Episode 8:
It was obvious that Luca will not be Lara's true love, but I do not feel this push towards Lara+Mari. Not the way they did it in this episode. It feels forced. As in "we were told this needs to happen, and this is the best time as ever". The drama feels even more forced, considering there was not so much interaction between the two in general, let alone "romantic" interaction.
And it's not like they can't end up together. Love can grow very slowly, and it's especially true for a lot of women (and one of the frequent reasons of non-intentional friend-zoning). It's just that here we did not have enough time for that to become a thing.
Speaking of time: have you noticed that there is no strict time limit? It's not "the potion works for X days". Which means that there probably is no real limit, no real hurry. Even though we are told that there is. In every episode. Multiple times. This re-enforces this "forced narrative" feeling, that I have. If there was a clear time-limit from the start, both Lara and Mari would have been behaving much differently, because they would know, that clock strikes at midnight, and they have only 1 hour left.
Maybe this will be clarified later, but I doubt it, since there is a potion and some light that help extend the timeline. There probably be some newer version of the potion that will be more potent or something. But anyway, it all feels like they are using very wrong tools to move the narrative forward. I think that I, probably, won't like the way they get to the end.
