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 ...
Kawe and Henrique have been close friends forever. Henrique's openly gay and finds real comfort in his straight friend Kawe, who's always there for him no matter what. When Henrique breaks up with Jorge and seems down about it, Kawe keeps trying to lift his spirits but nothing's really working. So he comes up with an idea, signing up on Grindr hoping to find someone decent to set Henrique up with. He ends up finding Mike and introduces the two of them. But the more time Kawe spends around Henrique through all this, the more he realizes he's developing feelings of his own, though he doesn't fully understand what's happening and struggles to process it. Even their mutual girlfriend keeps joking about it constantly. As Henrique's birthday gets closer, Kawe finally sits with his own feelings and decides he needs to actually do something about it. Then he learns Mike's actually interested in someone else entirely, not Henrique, which pushes Kawe to finally open up about how he feels, and Kawe and Henrique finally kiss, a moment that felt inevitable the whole time since their chemistry was obvious to literally everyone around them.
Honestly this series, set in a college town, keeps things pretty simple, the kind of story that probably would've been made a decade ago. There's no big dramatic twists here, just this quiet realization that you've secretly been in love with your best friend the whole time without even noticing. I genuinely liked watching Kawe's feelings shift, starting as just a friend, becoming someone more protective and caring, then someone who genuinely wants to spend all his time with Henrique, and finally someone who admits what he's actually feeling. As for Henrique, he mostly comes across as a guy who just wants to be loved by someone. I do think his character needed a bit more depth though, because honestly I couldn't tell if he was ever actually in love with Kawe at all. Their female friend in the group gets some of the funniest lines in the whole show. Production wise it's still a little rough around the edges if I'm being honest, but the acting holds up better than a lot of other Brazilian BL shows I've watched. The actor playing Kawe is good looking and handles the role well. Overall it's a decent one time watch, nothing that'll stick with you, but a simple, sweet little story. (5.5/10)
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