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Either someone who loves watching Thai BLs* and Korean BLs pitched this show, or maybe the creators thought “we should get a hot Korean guy and a cute Thai guy to romance each other and BL fans will go crazy”. And then they forgot to work on the story, because the Korean series “Eccentric Romance” has a ridiculous plot, if you could even call it that.
Spanning 12 episodes, the series stars Yoon Jun Won as Seong Hun, a Korean student who shares a close friendship with Jay, a Thai student played by Save Saisawat. Strangely, despite neither speaking the other’s language, they understand each other perfectly! To add to this absurdity, Jay and Seong Hun have one class called ‘Health & Happiness’ in common, where they conveniently befriend two other Korean students majoring in the Thai language, so Jay doesn’t have to speak a word of Korean. Then, Seong Hun and Jay join a gym where the trainer loves Thai culture, as does the lady at the reception (because apparently if you love a country’s culture, you can understand the language too). Now, these five Korean people who understand Thai constantly hang out in the series, because it would be too weird if Jay had to interact with more characters without speaking a word of Korean while living in Korea. L-O-L.
What’s the story? Jay and Seong Hun have more than platonic feelings for each other, but they are friends, so they hide it. But at the gym, when Jay begins to flirt with the trainer Jin (Go Byung Wan), Seong Hun asks Jay to stay away from the trainer because he suspects the man could be a murderer! While Jay tries to prove Seong’s suspicions wrong, Seong tries to find more evidence against Jin, and while doing so, the friends becomes closer.
Ultimately, “Eccentric Romance” is a weird mash of college-comedy and murder mystery and in the end it gets neither right – neither the romance, nor the mystery. The lead actors look good, maybe even have decent chemistry, but it doesn’t matter, because the story is too silly, and makes no sense.
Rating: 1.5 stars on 5.
*BL is short for ‘boys love’, a term used for gay romances.
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