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jpny01
Good cast, but not much else
This is one of those series you only stick with because the cast is really attractive. There is some good acting as well, but unforunately not much material for them.
JC Lopez does a great job of playing a woman in a man's body, not overdoing it but quite convincing and funny - for as long as the plot remembers that he is, in fact, a woman. There was really no purpose to the transformation and it might have been better to skip it. There's no reason Charlie couldn't have started out with the same insufferable qualities as a man. There's a dance scene he has that's so cute and hot that it alone makes the series worth watching. Actually, this would have been more enjoyable if it were just 12 episodes of JC dancing.
Kaleb Ong is fantastic as usual, but unfortunately a bit wasted on his character's story, which is unbelievable and contrived.
Finally, Orly Mejia was a bit surprising, being not just beautiful but quite a good actor as well. The rest of the cast was of varying ability but overall good enough.
The story is repetitive and way too preachy. I don't want to be lectured about gender & love in a BL comedy, and the point hammered isn't really applicable to the real world. It should be that whichever gender you love, your love is valid, not that everyone can be in love with all genders, and in any case it never seems to apply to Trans characters, who all end up alone, so let's not pretend any of these series have any real sense of social responsibility. The message is that only attractive boys deserve love. If you're trying to make a serious LGBTQ+ point, it can't be that all you need to do to get a straight guy to love another man is to pursue him until he gives in, which is not going to lead to many happy outcomes in real life.
In the case of Felix & Kajo, for the entire series Kajo showed no romantic interest or hint thereof toward Felix until he suddently did in the last few minutes. If Kajo had repressed feelings from the start, then we needed to see that procession, not just a light switch flipping between straight and gay.
That lead to the other problem I had, which is there is way too much and too repetitive unrequited love, which grew tiresome and unpleasant. Not enough happened between the main pair to be interesting, and Kaleb Ong is too good at portraying pain to make his storyline something I want to watch in my leisure time. The plot of this is so thin that it felt like watching the same episode over and over after whatever story ideas the writer had ran out after the first handful of episodes.
And dividing it into 12 episodes was a mistake. Having to wade through the same really long credit sequence with the overbearing main theme just ads to the feeling of running in circles.
The direction and other production qualities are OK - it's hard to tell because the script is so weak.
I did enjoy looking at the cast - JC is so naturally cute and sexy that it's hard to look away - but if you need a coherent and interesting story, you won't find one here.
JC Lopez does a great job of playing a woman in a man's body, not overdoing it but quite convincing and funny - for as long as the plot remembers that he is, in fact, a woman. There was really no purpose to the transformation and it might have been better to skip it. There's no reason Charlie couldn't have started out with the same insufferable qualities as a man. There's a dance scene he has that's so cute and hot that it alone makes the series worth watching. Actually, this would have been more enjoyable if it were just 12 episodes of JC dancing.
Kaleb Ong is fantastic as usual, but unfortunately a bit wasted on his character's story, which is unbelievable and contrived.
Finally, Orly Mejia was a bit surprising, being not just beautiful but quite a good actor as well. The rest of the cast was of varying ability but overall good enough.
The story is repetitive and way too preachy. I don't want to be lectured about gender & love in a BL comedy, and the point hammered isn't really applicable to the real world. It should be that whichever gender you love, your love is valid, not that everyone can be in love with all genders, and in any case it never seems to apply to Trans characters, who all end up alone, so let's not pretend any of these series have any real sense of social responsibility. The message is that only attractive boys deserve love. If you're trying to make a serious LGBTQ+ point, it can't be that all you need to do to get a straight guy to love another man is to pursue him until he gives in, which is not going to lead to many happy outcomes in real life.
In the case of Felix & Kajo, for the entire series Kajo showed no romantic interest or hint thereof toward Felix until he suddently did in the last few minutes. If Kajo had repressed feelings from the start, then we needed to see that procession, not just a light switch flipping between straight and gay.
That lead to the other problem I had, which is there is way too much and too repetitive unrequited love, which grew tiresome and unpleasant. Not enough happened between the main pair to be interesting, and Kaleb Ong is too good at portraying pain to make his storyline something I want to watch in my leisure time. The plot of this is so thin that it felt like watching the same episode over and over after whatever story ideas the writer had ran out after the first handful of episodes.
And dividing it into 12 episodes was a mistake. Having to wade through the same really long credit sequence with the overbearing main theme just ads to the feeling of running in circles.
The direction and other production qualities are OK - it's hard to tell because the script is so weak.
I did enjoy looking at the cast - JC is so naturally cute and sexy that it's hard to look away - but if you need a coherent and interesting story, you won't find one here.
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