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The Middleman's Love: Uncut thai drama review
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The Middleman's Love: Uncut
1 people found this review helpful
by BLIsBest
25 days ago
8 of 8 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 5.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 5.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
This review may contain spoilers

This could have been amazing - but it wasn't

If I live to be a thousand years old, I will never understand why this show turned out the way it did. This should have been a really great series with us all enjoying the beauty that comes from a TutorYim shipping. But that's not how things turned out.

I can almost imagine it. It's day one of filming, and scene one is starting. The cameras start rolling and Yim begins acting his lines, reprising the role of Jade with his innocence and childish exuberance. Suddenly, the director yells, "Cut! So Yim, that was great and all but we really want to ramp it up for this show. I know that in Bed Friend, Jade was a little bit...over enthusiatic and awkward, but we were thinking for this series...could you play it like Jade is autistic? I mean reeeeally autistic. Think Pee Wee Herman after a massive brain injury...aaand ACTION!"

And so we ended up with this. It could have been a cute AF show about a nervous, overlooked young man finally attracting the man of his dreams with his nievety and childlike nature. What we got is a hot guy wanting to be in a relationship with someone with severe learning difficulties, which just made Mai seem creepy and weirdly predatory. Mr. Director, you made me think Tutor is creepy! YOU MONSTER! (T_T) The Gus and Tong storyline was how this whole show should have been - complicated, awkward characters who you felt real empathy for.

The show became better for the last two episodes as Yim was allowed to dial up the sad and dial down the wacky which made him a much more believable character. The NC scenes were so good that it almost made the series bearable...almost. If you're a TutorYim fan, I'd recommend just watching the last 2 eps - you'll learn everything about the plot that you need to from the synopsis and will save yourself 6 irritating hours. I actually feel really sorry for Tutor and Yim that they have to be connected to this train wreck of a series that story and cast wise, had such fantastic potential. Don't worry boys, it's not your fault, we still love you.
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