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Every second of screen time was so perfectly utilised to deliver the narrative in such a concise and no nonsense way we hardly see in vertical format. The narrative despite being a simple university au w the typical misunderstanding tropes managed to utilise them well and without dragging on too long as to hinder the story. (I'd even argue the initial misunderstanding where seun thinks chaemin was the basketball club president that made all the godawful club rules that made him quit the club on night 1 is a godtiwr narrative to the addition, cluing us in on the reason behind him acting as coldly as he did to chaemin and chaemin alone from day one. but the way the misunderstanding is delivered in subtle swoops for us the audience to piece together before chaemin himself slots it when the actual old fashioned senior/ex-president of the club arrives in the story is even the more brilliant if anything.)

The similarities in trope and character dynamics to semantic error are obvious to anyone from the getgo, but when I started this show just over a handful of hours ago I was in no way expecting to watch something that fixed all the parts from semantic error that didn't sit quite right with me (namely, the way seoham's initial approach to jaechan borders on harassment) and receive a do-over where I enjoyed both the way the characters grew close to each other and their dynamic together. safe to say this show delivered that.

both the main leads were beyond solid in their acting. but alongside that, what really made the landing stick with this show for me was how chaemin approached seun with the sole intention of getting to know this hoobae who caught his eye on recruitment day when he asked him to join the club and lo and behold he did! and the very notable tonal shift we see from seun after he realises chaemin isn't the president who might harbour apotential grudge against him. both the actors did so so well to deliver every beat of emotion from their characters so unbelievably well, including here, when we see seun relaxing, laughing, conversing and willingly going along with chaemin in stark contrast to the air of distrust and suspicion he regard him with earlier.

Really hope to see both the actors in more work in the future, either together or apart, I can't believe they made me obsessed with a vertical show for once! This would've been even the better shot in standard form, but isn't that all our collective and neverending woe when it comes to this format.

edit: just realising post watch that this was originally nawwwttt filmed as vertical. no wonder it was so banging adjdjdj