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I can’t explain it, but something about this scene just screams “BOYFREINDS” to me

A Straight-Forward Explanation to Why There is a Boyfriend Vibe:

Two people in a friendship relationship might ask if they can have a taste of what their friend has ordered, while two people in a couple relationship assumes that eating off of their loved one’s plate is acceptable, even expected, especially if the food goes untouched.

We, the audience, are meant to pick up on this subtlety and subconsciously take note of it, without the narrative explicitly stating that this scene has a “date” connotation to it. When the writers, director and actors choose to engage in this, it’s called adding subtext.

This particular use of subtext is there to signal to us, the audience, that these two characters are not engaged in a friendship relationship, but rather in a couple relationship. One that has yet to be fully acknowledged by either of them, and yet both of them have subconsciously adopted the couple behaviour and accepted that this is how they relate to one another.

This is why the scene screams BOYFRIENDS at you. Because that’s what the writers, the director and the actors want you to take from this specific character interaction – that they are behaving like a couple would, not as friends do.