This is the second vertical AI BL drama I've sat through, and honestly I went in knowing better. I had it on while I was doing cardio at the gym, and what struck me was just how much the plot echoed the last one I watched. Same step brother romance angle, same mystery girlfriend showing up near the end, same extra guy pining after one of the leads. Genuinely the only thing going for it was the runtime, the whole thing wrapped up in forty five minutes flat. The setup kicks off with Finn moving schools because his mom just married into money. He finds out his new step brother Aiden goes to the same place, and he's warned to keep his distance from him. Their first run in at school is rocky, just like you'd expect, but there's this odd pull between them neither can shake off. Finn keeps telling himself not to read into it because Aiden's straight and openly homophobic. Things shift when some kids start bullying Finn and the student council president, Ryan, steps in to ...
Hector is a doctor in emergency room and has been in a very happy and committed relationship with his boyfriend Jérémie for 5 years. Together they are trying to have a baby with their best friend Anna. Enter, Louise, who apparently was Hector's first love in school/college days. Sparks fly again and hector finds himself getting attracted to her charm again and he starts having an affair with her. Anna's trial to get pregnant with Hector's sperm fails twice and but succeeds when on a drunk night Jérémie and Anna have sex. Meanwhile Louise also gets pregnant. Hector tries to unsuccessfully juggle both his lives but is getting tired. Jérémie feels there is something odd but cannot put a finger to it. He feels guilty of not spending enough time with Hector and having lied to him about having sex with Anna. When he tells Hector the truth, now Hector goes in guilt and decides to introduce Louise and Jérémie to each other. The meeting doesn't go very well and as expected, they both don't wanna have anything to do with Hector because they both feel cheated by him. Both babies are born and its been 3 months and Hector has not seen babies yet, Jérémie and Louise both miss him. Eventually, they get to talk and at least start getting civil with each other where Hector gets to see and spend time with babies. The movie ends on a positive note where it seems hector, Jérémie and Luise will be able to work something out between them.
The series explores homosexuality, bisexuality and poly love all of it in some way or the other. Thankfully the series addresses some fo these issues head on. for example when Hector is accused of choosing to be bisexual, he reminds Jérémie that its not his choice. Its who he is. He did not choose to be attracted to both sexes. Most folks fear that if their partner is bisexual he/she will eventually go for other sex whereas the truth is they are as much of a monogamist as anyone else. Yes Hector doesn't come clean to either of them for fear of losing them but we all know sooner or later that will happen. We do see some good fun moments while Hector is trying to juggle two lives with the support of his colleague. An interesting relationship is also slowly established between Jérémie and Louise because they both 'share' Hector. As actors everyone does a fantastic job on their parts and never once I hoped anything different from the series. You could see Jérémie and Hector love each other so much that neither of them is actually capable to going for another man and you feel their pain after the break-up. For some reason, in al of these I felt most bad for Jérémie but I think at some point every character loses out in one way or the other and sadly that's life.
Strongly recommended. You will not be disappointed, I promise. You may not agree to how Hector deals with situations but you wont be able to deny that we all know someone who has fucked up in a similar-ish situation in life. (8/10)
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