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The first four episodes can be entertaining, the rest is pointless
I was intrigued by the split in the reviews and much the way one feels compelled to stare at an accident, I wanted to see how bad it could be.
I was genuinely entertained for the first four episodes. To make the terrible direction choices make sense, I decided that the story takes place in a universe with a sort of passive hypnosis where if a person stares into a man's face, they fall in love. If two men stare at each other, they can get caught in a hypnosis loop and be unable to look away for an extended period of time. The main couple's entire relationship is based on hypnosis loops and the application of bandaids to small wounds.
I'm going to set aside the SA plot that is VERY poorly executed on every possible level (starts in episode 5), and expand on the role of bandaids in the show. In this universe, the application of bandaids, and sometimes larger wound coverings (but mostly band aids), is its own love language and a significant relationship act. Band aids are so significant in this universe that a man can become jealous of his doctor lover applying a band aid to a patient during working hours.
So, what mainly makes this show entertaining is the mostly-fun second couple. However, their relationship crisis is triggered by an Evil Character(tm). The Evil Character's back story that when they were a kid, the doctor half of the side couple attended to them in a medical setting and.... applied a band aid. Yup. A doctor applied a band aid to a kid, and that kid then spent years looking for the doctor (because the kid didn't think of going back to the medical establishment where they encountered the doctor I guess?) with the intention of entering into a relationship with the doctor.
Since there are a lot of reviews that deal with the more substantive plot issues, I'll leave it here with the recommendation that if you want to take a chance with it, you focus on the side couple and stop after episode 4, or at the very latest, before the party in episode 5. It's not so much that the rest of it is toxic (although they do manage to have some genuinely offensive dialog and bad character moments after my recommended stopping point), but that it is boring and does nothing to earn the emotional beats it's trying to hit.
I was genuinely entertained for the first four episodes. To make the terrible direction choices make sense, I decided that the story takes place in a universe with a sort of passive hypnosis where if a person stares into a man's face, they fall in love. If two men stare at each other, they can get caught in a hypnosis loop and be unable to look away for an extended period of time. The main couple's entire relationship is based on hypnosis loops and the application of bandaids to small wounds.
I'm going to set aside the SA plot that is VERY poorly executed on every possible level (starts in episode 5), and expand on the role of bandaids in the show. In this universe, the application of bandaids, and sometimes larger wound coverings (but mostly band aids), is its own love language and a significant relationship act. Band aids are so significant in this universe that a man can become jealous of his doctor lover applying a band aid to a patient during working hours.
So, what mainly makes this show entertaining is the mostly-fun second couple. However, their relationship crisis is triggered by an Evil Character(tm). The Evil Character's back story that when they were a kid, the doctor half of the side couple attended to them in a medical setting and.... applied a band aid. Yup. A doctor applied a band aid to a kid, and that kid then spent years looking for the doctor (because the kid didn't think of going back to the medical establishment where they encountered the doctor I guess?) with the intention of entering into a relationship with the doctor.
Since there are a lot of reviews that deal with the more substantive plot issues, I'll leave it here with the recommendation that if you want to take a chance with it, you focus on the side couple and stop after episode 4, or at the very latest, before the party in episode 5. It's not so much that the rest of it is toxic (although they do manage to have some genuinely offensive dialog and bad character moments after my recommended stopping point), but that it is boring and does nothing to earn the emotional beats it's trying to hit.
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