Ron Does Stuff

I am going to try my best and catch this show on time at least for the finale because the past few weeks has really made it impossible for me to watch this as it airs. Let’s hope I don’t get swamped with work.

At the end of the last episode, all the effort made in the past 11 episodes proved to be for naught because Pemika still got her way in the end and Thame ended up heading to Korea by himself so he could be subjected to racism all by his lonesome. Fun!

I’m guessing there’s a time jump in this episode since Po is watching new trainees doing dance training. Actually, it’s a new group because Po and his team will apparently be thinking of an MV concept for them. While at a coffee shop with his team, who does he run into but Earn, the ex-boyfriend who used him. And not in the good way.

Earn, to his credit, sought out Po to apologize for how badly he treated him. Is it a ploy to maybe get him back? I dunno! Po is graceful to Earn, telling him that he understood why he was mean to him because some people just aren’t meant to be together. I wouldn’t be as graceful but then again that is why I am not a BL lead.

BUT. It turns out Po is every bit the vindictive homosexual I am because Earn really is just there to leech off of Po’s new director position to make his own company look good and Po responds by telling him to never talk to him again and never talk about him again. Now that’s accurate homosexual representation!

After telling off Earn, Po meets up with Uncle Joei and shares some existential angst. He’s got everything he’s wanted in life but why does he feel like he hasn’t won at all? Well, it’s because you let your man jet off to Korea by himself! Uncle Joei then says that he’s lived 60 years without a dream and maybe I’m just a dumb bitch but I don’t get how that relates to Po at all.

Back at home, Po is working on the MV concept for the new group and as he’s rummaging through his closet looking for inspiration he stumbles upon the jacket that Thame left for him so he can “hug” him figuratively and that’s when he finds a letter for him in the jacket’s pockets.

It’s an anti-capitalist screed, I guess? A call to slow down and hold each other’s hands and appreciate one another and not step over each other on the way to the top. Thame says Po has made him appreciate the little things and that even the little things have worth and okay I can kinda see that through-line now in the show but it was such a muddled and messy journey to get to this point. Est is good in this scene though!

Then it turns out Thame hasn’t left for Korea yet? I don’t understand. Mick shows up as Po’s final connection to Thame and he arranges for the two of them to meet on the company rooftop. But even that is a bust because it’s Pemika who meets Po up on the rooftop and I just said Jesus Fucking Christ out loud. Then Pemika fires him. Is this going to end with Mars starting their own company? Because I will have had it if that’s the path they’re going to take.

After some detective work, the rest of the members of Mars find Po’s favorite sandwich shop and they try to cook up a way to keep Mars together by meeting up with Thame and trying to find loopholes in his contract and HOW WOULD YOU GUYS DO THAT YOU’RE NOT LAWYERS. THIS SHOW REALLY SUCKS ASS WHEN IT FOCUSES ON THE MUSIC INDUSTRY COMPONENT BECAUSE THERE’S A LOT OF JUMPS AND ASSUMPTIONS BEING MADE.

And then there’s this whole Mick redemption arc and I want to stab myself in the neck.