Ossan’s Love was an absolute hit in Japan. And ViuTV’s exceptional remake of it – in the context of Hong Kong – has served as an invaluable breath of fresh air given the largely stifling times in which we find ourselves. There exists a variety of reasons for which Ossan’s Love has proved to be incredibly successful here. The excellent acting, the rather astounding transformations to veteran actors and actresses whose repertoire had hitherto been largely dominated by soap operas and cookie-cutter plots prescribed by the lowest common denominator, and, above all, perhaps, the visual-symbolic resonance of a “groundbreaking” storyline centered around non-heterosexual (non-het) relationships.