Gay shit I watched

mlm. ~180 minutes

Insecure nerd gets beaten at maths by casual nerd, and then they have to be roommates at maths camp together, so insecure nerd asks an anonymous fortune-teller for advice on how to beat him, and the advice consists of 'try to make him like you, then you'll win', so he does.

Yeah it's what you expect from a high school GMMTV BL. Nothing more nothing less.

mlm. ~230 minutes

The favorite idol of this high school teacher shows up at his job and wants to shoot a show with him, and maybe be more than just colleagues. Teacher hides his adoration and offers token resistance, but succumbs. Maybe the pop star has more nefarious intentions than it seems.

This has fun bits for sure, but overall I'm not majorly impressed. I don't agree with the plot and there's not enough wow factor in terms of cinematography or acting to make up for it.

mlm. ~180 minutes

Night needs to write a love story and find experience in order to do that, runs into ex-bestie who is now running a quaint little café. He's scared of being gay because of lack of acceptance from surroundings. I like that it deals with internalized homophobia somewhat. But this is quite bland.

wlw. ~600 minutes

Threatened pop star x body guard, and also they're high school exes. I love this in terms of flair/style, but there is not nearly enough plot to fill 14 episodes. 

mlm. ~540 minutes

Campy nonsense. This show is stupid and it knows that it is stupid. Don't go into this expecting a coherent plot. Guy from 90's pisses off ghost, ghost sends him to hot guy in present. The characters are all his old 90's friends and their college aged kids. Starts to drag a little around the 6-7 episode mark. The ending is bizarre, and not in a good way.

Would I recommend this? No I don't think I would. I did have fun watching it, but the ending is really not it.

cw: age gap kiss

mlm. ~300 minutes

He asks his bestie to teach him how to flirt and bestie is a bit too eager to show him ALL the ropes.

cw: repeated dubious consent

mlm. ~300 minutes

Lonely dude who likes cooking meets lonely police officer who can't cook for shit. It's sweet and simple. Standard BL fare.

mlm. ~150 minutes

His new boss is some kind of spirit who's been waiting for him to reincarnate for 300 years, and the director doesn't beat around the bush. It's funny.

The series kind of just skips developing the central relationship. We don't see them fall in love. I thought the plot was going somewhere so I was entertained, but it ended up just being confusing. The plot is full of holes.

cw: age gap of about 280 years

wlw. ~440 minutes

She fake-marries her childhood bestie to ward off the evil guy on the farm next door.

Excellent amounts of jealousy. Plot is okay, acting is okay. Definitely watchable, but not super special.

mlm. ~400 minutes

This one is highly praised by a lot of people, and I have to disagree. The alleged 'deep-ness' of the story relies on the love interest's struggle with PTSD and depression (and possibly the main character's struggle with change and social anxiety). As someone who's been through a lot of therapy for all of these issues, this story does not feel like a heartfelt personal expression of what they feel like, or how one would realistically deal with them, but rather like a cheap and appropriative tool to make the characters appear more fleshed out than they are, and as a dramatic plot device that serves as a reason for why these characters should be together when they have nothing in common.

The editing at the start of each episode is so confusing that I kept going back to see if I had clicked the wrong episode. The whole show has a 'this is serious and deep' vibe, with no fun allowed, and I was bored. The cinematography is just okay. Acting is fine.

mlm. ~140 minutes

Yeah, nothing wrong here, nothing special here. Intern x boss. I guess I'm a little frustrated about the fact that the stakes feel insignificant, and the conflicts to resolve before they can be together feel silly. 

mlm. ~240 minutes

After his glow-up, he re-meets his dumbass high school frenemy, who doesn't recognize him and asks to date him, so he does, in order to get revenge.

The characters don't seem into each other at all. Idk I'm not convinced. I do like the story of Hiro learning that his past nerdy self was always lovable.

mlm. ~590 minutes

Twins separated because of divorce, one does volleyball, the other MMA. Wrong twin gets knocked out by bullies, other takes his role in the volleyball team and falls for the guy his twin was feuding with. The first episodes are rough, overacted, childish, but it's suprisingly entertaining the longer you watch.

mlm, trans.  ~720 minutes

This is very much 'content', not art. Very standard university Thai BL. I think the thing that works about the GMMTV uni BL formula is that they give each couple a characteristic relationship dynamic, as in, the way they tease each other is unique for each couple. 

The thing that doesn't work for me is that the relationship dynamics are pretty much all there is to this show, no other plot whatsoever. There's so much fluff and padding that adds absolutely nothing. But you can't deny that this is popular, so clearly it works.

mlm. ~160 minutes

Country boy meets rich asshat, one drunk night later he follows him to Manila to become a fellow model. This feels genuine, and I like that there is a fat character that is actual good representation, and who voices her struggles with fatphobia. But also, too many scenes were skipped or montaged. Should've been longer, spelled some things out more.

mlm. ~720 minutes

Standard BL. University hot guy contest. The prequel is terrible, but you don't need to watch that to follow this story.

cw: femme-phobic, fatfobic

mlm, ace. ~290 minutes

Virgin guy turns 30 and gains the ability to read minds when touching, finds out hot guy in office has major crush on him. This operates on manga logic, which is so unreasonable that it's hilarious, but I think it's intended to be dead serious. I mean it's watchable though? You might enjoy it. The gimmick is fun and silly. TERRIBLE theme song.

cw: the virgin guy is absolutely terrified of even mild physical intimacy and this is treated as normal, nothing to worry about.

mlm. ~120 minutes

Marketing dude x stubborn anti-alcohol chef. Pretty basic enemies to lovers. Stubborn anti-alcohol chef's motivations are really unclear throughout. Also there really is an inordinate amount of falling for no reason in here, given the short runtime. It really does promote alcoholism as a good thing, and soberness as a bad thing. 

"I have social anxiety" "Have you tried thinking happy thoughts instead?" "No I haven't, thanks it's fixed now."

Watchable. Forgettable.

mlm. ~106 minutes

Tonally inconsistent, tries to do too many things in too little time, doesn't deserve to be a movie rather than just a standard BL series. I think this could have maybe worked as a longer series. It seems like a lot has been cut. It does nothing new, but hey it's definitely watchable. The set it beautiful.

Arranged marriage in the 60's. Main character acts like a Disney princess from the 50's, fully a damsel. Characters don't feel fleshed out. It relies on you already being invested in the classic ZeeNunew dynamic. Enemies to lovers.

mlm. ~590 minutes.

This is what it says on the tin. It's not brilliant, but it doesn't pretend to be, and I appreciate its honesty. It tries to be cheap entertainment and it does that well. 

cw: murder, cheating, romanticizing domestic violence

mlm. ~360 minutes

Tsundere baker needs new assistant. Love interest is too toxic and doesn't change enough by the end and yet they still end up together and I don't agree with it. But if you want pretty pictures on your screen for an hour, an episode of this'll do.

mlm, gnc. ~420 minutes

Drunk one night stand leads to fwb leads to feelings down the road. Tries to tackle #metoo but falls into damsel trap. Kinda drags during last 5 episodes.

cw: Intense homophobic childhood abuse by parent. Consent issues between main pair.

Censored mlm. ~525 minutes

From China, so they made it as gay as was legal, and that's not very gay. Manager x rebellious son of the big boss who needs to learn a lesson. It's watchable. It hints towards gayness, but no it is not ever going to actually go there.

They do not have the healthiest dynamic, at all, but it is an interesting watch.

mlm. ~150 minutes

It's about beauty standards & anxiety. It feels too short for me to really connect to any of the characters. We get snippets of their relationship, flying from scene to scene, all far apart in time.

Some people definitely connect to it though, so maybe it's just me. You should give this a try.

mlm. ~240 minutes

Dude works in marketing, gets new neighbor who has crushed on him for long time. It's pretty cliché and boring tbh. Not much of a plot. They really have to stop trying to make me care about marketing. It's amazing how slow this is, given its runtime. Then some fabricated nonsense conflict in episode 7 and then they get back together the end.

I mean, if you have nothing else to watch, this exists.

mlm. ~120 minutes

He falls for the star he gets paired up with in 'gay concept' boy group. The actors are legitimately in a boy group together. It's alright. Just don't take it too seriously.

mlm. ~160 minutes

Two insecure guys with bad communication skills used to date but fell out, now they meet again and have to re-contextualize everything that happened in a more emotionally mature way. It's okay. I like the concept. The execution feels a bit bland.

mlm. ~540 minutes

Barbershop high school kid x friend, enemies to lovers, fake relationship to real, not really special. I'm sure you have better things to watch.

wlw. ~240 minutes

Her ex  shows up at work to be her new boss and uses her power to take revenge. This has good drama, acting, cinematography and chemistry, but it also seems to be attempting to shame career women for being unfeminine bad mothers, and I don't appreciate that message at all. It's worth watching. Just look past the BS politics I guess.

cw: workplace harassment, sexual harassment, outing.

mlm. ~200 minutes

They're adopted brothers and classmates. One bullied and with an inferiority complex, one protective.

mlm. ~330 minutes

His ex-bestie comes back out of the blue, asking to be roommates again, but he's scared he'll catch romantic feelings again.

This slowburn was too slow, frustrating and illogical for the amount of payoff there was. The only obstacle is the one guy not wanting to risk his friendship, for 11 episodes.

mlm. ~130 minutes

Chef x internet celebrity. It's fine I guess. 

mlm. ~210 minutes

Kuea can't be singer and husband at the same time. Sets up the issue, then skirts it. Kinda meh, plot-wise. If you can't get enough after Cutie Pie season 1, then yeah why not watch this.

mlm. ~360 minutes

I watched this forever ago. I would put this in 'queer media' or 'slice of life' rather than 'BL', but it does definitely have attractive guys who kiss, within the first couple of minutes even. Protagonist is kinda unlikeable and unreasonable, and the only guy who did seem like a perfectly nice character is the one who got dumped lol. This is watchable, not super forgettable, but just not super high quality. Give it a try.

mlm. ~450 minutes

Just your typical engineering students, except with hogwarts mechanics based off 6 types of things you can be good at, like being smart or strong, or apparently 'handsome'. The plot is stupid and it doesn't make sense.

Subtitles are absolutely terrible. Honestly you need to understand quite a bit of Thai in order to follow this at all. 

"We want to use our engineering skills to start a company that will fix the environment, so we're going to be selling pure air and gasmasks to people who need it." and the series treats that like it's actually a good idea.

"I couldn't accept that I like guys, so I pushed you away and pursued this other guy."

You could watch this if you have nothing else to watch, and then forget about it the moment you click off the video.

cw: sleep kiss, a couple of times forced kiss 'but he wanted it so it's okay'

mlm. ~360 minutes

College kid likes singing, but his dad wants him to take over his funeral business, so he hires a strict employee to train his son up. Son likes the employee more than was planned. It's okay. It's a typical BL. They should have changed actors for the main character though, he doesn't do well.

mlm. ~720 minutes

This series asserts that watching benevolent sexism play out can actually be enjoyable as long as you turn the girl characters into smaller guys. This is beef I often have with BL, but this series takes it to another level. If you turn your brain off this is watchable. It does have humor.

wlw, gnc. ~60 minutes

Wish fulfillment movie; 'what if your roommate was a hot butch?' I don't really like that the butch character didn't really get a personality of her own.

Has a sequel.

mlm. ~170 minutes

High school kid likes teacher but doesn't want to pursue him. His bestie proposes they date so he can get over his teacher. Nothing extraordinary.

mlm. ~470 minutes

Tontae is completely oblivious to the fact that his bestie is head over heels for him, and he instead starts dating a Taiwanese tourist. Indie low budget, not competent, but still pretty fun. The way they handled the four languages (Thai, Kam Mueang, English, Mandarin) spoken in this is really realistic, and I enjoy that a lot. If you choose to watch this, which I think you shouldn't, don't watch the last episode. Instead just imagine they had a nice Taiwan trip or something.

cw: not a happy ending, it's real crap. Bunch of burying of gays. Also some amount of nudity within rest of series.

mlm. ~300 minutes

This starts off being an enemies-to-lovers stepbrothers trope, then turns into 'fate determined you can't be in a relationship or you'll die' groundhog day. This is fine-ish. The pacing is off and not much sense is being made, but it's enjoyable enough. I'm glad Chinese producers are finding ways around censorship.

Spoiler: They don't end up together.

mlm. ~140 minutes

Director meets favorite writer who happens to be his ex crush. The connection between the story they're writing and their own is really on the nose. Subtitle translations not good enough. They're refusing to communicate, and for one of them honestly I think the reasons are childish. This whole plot could've fit into a 30 minute short film and would've been better that way. There are many better things to watch, but if you're somehow out of those, this is sure a frustrating watch, but I promise you'll forget everything that happened once you click off the video.

cw: Guy A does stalker shit. Guy B got too close to a sleep kiss.

mlm, wlw. ~200 minutes

Influencer meets dude on beach, also lesbian friends. This is low quality, indie, authentic, and honestly worth a watch.

mlm, gnc. ~540 minutes

Dude gets told he's inherited an old house and goes to live there. In reality the house is already owned and inhabited by the ghost of his past life's lover and ghostly entourage. The ghost hopes they can be together again.

Honestly, this didn't work. It's actually two relatively separate stories; the past and the present. The 'present' story has intrigue and mystery and tension, but for large swathes of the series, we only see the 'past' story, for which we already know how it ends, so we're just waiting for the tragic end to finally happen. Sadly, neither plot ended up making much sense.

cw: murder, abuse

mlm. ~240 minutes

Homeschooled boy with strict music parent goes to mainstream high school and meets depressed but hot douchebag. Homeschooled boy reminds douchebag of his dead brother, so now he must make his life a living hell. This is like a 'who can communicate the worst' competition. It's very contrived but hey it could be worse. There's nothing wrong with the acting or cinematography. This is watchable.

cw: bully x bullied and it does get violent and homophobic. Off-screen suicide of supporting character due to homophobia.

mlm. ~420 minutes

Stoic high class ancient Chinese guys lie and swindle each other, but deep down love each other a lot, because they met as kids once. Or well, professions of undying love sure are made, but I don't think a desire to own another person is love, especially when it leads to this kind of abuse.

It's beautifully shot. I guess I just don't enjoy stoic cruelty. The suffering/happiness runtime ratio feels like 98/2.

spoiler: not a happy ending

mlm. ~200 minutes

Estranged childhood besties are made to live together. Sparkly sweet and home-y. Typical BL. Starts off strong, but doesn't manage to keep tension towards the end. There's just no stakes anymore.

mlm. ~310 minutes

80% landscapes, 5% BL. I like slowburn, but this burns too little for me.

mlm. ~120 minutes

Dude has to pair with dude in dating class. Also he helps his crush (girl) with stalker problem. Feels so cliché that I keep thinking 'have I watched this before', but no, I haven't. It's alright. Nothing special. Ending is a lil dumb, but it's sweet.

mlm. ~108 minutes

I watched this probably almost a decade ago.  I don't think I should review it without rewatching, but hey, I didn't forget that I ever watched it and that should say something.

mlm,  wlw, trans. ~830 minutes

A remake of the 2014 Love Sick, the Thai BL that started all Thai BL. there were some changes to the original plot, changes that make it fluffier, which I like, but also less progressive and transgressive, which I don't like. There is barely a female character with their own plotline left. This started strong but the plot loses steam somewhere halfway.

cw: transphobic caricatures. But also one good trans rep character, so they do know how to do it?

mlm. ~350 minutes

Falling in love with a 'ghost' who's actually in a coma, figuring out who attempted his murder. Both siblings are extremely casual about seeing ghosts, but the 'ghost' is scared of other ghosts. 

This show started out decent and charming and funny and silly, and I honestly think this could have been worth at least a 7 if the editing hadn't been so bad. It's not forgettable. Scenes keep changing, as in, flashbacks show a different version of the same scene, and it's not making sense. There's a whole episode dedicated to a grandma who gets a stroke which has nothing to do with the rest of the story, and after that it's just downhill.

I will say that the side character casually being like 'oh by the way my dad's a mafia boss' is hilarious. 

wlw. ~150 minutes

Typical marketing boss/subordinate. But hey it's lesbians and they're def cute so I mean I'm hooked. Within the first ep, she's got 2 higher up ladies and one higher up dude vying for her heart.

cw: offensive comedic relief trans woman.

wlw. ~450 minutes

Rich girl with a homophobic mom re-meets childhood bestie who is now poor, in need of a place to stay, and in the grips of PTSD. There's fluff but also angst. 

Nothing about the portrayal of mental health or the treatment thereof is accurate in this show. Serious ethics violations by those psychiatrists. But well it's a show.

cw: realistic portrayal of sexual assault by uncle on female lead. Hated it. 

mlm. ~540 minutes

This is a mainland Chinese series, which was officially co-produced by a Thai company to get around censorship laws. 

Clumsy and naive rich playboy meets a beautiful 'girl' being attacked in the forest and immediately falls for 'her'. Unfortunately said beautiful girl is actually a male spy who is very ready to use him in order to get closer to his target, the emperor. This is really funny, but the consent politics are absolutely terrible, and it's making it hard to watch. Sex is portrayed to be a shameful taboo thing that is never far from violence, and I hate that.

cw: romanticized rape, bunch of casual murder, torture, parental abuse, general misery. The average of what you'd expect in a Chinese period drama. 

mlm. ~700 minutes

Just a trope-y standard Thai BL. The secondary couple is fun but their story is unfinished and will not be finished.

cw: stalker-y, consent issues

mlm. ~480 minutes

I'm sure I watched this, but I remember absolutely none of it, and that's because it's as standard a Thai BL as they come. Tutor x sports guy, falling out, sports guy follows tutor to uni and becomes secret admirer while pretending to hate him still. The shitness of communication in this is legendary.

wlw. ~600 minutes

Besties who have major crush on one another but can't communicate for shit have shared dreams in which they are able to live out their desires. This spends too much time having the main characters fight, and not enough time having them fall in love. Other than that, it's watchable, but not exceptional.

mlm, gnc. ~150 minutes

Femme vlogger gets hot new neighbor, crushes on him and makes bad life decisions. It's not bad, but it's not good. Has an indie feel. 

mlm. ~530 minutes

And another utterly forgettable standard Thai BL.

cw: femme-phobic

mlm. ~115 minutes

Ok so the lead is a manga artist who draws porn, and yet this series appears to be very sex negative. Then mr absolutely perfect stranger who is in love with him for no reason shows up being all strict and emotionless. But they can't be together because mr perfect believes artist is straight despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. 

In my humble opinion, you can't have dead fish and camera angle kisses when the main character literally draws porn for a living. 

Very forgettable. Pretty standard. Plot makes zero sense and in this case it's just frustrating, not funny.  Attempts at exaggerated camp humor were made. It works sometimes, doesn't work other times.

cw: femme-phobia, sex negativity

mlm. ~430 minutes

Supremely stupid and campy, intentionally so. None of this makes any sense. I enjoyed this for the camp, but then they went and seriously ruined it in episode 7, so I don't recommend watching.

cw: Straight up rape in sleep, but 'it's okay because we're boyfriends'.

mlm. ~540 minutes

Bummed out painter x tightly wound up manager. All of these characters are frustrating. It's not the best, but it's not the worst.

cw: Violently transphobic

mlm. ~1080 minutes

Aaaand we're back to writing about the most popular engineering students, enemies to lovers tropes. It's the standard GMMTV rom-com BL formula. It's the safe kind of content that they know works, and that they have expertise in.

mlm. ~150 minutes

Workaholic runs into childhood 'fiancé' who is deadset on seducing him for real. This has some really funny lines.

cw: nonconsensual handjob in first ep, romanticized.

mlm. ~250 minutes

The most popular guy in school has a crush on nerdy guy, and his friends are good wingmen, so now nerdy guy is in the popular club. 

It's the platonic ideal of a Japanese school BL. It has all of the tropes, and nothing that sets it apart.

mlm. ~200 minutes

Guy who can sing lives with best friend/fan who likes him. Lots of time skips early on. Should've been flashbacks. They're being adorable, and the singing is excellent, but it doesn't feel like there's much of a plot. Also, him being gently rejected once is treated as like the biggest trauma ever and that annoys me. Where are the stakes? Where is the conflict? They both clearly like each other and already live together, but pine and angst over nothing anyways. Forgettable but watchable.

mlm. ~675 minutes

Remembered as the first Thai BL to reach an international audience. It's your typical Thai BL with engineering students, hazing, toxicity and the phobia of even mild intimacy that all early Thai BL did, but that's because all the other ones copied this one.

mlm. ~585 minutes

They are no longer students, but their relationship has not progressed.

mlm. ~360 minutes

A guy with oodles of internalized homophobia re-meets his high school bestie/crush, who turns out to have liked him back, so they start dating, but self-hatred gets in the way. 

I initially really related to the guy's struggle with internalized homophobia, but that subplot has taken a back seat. I am much less enthused about him being scared of his partner taking touch too far. I don't like the consent politics of this at all. They're so uncommunicative and uncomfortable near each other.

mlm. ~120 minutes

Judo boys secretly crushing on each other slowly find out the gay friend they've been texting is their crush. Meanwhile, a couple of homophobes do their best to ruin their day and their judo careers. It's about what you expect from a BL.

mlm, gnc, background wlw. ~540 minutes

Sweets-eating streamer with no idea how to care for himself does his very best to avoid the pushy guy crushing on him, but pushy guy does turn out to be very kind and helpful and maybe even cute, actually.

Has a mental health/trauma and insecurity theme. It addresses biphobia, which I appreciate. I'm not sure the execution of this is super successful, but I appreciate what they were trying to go for. Parts do feel like a departure from the standard GMMTV formula.

mlm. ~240 minutes

Guy who does incessant odd-jobs gets hired to be a fake boyfriend. How long will it stay fake? It's enjoyable enough, but it doesn't hit me in the feels the way other strongberry shows have. It doesn't feel innovative in any way.

mlm. ~120 minutes

High school, dude gets hit by ball, then falls for guy who hit him.

spoiler: not a happy ending.

mlm. ~390 minutes

Adorkable. It's a little silly and annoying and stupid and I don't recommend it, but it's also not the worst thing in the world. Insecure dude attempts to match-make his crush with another guy, managing to get in the way of both his own ship, and that guy's ship. These are some odd comedic choices. It gets a little better as the episodes go on.

wlw. ~320 minutes

Plot is pretty standard rom-com. The first episode is REALLY rough, but the ones after that are more watchable. The girls are definitely very cutesy, but yeah there are better GL's you could be watching instead.

mlm. ~200 minutes

BL author with writer's block spends his days in restaurant and falls for owner. It's sweet, but not revolutionary. It's about realizing you are worthy of love and about realizing there is a difference between love and admiration.

mlm. ~240 minutes

Feels rushed, low budget, makes you realize why cinematographers exist, because man I just can't even see what's happening with these camera angles. Snippets that don't go anywhere and scenes seems chopped up beyond repair. Subs not accurate. Plot is different from original and I'm mildly confused what's what. Should take more time to introduce its characters. Too many irrelevant 'friend' extras. But it's also campy fun stupidity and I'm always up for that.

mlm, gnc. ~900 minutes

2 episodes per couple. Standard Thai BL. Plot and character motivations don't seem to add up chronologically. It just generally doesn't make a lot of sense. Ep 5&6 quite weak. Didn't like  9&10 at all. Consent issues in some of these.

Sun & Nuea from episode 5 & 6 get a whole series as a sequel, Suntiny, and that is worth watching.

wlw, gnc. ~108 minutes

This story has nothing to do with Yes or No 1 and 2. Two butch roommates re-meet old friends/crushes. Deals with some internalized homophobia. It's fine as a story, but it doesn't really impress me in any way.

mlm. ~300 minutes

The first couple of episodes in which they prank each other are really funny but it's downhill from there. I don't recommend it.

This is the extremely popular BL web series that got gay online media made literally illegal in China. That's not speculation, and it's not exaggeration. People were jailed for writing gay fanfic. This series was not allowed to finish airing.

cw: very rapey and abusive.

mlm. ~460 minutes

Based on the same Chinese novel as the 2016 'Addicted' and 2023 'Stay With Me'.

First of all the age gap between the leading actors (16/27) is not okay, and it's especially worrying given how much shipping and fan service usually goes on after a series airs in Thailand. I sincerely hope they don't do that.

But I'm a Sinology major with an interest in queer media and I wrote whole academic essays on what the censorship of Addicted meant for Chinese queer media (severely hampered) and general Chinese attitudes towards queer people (not great), and I can't not know how that saga continues. Thai BL's are massively popular among Chinese audiences, and that's why Chinese advertisers fund them and that's why they exist. Call it morbid curiosity, but I need to know how they've chosen to edit and represent this story in 2024 with a Thai production crew unbothered by CCP censorship.

The conclusion is that they've mellowed down all the toxicity of the original material and changed the plot to give it a happy ending. They've also chosen to not have any real kisses, only camera angles. I think that's probably a good choice, but I still wish they'd just chosen older actors across the board, or at least not an 11 year age gap. I am of the opinion that this adaptation shouldn't have been made. If you're going to adapt a fucked up story, hire older actors. I'm not sure what the point of this was.

cw: guns, kidnapping, romanticized abuse between partners, minor actors in situations they shouldn't be in, severe abuse from parent

mlm. ~230 minutes

Cook guy likes uptight customer. It's awkward and they do the Japanese emotional constipation -> explosion thing. Plot is a bit of a mess and I've never seen two actors with less chemistry than these two. The characters have absolutely no reason to be together.

wlw. ~240 minutes

Ex-besties meet again, when one is a disgraced superstar with a vengeful streak, and the other a broke innocent.

Meh. Mid. Not very original or well executed.

One actress must've dropped out of the project halfway, and they decided they could just use AI to replace her, so in some scenes she has facial expressions, and in others she doesn't.

wlw, gnc. ~75 minutes

Season 2. To watch this, you should first watch season one of The Two of Us, but you don't need to have watched Deep Night. These appear to be 5 short stories with not much plot. Production quality is quite bad. But they're still sweet together. These two actresses did well with what they were given.

mlm. ~440 minutes

The dynamic between the leads is strange and unequal. It's watchable but barely. Plot isn't great, acting definitely isn't great, and the blood thing is weird and definitely not how that works IRL. There's two support girls who really should've ended up together, but lesbians didn't exist in Thai media back then.

mlm. ~500 minutes

Nerd x jock. Watchable. Some likeable characters. Good acting. Good production quality. I still wouldn't recommend it.

Spoiler: Not a good ending. Minor x adult sexual relationship, kinda graphic.

mlm. ~360 minutes

Dude falls in love with a guy who is secretly a merman and who angsts about that.

Is this good? No. I watched this when I was ill and my brain didn't work, and it's perfect for that occasion, just the right amount of simple, slow and mildly entertaining. 

Somewhere deep below there is a real message in here about difference, identity, acceptance, the risk of rejection, fear of people who are different which leads to hatred, but it's not executed very well at the end of the day. 

And every conversation is SO slow, and Phu keeps looking at Nawa's mouth instead of his eyes to presumably portray desire, which is a cute gimmick once or twice, but he does it in every conversation and that's just awkward.

mlm. ~360 minutes

Guy sees ghosts and gets haunted by a ghost with a grudge, so he has to go find his soulmate who can save him. 

A valiant effort was made, but absolutely nobody involved in this production knew what they were doing. I kept watching because I thought it was just the production that was incompetent, and the series might still be based on a competent novel, but... no, like what was that plot haha?

mlm. ~200 minutes

Guy gets plopped into an alternate universe where he only gets to stay materially real when near this one dude, who, for no reason at all, agrees to let him live in his house. Some foreshadowing about fate happens.

Very amateur, but it's clear that a lot of effort has gone into the plot, the acting, everything.

Not technically mlm, trans. ~540 minutes

I don't recommend this one. Fujoshi bodyswaps with a guy she ships with his friend.  It's cringey, and not really in a fun way. I feel like this show kinda hates its audience. The nonbinary angel of death is fun though. She is kind of a standard comedic relief trans woman, but idk I like her.

spoiler: not a happy ending, consent politics not great.

wlw, gnc, mlm. ~600 minutes

She takes her girlfriend with amnesia to a resort and re-meets her old friend. Old friend used to have a crush on her, and now also develops a crush on girlfriend. 

Idk this is mostly an advertisement for the resort it was filmed in. It's really slow. If it was cut down to less than a third of its current runtime maybe it could've been good.

mlm. 200 minutes

Goody two shoes is constantly overshadowed by his chaotic neutral colleague at his paparazzi job. Subpar mysteries. Something missing in the chemistry, and I think it has to do with subpar editing and camera work, but it might also be the blonde guy's acting, because he doesn't make any facial expressions, like at all. Or it's the lack of buildup in the relationship. They suddenly love each other and want to live together even though they are practically still strangers who can't communicate with each other about the most basic things.

Some people like this, so idk maybe you will too, but I can't say I understand it.

mlm. ~190 minutes

Stuck up domineering star x young temp manager. I think they attempted to use BL to promote this one singer. But he can't act for shit and we don't see him sing, so this is baffling. The other lead acts just fine, but the plot is not good.

cw: consent issues, power dynamic issues.

mlm. ~160 minutes

Guy who doesn't believe in love gets aggressively courted by guy deadset on proving him wrong. It's pretty stupid and cliché. Sense is not being made. Bunch of childish nonsense.

cw: stalker-y harassment. Romanticized.

mlm. ~460 minutes

Oh no the girl I fell for as a child is actually a guy.

cw: forced feminization, felt kinda transphobic, getting outed, consent issues.

mlm, trans, gnc. ~225 minutes

Actors have to live together to improve chemistry. Watched this a long time ago, don't remember much. There's a nonbinary person who is shown respect in the script, and a trans lady who very much isn't. Honestly those characters are the ones I remembered, not the main leads lol.

cw: offensive comedic relief trans woman 

wlw, gnc. ~70 minutes

Irrationally vengeful ex-girlfriend comes to cause confusion. The story is not finished after this, but the 2016 CCP ban on gay content meant that part 3 never got released.

mlm. ~120 minutes

Bury your gays shit with lack of relationship development.

Spoiler: not a happy ending.

mlm. ~200 minutes

Very much a domineering non-communicative abusive seme/ clueless dependent stuttering uke thing. People told me it only seemed abusive but it was told by an unreliable narrator and would get better in the end, so I continued watching, but it very much does not get better. 

The seme guy looks severely anorexic and everyone in the show treats him like he's the most beautiful man they've ever laid eyes on and I don't think it's healthy to promote a beauty standard that gets people killed. 

There's lack of communication, there's 10 points above that, and then way past the end of the scale, there's whatever this is.

cw: serious consent problems, power dynamic, stalking, getting tied up, extreme possessive jealousy.