Short but sweet

For being the third Korean drama I've watched I really enjoyed it. I liked the "anime-episode"-length of the episodes. They were short and sweet and I can see myself rewatching this in the future if I want to watch something that's "easy to digest".

Since the major part of the live action BL:s I've watched are Thai and Japanese I can't say I have any expectations on how a K-drama ought to be but this sure did not disappoint! As being a drama based on a manwha you can feel that through how the story is displayed. It has a type of format that is hard to get away from. Don't know how to explain it better rather than hoping you who reads this has read enough bl manga/manwha to understand what I mean. But I don't really see it as something negative in this case. The production team did a great job and the story had a nice flow.

The best part about the series is the cast. The main characters has great chemistry on screen and you just wanted to see more of it. I hope to see more of the main actors acting together in the future.

After watching this I think I have to explore the Korean side of the BL-world more.

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Much better than the reviews may make it seem to be!

I'm a bit late to the game of watching TharnType but wanted to leave my thoughts anyways.

First and foremost I personally think that the most important thing to keep in mind when watching all type of drama is that it is fiction. That goes without a say for BL too.

Now I'll continue this review from the standpoint of it being a fictional story and not how true to reality it may be. Some elements tend to have to happen to keep the story going and not to "dry out", so the viewers don't get bored. I think that there's a fine line between too much of these "need to happen" elements and realistic elements and that's where the tricky bit comes to play when making a good storyline.

In the case of TharnType2 the production team managed to keep this balance fairly well. There sure was some questionable scenes and a question mark surrounding communication between the main characters after being together for so long but I find those parts needed to make the whole 12 ep season working. If there wasn't this lack of communication between the main characters, there wouldn't have been much left to develop throughout the series.

My favourite part of the series was when Type decided to get ordained. That's a beautiful way of him trying to console for his parents loss of not being able to grant them grandchildren. (Since I've no experience or knowledge about Buddhism and the process of how to become a monk I'll leave it as this.) And Tharn accepting it without questioning it, waiting for him on the "other side" is just the sweetest.

To the contrary of the good there's one scene that really bugged me. It's the scene when you see the musicians preforming during Thorn's and Am's wedding. The visuals of what the musicians were playing didn't match at all with what I was hearing but at the same time it looked like the musicians actually knew what they were doing. So my question is, is it just that the synchronisation between the recording and the visuals are non-existing or could it have been that no one in the production team had done some research about how it looks like when Pachebell's canon in D is performed by live musicians? (I'm a violist and have played this piece before.)

I really liked the cast so there's not much for me to say about that.

And for the soundtrack I didn't mind it. A wee bit repetitive after a while but nothing much. A cute one.

I enjoyed watching both season 1 and season 2 but think I have to go with season 2 being my favourite. The story felt a bit more thought through and less rough.

This is my first review and English is not my first language so hope you can see past that and make something out of what's said above :)

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