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Adorkable
Let’s dive right in.
Our main characters are:
-Mr Popular, who appears to be a standard aloof and very good looking pretty boy, but who quickly turns out to be neurotic, insecure, high key jealous and clingy, and sick to the back teeth of being fawned over by girls like he’s a fucking zoo animal.
-Then we have Shy Guy, who is basically a very quiet guy who does his own thing with his nerdy friends but finds himself on his own after being assigned to a new classroom and is really not liking it, also he is neurotic, insecure, socially awkward, and very easily flustered.
High school, amirite?
Our side cast are:
-Three other boys who are also in the category of being fawned over by girls as if they’re zoo animals, but they’re handling it better than Mr Popular. They are also buddies with him and 100% on his side.
-Shy Guy’s nerdy friends who are even weirder than him, if that’s possible, who are seemingly terrified of the popular guys and all of them are mildly insane.
-Various girls who are waaaay too into the popular guys and act seriously bitchy to Shy Guy, and one girl who is actually not bitchy, just kinda sad, but we’ll take it.
-Finally: we have the older brother of one of the popular guys who is basically watching this nonsense play out and keeping an adult eye on everyone.
And so our story unfolds: The class is going on a school trip and they have to get into groups, and Shy Guy gets invited to join the group of Mr Popular and his buddies. Why? Because Mr Popular is HELLA into him and also too much of a coward to even talk to him. But what he does have going for him is that his buddies are (a) perceptive and (b) 100% ready to be his wingmen, and they’re all like, sure let’s invite this guy we’ve never spoken to before for no real reason, wink wink.
Hijinks ensue when it becomes clear on the trip that Mr Popular is constantly in danger of just forgetting where he is, grabbing Shy Guy, and snogging his face off. Shy Guy is adorably oblivious/confused, literally everyone around them questions why he’s even hanging out with the popular guys, and the usual tropes are played so hard it feels less like a nice cozy drama and more like a rugby match.
Anyway it’s all very romantic and it turns out as you expect, and it was exactly as awkward and stupid as high school should be so props to the writers for realism, I guess. It’s adorable enough to land on my rewatch list and a very solid, cute little series in its own right.
Our main characters are:
-Mr Popular, who appears to be a standard aloof and very good looking pretty boy, but who quickly turns out to be neurotic, insecure, high key jealous and clingy, and sick to the back teeth of being fawned over by girls like he’s a fucking zoo animal.
-Then we have Shy Guy, who is basically a very quiet guy who does his own thing with his nerdy friends but finds himself on his own after being assigned to a new classroom and is really not liking it, also he is neurotic, insecure, socially awkward, and very easily flustered.
High school, amirite?
Our side cast are:
-Three other boys who are also in the category of being fawned over by girls as if they’re zoo animals, but they’re handling it better than Mr Popular. They are also buddies with him and 100% on his side.
-Shy Guy’s nerdy friends who are even weirder than him, if that’s possible, who are seemingly terrified of the popular guys and all of them are mildly insane.
-Various girls who are waaaay too into the popular guys and act seriously bitchy to Shy Guy, and one girl who is actually not bitchy, just kinda sad, but we’ll take it.
-Finally: we have the older brother of one of the popular guys who is basically watching this nonsense play out and keeping an adult eye on everyone.
And so our story unfolds: The class is going on a school trip and they have to get into groups, and Shy Guy gets invited to join the group of Mr Popular and his buddies. Why? Because Mr Popular is HELLA into him and also too much of a coward to even talk to him. But what he does have going for him is that his buddies are (a) perceptive and (b) 100% ready to be his wingmen, and they’re all like, sure let’s invite this guy we’ve never spoken to before for no real reason, wink wink.
Hijinks ensue when it becomes clear on the trip that Mr Popular is constantly in danger of just forgetting where he is, grabbing Shy Guy, and snogging his face off. Shy Guy is adorably oblivious/confused, literally everyone around them questions why he’s even hanging out with the popular guys, and the usual tropes are played so hard it feels less like a nice cozy drama and more like a rugby match.
Anyway it’s all very romantic and it turns out as you expect, and it was exactly as awkward and stupid as high school should be so props to the writers for realism, I guess. It’s adorable enough to land on my rewatch list and a very solid, cute little series in its own right.
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