Lovely

I only watched one episode and I think that's enough.
But for this to be one of the most anticipated Chinese dramas of the year? Produced by iQIYI and Tencent? With Zhang Ling He and Wang Chu Ran? Fumbled like this?
That's truly so funny. I feel like watching this, just so I can talk about it. :D

Yes, you're so right!!! I am a hater. What else could I even be?
I went to check this out, didn't like the acting, commented my opinion, then dropped it, and will now probably simply avoid any series with Bas – that definitely makes me a hater, and not just a dissatisfied viewer.
I'm so proud of you for being loyal!!! <3

ay it's my opinion. I didn't like his acting in Fourever You either.
I've seen blank characters being acted better

I would love to read something that challenges the fated lovers trope and omegaverse.

I would love to believe that they tried and failed at commentary, instead of just wanting to make a semi-plotted softcorn show about ABO.

Yeah, I also don't think that they are thinking so deeply about it. It's just that the scene came directly after his "You don't force me, you just want me to stay". I was automatically connecting the dots, but it's probably more of a coincident, and the scriptwriter only did it for the pregnancy plot.

Yes to everything you said. The balcony scene was arguably the best scene so far.
I'm grieving the potential of this script and the characters if they were fleshed out.

Ideally, they would've found a way to mirror Phatsa's and Nakhun's intimate scenes with Nakhin's and Ongsa's. One driven solely by heat, the other driven by their own longing for each other. But they don't know how to do that.

I think the green juice scene is a way to show how they slowly rob Phatsa of his autonomy in the disguise of love and care. It's just that the scene was too long and after he drank it, there were shown no consequences for him. We didn't see him scared or annoyed. Didn't see him trying to stand his ground or ask questions as to why the juice was so necessary. We didn't see him argue that he is a grown man that can decide for himself if he wants to drink it or not. Instead, Phatsa felt like a little kid, that just doesn't like vegetables. They introduced the scene not for commentary but to make everyone think he is pregnant.
The mother's backstory has so much potential, I hope that they'll draw parallels of her life, her lack of autonomy, to Phatsa in later episodes.
I hadn't yet thought much about the atmosphere in which this drama is filmed, but after you mentioned how empty the rooms feel, I can see you're definitely right. There is no mood, the interior looks as empty as the thoughts that went into the script. There is something, but not enough to convince you that people actually live there, that this is their home. The same way the characters are not fleshed out and only caricatures of what they should be.

This has more horror elements than it has romance.
This could be an excellent commentary about (body) autonomy and heteronomy, the importance of sex education, and the toxicity of uneven relationship dynamics and love bombing – but even if it touches those topics briefly, it's in no way acting critical with it.

I needed this like yesterday ughghghghg

I liked it until ML's sudden rage at his child bride having had a crush three years ago. Somehow that was the moment it went generally downhill.

Let him cook, pls.

Personally, I think it's not a question of which couple is real or fiction, but rather that the post-credit scene made it possible for both to be real – in a parallel universe. I think both stories are real because both couples exist for the other one as fiction.

The script? A perfect 10. Also, the way the storylines were intertwining? *chef's kiss*
You could truly tell that someone had a very thought out vision while writing AND filming this.

I don't think this was really good. It was kinda all over the place. There were too many things it wanted to focus on, and everything was dealt with in a rather anticlimatic way, IMO. Sometimes I felt, they just wanted a BL about a man that was as close to be a stripper (but not really) as possible. But in a way that it was kinda feminist: Because he chose the job himself. And it was kinda fun because he had friends, and his bedazzled boss is exploitative but with a big heart. And ofc we get to see him dance sexily.
I have nothing to say about the indescribable display of police work. I knew it couldn't be serious the moment, in the first episode, when Wayu woke up on a chair in Krit's office instead of in medical care, after a head injury that left him unconscious… .
Anyway, the chemistry though was fire though.

I wish I could watch this for the first time.

If there's one thing they couldn't do then it was cast age appropriate actors as students. I get that maybe it would've been a problem to cast real teens when they are shown to be beat up. However, with the exception of very few, so far (ep 7) everyone that was cast as a student is either in their late twenties or early thirties – and it's very obvious while watching. The guy who played the 14y/o kid is legit 33 years old, he is even one of the oldest among the student actors.
P.O. is also too old to be a believable student. I feel like there would've been enough actors in their early twenties in South Korea who also would've done an amazing job.

i miss her omg

god forbid someone doesn't like to talk about their family or keeps their secrets. As long as he doesn't start lying about it, I don't see the problem.