I, too, am surprised at the high rating. I agree with many of your observations, especially the one about it being…
I am not a NNZ I agree that they should have focused on the main things. It goes to show if we had other actors play the NNZ roles it would not be so focused on romance but more on the politics and romance becoming a subplot would have been more interesting. AND THE ADS! They are trying so hard to put all these topics into the series for it to seem like yes we care but falls flat.
sanitized "BL" they did a fake kiss scene with expert camera angles but why can't they get actors who are no afraid of kissing men instead faking it which pissed me off.