HIStory: Fique Longe de Mim (2017)

Sorry if my review sucks, I've never written one before T^T.

This was the first ever Taiwanese web series I've seen and let me just say that I thoroughly enjoyed it. The plot was a pretty basic one for the boys love genre, which was step brothers falling in love. Although the plot was quite basic, it sure as hell did entertain me. It just added so many cute elements that I had to keep watching and I'd scream every time a new episode was translated. The actors weren't bad at all for a web series. Their acting was very natural unlike some bl dramas where the acting would start off super awkward. The music was nice in my opinion and they did a great job with it fitting the mood of a certain scene. I would definitely watch this series again, especially as a pick me upper. My only complaint is that it was super short and I wish that they made these episodes a bit longer. Overall, this series made it on my favorites list and if you're a die hard fujoshi like me, I really recommend it.

P.S. I heard that the officials of the web series are going to try their best to have a second season for the series because they got so many requests from the fans. *crosses fingers*

Leia Mais

This review is to praise Chiao Man Ting's character, Meng Meng.

Before her, Love Sick's Pang was my favorite fujoshi in a drama. I must give thanks to HiStory for introducing Meng Meng to the world. I won't actually do what she did, but I can just feel her when she was shipping those boys, and the satisfaction in witnessing that ship sailing. Sorry, but for me, the story was simple and made colorful by that rotten girl, her extreme imagination, and meddling attitude.

Nahhh... everything written above is unreliable. I'm just a BL fangirl, excited by another BL fangirl on screen. Hahaha!

If I were to be critical, I'd say that the premise has been re-used sooooo many times before, thus slightly deflating my bubble of excitement towards the drama. I love all three stories, but I have to say this garners least love, and yes, even though "least" and "love" don't make sense together, I'd put them next to each other just because I love this part of the trilogy as well, not as much as I love the other two, but I love it all the same, and "like" won't be enough to describe my fondness towards every story in this series.

Sorry, but there are just people like me who naturally complicates even the simplest of things.

Leia Mais

A near miss.

This short story has a lot going for it - the two leads are really cute, and they have really strong chemistry - the actors not afraid of affection and do a lot of the sort of touching that people who love with each other do. They're very sweet togther, and really pleasant to watch. It's funny, Edison Song's facial expressions are really charming, and the mild outrage with which he faces the minor tribulations of his fate are cute and not OTT as they could have been.

But there are two serious problems. One is that the cloying music is too loud and just oppressive - really unpleasant and irritating.

But more seriously. the fujoshi in this is the most horrible character ever conceived. She is supernaturally annoying, she's a horrible human being, and although I abhor violence, I want to punch her in the face so badly. If you were to line up Meng Meng, Ted Cruz, and Hitler, and tell me I could only punch one of them in the face, I'd choose Mehg Meng without a thought. She's not merely fetishizing, she takes it to the point of malignant self-indulgence and what she does is so awful, so thoughtless ,and selfish, and could have destroyed a family. She's instantly forgiven by the boys, when they should have never spoken to or associated with her again. I mean you want to just grab her by the hair and slam her head into a hard surface over and over again. And that's understating how I feel.

This was hard to rate. I want to give it an 8.5 - other than the abovementioned flaws, it does what it does quite well - but I also want to give it a 1 for Meng Meng. You might enjoy this if you FF through her scenes - she does nothing that's important to the story except for one awful thing, which is revealed offscreen, so you can skip her without missing anything.

Leia Mais

Lost

I must've been half asleep for this episode because I'm having a hard time remembering anything good I liked from this episode besides them being attractive.

Let's Dive In,

The guy was in love with his famous step-brother. Yay, we are once again romanticizing incest. God, I love BL.

Don’t ask me what happened in this episode cause I have zero knowledge. Meng Meng was a BL fan and was trying to deliberately get her best friend and his step-brother together. With her whole chest, she thought there was nothing wrong with shipping a brother and his step sibling. I just gave it a four cause I don’t know where my head was at during this episode, and I would go back to re-watch it, but I’m really not interested.

Leia Mais

This is the 4th HIStory season that I watch (Trapped, My Hero, MODC, SAFM), and, compared to the most recent seasons this is just not good. I can't say it's bad because I really wanted the main couple to end up together but there are so many flaws that I can't ignore...
I'll name a few:
-They fell in love so fast like??? I know it's a mini series but dude....... that was some fast love, at least for one of them. That isn't too much of a problem though, compared to the other flaws.
-There was way too much silence. The songs weren't bad but there were many awkward moments that could have been avoided if they had included some background music or sound.
-Meng Meng. I don't even want to rant about this character so I'll just say she was unrealistic (even fervorous BL lovers wouldn't act like her, at least not outside of their head), disrespectful and simply annoying.

Yeah, not the best but I can't say that I didn't enjoy it!

Leia Mais

Annoying and Average

This was better than Hero but wow it again is such a weak story. Maybe because the show is so short, there isn't time to fully develop a good story. I don't to spoil too much but I'll just talk about the issues.
Firstly, step siblings dating is still weird for me. I could barely get past that.
However, the show was ruined the most by the fetishizing friend's behaviour. It was disgusting. I wanted to smack her face several times during the show. When being a wingwoman there is a massive difference between doing it because you genuinely care and doing it to fulfil a sexualising fantasy. She was the latter sadly. I mean she was rarely there to see the good chemistry between them. Giving that fake present was the worst part and is not how you wingwoman. At least she apologised though.

But yeah HIStory has sort of disappointed me so far.

Leia Mais

Painful to Watch

This is a story of opposites falling in love. It is an uncomfortable series as it does involve a relationship between step-brothers. For some strange reason, there seems to be a lot of stories evolving around step-brothers that baffle me. It isn't prudishness; just not understandable. Anyway, it is a good solid story that is extremely well acted by the main actors who are adorable and play their roles with complete conviction. But I hated this story. Not the acting nor the actors. Just the story. It contains a Fujoshi (a woman who is a fan of gay relationships) of the worst kind. She does something that is so astonishingly despicable . I absolutely hated this story because of disgusting manipulation of someone trying to force something that was not quite ready to fully develop yet. I detest people who think they know more than they do or think that gay relationship are cute, romantic, or a fantasy of some sort. Perhaps from an outsider looking it, that might be but for the individuals who are experiencing them, it can be givers of pain and delight. And these are the individuals who must work through all of that; not the fantasizers.

Leia Mais

Is my opinion, so disagree in a good way not a bad way.

The line separates, where the spiolers is. So below the line, is where contain spoilers.

Yeah overall it's a 8.0 for me, if you just missing some queer stuff to watch. Without so much drama, violence etc. I can recommend it, same with rewatch. You don't have to follow intense with it.
This is a harmless BL serie, and I quite like that. Because somtimes I think, it can be too much with violence etc. So yeah, younger people can watch it too, without their parents get nervouser over what they seen.
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The plot is basic, like many other BL series. It's not the reasons , why I just give the story 7.0 The reasons is, I can't get out of my mind. That Cheng Qings father and Feng Hes mother got married, so Cheng Qing and Feng He became stepbrother. For me is just ruined something of the story, because is seems so wierd to me, That stepsiblings fall in love with each other. I know there no related things between them as blood or something like that. It will be okay, if they had feelings for each other, before they got stepbrotheres, or was in relationship before.
Yeah I know for many, will my opinion don't make sense and will be crazy. But it's just how my brain works.

The other thing is, why I just give it 7.0. Beacuse in the end, I miss something, I miss that we could see how it goes with Cheng and He, After they movde together, not for give us a clearly answer on. How their relationship is between them, are they boyfriends, just stepbrotheres and eachothers friends at the same time etc. But just to see how it's goes with Chengs actor, and what He will study to.
But I got also mad at Meng Meng, for write a letter to Cheng, where it should look like from He. It was too much, because she knew that. Their had become stepbrothers. But sometime she was too obsessed with Cheng and He too. I didn't like that.

But I loved the acting/cast so much, special the chemistry between Duke Wu {Cheng Qing] and Edison Song [Feng He]
Yeah overall it's a 8.0 for me, if you just missing some queer stuff to watch. Without so much drama, violence etc. I can recommend it, same with rewatch. You don't have to follow intense with it.

Leia Mais

The acting in this episode is better than in the first episode and I feel that the characters had better chemistry and more scenes to develop. It has its share of cliches like walking in the rain while you cry, but it is so charming when I see BL dramas adapt these cute scenes. If you want to watch an episode of a couple that has great chemistry, is a little taboo, has some cliched scenes (that are adorable), and happen to be guys then I recommend this. Some people may not like the Meng Meng character but I found her to be necessary and I would like to have her as a sister or friend. It has a low production value but feels real and I wasn't bored at all while watching. I do wish it was longer but it was a good BL show to watch. A+

Leia Mais