etoks21

Pound sand, child.
Keep your ignorant comments to yourself until you bother to learn the definitions of words you like to toss around, like pedophilia.
After that, research the medical and legal uses of that word.
You don't know what it is, and the tutor is not one.
Since there is no pedophilia in this story, pedophilia has not been "normalized" in this series.

Why do you keep watching? Turned on?

Often, those kind of characters drive the plot and make everything else interesting. If all the characters are "good," how will we know the difference and how boring would that be?

BRAVO! You are so right.
I call this crew the MDL Neo-Puritan Little Church Girls.

I feel the West has regressed 40 years in attitudes about sex/relationships/self-autonomy. Everything is black/white to these NPLCGs.
It's as though the sexual revolution of the 1960s/70s/80s never happened, and we're back to a bunch of sex-phobic, self-righteous scolds passing judgment and expressing their outrage whenever anything/anyone strays into a gray area zone, which is all the time, of course.

The universe is gray, not black/white.

So, please help me out. WHY is he pushing Kanata away?

How do you know that?

Episode 6:
Meh...Akira's words near the end stink of the old, "I love you, but I'm pushing you away for your own good" BL trope.
Give me a break.
Plus, I didn't get that Kanata was confessing at that point, so where was that "I can't be with you like this" coming from, anyway?

I rewatched the second half of episode 5 to prepare for watching episode 6.

The acting of both leads is remarkably natural and immersive. The tears are real. I'm impressed.
Akira especially, is heartbreakingly authentic. His coming-out-to-the-tutor scene was beautifully understated.

I loved that entire sequence. I so wish I'd had someone to talk to when I was that age and full of angst and self-hatred for being gay, especially an older gay person who could share the lessons of their experience. I also love how they talked about, and eventually became involved in a relationship, that allowed both of them to "keep their balance" as best they could in a near-unbearable circumstance.

Moreover, it's healthy that neither one deluded themselves into thinking that they were in a romantic relationship or that their friendship required a label at all. They were two gay men helping each other "keep their balance," and that is all it needed to be.
Actually, their relationship and that concept are quite beautiful.

The commenters below insisting otherwise, that there was "grooming" going on, that their relationship is a dirty, negative thing, can pound sand.
Without having had the tutor to talk to, Akira may well have become a statistic, one of the thousands of gay young people who die by suicide each year.
But, at least he wouldn't have been "groomed," right?
He'd be dead but un-groomed, and that's the best thing, yes?
You people are psycho.

The extended, quiet but intense scene between Akira and Kanata that led to a confession was again, stunningly effective. The two actors' subtlety and naturalism are exceptional.

It seemed to me that Sam and the office staff might have been the scammers.

Episode 8:
These four mains are f**king hilarious.
All the acting is great, including from supporting players.
Why do crap shows get huge budgets and refreshing stuff like this has to scrape by?

The only thing that could make this better is if all eps had dropped at once.

Thanks for your review.
I'll be skipping this one.
As soon as I saw this was a supposed sequel to "Veteran," but did not see YAI in the cast list, I figured it might be a bomb. You are so right, he was electric in Veteran. They needed to write a way for his character to have been released from prison and back at it, as a killer or some such. :D

Or, perhaps Korea was at that time in the process of crucifying YAI over his addiction, so he wasn't available or in the producers' eyes, desirable. Yeah, without Yoo, f**k this show.

After checking your account, I'm guessing you're a burner from the show's marketing/PR department. Or maybe you're the director? Listen, it's not that bad that you need to plant rave reviews and plot explications like this. :D

wtf? lol

I don't disagree. They're all hotties in distinctive ways, which is one of my fave aspects of the show. No plastic surgery and clown white makeup.

hahaha...yeah, that was a sloppy edit.

You're not nitpicking.
I agree about the booze thing. You would be dead if you drank that entire bottle.
Also, the drunk acting, except for Dad, was really bad.
Why is a drunk kiss a wasted one? I guarantee you, lots of people IRL kiss for the first time while drunk. That's half the reason they drink in the first place, to lower their inhibitions. It has ever been thus.

Yes, poorly written.

Goodness, I don't get this at all. How can you have been missing the obvious but gradual development of TWO gay story lines? They're at the heart of the plot.

People don't want "just" spicy scenes, that's you making stuff up. People want a realistic portrayal of gay sexual attraction/physicality in a gay-themed show.

My question is, why are you worked up in your desire to NOT have spicy scenes?

That said, regarding this show, I haven't felt like there are places in which more spice would make sense. Our two couples aren't at that place in their relationship evolution yet.

Yeah, I didn't get that, either.
A bunch of gobbledeegook/word salad.

Episode 5:
Overall, kind of a draggy ep.

Jed's dimples should be designated a Taiwanese National Treasure.
The Jed/Chu Meng kiss...wow! Now, that's how you do it!
I repeat: Each one is more handsome than the next, and not a nose job among them.

Especially when doing an ep in which most characters are drunk, the director really should have brought in a special drunk coordinator, like a fight coordinator or dance coordinator.
Except for the Dad, all the drunk acting was embarrassingly bad.

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy does this director over-light the night scenes? People go out onto the pier or seaside rocks late at night, and the place is lit up like the face of the sun. This is an ongoing phenomenon across all national borders among BL-makers, from the earliest shows until now, and I don't get why they can't dim down night scenes. People go to bed, turn out the lights, and they still need sunglasses to suppress the glare. Whyyyyyyyyyyyy?

I hope episode 6 picks up the pace and energy.