Just bad filmmaking

I wanted to like it. The premise is interesting enough, it's a BL with vampires, and it has decent photography. Unfortunately, the absolute lack of pacing, setup, or cohesive story dooms it to failure. It's a BL, but it almost wholesale skips the "falling in love" part. You get a few seconds of filming an awkward school project, a few seconds playing basketball, and now they are star-crossed lovers. What?? How did that happen?

The editing is sloppy and plot devices are established and then seemingly abandoned out of forgetfulness. For example, a big point is made about the ultra-protective older brother who monitors his sibling's every move after past tragedy. But right after he actually catches his brother seemingly moments from being killed by a vampire (his greatest fear), he gives up on all that protectiveness after the slightest bit of protest and we essentially never see the character again. Uhh? Completely implausible. Why even include this in the plot if it wasn't going anywhere?

We see the President character several times, but she has essentially no impact on the plot at any time, except for calling up other vamp. We see her harvesting blood from herself, but it's never shown being used. Why was she even in this show? It feels like a few crucial scenes with her were omitted.

It's a small thing, but I don't understand the "hideout" room... it seems like a bedroom, it has personal possessions, it's private, they sleep together in there, but it's also seemingly open to the public and people can just barge in whenever.

Also, why is a vampire spending decades enrolled at a university posing as a student? I can suspend a lot of disbelief, but surely after his 20th year or so as a freshman, somebody would notice that he hasn't graduated (or aged)? And he really sits through film history 101 every day for decades on end just in the hopes he can get an occasional bit of student blood? He must be the world's preeminent expert on Mappelthorpe by now.

TL;DR: It's a sloppy show that lacks soul or exposition where stuff just happens for no reason and not much makes any sense. I kept rewinding thinking my brain or the stream stuttered as it lurched from scene to scene without any connection, but it's just bad filmmaking.

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