BLISS RATING: ★
“It is sad not to love, but it is sadder not to be able not to love.” – Miguel de Unamuno
Awful. Just plain awful. On all fronts, I am sorry to say. I wanted so much to like this series as the premise seemed so interesting. But honestly this should never have been released. Editing, production, story, acting, were all bad. While the story had merit and it started out interestingly, it just deteriorated as it went along. I feel terrible for Andrew Luis Lapid (Bucknoy Glamuur) who played dual roles as Elmo and his twin sister Sara. Simply putting on a cheap wig and some makeup does not make you a ‘female’. If you are going to be female, please do not cheapen that or make it a caricature. No effort (or little effort) was made to make him look female. For example, his Adam’s apple was obvious in both sexes. Try to make him look female, not a cheap drag-queen impersonator. There are ways to do that honestly that do not even have to be that expensive or professional. His acting as a female was not that bad; it just was not believable.
If you wanted to make this a spoof or a tongue-and-cheek series, or even a parody, that would have been funny and perhaps even interesting. But this story was a mess and illogical. The story is about Sara who has been by herself and has turned into a free-willing individual dating more than one guy, trying to figure out who she likes. She inadvertently invites two of her most serious boyfriends at the same time for a weekend visit. Rather than simply canceling one of them (a logical decision), she solicits her ‘straight’ brother, who just arrived from the United States, to pretend to be her.
God knows why they think this would work or why he would agree to such an insane asinine scenario is beyond me. But he does as he feels guilty for leaving his sister alone for so long. But he said that he was not going to have sex with any of them (a noble gesture, indeed). Sara tells Elmo not to worry; she will have the sex with both of them (a noble sacrifice on her part, for sure). So, he goes back and forth between Jesse (Duke Kraizen Cruz) and Nathan (Feng Dela Cruz) in two separate locations, passing his ‘sister’ on occasion.
Here is where it goes off the rails. He begins to fall for Nathan and Sara begins to fall for Jesse. But Elmo cannot continue this charade and he tells Nathan what is going on and who he is. Nathan, of course, is upset and confronts Sara while visiting Jesse. Both leave her and she gets upset with her brother. Huh?? But more off the rails stuff, Nathan comes back, and he professes to like Elmo, but Elmo is reluctant as he does not want to upset his sister. But there is more. It turns out that Jesse ALSO likes Elmo and would prefer to be with him rather than Sara. Huh??
Suddenly, it is 2 years later, and Elmo is with a totally new guy with no explanation as to what has happened in those 2 years. What happened to Nathan? Where is his sister? And his father, who abandoned them, comes back into the picture and want to be a family again. Huh?? At the end, Sara is now a champion for trans rights. Huh?? The end.
Who really S.T.O.L.E. the series? Well, no one really but the person I have to tip my hat to for his effort (or tenacity) is Bucknoy Glamuur as Elmo and Sara. I am going to excuse this disaster based on his inexperience and young age (he is only 16). Someone needed to be the ‘adult in the room’ and should have advised and counseled him to not do this project or to least make it something to be proud of. He had no direction, no acting coaching, no production support, a terrible screenplay, and horrible editing. This seemed to be treated more like a game than a serious production effort.
This whole series should just be scraped and not mentioned again. No doubt this fiasco will set the BL world back considerably. It is best to archive this and pretend it never happened.
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