Amor do Meio (2023)

PAINFUL

Absolutely terrible. This made me wanna poke my eyes out.
I was so excited to watch this. I was a fan of this couple in Cutie Pie and was hoping they would be SOMEWHAT similar to that in Middleman's Love. I really liked Jade in Bed Friend and I have no idea what happened to his character. He was the most annoying person on the planet and I hate to say that, because I like Yim very much. Tutor's character was nice as always, but I think this ship was ruined. I'm telling y'all, every minute of this was painful and cringy LOL I think I only watched till the end because I really love James. Everything about the show was poorly done. The script was terrible, the story didn't make sense, the side couple was very weak and I didn't like anyone but Uea. I like King but even he was annoying.

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Too over-the-top for my liking

While this sounds like a run-of-the-mill office romance, Middleman’s Love is, in fact, the most over-the-top show I’ve seen recently. Typical of Mandee BLs, expect off-kilter humour, absolutely ridiculous visuals and wonky sound effects all around.

I love Tutor and Yim’s cute dynamic (and great visuals!) but Mandee’s over-the-top scripting makes the story a little cringey. Some people see it as a way to evoke laughter, but this is just not really my thing.

The side couples, King and Uea (from Bed Friend) and Tong and Gus (new pairing) bring some variety but also predictability to the cadence of the show since Jade can get a little over-the-top as a character.

The censored YouTube cut, which is shorter, gives you the minimum info you would require to understand the story, but the quality of the story and the depth of the relationship development suffers quite a bit from the edit. Spicy scenes are left out (understandably so, since it’s a censored version) and some extended emotional scenes are truncated, which makes the show seem even more shallow than it actually is.

Speaking of which, the spicy scene between Mai and Jade was WACK. I wanted to bury my face in the ground from the secondhand embarrassment. Just, um, sorry, no.

Full review: https://asianblreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/07/middlemans-love-2023-bl-review/

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"todos merecem um romance" (e os tutoryim merecem um BL melhor)

🩵 história: o plot deseja passar a ideia de que o amor independe da maneira que um indivíduo é taxado socialmente, desde "desinteressante" a "esquisito", tendo como exemplar, jade, um homem de 28 anos com conduta extremamente infantil e imatura, o qual possui dificuldades em expressar e aceitar sentimentos, sejam próprios ou externos. mai, por outrora, é seu estagiário, a quem sempre lhe foi imposta a pressão de ser um homem "perfeito", sendo este o par romântico de jade.

os problemas dão início assim que a série abre diversas lacunas para, no final, corrê-las em meio a 8 episódios, que por sua vez, possuem diversas cenas sem agregamento com intuito humorístico, mas que somente geram uma enorme vergonha alheia vinda totalmente por parte das atitudes de jade.

assistir esse lakorn foi como aguentar uniformemente a vergonha dos episódios, para chegar no penúltimo e soltarem toda a carga com a famigerada "forte vontade de dropar" nos meus braços, junto a um drama sem sentido*, para aliviar no último episódio, com cenas fofas dos protagonistas, já como casal, e um leve amadurecimento no jade, na segunda metade do mesmo episódio (8)

sobre o "drama sem sentido", este deu a impressão de ter sido feito como qualquer clichê de romance pré adolescente, tirando o fato dos dois protagonistas terem até 28 anos de idade, sobretudo, sendo um casal homossexual dentro de uma empresa. é sem nexo quando aplicado à realidade, e poderia ter sido abordado diversos temas que preferiram somente irrelevar. porém esse é o ponto mais compreensível até então, por se tratar de um "lakorn de comédia" e irrealista.

por último, a indecisão de público alvo em faixa etária. algo comum que eu vejo acontecer em lakorns são temas tão simples sobre relacionamento e maturidade sendo tratados como tentativas de "lições de moral", nos causando a impressão de que é voltado para um público muito jovem que ainda tem dificuldade em compreender a dinâmica de relacionamentos e os sentimentos envolvidos, os quais estão embarcando nesse meio que é a adolescência. porém, logo em seguida, nos é mostrado cenas mais íntimas entre os protagonistas, trocando totalmente o foco juvenil para um público mais maduro, sem manter uma estabilidade de roteiro, ou falhando seriamente em tentar deixar lições de vidas implícitas de maneira mais sútil e "adulta".

💚 personagens: não me agradou a maneira que o personagem de jade foi construído, nos apresentando claros problemas de socialização, compreensão de sentimentos, autoestima, maturidade, comportamento, além de espécimes de "traumas" gerados pelo seu primeiro relacionamento, que por sua vez tenta justificar alguma de suas atitudes, sem buscar tratar de nenhum deles, ou sequer explorar o seu crescimento como indivíduo. o único feito de jade durante a série, que poderia acarretar em uma "melhora" em alguns de seus problemas, foi namorar e se abrir com o mai.

gus e tong foram um dos pontos positivos desse lakorn, possuindo um desenvolvimento decente para a quantidade de episódios, cativando o espectador sem ultrapassar o tempo de tela e profundidade do casal principal.

uea e king, por já terem tido seu desenvolvimento em "bed friend", cumpriram o papel de mentorear jade e mai em diversas questões sobre relacionamento. vale ressaltar que a maturidade de uea me impressionou, em meio a tanta dor de cabeça que eu estava passando devido ao jade.

🩷 atuação: conheci o yim (jade) e o tutor (mai) por cutie pie, e desde então eu venho vendo um enorme potencial neles, o que não me decepcionou nessa série. a atuação de ambos foi ótima, e creio que eles se sairiam perfeitamente protagonizando um BL com a proposta mais séria. sobre o james (uea) e o net (king) eu não tenho nadica a reclamar, adoro o trabalho deles. e por último, fiquei feliz em conhecer o trabalho dos atores que fizeram os papéis do gus e tong (tai e leo), espero vê-los atuando juntos novamente!

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Lighthearted and fun, contrary to popular belief

I must say after watching the series I was surprised by how low the reviews were on the series.

First of all I mainly was interested in watching the series because of Tutoryim and honestly their performance was great, especially Yim really shocked me with how good he was on the role. It is mainly a comedic series and while people don't like it because of that I found it really fun and lighthearted.

Story wise, it's very basic, nothing that we haven't seen before but as someone that watched it without the knowledge of Bed Friend the series it might have been even better that way, as no expectations were set before hand. So if there's someone that hasn't watched Bed Friend, giving this series first a try might be a good idea!

Of course the series isn't perfect, I resonated a lot with Jade's story which might be why I also grew attached to the show and are biased to some extent, but the way in which some scenes are portrayed in order to make the audience understand the character more can honestly be not as effective as they might've thought. In this case seeing the feedback on the comment section of the episodes was a great help in understanding Jade better. Also the comedy in the series might seem unnecessary at first but I felt like it gave it more of a cheeky and fun vibe to it and unless you're someone that really doesn't like comedy, I don't see it as being that much of a big deal.

It's an overall entertaining show, and while it might not be everyone's cup of tea, I highly recommend anyone that's second guessing to give it a try!

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A missed opportunity?

Now as someone who partially watched this drama because of TutorYim, I won't hide the fact that I was disappointed from the get go.

The plot had everything to make a cutesy yet memorable drama, however the plot flow definitely did not deliver in any satisfying way (imo). I'm all for fan service with those little cute moments between the characters, but the story pacing was quite irregular which very much influenced my viewing experience and impression of the show as a whole. The resolution of the main issue felt very conveniently fixed and enabled a very rushed ending filled with fan service (which in my opinion was too much for one episode, let alone a finale). As I finished the show, I was left wondering what truly happened between episode 3 and 7 that was substantial to the development of the story or characters.

All in all, I have to say I was quite disappointed the way the show turned out and knowing it could have been something much better if a little more care was put in the writers room.

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Y ya acabo...

Waoo tengo tantos sentimientos encontrados con esta serie que no tengo ni idea de por donde comenzar a escribir.

Bueno, vamos por el inicio, esta es la historia de Jen un personaje secundario en la historia de Bedfriend. LA historia de Jen se basa en que el siempre ha sido el del medio, el que nadie elige o quiere y no ve mas allá de formar parejas, ala ecuación llegan Mai y joven pasante del que Jen estará cargo. Por asares del destino Jen le jura al mundo que Mai esta enamorado de otro pasante y se empeña en querer unirlo con el sin darse cuenta que ninguno de los esta interesado en una relación con el otro.

Hasta ahí vamos bien, la premisa promete, pero, de verdad promete? comencémoslos esta historia con muchas ilusiones y expectativas, jamas pensé que fuera como bedfriend, porque el personaje de Jen no era de ese estilo, pero si esperaba una gran actuación y química indiscutible, que ojo, la tuve, son buenos actores y se nota su química, pero la verdad es que la química de ellos ( Jen y Mai) se ve opacada por la misma serie, y si se preguntan que si tiene sentido, pues si lo tiene.

Iniciando por el cambio de personalidad que sufrió el personaje de Jen desde su aparición en Bedfriend hasta esta serie, hicieron un personaje acorde al humor de la serie, pero a que costo, el personaje mas que adorable me parece que es escupido, quisieron hacerlo tan "adorable" que lo único que da es Cringe, y sin mencionar que cambiaron la personalidad del personaje de King (Net) quizás por temor a que opacara a los protagonista, pero la verdad es que el mismo personaje de Jen se encargo de que no lo quisiera, y ojo, soy amante de las comedias románticas, y hay personajes que satirizados funcionan muy bien, pero el mayor problema con Jen es que si ya viste la serie anterior, te va a chocar este cambio drástico de personalidad, aparte de que realmente no veo para nada necesario que se comporte de esa manera, en la serie anterior el también fungía de cupido y no se sentía forzado para nada. entonces porque un cambio tan espantoso para un personaje que ya conocíamos y que me caía tan bien.

La verdad es el punto principal del porque esta serie no me gusto, y si se debe realmente a Jen.

Con respecto a la trama, es demasiado lenta para ser una serie de 8 ep, la verdad me gusto mas la pareja secundaria que la principal, sentí en ellos mas avance de los que vi con Jen y Mai. Realmente mi ep favorito fue el ultimo, y que conste el personaje de Jen no deja de dar Cringe pero hay hay mas comunicación entre los portas y se nota realmente esa química que tienen ambos, si todas la serie hubiera sido como el ep final no me hubiera molestando tanto y tampoco disgustado. Y ojo, no solo lo digo porque el ep final esta lleno de escenas NC de ellos, sino porque realmente sientes esa química y complicidad de enamorados, cosa que en 7 ep no me dieron prácticamente, porque si había química, pero sin desarrollarme nada de nada, y eso es un punto negativo para mi. Ellos son excelentes actores y me decepciono muchísimo esta serie, en verdad quería amarla, pero y como? no vale la pena verlo, literalmente con el ultimo ep, ves mas evolución que en toda la serie junta y eso también me lleva a otro problema, en un Ep, dígase ep8 final, quisieron darme todo, cosa que perfectamente pudieron darme en la serie completa y con mejor desarrollo, el ep8 es en teoría demasiado rápido, pasan muchas cosas y nada a profundidad, por lo mismo, sin un buen desarrollo de los personajes ves todo y solo piensan en que su relación ira mal, no pasan dos días y ya viven juntos y acaban de iniciar, ósea, no me cabe en la cabeza.

Para pasaba a otro aspecto de la serie y dejar ya mi descontento con ella, pasare a lo que si me gusto de ella. primero la musica, la verdad hay que admitir que tendrán mucho de mi descontento pero la musica de ambiente y post de la serie me encantaron y se disfruta, nunca se sintió pesado ala musica, es mas, hacia mas disfrutable ver la serie y mas llevadera. También ame a los actores de la pareja secundaria de esta serie, son de los nuevos actores de dumundi y la verdad lo hicieron muy bien, y espero seguir viéndolos a ambos. sobre las apariciones de King y Uea, la verdad quería que fueran mas y ver mas de ellos, como dije anteriormente ellos cambiaron la personalidad de King para que no opacara pero al cambiar la de gin se opacaron solo y yo solo quería ver mas de King y Uea, aunque no nos dieron mucho que ver de ellos lamentablemente.

Para resumir todo esto es, no recomiendo la serie, le falto demasiado, amo al Tutor Jim (los actores principales) y espero con ansias mas proyectos de ellos, porque se que talento y química tienen y lo han demostrado. sobre la pareja secundaria, me gusto su química y hasta mejor desarrollo tuvieron que la principal, espero ver mas serie de ellos pronto.

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too much

the first episode was one of the most difficult things I’ve ever made myself sit through. it was a constant fight to finish and I kept dropping the show.

it took about five episodes for me to see any appeal to tutoryim, though i found leotai a lot more interesting. the script was all kinds of bizarre, the comedy was laid on a bit too heavy for me, and the times I did enjoy anything, it was really just a quick scene and would be over before I knew it.

it may just be that I don’t enjoy this type of comedy, but it bugged me that it had the potential to be a lot better. I do hope to see more of Leo and tai though.

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My impression of this series

I wanna say this is just my opinion and you dont have to agree but i just wanted to express the way i felt about this series and the anger i felt .Honestly I was so disappointed . When they announced about this series with tutoryim i was so happy i waited more then a year and when it fainelly came out i was so angry. they had an amazing opportunity to make an incredible series with this 2 magnificent actors and they messed up so badly its painfull .
The series has nice moments and the cast is great but over-all i recommend to find another series to watch . Absolutely not one of my favorites.

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Excuse me... where's the real story

When I read the book, Jade was a kind naive young man. This series version makes him an idiotic simpleton. There's more depth to this story than is portrayed. Overall instead of giving this story a little more true content the series creates a frantic confusing portrayal of Jade. Bedfriends had a complex story line with character development and relationship building. This unfortunate redition is childish and has an undeveloped romantic relationship. Jade is so silly it's hard to imagine him being in love or sexually interested in anyone. Mai definitely has a swoony persona. The series doing a little more justice to his character. I'm going to perservere and watch all 8 episodes simply because I enjoyed "Bedfriends" so much.

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As advertised unfortunately

If you watched the trailer then you already know what to expect. There’s a lot of cringy and aloof characters especially our main character Jade. Yim always seems to get these types of characters. I don’t know why they have my man Yim yelling the entire show but GOD it can be unbearable *insert crying emoji*. I do wished they dialed down of Jades character a bit but what’s done is done.
As expected the show was not advertised to be something like bed friends, cutie pie or anything of that sorts but instead light and sit com vibe. I love TutorYim and their chemistry*insert heart emoji*.
I do hope one day we’ll get a more mature character for Yim instead of always getting this aloof character they like to give him.
Unfortunately the side couple Tong and Gus are the best in the show and we barely see them interact but also thankfully they have a lil scene together that was scrumptious. I hope to see more of that pair because the chemistry they gave off really held this show together.

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