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plaidcladjuno · 3 years

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Day 6 — Your Favorite Kiss: Tong Fah & Paper (Second Chance)

OMG that was even harder than picking just one “I Love You”. Why am I doing this to myself?! One of these day I’ll post, like, a compilation of various Top 5 Things in BL or something to make up for it. In the meantime, I’ve decided to go (again!) with Second Chance even though I initially meant to go with a different drama for each category because you know what, that kiss is just that good. (And all the other kisses I had listed in my head are already pretty popular, so.)

First off, it’s not just about the kiss itself, but the build-up to it. You’ve got these two childhood friends who are so obviously and so painfully in love with each other and yet who won’t do anything about it for fear of jeopardizing their relationship. But here they are, crossing lines and treading new territory over the course of the evening as they get physically closer and closer, from drunkenly dancing together to winding down on the bed/floor, talking quietly, holding eye contact and caressing hands. (Full gifset here.)

And then finally — finally! — one of them breaks and leans in to kiss the other and it’s just... There’s so much going on in such a short scene! There’s the initial shock of it, quickly followed by both of them absolutely melting into it in a way that speaks volumes about how much they’ve both been yearning for it, and then, sadly but expectedly (because this is only halfway through the series and we’ve still got some ~drama~ to deal with before getting to the HFN), one of them pulling away and the other chasing after him. And while, for a few gorgeous, gorgeous seconds, they kiss with abandon, you can still hear their shaky breathing betraying both their desire and their nervousness and—

Look I’m going to stop here because I’m kind of going feral thinking about it. And neither my description nor the GIFs (as beautiful as they are!) can truly do it justice. Just watch it! It’s only six episodes! And it’s really good! (As long as you skip the M/Near storyline which is... meh. Very meh.)

#10 day bl challenge #second chance the series

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somucherry · 2 years

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BL Drama's /Relationships from all over the world that I gave an A rank. Part 3.

I have been keeping track of all the BL drama's that I've seen and I have been ranking them on a scale of A, B, C, D, F. Obviously you don't have to agree..you can have your own opinions. At this point I have seen a ridiculous amount of BL, from all across the world so therefore these list's are going to be a hot mess...but please enjoy. (if you know me well, you know how I feel about The Untamed and Sotus so I will not be placing those on here even though they are A's for me. Ex. (Show Name/Information), (Pairing), (Reason), and a lovely gif. 11.)Light On Me, Shin Woo and Tae Kyung/Da On. This drama...I will never be over how much I loved this drama. There really wasn't anything like new, or different about this drama but it was just so stinking cute. It's def. a stand out Korean BL in my opinion. SHIN WOO, sweet cinnamon roll Shin Woo. What an A+ character.

12.) HIStory4: Close to You, Li Cheng and Teng MuRen. I hated the vast majority of this drama and even some of the storyline for these two but there was just something about Li Cheng and Teng MuRen, and I think that mostly it was just casting with a sprinkle of friends to lovers storyline that always gets me. Anson and Charles are great I stand by that.

13.) We Best Love:1 For You/We Best Love:Fighting Mr. 2nd, Shu Yi and Shi De. While I preferred the first part of the series WBL:1ForYou both parts are good. I think that this show has one of my all time favorite confession scenes.

14.) Nobleman Ryu's Wedding, Ho Sun and Ki Wan. This is another one that really doesn't stand well in competition with all the other dramas that came out at the time. But I don't really care. I had been waiting for a Joseon BL for awhile, and I prefer this over the other.

15.) Second Chance, Paper and Sky(Tong Fah). The friendship between them and the chemistry between them is what helped them make this list. That one dance scene...I'm never going to be over how well acted/choreographed it was. Also the roof top scene.

#light on me #history 4: close to you #we best love: no 1 for you #we best love: fighting mr. 2nd #nobleman ryu's wedding #second chance bl

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heretherebedork · 3 years

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Oh I am so agree with ypu about the latest episode of Y-Destiny. I loved it so much and would have loved just a little bit (a lot) more of them. They just had this funny, adorable but also so wholesome and lovey connection.Also Iwould probably kill for Nuea's wardrobe.

It will be hard to top these two and the story.

But the best thing about Y-Destiny is the colour coding(signature colours?) Of the characters and their backgrounds.

Also I think I am that second chance anon, or maybe not.

Anyway I have alot of feelings about Second Chance and I can't wait for the next episode, eventhough it will probably break my heart.

The worst thing waa my sibling, who watvhes witg me, was about Tong Fah and Paper just, Oh so he is dead. And my god I can't get that out of my head. Also how can someone break Chris' heart, I so nearly cried when Jeno rejected him. How could he ??? ( I get it but also like no)

I did not go into Sun x Nuea expecting to love them, honestly, but I fell and I fell HARD. They just have this great chemistry. And Sun has just the right balance of confidence and insecurity that makes me love him. Nuea is a little too confident but that’s just part of his charm so I can deal with it. I wish they’d done the whole miscommunication thing a bit earlier, tbh, because I wanted a bit more time with the pain but I also get it because Nuea was going to solve this it so, so easily.

Second Chance anon, welcome back! I only got one SC anon, so I will assume it is you. Not many people are watching the show and posting here.

Ugh, Paper and Tong Fah are just agony. They’ll end up happy eventually... but I strongly suspect that there’s going to be more separation than I care to imagine. Those darlings.

And, yeah, Jeno’s rejection of Chris makes sense while also hurting deeply. Especially with Jeno still stinging from his recent break-up. But, like the way he handled it wasn’t the best. Jeno’s strong suit is NOT communication while Chris would do best with someone willing to talk everything out with him.

I’m very torn on them now. Like, Chris is my favorite character and I do adore Jeno but I really wonder how a second chance is going to work with them. They just don’t seem compatible. So... lots of wondering on that one! Also, Jeno, don’t you DARE get back with the ex who was LITERALLY BEATING YOU UP. Damnit, don’t do it!

#second chance bl #y-destiny #y destiny #second chance the series #thaibl #thai bl #ilu anon #all anons are loved here #but omfg second chance tried to kill me yesterday

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accidentalrabbit · 2 years

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SECOND CHANCE

(series)

Thailand 2021

RANK: B

A1-pairing: Paper x Tong Fah

A2-pairing: Chris x Jeno

C-pairing: we'll get there eventually

Other character(s) i enjoyed: we'll also get there, eventually

Overall review:

Second Chance is not a great series, but it does enough good that i appreciate it for what it is. And it has one of my favorite narrative structures in BL, with two parallel A-plots and a very marginal C-plot running in the background.

The opening scene is (presumably) in medias res, and we get an underwater pool moment (oh hi, Dark Blue Kiss (2019)!) between Paper and Tong Fah, before hopping back into the main timeline of things. Paper, Tong Fah, and Chris are three high school friends who are thankfully not in a love triangle, and Jeno and Near are students they occasionally run into, who are also terrorized by Arthur, who is Jeno's abusive ex. There is a girl trio as well.

Paper and Tong Fah have a friends-to-lovers arc with some electrifying moments. There are a lot of glances and lines of dialogue that nod at the direction their friendship is about to go. The scene where they're dancing in Tong Fah's bedroom and then slowly give in to their mutual attraction? Brilliant stuff. I love a narratively important kiss. They unfortunately do not work out initially, as Paper is scared of being gay that they'll lose their friendship and turns cold, leaving Tong Fah to struggle through his 'unrequited' crush alone. This leads, improbably, to Tong Fah in a coma(!), with a penitent and thoroughly chastened Paper reading the letter Tong Fah wrote to him about his Big Feelings. Whatever will Paper do?

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Jeno is regularly getting the shit beat out of him at school by Arthur, whose behavior the school administration seems rather slow to confront. Chris, a minor internet celebrity(!), keeps showing up and defending him, making Chris a target of their bullying as well, but Jeno seems more embarrassed and angry than appreciative. Jeno decides to take self-defense classes, and surprise! Chris is the top muay thai student at the gym, and they spend more time together. Chris flirts at a reluctant Jeno. Arthur gets suspended and vanishes from the plot for a hot minute. Despite some progress, Jeno still seems distant from Chris, and Jeno's sister Geneva tells him to ease up a bit, because his very forward behavior is lowkey how Arthur was with Jeno while they were dating. Not a great look. Whatever will Chris do?

The C-plot…we'll get to it. Suffice it to say they fuck up their relationship as well.

Before getting back to our boys, let's discuss the breakout #girl moment. Geneva and Rose and Daisy have a standout scene where they stand up to Arthur and his weird gang by blackmailing him into leaving Jeno alone. Feminism! The best part of this scene happens after Arthur leaves, defeated, when they all admit that they were scared the whole time—it was a brief moment where they all felt real.

Also while we're here, there are a few set design easter eggs in the posters on the walls of Tong Fah's bedroom. That's fun. In fact, the set design communicates a good deal of information in this series: The school is absolutely plastered in 'Stop Bullying' posters, which is either intentional needling of weak anti-bullying campaigns or unintentionally, hilariously on-the-nose worldbuilding. I got a chuckle.

Oh, right. Back to Paper and Chris, and the reason for the title of the show (surprise!): Both of them get a second chance to do the relationship better. Tong Fah exits his coma and, despite medically improbable odds, makes it to the school dance, where Paper finally returns his love confession, and they kiss. Mazel. Meanwhile, back at the school library, Chris and Jeno unpack a memory they shared there when they were younger. After talking through it with each other, they both realize that they're ready to take the next step, and they kiss. (Is it fair to say i like their relationship more than Paper and Tong Fah's? I'm standing in my truth.)

At the dance, Arthur manifests in the plot again to ask Jeno to give him a second chance, too, and Jeno offers him forgiveness but nothing more. This is probably the most interesting thematic element in Second Chance, a show where second chances are ostensibly the whole vibe. But here the writers leap from the screen to let us all know that not every relationship deserves a second chance. A bit much, but i'll take it. We also learn that abuse is cyclical and intergenerational, as it turns out that Arthur himself is being abused by his father, which is dark, but also the second most interesting thematic element. Weird to save it for the very end, but maybe things got cut for time.

I had a good time, but:

The edit is, at times, incomprehensible. At one point there is a scene where Paper is in the hospital to comfort Tong Fah after his father dies, and i have no idea where it is intended to fall in the timeline. It was given no context as far as i could tell, and then it was abruptly over, leaving me feeling less like something important had been communicated, and more like someone deleted a scene at some point and then someone else put it back in a completely different place. And try as i might, i cannot place the pool scene anywhere in the timeline, either. Which is weird, as it is the opening shot, and presumably narratively important!

The physical abuse of Jeno is a lot, and the series does shockingly little to make it mesh tonally with the relative lightness of the rest of the narrative. Wanting a piece of media to contribute something insightful about a subject like bullying or intimate partner violence does not necessarily mean that it actually…does that. I don't think Second Chance does a bad job with the subject matter, but i think it does a mediocre job thematically making it work and therefore a gratuitous job showing (narratively unnecessary) violence without payoff. (And the writers seem to realize this, because it basically stops halfway through the series.) The formula here acknowledges the problem of abuse and the various structural failures that allow it to continue, but it doesn't show any recourse other than the power of friendship, self-esteem, and muay thai class. Those things can be useful, but that's not really adding constructively to the conversation, especially once the series has already acknowledged the structural component (the school administration) that allows Arthur and his gang to keep committing violence.

The trouble with putting one of your lead characters in a coma is that part of your story will come to a screeching halt if you don't know what to fill their absence with, and, well, Second Chance has Tong Fah get knocked into next month by a rogue vehicle offscreen. It eventually works to get the story where it needs to go, but surely there was a more elegant way to go about this.

The girls almost have personalities but they still feel like afterthoughts about 80% of the time, so much so that the one scene where they do anything major is a genuine shock! I don't want to be shocked when girls do things! Give girls more to do!

Finally, the C-plot with Near and M. I have questions. It's giving weird boss-employee vibes (and i hate that age gap), but also they game online together, but also Near doesn't know that the gamer he has a crush on is M, but M does know it's Near? How does he know but Near doesn't? And why does he not just tell him? Why does Near apologize after it all shakes out? This plot doesn't have nearly enough prominence in the narrative to have strong feelings about it, but every scene between them left me wanting a SparkNotes-style explainer, thinking that surely i missed something. The edit does not help. (And Near has far more chemistry with a customer who is on screen for thirty seconds than he does with M.)

Character(s) entitled to financial compensation: Jeno, who ought to sue Arthur and his friends for the emotional and physical damages associated with assault and battery. Near can join, too. Make it a class-action suit.

Conclusion: Second Chance is not perfect, but it's not the most egregious thing you could watch, and there are shining moments where a better show somehow filters through its cracks. The two lead couples play nicely together, and the most annoying things about the series—well, these too shall pass. It's initially heavy on the conflict, for those of you who like angst, but it has a happy ending. I gave it a chance. I might give it a second.

And while i have your attention, if the girls and gays are merely players, the show they're in is probably…Stage of Love (2020)!

#second chance #B tier #thai drama #mine #reviews #second chance the series #paper x tong fah #chris x jeno #chris and jeno carry this show for me idc idc idc #paper and tong fah have moments. chris and jeno are the moment #if someone wants to give any of the four lead actors a new project though #i'll think about watching it

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