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It seems to bother a lot of people. I don't get why - I think it's cute. I'm in the minority. BLs are full of shirtless guys, so it's not something new - maybe it bothers people because they are wondering what they have on below.

The chef guy is right next door to Chol

It's because of the step brother thing. When it first started, this section was full of negative comments about that. In the story, they just met and they're close in age.

I think it's a wonderful show. I'm usually not into something this cute and pleasant, but it's refreshing to see people actually resolve problems by addressing them instead of sulking for days to montages of good times together instead of just talking it through.

The acting gets progressively better. I had some trouble getting into it for a couple of eps, but then it kind of became one of my favorites airing.

Well, that happened. I will say that I was in the better mood after watching it than I was prior.

Whatever you want to say about Aoey, Bruce owned this episode. That was a spectacular performance. It was genuinely difficult to watch, and he's the only character painted with depth, and I think credit goes to Bruce - Aoey could have been a typical 2D villain.

Up continues to do his best with a character without a character. How would you describe him? The only thing I can think of is "grumpy and frumpy man who is afraid of everyting and things are done to him." What is Sib's character? Can you really describe him? There's nothing to him except his obsession for Gene.

Today was supposed to be character development, but it wasn't - it was a light-switch going off. One minute he won't let Sib touch him, the next he's getting f#$%ed. One minute he has no clue about his sexuality, the next he's publicly proclaiming he's gay and sleeping with the guy whose parents are right there.

And that was so slow. I set it on 1.25 at one point and I forgot. And even then I was finding it slow. Every scene needs to be tightened up.

And what is it? Drama? Comedy? Satire? The tonal shifts are too great. You can have humor in serious scenes - you don't have to make everything one or the other. When Sib asked Gene if he was bored of him, he should have said "yes". That would have been cute and it would be nice for him to turn the tables on the teasing. But it was a romantic scene, so it had to be 100% syrup.

I don't hate the show or anything, but I don't get the level of love for it. It's bascially a formulaic BL with nothing original to say with two good actors (Up & Bruce), and a bunch of average ones. And a super hot one (Ken), but that's just me. I would rate the series a 7.5 so far.

I agree. I know Up is doing his best, but Gene doesn't really have a character. He's the author inserting herself into the story as a self-indulgent fantasy, so no real thought has gone into his character development, and so there is none. That's actually common in Thai BLs. They are uncomplicated plots and conflict is mostly driven by external events, and so characters remain static, or have instantaneous shifts (like Type - virulent homophobe one minute, proposing anal sex the next - except it worked in TT because the whole show was nuts). Sib hasn't changed at all the entire series - nobody has.

The scene in the hotel was bizarre - Gene had zero agency. He even just stared unmoving when Aey was leaning in for a kiss. WTF? He completely freaks out whenever Sib comes anywhere near him but he was going to let Aey kiss him.

And the chance of that happening at dinner was close to dinner. I'm glad they're not going to drag it out forever, but that seemed really contrived to me.

LOL, I set it on 1.25 yo get through it and forgot. I didn't realize it until an a cappella section of a song. It was so incredibly slow - this really needs tighter editing.

This series doesn't know what it wants to be. Is it a comedy? Is it serious? Is it a satire? The tonal shifts are giving me whiplash, or they would if it weren't so glacial in pacing.

I largely agree - but two things: parents have a way of mapping out in their heads what their children's lives will be like, and there are a few basics that are largely the norm (marriage & kids). This would come as a shock to even tolerant parents (if they had no clue).

Gene wasn't really fair in the confrontation scene - he should have given his parents a little time to process. I'm not blaming him, but this isn't something like "I got my ear pierced" or "I got an A- on a test." Everyone deserves time to process.

I agree about fangirl gushing - they want cuteness, that's all that's really important. But the level of acceptance in Asian cultures has started a hugely positive trend in the last couple of years, and some of the credit for that has to go to fujoshis. Yes, they're fetihizing gay men and contributing to our exploitation without any real effort on behalf of our rights, but visibility is a huge part of the battle, so their contribution is material.

I meant more like it wasn't going to work out in the end. You can get over a fight, but if you don't know how you partner feels about you, there's a fundamental problem. In any case, to me, if the intent was to show that everything is fine, I didn't get that feeling.

I don't mean breakup so much as a fading relationship. After 3 years you settle down and it's less intense, but not THAT much less intense. If the intent was to show that everything is just fine, I don't think it succeeded.

The quality of that was high. For me the romance almost worked, but not quite - unless it meant to show that their relationship is essentially over, in which case it was mission accomplished. Ohm's character was so neglectful that I don't really believe he loves Fluke. The scene where he's about to kiss him and then doesn't because he has to get ready - you can't spare a single second?

The big red flag is the one Fluke pointed out - he doesn't ever talk to him about what he's doing. He gets " It's work. What can I tell you?" Yeah, boring stuff, like recording with a big star Fluke is a fan of. Nothing to discuss there. You want to talk about things you're doing with people you love. Look at all of us - we don't even know each other and we want to discuss our shows together.

And Fluke - I might break up with someone who shows up and throws a scene like that. That was seriously crossing the line.

Anyway, that was well-written otherwise - people said things people would say.

Ohm's acting seems to have really improved, although he had a lot more here to do than in UWMA, where he just had to stand around and stare.

Thanks - I try to insert humor as I tend to write long reviews.

Shakespeare had a guy trip and fall and get caught by another guy and they stare at each other until they turn gay? Was that Romeo and Mercutio? Come to think of it, I remember a scene where Paris trips on the stairs and lands into an accidental kiss with Romeo. That must be where BL got it from.

The cliffhanger was making fun of a trope - a lot of series end like that and then nobody ever make the sequel (think about Addicted/Heroin). I thought it was perfect.

What happened to the subtitles? The cc button is there and it's on English, but there's nothing. I can see in the youtube comments that they used to be there.

This was the couple I was most looking forward to. I also wanted to see Chap (Tue) in a lead role, and he was fine, I guess. At least his pair had some chemistry - I don't know what happened here because they had it in Why RU. I think it might be that Nat isn't great at playing a minx.

The story might have worked better if Nuea ​had realized he'd gone overboard, then had to win Sun back by getting to know him instead of sexually harassing him.

I think maybe the writers don't know how. The formula is the taller one is always the seme, the shorter one the uke, and the seme always takes care of the uke. I think they view them as different sexes or something, because the divide is so stark. Fine then, why not have Nat be the uke?

That was a little confusing. Not the plot - that I could follow, but what the main character is feeling. If he didn't know the second guy, then why was there the slo-mo montage of all their good times together (all one day of it).

At least they're trying something new. Although, ironically, the main character could really use an engineer and a doctor to help him figure out what's going on.

Because Nat can pull off those outfits and the large height difference. If Max had been playing Nuea & Nat playing Sun, the discussion going on here would be much, much different.

We don't know if Sun is Out - if he's not, Nuea just destroyed his life with that live-stream, not to mention the relentless and severe sexual harassment.

After Nuea had spent two hours of runtime severely sexually harassing Sun, that seemed mild in comparison. But unless Sun is Out, that's unforgivable.

I really like them as a couple too. But 2 hours of run time and no story - it's disappointing. Much less happened in that time than their storyline in Why RU, and that had about 10 minutes total.

What's the story in these 2 eps? Boy tutors bratty boy. Brat relentlessly pursues tutor and they get together. The end. That's it.

That makes sense, and it's true, he did restrain himself. There is a slight issue that since Nuea is paying Sun, he holds some power in the relationship. (Client vs service provider) The intensity of Nuea's come-ons, especially as Sun was demonstrably unwilling (I'm sure he wanted it, but he was unwilling to do it) to the point it was feeling coercive.

It seemed more mild because Sun is so much bigger than Nuea - but imagine how it would have looked if the actors were switched and Max were playing Nuea, or if Sun were a woman (not played by Max).