Refreshingly cute and fluffy. Words I never thought I would use in a written review of a BL/GL, yet here they are. Additionally, everything is fake- the whole set up, fake. And that is what made it so enjoyable. It is a story of two close male friends and two close female friends who by happenstance were forced to confront a whole new reality for themselves as ‘couples’.

Min-hwan (Hwang Min-Hwan) and Joo-ha (Lee Joo-Ha) are ‘boyfriend and girlfriend’. Having been coerced to be so by cultural influences from a social event they were attending with both participating in a ritualic game. Feeling the pressure to remain a couple since that is what the expectation is, they continue to do so after the game. Yet, something sort of feels off about their obvious superficial relationship.

Their backstory becomes both amusing and interesting. Min-hwan has a long-established friendship with Jin-hyuk (Jin Hyuk). Six months before Min-hwan and Joo-ha becoming a couple, Min-hwan and Jin-hyuk took a vacation together, alone, for a change, rather than with a group of friends. Here, with barriers gone, they both begin to realize that their friendship is more emotive than merely platonic, and they each have romantic feelings for one another. Finding that out, however, seemed quite awkward and clumsy.

Ironically, at about the same time, Joo-ha and her best friend, So-eun (Kim So Eun) also started to realize that the feeling they had for each other was far deeper than merely being friends. They too also had romantic feelings for one another. Their transition, however, was much less awkward and was more touching.

However, neither couple knew how to express their relationship publicly and before they could process what they were feeling, Min-hwan and Joo-ha were ‘forced’ into the contrived relationship.

This is an astonishingly short series with the whole watching time being about 45 minutes. So, it obviously does not go deep nor is there a lot of character development or depth to the story or people. But it is amusing and goes for shallowness of the situations that they are in with humor. I found it funny in a tickle-my-funny-bone sort of way.

Kim So Eun and Lee Joo-Ha really stood out in this mini-series. They at least could project naturalness to their relationship and it did feel as if they had a connection and some genuine chemistry between the two of them. They looked comfortable with each other and frankly they made a cute couple together. Meanwhile, Jin Hyuk and Hwang Min-Hwan, while both ruggedly handsome men, were obviously uncomfortable playing the role of ‘lovers’. They had no chemistry together and did not even pretend very well to being a couple. Sorry, guys, it just did not work, and you both looked wooden and unnatural, and we could tell. It was, frankly, almost comical. Actually, you should have played it more from that angle. You might have gotten away with it better.

Overall, this story is cute and from a cultural perspective, I liked it. It explains a lot about Korean culture. That much I appreciated. You cannot take this series in any way seriously. It is obviously tongue-in-cheek. They knew it was fake. I knew it was fake and as the saying goes, “no harm, no foul.” Do not over-analyze something when it is clearly meant to convey irony and be facetious. Lighten up and simply enjoy. Sure, the acting could have been better and perhaps deeper, but the story is and was meant to be cute and fluffy. On that, they delivered.

Rating- 4 out of 5

Streaming on- GND Studios YouTube Channel