Ate and left a few crumbs...
We were finally blessed with a korean thriller/detective BL, yay...or nay?
The acting is awesome, MCs have great chemistry together and each character is believable. I am very much delighted to see more mature gay series coming from SK. I will not lie when I say I was quite gagged by the intimate scenes. Not something you can typically see (in KBL). The production value is also quite nice.
The story-telling is a different thing though. The plot itself isn't bad but it needs time and space to properly hit the viewer. 10 episodes, each running around 20-30 minutes, is simply not enough to actually cover a complex story and to build up the tension a thriller/detective genre is supposed to have.
The biggest fail of this series is its editing and pacing. Everything happens so quickly, you cannot even comprehend what happened before something else happens. The MCs relationship suffers the most. They took the trope "enemies to lovers" like you see in an average book trending on BookTok, no explanation for why or how it suddenly changed to love, it just did.
The ending was lame, predictable.
Overall, we got something we do not usually get (or we have never even gotten?) and it wasn't trash. In fact, it was good. But for the love of god, give BLs more time...
The acting is awesome, MCs have great chemistry together and each character is believable. I am very much delighted to see more mature gay series coming from SK. I will not lie when I say I was quite gagged by the intimate scenes. Not something you can typically see (in KBL). The production value is also quite nice.
The story-telling is a different thing though. The plot itself isn't bad but it needs time and space to properly hit the viewer. 10 episodes, each running around 20-30 minutes, is simply not enough to actually cover a complex story and to build up the tension a thriller/detective genre is supposed to have.
The biggest fail of this series is its editing and pacing. Everything happens so quickly, you cannot even comprehend what happened before something else happens. The MCs relationship suffers the most. They took the trope "enemies to lovers" like you see in an average book trending on BookTok, no explanation for why or how it suddenly changed to love, it just did.
The ending was lame, predictable.
Overall, we got something we do not usually get (or we have never even gotten?) and it wasn't trash. In fact, it was good. But for the love of god, give BLs more time...
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