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Technically, July 12, but since episode 10 was fast tracked last week, episode 12 is also being fast tracked for release next week.

This episode made me feel terrible for Mei. After being kidnapped, trafficked, and abused by countless men, she was ultimately hurt the most by the one man (albeit a gay man) that she found solace in during her rehabilitation at a time where she seemingly hated Sun (her brother). While I understand Sun's anger finding out that his boyfriend knew that Mr. Joe was the one who ordered the murder of his (Sun's) dad, Sun doesn't really have a rational bone in his body. He acts way too much out of emotion and impulse without giving thought to things that may happen before or after he acts. I like the fact that even when he's angry with Peace, Peace (along with Mei) acted as Sun's conscience and prevented him from murdering Mr. Joe (although I do still think Mr. Joe needs to die, but not by Sun's hand). The preview for the finale didn't really show much, so I'm hoping that it's a long finale that properly concludes the series. I hope that Sun and Peace end up together (and alive). Based on events that happened in episode 10, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Cherry's uncle turned out to be one of the lobbyists that seem to outrank all of the criminals. If that's the case, I don't think things will end well for Jun-ho and Jihoon since they sent men to gas his niece and her girlfriend. Being a lobbyist would also explain how Cherry's uncle is able to keep his coffee shop afloat despite having a noticeably low number of clients as Sun has pointed out in previous episodes. Lastly, in regard to the uncle, I noticed that he went to the VIP floor of the hospital where Mr. Joe was staying, and the guards for that floor didn't even try to lay a hand on him. He played it off as if he pressed the button for the wrong floor, but I feel like there was a reason for that particular scene.

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I know it may not be an initial thought to the average person, but when you're involved in that level of crime, I would think that Peace and Sun would at least check the car for a tracker just to be safe; especially since Sun gave Peace a tracker to hide in a very peculiar place to prevent it from being found.

Episode 12 better be at least an hour and a half. I'll put my thoughts on episode 11 in a spoiler tag below since there are some people who have yet to see it somehow.

There's absolutely no way I can suspend disbelief enough to believe that Thun lost to an out of shape middle-aged man. I figured that either Pakorn or Phuwish was "Sia Thep" (although I suspected the latter more so) since Phuwish just seemed entirely too generous, and a "Sia Thep" character wasn't listed in the cast. Also, I noticed that when Keen asked him why he wanted to buy Coach Petch's gym, he never actually answered the question. I know that trailers aren't necessarily always canon, but if the trailer for this series turns out to be somewhat canon, I'd be disappointed, but not shocked to find out that Coach Petch isn't really on the up-and-up either. I hope that isn't the case, but since there are four more episodes left, I feel like there's MUCH more to this story that people may not be expecting at first glance.

The ONLY semi decent thing about the average Scud film is the fact that you'll most likely see attractive nude men in every other scene. Based on his work, Scud seems to have a creepy infatuation with r*pe, death, and suicide. Not even 4 minutes in, you get hit with two r*pe scenes back-to-back, and a suicide scene. To paraphrase Tyra Banks, "it is so bad, I wanna give it a 0, but that is not possible, so I give it a 1." To be honest, the 1/10 rating is mainly for the attractive nude men. This film was severely disjointed and confusing.

Although I like the fact that both Phi and Tam admitted to each other that they're not over one another, they can't FULLY heal and move forward until they address the reason Tam ghosted Phi after breaking up with him via text message.

While I'm enjoying the series overall, I have to ask if Armin is just extremely dense or just willfully ignorant. How is it that he hasn't figured out who Tada really is? Tada isn't even trying to hide it at this point, especially when he properly used the "hashtag" #ArminFanclub. "TD" (Tada) was the first member of the "Armin Fanclub" in Armin's past life, so I'm finding it hard to believe that Armin didn't pick up on it when Tada threw that hashtag out. Also, the fact that Tada knew how to properly use a "hashtag" when this iteration of him is supposed to be from 1999 makes me believe that he too is from the future, and this may be a "reset" for him as well. In the past life, Tada (TD) always kept his distance from Armin, and never revealed himself to him physically; whereas in this "reset," Tada is making the effort to be physically in Armin's life from the beginning of his career. Although it would sadden me, for the sake of the story, I wouldn't be surprised if Tada was the one who spiked Armin's drink in the past life in a retaliatory way since Armin snubbed "TD" in his acceptance speech. If that ends up being the case, it would explain why Tada is breaking his neck to give Armin the world in this "reset."

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I fully understand why Armin despised Lilly in the past life. I'm aware of how seedy the entertainment industry can generally be, but she's a terrible human being selling the young talent she "manages" to creepy old men for fistfuls of money. I hope she gets her comeuppance in this "reset."

The fact that four masked men had to resort to tazing Peace to neutralize him because Peace was beating the crap out of ALL FOUR of them is crazy work. I'm honestly disappointed in Mr. Joe not only for making his son fight his boyfriend (I wasn't necessarily disappointed as I was pissed), but the fact that he left his medication out in the open to be switched and blindly trusted his ADOPTED SONS to not be shady "children" and want to take his business from under him. I don't like Mr. Joe in the slightest, but I would've expected him to be a bit more vigilant about people who are that close to his circle that are technically not related to him. In regard to the fight between Sun and Peace, a part of me feels like they could've had slight communication during the collar and elbow lockup in the beginning of the fight. As twisted as it is, Peace wanted to protect Sun from his father. In his mind, while he may get separated from Sun, at least Sun would still be alive (which I honestly wouldn't have trusted since Mr. Joe is a terrible human being). The fact that Sun woke up immediately asking about Peace's condition just shows how much he truly loves Peace despite the fact that Peace was the one who (reluctantly) put him in the hospital to begin with. I'm both excited and nervous for the next episode since it seems as though Sun is going to find out that Peace was actually the one who was meant to kill his (Sun) dad in the alleyway.

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Mr. Joe, Jihoon, and Jun-ho need to die if Sun and Peace want any chance at being together. Also, I'm kinda hoping that Jack doesn't make too many appearances in the last two episodes. That character irritates me to no end.

So I JUST watched episode 10, and I'll post my thoughts in the spoiler tag below in case people haven't seen it yet.

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🗣️ THIS 👏🏽 SERIES 👏🏽 SHOULD 👏🏽 BE 👏🏽 RATED 👏🏽 SIGNIFICANTLY 👏🏽 HIGHER 👏🏽 THAN 👏🏽 IT 👏🏽 IS 👏🏽 CURRENTLY!!!!! 👏🏽

Jun took Sorn back too quickly in my opinion. The was Sorn was moving in this episode felt manipulative AF. With such a fast "reconciliation," and only two episodes left, what more of their story really needs to be told? Sorn clearly doesn't respect when Jun attempts to set boundaries (from harassing Jun at work after Jun told him he needed space to tongue kissing him TWICE after Jun told him not to use tongue), and Jun seems to be okay with it. If there's one thing to take away from this series, it's the fact that you TEACH people how to treat you. Sorn only disrespects the boundaries Jun tries to set because Jun ALLOWS it, and from the outside looking in, I hate that for him.

I just saw that they posted it (that's where I typically watch BLs). It wasn't up when I posted my initial comment. Thanks!

This may sound a bit harsh, but am I the only one who didn't have much sympathy for what happened to Jack (Sun's brother)? He's had an extremely pretentious attitude and superiority complex since the first episode, and he's been annoying me ever since. Although I tend to skip over GL subplots that get inserted in BL series, I'm actually enjoying Cherry and Mei's budding relationship. Peace was rather bold to gift THAT "painting" to Sun. He had to know that it wouldn't be as subtle as he may have wanted it to appear to be. I was thinking that Sun may actually lose the fight against Jihoon until I saw the preview to the next episode and heard the conditions Mr. Joe had for Sun if he loses. Something tells me that his victory may irritate Mr. Joe, and Peace will ultimately be the one to take his father down to protect Sun. Overall, this is a good series that SHOULD be rated much higher than it is currently.

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Is episode 10 really being fast tracked? If so, where can it be watched?

Lol, because Keen was by his side when he woke up. He fell for Keen pretty hard.

I believe they're referring to the novel. Charlie had both Willy AND Pete's powers in the novel.

I feel like since Chris is a descendant of Tony, he may have the power to either neutralize other alpha/enigma's powers or distort them in a sense; because I find it strange that Pete's mind reading powers don't seem to work on Chris. While I'm not surprised that Willy's power was time manipulation, I can't help but wonder what Tony's power is since Willy seems to be terrified of him even with the power of time manipulation (for some reason, I feel like Tony's power has to do with necromancy, but I could be wrong). It really doesn't make much sense for Tony to give one of his underlings such an OP ability without a way to neutralize it. Even with a chip in his body that could explode, Tony would have to be quick enough to activate the chip to detonate before Willy could freeze him in time. Since it seems as though Willy needs to snap his fingers in order to activate his power, whenever Babe and the others get ahold of him, they should just break all of his fingers. Although it's a bit of a slow burn, I'm actually enjoying the progression of Kenta and Kim's relationship. Kenta desperately wants to be genuinely loved, and I think sooner than later, he'll realize that Kim is the person who'll love him.

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North and Sonic need to start acting like adults and verbalize their feelings for one another TO one another. They could be such a cute side couple if they'd get out of their own heads respectively.

It's pretty clear that Ait was the one who drugged Thun at the request of his "boss" (which is confirmed NOT to be Coach Petch). The sad thing is that I really liked Ait with Mawin, but drugging your own teammate for whatever reason (because his sister's medical procedure was covered by a viewer of Keen's livestream if I'm remembering correctly) is next level betrayal. Based on the preview for the next episode, I'm starting to wonder if Ait went to a loan shark to get funds to pay for his sister's medical expenses prior to her surgery. I'm not too certain on how Mawin will react. As for the last five minutes of this episode (episode 7), I feel like I SHOULD'VE seen that coming since Thun gave slight clues in the previous episodes, but it's still a shock, especially for Keen. Finding out that your boyfriend's father is most likely responsible for the death of your father is A LOT to process. Hopefully Keen won't be upset with Thun for not telling him who his father is. Thinking back, that may explain why Thun wasn't too visibly angry at the fight with Typhoon being rigged. Thun probably expected his dad to pull something like that at some point.

This first episode started off strong. I wasn't too worried about chemistry since Inn and Great had good chemistry in "Wandee Goodday." While I enjoyed "Wandee Goodday" for the most part, this series feels like it's going to be significantly better based on the first episode alone. However, a part of me wants to reserve judgment until after the 8th episode for now since this IS technically a GMMTV series, and although they've proven that they are capable of producing compelling series with good pacing and acting (i.e. ThamePo Heart That Skips a Beat), A LOT of GMMTV series tend to lose steam around the 8th or 9th episode (especially if it has the standard 12-episode format). Hopefully this series continues to stay strong throughout its progression.

Although this series is only four episodes in, it's rather refreshing to watch a GOOD Chinese BL series after having to suffer through the Taiwanese BLs that have been released in 2025 (I've yet to watch "Fight for You," so as of right now, I can't include that one on the list of terrible Taiwanese BLs in 2025"). It's clear that Chi Cheng is falling for Wu Suo Wei fast. I feel as though he may suspect Wu Suo Wei to be his current "girlfriend's" ex-boyfriend after learning that both her ex and Wu Suo Wei use the same skincare product. I also enjoy the friendship between Wu Suo Wei and Jiang Xiao Shuai. Overall, I'm liking this series so far.

My ONLY critique for this series is that it's entirely too short. All four episodes could've been a singular episode. The acting and chemistry of the two leads is too strong for it not to have been explored in a longer format.

So is Tony's power necromancy or something? That would explain how he was able to come back after Kenta killed him last season, and how he was able to apparently bring Willy back from the dead. Anyway, while I understand the intention behind Charlie absorbing Jeff's power, I'm not too sure if he considered the possible effects Jeff's heightened powers may have one him considering the fact that he's also in possession of Babe's power. So far, this season is far more intense than the last season.

*SIDE NOTE*

Having Nut return to the series to play a completely different character is crazy work. While I had my issues with Way (the character), I think he should've been brought back for this season.