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Soul Mate (Japanese Series)

By Golu
Is this technically a gay show? Even after getting through the whole thing, that's still kind of tricky to answer. There's never any physical intimacy shown between the two leads, not even a single kiss. What it gives you instead is something that goes way deeper than that. It traces an emotional bond that spans a full decade between two guys who are both dealing with their own baggage, and what they share basically amounts to being soulmates. The story moves across Japan, South Korea, and Berlin. Honestly, whether people want to call what they have a romantic relationship or not doesn't really matter to me. A relationship doesn't need a label like boyfriends attached to it to actually mean something. And closeness doesn't need to be physical to feel genuine. What this show captures is something quieter but way more powerful, a bond rooted in understanding, respect, and just showing up for each other. Across eight episodes, each running 35 to 45 minutes, this is one...
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Aedan (Filipino Series)

By Golu
Here we go. And yet another ones of those low budget, cringe acting, paper thin plot and a story that should not hav been made in the first place. I don't know the name of this production company, but they seem to have a template: Bring in a few good looking boys, 2-3 over the top trans actors, a few shirtless scenes, an emotional conflict and drama and just weave a story around that. Most importantly everything has to be shot in some resort. Sitting for these 6 episodes of about 20 minutes each was itself torture.

Evo loves his boyfriend , who is full of himself and has been cheating on him with a girl. Evo's friend Joshua loves him a lot but Eva never sees him this way. Now heartbroken, he decides to take a break, go on holiday and get his life back in order. He thinks that he will try to open his heart for Joshua when he is back. But at the holiday place, he finds an attractive. Young man and fuck his heartbreak, the firstling he does is start stalking him. He is infatuated by his beauty. Turns out this new guy is also heartbroken ever since his girlfriend ditched him on their wedding day. Evo sees hope for himself , but the new guy is not gay. At the end of holiday, Evo goes back to Joshua hoping that he can start love with I'm, but turns out that the guy from holiday is back in his life and now wants him too. Confused between two boys, Evo decides to just fly solo for sometime.

I mean, how silly and dumb can a screenplay and direction be. The right ideas, when not executed well are terrible and can look atrocious. The characters are flat and devoid of any emotion at all. They are completely wooden and awful. Some of these production houses continue to portray these trans characters still in a stereotypical way for jokes, which in today's time is just unacceptable. Even from a story perspective, you Ould think that a heartbroken Evo went to take a break, but first thing he notices is a hot guy (who wasn't even hot) shirtless and starts drooling over him and stalking in. I mean, and you want us to believe that this guys is heartbroken. The supposedly hot guy from the holiday also suddenly has feelings for Eva after spending an evening with him. Like seriously, what is going on. These people change emotions more frequent that people change clothes. There is absolutely no sense of timing. The production quality was ok and the resort was beautiful but when you have bad editing, direction and acting; you know that almost nothing can salvage this. Bad and avoidable. Also, don't ask me why the title of the show!! Cos I would like to know that myself. (2/10)
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