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Like Vegas-Pete, but both leads are Vegas and they have no chemistry
I have complained repeatedly about the lack of consent and poisoning the audience with harmful ideas like ''I fall in love with my rapist'' (Kinn-Porsche) or ''I fall in love with someone abusive/cheating'' (Love Mechanics) etc. NEVER DID I EXPECT TO SEE A BL WHERE BOTH MALE LEADS ARE ENGAGING IN SEXTORTION, SEXUAL ABUSE AND DATE DRUGGING!
A NEW NEGATIVE RECORD!
The story could have been written by a poorly made artificial intelligence that spent one afternoon reading smut and another watching sappy Thai lakorn and then combined the 2.
EXTREMELY problematic parts:
1. Both men casually engage in sex with prostitutes and random women in back alleys, similar to stray cats in heat. Dehumanization and instrumentalisation of women, that a guy can just fuck and dump without even knowing their name, no care or mention of STDs, unwanted pregnancies etc. Normalization of prostitution and calling it ''womanizing'' when it is pure predatory behavior coming from 2 rich privileged men.
2. The 2 men in the story want the same woman and when Yai finds that the woman cancelled their meeting to have dinner with Mangkorn (the other guy), his idea to solve it is to lure Mangkorn in the bar, drug his drinks, rape him while he is unconscious and then send the tape to everyone to ruin his reputation. This is the biggest, most dangerous nonsense I have seen in a long time and it normalizes several crimes, from illegal drug purchase, to poisoning someone's drink, sexual assault, sextortion etc. Yai isn't a sexy, upset man, he is scum who should rot in jail for his ways.
3. Shockingly, Mangkorn knows the plan and instead of reacting like 99% of normal humans (call police, escape etc) he decides to rape Yai instead (!!), steal the file showing the rape and then blackmail Yai with it!
I feel nausea just from recalling this sick shit.
Somehow (no one knows exactly how), these pair of rapists/blackmailers fall in love (some of the time and then fight the rest of the time and the scenes end with random awkward sex).
Weren't these men supposed to be at least bisexual, since they were originally interested in the same woman? Heavy tendencies to promote the ancient ''gay for you only'' trope, although it happens extremely rarely in real life and it's insulting for queer people.
There are 2 bodyguards who have maybe 1 brain cell each, but I won't write about their unecessary, unrealistic comedic nonsense scenes.
I am on episode 6 and the episode has ZERO developments, more like 40 min of nonsense and 5 min of plot development.
The problems aren't real problems. Mangkorn is torn over taking a scholarship abroad and doesn't know what to do with Yai and we will see the first world drama unfold in the next episodes. The female characters are extremely forgettable and it's been 6 episodes and I still don't know their names.
I had great expectations from the trailer and I was expecting a dark, adult BL for once and I got a disappointing cheap knock off of Vegas-Pete full of cringe and nonsense and nothing is getting resolved.
AVOID.
A NEW NEGATIVE RECORD!
The story could have been written by a poorly made artificial intelligence that spent one afternoon reading smut and another watching sappy Thai lakorn and then combined the 2.
EXTREMELY problematic parts:
1. Both men casually engage in sex with prostitutes and random women in back alleys, similar to stray cats in heat. Dehumanization and instrumentalisation of women, that a guy can just fuck and dump without even knowing their name, no care or mention of STDs, unwanted pregnancies etc. Normalization of prostitution and calling it ''womanizing'' when it is pure predatory behavior coming from 2 rich privileged men.
2. The 2 men in the story want the same woman and when Yai finds that the woman cancelled their meeting to have dinner with Mangkorn (the other guy), his idea to solve it is to lure Mangkorn in the bar, drug his drinks, rape him while he is unconscious and then send the tape to everyone to ruin his reputation. This is the biggest, most dangerous nonsense I have seen in a long time and it normalizes several crimes, from illegal drug purchase, to poisoning someone's drink, sexual assault, sextortion etc. Yai isn't a sexy, upset man, he is scum who should rot in jail for his ways.
3. Shockingly, Mangkorn knows the plan and instead of reacting like 99% of normal humans (call police, escape etc) he decides to rape Yai instead (!!), steal the file showing the rape and then blackmail Yai with it!
I feel nausea just from recalling this sick shit.
Somehow (no one knows exactly how), these pair of rapists/blackmailers fall in love (some of the time and then fight the rest of the time and the scenes end with random awkward sex).
Weren't these men supposed to be at least bisexual, since they were originally interested in the same woman? Heavy tendencies to promote the ancient ''gay for you only'' trope, although it happens extremely rarely in real life and it's insulting for queer people.
There are 2 bodyguards who have maybe 1 brain cell each, but I won't write about their unecessary, unrealistic comedic nonsense scenes.
I am on episode 6 and the episode has ZERO developments, more like 40 min of nonsense and 5 min of plot development.
The problems aren't real problems. Mangkorn is torn over taking a scholarship abroad and doesn't know what to do with Yai and we will see the first world drama unfold in the next episodes. The female characters are extremely forgettable and it's been 6 episodes and I still don't know their names.
I had great expectations from the trailer and I was expecting a dark, adult BL for once and I got a disappointing cheap knock off of Vegas-Pete full of cringe and nonsense and nothing is getting resolved.
AVOID.
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