BL Drama Lovers Club

Day 16 challenge: "Favourite BL Drama Parent"

Hmm, I shall limit this to parents of main characters. There are also some very memorable grandparents, who I will exclude. There some seriously bad parent characters (e.g. Golf and Bank's parents in "My Bromance", Uea's mother in "Bed Friend") but thankfully a lot more good parent characters - almost too many to choose from.  

So I'll just pick the first one that comes to my head: the warm, supportive and generally charming "Mama Xu" (Qi Zhang's widowed mother) from "About Youth", my favourite Taiwanese BL. (And Ye Guang's parents might be among my nominees for "worst parents".)P.S. No, that's not Mama Xu in the photo. Ye Guang (left) and Qi Zhang (right).

 American Fan:

DAY 15 - Favorite BL Drama Trope

Def when the "bad" or tough boy falls for the cute or "soft" boy first and may also be influenced to change his behavior (if it really was bad to begin with). This may or may not include gang or mafia stories.

I also really like the enemy to lovers thing. I watch for that moment of realization to hit, for either or both parties and then to see how that plays out. So much fun.

Sometimes both of the above might be combined in one drama.  Throw in some action and comedy and I'm a very happy watcher!  

I enjoy those tropes too. (maybe too much but-)  

can anyone recommend some?

"Close Friend Season 3: Soju Bomb" and "Love Is Like a Cat" (with Mew Suppasit) are a study in contrasts in how to do, and not do, Thai-Korean collaborations.

Both are lightweight comedies. "Soju Bomb" (final episode tomorrow) is a zany comedy, and it's unclear to what extent it will become a BL. As to the Thai-Korean collaboration, the writer seems to have put some effort into a story in which there's a real purpose to these five very cute boys being in Korea. The young actors have also put some obvious effort into learning Korean lines (or maybe they knew some Korean already, but I doubt it). The language barrier is handled quite naturally.

"Love Is Like a Cat" (now through Episode 6 of 12) will presumably be a straightforward BL rom-com. There are some good things about it - but in terms of the Thai-Korean collaboration, it's very lazy. There seems to be no interesting purpose for Mew to be there, other than to appeal to his fans in KBL fandom. Mew supposedly understands Korean perfectly but says answers virtually everything in Thai - and the way the language barrier is handled is so annoying articial. I don't feel much effort.

I'm not necessarily un-recommending "Love Is Like a Cat", but I sure hope this is not the future of Thai-Korean collaborations. My hopes for "Wuju Bakery" are still high.

P.S. "Soju Bomb" is a stand-alone series and actually has nothing to do with Seasons 1 and 2.

 p43425:

and it's unclear to what extent it will become a BL.

Not sure it was ever billed as one. It does have an element of LGBTQ (last episode) but I don't think it's going the BL route at all. None of the tags are  Gay Male Lead or even Romance, just Slight Romance.

 American Fan:

DAY 16 - BEST BL DRAMA PARENT

I'm going to second that and go with your answer cuz I loved her so much! It was so heartwarming to watch the relationship btw her and Qi Zhang in About Youth. Here's Mama Xu. 

She has my vote too.

 Chun Mo Rionnag:

Not sure it was ever billed as one.

Even just by calling it "Close Friend Season 3", aren't they making an obvious play for the BL market? To me this seems bait-and-switch - although I'm still enjoying it, and I personally am fine with a good non-BL, bromance, whatever.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GMMTV/s/x9a0jOhu2u :) BounPrem have the same manager as Off, Gun, Mark, Neo and Nanon<3

 PaiSkyForever:

https://www.reddit.com/r/GMMTV/s/x9a0jOhu2u :) BounPrem have the same manager as Off, Gun, Mark, Neo and Nanon<3

Is that a good thing?