Only Friends (2023)

Friendzone has similar themes of love, sex, betrayal, intimacy, loneliness, infidelity and friendship. It centers around a group of friends as they try to navigate their complicated personal and social lives. Boyo is an eccentric character that enters a friends with benefit situationship with good. Earth is cheated on by his boyfriend sam with his best friend stud

Earth cheats on his boyfriend with his best friend as a revenge for his infidelity
Arm enters a lesbian relationship with apple
More love triangles and exes from the past arrive

Multiple couples, messy relationships, sex is a main theme. Only Friends is higher quality in production value, Playboyy feels like a B list movie compared to OF, it's still worth a watch if you want something just as messy. Don't expect to enjoy it as much though.

similar plot
same director

similar plot same director

Friends with benefits.

Friends with benefits.
Toxic reltionships.

Queer crew, queer story, queer characters who have messy lives. Aof and Jojo wrote Gay OK Bangkok and Jojo directed it. It's a realistic story while OF is more entertainment, but we can have both.

It has a solid storyline with good plot twists
The main lead is quite onery with a very good chemistry with his pairing

similarities:
- thai bl
- secret crush trope
- produced by gmmtv
- characters in university
- same main leads (book plookphol and force srisang)
- many love interests which causes complications

differences:
- “only friends” depicts darker themes (drinking, drugs, nudity) that aren’t present in “enchantè,” which is fairly lighthearted
- though there are many love interests in both, those in “only friends” have more screen time
- one side couple in “only friends” has the friends-with-benefits trope
- in “enchantè,” one lead is rich
- in “only friends,” book’s character studies business while in “enchantè” he pursues english

similarities:
- thai drama
- produced by gmmtv
- will air in 2023
- multiple mains
- problematic and fractured friend group
- heavy drinking environment
- dark tone and themes

differences:
- "only friends" is a bl
- "the jungle" deals with revenge and murder while "only friends" tackles toxic relationships (cheating, blackmail, friends with benefits)
- the leads in "only friends" are university students while "the jungle" seems to take place outside of school

this drama also revolves around 4 friends and their linked love life. the drama has many things to connect as it makes us understand the difference between a friend and a lover

Both series show flawed characters and include toxic relationships where one party wants something else than the other party (usually friendship X love X sex), so there is a lot of jealousy and suffering.

Both series are bl and from the same company (GMMTV). Also they have the same main characters First Kanaphan, Khaotung Tanawat and Neo Trai.

The same director. The Characters have similar problems and toxic traits.