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 ...
The setup follows Po, a guy who freelances designing book covers and spent his younger years kind of unsure about his own sexuality, which led him to porn, specifically clips from a performer called Peach Lover. This guy's whole thing is posting sex tapes online while always staying masked. At some point Peach Lover puts out word that his previous partner is out of the picture and he needs a new sub to perform with. Po throws his name in, lands the gig, and during their tryout sex session, meant to test their chemistry for future filming, the mask comes off and it turns out this is Sasom, an actual well known drama actor who just happens to shoot sex tapes on the side as a hobby. From there the two start talking for real, and it doesn't take long before the sex turns into an actual relationship. That whole arc wraps up in basically the first two episodes. Everything after that is just more sex, more falling for each other, some conversations about their personal insecurities, and then some drama tacked on near the end because apparently the show felt like it needed it. There's also a side plot running alongside all this involving Po's best friend and Sasom's loyal bodyguard, who it turns out has known about Sasom's secret hobby the entire time.
This show is genuinely rough. If there's one thing I can give it credit for, and I use that term loosely, it's that the two leads throw themselves into the sexual content without any visible discomfort, so their chemistry actually comes across as real, shifting from that early awkward tension into something more emotionally heavy later on. But every single episode is loaded with explicit content, we're talking constant thrusting, groping, guys licking each other's butt cheeks, you name it. Even scenes that should be totally mundane somehow turn into porn. Sasom could just be sitting there having breakfast and Po will just wander over and start seducing him out of nowhere. At its core this is just gay smut wearing the costume of a series, there's no real plot underneath it. Then out of nowhere the last two episodes try to cram in a pile of twists, the ex Peach Lover resurfaces, Po and Sasom hit a rough patch and consider splitting, some evil father figure shows up out of the blue, and none of it lands because at that point everyone watching already knows exactly what this show actually is, an oversexed BL with nothing else going on.
Bottom line, this one's just bad through and through. (1/10)
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