I think this show gave the audience everything they wanted to see. There was a lot of romance, a lot of fluff, a lot of drama and some comedy, of course. It also delivered some direct criticism towards the BL industry and also BL fans, as well as dealing with struggles regarding sexuality and acceptance.

We saw the universe of the main characters, we saw their personality, their conflicts. We saw where their story started and how it developed. They knew better to have a solid foundation between Gene and Nubsib before introducing the harshest conflicts and they knew how to separate each conflict from one another, letting the audience immerse into the narratives. And I liked that those conflicts were rather agile, things got resolved sometimes much faster than expected , which might be a problem for some, but I personally want things to just happen instead of just dragging stuff forever and ever. It's a tv show after all.

What wasn't agile, unfortunally, was the scenes themselves. Many of them dragged for way too long to a point where they started feeling like filler. I think making your script as lean as possible without losing the essencial message is a must, most of the time. Unless your show/film is some experimental, deep and very nuanced piece of work, which isn't really the case of Lovely Writer. Another thing I didn't like was when they tried to force emotions onto the audience, which happened in episode 6, when Gene realised who Nubsib was and reacted in a way we all thought was exaggerated, but then it felt like such a big conflict with all the crying and the sad background music, but the show refused to let us know what was going on. How am I supposed to feel something if I don't even understand the situation? Only thing I felt was anger.

Secondary characters felt somewhat underused, some thing started but seemed to never go anywhere. Honestly, I never cared about any of them. Maybe the straight couple because they were both hot, but not enough to make me want to see them more than I did. I thought the Gene/Sib plots were enough to keep the show moving.

Actors were good! Yeah, Kao was kinda robotic, especially at the beginning, but I think his chemistry with Up elevated his performance by a lot and at the end of the day, I probably got used to him. They were great together, whether it was in spicy or dramatic scenes. Not much to say about music, but the KISS KISS KISS song will keep playing in my head for a while lol (not because I want it to, but that's fine).

Bottom line, the show was good, entertaining, made me feel impatient sometimes, but also had a lot of great moments. I wouldn't rewatch this because it's TOO long for me and I'm an impatient person, but I suppose that for people who have the patience, the rewatch value must be good enough.