Where Your Eyes Linger - Review (The Korean BL That Has Been Long Overdue)

:rotating_light: Spoiler Alert :rotating_light: I cannot guarantee you that this review will be spoiler-free. I’ll do my best not to give away everything but I’m not going to stop myself from talking nonstop. Consider this as a heads up.

As South Korea becomes more notorious and infamous for giving its BL Dramas the “reality check”, it’s always a must to every BL fans to ask first if the show will have a happy or sad ending. Its latest offering, Where Your Eyes Linger, was no exception to this wariness of the fans. But it’s also an exception to this exception, as it easily became the best BL series for the first half of 2020, and the best in a while since the magnificent HIStory’s Make Our Days Count.

Where Your Eyes Linger

Its plot is as genuine, pure, and innocent as it gets with “master x slave/best friends” trope between the main characters Kang Gook and Han Tae Joo. It wasn’t trying to have an inventive story. It was an ordinary plot for a BL story and a romance story in general, which as ridiculous as it may sound but still not going overboard and becoming too offensive. Fortunately, it didn’t compromise its heart to pander on the fandom’s creepy obsession on excessive skinship as if that’s the only way on making ships sail. It didn’t even use whatever plot device one could think of just to stir some conflict that isn’t necessary for both characters’ growth. The story had a vision and it knew how to make it to its destination.

Read the full review here: Where Your Eyes Linger Review

You can watch Where Your Eyes Linger on Viki and WeTV.

You can also listen to its OST here on Spotify.

Rating: 4.7/5

Guess what happened lol.