EVERYONE

Indeed. There are no reasons why people love each other. This emotion is biologically irrational because it nests in a deep, ancient part of the brain, not in some frontal lobe that is responsible for anything that can make sense. Only later we can try rationalise our love, but it all will be made up.


OTHERWISE, the review is on point. The show had characters that are uniquely real, except for the BL drama fantasy rule that a person in his 20s can all of a sudden become bisexual for the first time, which is impossible as it can only happen no later than by puberty.

I see that you did not watch Stay With Me (a new, softer version of Addicted) Chinese BL drama from 2023 (filmed in 2021). It is written by the same controversial Chinese novelist who wrote Revenged Love. You might like it, too. Some of the songs are just superb. The actors are cute. And it was a unique production because the drama is “historical” as it recreates the setting from the late 1990s and the middle of 2000s.

FINALLY, they should not have dressed Gun in baggy clothes. He is just 168 cm tall, but lean, and he even had a six pack, which was a sin to not use. The baggy wide clothes make him worse than how he actually looks.

The cliche out of nowhere crash incident has several things wrong with it. Yes, it is too convenient for the storytelling. Then the zombie walking and talking. The shaking of the body by Third and dragging it to a back seat of a regular car are horrible medical advice. Call the ambulance. Then, people do no sleep for days just because they got some traumas. Coma or an induced coma is a different thing. Patients do not get released the next day.

Looks like my key complaint is different from what most people have against this series. The key concept of a lad learning in his 20s that he has desire for males is absolutely ABSURD (it can only ever happen no later than puberty comes). This nonsense pulls viewers out of the submersion into the story told.

This series is one of the most polarising ever. Both the best and nearly the worst, judging by reviews. I love the actors, and I do not want to dislike a series where they play, but this is totally possible in this case.

I will have to watch myself.

EDIT: a year later, in 2020, they have released a special episode “Stand By Me”. The writing there is superb. People tore it into quotes.

This was an actual art-house exercise.

This short film is an actual art, actually.

All the crazy neon colours and gradients, lenses, camera angles used, the sound are not similar to a typical series production at all.

STYLING for Fluke’s character is weird. In cafes and other hospitality business staff does not wear plumber/mechanic tablecloth shorts because those are meant to dm hide dirt those workers get during the day. On the contrary, cafe staff wears light-coloured shirts with no big dark patterns to signify the cleanliness of the workplace. Also, the agency did not care about the actor well enough because he got overweight. This is a disservice both to him and his CP counterpart, Pod, who is chiseled.

NOT BUYING the relationship between the main couple.Within the first couple of episodes they do things to each other that are absolutely inexcusable in any genuine relationships, especially that have lasted for a while. The writing is so POOR that the scenarist make one of the main characters be blatantly stupid to make the story go. We are told to hate an outsider for this. The narrative is a failure if you even spend a second to think about how the main pair is actually behaving to each other.

Thanks for the information, though details are important. For example, people criticising the calls to enforce the mutilation of children, who cannot even consent, during early transition surgeries, transphobic. And there is a real transphobia. Which type of a video he has liked? Andre Tate thing is too general because some things he says make sense, and some not. To avoid controversies and misunderstandings, the lad should not have indicated his interests like that. The minor kissing also depends on where the kiss was, who was the person he has kissed.

Is he a real life Goku? Never seen a real life person looking more than him like the famous manga character

The only thing you are missing is that this was a historical breakthrough for the BL drama genre in Thailand. This is why so many people are crazy about this series. And they also see many of their favourite actors here at the beginning of their careers.

Yes, very little chemistry is in the main CP, especially on Kristo part. He is not into the whole BL thing in principle. Had to do it as per the agency’s decision.

And yes, the glorification of hazing is repulsive. Had some of that in my real life. Never, under no excuse I can accept that and empathise either with the bully or with the reinforcingly accepting victim.

So the main CP was a miss for me in every way except for their visuals that are good.

THE PROBLEM with the whole agency system is that once you sign up you become a property.

Krist did not have a real choice to accept the role or not.

Besides, we have to admit the shocker: a major (or a majority) share of all BL actors are not even remotely gay. And the agency does not care because all that is require is for them to look good and being able to act at least passably well. Wether the actors are gay or not is their provate matter.

Furthermore, then those actors have to maintain their CPs regardless of how they feel for years and years.

If you want anything genuine in the BL drama industry, it is not there. Once in a blue moon you can get something real.

I hate the “I am not gay but” cliche, but it is the rule of the BL genre, which is a fantasy where either everybody is all of a sudddn gay or can be turned gay for someone specifically, which is anti-scientific nonsense.

For less of that, the gay film genre works better. But it also too often a doom and gloom stuff, unlike the BL genre.

Also yes, hazing is repulsive and it has made impossible for me to empathise either with the bully or his reinforcingly accepting victim. So the main CP does not work for me at all, I am not into BDSM.

VERY confusing name and nickname changes that make it hard to search for his songs, performances, events, appearances.

Why all of the changes?

That is noble cause to support the series.

Especially since most BL CPs fans are shipping and dreaming of them being real outside of films can not be real even theoretically becaue either one or both of them are straight. They only do the fanservice because it is in their contracts and also because it helps them financially otherwise.

Calling it a bromance might be a stretch.

The authors were so afraid of the BL censorship that they have made the two main leads all but killing each other in a huge chunk of the series, which is far removed from friendship, let alone bromance.

Even towards the end they have only upgraded their relationship to a normal friendship. Still not a bromance, really.

But the series is really good, so it is worth watching anyway, unless the story being at least a true bromance is an obligatory condition for the viewer.

He is really GOOD.

I wish he would take part in some BL series for the sake of versatility, though I doubt it will ever happen as he is already too big for this.

The eyes make me crazy. Maybe the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.