Orange Days (2004)
4/10
Too long - too boring
17 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
This series is about three male student friends - all of them are twenty two years old it seems - but all of them act like feckless teenagers. Kai is in a relationship with an older woman, Mahou - but he is attracted to a deaf girl - Sae. This character evokes no sympathy in my view - she is self absorbed - self pitying - narcissistic - selfish - rude and aggressive to a point where you just can't stand her when she appears. Why me - she keeps whining - I am better than anybody else - so why has this happened to me. She cares only about herself and what she wants - the rest of humanity can go to blazes.

I skipped through many episodes because I simply couldn't stand her. I hated the way Mahou tried to dominate Kai's life - wanting him to get a boring job he had no interest in so as he could support her in the future - he was well rid of her - especially when she slept with one of his friends. I don't understand what the gay references were about in the beginning - the hints that his friend was going to have a relationship with a gay man to obtain a job. I understand it is compulsory now to have gay hints in most every series - but I had hoped that Asian series would resist the trend.

There is nothing out of the ordinary in this series - it has all been done before - and better.

Half a dozen episodes would have sufficed.
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