should be a requirement that he take at least one shower per ep. Preferably more.

I'm watching it on Viki which doesn't have 1.5x, but it does have the advance 10 seconds button which is even better - if you hit it every time Aek says something it makes him almost sound like a normal person. There's still his vacant stare, though.

Not "something" about him, everything about him.

Why do you hate soup?

The acting in Ep 4 was excellent, but the writing was terrible. That was a mess that didn't really make any sense - really disappointing. What is with all the staring in all the Thai BLs these days? Instead of having the emotional climax the story needed, they just stared at each other for 5 minutes, then did a time jump. Why? Ugh! So much potential. Well, at least we know Boun & Prem weren't a fluke in UWMA and the boys can both seriously act. Earth was really good in this too.

That's the Tower Bridge in London, not the Golden Gate Bridge.

There's no wrong answer when it comes to music and art, but I didn't get that - was it the whispery opening with some music box tones? I hearthat, but to me the melody was very much like French cafe music, but darker. Although I don't understand the lyrics, so those might give it a different spin.

Neither - this is an expansion of the same story - all the key scenes from this ep are in the short film

OK, so far that was amazing. The acting is quite good, the cinematography and directing are superb, and it has all the visual symbolism that I love and gives a story that extra layer that can keep you coming back for repeat viewings.

And it has the second-best theme song of any BL ever (first-place being He/She/It).

Note the shower scene, which was not explicit at all, but one of the hottest things I've seen in a BL - the way Wu Zheng is trying to be comforting and then totally loses control.

Those two (three?) have amazing chemistry. I'm excited for the rest of this.

Sure is! I hope it's handled well.