I could proudly and confidently say that I am the biggest ITSAY fan. This show changed my life heavily and even inspired me to become a director. Everything about ITSAY was just perfect, the characters, the acting, the story and the amazing cinematography. Up until P'Boss decided to do some charity work by handing over the second season to a second director. I mean I already expected some downgrade to the storyline and the camerawork but boy oh boy was this a disaster.
I went into the first episode very happy and excited to see OA and Teh again. It was all going well so far. Although I did notice that something was different about the camerawork. The whole ITSAY vibe just was not there. ITSAY's camerawork was so perfect I felt like it had its own soul, but this? this felt like some post-apocalyptical sci-fi movie when it came to the colours and the angles of each scene. What I'm trying to say is that there was no ITSAY spark regarding the camerawork. No shade to the people behind it of course, it just does not fit ITSAY as a story. The first episode was pretty ok. I had some hopes that this might actually be better than my expectations, especially when OA met his new friends. I have to say that Q was a very nice addition to the characters. His character was very cool already with only 1 minute of screen time. (cooler than The will ever be. Sorry not sorry)
After that everything was just a blur to me. Teh acting up again, getting mad at OA for discovering what he actually likes and for getting a tattoo ABOUT HIM??? I already hated Teh a bit in ITSAY but after IPYTM I despised him thanks to P'Meen.
All of Teh's actions made no sense. The getting mad at OA for being himself, the cheating on OA and not even trying to hide it and just being an idiot, but what made even less sense was how OA decided to forgive him after all what he did to him. I know that OA is a good person and that he really liked Teh, but what he did to him was just unforgivable. Once again, OA had one of the sweetest, most considerate guys fall for him (Q), but he still chose stinky crybaby Teh. I just don't understand. Sometimes the best you can do is move on, even if it hurts. It is still way better than staying with a toxic piece of trash who will probably repeat the same mistakes over and over. In ITSAY I was able to look past his actions because at the end of the day he was just a kid. But now that he's a grown ass man and he's still doing shit like this, then I WILL call him out for it, seriously. OA had both Bas and Q but still chose Teh. It made me so mad.
The only positive outcome of this disaster were the OA scenes, the Bas scenes and the Q scenes. Oh and also the OSTs were great. Probably carried the series.