I'll start with the good. The music is good. The cast is pretty good. Noh will probably seem lifeless to you, but I think that's bad directing, not bad acting. I think he's capable of displays of restrained and subtle emotion, but you only get to see it once or twice. The main couple are undoubtedly cute together, and they have strong chemistry. Bbomb has a really, really hot body and he's very sexy. Jin is adorable and his smile is really something.

The bad: There is no plot. None at all. The characters merely run in circles the entire series, and it's hard to convey how completely unexaggerated that is. Do you know how many times people get injured playing football? I don't - I lost count. (That's slightly exaggerated - but Jin does get injured more than once, and it serves exactly the same plot function both times.)

There is only one source of drama in this series, and it's jealousy. Both characters are endlessly jealous over the other so much as being in the same room as anyone else - girls, boys, houseplants, they're jealous of everything. It's always a misunderstanding, and the characters never, ever discuss it - they just retreat somewhere, sulk, and refuse to answer the phone or communicate in any way. With no exaggeration, the number of times this happens is so great, often several times in a single episode, that I can't tell you how many - really, I'm not kidding.

Bbomb is so psychotically jealous that Jin should really run for his life, because he's going to end up strangled to death in a fit of rage. Although the chances are 50/50 he'll be able to escape if Bbomb is currently recovering from a football injury.

There are a lot of supporting characters in this, and none of them serve any purpose whatsoever. If you're here to see Kaownah & Turbo, prepare for disappointment. There are hints that Turbo likes Kaownah, but it never goes anywhere. At all. And Kaowah is surprisingly terrrible in this - I think again, very strange directing. Ball, played by the actor who is the fujoshi's brother in Oxygen, appears two or three times and one of the support characters is smitten by him (and Ball is almost fatally cute), but nothing happens. At all. He's not even in the finale. Boss, who played Kao in Oxygen is in this a lot more than I was expecting, and he's wonderful in a completely opposite role (reserved, manly, aristocratic - I would love to see him play a villain), but it's not enough. The guy who plays That in Manner of Death (the hot guy with the motorbike) does nothing significant.

I'd say about 75% of the run time is characters eating and drinking, or traveling to a from eating and drinking. The other 25% is people sulking in jealousy and implausible lack of communication.

All the friends have a master plan to get Jin & Bbomb together, but it makes absolutely no sense - it's totally incoherent and illogical, and appears to be more or less randomly sabotaging the two endlessly until... they get together?

Jin is so wracked by internalized homophobia that not only will he not allow Bbomb to tell anyone they're dating, he won't even let Bbomb hug him, even when they're alone in private - until the final episode, when he does something so totally outrageous and out of character your mouth will hit the floor - let's just say it involves involuntary outing, and if the person in question didn't already know, it would have been the worst thing any character has ever done in a BL (other than villains).

There is not one tired trope that isn't stuffed into this. If one of the main characters hugs someone, the other will show up at just that moment and misunderstand. If someone has a drop of alcohol, vomit and a piggyback ride will result. Playing football? Guess what happens? It often feels like a checklist they need to get through each ep.

Bbomb's house in Chiang Mai is so gigantic that it doesn't fit in a wide frame shot - seriously, it's not a mansion, maybe not even a palace, but an entire city-complex. If I were to guess, I'd say at least 2,000 sq m. And two people live there. With no domestic help. What is the point of this absurdity?

Despite the main couple's chemistry, they never really get anywhere, and the ending of 2gether is an orgy of pornographic debauchery compared to how this ends. There's a stuffed animal involved. And nobody f@#$s it, which would have been more interesting and satisfying than what happens.

When you finish the first episode, you'll say "This guy is too negative - it's not THAT bad." When you finish the last episode, you'll say "why didn't this a$$hole warn me it was this bad?" because it's much worse than I can convey in words.

Given the above, a four rating may seem high, but the quality of the production is good (other than the directing and writing), and the actors did as well as anyone could with this awful, miserable script, and I can at least say you're never without eye candy, so I think a four is reasonable. I can't imagine ever rewatching even one scene in this. I don't think there was even a gratuitous shower scene to go back to.