Oh My God

Everything a good romcom needs

This Vietnamese romcom doesn't re-invent the wheel, but I enjoyed watching it because it has got everything a good romcom needs. The story isn't sensational or even unique, but it is well written without including all the tiring tropes that make some other BL series so unpleasant to watch.

Thanh (Thien Nanh), a handsome young man who loves music and wants to become a professional musician, escapes from his violent, dominant father to his grandma's village. An (Duong Huy), a cute boy roughly the same age as his cousin Thanh, is lured to the village by his grandma (Pham Hiep), too, who falsely pretends to be fatally ill. An travels to the village although he doesn't like the place and hasn't been there for many years, and Grandma's health miraculously improves as soon as the two boys arive at her house.

On the surface, Thanh and An's story is the typical enemy-to-friends-to-lovers plot, but we'll see later that it isn't very conventional. Their first accidental encounter leads to a violent fight, later they tease each other and argue a lot, and every time the two boys do something together, they end up in a mess. But after An is bitten by a snake and Thanh carries him to hospital, they gradually get closer to each other, and between all the comedic scenes there are more and more romantic ones, e.g. when An gives Thanh a bunch of flowers, or when Thanh praises An's cooking skills, whereupon An promises him to cook for him forever.

When another cousin, My (Cam My) arrives who tries to separate the two boys because she's had a crush on Thanh since she was a kid, Grandma decides that Thanh and An share a room, and whenever My tries something to get in between the boys, she makes them get closer. For my taste, My gets a little too much screentime, but she does have a function in the plot, because it is she who unintentionally brings the main couple closer together.

One night, when Thanh is drunk and tries to kiss An, An furiou...