I enjoyed watching this series, but at the end I felt disappointed because I don't think they hit the high target they set for themselves. They wanted to use a BL story to explore important social issues of socio/economic class, gender and identity discrimination, rural poverty, and so on. The main problem was that they had very limited budgets and not enough screen time to do this all successfully. So a lot of the social messaging came out as just preachy statements -- rather than showing viewers the problems, the characters just sat and stated their positions.

Plot: Rich kid, marooned in the country, falls in love with a tenant farm boy. That part was pretty well done; the characters were believable and the story really did a nice job of showing some of the personal traumas (Kai's father's violent death, the family's mourning, and Kai's mother's acceptance of his love choices were very touching). Andre's conversion from insensitive clod to sympathetic figure was good. However, the script had a number of abrupt transitions (e.g. when Kai suddenly fell in bed with Andre), and when Kai (who previously seemed pretty well balanced, and had no problem suddenly sleeping with Andre) became unexpectedly wracked with gay angst in the last episode.) And the end left some key points really hanging (what happens to poor Brix? Is he just cast aside?)

Acting: Pretty good. Ian Rosapapan is charismatic and his smiles made the series. John Padilla did better at being the nasty little snot than the loving partner, but he was generally believable -- I thought his self-realization at the end was very well portrayed. Yoyen Bautista was similarly believable, and I really liked his character Brix (too bad he was left twisting slowly slowly in the wind). The farm women were believable, sitting around the fire and talking, but there wasn't enough time to explore their stories -- what kind of experiences did they have that led them to talk about the discrimination they had experienced? (I think there may have been some trans characters, but that never got clarified for me.)

Production: Very low budget. A few nice outdoor scenes but otherwise the only impressive scene was the family mourning for Kai's father. That one scene was truly beautiful.

Music: The soundtrack for the series was actually very good -- putting the audio a real step above most of the visuals. John Padilla sings nicely and a couple of the other songs were quite beautiful as background tracks. The music was well chosen and sensitively used.

The Ending: The very end clearly sets up a Season Two. It seems likely to introduce a range of new issues (Andre's angry family fighting his love interest in Kai), but those risk being real tropes. I hope that the writers are given more time to explore some of the issues that were just barely touched upon in Season One. And I hope that the main characters can develop more gradually, without abrupt emotional transitions. But I have to say that I have been drawn in by the actors and I want to know what happens to their characters, so I will definitely be watching.