Heart sizzling, fluttering, and twisting story throughout!!
Honestly, it was one of the best BLs I've ever watched and I have most definitely watched a lot. It makes me so happy to see how far queer shows have come. We are finally getting films and shows that have actual plots and happy endings. Seeing the struggles of queer love is important but the lack of positive ones make it seem hopeless. With Thai BLs we finally started getting happy endings more frequently but still they were most extremely toxic relationships that were portrayed. Most of them without elaborate plots. Don't even get me started on GLs they are only basically coming into existence now. Back when I first started watching Kdramas I never thought I would see the day were we would get full BL shows but I am pleasantly surprised.
On to the actual show at hand.
Kim Yoon Shik is a phenomenal actor with so much talent, he deserves to go on to bigger and better projects. I genuinely hope to see him again in a queer show too. Park Si Woo, in my opinion, started quite stiff in terms of his acting but he genuinely got so much better. Si Woo and Yoon Shik have phenomenal chemistry. Lee Chae Ha and Ju (Kang) Tae Seon made my heart tingle with their chemistry. I was watching every scene with oogling eyes, a bright (maybe somewhat disturbing) smile on my face, and a pounding heart. This is one of the best on scene chemistry I have seen.
Tae Seon's and Chae Ha's intimate scenes were jaw-dropping. I could feel the tension and the passion through the screen. They weren't calling Yoon Shik a vacuum cleaner for nothing. Some of the, if not the best, kiss scenes I have witnessed. Tae Seon was devouring truly. Although, Si Woo's acting in terms of intimate scenes did slightly seem to lack a bit in passion, by the end of the show I think we got our second vacuum cleaner. Mans was eatinggg!!
The production quality was amazing for a BL, probably one of the best. The older supporting cast were veterans that I had seen before too. The story was amazing and had a lot of levels to it as well. However, it definitely could have been better. In my humble opinion, the ending was rushed. They definitely could have taken another one to two episodes more to end the show. There was all this tension working up to the ending but the ending fell extremely flat in my opinion. I also felt that Tae Seon and Chae Ha became lovers way too suddenly. Tae Seon going from hating Chae Ha to loving Chae Ha wasn't gradual enough. It felt slightly abrupt to me. Their confrontation of their secrets and feelings also felt slightly logically off to me. Tae Seon's jealousy wasn't built and Song Ha Neul's connection to Chae Ha has the potential second love interest was unworked on. Also I swear I think they used a green screen for the ending scene because why did it look so off haha. The show would have been better if it was a 1hr 10 ep show where they would have had more time to work on the scenes to support the details of the story.
Overall, regardless of these little misses, it was an amazing show. I would recommend that everyone watch it.
Thank you for reading so far! <3
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