First, anyone who loves this series, do the favor of not reading this review as I have no intention of making anyone upset or angry and neither I have any desire for anyone to come at me saying I am insulting one of the most popular bl of the year!!

First I will admit, I just couldn't complete the series, I was APPALLED at how awfully the serious issues of male-rape, child abuse, sexual assault, mental health issues, and homophobia was handled!! More like NOT HANDLED AT ALL!!

This series had the potential to be a very IMPORTANT and the best series of the year but it FELL flat on its ass!! However, seeing the ratings, I guess not so flat afterall. I do not understand why people did not see the glaring problems this series had and are so invested and love it like it is the best bl to be made??!!!!

The problems I had:

CONSENT: I don't know how to emphasize this particular word. People need to understand that there is something called "Personal space" and respect the hell out of it. Here, the main lead tharn has absolutely and appallingly no concept of it at all. He is abusing his position as a roomate and WITHOUT any consent from his roommate is kissing him and even giving him hickeys when he is asleep or drunk. He even gave him bj without consent and strangely instead of being shocked and furious at this, Type is somehow totally okay with it. No sign of him panicking at being taken advantage of. No sign of him complaining to authority about the sexual Harassment faced. Nothing!! How and why??? If I was in his place I would be calling the cops!!

NO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
Till the ep I watched I was sick and tired of both Type and Tharn personalities. They were so poorly written. Not only Tharn was manipulative, whiny, creepy asshole but Type was also violent, irritating, homophobic bigot. Over the eps, their characters only became worse and worse!! No improvement whatsoever

NO RELATIONSHIP ARC
I want to know when did Tharn and Type even fell in love??!! Their relationship was more like fuck buddies than anything. Tharn was shown to be in love with Type from before but when?? And why? What is good about him?? Type was shown to have suddenly felt he was compatible with Tharn but that is all...when did he started developing feelings? What did he found different about him from other guys?? In fact when did he even started seeing him in different light? They both were not even shown to have developed frdship let alone love.

TOXICITY
Both characters as mentioned before were very poorly written and just as poorly excited. Their relationship was the proof of their poor characters. Some may argue that, their relationship was not perfect as they were having some past issues but my question is why were they not shown to be resolving or healing each other?? Isn't that the whole point of the relationship?? That you find comfort and happiness with the person, but all that I saw was both of them being very TOXIC. It was a very poor example of a relationship.

TIME LAPSE
This was a huge issue to me. I have NOT read the book so I don't know how much time has passed. The jump from one scene to the other was so sudden and sometimes I dunno how much time has passed unless I read the comments.

UNNECESSARY SIDE CHARACTERS AND STORIES
The main couple and their story in itself was very heavy themed and not properly executed but for no reason at all a korean guy was introduced whose roommate used to pry on Tharn and Type. Then there was the whole theme of Tar and Tum and hints of their creepy incestuous relationship. Also Tar too was having some deep rooted trauma from assault (but later I got to know that tar had something to do with Tharn and if it helped the relationship of Tharn and Type to improve in later eps then maybe this storyline was not so unneeded afterall but still I feel there was no need to explore Tae's relationship with his brother)

LGBT REPRESENTATION
This was my biggest concern and my biggest issue with this whole series. Here, Tharn is portraying an openly gay guy and he is basically sexually harassing another guy. Then the "sisters" or effeminate gay guys were a too touchy-feely without regard of others personal space. And when resisted, making the guy isolated in the entire college. Plus, the entire issue of male rape. This all concludes to show LGBT community in such a bad light. It is like all gays are only thirsty lusty male who only loves to get a feel of other guys and if you resist they will assault you!! Like WTF??!!!!

I was very very VERY disappointed with the series. I thought, I will see a series where it will show how a guy who had been a victim of male sexual assault and traumatized for life, resulting in him turning homophobic, would end up falling in love with a guy and deal with his own sexuality and overcome the trauma he has suffered. And also how the media treated his assault as a money making headline and revealing his identity resulting being topic of discussion and not allowing him to forget the horror he had to go through. I also hoped to see Tharn helping him overcome the trauma and helping him with therapy and counseling. But INSTEAD, I saw bay executed story with a very toxic relationship and poorly handling a series topic.

I just had to drop it as I couldn't take how pathetic and horrible the series was becoming with each ep. With that said I will agree, the actors are handsome and acted well. Their characters were written very bad but they tried their best and chemistry or steamy scenes more like was well done. I just wish the directors had invested just as much time in the story and the main couple rather than unnecessary plots which could have easily been shown in second part!!