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Me, too!

This is so very good! Bravo and thank you! The LGBTQ+ community needs more upbeat slice-of-life works like this! Multiple seasons of them that affirm and celebrate characters' journeys and not have them laden with trauma and heartbreak. Please give us more of such positive representation! Papa & Daddy could easily be a number of seasons long as their stories progress and their little boy grows up,

Another example for an idea: Given that, for the first time, a whole cohort of LGBTQ+ people are advancing into their senior years, how about something like the (fictional) first Assisted Living Home strictly for LGBTQ+ seniors in Taipei (or Bangkok, or elsewhere) whose stories and connections we could come to know and love? There could be one cohort that interect with one another much like the US Golden Girls, but this group is actually a group of men who like to gossip about other residents while playing Mah-Jongg all week and putting on Drag Shows on the weekend Talent Nights?

There are so many possibilities!

Those were great! Thanks for sharing the link! =)

I love, love, love it! It's upbeat and charming, although it looks like they won't shy away from tension, especially with the extended families! What a shame it will be so brief!

I really think that working with P'Aof has done amazing things for Earth in terms of both honing his skills but and increasing his confidence. P"Aof gave Earth both the responsibility and the freedom to bring Phupha to life as he thought best. How many great moments in ATOTS do we have to thank for that? Lots! The fact that it was Earth who improvised that scene for this MV shows just how much he gained from working on ATOTS. So impressive!

Yep. They kill me again and again and I just keep coming back for more!

I agree. This is a rare instance of something that I can refer to as fun and cute and mean it as a compliment.

I also wanted to chime in and say that I find that you really do seem to be making a laudable effort to expand your knowledge and see the perspectives of other people. The "I'm not gay, I only like him" trope was most definitely born out of homophobia. Some may try to claim that it's reflective of a more nuanced and spectral approach to sexuality but that simply isn't the case, given its point and time of origin.

If writers truly meant to be that reflective, they wouldn't use such a definitive trope, any way. People I know that are fluid in terms of their orientation emphasise that they are attracted to people, regardless of their gender. That may seem like semantics to some but the tone of one is more inherently inclusive and positive and the other is exclusive and negative, to a degree.

Indeed. One well done portion of an episode cannot make up for an entire series.

I've never been sore the next day or gotten a fever from it...

For anyone eager to see something fresh from our two lead actors, they star in an upcoming music video by Thai singers New Jiew. They aren't playing Phupha and Tian, but two characters who meet in high school, Whale and Talay. A background story has been shot for this and here is the link for Part 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cl7lswDJqw&t=1s

It's worth the look! ;-)

**Sip**

I see what you're saying. The restaurant scene did play out too long for me, too.

Actual shade isn't humourous in intent...

Lovely Writer shades some minor things but uses many other tropes when they need them. This show serves the True Tea...

At least they managed to get through an episode without using toilet humour. That's an improvement...

Lovely Writer doesn't have the courage to shade the industry that this series has...

He needed to go wash his hands and give his a mouth a good rising out if he didn't have access to his toothbrush.

The episode was meant to be unpleasant, IMO. with the spotlight on the the producer has "over the people we own" "shudder" I can only feel sorry for Bas and think that James and Ait are going to land themselves in a heap of trouble with DirectorTee. There are only two episodes left and they won't even start shooting scenes for the show-in-the-show until the next one. I like this show but it really did need twice the air time to enhance its depth and allow for better pacing

I don't see your Hobbit comparison at all. Sorry. When I wrote down the different genres this show is trying to cover, I wrote them in a somewhat linear fashion. I saw the show as more randomly jumping between them and I certainly don't see the heroic arcs.