Wow, what an impressive review! I have some comments. "Kinn deserves a year or two in prison" - you commit the same error that you accuse others of. Kinn is engaged in organised crime and leaves a pile of corpses behind - in a real world, this would probably earn him a life sentence. As for that questionable consent, he did wrong, acknowledged it and asked for forgiveness. After watching such BLs as TharnType, I was positively surprised that this issue was even addressed, so for me this was a huge improvement in the Thai BL industry. Pete "legit believed Porsche was blocking punches with his neck" - that was obviously comedy relief, because blocking his master's punches would be contrary to Pete's character... "b. the trust is absolute nonsense" - well, yeah? They had no reason to trust each other at the beginning. The whole series is about how they slowly develop that trust. It wouldn't make sense if they had it from the start. "None of their relationships were particularly the healthiest" - well, yeah? At the beginning of each episode you get a big a** warning: "kids don't try that at home. "Obviously, the series is not meant to represent healthy relationships, to the contrary. "What was the point of Kim's entire investigation?" - Kim is a spoiled prince. He took up this investigation not to die of boredom and carried it out only until he found out that his father was involved. That was the red light that stopped him. He's not a stupid person, he is perfectly aware that he has no resources (including human resources) to go against his father - a mafia boss and a person who shoots people without blinking. He will need to find something else to keep him busy. I'm afraid that his new mission will be to win Chay back - again, just to kill the time. "if they were introduced earlier in the series (..) their relationship development in this season may have been more substantive." - yes! I really missed that development.
The rating of this movie is currently 6.9, so I cannot add my rating, not to destroy this beautifully apt number. I cannot rate it either, because I watched it with some terribly poor subtitles. :/
Being Korean doesn't mean that an actor cannot perform a NC gay scene.
As mentioned above, Long Time No See has good NC scenes and there is a super steamy gay scene in Frozen Flower, so it's simply not true to say that Koreans "never have any NC scenes" between two men. Indeed, there are fewer examples (for all I know), but I'm sure that this will change. Thai BLs contribute to that change, as they normalise LGBT relationships and gain popularity also outside Thailand.
You probably haven’t watched any of the good Korean BLs then. Yeah some of them are shit, but there are some…
The only K-BL-drama I've seen that had top-notch chemistry was "Long Time No See". Other a either no good, as you mentioned, or rather puritan. Which was actually totally unexpected for me, because my first encounter with LGBT motives in Korean movies was "Frozen Flower".
For real? "Why R U" had super cute cast, great chemistry between the leads and... That's about it. I had fun watching it, but it's a total surprise that somebody thought it deserved a remake.
"perché collegarlo a Tawi" - because Sean wanted to believe that his father was innocently framed and he wanted to blame someone for his death and its cover-up? At first, when we believe his story, we are made to think that Tawi is a total villain, but then it turns up that he might not be guilty of all the sins that he's accused of. And nobody said it's bad to employ deaf people, c'mon... To the contrary. Showing him as an equal-opportunity employer was another argument that he's a complex character. Yes, some (most?) of the ideas of "our" gang were bad - how is that a plot loophole? Yes, Black is actually a person with deep emotions - we see it, his comrades don't - again, how is that a problem? The parents don't love the twins too much - well, things like that happen too. I agree that many things could have been made better, but I'm not a fan of series where "our" characters are wise, good and perfect, while their nemeses are evil, stupid and constantly plotting. Not all is black and white in life - or in this series. ;)
This is a perfect summary of this show's imperfections. I actually like your idea of a show, where everybody expects an OffGun romance, but instead they turn out to be just friends. That would be an interesting plot twist.
Those things were actually quite realistic. Parents cutting off contact with children, when their values are different, no actual justice to criminals, protests happening but then dying down - that's the world we live in.
This is like Meow Ears Up if Meow Ears Up were good. The writing on this is really good and funny, and I love…
I don't get it why people already give ratings to this show. I mean, there are only 2 episodes available for now, shouldn't they wait till they see more?
"Kinn deserves a year or two in prison" - you commit the same error that you accuse others of. Kinn is engaged in organised crime and leaves a pile of corpses behind - in a real world, this would probably earn him a life sentence. As for that questionable consent, he did wrong, acknowledged it and asked for forgiveness. After watching such BLs as TharnType, I was positively surprised that this issue was even addressed, so for me this was a huge improvement in the Thai BL industry.
Pete "legit believed Porsche was blocking punches with his neck" - that was obviously comedy relief, because blocking his master's punches would be contrary to Pete's character...
"b. the trust is absolute nonsense" - well, yeah? They had no reason to trust each other at the beginning. The whole series is about how they slowly develop that trust. It wouldn't make sense if they had it from the start.
"None of their relationships were particularly the healthiest" - well, yeah? At the beginning of each episode you get a big a** warning: "kids don't try that at home. "Obviously, the series is not meant to represent healthy relationships, to the contrary.
"What was the point of Kim's entire investigation?" - Kim is a spoiled prince. He took up this investigation not to die of boredom and carried it out only until he found out that his father was involved. That was the red light that stopped him. He's not a stupid person, he is perfectly aware that he has no resources (including human resources) to go against his father - a mafia boss and a person who shoots people without blinking. He will need to find something else to keep him busy. I'm afraid that his new mission will be to win Chay back - again, just to kill the time.
"if they were introduced earlier in the series (..) their relationship development in this season may have been more substantive." - yes! I really missed that development.
Yes, some (most?) of the ideas of "our" gang were bad - how is that a plot loophole? Yes, Black is actually a person with deep emotions - we see it, his comrades don't - again, how is that a problem? The parents don't love the twins too much - well, things like that happen too.
I agree that many things could have been made better, but I'm not a fan of series where "our" characters are wise, good and perfect, while their nemeses are evil, stupid and constantly plotting. Not all is black and white in life - or in this series. ;)