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Ongoing 8/12
Jack & Joker: U Steal My Heart!
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by Xx Y
15 days ago
8 of 12 episodes seen
Ongoing 0
Overall 6.5
Story 3.5
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 2.0

Not worth to hyped

The first thing I want to mention is that the drama does not touch on serious issues as it is presented, on the contrary, they escape this situation by taking lighly as jokes. The most important of the problems they mentioned is that children cannot go to school due to poverty. In my opinion, this is just a cover used to deepen Jack's character, but it fails to do so. These people live in places called slums in Thailand, where extremely poor people live. If these children do not study, the two important problems they fall into, such as drugs and prostitution, are never mentioned. I say this to those who defend that it does not focus on the BL plot because it deals with serious issues. For example, Jocke spends five years in prison, but we do not see any real psychological or physical reflections of this, as if he came from a Los Angeles vacation.
However, some will say that the BL part is slowburn. But I do not think that the two characters spend enough time in the series to form a bond and understand each other for a series to be slowburn in this respect. If we look at the length of over an hour and take into account the eight episodes we have, the sum of the scenes they are together does not make up one episode of the series. I don't think the basis or development of their love or hatred for each other is reflected enough. The fact that we "understand, know" does not mean that they reflect this in the story well. The fact that the English love confession scene is turned into a joke is an example of this, or the fact that they still use the word "friend" while hugging in bed in the last episode. I am really tired of these. To be honest, even if the scenes of the two of them together are few, the script does not have the potential to fill the remaining parts, it is boring and stupid most of the time, so I watch it by skipping many parts. It is an unnecessarily overhyped series. The few lovely moments they will put in the last three episodes will not change my opinion that the series as a whole is boring and has a poorly written script.

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