This is basically a high school BL where two guys who have nothing going on in common somehow end up getting really close to each other, and that's kind of the whole point of the title too. There's barely any drama or fluff packed in here, it stays pretty straightforward the whole way through. A little bit of friction pops up here and there, but it's nothing compared to what you'd normally get in this kind of show. Runtime wise you're looking at 8 episodes, each one sitting around 25-30 minutes. The two guys carrying the story are Akira and Kanata, and funny enough they knew each other's faces way before they ever knew each other's names. Kanata's the type everyone likes, always got people around him, popular guy, but there's this distance to him that people can't quite place. Turns out he had an injury that ended his football days, and that's what pushed him into being more withdrawn, and it only got worse once his younger brother got picked...
We meet Roberto Enríquez, a teenage dreamer in a small town who suffers constant episodes of harassment and who deals with a family situation of incomprehension in which his only support is his grandfather. We follow his journey as a teenager in school, his bullying, to his first few sexual encounters including rape in a park. Told to us through a non-linear fashion, we see his journey to present days as a successful writer and a pop icon figure, who constantly struggled with his body. We see multiple characters throughout the journey most importantly his castrating mother, loving grandfather, stifling father and ever faithful girlfriend Lola. Events are shown of his growth from an awkward teen, to a confident adult to a budding writer, who uses his real life story to write a book and share with a larger audience. We see a silver living when he finally meets the man of dreams who loves him for who is.
The miniseries tells the story in a tone of dramatic comedy, showing the protagnost's fight against all kinds of discrimination. The autobiography is emotional and fun, and is fundamentally focused on his fight against homophobia and with gordophobia, since Bop's body did not enter into the conventional beauty canons of society, in fact, that detail is constantly underlined, coming to focus only on that, so he leaves his achievements as a person out of the conversation. Through non-linear narrative style, the series tries to show us parallels between events in different timelines. The two main actors playing the teenage and adult version are so good that they almost look alike in many scenes. I have to hand it to casting of these actors. A very interetsing approach was to never show us the father's face. Just as the parent invisibilizes the son, now the son prefers to blur him from the story. The series proposes several narratives about the fear, pain and loneliness that exist in life, especially when we are misunderstood beings. The show is brief, emotional and sensitive, despite showing raw events of a person, but, in the end, despite his many mistakes, his narrative freshness weighs more, and ends up offering something new. (6.5/10)
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