The Rebound is about two best friends with feelings for each other who are separated and then reunite over reinvigorating their highschool basketball team. With likeable characters and a nice little OTP, the show is quite an enjoyable watch overall - as long as you don't pay too much attention to the jerky plot, bad editing and sudden detours into gangster violence and sexual assault (thankfully dispensed with halfway through).

The basketball scenes are lovingly shot and thematically, the show is quite strong but it'll take a lot of parking of the brain in neutral to deal with the nonsensical detours and strange mini-arcs that come out of nowhere and disappear as quickly. In one scene, our two leads witness a mass murder and then never seem to care - or even reference it again.

Some of the casting is also hilarious with early 30s actors playing senior school administrators and fathers of 17 year olds. Every time I was reminded that Ton apparently had a daughter in her late teens, it was enough to send me into peals of laughter.

In fact, The Rebound seems to be three dramas in one: a sports drama, a BL, and gangster action. But it's the heartwarming "teens coming together to save their basketball team" one that you'll mostly stick around for. The rest could have been easily jettisoned.