Onde Seus Olhos se Prolongam (2020)

WHERE YOUR EYES LINGER is one of the most beautiful dramas I've seen. And I loved WHY R U and UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN. But there is something so real and raw about this one that has my heart. It has received my highest rating thus far. And for this drama to come out of Korea??? I am so proud of S. Korea right now--because this one is a hit.

Everything about this drama was amazing--the writing, the acting, the music, the actors. I believe WHERE YOUR EYES LINGER is a love letter to BL and BL fans everywhere. It is beautifully drafted and you can tell some real thought went into the scenes and the acting.

I am in love with Eui Soo - I barely recognized him from Memorist - but after this I am such a fan! Gi Chan is new to me but I really hope he gets more roles. He was fantastic in this! That scene before Tae Joo went away broke my soul so hard--but I regret nothing!

Over the past few months I have basically given up on BL dramas. But this one has me wondering if I've given up too soon. I was glued to my screen, couldn't stop watching.

I am adding this one to my must rewatch list. You have to watch it!

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Tae straight out harassing Kang

Yes, you read it right.
This drama made me so uncomfortable. Firstly, on the positive side, the main characters are gorgeous and their chemistry is great.
Now the problem, for me, was the story.

Tae is awfully possessive, jealous and often times his behaviour borderlines with or is pure harassment. And all of that is directed towards Kang.

Now, it all went down from the moment Tae told Kang that he should be happy, because he can eat chicken and play games with him whenever he wants. This is what Tae told Kang after Kang just got HIT by Tae's father for Tae's actions (The implied long-term abuse here is definitely not Tae's fault, that is all on his father). But. Kang is getting hit, probably quite often, in Tae's stead and Tae tells him, HE SHOULD BE HAPPY? What the hell.

Now it only gets worse. For some reason, when you touch Kang's ear, he goes, well kinda like he just got drugged or pulled into a huge trauma. We can see, and hear directly from him!, he hates when someone touches his ear and Tae KNOWS IT. So what does he do? He touches his damn ear and Kang looks completely out of it and scared. That is not OK. And Tae tries to do the same thing AGAIN.

Now to the worst. Tae pretends that Kang broke his arm, so he can get with him into shower. Get Kang to wash his hair, which was still kind of like ok, I can deal with htis, but then Taetries to force Kang to get naked and wash too? With him? And even after Kang says pretty obviously NO, Tae is still trying to force himself on Kang? That's just...no.

In later instances, you get to see how possessive and jealous Tae is. He is going through Kangs phone with absolutely no permission.
When Kang goes on a date with a girl, Tae gets super jealous, while he himself sleeps around with god knows how many girls. Tae then proceeds to go on Kang's date and then starts insulting Kang.

So yeah, I only made it until this scene in the fourth episode, at this point, it honestly is not worth it for me to continue watching, since Kang looks uncomfortable and scared almost always when he is around Tae. Also NO ONE IN THE DRAMA IS ADDRESSING THIS. (Well, maybe the girl Kang was on date with tried to implied this toxicity in their relationship, but that might be just me reading too much into this).

It might be possible that they figure this out in later episodes but for me, I don't want to see anymore of this.

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How do you even make 10 minute episodes slow burn?

I probably have a good headline in one of the reviews, so I will look for it as I look for the reviews. Which is going to take me forever because it has been forever. It gets an 8.3 out of 10 from me. I am a dumbass, and I just realized that you can go to the episode tab and find your reviews and not scroll through all of them and get sidetracked.

I started this on June 22, 2023, and finished it today, October 17, 2023. Its been a while, so I am going through the reviews. I am going to be honest; I wasn't emotionally invested enough until the end, so I don't know anyone's names, and its very embarrassing. I was confused to start it off. Kang Gook and Han Tae Joo had the spoiled brat and just "puts up with" dynamic, and I could get behind that, so it was a pretty good start, and we had the whole thing with the ears, which they didn't really touch on past the first few episodes because I forgot about it.

I watched the next episode on August 3rd. Damn, I spaced this one out. I was surprised that Tae Joo didn't break his back with Kang Gook through him on the ground like a rag doll, bro. I was confused about why I hadn't finished it. It was so short, but I couldn't get into it, and that's what took me forever to finish it. They were making the 10-minute episodes slow-burn. It was crazy.

Once again, I was complaining about the 10 minute episodes feeling very long and hard to get through, and I couldn't even remember what happened in them because they were so short and I watched them so spread out, so I was struggling because it also wasn't really that interesting. They weren't doing a whole bunch, and it was just one-sided love on Kang Gook's part. It was getting annoying.

I was complaining about the long 10-minute epilogues again. It was getting to my head, bro. They tried to have a plot, but it had so many holes in it that it was hard to have one, and they just end up sitting there and nothing gets done. They only get stuff done in the last 2 minutes of the 10 minute episodes, which makes it unbearable to watch. They should have filled the earlier episode with the same amount of plot as the last few, and I would have finished it sooner than I did.

And today I set out to finally finish this very long show. Episode 5 was the first good one since the first episode. The dodgeball game was very cute, and it symbolized how their relationship is going throughout the show up until this point. Tae Joo being jealous was very funny, just because of the way he acts and how his personality is. I just think its funny. And seeing the character act out of character with smiling and laughing was actually very cute and made me gush. Kang Gook kept getting his feelings played by Tae Joo throughout the whole thing, and he only keeps putting up with his shit and coming back to him because its his job.

The acting got better towards the end, and so did the plot. Tae Joo was going to get kidnapped and sent away, and then they would relinquish their true feelings for each other. Too predicale. Kang Gook is a dumbass, bro. I understand where he is coming from, but he finally likes you back and realizes your true personality, and you shattered his heart into a million pieces. The confession scene was good; it gave me chills.

The fight scene was one of the best I have seen in a while; it was pretty realistic, and good for them for making it like that. Bro was fighting for his love like his life depended on it, technically, because Tae Joo is his life. They can endure so much more than they know, and this episode showed that.

They really got their happy ending robbed from them. Too many shows are doing that now, bro. Someone gets sent off to usually England, and they have a shitty reconnection, and the show just freaking ends, bro. It gets on my nerves. This show definitely turned around for the better. I am going to have a hard time finding all of the episodes because it has been so long, but they changed this for the better, and I am glad they did, because I was not going to get through it if they didn't. Good for them despite their happy ending of getting robbed. I would recommend it because the last few epiodes were actually pretty good. That's it. okay bye!

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great acting. surprisingly good for youg actors. great directing .really dissapointed by the lenghth of episodes. watch it ..re watch it and i would have loved a season 2 .although its not packed with sexual scenes it does break boundries in its own wright. diid i say great acting? the fun thing for me was it was clear they loved each other but they did not actually realise it which might seem surprising but this is how it actually plays in real life as well .so i wont waste my time but saying this . watch it have fun ,be frustrated cause the episodes are so short ..but i expect much more will come for these 2 actors after this project . very talented .the music also is grest and the supporting characters mix well with the main line

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Work of Art !! ???

Honestly, my expectations were not that high since it was a K-Bl, and as we know Korea is a very conservative country up to this day. I was also preparing my heart for addicted part 2.

It was everything my heart needed

The story: The story had a good plot, master/bodyguard. I honestly like the story flow, didn't put unnecessary drama or it was not accelerated which I appreciate. For a ten-minute episode series, it was great in conveying their story and development.

Acting/Cast: Honestly, both actors were completely new faces to me, I thought I would get a cringe, awkward acting, boy!, I was wrong. The impressive portrayal of characters from both actors made me feel all the emotions. They just don't speak their lines, they express does emotions. I really have nothing bad to say about their acting. Let's not even get started on the visual both actors are top-notch visuals. I will love to see more from them, they left a mark with their acting.

Rewatch: ABSOLUTELY, I have myself rewatched it. There is one episode worth watching more all of them are great to rewatch. I especially love that last scene where they reunited, it shows so much emotion, I couldn't hold back but be in love with this short sweet well directed, and scripted series.
All emotions that needed to be portrayed were portrayed to the fullest

Heart Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ / ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

I am excited to see if there are more K-Bl on the way.

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This BL series is indeed wonderful! It was a mixture of sweetness and botterness that compliments with each other and there is some spiciness added to it to fuel the intesity of the show. The story was perfect, it has a very good pacing, thinking that it only has 8 episodes! I really commend how well the story was establish throughout the show, it was very well shown and the developmeng of each characters where vivid and very smooth which is really good. I love how smooth the story went even though it was trimmed to 8 episodes. Very well done! One thing I would have liked to see in the show was the family background of Tae-joon and the development of him and his dad.

I love the acting of every character. They all did well in portraying their roles, as well as delivering the exact emotions and feelings of the characters. I love how the drama between the lead couple was executed, it was not too dramatic, it was the right exact amount of drama I wanted.

This a must watch show. People will be really hooked to it because of the plot and story. It was good to the hurt, a dramatic but not that much exaggerated.

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Very disappointing after the many positive reviews

I was really excited to watch this because many people were recommending it and the storyline seemed interesting but I was really disappointed. I know that many will disagree with me on this but for me this series was going nowhere. There was almost no progression until the last few episodes and then they split and got together in the end. I was really bored watching this since as I said nothing happened and also the “so great chemistry” as many said was something I couldn’t see. I felt absolutely nothing watching these two and I felt like they barely talked. For me not a got series but everyone has their own opinion.

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I WANT MORE!!!

I swear the only bad thing about this drama was how short it was. I LOVED THIS!!! As soon as I was done I looked up the recommendations.

STORY:
I don't normally watch BL dramas so I can't say if it's cliché or not. I can say that I was in my feelings from start to finish! I couldn't decide which character was right and which one was wrong so I kept yelling at both of them. (Don't judge me.)

ACTING/CAST:
Casting was great. It's kind of hard to explain but it seemed like their faces were their personalities. They didn't have to say anything you could just tell.

MUSIC:
Not memorable

REWATCH VALUE:
Yes. That is my number

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1 small step for us, 1 big step for SK hallyu (or at least thats what i keep hearing)

one word: symbolism!

What this show symbolises is the possible emergence of BLs to the kdrama scene. It makes me so happy!^^. For a show like this—8 episodes, each averaging about 13 minutes, it manages to pack so many emotions. I literally cannot find any fault with this show besides its length, and the less than stellar story-line.

It's basic at most, and uninspiring at best, but for a project like this, they didn't need a groundbreaking storyline. what really carried this entire web-series was the actors.

Han Gi Chan did a pretty amazing job, for his first acting role. I've seen him Produce X 101, and I would have never imagined he'd do this good a job. Of course, bits were still awkward, but you can tell he worked hard, and that he tried to be as believable as possible. His character Han Tae Joo is very expressive, and HGC showed every bit of that as he could. I'm actually so proud of him! I watched it in reverse order (watched where your eyes linger first, then popped into produce x 101 to see how gi chan was doing before this blew up) and i honestly can't wait to see where his career takes him! He can easily play other high school roles, and I'd definitely watch them ^^

Jang Eui Soo, this is my first time watching one of his works, but I'd say he did a great job too. The actors really carried this show, and even though I wouldn't mind a S2, I can certainly die happy with this S1 alone. Overally, this is definitely worth your (short) time! Give it a watch, and if you can, support it on Viki and not pirating sites if you can help it TT.

have fun watching!~

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FANTASTICA

Pensé que por ser una serie corta (o película fragmentada) tendría fallos o falta de trama o argumento, pero no.

La trama es concisa: relación amo/guardaespaldas pero de chicos de bachillerato. Me gusta la edad elejida, ya que le da cierta seriedad a la trama sin ser un amor adulto, ni tampoco de instituto. Tiene alguna trama secundaria, que para mi gusto, se quedan flojas, pero las usan para el desarrollo de la trama principal, así que tampoco opacan el resultado general.

La actuación de los personajes, así como el cast, está bien conseguido. Te crees lo que dicen los personajes (los principales sobre todo), vives el drama con ellos, además que es una trama bastante seria. También me resultan bien elegida la pareja principal, los personajes resultan lindos y coherentes con sus personalidades, que además están bien desarrolladas.

Es cierto que no desarrollan en exceso el bacground de los personajes, más allá de algunas líneas, pero resulta suficiciente para llevarte por la historia, y sobre todo teniendo en cuenta que es una serie de dura hora y media.

Me ha gustado que no cuenta con demasiados clichés, y los que tiene, están bastante bien integrados en la trama.

¿Me la volvería a ver? Si, seguramente si ¿La recomiendo? Totalmente, si te gustan los dramas algo más "serios" y lacrimógenos, este es el tuyo.

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