Papa, What is Love?

Uncut versions add spices to an already delicious dish

This series isn't your typical fairy tale BL-series, with all the usual tropes and college students driving around in their expensive cars, living in fancy houses, not being gay, but only being able to love the one and only guy, who was an enemy first and became a lover towards the end of the series. This is a story of real people, with a past that wasn't a bed of roses. There is love, jealousy, cheat, and regret, like in real life relationships.

The first episode led viewers up the garden path, because it looked like the beginning of a shallow OTT comedy. Richard (Arnold Reyes), a widower in his 40s, is urged by his son Greg (Anthony Flores) to hire a helper to look after him and the household. After a series of absurd interviews, the last applicant, Tupe (Rex Lantano), enters the stage with a winning smile, presenting Richard a bunch of flowers picked from the neighbours' garden, and he gets the job which is generously paid so that he can support his mother who is taken seriously ill.

The plot of episodes 2 through 6, however, isn't pure comedy. Richard, who only came out to his son after his wife's death, because he didn't want to hurt his wife's feelings, falls for Tupe, and they end up in bed together. They are caught in the act by Greg, who is embarrassed to witness his father having sex with a guy who is about his own age. At first he suspects Tupe of being after his dad's money, but the two young men slowly get closer. When Richard goes on a business trip, they spend a day together, have a drunk talk about their childhood and traumas, and end up having sex.

The next day, both Greg and Tupe are crying – Tupe obviously because he regrets cheating on Richard, and Greg maybe because of trying to steal his dad's boyfriend, or maybe because he has seriously fallen for Tupe.

The final episode is a real rollercoaster. When Tupe is about to leave because he won't dare face Richard, Greg accuses hi...