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dani
✨ somewhere in the cosmos ✨
So Much Fun to Watch!
As soon as I saw the original trailer for this show, I knew it was either going to be fantastic or horrible. And I am thrilled to report that it was fantastic!!
Everything about it was so much fun and so engaging to watch. The plot may not be terribly original, but it's still a fun story line to follow. I particularly loved Cake and her home life a lot, Her mom was present and supportive, and quite funny with her fangirl tendencies towards Ton! And Now— gah, I loved her so much! I loved how she ensured Cake was smart about birth control and such, and then she was SO READY to fight anyone who was mean to her friend. She was a great support character, and her little side romance with Dol was an adorable enemies-to-lovers moment.
Acting-wise, this felt pretty solid! No one really blew me out of the water, but I enjoyed everyone's performances. I thought Jane and Pong worked well as a couple in this— there were definitely a couple moments where I was swooning! I thought the development from basically strangers to awkward strangers to actually falling for each other was done nicely, and I really liked that there was even discussion between Cake and Ton about whether him "taking responsibility" for impregnating her necessarily had to equal love and marriage. While obviously this is a romance and we knew where it was headed, it was nice and felt very modern of them to not immediately decide that pregnancy had to equal them getting married.
The thing I was most hesitant about in the show was, of course, the age gap. Now don't get me wrong— I can get behind a good age gap romance! But there's a thin line between pointing out the twenty-year gap between the two of them and making it feel creepy and, like, paternal. And I thought the show handled it well. There were light-hearted jabs at how much older Ton was than Cake (her calling him 'old man', for one), but he never felt like a pseudo-father in her life or that he was using his age as power over her.
And honestly, I don't really have any big complaints about this one! It's a fun ride, and I'm glad I had the chance to watch it.
Everything about it was so much fun and so engaging to watch. The plot may not be terribly original, but it's still a fun story line to follow. I particularly loved Cake and her home life a lot, Her mom was present and supportive, and quite funny with her fangirl tendencies towards Ton! And Now— gah, I loved her so much! I loved how she ensured Cake was smart about birth control and such, and then she was SO READY to fight anyone who was mean to her friend. She was a great support character, and her little side romance with Dol was an adorable enemies-to-lovers moment.
Acting-wise, this felt pretty solid! No one really blew me out of the water, but I enjoyed everyone's performances. I thought Jane and Pong worked well as a couple in this— there were definitely a couple moments where I was swooning! I thought the development from basically strangers to awkward strangers to actually falling for each other was done nicely, and I really liked that there was even discussion between Cake and Ton about whether him "taking responsibility" for impregnating her necessarily had to equal love and marriage. While obviously this is a romance and we knew where it was headed, it was nice and felt very modern of them to not immediately decide that pregnancy had to equal them getting married.
The thing I was most hesitant about in the show was, of course, the age gap. Now don't get me wrong— I can get behind a good age gap romance! But there's a thin line between pointing out the twenty-year gap between the two of them and making it feel creepy and, like, paternal. And I thought the show handled it well. There were light-hearted jabs at how much older Ton was than Cake (her calling him 'old man', for one), but he never felt like a pseudo-father in her life or that he was using his age as power over her.
And honestly, I don't really have any big complaints about this one! It's a fun ride, and I'm glad I had the chance to watch it.
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