Two Fathers

They kissed for ratings, then swore they were just dads.

Two weeks into SETTV's 8 p.m. slot, Two Fathers broke a 2 rating. Lin Yo-wei showed up to the celebration with lip gloss already on. He pinned Weber Yang to a wall and kissed him. Yang, who plays the lawyer dad, laughed and said that with his eyes closed it really felt like being kissed by a woman. latestnetflix.com's view is that Fans had already been reading the florist and the attorney as a couple.The stunt did not discourage them.

The show is a 2013 Taiwanese weekday drama, 73 episodes, original title Liang ge baba. Two men, both involved with the same woman, get a hospital call after she gives birth and disappears. They never settle paternity with a DNA test on screen. They raise the girl, Tang Wen-di, together for seven years. Yang is the loud lawyer called Daddy. Lin is the florist called Papa. Child actor Le Le, later known as Xie Yu-en, is the daughter. Megan Lai plays the girl's stubborn teacher. Viewers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait argued whether two bachelors and a little girl counted as a complete family. SETTV sold warmth and jokes. The comments sold a different show.

The couple that marketing would not name.

Official teasers leaned into Daddy and Papa as a bit. The men share a house, a PTA schedule, and the kind of bickering that reads as marriage if you want it to. The writers still built heterosexual tracks for both. Yang ends up with Lai's teacher. Lin's florist gets an artist neighbor, then a just-friends fade. China Times said the finale left Wen-di's biological father as a shrug of hints, and fans posted that a decent drama had been padded, then dumped. TVBS put the last episode at a 3.76 rating with 1.46 million viewers. People complained and still watched. That is the weekday-drama contract. Stretch it, then cash out on the night everyone shows up to see who the father is.

Netflix is the long afterlife. The 48th Golden Bell Awards nominated the series in a marketing category, which tells you what SETTV thought the product was. The streamer added the Mandarin original with English subtitles on August 2, 2016, all 73 episodes, rated TV-14. Years later Le Le came back as a singer and the dads still get tagged in reunion photos. The gossip that never died is the one the kiss already admitted. Two men raising a child on Taiwanese prime time in 2013 was the story. The network wanted a cute family. A lot of the audience wanted the two fathers to stop pretending they were roommates.