Great acting, BL click bait

Summary: Fluke, First and Ohm's acting was on point, the story ended up being BL click bait. Watch only if you don't mind a bad, sad ending.
Review in a little more detail: I was watching The Shipper from the beginning almost hoping against hope and against my better judgement. It seemed like they were trying to reel in the BL audience (and thus hold hostage my love for BLs) without actually delivering a BL story. But I kept watching because of First's acting, followed by Fluke's and Ohm's. The story too, in the first few episodes seemed to be a good metaphor, as the lead came to know the perils of being a shipper and got a reality shock. Beginning of ending spolier.

But all the learning and cute in the world can't justify a sad ending. P'Kim (First's character and part of the only BL couple of WayKim) died for no good reason that I could see, except a come out of the blue plot of 'living for today' which as a theme only made its appearance in the last 5 min of the series. Stupid, pointlessly angsty, and, as far as I'm concerned, total BL click bait.

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