It took me a while to finally clear my mind about these four special episodes, but I realized that it is now or never. Many people thought these episodes were just a nice but unnecessary ending, which can be true depending on what you were looking for, but I don’t think they were completely useless. It was in my opinion a nice way to see how things evolved between Lian and Kuea, because even though at a first glance many thought that in the year we haven’t seen them nothing has changed, but it is not like this. Watching this story told in such a light and funny, it is easy to forget that their situation was incredibly fucked up and the first season was an incredible journey for them to realize that. This “second season” is what happens when you realize that your situation was fucked up and you are doing your best to change it and make it better. Changes doesn’t happen overnight! They are still going to fuck things up from time to time and slip back in past behavior, but with the newly acquired knowledge they can recognize it and take a step beck to chang things. Kuea has spent his entire life hiding things so it is normal for it to be his default course of action, but it took him only an episode to have this thought process and talk to Lian about his future. Lian too still think he has to be perfect to deserve what he has with Kuea, but this is not what Kuea want and to some extent this is not what Lian want as well. They obviously love each other very much, but love can’t solve things. It can be a motivation to take action and find a way to solve the things, but it is not enough to change things on its own. Also I think that other relationships as well changed and matured. Like Nuer and Kuea becoming besties! We see very little of Diao and Yi, but I’m sure that was because they are going to get their own series soon. I think it was overall a nice and interesting ending for this story, an hopeful one too!