HIStory4: Perto de Ti (2021)

This does not fit in with all the other amazing History series.

I love the history series a lot, they are so great and amazing to watch, but this one fell short and major disappointment of all the history series.

Let me start by saying there is no chemistry between these two characters that said relation. They looked better as brothers. It was very disturbing to watch them grow into a couple. Clearly, there is something wrong with the whole family. Ye Xing Si and Fu Yong Jie are NOT a good match at all. It was really sick to watch them. I am fine with the idea of step-brothers turning lovers and getting together, but this was not healthy at all. Fu Yong Jie clearly has a lot of anger, mental health, and has emotional issues. Clearly, he should not be in any relationship where he is steaking and obsessed over his brother, that is not love. The fact that he had to rape his brother because he did not feel secure about being honest with his brother is wrong and then to have a video and show your parents is plain nasty. He should have been taken to a mental hospital . The ending only made it worse with them getting together and the family being ok with it. This storyline was just WRONG in general.

Xiao Li Cheng and Teng Mu Ren pairing I loved the setup and the emotion and growth it had. they should of had the big grand magical ending that the other couple got. I love how you see them grow from where they started and build slowly on it to come together, each realizing their passion and love for one another after all those years. They were amazing and the chemistry was great.

The actors were amazing but the character of Fu Yong with his lack of emotion for his family and care for anyone for me was more like a villain than a love interest for the series. I could do without the office drama too, was not needed and over the top when there was a lot going n already. Secretaries also need to be fired clearly instead of being allowed to have office gossip and drama.

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Amazing BL

All I can say is don't let anyone discourage you from watching this, it's worth it, it's a great drama and the storyline works with the name it's all abt being close to the one you love.
Sure it has it flaws but they make up for it as they improved, people just jumped to conclusions about this series before giving it a chance and that was where the issue began.
Licheng and muren relationship is just fucking amazing, cute , funny, hot and they did great.
Fu yong je and xing si relationship had a rocky start but when you chose to understand where their love is coming from you would understand why it had to be that way from the start
Overall this drama is great watched it twice already ?, I miss them already.

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My expectation seem too high for this History franchise, so now I feel so disappointed with this series.

Not because this series is not worth watching, but if we look at another histories before this, both of them have a huge quality that is far above of this series.

The recurring story about the love affair between siblings, with simple conflicts between the main characters, makes this series seem like a fad.

This series is saved precisely thanks to the professional-looking acting of the main leads, because even from the musical side, this series doesn't seem to have the slightest good side.

In Indonesian:
Ekspektasi saya sepertinya terlalu tinggi terhadap history 4, sehingga sekarang yang saya rasakan begitu kecewa terhadap series ini.

Bukan karena series ini tidak layak ditonton, tapi jika kita melihat 2 series history sebelum ini, keduanya amat sangat memiliki kualitas yang jauh diatas series ini.

Cerita yang terulang kembali soal percintaan antar saudara, dengan konflik yang juga sederhana antar tokoh utama membuat series ini nampak seperti iseng saja dibuatnya.

Series ini tertolong justru berkat akting para pemain yang nampak professional, karena dari sisi musikpun series ini nampak tak ada sisi bagusnya sedikitpun.

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Disappointed!

-Neg:

1. I dont liked Teng Mu Ren Facial expression. I wanted him different from his Behave. (Relaxed and little more manly)
2. That Teng Mu Ren ran away from his feelings and met with Xu Shao Fen. (instead of talking to Xiao Li Cheng) I didn't like that.
3. Too few love scenes. I wanted to see a little more wild love scenes of the Two couples.
4. Too few kisses
5. When some love scenes got exciting, the scene was suddenly changed. That really bothered me a lot.
6. Too much talk from episode 9-10 to 20. that could have been reduced.
7. Where Teng and Xu slept together but still had their underpants on. I was disappointed.
8. It was a pity that Xu Shao Fen didn't stay sexy and manly. That suited him best than the childlike behavior.

+Pos:

1. It was funny often. I loved it.
2. The Characters and Couples.
3. The Music

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Cliche and morally problematic

I generally support the BL genre and LGBTQIA+ representation in Asian film/media; however, this drama was ridiculously problematic and very uncomfortable to watch (despite only watching four episodes fully). To start, the 腐女子 coworkers. It's one thing to know those types of people exist in the world (sure), but to seem them portrayed in a BL drama to add nothing more than, well, drama felt tasteless. The male lead taking the advice of his 腐女子 coworkers in order to get closer to the female coworker he had a crush on led to some really awkward and borderline harassment situations.

Apart from that, I can look past the step-brother unrequited love arc, but I draw the line at this drama romanticizing rape. Not only is one of the male leads an obsessive stalker, he also assaults another male lead who seems "too close" to his stepbrother whom he is pining for. Take that a step further when he intentionally gets the stepbrother drunk and rapes him—let's not forget the jarring choice of music which would have you believe the sexual encounter could have been consensual. What really got me was how the characters talked about what happened post-rape and how either being "1" or "0" could have changed the situation. The fact of the matter is that one character took advantage of another one and violated them.

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Love only step brother love

I like the step brother love only, everyone like yong jie and he was the best so give him full marks, other couple I dislike not handsome at all ! So if someone hate them pls get lost ok, u are totally suck and please leave BL too ! Dont talk nonsense here. Yong jie and his brother love make me want to watch more and more, his brother was so soft and yong jie was scheming and cool, his acting was really good and I love the rxxx scene omg ! Recommend this 2 ❤ Mostly I like the guy who are brave to go for his love not like coward everything also hard to confess with his true feeling, in chinese online site, everyone love yong jie and his brother ❤ keep going ?

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Li Cheng and Mu Ren great others no

I skipped all the scenes with Yong Jie. I would be banned from the internet if i said what i would have done if i was their friend. He wouldn't get that weak B slap that he got. He would be lucky if someone peeled me away before he left this world. I read spoilers because during watching the 1st episode i googled who is the creepy stalker. Wanted to throw hands after reading the disgusting story that is the other 2. Both of them need severe mental health care. Pscho step monster needs to be in jail along with his mother. Xing Si's father needs a beat down as well because from what i read he's a terrible father who doesn't do anything about that demon spawn drugging and R his own child.

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Expected it to become better(in terms of direction/acting/quality)compared to other history seasons.

History series has some good ones like MODC, trapped where everything was good. So it's normal that you'd expect a better comeback, at least I did. As I started watching it, I felt so irritated for a bit. THE CAMERA WORK is absolutely the worst, I mean it was so unstable it was as if the cameraman was flying in the air or smthn, sometimes he would just move it like a lightening, and the other times he would film their nostrils, like what?!!! As far as I remember History 1 was way too better than this.
The acting; Okay, I understand that Li Cheng's character is hyper active sometimes, but I cringe when all of a sudden he tries to act crazy or cute out of nowhere. And his acting is so bad! I don't even know whether it's the director's fault or the actor's, because he's literally overdoing it to make it funny(like some typical thai bl dramas). Their acting wasn't even natural at all. I mean almost every scene like pushing, fighting, "quarelling" looks so fake. It's either over done or no feeling at all.
But the girls did a great job though! Better than those leads I felt. They represented typical Fujoshis in a good way it was funny to watch them together.

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It not the best but it works(?)

First of all I understands it’s not the best of the History franchise, just wanted to get this off our shoulders.

(MY OPINION )
Plot:
Tbh the plot was “ehh” it really is problematic and is putting a lot of us BL fans in a comprising position, like it’s very stereotypical, and disrespectful towards the lgbtq+community,
Yes I do understand it’s bl and “comedy” (I guess?) but it doesn’t excuse what they are putting out there into the world.

Acting:
Its a hit or miss for me, bc it’s not bad but o would expect History to have better acting skills than other BL out there. Although I would say History picks one of the best looking ppl, and their style of clothing choices are impeccable like that’s the only reasons I am able to watch this without cringing.

Music:
Tbh I don’t even pay attention to the music so....

Rewatch/Overall:
I wouldn’t watch it again anytime soon, but if there legit wasn’t anything to watch I might consider it. It’s not that bad I would certainly recommend this to ppl but not as a first choice, and keep in mind this is just a show and bl, I don’t want ppl to be angry at something so stupid, being a long time member of the bl community I am used to the hate and bad looks, this show isn’t doing any justice, but I go with this as something as YYY(Thai bl crackhead series) and not taking it seriously.

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