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Yeah, let's hope so, but I also realized that, unless I'm mistaken, Nick doesn't know anything about this. Will one of the guys, or Cheum, think they are doing Nick a favor by telling him about this? Will that derail his budding relationship with Boston?

Yes, exactly!! I couldn't figure out WHY Sand wasn't in tears with his arms around a distraught Ray, so glad to know he's not just suddenly cold-hearted.

I don't think this is the first BL I've run across with the "Daddy" thing and UGH, it never lands well for me. Maybe it's different for them because "daddy" is an English word and not their first language, but for me....UGH.

OMG, the perfection of Moonlight Chicken. As much as I ADORE Only Friends, MC was so well done and just such a different mood from most of the other BL I've seen (which aren't very many, tbh).

I'm with you on this, and of course Cheum is going to believe her brother over the person she already thinks is a shitty ex-friend...BUT I was expecting the fact that the photos proved Atom was lying to carry more weight than...none at all. I was kind of hoping that would at least give them pause and start to wonder which one was telling the truth, but I think in their eyes Boston had already done too much.

But I will defend Boston until my last breath...so... 🤷‍♀️😀

YES, both of them were so good in this scene.

LOL! I love it and would watch the HELL out of that!!

YES!!!! The hair in the eyes kills me! I thought I was the only one. 😄

I believe that last scene where Ray was confessing everything to "Sand" was really happening in front of the rehab therapist. She had asked him to imagine the person he was doing this for in front of him, which would be Sand. I think that he actually said all of that to the therapist and that she's the one who hugged him, because it explains the flat affect of the "Sand" character. During the previews, I just couldn't figure out why Ray falling apart seemed to have ZERO effect on Sand...now I know (or think I know!).

For Dan/Nick, who I assume are over now, I was torn between ick and "well, this guy seems decent." I was pretty sure it wasn't endgame, though, so didn't get too caught up in it. I just hope that Daddy Dan (UGH) won't turn out like Atom and freak when Nick calls it off.

Yes, 100% agree with you there, and yeah, maybe Boston can't really do monogamy (nor should he have to if that's not his thing and his partner agrees to something open) but yes, he seemed to be realizing - and saying - that just sex was feeling empty and he liked to spend time with Nick.

I get what you're saying, and I'm not sure I disagree, but part of me wonders if Boston was the one starting to lean towards a monogamous relationship with Nick just before the leaked bugged audio file blew them up. I had the impression that Boston had stopped sleeping around at some point and was only with Nick. That being said, sure, maybe Nick would agree.

OF *always* gives us a reason to comment. 😄

I will add double to whatever you're sacrificing! 😀😀🙏🙏🙏

Yes!! I was thinking the same thing this morning! I am very, very late to this party but thought it was well worth my (short) time, though at some points I wondered if Mob's views were straddling the line of homophobia (thinking that his brother would be "contaminated," etc.) but I haven't watched many Japanese BLs to know if this is common or not.

I have faith that it will stay sharp until the end...but I have nothing to base that on. 😂 I guess we'll keep our fingers crossed since we will stay on the ride until the end!

100% with you!! Sometimes I'm cringing at things they say or do that *I* have said or done...though with less dramatic consequences. 😉 I have to say that in most of the series I've seen, even the ones I'd rate highly, there's always a weak portrayal or a story line I would rush through if I could, but not with this series - SO GOOD! 🤩🤩

😄 Of course, if they were, we wouldn't have this AMAZING drama! Who wants to watch people who have everything together all the time and never have any issues? 😉😀

True! But really, how mature and grown up are any of them? 😉😂

Exactly! Though maybe First is one of those people who are not musically inclined in the least. 😂

I feel like what I've read about Thailand is that once they discovered they could make a ton of money from BL, they went ALL IN. Now, that doesn't explain the fever pitch of the fans, but maybe it's all a circle: the production companies give them fan service so the fans become rabid for it, rinse and repeat.

When I first heard about the pairings that would continue into other series/roles, I thought it was odd, but then I thought back to the classic Hollywood pairings like Bogart and Bacall, and Astaire and Rodgers, etc. and realized that no, it's not that odd, it's just something we see less of today. Plus in the case of BL, the companies may as well make use of established chemistry and the actors may as well do scenes with someone they are purportedly comfortable with.

Love your pizza analogy, well put! 👏😀

Hmm, interesting theory! Oh...now I've reread and I'd somehow combined both of your scenarios into one. Yeah, after we found out that Ray was an alcoholic, I'd always assumed that Sand smashes one of the plum wine jars as they are fighting about Ray's drinking, and now that we see Ray is *supposed* to be going to rehab, I wonder if the fight is because he left/never goes to rehab and Sand is furious with him.

Can't they just have him hold it and nothing more? 😂 And the fact that his love interest in the show *is* the musician makes it that much funnier!

Thanks, and yeah, that's what I meant, and now that I think about it, because it's BL and they are trying to make the fans happy, the fan service is like the exact opposite of the Hollywood studios finding "beards" for their leading men who were gay in real life, encouraging them to be seen with or even marry actresses/other women while these Thai studios (and maybe in other countries, idk because I mostly just watch Thai BL) go the other way and do photo shoots and fan stuff and those crazy shows where they encourage the pairs to be seen as *maybe* being actual couples...all for the money, I guess.