This is the continuing story from Season One but a bit tamer. By now, Greg (Anyhony Flores) and Tupe (Rex Lantano) are well into their relationship. They are firmly established as a couple, with Tupe now ardently wanting to become more productive in the relationship by going back to work. Greg’s father, Rich (Arnold Reyes), has now moved on from the anguish and embarrassment he must have experienced when Tupe also fell in love with his son. As trite as the saying might be, time does heal all wounds, and Rich has begun to realize that this was meant to be. And now he is back on the prowl. While he has encounters, Rich is still looking for his ‘Mr. Right’.

However, lately there is a troublesome aspect with Greg that Tupe cannot quite figure out that is unsettling him. He does not seem like himself. Much has been left unresolved with Greg and his former girlfriend, Alex (Karina Bautista), to be sure. Greg, feeling guilty, meets with Alex to try to find some meaningful final closure. For him, he could never go back, while for her, it is still more raw and painful. She wants to go back. Would love to go back. After all, they had been engaged and the separation for her had been not so easy to forget.

However, Tupe continues to sense and feel things are not quite right, with Greg remaining tight-lipped about what is going on. In Tupe’s mind, Greg seems unwilling, if not downright opposed, to telling him what is going on. All Greg is hoping to do is to find an amiable way to end the discourse with Alex without involving Tupe.

With Tupe being anxious, he asks Alex to come over where she tells him that they were once engaged, and she is still in love with Greg. Tupe is devastated since he was unaware of the depth of their relationship and feels like he is the cause of the breakup. Neither Rich nor Greg have been honest or upfront with him about the relationship with Alex. There is an obvious feeling of exigency for Tupe.

Greg comes home and finds the two of them talking, which incenses him as he feels as if Tupe did not trust that he could handle this on his own. However, both begin to realize that while feelings are hurt, love remains deeper. Eventually, the misunderstandings are resolved when, for a frighteningly short moment, one thought that they lost the love of their life.

Meanwhile, by fate or sheer luck, Rich finds a guy for whom the world has stopped turning with just one look. Dominic (ZK Nakaoka), an owner of a gay bar, is also thunderstruck with Rich and before you know it, they are……well watch to find out.

I found the relationship between Rich and Dominic just a bit too Pollyanna and contrived. Not that Rich did not deserve a happy ending, it just felt a bit too rushed and too much of a storybook ending. Alex’s journey did come full circle. As Alex fueled the flames of discourse, she restlessly began to detect and perceive the depth of love that Greg has for Tupe. And knew that it is unshakeable. Therefore, she is, at the end, finally able to put asides her emotions and think more with her head than her heart. She decides to move on.

While this is softer in tone than Season One, it admittedly does not hesitate to show us the beauty of being in a gay relationship which is both healthy and natural. The bedroom scenes are titillating and sensual, like life should be. And they were not afraid to kiss with passion, commitment, and realism.

As in the first season, Rex Lantano captures one’s attention. He has a magical presence on the screen. While more laid-back in this series, he still encapsulates the nature of who Tupe is. Reflective. Anxious. Wanting/Needing to know more and please. Yet caring, passionate, and sensual. Tupe also feels the need to be productive and functional and to pull his own weight. Tupe always looks like he carries the weight of the world on his shoulders. Rex is one of those rare individuals who has the skill to be so natural in his movements that it appears as if the camera is an appendage of him. He does not play with the camera; the camera plays to him. Even in the bedroom scenes. There is no sense of uncomfortableness or even a feeling of shyness. He acts as if it is not there, which I find remarkable. Kudos for being so camera ready, friendly and letting us really see the character. Tupe truly develops before our eyes. Not many performers can do that so seemingly naturally. I could watch him perform all day. He is mesmerizing on screen.

So, if you want to see a BL that is a bit more evaluative and more like us than a sexual fantasy as Season One was, then this is the series for you. Simply enjoy the content of its story.

If I am being honest, however, my feelings for this series are a bit mixed. I wanted it to be slightly more challenging with the dynamics from the first season, which was salacious. To be sure, Season 2 dealt effectively with the issue between Greg-Alex and Rich has a happy ending. But it all just seemed a bit too neat, perhaps because the series is so short. I wish more time would have been spent exploring what Tupe was feeling and a story from his perspective. He was so pivotal in the dramas between everyone, or at the very least in the middle of things. Yet, his story seemed so ancillary to me in this second season.

Hopefully, if there is a Season 3, a story can delve more deeply into the perspective of Tupe’s rather dramatic story of the dynamics with both a father and his son and its impact of navigating his emotions and feelings as time marches on for him.

Rating- 4 out of 5

Streaming on- Gagaloolala