Yup, I’m kind of in a BL pass. Don’t know why. It should pass quickly. Well not that I mind having such passes. It’s refreshing
Make It Rigth: The Series is a school romantic (BL) drama. The story basically follows a group of boys through the hardships and their questioning about their own sexuality. The drama starts by a drunken mistake, in part provoked by Fuse’s will to forget the fact that his girlfriend cheated on him, Fuse ends having a relation with his friend, Tee, which will bring him to question whether he’s more attracted to boys or girls.
So it’s been quite a while since I watched the lakorn, but I wanted to release the two reviews (since there’s two seasons) at the same time because why not! I can do whatever I want. I have to admit that I spoiled a few things in the review because there was no way to say absolutely nothing about what’s going on in the story. After all, I have to talk about the side romance. I’ll just say that if you don’t want spoilers about this series then you might prefer to skip this review (as always, there’s nothing too major according to me, but you might have the impression that I revealed too much about the lakorn).
I want to start this review by saying how awfully wrong the relationships are in the great majority of this lakorn. I mean, you can’t have consent from someone when they are drunk. Tee was sober, yet he still forced himself on Fuse who (even if he could have sobered up) never accepted to have sex with him. And this is so wrong. I know it’s something that’s often in dramas or movies, but that’s fucking rape and no relationships should start that way (personally, I think Fuse should have beaten the shit out of Tee, but that’s just my opinion folks…). But Tee x Fuse isn’t the only romance in Make It Right the Series. There’s also the lovely Book x Frame (who are quite cute, but I still gotta talk about how their relationship started, no hate on me, I ship them so hard even after that). And they meet up through a dating app (is that a spoiler? Who cares...) and ends up having sex. The thing is that Book clearly says that he doesn’t want to have sex with Frame, but Frame still forces himself on him. And another relationship that didn’t start well… But let’s pass to the story line review now.
The story is quite ordinary. There’s nothing exceptionally special in it. Most of the plot twists are quite cliché. It’s something seen everywhere, but it doesn’t mean that it’s bad. Mostly due to the sweet romance we can have from time to time, it’s a lakorn more than acceptable. Also, it’s quite a funny drama (because of the timing of certain things, you’ll understand if you watch, pay close attention to the conversations). Surely, it isn’t perfect, but it’s a good way to kill time. Through the lakorn there’s quite a lot of lengths due to the addition of some characters whose story are dragged (like Jean, oh god, I hate her). The progression of the story is fine (even with all the lengths), even though it doesn’t seem to reach its goal. The lakorn is constructed in such way that it doesn’t seem too empty. I guess that also the small quantity of episodes played a major role in this impression. What kind of surprised me (in nor a bad way nor a good way) was that it looks as if the whole school (or group of friend) turns gay at the same time. I mean, there’s nothing wrong with that, but isn’t that just too unrealistic? I’ll just finish up by talking a little bit about the different stories (please bear with me that it’s been a long time since I actually watched the lakorn and I only rely on my notes at the moment, it’s possible that I’ll miss something). First there’s the main romance (Fuse x Tee) who is cute, but kind of goes back and forth and isn’t progressing much. And then there’s the secondary romance (Book x Frame) that is, in my opinion, way more interesting than the main one because there’s more progression in it and the characters really grow through their relationships, and they are kind of cute… like really cute… But that’s just me fangirling I guess (I ship them so strongly).
For the characters there isn’t much to say since they mostly grow in the second season, but even if I say that you shouldn’t omit that they undergo quite a lot of changes in the first season as well (it’s just less drastic than in the second season). The first impression I had of the characters was that they were really stereotyped and cliché (Book and Frame even make allusion to the terms Bottom and Top, which is kind of annoying). What’s more, the characters are also really childish in their beliefs and behaviors (but, at the same time, they are still in high school so can I really rant about that?). Fuse is kind of annoying because he kept going back and forth and is extremely indecisive (I understand that, but, at the same time, they abuse of it through two whole seasons), he just really bored me after a time. As much as I thought Tee was cute, I thought his devotion for Fuse was a little bit too much. Like he was too into him. He should have let go when he realized that things weren’t going his way. For what it is of Frame, he’s the perfect playboy, but, at least, you sense some change in his personality. And I won’t say anything about Book because the first season doesn’t really explain who he is. He’s just like a stranger who doesn’t talk much (and that is explained in the second season if you’re curious about it). For the rest of the characters, they play quite a small role in the first season, so I’ll let you discover them by yourself.
I’ll conclude here. I’ll do a second review about the second season since this review is already long enough. The plot of the first season would be worth an 8/10. The characters would be a 2/5. And the tearjerker factor would be a 1/5.
