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Timeline for episodes, taken from a pinned comment from the official channel:

June 26 - Episodes 3 and 4
June 28 - Episodes 5 and 6
June 30 - Episodes 7 and 8

Netflix's 'First Kill' has lesbian vampires. Reviews weren't great though.

Yeah, colorism is definitely a big problem. I still have hope for The Last Case though :)

Idk I'm excited for Esther Oruche in The Last Case. She's gorgeous. And it's a GL that looks like it'll have a good plot. I'm pretty sure she's getting a large role. Just hoping it won't get cancelled.

I think maybe we shouldn't generalize an entire country. Maybe a lot of directors are shit at representation, and others aren't, and their nationality doesn't matter as much as their individuality?

Wait Lookkaew and Anda are in this together? Aww yeah, lesbian side couple :)
The wave of GL is upon us!

I can't be the only one who wondered what the word 'Ongsa' meant in Thai, since the other names are so obvious (Sun=Sun, Luna=moon, Aylin=Alien, Ongsa using 'Earth' as a pseudonym is also really on the nose.)

Well, it's 'degree', as in degrees of an angle! Because the Earth leans 23,5 degrees into the Sun, the same way that in the poster Ongsa leans 23,5 degrees towards Sun.

In Thai it's written องศา

Take a look at the Chinese lesbian microseries 'Legend of Yunze' or 'The Vampires'. You'd be surprised at how much plot they manage to squeeze into a tiny runtime. It's like you're watching a summary. But well if this is how they get around censorship, it is what it is :)

Yeah sorry I removed that part of my comment because it wasn't a helpful suggestion, but apparently I wasn't quick enough and you saw it before I did so. Apologies.

The 'she should just get a man' theme is definitely present in GAP, but only one (powerful) character expresses that viewpoint, and she's portrayed as pretty much just evil, and she doesn't win in the end. So idk it's up to you.

23,5 has no rhetoric about settling down with a man, and I hope you enjoy it :)

GAP's popularity kicked off a frenzy of GL's in Thailand. Keep your eyes out for: 'Pluto', 'Us', 'The Last Case', 'Be Mine', 'Reverse 4 You', 'The Loyal Pin', 'The Secret of Us' and 'Uranus 2324'. Based on what you said, you're not going to enjoy 'My Marvellous Dream is You', 'Affair' or 'Blank', sadly.
'Lucky My Love', 'Show Me Love' and 'Love Senior' are already out but I'm not majorly impressed by those. The lesbian side couple in 'Bad Buddy' are fun though. And the movie 'Yes or No' is really good.

Since you like Jdrama's you probably already know 'tsukuritai onna to tabetai onna'. If not, I definitely recommend the first season, but haven't watched the second season yet. There's also 'Joshi-teki seikatsu' about a lesbian trans girl, but I wouldn't call it a romance or say it's lighthearted, and it does have quite a bit of transphobia, but it's not all bad. 'Chaser Game W' had too much of a 'women should be good mothers, not career oriented'-message for my liking, so it's probably not for you either.

The Korean 'Our relationship ended before it began' is lighthearted and imo excellent. And 'Out of breath' is pretty good too. 'She Makes My Heart Flutter' is not bad but is just too short to really make an impact, same for 'Am I the Only One With Butterflies', 'Welcome to the Lesbian Bar' and 'Girlfriend Project Day 1'. I don't think you'd like 'The Handmaiden', but the 2005 adaptation of the same novel called 'Fingersmith' is excellent.

As for other lighthearted stuff, the Philippines has 'Pearl Next Door', which is kind of chaotic and frustrating at times, but the character of Alex makes it all worth it.
China's microseries like 'Legend of Yunze' and 'The Vampires' are absolutely wild. It doesn't take up much time and it is an experience to behold haha.
Taiwan has 'The Substitute' which is wild and a bit strange, but fun. And 'We are Gamily' was fun too. I thought 'Fragrance of the First Flower was really good', but you probably wouldn't enjoy it.

Outside of Asia I strongly recommend 'Touch' (YT channel Mon and Han), 'Barbelle', and the shorts 'From A to Q', 'Break In' (Alyssa Lerner) and 'Second Team'.

Watch 23,5 instead. 23,5 is actually light-hearted and silly. GAP is more of a drama than a comedy. I would not call GAP light-hearted.

Is this going to be gay?

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Sun doesn't realize this 'Earth' person that followed her on social media is actually Ongsa.

I need this to be good, please please please be good! We need GL to take off already!

This is the same universe as GAP. Nueng is Sam's sister. The actresses changed, but it's the exact same evil grandma.

(Nueng is Thai for 'one', Song for 'two', and Sam for 'three'. The sisters are literally named 1, 2, 3, in order of birth.)

Ah yeah I've seen the YouTube compilations. Thanks though :)

Is there a lesbian show like this anywhere? I mean one with sweet and wholesome vibes. I know western reality tv with lesbians exists but those feel so drama-filled and outrage-based. I'm not interested in watching people be mean to each other. I want something where people are kind and care about each other's feelings. Doesn't matter which country it's from.

I prefer it this way actually. I don't think it's a case of 'the writing/acting is falling short', I think it's a case of personal preference.

I didn't enjoy the predator/prey dynamic in the Japanese version, with which I mean that one of them was the confident pursuer and the other was consistently terrified and backing away. I prefer a more equal/mutual back and forth.

Wait how do you see people's watchlists?

History time! Chai Ji Dan's 2016 BL called Addicted/Heroin was fairly spicy and it was insanely popular in China (but I personally didn't like it). Because this series was so popular, the government made a new law banning online gay media, and the series wasn't allowed to continue being released, despite already having been made.

So Chai Ji Dan's spiciness was literally the catalyst for all of China's BL censorship. Her subsequent works had to be bromances instead of BL, because that's all she could get away with. I imagine she's fairly pissed about the whole thing.

BL (耽美) is still incredibly popular in China. Chinese companies are funding a large portion of Thai BL, and I mean, would they be doing that if their Chinese target audience wasn't finding (definitely illegal) ways to watch it?

Based on the names of the main characters in the summary on this page, I think the actors will be Thai, and this will be mainly a Thai production. Given that this is a Thai production, Chai will not have to censor herself here, and I bet this will explicitly be a BL, not a bromance.

If these Chinese companies funding this stuff want more of their target audience (Chinese people who'll buy the product placements) to watch this, it only makes sense to offer them an uncensored Chai Ji Dan series, if only for the name recognition. Chinese fujoshis don't want their series censored either.

Also, Golf Tanwarin is FABULOUS. They were the first ever openly transgender House of Representatives MP in Thailand, they're a queer activist, and I'm a gigantic fan of their previous BL's so yeah no way in hell I'm giving up on this yet. Even if Chai wanted to (and I really don't think she does), there's no way Golf Tanwarin is going to settle for censored nonsense.

YouTube. On Fix Entertainment's official channel.