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Historical costume flicks like this seem to be teaching me to let go and just flow with all the plot holes and weirdnesses that don't make sense and, you know, just go with it...lol.

BUT...dude's a mermaid. So what's he doing walking around on two legs? Which he somehow managees to spread for the very hot Yuan Shan. Wouldn't the mermaid have to be kept in salt water of something? This could have been really interesting if, like, the mermaid (why not "merman?") had to stay in that lagoon in the middle of that very beautiful courtyard, swimming around to stay alive. and that's where YS would have to boink him.

Why did the two guys in the bathtub have red silk skirts on while they were bathing?

I thought it was interesting that YS and the merman just went for it in the bathtub with no thought whatsoever given to people like his wife walking in on them.

Wouldn't the merman's pastel turquoise outfit have been pretty stinky, since it is the only piece of clothing he ever wears?

That ending was certainly bizarre/interesting. I have no idea what the director's intention or message there was all about, but I kind of liked it regardless...a nice weird touch to finish things off. I like the idea that the actor has gone too far into the role and lost his mind, resulting in what we saw there at the end. Just a theory.

To who? Is there some court of commenters here on MDL that decides what is and is not acceptable? No, no there is not. The moderators make that call and if you can't handle the light banter in this back and forth, then I suggest you stay out of comment sections.

What series are you reviewing?

What series are you reviewing?

I enjoy being childish and disrespectful when necessary. Respect is earned, not assumed.

"cake hole," lol, I like it. Ummm...I'll write what I want and ridicule that which needs ridiculing as I see fit, but thanks for your useless input. Gosh, I had no idea the comments here were just people's opinions. I thought everything written here, even comments that directly contradict each other, were nevertheless all FACTS, not opinions. Thanks for educating me. lol

By the way, I've written far longer comments than the one above and I don't care what you think about that. I have a really useful suggestion: DO NOT READ MY COMMENTS, ESPECIALLY THE NOVEL-LENGTH ONES THAT UPSET YOU.

Does Line pay you per word or per comment?

Despite its short run-time, that was the most endless ending I have seen in my 14 months of obsessive BL-watching. I can't imagine anyone could have made this heavy subject matter...boring. I loved this show for three eps, then it all went to shit and got shittier the rest of the way. Without OST/flashbacks this series would have been four episodes long, and actually that would have been a good idea.

If the weird time structure, unending flashbacks and confusing timeline are somehow a result of the pandemic's effect on production, the company should have put it on hold until they could finish it right and well. Instead we went from ITSAY-level vibes and performances to the definition of dull.

I really do wish I could think of something nice to say about this but I can't. The writing was terrible, there was lots of mannequin-kissing, staring at each other for minutes at a time and the most slowly-delivered dialogue I may have ever seen/heard. It felt like the actors were counting off the seconds in their heads to hit a maximum time-count Mean had given them to fill the episode to a desired run-time.

This was a tragedy, but not in the way they might have intended. Also, the ending...please. Do we even know or care enough about the brother for a sequel surrounding his BF and him to raise its ugly head? Please

Anyone who would rate this 8/10 is clearly on drugs.

Team Mauri. I admire BL obsessives who know what's what and don't have much patience for all the bullshit. That bit with the "best friend" (secret stalker?) sticking the dead girl's death photo in the way of the kiss was kind of out of left field and bizarre, but whatever. Also regarding the ending...since when was the child-hood friend a swimmer at all? Did I miss that? Mauri would totally kick his annoying little ass. Mauri was pretty pushy but without his ballsy interference the father/son rapproachment would never have come about. Mauri also has the best lips.

I'm liking old-school Japanese BLs more the more times I see them, though that series about the two dudes in the elite prep school, one of them named Gil, is annoying af. Gil was a total douche.

The speech/dialogue patterns are a little declarative and jolting at times, but at this point that just seems like an interesting feature, not a bug.

Ha! Hilarious review. Thanks for the morning chuckle.

Jimmy is a non-pretty boy BL model cut-out actor, and I'm glad of it. All pretty boys all the time gets boring. Deal with it.

Are you Jimmy's mom or something? You can think what you want. I think Jimmy is cute but in his own unique way; he is not a cut-out BL pretty-boy model type. If you think otherwise, I don't care.

Well, that's one opinion among many. I think he's doing great and I like seeing a non-pretty boy in the lead. Given the facts of the story as they are now, I don't see how this can get "lighter." Seems to be the best to hope for is bittersweet.

Well, THAT was a surprise. Wow, I am really liking this series. I came into it knowing zero about it, especially that it starred my Saifah and Zon (or whatever their names were). Jimmy has grown up! He's a young man now, but there's still a hint of that charming goofiness that I so loved in him as Saifah. He's nice-looking but still has that wonderful, closed-eyes laugh/smile that's so cute.

This is the first g***t BL that I have watched past the second episode. I'm invested and eager to see what's next, despite the setup, which is not at all hokey, as is "He's Coming To Me" and a couple other BLs in this category.

The actor playing the mother is superb. Somehow, from the very beginning, and despite the horrible things she said to and about her son right to his face, I felt a pang of empathy for her, which is a huge part of what sucked me in. I want to know why I sense that she is not at all as horrible as she seems.

Bravo!

Good Lord. First of all, f**k you.

Second of all, I don't determine how much I do or do not appreciate a film according to how other people rate it. I have a brain of my own.

Third of all, yes I am American. I watch Asian and European films almost exclusively.

Fourth of all, you must be from Douche-landia, a country populated by dimwits such as yourself.

Wow. What an unnecessarily bitchy comment. I ask a great deal from my movies. Consider the possibility that in this one there is just too much there that goes over your little head; you're one of those folks who need everything spelled out for them. You also likely lack empathy and compassion, which this movie requires in its audience members.

This movie failed "to provide understanding" to YOU as an individual. There are plenty of us who found it intriguing and well-done. The understanding is there if you take time in your apparently overly-chaotic "modern times" life to appreciate it. That you've chosen not to do that is fine and totally up to you, but doesn't cancel out the film's enjoyment for anyone else.

Most decidedly NOT. But a good movie.

I caught the S-thing the first time around but didn't get the narrative flow until my second watch. Which made it even harder to believe that Geon Woo would be able to go to the funeral of his former lover and hang out with them at the apartment afterward, as though Ji Hyeon's suicide wasn't that big a deal. That doesn't ring true to me. It seemed he was very much in love with Ji Hyeon and would have been devastated by his death at his own hand. Remember how he looked at Ji Hyeon so lovingly under the blanket not too long before the end of the movie? That's the same guy who pulls it together to sit around and basically trash Ji Hyeon, and goes to his funeral and stays in one piece, not to mention goes ahead with a film career using a monologue based on Jin Hyeon's death as an audition? wtf?

It's the kind of film you have to care about enough to watch it two or three times, upon which watching you catch a lot of the narrative flow you didn't see before.