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Finally a non cringe, adult show that doesn't rely on childish writing and actually feels thrilling. There isn't any other GLs so far besides maybe Petrichor and Pluto that have a darker and mature tone that doesn't feel like it's been written on wattpad.

3 episodes in and it's clear this is heads and shoulders above the rest in it's genre. The production quality, set design, acting, writing, and ESPECIALLY the music are sooo far above the usual slop that's produced. Even the good GL shows don't seem to come close to it in most of these aspects.

My favourite GL currently is Pluto and others like Us and Call me by no name are great but this is looking to take that spot if the quality continues. Every episode is providing some thrills and it doesn't even need to be a romance for the show to be good. Whereas all the other shows have that as the basis for engagement.

The main characters are really well acted, from Claire with her scary persona and softer side, to bell who is much more of a victim but the actress plays this character really well. Her crying scenes and general despair are felt and don't feel overacted at all unlike most other GL actresses. The 3Ds leader is also really surprisingly well written and her acting is amazing.

If I had some nitpicks so far, the prison doesn't seem too scary so far and theres really only 1 antagonistic force (3 Ds) and they aren't menacing at all. I hope we get more tension and scenarios that make the prison feel less safe and they flesh out the conflict a lot more because currently it's very basic reminiscent of school bullying. The choreography of fights is lackluster aswell. Though it's only been 3 episodes so this may improve.

8.5/10 so far.

Without really giving any spoilers, this show feels like a 4 or 5 episode mini series stretched out into 10 hour long episodes. Even then the show doesn't realise the full potential of the premise it's introduced.

The main questions are never explained and the writers seem to shy away from actually getting into what the curse actually is and how to stop it altogether. Episode 2 is literally a rehash of episode 1 with some added scenes of the female MCs perspective. All of this could've been merged into the pilot instead of wasting the viewers time.

Then MULTIPLE episodes of the main character investigating the curse, data collecting and stalking the female MC. All of these episodes could've been done in one single episode. The amount of times you see the same rehashed scenes or irrelevant sideplots with a certain detective character is an absolute joke. It's clearly just done to pad out the runtime.

The concept of the show is interesting, but there was barely any payoff and I literally just stuck with it to see if they could actually salvage an interesting plot development in the final episodes. Even the resolution is barely satisfying, it just kindve ends when certain conditions are met, with the main characters having only spent about 5 scenes together in 10+ hours of runtime.