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When the line between acting and reality disappears
Deep In is weird. But somehow that weirdness brought me curiosity and that’s how I managed to finish it. Did I love it? No. But if there’s one thing I found really interesting, it was the concept of the actors starting to mix fiction and reality. Because to what extent can you really separate your work as an actor from reality? Both main leads, for example, identify themselves as straight men, so it raises the whole question of whether they’re genuinely interested in each other or just deeply immersed in their roles. I don’t recall seeing another BL doing a story like this so it catches my attention right away. There was a interesting plot twist in the end too, I didn’t see coming. Unfortunately, this were the only positive point I can say.
To begin, one of my first complaints is the characterization of the characters, and look, this is mainly my own opinion, but I simply couldn’t find Ollie convincing in the role of Zhen Xin. To me he seemed like a teenager trying to play a mature character, and when he tried, for example, to be sexy, it was cringe. But tbh at least he managed to give an acceptable performance in the dramatic scenes, which I can’t say the same for Shu Yuan. I wanted to like Shu Yuan more, but I found him pretty weak in the dramatic scenes, and he has A LOT of them.
Some things in the narrative bothered me a lot too and I found them absurd because I thought: “how could someone write this and think it would make any sense?” Sometimes I found some episodes pretty boring too. The NC scenes were pretty bold, kudos to the actors for their professionalism, but most of the scenes involving the leads, even though I think the actors have chemistry, left me with a much more conflicted feeling instead. Like I said earlier about my opinion on Zhen Xin: it wasn’t sexy, it was cringe.
Overall I think it’s a BL with an interesting concept and the actors did have chemistry, but it falls short in every other aspect. I think this is the kind of BL you really have to watch for yourself to form an opinion tho so even though I didn’t love it, I’d still recommend it. Who knows, maybe you’ll like it a lot more than I did.
To begin, one of my first complaints is the characterization of the characters, and look, this is mainly my own opinion, but I simply couldn’t find Ollie convincing in the role of Zhen Xin. To me he seemed like a teenager trying to play a mature character, and when he tried, for example, to be sexy, it was cringe. But tbh at least he managed to give an acceptable performance in the dramatic scenes, which I can’t say the same for Shu Yuan. I wanted to like Shu Yuan more, but I found him pretty weak in the dramatic scenes, and he has A LOT of them.
Some things in the narrative bothered me a lot too and I found them absurd because I thought: “how could someone write this and think it would make any sense?” Sometimes I found some episodes pretty boring too. The NC scenes were pretty bold, kudos to the actors for their professionalism, but most of the scenes involving the leads, even though I think the actors have chemistry, left me with a much more conflicted feeling instead. Like I said earlier about my opinion on Zhen Xin: it wasn’t sexy, it was cringe.
Overall I think it’s a BL with an interesting concept and the actors did have chemistry, but it falls short in every other aspect. I think this is the kind of BL you really have to watch for yourself to form an opinion tho so even though I didn’t love it, I’d still recommend it. Who knows, maybe you’ll like it a lot more than I did.
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