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This episode was a rollercoaster of emotions. Mhok being jealous and irritated about August and Day’s relationship, but not interfering with it. I liked how August tried his best for Day, but a bit bummed that it just came out of pity. Felt sad for Day because of people having pity for him, and that that is the main cause for August hurting him the way he did. Yet I did feel sorry for August because he genuinely doesn’t seem bad. In the meanwhile seeing Mhok going to all the places he went to with Day, felt like getting hit in the stomach. It was so so sad seeing him like that. Knowing he felt all alone at that moment, I related. A deep felt feeling of loneliness, being too late to do something, fading away like the character Mee from the novel ‘Last Twilight’. Luckily for Mhok and Day it will work it, cause that’s how series work. But it doesn’t always work out like that in real life, which hurts. Needless to say, I cried.
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From the very beginning I’ve known that ticket to heaven was gonna be a masterpiece, but wow episode 2 was so well done and it fully exceeded my expectations. The start of Barth and Tanrak’s friendship, the little secrets they’d have together from the get go, finding each other alone and just being in each others company. But wow, I’m amazed. This entire episode was Tanrak’s realization of his feelings, his ‘desires’, and getting lost into them. The soundtrack really helps putting the feelings into perspective as well, which is amazingly done. The last 10 minutes were simply incredible and insanely personal and it really hit me. The last shot as well, where he’s in the bathroom and we see all those shots of the saints painting, with ‘ticket to heaven’ at last, knowing that to go to heaven, means not the be pulled in by desires. Also props to Gemini and Fourth for being amazing actors, but for this episode I really want specifically appreciate Fourth’s acting and how he was able to bring so much raw emotion to his character and really portray that realization of being queer as catholic in a very realistic way. This is such a cinematic masterpiece.
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