Gay shit I watched

Not a BL. ~540 minutes

New generation of actors attempts to find acting partners. Less scripted than season 2. No pre-established pairings. Most didn't even find an acting partner.

mlm. ~180 minutes

Thai guy and Korean guy have been besties for forever, and maybe they're crushing on each other a lot. Also there's a murderer in their midst and they need to figure out who it is.

mlm. ~440 minutes

Wholesome vibes. They've got good friendship chemistry, as in, it feels like natural teasing. Plot is underwhelming.

mlm. 280 minutes

Rich asshole father buys a humanoid robot to keep his son in line. Robot finds unconventional but very effective methods of doing so, namely by exploiting the son's attraction to him. Son has a type of kink where he likes being taken care of in a benevolently controlling way. 

It's hilarious and campy and definitely not highbrow, but also, people with that kink do exist, and maybe it should be okay to show it on screen, maybe that is a sex positive feminism goal? I'm not sure. As an asexual, this isn't my area. But I mean it's fascinating?

Same universe as the BL 'Anti-Reset'.

mlm. ~200 minutes

Professional soccer team gets sold to entertainment company that wants only hot players. Players aren't happy, but our ML player secretly kinda likes one of his new actor teammates…

It's funny and enjoyable, but the ending is a bit rushed and illogical. I don't like how it encourages and normalizes parasocial relationships. It feels like it's pandering to sasaengs.

mlm. ~280 minutes.

Fake relationship leads to a real one, also crime and espionage. It's funny and adorable. The names are so on the nose it's hilarious.

mlm. ~540 minutes

Classic enemies to lovers. Good mutual teasing. Worth watching. Nothing out of the ordinary.

mlm. ~290 minutes

Has an indie feel. Online quarantaine relationship, one flirty, one emotionally constipated with internalized homophobia and a guilt complex. Gets pretty emotional. Worth watching. Low budget.

wlw. ~660 minutes

I really appreciate this one for opening the doors for more Thai GL. It is enjoyable enough, and that's mostly because I guess I have a need for seeing women being represented like this, like they matter as individuals, and are worthy of having stories center around them. And the whole show is just really pretty.

But plot-wise? I am unconvinced.  It relies on jealousy and miscommunication a bunch, and I'm bored with those tropes. I see feminism in here, and I do appreciate that, but it feels a bit basic.

cw: transphobia

mlm. ~480 minutes

He asks crush' ex bf to help him hit on her. Ex bf is like 'sure' but actually wants to use the opportunity to hit on him. Healthy relationship and communication in this is actually pretty good. It's sweet enough. The plot is kind of all over the place though. It's just a couple of unrelated things thrown together.

mlm. ~200 minutes

Professor dad x student babysitter. I knocked a full point off of this for the age gap and power dynamic that aren't really okay, but this is still really really sweet. Fairly trope-y.

mlm. ~480 minutes

'No homo though' besties evolve into 'definitely homo actually.' Idk it's funny enough. 

There is also a pretty problematic stalker-y stepsibling relationship though, and they do end up together, so proceed with caution. 

mlm. ~500 minutes

Accidental time travel from 2000 to 2022. Absolutely terrible communication, but the show knows it and judges it. It's funny, has a decent plot, good dynamic between leads, but yeah no it's not revolutionary.

wlw, background mlm. ~270 minutes

Ok so I know this is a low budget series but hear me out. The DRAMA on this is excellent, so unpredictable, so messy, so chaotic. Consider me entertained.

Promiscuous secretly lesbian star falls for her fake husband's sister, while paparazzi, a scorned ex, a scorned arranged fiancée, and an evil grandma are after her.

mlm. ~120 minutes

Season 2. They're together, but still awkward as hell around each other and unsure how to communicate their feelings, and now they have to learn. It's still really funny, but it feels like things didn't develop enough from last time. It's clearly gearing up for a season 3 though, and I will be watching it.

wlw. ~480 minutes

Wannabe superstar's house gets re-sold to a real superstar, and she decides to secretly keep living there anyways.

Very silly and funny.

trans, wlw, gnc, not a GL. ~190 minutes

Trans girl living her life as a fashionista, looking for a girlfriend. Look the production is competent and engaging and funny and emotional and it's great that something like this can exist, but the politics of this are really lacking. 

She's being very judgemental and manipulative, often uses her transness as a scary ploy and her lesbianism to turn guys on. But I guess that's her way of fighting back? She keeps outing herself to strangers as 'a guy', which she clearly isn't, and she doesn't need to do. Also she's played by a cis man.

cw: transphobia, varying severities, coming from everyone including the trans girl herself.

wlw, ace, not a GL. ~200 minutes

Secretly lesbian single mom re-meets the one who got away, who is now her son's girlfriend's mom. An exploration of the relationship between the mom and her son. I love it, made me cry. Everyone is so kind and fluffy.

mlm, gnc. ~840 minutes

Welp.  It's definitely visually stunning. It's engaging and entertaining and the eldest mafia brother is excellent and funny. There is a mostly coherent plot. But it's also toxic and abusive as all hell and you wouldn't be wrong to compare it to Fifty Shades or 365 days. That's absolutely allowed to exist, but it is not my thing.

cw: romanticized rape & intoxication, romanticized torture, nudity, fairly graphic murder

Go watch "History 3: Trapped" instead.

mlm. ~770 minutes for total series, but a lot is straight and skippable.

Enemies to friends to lovers. It's been a LONG time since I watched this. They had a fun dynamic. I don't think the consent politics were great. I think it was fairly trope-y. But yeah no I did enjoy it.

polyamory, mlm. ~280 minutes

Three people fawn over a really cute guy and they decide to all live together and share him equally. A casual, silly and soft comfort show.

mlm. ~180 minutes

Isolated overworked office worker travels to a parallel world where everyone (including hot colleague) is nice to him and learns to open up and ask for help sometimes.

Yeah, liked it :)

mlm. ~200 minutes

The most uptight lawyer ever meets a charming criminal and gets manhandled. Definitely a high degree of wtf, but that also keeps you guessing as to what on earth is going to happen next. Chaotically enjoyable.

mlm. ~150 minutes

They kissed once as teens, and now they're work acquaintances, and mr big boss comes on to him really strongly, but there's still hurt feelings from before. This is a pretty typical BL. Solid. Worth a watch. Excellent theme song.

mlm, background wlw. ~660 minutes

Rainy deafness soulmates. This starts really strong, but the plot does strange things afterwards, and for a moment it looked like it was gearing up to critique the concept of soulmates, but it absolutely is not that ambitious of a show. It's entertaining, but not more than that. There are lesbians shoehorned in last minute, and I appreciate the gesture.

cw: making out with an intoxicated partner who said no while sober, then lied to hide this fact.

mlm. ~280 minutes

Taekwondo boys in bad familial situations support each other through that and fall in love, break up, time skip.

When they manage to communicate this is really charming, but most of the time they're being really angry and needlessly hurtful towards each other, especially Dohoe. 

mlm. ~380 minutes

It's been a while since I watched this so take it with a grain of salt. Loner decides to make friends by joining student council. Communication in this was pretty decent. Gay panic was pretty good.

wlw, background trans. ~360 minutes

The most clueless goofball in existence gets selected for the campus pageant, which means she has to be coached by the previous winner, a really pretty girl who keeps blushing for some reason.

Deceptively, at the start this feels a bit like a standard 2020 era BL, but it has queerer intentions than that. Also it's really funny and cute and I really love it.

mlm. ~250 minutes

3 stories. Guy's disappeared ex reappears with dark past. Dude has crush on clueless best friend. Lad chases hard to get student assistant. 

Just a BL of the standard variety.

cw: sleep kiss.

mlm. ~580 minutes.

Two stories about hot domineering streetracers falling for cute guys with an inferiority complex. The chemistry is there, so is the production value. It's just not my type of story. I struggled to get through, but don't let that stop you.

mlm, (and tentative trans, because the comedic relief trans lady feels like more of a person than usual). ~360 minutes

Thai/Mandarin co-business owners, enemies to lovers. The humor at the start is quite childish, but some of the characters are surprisingly emotionally mature and communicative. There is a coherent plot. Enjoyable enough. Worth watching but not a masterpiece.

mlm. ~500 minutes

Incompetent teacher needs to figure out what's gone wrong with his boyfriend/colleague who turns into his seven year-old self every other day.

This actually handles mental health issues with a surprising degree of nuance, for a GMMTV series. And it's funny and warm-hearted. They don't make the whole 'my boyfriend is a kid sometimes' -thing weird, thankfully.

mlm. ~540 minutes

Rascal finds out his girlfriend is dating a gangster, who now wants to kill him, so his dad sends him to live with a village-head friend in the countryside. They butt heads, but rascal does like village-head quite a lot.

The humor is a bit slapstick, slightly more than average for a Thai BL. It is a fun show, and it has a core message about how to deal with conflict that feels well-thought out and well-implemented. A lot of fat could have been trimmed off of this and it would have made for a more coherent and streamlined show. Too many subplots are happening.

One issue I have with it is that the love interest is played by Saint, the CEO of the production company, and the main character is played by a 21 year old newbie in the industry. Given Thai shipping culture outside of the show itself, that power dynamic feels wrong.

mlm. ~540 minutes

Extreme introvert x extreme extrovert. A bit MBTI-obsessed. It feels like the main character was unknowingly based on a real life autistic person, and is called an 'introvert,' but it's actually more than just introversion.

This is sweet, fluffy, trope-y. Nothing out of the ordinary for a BL. Well-executed. Good, but not exceptional.

wlw. ~200 minutes

Perfectionist disaster character starts believing in numerology and screws up her life by dating two people at the same time. It's funny.

spoiler: they don't end up together.

mlm. ~600 minutes

Dude with extra special magic blood has vegetarian vampire bodyguard. This could've done with more conflict and tension between the leads. They're mostly fighting against external threats, which I also like, but it does miss the point of a romance. I do really like how it explores the interplay between fear, power and sexuality through the biting metaphor. That feels true to why western vampires are a popular storytelling device.

mlm. ~540 minutes

Based on the Japanese hit 'Kieta Hatsukoi'.  Misunderstanding leads to actual feelings. Teenagers figuring out how this whole 'dating' thing is supposed to work, together. They've got songs. It's funny and adorable. Some scenes are excellent and moving, but in other parts the show feels too long, with too much filler.

mlm. ~480 minutes

Class divide. Delivery guy x doctor. Delivery guy has kid. It's quite cute. I do think it's worth watching.

cw: I think this one had a 'too drunk to consent' scene, but I don't remember clearly

mlm. ~720 minutes

Rich cousins get approached by two gold diggers, who both accidentally fall for their targets.

This show is so silly and fun.

mlm. ~540 minutes

Goody two shoes x prankster influencer. Lots of lampshading about classic tropes. Periodically has excellent communication. 

mlm, wlw. ~180 minutes

Not a BL/GL, but it is queer and it feels true to life. This has an actual perfectly symmetrical love square. 90's vibe. I appreciate most of these characters, and I appreciate the plot.

cw: implied suicide of wlw background character, mainly a plot device.

mlm. ~360 minutes

I know what the title of the show sounds like, but that is not what that means in Thai. Some translations are really unfortunate, but I also kinda think this translation may have been intentional.

Spinoff cutie pie, amnesia + whodunnit. Visually stunning, but the audio could use some work. At some points they demonstrate excellent relationship abilities, at other points terrible. It's got some soap drama tinges. It gets better over time though. Last episode is funny as hell. But the whodunnit is kinda solved on the background, which is a strange choice.

cw: sleep kiss, not great consent politics, but not the worst either.

gnc. ~200 minutes

Two childhood best friend genderbenders who have a lot of feelings about a lot of stuff, especially each other. 

Even though this is technically a boy and a girl who like each other, it messes around with social norms far more than the average BL or GL. It feels queerer. I love it to bits. At least, right up until the last episode, where they get stuck back into gendernonconformity.

mlm. ~300 minutes.

Bad boy x straight A student, except bad boy is actually just abused and acting out. 

I mean it's fine, but I don't get the hype. The plot, characters and relationship dynamic feel very standard BL to me, but the series is trying to convince me it's deep, based on cinematographic vibes and an overused water motif. The water motif doesn't actually add any meaning, because it's used to represent too many things at once: romantic feelings, trouble, connection, overwhelm, Hirukawa etc.

This story was clearly borne out of pure fantasy, not personal experience, and I'm not at all against that, but I want either fantastical silly fun, or for the author to pour their actual heart out about their personal experiences, or even better, both. I don't want a story without silly fun and without personal experience.

wlw, mlm, gnc, non-monogamy. ~200 minutes

Pearl from GameBoys (2020) trying to find the one and ending up being courted by two girls.

You should watch this specifically for the character named Alex. That applies only if you are somewhat sapphic.

This will need a season two for the story to feel finished.

wlw. ~600 minutes

Investigative officer and forensic pathologist work together, against a serial killer that hits close to home.

The plot is excellent, but other works by the same author were adapted into far better series.

cw: graphic murder and forensics, implied domestic violence.

wlw. ~550 minutes

Promiscuous chaos gremlin got scammed by a fake husband-to-be, and in order to catch him, decides to pursue his sister. 

Chaos gremlin gets herself into lots of trouble, and I enjoy watching that, and so does the show's love interest. It's really funny. It did start stronger than it ends, with frustrating lack of communication.

mlm. ~500 minutes

Guy who restores antiques accidentally frees a silly flirty vampire from a magic painting. The silly vampire really looks like the guy he's been having steamy dreams about since he was a teen, odd. So he gets embroiled in a war between vampires and vampire hunters and needs to pick a side.

I liked it, but it should've been so much more than it was. The parts of this that were meant to feel epic, impactful, grand, really didn't. The BL part was well done. The fantasy part wasn't.

wlw. ~400 minutes

She gets saved by a mysterious lady who can turn back time, then spends the rest of her life chasing her. 

An exploration of the trolley problem. The plot is excellent, but it leaves no time for much gay romance to happen, and a bunch of time is wasted on a straight side couple.

It's about the eldest daughter of Wa and Four from Reverse 4 You.

wlw. ~360 minutes

Guarded girl wants her ex who's married to a rich guy back, but instead rich guy's goofball sister pursues her.

The goofball has me giggling, but I'm not really managing to care about any of the other characters. 

mlm. ~200 minutes

His new annoying roommate/tenant turns out to be his boss. Yep, fun enough, solid BL, nothing out of the ordinary.

mlm. ~60 minutes

Special episode of I Feel You Linger In The Air. Khun Yai gets to time travel to the modern world for a day. It's sweet, but not as brilliant as the series.

mlm. ~240 minutes

Naive guy is unwittingly stuck in a web of jealous gay guys fighting over him, two of which turn out to be seriously scary. A really fun watch. 

cw: stalking, abuse, kidnapping, manipulation, threats of murder and suicide

mlm. ~240 minutes

Angst with happy ending. Guy meets old special friend at work. Abrupt mysterious separation back in high school, now still like each other plus trauma. Then terrible communication skills lead to both of them believing the other doesn't really like them, but they do become very horny fwb. It deals with internalized homophobia. This is worth watching. 

cw: not the best consent politics, but not the worst.

mlm, background wlw. ~240 minutes

Dude in love with bestie has the worst communication skills and avoidance issues in the world, but that's actually pretty angsty and entertaining to watch.

wlw, mlm, gnc. ~240 minutes

Intentionally creepy high school drama setting with deadly consequences. There can only be one Yuriko left in the school.  

The plot is intriguing and kept me hooked but idk the resolution isn't convincing to me. Villain motivation is extremely weak and why are there THIS many people willing to murder for this nonsense?

cw: teacher/student relationship, they're not main. Lots of gore.

mlm, gnc, trans. ~400 minutes

Dating show. Very queer. The first season of this was very wholesome and I loved that, but the producers decided to amp up the drama for this season instead, and there's one guy who's being an abusive douche, which isn't helping either.

censored mlm. ~720 minutes

Adaptation of 'Addicted'. Story is similar but changed, and that's a good thing. This could've done with a 'kill your darlings' round, aka cut out all the random things unrelated to the plot that happen. It's well-acted though, and the setting is absolutely beautiful, and they make it very obvious that these two are a couple, with some amount of plausible deniability built in.

Ending is unclear this way, but there's an extended ending on YT which clears things up.

cw: violence.

mlm, gnc. ~300 minutes

Technically a sequel to ep 3&4 of Y-Destiny, but can be watched separately. 

Guy has erectile dysfunction and his boyfriend is displeased, so he tries a magic solution and accidentally switches bodies with his boyfriend instead. Very campy, but it does have a serious message about communication, trauma, healing. It's a lot of fun.

mlm. ~460 minutes

Soulmates and temporarily travelling to parallel dimensions. It's enjoyable enough. I think this is one of the most coherent and interesting plots MAME has ever written, but the dynamic between the leads is still just macho man x smol bean, as is characteristic of her work. 

mlm. ~67 minutes.

The story of the parallel universe characters. It's fun.

mlm, background wlw. ~450

The plot in this has me hooked from start to finish. It has ghosts and mystery and that's all I'll spoil. But the acting is fairly stiff, especially from the guy who plays Mas, who seems very umcomfortable with the gayness of it all.

cw: murder and suicide

mlm, wlw. ~780 minutes

Guy with a heavy past ends up as roommates with an ex-situationship who he's really trying to avoid. But the other guy won't let him go because it was all a misunderstanding.

Based on the trailer I thought this would be trashy and unoriginal but it surprised me. It's a messy and imperfect attempt at dealing with such heavy topics as sex work, suicide, privacy in the world of shipping, etc. I appreciate that. It feels really genuine.

wlw. ~720 minutes

Princess x commoner bestie period piece. Marriage looms. 

The reason this gets a seven is because the set, costumes, and production value are phenomenal. The plot mostly consists of jealousy, and the acting is stiff and formal, which isn't a skill issue, but a stylistic choice that's just not my cup of tea.

mlm. ~580 minutes

This appears to have taken inspiration from Addicted/Heroin, in the sense that it is about two smarty pants popular high school guys who clash upon first meeting, and then find out their parents are getting remarried to each other. The similarities end there though. This is very heavy on academic pressure and ranking. And it's verrryyy slow. The story is not finished without a season 2.

mlm. ~510 minutes

Besties in love in college, but won't say it. One of them disappears for ten years, then comes back, more determined. 

This is funny and charming. I love the grandma and her merry band of old queers doing weed, and the one teenager who is extremely done with everything. 

mlm, background wlw. ~280 minutes

Absolutely wild story about a grandpa who dies and accidentally occupies his grandson's body, then falls in love with his soulmate his grandson's age, all while trying to get his grandson's spirit to return. It's a hilarious mess.

cw: SA, not romanticized.

mlm. ~600 minutes.

They used to be in a situationship and be basketball buddies, but they grew apart and one got involved in some shady business, now they reconnect over more basketball, and shady shit.

This is definitely not bad, but I did expect more from director Tanwarin, because they're awesome. The story is a bit of a mess, just a bunch of shit thrown at the characters without a clear character arc or throughline. But other than that, everything is competent. Excellent theme song and cinematography.

There's canonically autistic rep in here, which again, isn't done badly, but I expected better.

cw: bunch of guns, abusive relationship (not main) which includes dubious consent.

mlm. ~360 minutes

Enemies to lovers between a bright-eyed newbie and a bitter veteran BL actor, then switches gears to talking about Chinese censorship of queer media, as well as sexual abuse within the industry.

Clearly indie, but absolutely worth watching for the plot and its message. Watching it feels like listening to the personal opinions of queer Chinese filmmakers.

mlm. ~300 minutes

Broke aspiring actor gets swept up into supernatural nonsense by a 1000+ year old goblin king who hates him because he looks like his one and only ex, yet does still protect him from evil ghosts.

The first episode of this is chaos but it finds its footing quickly, and then the plot really did draw me in. I don't know anything about Korean folk mythology and would've probably gotten more out of this if I did, but I enjoyed this introduction to it. A fun watch. Not brilliant, but pretty good.

mlm, wlw. ~450 minutes

Clueless and unmotivated intern x cold professional. Feels like a standard GMMTV BL. I do appreciate them subverting the intern x company boss trope by removing all the glamour from the situation and instead making it silly and difficult and real.

Don't watch it for the sapphic couple, you'll be disappointed.

mlm. ~550 minutes

Machiavellian illegitimate son wants his rich dad's company. He hires a bodyguard, a golden-hearted ex cop who was framed for drug sales by his unhinged brother.

Starts stronger than it ends, but still really enjoyable.

cw: lots of guns and murder

mlm. ~600 minutes

I watched this a long time ago. I'm pretty sure it was a standard Thai BL, trope-y. I think the the love interest was more of a douchebag than usual.

mlm, wlw, trans.  ~120 minutes

Pretty campy. Guy/girl arranged marriage. Girl casually going out with both genders on the side. Guy is very green but may be into dude he just met. Many other queer characters fucking about in their own ways. It's got good feminism, sex positivity. 

I wouldn't call it competent. I did enjoy it though.

mlm. ~135 minutes

Bummed out star meets stoic chef. I watched this a while ago and didn't write much else down. It was fun enough. Not super special. I think I also watched the second season, which was on a similar quality level.

mlm. ~650 minutes

Best friends get drunk and sleep together, then figure out how to exist near each other from then on. They have a fun dynamic and I do think this one is worth watching.

mlm. ~480 minutes

Guy's boyfriend gets murdered, then he travels through a magic puddle into a parallel universe where mr boyfriend isn't dead yet, but also a bunch of other stuff is different, and he falls for mafia boss' son instead.  Lots of drama and angst.

cw: bunch of guns and death, torture. Medium amount of gore. This is pretty intense.

mlm. ~310 minutes

Ex-law student x elephant caretaker. Good plot at beginning, kinda chaos at the end, good acting and relationship dynamic, but it does feel a little slow. 

Just stop after ep 3. Don't even watch the 4th episode.

Spoiler: It's like the story ended kinda anticlimactically, and then the writer just kept throwing random shit at the main characters for another episode. They get married twice for no reason, one crossdresses illogically, they get a child chucked into their lap out of nowhere, and then one dies during a wedding, the end lol

mlm, trans. ~1120 minutes

Critique on industry. BL actors trying to stay relevant. Very dramatic.  4 different but interconnected stories. It's not the worst, it's not the best.

cw: trans person got outed to the press and it's not treated with the gravity that it should be, instead she just gets written out unceremoniously.

mlm, wlw. ~340 minutes

He has to plan his crush's wedding, doesn't know it's an arranged wedding for a gay guy and a lesbian. The dynamic in which the groom aggressively flirts with a panicking wedding planner who is trying not to love it is hilarious.

cw: sleep kiss but he wasn't really asleep and kissed back

wlw. ~500 minutes

Girl quits her high paying job to take over her late father's underperforming little shop, and receives help from a local overachiever with all her self worth tied to her productivity.

More of a slice of life than a driven plot, but I still enjoy it. There is messaging in here about work-life balance and the importance of money. 

mlm. ~840 minutes

Brother ends up in sister's BL fantasy reality. Good acting, good chemistry. It is fun campy nonsense. Too many characters though. I did definitely enjoy watching this, but keep in mind that it does feel aged.

cw: pretty toxic relationship between soccer dude and Blue (the original MaxNat couple), and Fighter is no angel either.

mlm. ~540 minutes

Fairly typical Thai BL. Basketball guys. Besties to lovers. It's sweet, it's worth watching, nothing out of the ordinary.

wlw. ~240 minutes

Sequel to 'Apple My Love'. They deal with the daily mundanities of couple-dom, as well as external homophobic pressures. I really quite like it. It feels based in real experience.

mlm. ~140 minutes

Sequel to 'Your Sky'. Fluff upon fluff upon fluff.

mlm, trans, gnc. ~270 minutes

Another strong contender for the 'campiest show' award. This is absolute nonsense and it knows it. It's ridiculous and enjoyable.

cw: it feels kinda transphobic

mlm. ~130 minutes

This is a straight-forward middle of the road BL. It doesn't do anything new, but it's enjoyable nonetheless.

Enemies to lovers. Basketball guys who used to know each other. The one guy can't sleep if he's not near the other. 

wlw. ~460 minutes

Besties are in love with each other for forever, but don't realize or say it, then some straight marriages and lots of jealousy and drama. It's not my thing. The first 3 episodes are essentially backstory, with the plot starting in episode 4, when they meet again. 

cw: guns & suicide

mlm. ~240 minutes

Magic do-over to save the life of his bestie that he had a giant crush on. It does the familiar BL tropes. Some things do not make sense, but yeah it's definitely watchable.

mlm. ~240 minutes

Now that they're together, Shirasaki still feels inferior to Asami, and wants to fix it by getting better at acting. Asami struggles with following his own emotions.

This drags quite a bit in the middle. It felt a bit directionless at times.

mlm. ~540 minutes

Yeah it's high school boys in love, idk what you expected. Standard GMMTV formula. The characters are consistent, and they have arcs. This is absolutely very watchable, and there's nothing objectively wrong with this, I just think it's kind of bland.

mlm, background wlw. ~580 minutes

Med student x chef. Standard BL fare. It's sweet.

wlw. ~90 minutes

Spin-off of Deep Night. You don't need to watch Deep Night first. 

Bestie shows up with the news that she's going to get married to a man, but secretly hoping that her friend will get jealous and be her lover instead. Worth a watch, chemistry and production value is there. The plot is kind of bland, especially towards the end. There is a season 2.

mlm. ~150 minutes

Guy gets bullied for being rich and musically gifted, so he gives up music and starts faking his way through life with a smile, but then he meets a guy who is always unapologetically himself and who sees right through him.

I appreciate that this tackles masking, but tbh this show bores me, I wish they didn't do so much SA, and I wish the writer came up with a less unlikely reason for the guy to get bullied, because now he's just like 'y'know what I think I'll try music again' and all his friends celebrate it, so he had no legitimate reason to be hiding his true self in the first place. I understand that he's metaphorically being bullied for being queer, but still.

cw: romanticized SA and sleep kiss.

mlm. ~360 minutes

Ghostly running camp. Genuinely underrated. Not trope-y. Decent communication. Indie feel. People act like people. Does lose points for too much slow-mo and repetition in last few episodes, and for lacking production quality.

cw: repeated deadnaming played for laughs. Of a trans person, not a ghost.

mlm. ~120 minutes

Socially anxious wedding singer meets fresh faced pianist. Mental health theme. Nothing out of the ordinary. Standard BL.

mlm. ~120 minutes

I didn't write my thoughts down at the time. Do not trust my review of this.

mlm. ~200 minutes

A trope mashup. Marketing boss x intern but also they're childhood friends. Very basic clueless uke, forward seme dynamic, except times three because somehow he can't manage to catch on to not one but three rich hot guys' incessant advances.

It's watchable and forgettable. The flirting is enjoyable though.

mlm, gnc. ~470 minutes

Likay troupe x rookie idol. It has more emotional maturity than you'd expect, especially regarding the ex that shows up. It's an indie production with heart. Not very competent, but I do feel like I learned a bunch about likay, and I did enjoy it.

mlm. ~300 minutes

Disgraced star re-encounters his old classmate and discovers his insomnia is cured if he sleeps next to him. Old classmate doesn't want to have anything to do with him, for crush and internalized homophobia reasons.

In the same universe as the 2016 show Addicted, hoping to ride those coattails. It's an okay show. I liked it.