Gay shit I watched

mlm. ~120 minutes

Rich stepbrothers like each other since forever, but miscommunication and fucked up drama abound. It's a typical Chinese BL microseries, except with Thai actors. The English subtitles are really shit, but the Chinese subs are okay.

cw: sexual assault between end-game partners

wlw, trans. ~390 minutes

Well it isn't good, but it is GL. They're beautiful, I'll give them that. 

This is possibly the shallowest series in existence. Vaguely based around beauty contest, but the contest doesn't seem to actually matter. There are no stakes. They just kinda wanna win. 

It's pretty stupid. Lots of reality TV style bitchiness. Not much character development. No one grows or learns anything, nobody takes responsibility for any shit they did. I'm really glad I don't have to meet any of these people IRL. 

Lots of on the nose exposition. Would be so awkward without the overwhelming music all the time. Too many antagonist characters, can't keep track. Some plot hooks are set up in the beginning, and then just abandoned, replaced. 

At episode 7, scenes are no longer even edited together in a cohesive manner. It does not chronologically add up at all. Feels like they were just going like 'well we shot this scene, so we have to put it somewhere, I guess it'll go here.' I'm not even sure if ep 7 and 8 got switched. 

mlm. ~360 minutes

Just classic tropes, uni life, except somehow worse. Why are there SO many characters that all fill the 'supportive friend' role?

mlm. ~135 minutes

Besties like each other and don't communicate. They keep being angry at each other for dumb reasons. Like bruh it is actually possible to express emotions and communicate without anger and violence. 

Plot, timeline is confusing, as in, I don't know what's happening when or why. Chopped up. Frustrating inconsistencies between the same scene shown twice. E.g. there are two completely different versions of one crucial scene, or for another example, one minute he's black out drunk, and within one second stone cold sober. 

The one guy's motivations are impossible, unreasonable, stupid. He gets confessed to and likes him back but just says nothing,  for no reason.

cw: violence between partners. Possessive jealousy

mlm, wlw. ~620 minutes

Intern discovers the guy he's chatting with online turns out to be his new boss. Also, some hinting about magic dreams and mythical creatures, but sadly not much of that plot materializes.

The relationship dynamics very much end up feeling like big manly man / demure damsel who offers token resistance, and I don't like it. The plot isn't plotting. So much cringe.

It has pretty pictures though, as its redeeming quality.

censored mlm. ~575 minutes

I watched this ages ago, but I remember it being silly and low quality. Not really worth watching, but not super terrible.

mlm, wlw. ~630 minutes

I don't recommend this one. It's just not worth it. Swimming club.

cw: serious consent issues and all sorts of other issues.

censored mlm. ~120 minutes

I speak Mandarin. The subtitle quality is so shit I would not have understood what happened if I didn't. 

Two stars who refuse to be nice to each other but like each other deep down. An evil and controlling parent. Manipulating media to tear people's reputations down.

mlm. ~660 minutes

I know there are people who like this, and that's because it's horny, no other reason.

cw: serious consent issues, romanticized and played for laughs.

mlm. ~540 minutes

Don't watch this. It's a university hot guy contest, and it's homophobic.

mlm. ~120 minutes

I can't for the life of me understand why people like this. It has pretty boys I guess?

Based on a cliché gimmick, barely has a plot, no character or relationship development.

mlm

Just don't.

mlm. ~270 minutes

This one isn't good, but part 2 is worse. Just classic tropes. Too many characters. There are tomboy lesbians I think, but they're on screen for so little time that I'm not actually sure, they might be gay boys. Gay panic is funny. Plot is a mess.

mlm, background wlw and gnc. ~210 minutes

1940's period piece. Two besties secretly have major crushes on each other, but society, misunderstandings and village politics makes that hard. This is low budget and indie. Not really competent. The pacing is weird. I like that it's different though, and some of the acting is really good, but most of it is just really bad. Wouldn't recommend.

cw: gang rape (not graphic), threats of sex trafficking, murder, homophobia. Not at all a happy ending.

wlw. ~145 minutes

I forced myself to finish this but I don't think I've ever hated watching anything more than I hated watching this. Unless you somehow ran out of lesbian pornhub videos geared at straight men and want more of that, you should go watch the 2005 series 'Fingersmith' instead. It is based on the same novel, and executed better in every single way. I thoroughly enjoyed Fingersmith.

cw: Everything. Just all of it. This is gruesome and graphic.

mlm. ~580 minutes

Hands down the worst BL I've ever finished. Bafflingly badly written, a disjointed mess. And it's not like they didn't have a budget. 

So why did I finish it? Because watching this feels like opening up a machine and seeing all the parts individually, seeing which parts work and which don't, and why. Normally a show is a streamlined whole, and you're immersed and not thinking about what went into making it, but not with this one. The creators have made better BL's before, so theoretically they know what they're doing and are applying the same techniques here, and that's just fascinating to me.

cw: age gap, butts, sex scenes

dropped after ep 1

Not really a GL. ~480

Stylistically, the first episode was great. Loved the pacing. However. 

I dropped this because it has been straightwashed. The souce material is gay. This show has gay kissing in a dream, but nothing undeniably gay happens outside of dreams. Am not really here for erasure and queerbaiting.

dropped 45 minutes in

mlm. ~125 minutes

His boyfriend dies and he discovers that their durian farm and home are all in his boyfriend's name, not his, so now boyfriend's family wants to take it all away. 

I think it's excellent, but I can't bear the amount of tragedy in it.

Dropped after ep 4.

mlm. ~700 minutes

Nonconsensual power play and kidnapping story. Bunch of billionaires with trauma. I'll leave this one to other people to enjoy.

dropped during ep 2

mlm. ~500 minutes.

Beautiful rich dipshit gets sent to tropical Island where a hot guy has to make him feel less lonely. Rich dipshit tries his very best to annoy the guy, but the other guy is better at annoying him back. 

Too horny for me but don't let that stop you.

dropped within first ep

mlm. ~900 minutes

I don't this is going to be bad, but it is not for me. From the roughly 10  minutes I did watch, it appears to be about sex positivity, and openness surrounding the topic.

dropped after ep 1.

mlm. ~480 minutes

He re-meets his ex because their kids are in the same class, and ex seems insistent on getting back together.

Too explicit for me, and reviews say the plot isn't worth it, so I dropped it.

dropped after ep 2 because the finale never aired.

mlm. ~480 minutes

Dude has a boyfriend and a kiddo to take care of, but he also has schizophrenia and a guilty conscience. It is hard to tell what is really happening in this series, and what is just the main character's hallucinations. But that's the point.

cw: please take the 'horror' tag this has seriously. Graphic burn wounds, death, delusions and hallucinations, kidnapping, cheating.

dropped within ep 1.

mlm. ~300 minutes

An established couple solves divorce lawyer cases. This seems like fun but I have some triggers that mean I can't actually watch this.

dropped after ep 3

mlm. ~210 minutes

Enemies to lovers except the one guy is taking things really far and the other is entirely reasonable. The connection between them seems to be only based on appearance, because these legitimately hate each other, not in a playful way. I kinda really hate the plot, it feels cheap and shallow but it wants to be taken seriously.

cw: that's abusive.

dropped pretty far in, but don't remember how far

Censored mlm. ~750 minutes

Bodyguard x cute guy. This was fine I guess, but I realized it wasn't going to actually be gay.

dropped after ep 7

mlm. ~540 minutes

Intern fanboy x tv star. There is campy fun and then there is just secondhand embarrassment and unfortunately this one is the latter.

cw: Too parasocial. Transphobic. Evil trans woman does casual sex trafficking. Guy too drunk to consent to 2 night stand, said no when sober, they're meant to be together anyways.

dropped after ep 1, fastforwarded and skipped through rest

mlm. ~144 minutes

It technically has everything a standard BL should have, but really no more than that. Nothingburger. 

Dropped after ep 3

mlm. ~560 minutes

Typical engineering students Thai BL, enemies to lovers, one overbearing guy chasing a weaker feminized guy. It's watchable for sure, and it would've worked in 2020, but it can't compete with the 2025 BL landscape. 

cw: noncon kiss.

dropped after ep 1

mlm. ~200 minutes.

Severely traumatized homeless gay boy meets cute guy at gay club, almost gets beaten to death by him, and decides to pursue him sexually anyways.

This isn't for me. I'm sure it's brilliant, but it's not for me.

dropped

mlm. ~220 minutes

Cutesy romance between art teacher and his high school student. Nobody thinks this is weird.

cw: age gap.

Dropped after ep 4.

mlm. ~260 minutes

Remake of the Thai 'Love in the Air' (2022). Fairly faithful to the original series. I still don't like their dom/sub 'daddy' dynamic. But it's interesting to see Japan interpret a Thai story.

dropped after ep 5

mlm. ~360 minutes

Awkward guy meets mysterious guy in online game. Mysterious guy turns out to be mafia. This isn't bad per sé, it's just a recombination of all the standard BL tropes. It's mid.

dropped because people told me not to watch last 2 episodes, so I didn't.

mlm. ~560 minutes

Childhood best friends to lovers. Shy kid x jock. Set in early 2000's. Watchable but barely. Gets better over time. 

cw: Weird age gap thing in secondary couple.

dropped after ep 2

mlm. ~640 minutes

Omegaverse except there are no omegas? Horny racer star needs fwb to focus, guy with dream to also be racer comes along and fulfills the role. It is flashy and dramatic, well-acted, good cinematography, competent.

But. So many characters fulfill the 'toxic masculinity x 1000, I was basically born the coolest guy alive' role. It's too hierarchical and stoic and yell-y for me. Also I'm not familiar with how omegaverse works and not really interested in learning.

dropped after ep 2

wlw. ~530 minutes.

Star aggressively pursues reluctant recently heartbroken goody two shoes who considers herself straight.

This is not for me, I think. The pacing is too slow for me and I'm finding myself bored a lot of the time. The characters, their motivations, their individuality, aren't convincing me and the acting isn't helping. I haven't seen anything innovative in the plot so far. The main love interest is kinda stalkery and I'm not into it. I think people probably like this for the chemistry and not much else?

dropped within first episode

mlm. ~240 minutes

Teacher x student. Age gap + power dynamic is not cool. Other than that it did not seem special/original enough to look past it.

dropped after ep 6

wlw. ~360 minutes

High-paid photographer lady gets cheated on and fired at the same time, so she goes back home in Thailand to sulk and re-encounters her ex-bestie, who hates that she left her in the first place.

This is fine. An okay GL. It's just that nothing in it feels original or gripping to me.

dropped ep 3.

mlm. ~360 minutes

Silly unserious story about a rural Thai boy who gets a sudden Korean houseguest. The language gap is really well done in this. There are a number of characters that make this unwatchable for me. And it gets very sexual and I'd rather just not.

dropped during ep 7

mlm. ~230 minutes.

Insecure country bumpkin goes to college in the big city to pursue some bloke who helped him get over his dead bird. Just the standard 'painfully awkward guy x super popular guy who is good at everything except expressing his feelings' formula. Very slow and unoriginal, but not unwatchable if you're into the standard formula.

dropped after ep 1

mlm. ~150 minutes

I haven't watched any of the seasons that apparently came before, and yet I still feel confident I would've dropped this regardless. The 'I'm scared of my boyfriend touching me' -thing makes me really uncomfortable. Why is romance and touch so often represented as a threat in Japanese media?

dropped during ep 5

mlm, background wlw. ~380 minutes

Rich but orphaned modern era firebender on the run wants to find secret ancient city to learn more about himself, but an airbender forest guardian doesn't agree.

There's so much plot in this. It has no chill, at any point. I wish it had a little more time to let things breathe. 

spoiler: It started out doing pretty okay, but then I read that the main character dies a pointless death during a nonsensical ending and I wasn't invested enough to sit through that.

dropped after episode 2 

wlw. ~600 minutes

Reality dating show, lesbian equivalent of His Man. 

A lot of drama surrounds this show. A cast member, Riwon, was found to have been a cam girl in the past, the rest of the cast had a problem with that, and one accused her of taking her to an explicit club or something? So Riwon got edited out of every episode after episode 2.

Then people are also saying that the fact that some cast members are bisexual means this is a fake lesbian dating show somehow.

To be honest, I'm not interested in being involved with this much toxicity. The decision by the show to edit out a girl for having done sex work is really rough. The dynamic between the cast members is really rough. The comment section on MDL is really rough, really biphobic, transphobic, conservative, anti-sex worker, and no it's not a loud minority. All of it leaves a very bad taste in my mouth and tells me I'm not welcome there anyways, so I'm out. I'll wait for sparks camp to bring in some lesbians instead.

Dropped after 3 episodes

wlw. ~460 minutes

Abused broke goody two shoes meets bossy and badass young CEO woman. 

It feels like a standard GL formula that pushes all its tropes to its extremes in very illogical ways. I can look past a couple of red flags and still enjoy a series, but I feel like there's nothing to this series outside of the red flags.

dropped after ep 3

wlw. ~450 minutes

The characters have a significant age gap, but the actresses do not.

Rich dad forces daughter to get engaged to a girl who really likes her a lot. She's grumpy about it, but that'll change. Feels like a pretty standard Thai GL so far. They're cute, it's fun, that's it. Idk why I'm not enjoying this and other people are. The acting and plot feel sub-par to me, but I guess I'm in the minority opinion.

dropped after ep 10

wlw, gnc. ~360 minutes

Indie lesbian reality dating show.  I really liked the start, but it seems to be devolving into some performative and passively mean-spirited stuff, probably because they're all getting more tired as the show goes on. There's a lot of peer pressuring going on and they don't seem to be enjoying themselves anymore.

dropped after episode 1.

mlm. ~370 minutes

Childish human-looking alien visits earth in order to destroy it but gets distracted by food and a pretty face. The humor in this isn't for me.

dropped after ep 5

mlm, wlw. ~300 minutes

Quality very low. Broke coffeshop owner re-meets singer-songwriter old friend he crushed on, besties to enemies to lovers.

cw: This series fully said out loud that it's good to have sex with a drunk person even if it's the first time.

dropped after ep 3

mlm. ~650 minutes

Subtitles are bad. Guy travels back in time to see younger version of current lover before they met. That boy falls for him, he reciprocates, and it's a problem. Plot kinda directionless. 

cw: age gap involving minor and full grown adult.

dropped after ep 1

mlm. ~140 minutes

Boring, low quality indie. Guy gets cheated on by DL boyfriend, gets hit on by best friend, but he doesn't want him to be rebound so he goes off to heal first, then meets other guy who is somehow permanently shirtless.

dropped after ep 6

mlm. ~530 minutes

Not unwatchable. Dude accidentally sleeps with friend (who was hitting on him), then month of relationship trial.

dropped after ep 1

mlm. ~290 minutes

Too many characters, not enough plot. Boyband concept with underwhelming dancing and visuals.

dropped after ep 1

mlm. ~270 minutes

This is actually a marketing ploy for a real boyband. Showing scouting process, training process, but also a standard BL. Reviews are bad and it's hard to access, so I chose not to.

dropped 45 minutes in.

trans. ~130 minutes

Dude and his trans gf take in his sister's abandoned 11 year old. Moderately boring. Pretty cliché on the trans rep, not very accurate, not very original, perpetuates some things we should really be done with by now.

The treatment of the 11 year old is a problem. You do not ask an 11 year old you've just met if she wants to feel your boobs. You do not ask her if her boobs started growing and her nipples are sore. Just no.

Sometimes I feel like movies containing trans people get called 'beautiful', 'moving', 'profound', 'revolutionary' and whatnot just because there's a trans person in them, even if they're objectively not very good movies. As if it would be transphobic to think the movie just isn't very good. But I guess the cis people this movie was aimed at don't know better and just want to prove they're good people by proclaiming that watching the movie was a positively transformative experience for them, and that they got 'the message'.

If we want more good trans media, we're also going to have express when trans media isn't very good. 

Can we at least have the story told through the eyes of the trans person, instead of through the eyes of the people surrounding them coping with their existence? Can we empathize with the trans person, rather than treat them like a teachable moment, an oddity viewed from a distance? I wish there were trans movies where I, a trans person, am part of the target audience.

Also, there's no excuse for having Rinko be played by a cis man. The character is not even supposed to be early in her transition.

dropped after ep 4

mlm. ~240 minutes

Super motivated male beautician gets pursued by his colleague, who doesn't take the job seriously at all.

I like the thing where he feels protective over the only other guy in a female-dominated industry. That feels real. I don't like how as the show goes on, zero female background characters matter to the plot, the entire supporting cast is male.

The one guy is way too domineering and possessive and doesn't care whether the other guy consents to what's happening, and this is presented as normal and even romantic.

dropped after ep 1

mlm. ~460 minutes

Two playboys start liking each other after one night stand but don't trust each other.

cw: I think this may have had consent issues.

dropped quickly

mlm. ~190 minutes

I dropped this pretty much immediately because this is not my type of humor. Don't let that stop you though.

dropped after ep 1

mlm. ~240 minutes

It just didn't make any sense. Weird time skips, not chronological, plot holes everywhere, no chemistry, kind of a love triangle, stalkerish behavior, toxic advice portrayed as good.

dropped after episode 1.

wlw. ~320 minutes

They appear to be trying to make a GL version of 'Until We Meet Again', but the acting skills are not there.

dropped after ep 6

mlm. ~240 minutes

Shit subtitles. Childhood best friends are emotionally constipated about the fact that they like each other. It's got loads of Japanese style awkwardness. They operate on manga logic. I get that the plot is about them not being able to talk about their feelings but like dang though.

cw: consent issues.

dropped during ep 3

mlm. ~220 minutes

No plot, only sex.

dropped after ep 1

mlm, (potential wlw down the line) ~240 minutes.

Far too many characters. All storylines are surface level.

dropped within first ep

mlm. ~180 minutes

Wtf is this plot? What is happening and why? And why is everyone acting so dramatically?

Dropped at ep 8. I swear I tried to get through this.

wlw. ~510 minutes

This show feels like going back in time to genderswapped 2016 Thai BL.

Confident freshman likes head prefect of second year students, but she's not allowed to be close to her because of respectability reasons. 

The relationship development feels much too fast and unnatural, and the flirting lines are recycled from old BLs. Pacing issues. Plot seems kinda cobbled together and directionless. Acting is fine but def not excellent. So many characters. So many nonsensical 'Oh my God I saw my girlfriend hug someone and am now going to run off crying and definitely will not communicate at all because she's obviously cheating' plot moments.

cw: using authority to make a guy uncomfortably take his clothes off.

dropped after ep 22

mlm, gnc. ~300 minutes?

Flamboyant radio host gets haunted by a hot ghost who claims they were lovers thousands of years ago, so radio host calls up an exorcist, but why oh why does he keep having spicy dreams about their past life together?

The production value is non-existent, and the plot and acting are nothing special, but I like that the main gets to be pretty femme, and the chemistry is there. 

dropped during ep 2. 

trans, gnc. ~180 minutes

The usual trans comedic relief stereotypes but turned up to 1000%. I think this show was initially proposed with good intentions, but the punchline of every joke was essentially 'haha look at the contrast between them trying to be perfectly feminine, cute and desirable, and their loud, disgusting, aggressive, promiscuous, masculine reality'. 

I'm not against loud comedic transfeminine characters in general. We can reclaim that. 'I'm The Most Beautiful Count' is flipping brilliant. The comedy there relies on the contrast between the main character's loud modern queer pop star persona, and their conservative, utterly confused surroundings. The audience isn't constantly being prompted to laugh at Worradech's expense/ at their gender norm failures. Worradech has a sense of humor and we're laughing with them, not at them.

So I think you should go watch 'I'm the Most Beautiful Count' instead of this.

dropped within first ep

mlm. ~190 minutes

bury your gays shit.

dropped after ep 2

mlm, wlw. ~470 minutes

Resort employee x patron., and that goes for both the gl and bl storylines.

Oxin films productions rely too much on constant sexual innuendo jokes made by all characters about everyone. I think those can be funny in moderation, when it fits within the situation, but this is just too much. 

The cinematography, acting, writing, directing, plot are all mediocre. 

dropped because it's stopped airing

mlm. ~120 minutes

This is just the kind of wild nonsensical madness you expect from dramatic microseries. It's so stupid, but it is entertaining.

dropped after ep 2

mlm. ~270 minutes

Magic genie café grants wishes with a cost. 

cw: casual physical abuse between partners.

dropped after ep 2.

mlm. ~680 minutes

This amount of toxicity just isn't for me. That's for other people to enjoy :)

dropped

wlw. ~130 minutes

dropped within first ep

mlm. ~730 minutes

Incredibly badly written dialogue. Seems to rely on sex only.

dropped after ep 12

mlm. ~110 minutes

Dude ends up in prison and falls for fellow inmate.

Too slow, not enough dialogue, most scenes do not advance the plot, if there is any. I hoped there'd be a point to this story existing, but I haven't found one.

dropped within ep 1

wlw. ~470 minutes

It turns out that writing a good comedy is hard. Feels directionless.

dropped within first ep

mlm. ~480 minutes

Couldn't get through the first few minutes. So low quality that it is obnoxious in every way.

dropped after ep 1

mlm. ~480 minutes

Wet paper towel of a character gets cheated on but ignores it, while having hunk mchunkerson randomly fall for him and start aggressively flirting. Pretty standard predator/prey type dynamic. 

dropped within first ep

mlm. ~240 minutes

Looks like a high school project. Not a good one.

dropped after ep 3.

mlm, ace. ~170 minutes

Two dudes commiserate about not being able to have sex with the people they are living with. The framing is very hostile to the people who don't want the sex, and it's leading to major acephobia in the viewership. Am out.

cw: rape

dropped

mlm, wlw. ~90 minutes

He dies and comes back as a ghost (except fully materially present) to confess to roommate.

Spoiler: not a happy ending.

dropped after ep 4

mlm. ~370 minutes

Incoherent and boring. Too many characters.

dropped after ep 5

mlm. ~720 minutes

Typical early Thai BL, nothing new, too many characters, makes extremely little sense.

cw: femme-phobic

dropped after ep 2

mlm. ~140 minutes

I know that people like this, but I really hate this type of relationship dynamic.

Bullying tsundere chad dominates stuttering classmate who is made up of 90% social anxiety. Also chad has to be super pretty and good at performing arts, of course, and have a hair style that only really functions in manga. 

cw: We're getting some school shooter romanticization for the lead even. Wow. Gay incel shit.

dropped

wlw, mlm. ~140 minutes

Only one episode is lesbian, that's the only one I even attempted, and it isn't faithful to the original Bad Buddy characters and it feels shallow so I dropped it.

dropped after ep 1

mlm. ~585 minutes

Soulless. Dialogue doesn't feel like actual humans would ever talk like that. Feels like a cashgrab with zero effort put into it.

dropped after ep 1

censored mlm. ~430 minutes

Oops the guy who probably murdered my family, who I swore to avenge, might be kinda hot. Dropped because it wasn't going to actually be gay, even though they are married.

current

wlw. ~520 minutes.

Goody two shoes gets framed and ends up in jail, where the most unhinged girl in there takes a liking to her and protects her from prison bullies.

Omg it's so good yessss this is what I want from GL. Every character has layers, and every power dynamic (not just between the mains) is interesting. This is how you do plot, and acting, and pacing, all of it. 

cw. explicit rape scene. Which is why I'm stalling on this one, cuz it's a lil much for me.

current

mlm, gnc. ~480 minutes

Burnt out artist takes a shitty PR job for an asshole of a boss, who also happens to be hot and the only one who appreciates his art.

Messy social commentary with BL elements. Beautifully shot.

current

mlm, gnc. ~360 minutes

current

mlm. ~780 minutes.

Orphaned twenty-something who sees really scary ghosts gets apprehended at a ghostly crime scene by harsh police officer with a heart of gold, and now they have to figure out the mystery and catch the criminals and/or ghosts who committed the murders.

It's engaging. Solid. Just good so far.

cw: gore and actually scary ghosts

mlm. gnc. ~720 minutes

current

mlm. ~450 minutes

Guy with memory loss runs into a person who claims to be his ex, but who may be a murderer.

current

mlm. ~600 minutes

Toxic chaos surrounding a university play.

current

mlm. ~480 minutes

The producers say this isn't BL but a gay series. Anyways, it's about political tensions in the late 60's early 70's, and I have high hopes for this one.

current

mlm. ~1400 minutes

Three independent stories. 1, Abused kid re-meets estranged perfect bestie/crush and overcomes his past. 2. Chilled out medium has to help his asshole neighbor with some ghost problems. 3. ?

This series exaggerates gender role differences between BL tops and bottoms, decide for yourself whether that's for you. The acting in the first story is excellent. I really like the ghost plot of the second.

current

wlw. ~600 minutes

current

wlw. ~480 minutes

Underappreciated brat decides to infiltrate the competitor's company as a lowly employee, and get close to the CEO, who quickly develops a soft spot for her.