Why R U? : The Series (2020)

Must watch drama

Without giving enough information to reveal too much of the story, I think this is certainly up to date with the realities of the LGBTQ community and avoids the stereotypes placed on gay couples. As the director and producer said, the focus of this drama isn't that it is a BL drama but that it is a romance drama and it just happens that these characters are gay. The plot thickens constantly throughout the drama and it leaves you desperate to watch the next episode. The majority of these actors are complete beginners and even the majority of the main roles too. Zee (Fighter) not only hasn't been a main role in anything before but actually hasn't started in any dramas or films as any character. He is completely new to dramas and the world of tv and he pulls it off as if he is an expert. His skills and talents in acting really make you believe he has been a professional actor for years and that he has done many BL roles before. Also Saint (Tutor) has more experience both in acting and BL dramas, he is still a relatively new actor and yet he can pull it off just as well too. Both of these actors as well as Jimmy and Tommy who are complete newbies, produce what is honestly one of the best dramas I have watched and the chemistry they manage to produce makes the drama seem as if it is real. I am incredibly impressed with the hard work and dedication these 4, and all the rest of the cast have put into the drama. Also, the crew worked tirelessly to make this perfect and really nailed it. There are issues with subtitles, sound and picture at times and it can be hard to watch, which is why I can't make my 8.5 any higher, but because the story, characters and acting are so fantastically done, I persevered and it really is a must watch drama. If you want an up-to-date, entertaining, creative and generally interesting and fantastic drama whether it be because it is BL or not, then this is definitely one to watch.

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Definitely a must watch

This show left me confused, in love, and heart broken all at the same time. I'm so happy that Zon, Saifah, Fightor, and Tutor all had a happy ending. But I'm very curious to see what would have happened between Blue, Dew, and Champ. I think that Blue liked Champ but when Blue and Dew started to become closer he realized that he had feelings for Dew. I don't think that Champ had any feelings for Blue but when he realized that Dew and Blue were getting closer he got jealous. I think that's because he either has had feelings for Blue for a little and has just suppressed them or the jealousy that he was feeling brought feelings that he didn't know he had to the surface. I hope that there is a season 2. It didn't take me long to fall completely in love with all of the characters. I also really loved Japan and Tanthai's relationship so much. Even though it was just a small part, they really warmed my heart. I reccomend this to every BL fan and for people who want to watch their first BL.

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WHY U should you watch WHY R U?

This isn't the best, but still a good one to watch!

I am captivated by its storyline. A fiction writer who suddenly became part of a fiction story, it is like every fiction writers hidden dream.

But honestly saying, this series has a bunch of things needed to fix.
* First, their first three episodes is great. But I feel that as the series continues, it loses its charm. Their first episode is the one I highly anticipated. But as the series goes, it becomes a little bit boring.
* Second, the actors are great even though some of them are just newbies. But they should be given more chances to act in the series. You feel that the supporting actors are really just supporting the story which is not enhancing the story.
* Third, the Story. Honestly, this is a good story but I don't why somehow it become boring to watch. It features a lot of couples, but only two of them improved their relationship in the end. The others, well. I cannot say anything because their stories aren't clear and developed enough in the series. (If this will be having a second season, it is their chance to improve this. But if still don't happen, I would be disappointed.)
* Fourth, the effects. I greatly admire this series for its awesome visuals. Not just the actors but the locations and the editing itself. But the continuity of the editing until the end isn't maintained. (Maybe it is because for the improvement of the story of the characters so its fine.)
* Lastly, the scenes. The scene obviously wants to highlight its main couples (Fighter-Tutor & Saifah-Zon), but the introduced a lot of couples. And highlighting the two couples resulted in too little or even no development in the storyline of the other couples. Also, there is a scene where the Fighter-Tutor spent a week in a beach, which takes a whole episode of them just making love. Other couples were featured but I think it doesn't even occupy one-fourth of the time of that specific episode.

This series may have a lot of flaws, but then this is still a good one to watch. Hey, they featured MewGulf and another couple so why not give it a try, right? If this is given a second season (which for me is still 50-50), I hope they distributed the story to their other couples too. I seen more scene of the couples in their official MV for their soundtrack rather than in the series itself.

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When I first tried to watch this series I stopped and was gonna throw it away. The story was a mess. It was all over the place. Than came in Tutor who is played by Saint I was mad at first because in Love By Chance he was with Ae aka Perth and they were so cute together. However Saint did an amazing job between tutor and fighter. They had such hot chemistry. All their love Scenes felt real from the looks in their eyes to their love making scenes they were perfect. I would highly recommend this show just because of their acting. Also their many love scenes. Fighter himself was done by Zee and as i said him and Saint did such a good job.

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This series was very promising. The story was okay but in the middle of the production, I've heard that the filming had been affected by the pandemic. Some scenes were not appropriately filmed so they have major changes in the progress of the story for each character, especially SaiZon. There was no significant development in the love story of the other pairs as well. Sad. Because of the incident, almost half of the series was focused on the story of Tutor and Fight because their filming was finished before the breakout of Covid.

The actors were really amazing. Their acting was great. There were no cringy awkward moments between the all the pairs.

The musics were perfect! I love all the songs themed for each main pairs. I added them in my playlist. Worth listening to, thus highly recommended.

I will definitely rewatch this series.

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Um clássico necessário

Já estou reassistindo, porque saiu a versão Coreana e eu fiquei com muita vontade!
Essa versão original marcou época e fez história, TANTAS CENAS ICÔNICAS.
É bem verdade que a pandemia alcançou o BL e causou vários problemas, mas ainda assim é incrível.

Bom BL, soube mesclar os clichês com as novidades de um jeito bem criativo e interessante, foi divertidíssimo, a qualidade também foi ótima (com exceção da continuidade né...), as atuações foram satisfatórias e eles souberam entregar bem
Eu só sinto que começou muito bem e depois deu uma decaída, talvez pela pandemia, não sei, o início e o final foram bem coesos, mas pelo meio eles se perderam um pouco focando demais em algumas coisas, o que acabou acarretando em não desenvolver outras... Gostaria de ter visto mais dos outros casais também, ainda assim, SUPER RECOMENDADO!

NÃO DÁ PRA SE CHAMAR DE FUJOSHI/FUNDANSHI/BLZEIRO SEM SABER DE ONDE VEIO O LENDÁRIO "CHOPUCHAI".

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I hesitated to watch this show when it was about to start because of Saint, I remembered I saw him on Love by Chance and I didn't like him at all. I wrote a review on LBC and in summary, it was a complete mess. Then I thought maybe I should give him a chance, and it paid off. This dude is a great actor and I'm so glad he didn't continue with the other project, which is all a whole different drama and funny how it is not even a tv drama. Anyways, he was so great in WRU and Zee too, both of them had a lot of chemistry and It felt natural. Jimmy and Tommy were also great, I loved their characters since the beginning, at points it felt like they were both kinda uncomfortable but it was fine. I didn't pay any attention to any of the other relationships, it was way too much. Blue was such a cute character, I enjoyed every scene that he was in. Overall great show, I hope they continued with some of the other work because of the COVID-19 I know some of the series was not finished but anyways was great.

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Why did I watch this?

Its been a while since i watched this but I never wrote a review because i was recovering from how bad this was. But also I thought i already had left a review, but i can't find it lol. so sorry if you see me critique this series 2x.
The story was all over the place and just not enjoyable! It started alright, but became repetitive, boring and convoluted, and for what?
It could've been a simple meta-BL like 'man who defies the world of BL' but instead YRU turned around on its heels after the first episode to become just like any other college BL...very disappointing since I had quite high hopes for this.
My main issue is that I had no clue who was supposed to be the main character until after i checked the MDL details. Imagine my surprise when zonxsaifah were just the supporting cast! Saint and Zee were both great actors and often better than saifahxzon, so i did enjoy that, but the writers did them dirty...
like c'mon, SA and homophobic parents? really? let's go back to the writing room and come up with a more interesting plot alright?
Speaking of the plot: why the fuck were there so many side couples??? it really took away from the main couple's screentime and didnt add to my enjoyment. except the guy with the cats and saifahxzon were kinda cute
So yeah, I dropped it at the penultimate episode because the whole SA scene with tutor and fighter just left a bad taste in my mouth.
Don't watch it, it's not worth it.

and another note: i'm so sick of people being like 'oh yeah well the series is a product of their time period so for that time it was quite good!' and like first of all: that might be true, but it doesn't mean you can't criticise a body of work. second of all, YRU IS FROM 2020!!! I get that a lot of things have changed since the first few y-series, but you can hardly call YRU a product of its time when 2gether and my engineer were released in the same year (not that those are my favourites but they are better). Besides, i'm also done with people characterising older BLs with bad writing because there are plenty of well-written BL dramas from that same period. Like a new BL series is not suddenly immune to bad writing (looking at you last twilight!!!)
anyways...drama queen out!!!

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The acting is best . Each love angle is better Storyline is good but not something new it could be more exciting because actors are best and if there is something new in story may be if 8 characters are traped in some island there starts some love, jealousy, hearbreak, hugs, kisses with some thriller and a good intimacy this would be a blockbuster as cast is amazing and the best is the love angle between Tutor and fighter its sensual and from 5th episode it must get heated up and audience would to see tutor and fighter in high intimate love making scene as they make a hot couple and as for zon and saifah they are cute couple there story is good but why looking more like friends than lovers but no doubt they look so cute together

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TW: mentions of r*pe, s*xual assault

When I first heard of this series it was already well into episode 6, so I joined a bit late but I definitely found myself excited for every new episode. Instead of giving a full review, I'll just give some highlights to explain the rating.

Things I did NOT like:
- My biggest issue with this series was that many times it felt like I was watching two completely different dramas. The story between Zon & Saifah and Fighter & tutor was so opposite at times, it was difficult to see how they correlated. This was especially true for episodes in the latter half of the series when we were getting character development.
- I love a good love scene but sometimes it felt forced.
- The "r*pe" scene ( I know they didn't actually do anything and fight stopped but-) I felt this scene was unnecessary and I low-key hate that GMM keeps doing this. This is NEVER okay and I really did not like that they added this just for drama. They could have had a heartfelt dramatic breakup/I-want-you-back scene without this. (sorry, I'm just really frustrated at these types of things)
-The little development with the side relationships. If you're gonna have 'em: go big or go home.

Things I did like:
- Saint and Zee. Their chemistry through this whole show was fantastic. When I was first introduced to this show it was though a video about Zon and Saifah, so for the beginning of the show I was mostly interested in those two but, Tutor and fighter have such a great relationship going that I could equally enjoy both relationships. (I'm not saying that I was watching for one relationship over another, both relationships and the overall story kept me watching.) I could go on and on about saint and zee killing each episode but y'all already know.
- ZEE. wow. I know he didn't have that much experience beforehand but dang you could never tell. He had multiple amazing acting moments but he killed it in episode 12. Him crying- it felt so real.
- I continually found myself looking forward to Friday's because I was so interested in what would happen in each relationship. The actual plot was lacking.
- There were so many just good looking scenes. For example the candlelit dinner on the beach that tor and fight had. A bit unrealistic but absolutely gorgeous.
- showing the struggle of coming out and being out in general + showing the struggle of having a controlling/unsupportive family.

Overall, This series was fun and had good relationships that kept people watching. I understand that they ran into many issues at the end due to the pandemic and I'm happy that they were able to finish strong for the fans. I gave it an 8/10. I would recommend to others.

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A nice diverse cast of characters

The start was a little disorienting because we're in a dream but then it became animated... so one of the leads lost me but I got right back on track when I saw my favorite actor! Who came here just to see Saint Suppapong Udomkaewkanjana?! I certainly did and I'm glad to say the acting got better/story progression/drama was a little more solid as I got toward the middle. The apparent plotter of all this was forgotten by me until she showed up later messing around with another couple. She sort of felt not needed, but writers have their reasons. The cast has nice chemistry, some couples just couldn't be focused on or explored because there were so many and a few seemed low-key rushed, but the episodes leading to the end were pretty solid. Rewatch value, will probably be certain episodes. I hope they all keep progressing in their careers <3

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