love & friendship

What I like about it:
1) The participants are not shy / open to talk about some deep & heavy topics like bullying, love life etc. There are a lot of crying. I found myself feeling closer to them more than the participants in His Man.

2) The intimacy. Like Gino hugging Guanyu or Gino helping Guanyu tucking in his shirt ? or Gino groping Guangyu's butt or even his penis or Gino mentioning how big Guanyu's penis is hahahah. Even though they didn't show him groping (only through what was mentioned by either Guanyu or Gino) but I think this interactions are very natural for people who like each other. They're boys after all. I'm glad the show is not being too prude. And that kiss in the tent? ? Tbh watching His Man 2, I know it's a Korean gay dating show, but I can't help occasionally feeling like they're straight guys acting as gay guys for a show ?

3) The friendships shared between all of them. I just love the bonds between them especially between Eri and Bobo. Can't believe they can be so close in such a short period of time.

4) Speaking of time, I hope season 2 would be at least 8 - 10 days.

5) The diversity of the participants. For example, Nio identified as bisexual. Some others though not identified as bi, have dated girls before. Eri, who identified himself as he/him/his pronouns despite being so pretty having long hair and wearing makeup.

What I don't like / What could be improved:
1) I really don't like the voting to leave or stay. This is a dating show. Not some kind of survival show ? It's really hard to watch that part. I hope there's no such thing like that in season 2.

2) I know this is His Man inspired but at least do it properly. I don't see the point of making a secret phone call when the call is made to a phone in a room shared by four people and the conversation is heard by other people in the room?? Each of them have a mobile phone. So the call should be made to the mobile phone instead. Anyway, hope you can come up with a better concept in the next season.

3) The kind of topics that can or can't be discussed. For example, the role in the bedroom topic raised by Jia Hang. Obviously it caused quite a stir and some tense in the room because some people are not comfortable to discuss about it openly. I mean who would? The show is watched by people all over the world. Why would strangers from the opposite part of Taiwan learn what is their role in the bed? ?

Final words, Nio ma boy, reminds me a lot of Seonwoo from HM2. Like boy can't decide who he actually likes until the very end, he chose Bobo. I mean what? Besides when he confessed to Guanyu that he likes him, it was already too late because Guanyu already fell hard for Gino. Anyway I'm rooting for Guanyu Gino couple. I hope they can overcome the challenges they faced, the one that they fought during the last two days of the show, and officially become a couple once Guanyu moves to Taipei :) I got a feeling that Gino is someone who prefer to live together with his boyfriend. So I hope they can work it out somehow.

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