I do not understand the high rating reviews

This review contains a lot of spoilers. Do not read this if you plan to watch the drama

I see this happen with many bl dramas on this website. All the reviews are giving the drama a 10, and the youtube drama channels recommend the drama saying that it's one of the best dramas of the year, but once you actually start watching the drama it's just nowhere near as good as they are saying it is. People are saying that the actors' chemistry is so great. While I still don't have a clear view of the definition of good onscreen chemistry, I usually say that the chemistry is good when it doesn't feel like the actors are acting but rather that they are actually in love. I did not feel this way with these actors. There was little interaction like what real couples do. For example, in the scene where they were at a restaurant and Jerry had apparently prepared a special night for their anniversary. Usually, when this happens in a "good" romance drama I get butterflies because one of the partners has prepared a romantic gesture to show much they love the other person but there wasn't really anything of that. Jerry had made a reservation for the restaurant and apparently also for a hotel room and that made Damian cry, that's literally all we got from the scene. There isn't any chit chat that you'd expect from a couple on a date. Damian cries, can't believe that Jerry prepared all this ("all this" is pretty big for just a call for a reservation) and then they go to the hotel room and that's it. We as viewers barely get anything to see from their relationship. They've been supposedly together for 6 years but it feels like they are still in the phase of getting to know each other seeing as Damian didn't recognize Jerry's mother when she standing at the door.

Loose ends
Another thing that I have noticed about bl dramas is that they have one main story and a lot of side stories that are in some way related to the main story, but if you pay good attention you'll notice that some of the side stories don't get a proper ending. For example, the side story where you see how Damian and Jerry met 6 years ago. They meet in the middle of the day for an interview, they start flirting a bit but then Damian has another appointment so Jerry has to leave and when night falls Jerry turns out to be waiting for Damian and then they kiss and get a room and do their thing. Really quick, if only it worked like that in real life. But that's not what bothered me the most from that episode. It's what came after that, they go to a wedding of Damian's friends. Jerry finds out during the wedding that Damian wants to start a family and has his whole life planned out but Jerry isn't ready for that. This makes sense because they've barely known each other for a week. What truly bothers me is that right before the end of the episode Jerry says he wants to break up with Damian because he's not ready for that but in the later episodes it's never mentioned again. A cliffhanger with nothing on the other side. Did they really break up? Did they reunite somewhere in those 6 years, they must have because now they have a kid??? I actually had to go back wondering if I had missed something, checking if the number of episodes was right just to find out that it was lazy/bad writing.

Kai
I love kids and I love watching kids interact with their parents, but the child who played this character felt a bit too young to do the job properly. It was like he had no clue what he was doing but was brought to the casting by daddy/mommy because daddy/mommy wanted their little angel to be a big star. Also, why was it so hard to explain to the child why he didn't have a mom? I know there was a need for conflict but even that didn't get a proper end. One of the parents found out that Kai had two fathers, then there was a conflict which made Jerry and Damian call the teacher to ask if she could explain the situation. At the end of that same episode, the teacher said "Alright I'll discuss it with the parents and the children but for some reason a few episodes later Jerry was stressing once again about coming out to the same parents who supposedly had already heard it from the teacher. I wanted to watch this drama because I thought I'd see a loving family overcoming whatever got in their way but all I saw was some idiot parents who failed horribly at raising their child and were more worried about how others viewed them than how their kid was feeling and what was going through the head of the kid.

There is no arguing about taste.
I know that some people really enjoy dramas like this and that what I like might differ from others but come on guys. You can't give a drama a 10 for a review when it has this many flaws. If we want good quality bl dramas then we have to stop giving dramas like these such high ratings. This is why all those starting actors choose to play in bl dramas to quickly gain fame. We as viewers shouldn't be so easy on them because they have such a pretty face or a nice body. We should demand good storylines with acting skills that can make you melt

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