Inception in the BL genre!!
I decided to watch this series on a Sunday afternoon coz I was bored. Obviously started it casually and without much expectations. The first 2 episodes were good, nothing exceptional tho, but it was intriguing enough that I kept watching. Starting from episode 3 I started to feel the shift, and by ep 4 I was hooked. Ep 5 is what made me obsessed. The rest is history.
This is not what you think it is. Everyone watching it thought they knew what they were getting into but its nothing like that. Ngl mid series I even searched up the novel and asked every person who said they had read it about spoilers in detail, coz I was too invested in the characters and anxious about what was going to happen to them. I NEEDED this to have a happy ending on both ends. But the novel exceeded my expectations too..and not in a good way. It has a great start, but in the middle everything goes downhill for one of the characters, arguably my most favorite one, and by the end there's one crazy ending for all. The journey to an end is equally as important to me as the end itself and in this one its really rough and extremely traumatizing. This almost made me fear for this character and what they were gonna face in the series, and I was literally praying that it doesn't follow the novel in that regard. Thankfully they didn't and I'd say everything wrapped up fairly well. They also didn't follow the novel ending(with the extras included), and its the only thing that I wish they had done..in my opinion that would've made this one of THE best BL series, period.
This is definitely NOT for everyone, it doesn't tell you everything you need to know about the characters, and the story has this incomplete feeling that you sometimes need to feel in the blanks for, and idk if that's on purpose or not. Overall I'd say its a solid 9. But I have personally rated it a 10 mainly coz of the actors and how obsessed I am with them. They're both near to me in age, rookie actors, and sometimes that did show, but there are also moments where they surpassed my expectations and left me shocked and surprised! They also have insane chemistry together, I've watched all their livestreams, vlogs and BTS of this series..so I think that says a lot about how 'deep in' I've been with them and this series. Oh and the OST, with 15 songs almost all in English, is one of THE best I've ever heard. That also helps.
All I can say is they have achieved their purpose and convinced me about why this series is called what its called!
This is not what you think it is. Everyone watching it thought they knew what they were getting into but its nothing like that. Ngl mid series I even searched up the novel and asked every person who said they had read it about spoilers in detail, coz I was too invested in the characters and anxious about what was going to happen to them. I NEEDED this to have a happy ending on both ends. But the novel exceeded my expectations too..and not in a good way. It has a great start, but in the middle everything goes downhill for one of the characters, arguably my most favorite one, and by the end there's one crazy ending for all. The journey to an end is equally as important to me as the end itself and in this one its really rough and extremely traumatizing. This almost made me fear for this character and what they were gonna face in the series, and I was literally praying that it doesn't follow the novel in that regard. Thankfully they didn't and I'd say everything wrapped up fairly well. They also didn't follow the novel ending(with the extras included), and its the only thing that I wish they had done..in my opinion that would've made this one of THE best BL series, period.
This is definitely NOT for everyone, it doesn't tell you everything you need to know about the characters, and the story has this incomplete feeling that you sometimes need to feel in the blanks for, and idk if that's on purpose or not. Overall I'd say its a solid 9. But I have personally rated it a 10 mainly coz of the actors and how obsessed I am with them. They're both near to me in age, rookie actors, and sometimes that did show, but there are also moments where they surpassed my expectations and left me shocked and surprised! They also have insane chemistry together, I've watched all their livestreams, vlogs and BTS of this series..so I think that says a lot about how 'deep in' I've been with them and this series. Oh and the OST, with 15 songs almost all in English, is one of THE best I've ever heard. That also helps.
All I can say is they have achieved their purpose and convinced me about why this series is called what its called!
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