It’s ‘Pride Month’ in the U.S and since more and more Americans are consuming all things South Korean – be it K-pop, K-Dramas or K-Movies and Koffees (read Dalgona), it’s time we shift our gaze to ‘Where Your Eyes Linger’.

Han Gi Chan and Jang Eui Soo play the lead roles in this Korean mini-series that just finished airing all of its eight episodes this week. So what’s so special about it? For starters, it’s been touted as South-Korea’s first ‘BL’ series. BL is short for ‘Boys Love’.

I have seen a few Korean films with queer protagonists and they tend to be tragic. Also Korean films can be real tear-jerkers. But ‘Where Your Eyes Linger’ is an exception and doesn’t deliver the usual Romeo-Juliet style tragedy. Also, how are all these Korean lead actors so bloody good looking? Just HOW?

Any-who… ‘Where Your Eyes Linger’ revolves around the rich and handsome brat Han Tae Joo (Han Gi-Chan), who is a playboy and keeps changing girlfriends, but is deeply attracted to his equally good-looking male bodyguard Kang Gook (Jang Eui-soo). There is a lot of tension between the two men because of their repressed feelings and things get a lot more complicated when a girl starts showing interest in Kang Gook.

The boys go to the same college and are in constant company of each other, however Kang Gook keeps referring to himself as Tae Joo’s ‘servant’. Even though the two seem to share an equal sort of friendship. Han Gi-Chan and Jang Eui-soo have a lot of romantic tension between their character and like the title suggests, the eyes do a LOT of talking. The longing gazes, the unsaid feelings, the drama carries all the angst and desire of first love.

The best thing about ‘Where Your Eyes Linger’ is that it’s short and bittersweet. The makers know when to end things and do not drag their feet through the story-telling. Within just eight episodes, we see a fifteen year old ‘Man and Master’ relationship culminate into forbidden love.

WIll Kang Gook and Tae Joo let their relationship plateau at platonic friendship? Well, watch the series. Also, this one deserves a season two!

Where Your Eyes Linger is on WeTV and Viki.

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