Step by Step (2023)

O passo a passo de como ser uma péssima série.

Comecei a ver Step by Step através da recomendação de uma amiga. Assistíamos separadamente e depois comentávamos uma com a outra o que tínhamos achado do episódio, mas depois de um tempo acabamos desistindo. O motivo? A série ficou super (e quando eu digo super, é super mesmo) arrastada. Chata. Sem vida.

Ok, vamos começar pelo casal principal: Man Trisanu, o ator do Jeng, infelizmente carregou o casal nas costas. Não apenas no quesito de romance, mas também de atuação: o Ben Bunyapol, ator do Pat, é uma porta. Eu juro. Eu tentava de todas as formas simpatizar com o protagonista, mas não conseguia. A história do personagem, em si só, não tem nada de especial, então o ator não conseguir transmitir um pouco de emoção que seja realmente não ajuda na conexão com a série. Eu realmente não quero parecer grosseira ou fazer parecer que estou atacando o ator, mas juro, se eu contasse nos dedos quantas vezes o coitado teve que espremer os olhos com toda a força para tentar (e apenas tentar, porque não conseguiu) fazer uma lágrima cair, me faltariam dedos. Nos pés e nas mãos.

Quanto aos outros personagens, não ficam muito para trás: se eu fosse reclamar de todos eles separadamente, acredite, minha resenha ficaria enorme. Jaab parece que está bêbado em todas as cenas, Jane é insuportável e Chot é chato, mas se salva em alguns momentos. Os únicos personagens que não me irritaram em algum momento da trama foram Ying, Nan e Khanun.

Sobre a história: o intuito era mostrar as diversas etapas de um relacionamento, mas enrolaram tanto que a série ficou arrastada e perdeu grande parte do público. Parei de assistir no episódio 10, até que me forcei (literalmente) a assistir até o final. A trama estava tão cansativa que coloquei na velocidade de reprodução 2 para não ter que pular tudo, mas se eu soubesse que o final seria tão ruim, teria feito como minha amiga e ido direto para o último episódio, não iria perder nada.

Step by Step com certeza não foi apenas minha grande decepção do ano, mas também do universo dos BLs. Tinha de tudo para ser uma boa série, mas se perdeu no meio do caminho. Se você quer uma dica, procure por outros BLs de escritório, você vai encontrar outros que valham a pena — porque esse, infelizmente, não é um deles.

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Slow steps with questionable pacing and timeline. Also, let me just add I love Chot.

It's started off great but it fell flat towards the end. From time to time the plot and the timeline feels off and hard to progress. The plot is not consistent at all. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it feels like it's all over the place and honestly I can't quite grasp the time skip. I don't even know what the screenplay writers were thinking like where is the whole in between story, especially of Jaab and Jen??Also Pat and Jeng, they both have one hell of a chemistry but their storyline is seriously slow, like it can not even be called a slow burn. It leaps from 0 to 1000 and then the next moment they are back to 0. What I am trying to say is the pacing is a mess. This series could have turned out to be so much better. It had so much potential but it couldn't live up to it.

However, hear me out, it's not the best but not the worst either; it's worth a try, especially the first half of the series.

The characters are lovable but then again sometimes a little annoying and even rash. Starting with Jeng, his character is most of the times calm, composed, reasonable, a little controlling and hands down his visuals. Also, it was kind of cute how he was so bothered about the manager performance appraisal review from Pat. And Pat is cute especially when he is drunk. He worries a lot and even messes things up but sooner or later he rectifies it too, of course after the damage is done though. Also, he cried a lot, more so, in the second half of the story and I wasn't quite a fan of it. I do get it that the writers wanted to portray him as a pure, upright and innocent person but he came off to be irritating at times. His actions were questionable and his reasonings didn't quite make sense.

The most disappointing part of the series for me was the story of Jaab and Jen. Damn!! Jaab and Jen , in the starting, the tension between them was so clearly evident. I was actually more interested in their story than the main couple's storyline even though I did love the main leads. I was manifesting them and somehow it worked. They ended up kissing and it left me in total awe - I was like 'WOW' but then at the same time 'What just happened?!' Right after that kiss, it just turned into ghosting and then out of nowhere there is Paint. Also, two years gap. Their story is officially a mess.

What I really really adore in this series is the bond between the two brothers: Jeng and Jaab, it's heartwarming. They bond and blend so well. They are effortlessly funny in the right amount and supportive too. Further, the friend circle of Pat is hilarious and also extremely supportive in whatever he does which is both good and bad but I love them especially Chot. Touchwood to the bond that Pat and Chot share.

Chot really is the MVP of this series. He is sassy, confident, funny in the right amount, a reliable friend, an understanding lover and a heart stealer. Also, the office plot in the starting is so on point from the part of not getting the credit for the work one has done to the gossiping colleagues and this kind of really riled me up.

The series is not the best but it's still worth a try.

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