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I rarely watch vertical series because so many of them tend to be generative AI slop, or are otherwise just a disappointing waste of time. The plot here is nothing ground-breaking, but it was still cute and coherently pulled together.

Yeah.

I'm not sure if I understand the thought process behind trying to make Max and Nat look as unattractive as humanly possible in these first few episodes... maybe to wow us with a later glow-up when they ditch what I assume are terrible wigs? Not even having Max keep taking off his shirt can compensate for the awful hair and moustache... and Nat looks like he can't even see through the hair poking into his eyes.

The plot is okay I guess... bit paper-thin at the moment, but hopefully it will improve as we go along, right?!

Unfortunately this feels less entertaining than 'ChermChey' at the moment, and at least Tutor and Yim were presented as eye-candy from the beginning.

Dude is regretting his life choices.

For anyone that wants to spare themselves watching this travesty... but is interested to see the chemistry between the leads: you could just tune in around the 46 min mark in the full version of episode 4 for a really well done scene of that nature. Whoever directed the scene did a good job - enough so that I would be interested to see Aki Torres and Andrei De Guzman in another project together with a better script.

I've been checking iQIYI and Viki twice a day for the past two weeks and it finally showed up in the Coming Soon section on iQIYI this morning.

Thankfully iQIYI picked it up.

Thank goodness iQIYI added it (I've been checking twice a day in the hope that they would since GagaOOLala don't have the streaming rights for it for my area).

I'm eight episodes deep and seriously reconsidering my life choices. What am I even watching here? The tone and pace are all over the place and it very much feels like nobody could quite decide what this series was supposed to be trying to convey. Ultimately this would have been better if they had streamlined the plot, because most of the cast lack the acting chops to pull this off... though the script is so bad in places that I'm not sure that it could be salvaged.

Worth watching for Aki Torres (Brix) who is a delight throughout, and some of the NC scenes with Andrei De Guzman (Harry) are genuinely well done. Andrei needs more acting lessons though as he currently lacks the range to be anything other than one-dimensional. I actually really like Art Guma (Leo) and Daniel Marshall (Kenner) as supporting characters, and whoever the actress playing the grandma is deserves praise for managing to keep a straight face through some of the most bizarre and unnecessary scenes. The villains also need to go back to acting lessons because they spend the entire time chewing the scenery while trying to (I can only presume) be intimidating (and failing miserably). The whole subplot of the debt turning into a 'nobody gets to leave our organisation' is so ridiculous and makes zero narrative sense in a plot that otherwise feels like a vulgar comedy BL mash-up of 'Pretty Woman' and 'The Wedding Date'.

Yup, and I already pay for enough different streaming services that I don't feel even the slightest bit guilty when I have to go that route. Still possible that iQIYI or Viki might pick it up at the 11th hour, but I won't hold my breath.

I've only seen it confirmed for GagaOOLala so far, and sadly not in my region.

'Some countries in the world (except Japan, Korea, Americas, Brazil, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe, Macau, Timor-Leste, Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom, and Oceania)'

They may not have 'Reloved' us... but I'm still out. I can't justify continuing to watch the world's longest tea infomercial, the cardboard cut-out villain with daddy issues, the abysmal pacing, and just overall dullness (which was at least kind of cosy and low stakes) that they then suddenly tried to inject a bunch of drama into that doesn't even make sense. It feels pretty apparent at this point that the original script and direction has been reworked multiple times into whatever this is supposed to be...

It made sense to me because his sex life with his ex had gone from bad to non-existent before he even caught him cheating.

I loved the first episode - I smiled and laughed through the whole thing. The subtitles are clearly not quite there yet, but they are good enough to get by. Anyone saying that things are progressing too fast in their relationship is clearly overlooking the crazy chemistry.

Clocking in at between 45 and 50 minutes so far it seems.

This is silly relaxing fluff so far and I'm really enjoying it. My Tuesdays are relatively free since almost all of the currently airing stuff seems to be on Fridays and Saturdays, so this is filling the space nicely.

I did not expect this to be as funny as it was, but I really enjoyed it. Throuple representation is rare, so I appreciate that they went there. The leads are all ridiculously good looking in different ways. Got a membership just to watch this one and have no regrets. Would happily watch a full length series with this premise and these actors. They made a cool song for the series too.

Coming to GagaOOLala on the 14th May!

The vibe completely changed between the pilot trailer and the new official trailer... feels lower budget too, and lots of focus on what I assume are not one but two GL couples. What happened to all of the pained angst of the backstory for our main character? Hopefully the series is more interesting than the new trailer makes it look.

They'll definitely have to work harder to market this series without Boom.

Eight (and I'm being generous here) episodes worth of story dragged out over ten episodes. Typical frustrating sexual wasteland for the audience as soon as the situationship officially graduated into a meaningful relationship. Too much telling and not enough showing. Needed a better script and better editing choices.