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…ok you stayed. fine on you.

so the second boston started doing his little wise sage routine i was like. i’m sorry. WHAT. did the writers watch their own show?? bc boston did not change. like at ALL. you spent half the season reminding us he’s still a mess and now suddenly he’s beaming light out of his pores helping ppl find themselves????

is he the patron saint of gmmtv now???

first half i was honestly fine. mildly annoyed we got robbed of a jossgawin bed scene but whatever i’ll live. and then the ending happened and i had to sit there for like a full minute deciding if i was gonna let it go or absolutely lose it

reader. i lost it.

the buildup is just. not there. tua spent EIGHT episodes being quiet and bottled up and repressed and then jack tells arnold “dean wore tua’s shirt one time and tua detonated ONCE”

that’s the trigger?? a shirt??

then he sees the video and goes thermonuclear. tables flipped. screaming. relationships ended. world ended. i was sitting here like did he get hit by a truck between scenes and come back as a different guy. he just spends the rest of the ep going from room to room blowing things up. if gawin wasn’t acting his entire ass off i would’ve closed the app.

AND. the mouth wiping. why. WHY. tua is just out here with a tissue at all times. at the house. at the amusement park. constantly dabbing this man’s mouth like he’s a toddler with juice. you know what that scene reminded me of? nothing. it had zero intimacy. go watch vice versa and look at how that kind of moment is supposed to feel. tension. chemistry. weight. this was just. dental hygiene.

these two are supposed to be IN LOVE. give me anything else. literally anything.

and arnold. what did he even do this ep. let me check my notes:

– showed some skin

– got his mouth wiped

– apologized

that’s the whole list. you couldn’t have him show up at the house screaming?? drag boston out?? lose it once?? no. he just calls and sighs so boston can put on his therapist hat.

and JACK. okay. so we care about purity now?? sir. people keep saying dean sleeps around and i’m sitting here like. with who?? when?? this man hasn’t even kissed arnold. meanwhile who’s been sleeping with dean all season. JACK. it’s been jack. and i’m supposed to buy him nuking the relationship over a video where literally nothing happens?? no kiss no confirmation just vibes and a really active imagination?? if it was an actual makeout fine sure go off. but this??

and he just ends it. on the spot. ok.

raffy and rome i’m not even gonna get into bc:

last ep: scorched earth

this ep: actually i’m good :)

raffy listens to one (1) song and decides revenge is cancelled. rome walks in being mildly nice and suddenly everyone’s healed. this man was talking about ruining lives last week and now he’s quitting acting?? does rome have a spotify playlist with hypnosis on it?? what is happening

and the rehearsal scene. everyone is in shambles. people are screaming. relationships are imploding. and jack goes “ok guys rehearsal time :)” REHEARSE WHAT. this is a college theater club. real people would walk OUT. you’d be on your knees begging them to come back. but no everyone just. settles down. and rehearses. cool.

now boston. if you wanna redeem him then DO IT. don’t keep showing him being messy with arnold and trying stuff with raffy and then in the same ep have him giving out wisdom like he just got licensed. when did he get the degree. offscreen??

and i’m not even asking for much. give me ONE moment of hesitation. one crack. tua leans in, boston freezes, thinks of nick, pulls back. done. that’s all i needed. instead we get “you’ll regret sleeping with me i used to be terrible” plus those little interview cutaways telling me he’s a Better Person Now. stop telling me. SHOW me.

and then gameplay just. appears. no buildup no weight no nothing. shows up. hugs. leaves.

cool.

i was gonna wait til the finale to go off but this ep cracked me. the writing just does whatever it feels like that day. characters get personality transplants between scenes. no buildup no continuity no logic. genuinely starting to feel like the entire cast got hit by the same car and woke up as different people.

what IS this show.

i’m mad 😤

and of course. OF COURSE. it hit #1 trending in thailand.

obviously.

if you actually loved this episode just swipe up. i’m begging you. for your own sake.

i am about to be SO mean and the swearing is gonna be unhinged ^^/

last warning. go.

Loving the show but two nitpicks from ep 8 (minor spoilers)

First off, I’m still really into Sammy’s Children’s Day. We’re basically at the finale now and I’m hooked on every episode. This isn’t a hate post.

Two little things bugged me though:

1. The show’s set in Kowloon, so why is there a left hand drive car in the shot? Hong Kong uses right hand drive. Small detail, but once you notice it you can’t unsee it.

2. In the scene where He Chusan is pulling glass out of Xia Liuyi’s chest, the shards are going straight into bare skin like he was shirtless. But earlier that same day he’s clearly wearing a shirt and a jacket, so wardrobe and SFX didn’t fully sync up there.

Still a great episode overall and I’m excited for the finale.

The Klao and Kaew gossip scene is basically poetry, if poetry were written with the sole purpose of destroying a man’s reputation. Kaew doesn’t just spread a rumor. He curates it. He keeps layering metaphor after metaphor like he’s hosting a gallery opening titled “The Many Ways Lord Phop Is Simply Not Functioning.” Wine and cheese will be served. RSVP required.

And the commitment? Insane. He could have stopped at one euphemism and called it a day, but no, sir. He keeps going. A flame with no spark. A flag that will not fly. Noodles without broth. Each one more unhinged and weirdly specific than the last. At some point I stop laughing and start wondering if Kaew has been workshopping this material for weeks. Did he have notecards? Was there a rehearsal?

It’s gossip as performance art. Elegance and savagery holding hands, skipping through a field.

Bar owner fit was a whole PERSONALITY 😮‍💨 Deep Night vibes for real. Can’t wait for the next outfit drop

🥰🍡🍡🍡🍡

RIGHT?? Krit’s patience deserves a Nobel Prize. You? Series finale in episode 2. 😭

GIRL same!! That shirt was basically a plot spoiler. Aren’t we just the fashion police? 😭

LMAOO that line lived rent-free in my head. I’m convinced she’s the type to sneak up and pinch Krit’s nipples just to keep him humble. 😭

RIGHT?? I was properly entertained. Rose is that girl. 💅

Friday served a full BL feast and I was not ready. Two back-to-back UpPoom episodes? I was bouncing between proud auntie mode 🥹 and pillow-giggling chaos, and then they threw in hot guys dancing too?? Too much serotonin in one sitting.

And Krit, babe, why is the 2 Moons theme on loop in that car? Is the aux stuck, or is this a cheeky wink at Wayu? Either way, we see you. Please add one more song to the playlist. Just one. I’m begging.

Also, Tai showing up in a fight-graphic tee and immediately starting beef with Sky?? Sir, that’s not a shirt, that’s a legal disclaimer. I was wheezing.

If you haven’t watched yet, cozy corner, phone on silent, go. 💅​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Yeah, it’s totally giving How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days energy - just dialed up with BL logic and zero interest in being realistic. If they lean into the ridiculous, it could be stupidly fun.

Fake Fact Lips is a title that makes you pause. You read it, you reread it, and for a second you wonder if the subtitles glitched. They didn’t.

Japanese shows often don’t bother giving English titles that sound “natural.” They go for mood, not grammar. Sometimes that works beautifully. Sometimes you get Fake Fact Lips, which sounds like a lost Gwen Stefani track from 2004.

The show itself matches the title’s energy. Two people decide to make each other fall in love just so they can reject each other first, which is not how humans behave but is exactly how drama behaves. Nobody involved is pretending this is realism.

Watch it the way it wants to be watched: not for insight, just for the mess.

Thank you for your comment and for liking the description!

I’ve been wondering about the low rating too. I think this drama’s tone and pacing are very specific, so it probably hits differently depending on what people expect from a BL – some may want something more dramatic or idealized, while this one feels very grounded and restrained.

For me, that’s exactly what makes it special: it feels like a quiet, mature story that could really exist off-screen.

Episode 3 is one of those episodes that doesn’t really try to impress you. At first, it almost feels like nothing much happens, just a string of small, ordinary moments. But the more I thought about it afterward, the more quietly meaningful it became.

Azuma’s nephew following him all the way to Kuji’s house because he was worried about him was such a simple detail, but it stuck with me. It says a lot without making a scene of it. Azuma may be in a messy place in life, but he’s still someone his family cares about deeply. That kind of love doesn’t need you to be doing well first.

The scene with Azuma’s mother had the same feeling. Her fall, and Kuji going along for the visit, made me think about everything Kuji must have gone through with his own father. We never see any of it, but you can feel it in the way he handles things. His advice about fixing up the house didn’t feel like empty comfort either. It was practical and real, like he knew what he was talking about because he’d lived it.

I also loved how the episode kept circling back to translation. When Azuma’s father read him English picture books as a child, he wasn’t just translating the words, he was reshaping them so a little kid could actually feel the story. That idea lingered. Maybe it’s what the drama is quietly getting at: after enough disappointment and detours, middle age might be the time when you finally learn how to translate your own life into something that makes sense.

Nothing here is loud, but it leaves a really soft, tender aftertaste.

Thank you! The wordplay is such a small detail but it reframes the whole episode once it clicks. Glad I could share it.

That is heartbreaking in such a quiet way. The supplies pile up because some part of you is still waiting. I hope that part gets to come back someday.

This episode did not come to play. They flew to Fukuoka, swapped the insert song to Japanese, AND brought in Tattoo Colour to perform after Qin’s number. One episode, multiple payoffs, the budget visibly on fire.

The fact that they still worked in Thai brand placements while shooting in Japan is honestly a flex. And after all that, they had the decency to give us a genuinely generous bed scene. The TeeTeePor crowd is going to lose it. Strong finish, real effort, full marks from me.

Honestly this episode was heavy, just packaged in a lighter, almost playful way. I think a lot of people, especially kids from Asian families, are going to feel this one. Pobmek’s mom is basically the classic version of that kind of parent.

When his mom (Pafun) showed up at the competition, I was joking like, “Watch her grab a guitar, smash it, and throw up a rock sign.”

A few seconds later I was not laughing anymore.

A Taiwanese friend of mine in California once told me his parents smashed his toys when he was a kid. Now he has a stable job and keeps buying collectibles nonstop. It is his way of coping with what he lost growing up.

This episode focuses on Pobmek and his relationship with his mom, but it also drops more hints about Solar/Sun. Solar’s change feels tied to his biological mother, which means Pranee probably is not his real mom.

From the preview, Pranee is clearly hiding something from Pobmek. That look on her face just screams, “I knew this day would come.”

Perth was so good in this episode. The way he just froze and held everything in instead of reacting right away made it hit harder. You can really feel why Pobmek turned out the way he did.
With Pobmek’s arc wrapped, Sun/Solar is up next, and that one is going to hurt.

One thing that did not work for me. Jee saying he did not know why Pobmek could not play guitar felt like a writing slip. After a scene like that with his mom, that would have been all over the school.

My biggest complaint is that car window CGI. It looked rough. For Prabdee, that is embarrassing. They are known for quality, and this felt like someone just stopped caring.

And honestly the most eye catching thing in this episode has to be Sun’s lobster outfit by the Italian brand Sit Down Please.

Nothing says emotional damage like showing up dressed as luxury seafood.

I saw that too, fingers crossed it leads to a proper resolution.