I’m a bit surprised to see this show having a relatively low rating. It wasn’t perfect by any means but it was pretty decent imo.

To be honest I absolutely loved every episode right until the twist (8th episode). The acting was pretty good especially from Force but Book wasn’t bad either. Theo and Akk both had distinct personalities which I truly appreciate. Usually one of the characters is either a self-insert or a perfect guy with no flaws. That wasn’t the case in Enchante. All around up until the twist the story made sense, maybe it even would make sense with the twist if it had better foreshadowing.

So the twist is that Theo himself is Enchante. I’m gonna be honest, I didn’t expect that twist but instead of feeling like the show smartly fooled me with a red herring I rather felt surprised at how nonsensical it is. He supposedly did it bc he was afraid that Akk would leave him (?) or wouldn’t want to spend time with him for some reason so he made up the Enchante mystery himself to have an excuse to spend time with Akk by looking for Enchante. It technically could work but the show never made me feel like Akk wanted to distance himself from Theo. He did act a little weird around him sometimes (hot and cold) but it made sense bc they haven’t seen each other in around a decade and Theo has grown up in a completely different country at that. Considering that Akk also had feelings for Theo his strange behavior made sense to me. It never came across that Akk wanted to completely distance himself from Theo though, so Theos manipulative plan didn’t make that much sense.
The series shows us just one flashback on how Akk supposedly didnt want to spend time with Theo but that wasn’t enough. That particular moment didn’t even seem that serious and apart from that Akk did spend time with Theo and still would’ve done anything he wanted, that was pretty clear. If the writers wanted for this twist to work they needed to make it unapologetically clear that Akk wanted to distance himself and maybe didn’t even want to be close friends with Theo but it never came across that way.
I actually thought that Akk might be Enchante bc the series did drop some interesting hints like him wanting Theo to stop looking for Enchante and him being left-handed etc. I thought maybe he did it for a reason but couldn’t tell Theo the truth but then the truth would come out and that would be the main conflict of the story and their relationship.
Anyway let’s talk about the last two episodes. They were bafflingly redundant. By that point Theo and Akk got together and everything seemed hunky-dory but of course the writers needed to shoehorn some last minute drama bc why not? The twist with Theos parents was just random. It wasn’t foreshadowed either and didn’t add much to the story. I guess it presented a challenge for Theo to realize that he can’t force people to do what he wants just bc he wants it and it’s a good lesson to learn but I never had the feeling that Theo ever forced anyone to do what they didn’t want to do. He was a bit of a manipulator cosindering his Enchante plot but he never really forced Akk to do anything. He asked Akk to help him but he never tried to seriously force him to do anything. If Theo had been forcing several people to go out of their way to do things for him then the lesson with the divorce would make sense but Theo never forced anyone. People wanted to please him themselves. Akks self-confidence problems were also a little random, they were never foreshadowed properly either. Im getting tired of all the strange BL time skips that somehow happen a LOT in the last episodes. I truly don’t quite get the appeal or the necessity.

All around though I still liked it, I just wish the foradhowing would‘ve been written better and clearer. I wasn’t really satisfied with the Enchante conflict resolution in the 8th episode though. It felt too unemotional. Theo lied and manipulated the situation and he couldn’t be bothered to be a bit more emotional when he explained everything? Even if Akk had a hunch it’s not an excuse to be unemotional. I don’t really know if it’s the acting or the directing but I wasn’t really satisfied with that resolution. I don’t have any complaints when it comes to Force’ acting skills but Books emotional scenes were a bit lacking especially when it concerned the divorce of his parents. Otherwise I think he was quite ok.
It was still a pretty enjoyable ride for me.