Whack AF--Don't Waste Your Time

I got into this because user BadPennyGirl was watching it and wow. She owes me. (Though she suffered too)

Bros, this was a hot mess. Like it's a flat out crime.

Acting: The writing was so bad that it's legit a little hard to really say 100% of the time. But the overall acting was below average. It was either actors overacting their roles or it was the exact opposite, with wooden or flat performances.

Zee--Cardboard flat interspersed with comic book villain sneers early on. And then later it was flat interspersed with bizarre puppy eyed crap. C'mon Zee. You can do so much better than this. It was like the director ordered him to pretend he was a robot.

New--Like his name suggests, man his inexperience was key in how bad his performances were. Yo, it was hella awkward a lot of the time, and the rest of the time New overacted to maximum cringe. The only time his character looked natural was on stage. Or asleep.

Max--Max acted pretty well, he just wasn't given much to work with.

Nat--Nat was about as bad as Zee. Like Nat, bro, I know you can act. But your face did this weird shit all the time this series.

Production: The music was well arranged, even if most of it was cover music. The set design and other shit was woah, good! The editing was fine. The costuming was weird in a dated way but it felt like it was on purpose, so good on them.

Plot: Oh, this is where this shit-fest should get hammered. Themes of underage grooming. Colorism presented like being pale was "noble". That so not cute at all lame ass use of "lack of communication" as the main driving plot point. Except whenever it was convenient to facillitate some good ole fashioned sexing, then suddenly the communication problems got ignored. The way manipulative and abusive behaviors were made to seem cute was also fucked up. There was also a lot of the younger characters being represented as infantile. Especially as relationships deepened and sex was suddenly on the table.

The overall plot was that Kuea lied to Lian about his hobbies and his college major. And he pretended to be a docile bae. And this somehow made him a bad boy that Lian had to break down until he confessed he was lying. Which lian did by using super shady tactics including lying and manipulation and forcing Kuea into corners to make him confess that he liked music, fast bikes and automotive engineering. Sounds cracked AF, right? It was.

Plus it wasn't written in a way that was consistent, coherent or even thrilling, bros. I mean, it was also dead AF boring. There were huge gaps were nothing happened and the plot didn't move anywhere until the very end of the next to last episode. All season there is no build up, just the same shit all over, except with sex thrown in. And then at the last second a hand wavy conversation and suddenly everything is resolved.

The second couple was just as badly written. Yi comes off as a bully and an abuser at times. And Diao was dressed and written to seem like he was a child. Which made the sex scenes between Yi and Diao super uncomfortable.

It was a wreck that didn't go anywhere. Most lazy, crazy plot ever. It made no sense.

If I hadn't have forged some friendships on MDL of people who were also watching this shit, I'd have dropped it 4 episodes in. The comments section of the MDL page for Cutie Pie was way more coherent and interesting than the drama.

There was a third couple but there was so little of them in the whole series that they just didn't even matter.

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