CursedXistence

I could be wrong, but I think the wallet was the old one Dohoe bought him before and he said it's he didn't like it because it's "ugly" (according to the eng subtitles) because it reminds him of the past seeing it.

You gotta love how when Jack fucks up Grandma smacks him, but Joke.... nope Joke only gets Grandma hugs!! lol

There were soooooo many hints in episodes 3 and 4 right from the beginning, but they waited until the last possible second to put all of the pieces together, and did so perfectly.

This definitely continues to be the most under talked about / watched series and it's easily one of the best of the year.

Top and Mick individually and together on screen are absolutely amazing and so natural together week after week.

Switzerland allows "Death With Dignity" aka assisted suicide including for foreigners.

He said he's been sick for many years (according to the eng subtitles) so probably either ALS or Parkinson's, ALS makes more sense given his age.

To answer your question, the timers stop for the runtime of the episode and then start again once it's over. It's their way of showing the episode is currently airing / released / being processed.

Studio Wabi Sabi ceased their artist management side of the company completely, hence why so many of their actors have moved to contracts with GMM.

I respectfully disagree. Maya was not only a very realistic character, but didn't even say / do anything all that uncommon in certain circles.

I'm not confusing it at all.

The medications can and do fail, viral loads can go from undetectable aka "virtually impossible" to transmit to high enough to be transmitted very quickly. There's still having to tweak the medications, having to give the body breaks from them, etc.

Sure the medication regiments now have gotten a lot better, but it's still the responsible thing to do to tell the other person before intercourse.

Please tell me I'm not the only gay male that watched this and was totally pissed off with the way he didn't tell anyone he was positive before sleeping with them!??!?!

Anti-viral meds, condoms, "virtually impossible", etc. doesn't excuse you from not telling people BEFORE and then if they still consent then the consequences are on them. It's not only the right thing to do but in many places you're legally responsible for telling people before intercourse.

Maybe it's just because I'm old enough to remember the late 80's-00's and what people went through, but the way HIV is handled now like it's no big deal infuriates me every time.

Nope sorry that's absolutely bullshit. IT IS YOUR RESPONISIBLITY AND IN MANY PLACES LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY TO TELL THE PEOPLE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE ANY SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH BEFORE.

FINALLY a series where I can't wait for the next episode.

Their chemistry together is so natural that if they came out and said they were dating in real life even someone living under a rock would say "no duh, really, never would have guessed..." lol. Very few screen partners manage to pull that off even over 12-16 episodes and these two have done it not only right from the first episode but multiple different characters. Usually you get one actor that's better at showing romantic interest more than the other, but these two look at each other like they're both equally head over heels stupid in love for each other.

I think the sourdough starter died and they're working on making a new one

So far I'm really liking Mick and Top together, they balanced each other's characters well in the first episode.

Considering some of the horror stories from other artist management companies over the years, they were at least one you didn't hear about.

The problem with Studio Wabi Sabi is they had some good actors under contract, it's always the production side that let's them down.

I've seen so many people questioning why Min is so protective of Q, etc. when they've really just met. The one problem with this series in that regard is that they haven't really given us much to work with on what the timeframe of the first 5 episodes is, has it been days, weeks, months. It feels like it should have been at least a month or so by now. That said, I've also known people that fall / care for others so quickly and deeply that they would take a bullet for someone they just or recently met, so maybe Min is supposed to be like that and they just did a really bad job conveying it.

He seems like one of those actors that slide in and out of roles very easily, never seems to phone in a performance, and tends to be a supporting character that never fades into the background too much, but also never stands out enough to take away from the leads. If that's really the case then it makes sense why he'd get cast so much.

Studio Wabi Sabi ceased their artist management side of the company so when their actors' contracts expired GMM did sign a lot of their artists.

As far as your other question, a lot of the different production companies are doing partnerships, etc. with some of the series the past couple of years. The global economy is still trying to recover from the pandemic and like always when the economy is bad the sponsorship, etc. for niche audience productions is always the first to dry up. That and market saturation got to the point where it's been so much quantity over quality that it needed some contraction, especially in the Thai BL industry.

I had this whole big review of the first episode and the characters written up and ready to post, but in the end it really only needs one sentence to perfectly sum it up.

Another prime example of why Studio Wabi Sabi should have kept the artist management part of the company and ceased the production side of the company instead.

Still haven't figured out yet if this is going to stay the light rom-com drama lite that the first four episodes have been so far, or if it's going to end up being a ying yang and turning dark af later on.

I Think I'm the odd man out, I actually liked episode 12 and how everything was done.