I see a lot of people "cutting this show slack" because it came from China.

But like... so? I mean, yeah I commend them for sneaking an LGBTQ story through the strict censorships of China but, if the final product presented is bad, does it really matter how much effort they put into it? If you're going to potentially risk your career to tell a story, I would HOPE you would make it a story worth telling.

But nope. This show falls flat in every regard.

I've seen shows with shoestring budget, but this absolutely takes the cake. I think all of their budget went into the soundtrack, because the songs they did play at least didn't make me want to claw my ears off. But everything else was sorely lacking. The locations were so uninspired. The sound team didn't know up from down. The costuming. The goddamn North Face bomber jacket.

The actors were... fine, but the biggest problem was the script. With roughly 15 minutes per episode, you would think the showrunners would cut out unnecessary plotlines to really do something with the main characters relationship.

But no. We get long shots of people gossiping, insipid storylines of side characters who love the lead actors and then just vanish from the story, and just a bunch of other cliché nonsense that appears just as quickly as its swept under the rug.

I don't know. The only thing positive I can say about the show is that it will make you laugh. But never for the right reasons.

Give it a watch if you want to make fun of it or if you just hate yourself.