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For a change, this Thai BL series blends gaming elements with a workplace romance. You like don't wanna think the plot too seriously because the events happening here (romance simulation game) do not make sense to develop a game, but the chemistry is there. As much as I was enjoying the first few episodes, pretty soon it became the run of the mill story with too much fillers just to take the show to 12 episodes. And tell you what, these episodes are like almost an hour each or even longer in certain cases. There are two love stories - one his the main central and like always another one with friends who are common between the two protagonists. Young boy Hill is addicted to a romance simulation game on phone and obsessed with Yuka, the central female character, so when he gets a job in the company who created it, he is very happy. AI generated Yuka has helped Hill get over. A lot of obstacles in life. Yuka gave Hill an emotional intimacy. At work he learns form his boss Junji that Y...

Taking a break from regular run of the mill Thai BL dramas, we are back to a historical Thai BL. Like some of the previous ones that I have sen, this one also has charm and the whole nostalgia, village and royal setting makes it for an interesting watch. Sure, the core story is of course about love conquering all odds but it I score than that. The quiet longing, the tension between duty and desire, and the believable pull between two men caught between society’s rules and their own hearts. The series is 12 episodes with each one running about 45 minutes. Rati is a Thai origin orphan raised in France, who returns to Siam as an interpreter. While walking around the village in first few days he meets Thee, who he thinks as a common man. Only later he finds out that he is actually a nobleman in the Ministry of Education. The attraction between the two is undeniable. When the French delegate has back, Rati is asked to stay back so that he can teach Thai officials French language which would...

Unlike the other time travel shows, this series is different because it takes our protagonist back in time to fix things/events that could change his future after he dies. Its a BL so romance and drama are abundant and the main storyline is mostly towards the beginning and end, while mid is filled with growth of love and some problems arising here and there to keep the drama going. The show is 10 episodes, each almost an hour long, give or take.  Successful superstar Armin has just won major award is having a party, He finds out his longtime partner is cheating on him, gets into a fight with the rival, and dies during to the scuffle. But he is actually poisoned. Surprisingly Armin wakes up in the past, when he was still a single struggling nobody in his early 20s. In this confusion, he is about to be run over, when he is suddenly saved by mysterious handsome Tada, a secret fan of his form previous life, whom Armin never met and knew him only as TD. Armin is now suspicious of everyo...

This 6 episode, 50 minute each BL series has absolutely nothing new to offer. The plot is extremely basic, there is literally no drama element at all and each single episode just drags on forever. I mean there was no pint that the makers were trying to make, so my question is why even make a series? It felt like this show doesn't care about the plot, but about the cuteness of their relationship. Meen lives by himself and usually has a very dull life. One day he finds a stray dog in his backyard and he decides to adopt hi,. Meen’s peaceful life gets disrupted when his mother suddenly sends Tul, the son of her friend, to live with him in Chiang Mai. Being very protective of his dog, Meen doesn’t want anyone else living in the house, so he does everything he can to drive this new housemate away. But soon he realizes that Tul as much loves and cares for his dog as Meen does. His clingy, puppy-like charm starts to melt Meen’s heart, a heart that’s never beat faster for anyone before. Th...

This is a very ambitious series made on a very grand scale. You can imagine when you are to try and showcase palaces, royalties, games, elaborate stunning costumes, ornate jewelry, royal rivalries, and forbidden romances.etc; so in that way it succeeds in doing all that. There is deception, fights as well which I will talk about in a while and a few steamy sex scenes between our prince and his royal guard too. But overall there is much les romance here and more about the whole royal family story, which could be interesting for some while others may feel cheated with not as much of BL focus. The makers have tried to capture way too many subplots here. With a long run tome of over one hour every episode, this 14 episode series takes a lot of commitment to watch with the last episode going over 90 minutes in duration. We are introduced to a kingdom of Emmaly in Thailand. There are 4 big clans who take turns running the kingdom deepening on which family proves to be a worthy successor. We ...

This film is the kind of slapstick comedy of errors, and to some extent, terrors, that occasionally bring a broad smile to the viewer’s face. Not to be taken seriously at all, a film like this is purely for entertainment purposes and entertainment it does provide. A light-hearted comedy with high farce, mildly progressive messaging, broad humour and slapstick gags, which also happens to have a ghost, this film brings laughs that are mostly effective. This film is remake of the Taiwanese film “Marry My Dead Body”, which I quite enjoyed actually. After waking from a nightmare, the late Titi’s grandma is told by a spiritual advisor that her son has unfinished business, which is likely getting married to a man. She’s instructed to leave a red envelope that fate will deliver to the right groom. Enter Menn, a hapless police informant whose love life is even more tragic than his career. He stumbles upon the envelope and is almost forced in to the marriage. On their wedding night, Menn is stun...

This series was sooo boring and bad, I can't even begin to explain. I really tried to give this a chance, but it just kept getting repetitive and there was absolutely nothing exciting about it. The storyline is painfully slow with constant body-switching and trust me it is not in an interesting way Thankfully the show as 10 episodes of 30-35 minutes each, but I can't believe how bad it was. Sun (a teacher) and Nuea ( a flamboyant gay)  are in a relationship but their sex life is not going well since Sun can't get it up. After various doctors visits, Sun decides to go to a shaman. The guy gives him a soap to wash himself with on a full moon night but make sure he is alone when doing that. As Sun drops the soap into the bath and gets ready for shower Nuea appears and forces himself to join him (no explanation on why couldn't Sun tell him the truth). The lights start to flicker and when they wake up they realize they have switched bodies. After the initial screams and conf...

Light hearted BL series are always welcome. Sometimes you have have to laugh about the silly premise and also ignore the whole practicality of it to enjoy it. This is what I did initially in this show, but eventually towards the end it became too convoluted and boring to care about any of the character like I did for theorist few episodes. The series is 10 episodes of about 45 minutes each. Junior is a penguin born and raised in a zoo, where he and his brother, Little, perform for adoring crowds. One day he gets magical powers in the zoo to become a human and he does that. Confused by what has happened, he ventures out and stumbles upon a boarding school. It turns out that a spirit Mina has been helping hi out to get in school. As a new student, Junior tries to fit in by joining extracurricular activities, but most clubs fail to catch his interest, till he finds swimming club and he is better than everyone there. He meets another student Sun, a quiet and introverted. When swimming team...

This is your standard BL movie. If you've seen a lot of BL movies or shows, then you won't find nothing great or even different about this one. IT is simply ordinary. The actors are new, I would suppose, but they did a decent job. The film is almost 2 hours long , which honestly it did not need to because some scenes are stretched being reasoning, just for the sake of it and honestly it is very monotonous. Ask and his girlfriend are headed out for a holiday to an island. On their way there, they meet Chai. Turns out that Aek and Chai used to be schoolmates and in fact roommates in school. The trip decide to hang out together and one night Aek and Chai are alone and they remember their school days. The entire film is then in flashback. Chai is a new student in school who ends up being Aek's roommate. Both of them are into sports. Very soon they becomes great friends, taking care of each other, eating, laughing, playing together and all is well. Secretly Chai has a crush on A...

Just the other day I was thinking of SOTUS series and how I never saw the two lead actors from that show again! And it was funny when I started watching the show, to my surprise, here comes the two leads on this brand new BL series from the good old production company. The show never really offers anything new or ground breaking but I believe that the idea here was to bank on the nostalgia and appeal of one of the beloved couples from back in the day. The average show, makes up for it by a very fun last episodes where they show some traditions from Thai culture of a very dreamy wedding. The show is 10 episodes of 45 minutes each. Phi is a well-known weather anchor on a TV show. However, he faces public disgrace after a live broadcast where he throws coffee at a colleague. His reputation suffers, and he gets suspended from his show. To save his career, Phi must work with a new producer, who happens to be his ex-boyfriend, Tam. Tam is calm and professional, having studied media abroad. T...

So I was definitely not the biggest fan of the series when it came. I remember it getting excellent reviews around sleek production, money spent, racing cars and what not, but somewhere I felt with too many characters, the overall plot was too convoluted. Sadly even in second season, the problem persists. There are way too many characters, each of them have some story in parallel going on. The plot points start to get repetitive, the pace is slow and almost all over the place and the misunderstandings between main couple were just to much to sit through. With 13 episodes, each of 50-60 minutes, it's not like it doesn't ask for your time. It is a significant time investment and sadly the return is not at all satisfactory. Babe and Charlie are now in a committed relationship and they are still surrounded by a plethora of friends and colleagues. Babe still races and is top of the game. However a new boy Willy arrives and soon becomes a threat to Babe. For some reason, he also majo...

The backdrop of the show is quite interesting. A whole BL series centered around boxing is not easy to make, so kudos for that. The problem is that the things strata to get repetitive very soon. Problem arise, someone fixes it, there is amount of happiness and the craziness starts again with one more layer of bad guys now joining in. It happens multiple times with our lead couple always at the center of it all. Also, another problem is that there are way too many characters to keep your focus on and they keep coming in. So, for a series that started off quite well. I found myself losing interest by the time 6 episodes were done and then I just wanted it to end sooner than later. The show has 12 episodes plus one special of about 50-65 minutes duration. Keen is a young boy who suddenly loses his cop father in a mysterious death. Left alone, his father's friend offers shelter in his boxing club. Loan sharks are after his life and they wont leave him alone, so he has no choice but to ...

‘My Sweetheart Jom’ is essentially a light comedy, featuring caricature-like villains and a slow-burn love story, with the community spirit and the silly shenanigans of its younger characters driving the plot forward. Despite its occasional charm and two very charming leads, the show tries to juggle too many plots all at once and letting some of the down. It feels like the show was supposed to be your classic love story, but some plots were introduced, some characters were forgotten, while the episodes duration kept getting stretched. The show has 12 episodes and each episode is like 75 to 90 minutes and a couple of them even longer. There is a lot going on here and s much of it could have been easily edited out. City boy Yo, who is now 19, did not finish 12th grade because of some drama. His girlfriend was also being pursued by a politicians son and they have a fight, so his parents send him to a rural village as an ultimatum to finish his high school. If he doesn't do that, he do...

This series is a classic case of likely the makers realizing that sex sells even in BL stories. Enough of this high school love and romance, we need to throw in more kisses and lot of hot bodies and sex and we will have a winner on our hands. Honestly this is what I feel the conversation must have gone when this show was being greenlit. 12 episodes of 50-60 minutes each, the story just keeps going in circles for no reason at all. I am honestly baffled at why these Thai film makers still insist on longer duration of episodes. Almost 80% of the narrative includes unhindered & unapologetic sex scenes between the main leads. I’m yet to find an episode where they weren’t kissing or having a full-blown sex session. Let's try to summarize the story if I can. Show starts with this guy Sorn jerking off in a public place. A younger boy Jun is watching him and Sorn watches him. But he then says that "hey I see you are hard, let me teach you and kiss you " and the young boy gives...

I wouldn't call this series as a typical BL. This was actually a classic gang/revenge story between 2-3 underworld clans and just bit of romance thrown between the lead guy and the other boy. It was never developed, was never the focus. With 12 episodes each of about 55 minutes, I went into the show hoping for a gay love story, but I was disappointed. Having said that, if you watch the show for the grit and novel story that it says, it is actually quite good. But it's all about managing your expectations. Even this poster is soooo misleading. The plot centers on a young man named Sun, who is the son of a benevolent gang leader. After his father and best friend, Kong, are tragically murdered, Sun is wrongly accused and sent to prison. Once he is released, he works to expand his power and uncover the truth behind the deaths of his loved ones, his life becomes intertwined with Peach, a sensitive Korean artist. Unbeknownst to Sun, Peach is the son of the rival Korean gang leader, M...

Full marks for novelty to set a BL romance in a Thai prison. This gritty environment allows the series to explore meaningful themes. Sadly the screenplay and the execution is so jarring and random and sudden that half the time it doesn't make any sense. Apparently this was released as a 20 episode series , but the version I saw was 5 episodes where first 4 were 30-40 minutes each and the last one was 80 minutes. Jed owes a lot of money to people (we are later told he borrowed money for making a film), so he gets arrested. Even though he spends just one night in jail, it's his first time in such an environment. He's crammed into a tiny cell with numerous other inmates. Bible, a young prisoner on volunteer duty, is tasked with guiding new inmates. He somehow takes a liking for Jed and protects that first night from getting bullied. Jed gets bail next morning and Bible asks him to never come back again. Three months later his cheque fraud eventually lands him in a longer priso...

Even though a good part of this series set in Northern Thailand was about promoting tourism, but the way it was incorporate din the larger storytelling and a beautiful love story, it did not feel like watching a tourism advertisement (which happens sometimes). The locations and sites were so seamlessly integrated, that most f the times you were either engrossed in the beauty of it all and other times in the romance that was developing in front of you. So overall I quite enjoyed this series about first love and its loss of 8 episodes, each of 45-50 minutes. Tontae and Nankrai have been best friend since they were little. From the very first episode we realize that Nankrai has much deeper feelings of love towards Tontae but he is completely oblivious of his gazes and stares and love and sees the former just as a very close friend. Tontine dreams of traveling the world someday. Since Tontae has understanding of English, he is requested to accompany a Taiwanese visitor Victor to their vill...

We have a yet another high school teenage romance BL. You will not find anything much different here than what we have already seen numerous times, but the good and refreshing part about this is that there I son forced drama. This is more like a feel good romantic teen story focusing on various couple and depending on their individual situation how they fall in love, manage love and their insecurities. The first half of the show follow on these and in last 2-3 episodes the focus shifts on future universities, what happens to love and friends and life in general. The series is 12 episodes of about 45 minutes each roughly. Since we have multiple couples here. That is how I am going to review. First we have Shane and Kit. Shane is a hardworking student looking for scholarship for further studies. His teacher makes him tutor a student Kit who has been failing in Maths and that he can make some good money. Their initial few sessions are nothing but chaos since Shane is full of fears and ins...

This was an interesting series in the sense it was hard to like it or dislike it. The story is really barely there and s just paper thin, but look at the guts of the makers that they decided to convert this into 30 episodes each of about 8 minutes to keep the viewers hooked a few days a week to wait for what would happen next. Thankfully, as always I saw it when the whole thing was out.  It is the story of two worlds. Navee is a young man who works at a radio station. At the halloween party, another man dressed in traditional royal clothes catches his attention but disappears. The same guy starts showing up as a ghost at his apartment at regular intervals scaring Navee. Navee tries making offerings and prayers but nothing helps, so he eventually gives in. The man tells him that he is a prince from 2000 years ago and he has not crossed over and it would happen only when Navee remembers everything. Slowly love Strats Tod develop between the two in this world and in small fragments, N...

Exploring the romantic relationship between two childhood friends, Loy and Kaew, this series features themes of forbidden love, social class differences, and the struggle against prejudice in rural backdrop in Thailand countryside.Unfortunately there are way too many characters and a very soap opera kinda feeling and direction made this show a bit boring for me. The series is 6 episodes of about 40 minutes each. Loy, is a kind hearted son of a widow, whose father died and they have big loan to pay and then we have Kaew, who comes from a more nobler family. The setting is rural Thailand where farming is the way of life. The dup have been extremely close friends since they were kids. Both are strikingly handsome, natural leaders & pillars of the community, and are desirable by a lot of eligible females in this rather small community. One day they kiss each other (happens in the very first episode) but the leaves both of them confused. A few days later it happens again and they realiz...