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Journey With You (Chinese Series)

By Golu
I've always had kind of a love hate relationship with Chinese historical BLs. Some are genuinely excellent, but then there are others that cram in so much plot that keeping track of all the layers of betrayal and scheming gets exhausting, and I end up checking out mentally. Part of the issue is also just how much content is out there in this space, so something really has to stand out to keep me hooked. In this case, the production value is genuinely impressive, top tier stuff, but story wise, I just couldn't bring myself to actually care about these characters. There's a ton of political scheming and backstage manipulation running throughout. Somewhere in the middle of all that chaos, a hostage ends up falling for his own Prince Charming. The show runs eight episodes, each around 50 to 60 minutes long. After spending three years guarding the border, Fifth Prince Yin Qi gets called back to the capital because of a secret letter, only to end up walking straight into a deadly...
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Moonlight Amour (Filipino Mini-Series)

By Golu
OMG!! This show was so bad that it was almost an embarrassment to watch. Please don't ask me why and how I ended up watching this. I do understand that this was likely made with zero budgets , on phone, with friends for YouTube, but then how I came to know about this and spent my time wasting on this is beyond me. Even writing this review feels like an utter waste of time, so I will keep it short. On a bright side, the show was only 4 episodes of about 18 minutes each.

It is a confusing story, to be honest. Yohan has some disease and is soon dying. His boyfriend Ace, who is only pretending to be in love with him because it was his dying mother's wish, wants to leave him but thinks he will come out as an asshole to leave him while he is dying. Meanwhile a group of three random friends keep an eye on happenings all around. One of them figures out that the guy dying is actually Yohan's twin Gohan. At some point they switched (yes!! Kill me). This random dud era the real Yohan profess their love for one another. Meanwhile Ace decides that he needs to breakup with fake Yohan to move on in life, which he does breaking his heart. Even though Gohan is dying, he did love Ace a lot. Eventually the guy dies and the real Yohan and the new guy become a couple.

This story has no heads or tail on what they were trying to do? How does no one know that Yohan has a twin? Why would a mother ask her son to love a random man before dying? Even when Gohan dies, the real Yohan has no sadness, instead he is more interested in kissing the new boy. I mean, this is a classic case of a story been plucked out of thin air. The direction was bad, the acting was unanimously atrocious and the less I talk about the dialogues, the better it is. It is just safe to say that absolutely no one should spend their time on this. (0/10)
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