STORY: A student is in love with his teacher, which borders on obsession. He chases his teacher in an attempt to get the teacher to admit his feelings. It's a short video and starts right in the middle of the story so it took me a minute to figure out what was going on. I watched it blindly without reading a review.

ACTING/CAST: Decent. There isn't really anybody else besides watching these two interact.

MUSIC: Unmemorable.

REWATCH VALUE: If I'm bored one day, maybe.

OVERALL: I felt a lot of pity for the student throughout the show but the ending is satisfying.

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STORY: A guy falls in love with another guy in a small rural community in the mountains. This is a bit of a slow-paced tragedy. Qing Yu is a city boy commissioned to be a teacher and struggles to fit in.

ACTING/CAST: They did their job. The guy playing the violin even looked like he kinda knew what he was doing though.

MUSIC: Not much here really. It's too bad that they dubbed over music instead of really getting to listen to the character play the violin or the characters singing.

REWATCH VALUE: I don't mind a tragedy so much but it was just too slow to see again.

OVERALL: The two guys are cute, there's a ton of pretty scenery, there's the strangest and most flimsy excuse to get the two guys' shirts off for a sex scene that I've ever heard of (you will chuckle when you see it). Otherwise not much else.

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STORY: The husband of a wealthy couple goes missing and the hired driver takes the wife on a mission to find the husband. This movie is a thriller. There are a lot of plot twists and turns; it had me guessing the entire show. It did start out a bit slow and some of the pacing was uneven.

ACTING/CAST: Got to see the coach from Project S the Series: SPIKE! make out with another guy. Bonus. Otherwise the cast did a good job even though Imanothai Kawin acts the same in every production he's in...

MUSIC: Overall good atmospheric music, a few cool sounding pieces not subbed, credits was cool.

REWATCH VALUE: If it wasn't a bit on the slow side I totally would watch it again just to see it again after knowing all the plots twists and secrets.

OVERALL: Entertaining, if somewhat slow in parts. There's some guy-on-guy action in this and a bit of nudity. [NSFW]

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STORY: It's a very compelling story that had me interested the whole movie and it ends satisfactorily. I should point out that while the show doesn't have a "sad" ending, as in soul crushingly pointless, the overall show is a tear-jerker. Also, the show is mainly about the mother and the spirit mediums she hires, so even though there are some gay characters in this, I wouldn't call it BL.

ACTING/CAST: They did a good job. "Boy" did his part well, all the dancing and ceremony, nice job. The son is cute.

MUSIC: Ah, standard for a movie.

REWATCH VALUE: Ah, I'll probably spend my time watching other things.

OVERALL: A good and entertaining movie with some great storytelling that presents lots of questions that all get answered in the end but no real "BL" in it.

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STORY: This writing for this series was all over the place; it was sci-fi, dark, fantasy, romantic comedy, and more. What the synopsis didn't make clear is that Adam loves Ah-Zhai who loves Pei Ni (Penny) who loves Adam. There's a lot of humor and awkward situations because of this love triangle.

ACTING/CAST: Bai Shu (Ah-Zhai) is a very good actor, very expressive. Cai Wen Jing (Pei Ni) is a very good actress; she played multiple, and very different, personalities.

MUSIC: I liked both the opening and closing songs of this show.

REWATCH VALUE: I didn't have much of a reason to revisit Season 1 but Season 2 is so much better.

OVERALL: Read my spoiler in the comments section if you want my opinion about the BL in this show.

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STORY: Two gay friends attending a university together trying to find other gay guys to date. Wu Shuang crosses paths with a guy who makes his heart pound but decides to try to help Zhutou court him which ends up putting their friendship under test. NOTE: Happy Ending.

ACTING/CAST: The guys are cute and they do a decent job.

MUSIC: Well, a short Brokeback Mountain music clip, but this movie had huge sections with no background music whatsoever, and where it did have music, it was forgettable.

REWATCH VALUE: Probably not. Got too much else to watch.

OVERALL: Very SLOW PACED but worth watching once.

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STORY: * BL STORY * This does have a sci-fi feel to it. As unrealistic as it is that an phone app can summon a hologram (or a virtual person anyway). It also is part psychological thriller. I really liked that it showed a long-term relationship of two guys, even though it is going through tough times. This does have a happy ending.

ACTING/CAST: Absolutely superb. I was amazed at how well these actors conveyed the emotions of their characters. They weren't bashful during the "making out" scenes either. The actor playing Lin has some very pretty eyes.

MUSIC: It was good and a bit sorrowful.

REWATCH VALUE: I liked this enough to watch it again with a friend.

OVERALL: I WANT THAT APP! Watch this and you'll know what I'm talking about.

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STORY: This is also known as The Legendary Lackey. A lackey in this context is a bullied kid that acts as a servant/slave for the bully. I hate bullying. But what makes this story good is that it's how the lackey rises to the top. There's a lot of funny scenes and a few cringe-worthy ones too.

ACTING/CAST: The actors did a great job, particularly Lee Ji Hoon. He is quite a capable actor and can wear many expressions on his face.

MUSIC: Nothing special.

REWATCH VALUE: I'll watch it again for sure.

OVERALL: Again, hate bullying. That aside, it was a funny show.

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STORY: A sitcom about a family of four who rent to Earth and Ice, who are siblings. The teen son, Jang, realizes that his heart beats hard for both Earth and Ice but he is confused and scared by his feelings for Earth. This show tackles many subjects like homophobia, unwanted teen pregnancy, and other challenges of raising teens in modern Thailand.

ABOUT THE STORY: Unfortunately, lies and misunderstandings are the heart of this show and used heavily by the writers. It seems almost every episode is some big misunderstanding that is resolved by the end of it. The comedic timing of this show is somewhat different and I wasn't used to it. They add a laugh track or some strange sound effect at oddly inappropriate times. Perhaps it's just me; this is my first foreign sitcom.

ACTING/CAST: The entire ensemble cast are very good actors. This is a sequel to the long running Bang Rak Soi (2003-2012) so there are guests appearances from the previous show.

MUSIC: I liked the music and at the end of some of the later episodes they do a Thai rap ending that is very comical.

REWATCH VALUE: I'm glad I saw it once but I do not feel the need to revisit anything.

OVERALL: I fell in love with this family, the characters, the cast. It is a very well-written show. If you decide to invest the time into this, you won't be let down.

NOTE: The long-running Will-Jang-Choose-Earth-or-Ice plot line does get muddled. If you want to know more, read the comment section for spoilers about this.

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STORY: The story is a long one that plods along with two guys who love and hate themselves and each other with a heavy dose of resentment. It's not a soft and sweet "Love Story" and never develops into that either. There isn't anything I would call a relationship. There are a couple okay scenes but I was always wondering why they were together. It was made in 2007 but reminds me of the American 80's low budget gritty crime dramas.

ACTING/CAST/MUSIC: OK

REWATCH VALUE: No. If it was much shorter or the "love story" was much better developed, sure.

OVERALL: I watched this with a friend hoping for a good love story but it's a hateful love story instead.

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STORY: A romcom where the guy chases the girl. There are some side plots that were pointless and probably didn't need to be there (the stalker). This story also suffers from the Let's-not-talk-seriously-for-more-than-five-minutes-so-we-can-misunderstand-each-other-the-whole-episode form of communication. It was way overused; a sign of poor writing. If these people simply talked stuff out it would have saved heartaches. There are some LGBT themes in this, specifically LG and T were represented.

ACTING/CAST: I liked Udomsilp Sutatta in Hormones the Series as Toei, unfortunately she plays the exact same character in this: the girl that is so dense and clueless about boys that she can't tell when he's into her and spends the entire series misunderstanding EVERYTHING.

MUSIC: I liked the music, and it's always fun when they have a concert in these shows.

REWATCH VALUE: Maybe. The hilarious scenes had me laughing hard. But, since this story is recycled into Senior Secret Love: Puppy Honey, I might rewatch that instead.

OVERALL: Romantic, some of it was super funny, can be slow in parts, and frustrating (communication issues), but it was worth watching.

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