Let's just cut right to it, this show was painfully boring. There, I said it. A story built around partial amnesia has real potential, but between the choppy scene structure and random flashbacks thrown in constantly, the whole plot ends up feeling more tangled than it needed to be. The romance doesn't fare much better either, it's written so poorly that I never really found myself invested in this couple. Both leads come across stiff on screen and deliver their lines in a really awkward way. The show runs 8 episodes, each somewhere around 30 to 35 minutes. Hanuel, a 29 year old language teacher, wakes up after an accident only to realize his memory stops at age 19. It turns out he'd been in another accident back then too, which is why his memories cut off at that point. He has zero recollection of the fact that he's currently living with his childhood friend Saebyeok, who's now a huge celebrity. That makes the whole situation even harder for Hanuel to wrap his ...
This one came out in 1988 and was apparently HBO's very first gay themed TV film. It was adapted from a play and that becomes obvious pretty quickly because almost the entire thing takes place inside an apartment with just two people talking through their grief and going back and forth about whether that grief even belongs to both of them equally. The story picks up after the death of a man named Colin. His ex-wife Marion, who was with him for over a decade, and his lover Arthur, who was by his side through the brutal final months of living with AIDS, are brought together in the loft they've both inherited half of as per Colin's will and now need to sell. What follows is the two of them sitting with old grievances and new ones, circling each other, confessing things, and slowly working through a shared loss that neither of them quite knows how to carry. Marion reveals that she herself has been infected with the virus. Arthur, understandably but also a little selfishly, want...