On one hand, there was a sappy love story, on the other the exposing of dark secrets of BL industry... But then the second part fell apart and it ended up more of a sappy love story with not-so-subtle jabs at the director's previous company. Still, the tonal shift between the two was just ridiculous. In one scene we have Bas being molested by Tee, in the next James and Ait enter James' apartment all happy and in love, and when they see Marco their only question is whether he's in love with James. It's not like they don't know that Marco just drove Bas to meet his abuser. They just... don't give a damn, I guess?
Although that may be because James is a certified moron. When tasked with delaying Tee, he asks him to meet, but can't come up with anything to talk about. The series they work on? The press conference? No, let's just randomly order six bread rolls, that should work. Kinda reminded me of that scene in ep 1 when he sat in a cafe for two hours waiting for Ait and was speechless when asked why did he need a ride. Like... In two hours he could have come up with some crazy story about how a parrot flew into his car window. Or just walk to the studio, I guess.
Ait also annoyed me by being constantly angry at everyone. But I understood why he kept walking out on people when they kept whining "let me explain" and didn't explain anything.
Marco... I don't even know what his deal was. His actions didn't make any sense.
Honestly, I kept watching it for Bas, because he was precious and needed a happy ending, but in the end, all of his problems magically disappeared. The thing with food he struggled with throughout the entire season 1 was forgotten. Family issues were thrown in in a most unrealistic way and didn't lead to anything. Tee's abuse got exposed to the public, because taking it to the police would be too mainstream, I guess? I'm just not sure why doing it made him so happy. And all of his depression vanished in the light of Marco's love. Sigh...
The ending was messy and disappointing, but at least it made it clear that it was, at its core, a sappy love story, and everything else that happened wasn't nearly as important as the main characters' relationship. Exposé what? Dark secrets whose? Inappropriate relationship? Doesn't matter. Love conquers all!
Also, I don't usually do this, but this show dragged so much, I watched most of it at 1.5x speed. There's only so much of James not knowing what to say I'm willing to watch. That made music absolutely unbearable, but it was a price I was willing to pay.