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I just can't stop trying to say how good this is but not being able to find the words to express how good it really is. I never thought a university bl could be this incredible...this is gonna give me such a bad series hangover when it's over - even with Not Me to help with the pain.

When I watch Bad Buddy I think it’s the best and then when I watch Not Me I think that’s the best! Haha. It’s too hard for me to choose between the 2 - they’re also so different I can’t compare them - they’re just so so good. And they both bring something new to the genre - which is very exciting.

I forgot that mdl comment sections tend to be more negative than positive, so I'm going to drop a bit of positivity here! I'm loving this series! I'm really liking having the romance as a sweet side plot and having the focus be the political situation in Thailand and how it affects and shapes these characters. The acting is obviously fantastic, everyone's just killing it - Guns incredible, but Off has really surprised me with the layers he's bringing to Sean - he's such a hard, strong character on the outside but you can see underneath he's very sensitive and fragile. I get that this isn't for everyone with the politics but that's what I'm loving about this. I'm so tired of seeing the same cutesy school/university bl series - because of how BLs have improved recently university BLs have to be insanely good like Bad Buddy for me to keep watching - but Not Me and Bad Buddy are such a breath of fresh air for this market that's been oversaturated with average content for too long.

You know when you spend the majority of a drama falling in love with a character and then you get towards the end and you realise that character you chose to love meant choosing pain and depression...I chose so so wrong this drama.

JDY and Nana are going to make such a gorgeous couple and in a fantasy romcom! Also so happy that JDY will be back on our screens especially after he worked so hard on his last drama only for it to be pulled off air after 2 episodes. And the fact he even had to apologise for being a part of it.

JoJo is directing 4 series all meant to be coming out this year…when will the guy sleep?! He has Dirty Laundry, Mama Go go, The Warp Effect (which he’s also writing) and the. Never Let Me Go…most directors manage 1, maybe 2 a year. Anyway I know he’s shooting Mama GoGo currently but I hope this is next - it’s my most anticipated of 2022!

Just noticed Arin is one of the top listed cast. I don't know much about kpop but I loved her performance in The World of My 17. A very underrated webseries and she was so good in it. Even more excited now.

weighing up the fact that I'm not a fan of this writer and my love for yoon shi yoon...which will win!?

I've wanted Lee Do Hyun to do a cute, happy romance for so long and I'm so glad he is even though it's a short form drama and an ad I'll take what I can get!

I'm obviously joking but I'm so lost as to why people aren't obsessed with this it's incredible!

The lack of love and respect this series is getting is frankly homophobic...

I love romance in my dramas and I've seen PJY and SYE have incredible (even some of the best) chemistry with their romantic interests in different dramas, but for some reason in this I feel zero chemistry - I don't understand why! I'm enjoying this drama but the romance is so unnecessary to me - and that coming from a big romance fan.

I went in with my expectations extremely low - I watched the kdrama years ago and as a teen I enjoyed it, but now this story and all its tropes are exactly what I've had enough of in Asian dramas. I watched the first episode anyway and surprisingly I'm hooked. The female lead really sold it, she's so talented for someone so young. Also the second male lead was so charming, really like him already (also helps that he wasn't introduced wearing an all white tux whist he plays the violin and cries like in the kdrama) - I do remember I always wanted the leads to be together in the kdrama even though he was so toxic almost all the time - so hopefully I'll feel the same way in this version. It's never going to be my all time favourite drama, but I feel like it's gonna be a fun watch.

This has been my most anticipated series for over a year and the first episode is even better than I hoped! I am so in love with this drama! How is it this good!? I love that we got right into everything.

Ok I'm in! Got to admit halfway through the first episode I was losing interest but after episode 2 I'm completely hooked. PJY is playing such a sweet character here!

You are right - New really doesn’t get the best out of his actors as a director- im enjoying wins love interest from MGYG in Bad Buddy too- he has some funny lines that he delivers really well - so I think I misjudged them because of the bland characters and bad direction they had to work with. Im excited to see what they do with wins character in this.

It honestly took me a while to get into this, part of that is due to the format of spending a whole episode to introduce each character but the third episode all about Songpon (Khaotung/Kob) I really enjoyed. From the trailer I'd thought his first love was Pipu, but i was clearly wrong, but im excited to see those characters become friends instead. I wasn't a fan of Wins (Pipu) acting in My Gear Your Gown, but I'm liking him in this so for. I enjoyed Nanons/Sans episode it's just my brain doesn't like watching 2 shows with the same actor at the same time so it'll take a few more episodes to get used to it. I'm really excited to see Jayas episode - her characters the most interesting to me, but really I want to see the plot start moving forward my, I think I'll be obsessed when that starts happening and the leads all start interacting.

I always said that after watching the kdrama the next and last version I would watch would be the 2005 jdrama Hana Yori Dango, but as a huge gmmtv fan through osmosis I've now become excited for this version but I still haven't watch the jdrama!

I didn't really ever like him in MGYG - I found both of the leads quite unlikeable and I thought they lacked charisma, (whereas the second couple were fantastic) but I'm loving his little moments in Bad Buddy, he has some great one liners and I feel like he makes the most of his screen time - I've completely changed my mind on him and I'll be intrigued to see him in his new leading role.

I've wanted to watch the original since it was airing but have never got to it - I bet the kdrama version will come out before I even get to it. Jeon Yo Bin and Ahn Hyo Seop in in the lead roles though - I sense so much chemistry