Cutie Pie (2022)
7/10
Boys love? More like toxic love.
14 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
This show is about two childhood friends, Kuea and Lian. Kuea's grandfather actually helped Lian's family to start their own business. Then they become successful and rich, just like Kuea's family. Their grandfathers were close and one day they thought "You know what could be amazing? If our grandchildren marry each other!!" So basically, they want them to marry to have their families closer to each other's? Okay. Their last wish wasn't like "Oh, it would be great if they were close friends and..." NO, THEY NEED TO MARRY! Even if they didn't like each other! Even if they're toxic together. Yeah. Makes sense.

(Actually, it wasn't the most toxic couple in this show. But more on that later.) Lian thinks Kuea isn't interesting, but he's not like other boys. He likes motorcycles and he also performs music under his secret stage name, Kirin. Which is not really important, because he'll reveal his true identity in episode two. So. Yeah.

They're also going on dates, and it's just.. embarrassing. They're not eating their food which is in front of them and oh my god, eat your food. They don't really like each other and then, during a heated confrontation, Kuea calls off the engagement. The end. OH I WISH THAT WAS THE END. But of course, when they start getting to know each other and their true selves and feelings, they start to fall in love. Okay, yeah, I really like this concept, but the execution was just.. off.

This is the part where I'm going to get angry. I'm going to talk about Diao and Yi, the secondary couple. Yi feels guilty because his dog attacked Diao, causing childhood trauma. So he's like taking care of him, and he's also deciding where Diao can or can't go??? He's like controlling his every move. In one scene, Diao literally visits a karate school called FREEDOM. Yes, FREEDOM. The reviewer on BL Watcher dot com is shipping Kuea & Diao, and I didn't see it at first, but now that i'm thinking about it, it doesn't look bad. They're supporting and caring and.. OH MY GOD I CAN TOTALLY SEE THAT NOW! And another thing that Yi does is when he and Diao have an argument (like in every episode) in the car, and after that, Diao comes home, and he sees a dog. A little cute doggie, so he's like "Whose dog is it?" and Yi is like "Welp, it's yours." You fricking manipulator. You think this will resolve this problem? Ok, maybe yeah. I love dogs. God dammit!

I love what happens in episode twelve. Lian's dad is having this big birthday party and everyone is there. And you know what Lian does? I couldn't believe my own eyes; he asks Kuea to MARRY HIM. AND HE'S LIKE.... NO. I love this moment. Every fan must've been like sad and I was just laughing out loud. It was perfect. In the end, Kuea is the one, who proposes to Lian. But Lian is like "No way! You think i'm going to be the BOTTOM now? I ain't gonna have anything in my ass tonight." And HE proposes to Kuea. In the very end, there's this text saying "Love will be continued." Noo, there is no season two. No. There can't be. Well.

So after a month I watched Cutiepie I was browsing the internet and I saw "Cutiepie 2" and I'm like no, this can't be real. It's like a fan made thing. Then I saw it on the official site and yeah, it's real. My PTSD came back and I was like "Nope, I can't watch it. I can't." But y'know. I eventually did..... It was basically about the marriage and wedding, or I don't know, I skipped A LOT of it. Yi and Diao are back, Yi looking like a sociopath and Diao looking scared of him. Just like the old times. So, in the end they'll marry and Diao will catch the bouquet, poor guy, and Kuea will get the music deal. It's just like a fairy tale. But toxic. Really, REALLY toxic.

I also wanted to say that I hated the main song.

I don't know why, but on Viki, where I watched season one, there was like every ten or fifteen minutes this ad break, or something, but there wasn't an ad, so they just played the main song again and again and I was like.... *Cries*
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