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You can tell that he's a cheerleader - check out his "straight body, butt out" posture.

It's Karl's first time living alone, he probably doesn't know how to cook (so thank god for rice cookers!) haha

Looks like I was right about "I suspect this end credits sequence will evolve as the episodes pass by."

Incidentally, the end credits song is entitled "Unti-Unti" by Up Dharma Down and it literally translates to "little by little" -- which is what's happening.

Yes, the writer is a polca stan.

Since this show is aired on free national television (TV5) here in the Philippines, it will be interesting to see how they navigate the regulation and censorship of our largely conservative, Catholic-majority country. All the previous Filipino BLs this year avoided this mine field by airing on YT or subscription cable.

This is the first acting role for the actor portraying Karl. But the actor portraying Vlad already has theater experience.

polar bear + orca = polca. It's the name of the TayNew fandom.

I agree, I think the international indie / film festival circuit has this affectation, this bias for poverty porn, "bury your gays" tropes, and coded schadenfreude, that it already feels artificial.

I am not dismissing these experiences, but at the same time we weren't put here on earth just to become object lessons -- we also have the agency to tell affirmative, positive stories.

They can shade each other all they want -- at the end of the day, the proof is in the pudding, and real quality shows like Gameboys rise to the top, while the bad representations get drowned out and sink to the bottom like detritus. Here's to hoping GSP rises to the top too.

Yes I think I read a few introductory chapters a few years ago? And if I recall, Vlad was an upperclassman and he had a motorcycle :)

Kent and C-Rex hosted a livestream reactors meet with the cast, director and writer/producer of GSP (Jump to 2 hours 5 minutes):

https://youtu.be/8fLnsu_uMZA

Okay, after a couple of re-watches (and watching reactors), I am deducing a few small things. Since I haven't read the wattpad, I may be totally wrong:

1. Ate Judit (without an "H" lol) rented out Vlad's unit to the girl she was talking to, because she was planning to take Vlad home for the semestral break/holidays. That's why Judit was saying it was okay to party there and that the neighborhood was safe, to reassure the new tenant.

2. Karl and Vlad have no choice but to live together --Karl because Vlad's paying his rent, and Vlad because he doesn't have a place anymore. I think this explains the end credits sequence where Karl's sitting on the couch watching something, and Vlad's standing in the kitchen area in the back while drinking from a mug, watching too. They're still not comfortable enough to share the couch at this point in the series. I suspect this end credits sequence will evolve as the episodes pass by.

3. Regarding Karl's rent: I think that a fully-furnished loft apartment would in no way cost just $100 to rent (look at the size of that TV!) so here's what I think is going on. Karl's uncle Sandy owns the apartment, and Karl staying there for the sem break is a rite of passage for his family. So, Karl's "rent" is just him paying his uncle Sandy the cost of utilities plus something extra, just to prove that he can be independent.

I never really understood how OST's can carry a BL

until now.

When you place creatives in lockdown and leave them nothing to do but watch 2gether, well... these are all BrightWin's "children".

For this series specifically, TayNew are the "grandparents" because the writer is a massive Polca (check out the orca plushie in the trailer).

Edit: proof (https://twitter.com/TheRainBro/status/1306928901130608640?s=20)

Okay, so this particular show aimed to have a full LGBTQ+ cast and crew, and Juan Miguel Severo spoke up (article link below) regarding the inherent difficulties of and systematic barriers against trying to stay true to that.

So I hope the fans respect the actor's private lives and not stalk them like this was some gay safari.

"If someone we find is best for a part isn’t out yet, let’s not force him, okay? We know that’s not cool.” - JMS

(https://entertainment.inquirer.net/379389/juan-miguel-severo-reveals-why-some-lgbtq-actors-shy-away-from-gay-roles)

Okay, just checked in with GMMTV's Thaivengers and it's not too bad for not being an outright BL. Will continue to watch as a palate cleanser.

Sometimes it's the little things. Real humans have zits, and Rocky and Judah are made all the more real exactly because they don't have that ten-step moist Korean skin care routine look. They look like how any of us would look* when at home -- unguarded, vulnerable slobs we really are.

(* - okay that was a bit of artistic license, just roll with it okay? ;p)

I'm partial to WesTer Union haha

It's easier to look for (and look at) them if you watch his short entitled AL + ER in youtube :)

https://youtu.be/LS_XQ4ldltE

Based on Juju's mom's offhand statement, I have a feeling this show will tackle the intersection of LGBT, coming out, depression and suicide. There seems to be an undercurrent of anxiety among Judah's family that he not be left alone to his own devices.