I just binged Love Class season 1, and caught up on season 2. It's like the HIStory saga and The Eighth Sense mixed together. 🤔
Season 1 was a love square with a hefty dose of blatant pining, and a minor het couple that not a single soul gives a shit about.
But Season 2 is triple the couples and a layer of doom.
Couple #1: Estranged. One is an older ex-tutor, who had to start college late because he got caught up in a suicide scandal, involving another student or teacher...unclear at the moment. And the other is his former client, who's had a crush on him since high school -- and who, I'm pretty sure, hooked up with him.
Couple #2: Best friends. One is a jobless fuckup who mooches off of his friends and family, but somehow can afford to stay up late and get drunk with college kids. And the other is a rule-following, employed geek who is clearly in love with him, and not a fan of how friendly he is with literally every single human he meets. Except the geek's boss, who bullies him. That guy is living on borrowed time.
Couple #3: Strangers. I honestly missed the beginning of their interaction. For some reason one caught the other changing in a storage closet at school, and is now using preschool tactics to tease and blackmail him into dates. I mean, whatever works, I guess.
I'm assuming these will all end happily, but I'd also be fine with the tutor rejecting his student and going to therapy; the pining bff to move on and not wait for this man's epiphany; and for the strangers to date sincerely and like the mature adults that they clearly are. Lol
We'll see. 4 episodes down. 6 to go.
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LOVE CLASS SEASON 2 (2023, SOUTH KOREA)
The Finale
Maru (LEE KWANG HEE) was slow in realizing his feelings for his best friend Min Woo (WOO HYO WON) or even noticing that Min Woo was in love with him but once he realized he is making sure Min Woo feels the love.
They are so beautiful together.
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what would you recommend I watch after riverdale now…I have nothing…it was the only show
No literally it was the only show…. Truly nothing else compares or will ever compare.
THAT SAID. WATCH DEGRASSI: THE NEXT GENERATION (and its sequel series Degrassi Next Class. You could also watch the original Degrassi series from the 80s but I haven’t watched those so can’t vouch for them). there are like 400 episodes so it’ll keep you busy. The Degrassi franchise invented teen drama. It’s obviously more grounded than Riverdale and has a majorly different feel since the actors are all teens but Degrassi is my other television best friend. It also has really off the rails storylines that still have strong emotional heart and beautiful amazing delightful characters. Also Fiona Coyne ran so Cheryl Blossom could fly (mean crazy rich girl to lesbian pipeline with dubious means to acquiring wealth and hijinks related to organs and questionable relations to her twin brother.) if you’re in Canada I think all eps are still free on YouTube and I think it’s free on Pluto elsewhere.
otherwise I also recommend Yellowjackets. I know there are people who scoff and roll their eyes at Riverdale yet love Yellowjackets and they’re wrong I think they are kindred spirits in many ways. Also Doctor Curdle Jr and Donna Sweett are there in both shows. I know some people got bored of yj partway thru and tbh I think bingeing it does it a disservice and makes it feel draggy so take ur time
in a completely different vein I also recommend Derry Girls bc it’s one of my fave shows ever. It’s like if Always Sunny were all teenage girls in 1990s Ireland
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MAG 3 - 'Across The Street' - Unspoken commitments and their undoing.
This statement is one that very effectively displays much of the awkwardness of the unspoken commitments we share with friends, acquaintances, the natural rules of society; and of course in true Magnus archives nature, what happens when supernatural forces interfere with these things.
Amy and Graham's relationship is certainly a common one; I'm pretty sure any of us could name plenty of people we know well enough to wave to but wouldn't particularly want to have an in depth conversation with. It's natural, not every pair of people will get along famously, but the interesting thing with this is how strong the unspoken commitments we make are, even in these distant half-friendships.
Having lived in London my whole life I can only comment in depth upon these odd commitments I've experienced here- I couldn't claim to speak for other cultures or individuals.
British Middle class society generally is, as is wonderfully presented in the episode, painfully polite. Not every relationship is polite, of course, but once the expectation is established (as it nearly always is in a mature academic setting) it must be followed. I've known many people to be completely cut out of groups for not being polite enough, and I can't say I was eager to get them back. Once you break that mask of decency it's nobody's job to uphold it, and you'll often lose the courtesy yourself.
In this same vein, it makes complete and utter sense for Graham to agree to look after Amy, however begrudgingly, after her accident. It's a societal expectation, and in most cases a personal one. This opens up the discussion of how much of society is a pantomimed act instead of an effort to feel comfortable in the world, but I fear that's too deep a topic to completely explore in a text post.
Needless to say, to make these obligated situations more comfortable, one must employ their humanity. Graham makes an effort, sharing his life, his interests, and he offers up perhaps more than he'd have liked to. It does seem to comfort Amy to some extent, but of course, someone suffering a head injury is not in any way obligated to reciprocate.
It is interesting though, that Graham should be the one to lose his humanity when he displays it so strongly. Amy crosses boundaries and tears away from what would generally be considered basic human decency by so recklessly spying on Graham; and in the end it is Graham who has his humanity so harshly torn away.
Balance is restored though of course. Witnessing a thing like this instills that bone deep fear that those otherworldly powers so desire, and what is more human than intense fear?
The stranger is clever in its game with Amy, not only does it force her to come to terms with her friend no longer being human for all intents and purposes, but it also forces her to confront how she's changed, how far removed her daily sessions of watching Graham were from her, or who she once was.
Whoever was there that was pretending Graham was wrong, and what better time is there to see that when maybe you yourself have become wrong too.
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LOVE CLASS 2 (2023, SOUTH KOREA)
Episode 5: CAMEOS
Cha Ji Woo (HAN HYUN JUN) and his senior Lee Ro Ah (KIM TAE HWAN) from the original Love Class made cameos together as the coffee shop managers friend filling in while he takes time off.
The worked alongside side Min Woo (WOO HYO WON) who also spied the two kissing at the night's end.
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thinking about Adventure Time and how special it is
to be more specific, how special it is to me and my family. the show was one of my mother's favorite shows, she identified with Marceline's story the most and she even had gotten a prop axe guitar SIGNED BY OLIVIA OLSON!!!
my mom has been gone for some time now, she never even got to watch the show past Stakes. I think she would have loved the finale, Distant Lands and Fionna and Cake.
I wish we still had all her AT merch, I wish we still had the axe guitar especially. on the guitar was the lyrics to Fries, but with my mom's name instead, written by Olivia Olson herself. it was one of her favorite songs
now me and my dad bond over watching the show, both out of our own enjoyment, cause god is it funny and tragic. has made us both coughing and wheezing, and tearing up and choking up. and from the reminder the show has of my mother.
my mom would sometimes sing Everything Stays to calm me and my siblings, when she was mentally stable anyways. whenever I'm sad now I sing the song to myself. it reminds me of though my mom was not a great person (story for another day), she still cared about me.
Adventure Time is such a special and beautiful show, and I am so lucky to have grown up with it.
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