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the show that saved my summer

i'm writing this review a few months after revenged love finished. i thought that maybe the magic i felt while watching it would fade with time, but i was so wrong. this show, this bl, is so dear to me its hard to explain. i cant let go of chi cheng and wei wei. genuinely, this show got me through this summer. it actually gave me something to look forward to on mondays and tuesdays. honestly, the characters in this show are so peak. wei wei is HILARIOUS i love him so much he is so me. chi cheng is a bit of a red flag, yes, but COME ONNNNNN hes such a sweetie on the inside. he's such a mamas boy with wei wei's mom its so adorable. bro when wei wei's mom died and they showed the wreath that chi cheng left at her funeral saying "love your son, chi cheng" i literally LOST it. im crying just thinking about it thats how bad it is. i just love wei wei and chi cheng so freaking much. they are so perfect for each other, watching their relationship bloom and seeing in real time how wei wei's feelings for chi cheng grow was incredible. the progression of how chi cheng refers to wei wei, first wu so wei, then dabao, then we get the iconic wei wei. god its so pure i cant. i also LOVED the second couple, chengyu is the most perfect human being alive i swear hes so good for xiao shuai. speaking of xiao shuai I LOVE HIS FRIENDSHIP WITH WEI WEI SO MUCH they're so funny, especially in the beginning. i feel like revenged love was a little bit slow to pick up, but around the 4th episode things got GOOD. i cant lie tho, towards the end of the show when wei wei and chi cheng were fighting and then when chi cheng got arrested i was STRESSING and not always having a good time. but that doesn't matter because in those same later episodes i got to see my absolute DIVA wang shuo which makes everything worth it. i dont care what anyone says, i love wang shuo. should he have tried to interfere with chi cheng and wei wei's relationship? no, of course not. was it wrong and kinda insane of him to kiss chi cheng without his consent? like, yes, but also, HES COMPLEX OKAY idk i probably shouldn't love him like i do but he just feels so relateable in how he cant let go of chi cheng. this is starting to sound like a rant so let me close this out. this show is my absolute favorite bl of all time. there is no topping this one, at least not for a while. the tears i shed during this show is UNMATCHED. the characters, the plot, the acting, the writing, the MUSIC (hello that ost is literally iconic as fuck) its all just so perfect. ziyu and tian xuning absolutely hit it out of the PARK with their acting here. same with zhan xuan and liu xuancheng, and liu jun later on. these actors are so talented. the plot is so interesting and fun to watch, the characters are fun and they are played by incredible actors, the writing is fantastic and keeps you engaged for the whole show, and of course, that soundtrack. i dont usually pay attention to the music in bls but i couldn't help but fall in love with the ost for this show, sung by the one and only ziyu. i love that song so much its literally on like four of my playlists. everyone knows this intro, its SO iconic, and its so good as well. to wrap this very long, wordy, and confusing review up, revenged love isn't perect necessarily, but its perfect to me. it has all the elements that makes a bl great, and i will always come back to rewatch my favorite episodes in dark times. if you somehow haven't seen revenged love this is your sign baddie to GO FREAKING WATCH IT drop everything pull three all-nighters in a row idc what you gotta do queen just WATCH THIS SHOW NOW (jk but seriously this show is so goated you have to watch it soon).

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perthsanta have a magic that is impossible to put into words.. but i'll try my best

okay. i am SO not okay. this show was my everything for the entire time it was airing. from the day the first episode aired on march 14th (pi day to those who celebrate!!!) all the way to the very end, i was hooked. and yes, i will be the first to admit, i was mostly just excited for this show because it was perthsanta. everything they do together is amazing, literally everything. i knew the show was going to dive into mental health related content, but i still did not have the HIGHEST hopes in terms of a deep plot, especially since this is gmmtv like.. i love you gmmtv but its not lying to say you dont take anything seriously like EVER. however, i was more than just pleasantly surprised by how well thought out and complex the plot was. i mean like, the dark moments were not afraid to get DARK if ykwim. the backstory with sun/solar's mom made me cry more than i would care to admit. i felt really silly sitting in my bedroom at 3am sobbing uncontrollably over my glowing laptop screen because of some fictional kid named sun but trust me, seeing baby sun sad felt like a punch to the nuts (at least i think, i dont actually HAVE nuts..) however, while the dark moments were dark and were given their proper time, the bright, sunny, joyful moments were just as apparent, and the overall look of the show was very whimsical and fun to look at. i loved how vibrant all the sets were, and all the clothing was, its been really refreshing seeing all these bright colors in gmmtv as of late. the bright colors remind me a lot of the set design and wardrobe choices from boys in love last year, which i also absolutely adored. i think having fun colors incorporated throughout the show does a lot more for the overall enjoyment than one might think, but whenever i think about the older high school set bls with drab colors and everyone wearing the same muted uniform, i realize it DID feel a little sad.. but here, it was bright, it was vibrant, it was fun, and i sure as hell was having a great time.

i think the characters in this show were absolutely perfect, especially pobmek for perth. oh my god, you guys dont even know how refreshing it was so see perth as a character that was 100% a green flag like.. i havent seen perth in like a TON of shows, but he wasn't really great in never let me go as chopper, tawan in me and thee was an abusive asshole, and even yotha from perfect 10 liners (whom i absolutely ADORE btw) still cheated on gun and was lowkey aggressive and mean and avoidant at tiems so.. seeing perth be, for lack of a better word, a cutie patootie for once was genuinely so much fun. perth did a really great job with this role. of course his chemistry with santa was on point as always, but he really did bring out the emotions that come with caregivers guilt and the struggles of watching someone you love suffer. perth is a phenomenal actor, and he knocked it out of the park in this role once again. moving on to santa.. goddamn this boy can act too like whatttttt.. the talent of perthsanta is off the charts like im sorry for all the glaze but guys like its true. yes, playing pobmek was an extremely difficult role, but playing solar/sun was, in my humble opinion, 100x harder. the duality, the fine line in playing a person with an extreme mental illness with lots of stigma around it, that is HARD. and yet, santa made it seem effortless. i swear this man is so talented like let me glaze for just one second but this man can sing, this man can dance, he can rap, he can rap, and he also LOOKS LIKE THAT??? UGHHHHHH not fair not fair what the heck #ilovesanta #iamsantasbiggestfan #perthgetinline #typeshit anyways yeah santa did a really good job. i think he played sun very well, i think the character suited him and i think he played it in a way that was not demeaning or making light of the mental illness. once again, that is a HARD thing to do, so like yall lets put some respect on his name!! moving away from our main leads, all the other characters were fun as well. i really liked sadchuen, i thought she was really cute and a great positive support for pobmek and solar through the school, and i also REALLY loved jee, aka the gym teacher. i thought he was adorable, for one, and i also loved his dynamic with pobmek. i really did enjoy pobmek's backstory with his mom and how he was never good enough, and i thought having jee not be a dick was the right move. he was such a genuine ray of sunshine whener he was on screen, he made me laugh like a LOT, and he definitely contributed to the more light-hearted aspects of the show. of course, sammy and kay did a great job playing their roles as well. i liked all the mothers: pobmek's mom, sun's birth mom, and solar's "adopted" mom. i thought they all were played by their actresses very well, and i thought they all were pretty compelling. i do have some gripes with pobmek's mom, but i'll get into that a little later.

okay, hi, i know ive been glazing this show for the past however long youve been reading BUTTTTT this show isnt perfect, and i do have some issues. first, this might sound weird but like, i was sometimes uncomfortable when there would be even the slightest bit of intamicy between pobmek and solar (not during the flashbacks obvi) because i was really scared of solar not actually being solar but actually being sun. i know, that sounds weird and like such a nonissue, but especially after the episode where sun successfully disguises himself as solar, i was like, what the fuck.. idk, maybe its just my anxiety, but if i were pobmek i would be SO scared. but i guess like, i dont truly understand the mental disorder myself. like yes, technically that WOULD still be solar but like... ugh ugh ugh i dont wanna think about that anymore, all i know is i would be a little icked out when that would happen, but that could also be 100000% just me. ooookay moving on, sometimes the dialogue with the kids would be lowkey cringe. okay there i said it because SOMEONE had to. and yes, i understand, i am not fluent in thai to the point that i fully get thai slang, so i get it that there might be some local aspect i am missing. however, from the thai i DO understand as well as the subtitles that i was provided, everytime the kids would talk i lowkey had to like ignore the subtitles and not focus on what they were saying because like.. thats just NOT how kids talk. like at all. or at least, from my experience with kids (and i have a lot, ive been babysitting since middle school), but idk, i thought the dialogue and stuff was kinda corny and stupid, but of course it wouldnt be a gmmtb bl without a little bit of the good ol corn am i right (that sentence might have been more corny than any line spoken by a kid in the show, but i dont care im proving a point). okay lasttttt little gripe before im done with the negatives, i know i said i liked pobmek's backstory but.. i do think it could have been done better. i feel like the character that was pobmek's mom was suchhhh a cliche. she reminded me so much of tinn's mom from my school president, and no its not just because they're played by the same actress, but its the whole like strict mother figure comparing her son to other students and wanting him to go into a super specific field of study like idk i was getting majorrrr deja vu but i mean it didnt ruin the show by any means. none of these small gripes ruined anything about the show, these are the most nitpicky of nitpicks i could come up with about this show, because i always think that shows have room for improvement.

i want to point out two of my favorite things about this show super quickly before i wrap up. first, i really, and i mean REALLY, appreciated the college flashbacks to when pobmek and solar first fell in love. i saw a lot of people talk about how they wanted to see the romance develop throughout the show because, lets face it, most bls aren't about couples ALREADY in love, but i think the way the show handled it made a lot more sense. this show follows the guilt and hardships of dealing with a partner who struggles with mental health. it would be physically impossible to have a story like that when they arent even parters yet ykwim. in addition, solar and sun are supposed to be switching back and forth everyday, so it would be kinda icky if pobmek was falling for solar when he was acting like a seven year old half the time. ive seen a lot of people not wanna watch this show BECAUSE they are worried it would be weird and pediphillic and fetishy because of the age regression plot, but the way the flashbacks are set up and the way that perth and santa play their characters doesnt make it feel that way at all. im not tryna sound like a broken record here but god, this show had every opportunity to be weird, or insensitive, or icky, but due to the amazing performances by perth and santa, along with the very solid writing, it was a very wholesome and earnest show that i feel portrayed the mental illness it depicted in as respectful a way as possible. that actually leads directly into my second favorite thing: pobmek's guilt and somewhat resentment towards sun. THIS is my absolute favorite part of the show, becaues it is so raw and so real. i know i touched on this earlier, but its so important to me that i wanna discuss it more in depth. i myself have not been a caretaker to a person with an extreme mental disorder, but a very close family member to me has. she confided in me a LOT how much it took a toll on her, how she sometimes resented the person she was caring for, and how she absolutely hated herself for that resentment. seeing this aspect of being a caretaker portrayed even just the slightest bit was so special for me to see, and it literally made me so emotional yall dont even get it. that part of being a caretaker is so often overlooked, so seeing them take the time to depict the struggles of the caretaker as well as the person with the actual mental disorder was very powerful, at least in my opinion. however, as i said before, i have never actually been a caretaker myself, i have only heard stories secondhand, so i am not fully qualified to say whether or not this portrayal was perfect. however, i really appreciate the effort, and i think it was very imortant that it was part of the show and part of pobmek's arc and progression.

oh, one more thing: the seakeen cameo at the end genuinely made my heart so freaking happy!!! i am literally the #1 seakeen fan like trust keen has been my BOY ever since i first saw him in project alpha back in 2022 so like wherever keen is like i am RIGHT there with him! legit when i saw sea in the scene when he overslept i genuinely screamed, slammed my laptop shut, and paced my room for five minutes before i resumed because i did NOT know we were getting a seakeen camea. okay, now that im not that, time to wrap this up.

overall, this show was very well done. there were so many ways this show couldve completely dropped the ball and sucked and been weird and unwatchable, but it didnt do that. this show delivered a really great plot that had lots of fun moments along with lots of darker moment to keep the balance, and of course, as ive said probably 127 times already in this review, none of this could have been possble without the absolutely stellar performances from perth and santa. seriously, i dont usually comment bl actors like this, because quite frankly bl acting is often lackluster in terms of overall acting. but i am being so sincere when i say that they absolute nailed it in this show, every scene was incredinly well acted, every emotional beat was hit right on the mark, and every sensitive topic was handled with respect. please, if you somehow made it to this point and havent watched this show yet, do yourself a favor and run to watch this show. i promsie you, i PROMISE you, it will be an absolute blast. id also like to apologize for any spelling/grammar errors in this review, it is currenlty 3:18am and i am NOT proof reading this thing so if its rambly and incoherent i sincerely apologize!!! :)

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can kbls be good again pls

im writing this review late in both the sense that this show finished airing a while ago so im late to the party, and also in the sense thats its 4am and i have an organic chemistry exam tomorrow morning. sorry if this review makes no sense!! im going to keep it pretty short: this show bored the crap out of me. sorry, i know like everyone loves this show, but god it just put me to sleep. first of all, the plot confused me. i watch thai bls while doing homework all the time, only half reading subtitles, and i still understand them. so for me to not understand the plot or even the point of this story with my full attention is.. something! i only really wanted to watch this show because yoon jisung from wanna one plays iljo. my wanna one days were short and long ago, but trust and believe when i saw the casting of jisung i was like oh hell yeah i HAVE to watch this!! and i will give credit where credit is due, the actors deliver. both jisung and the other guy do a very good job at playing their characters. the only issue is, i absolutely hate both of them. now i understand this show is meant to be a "toxic love story", which is a plot i can 100000% get behind. my favorite jbl and one of my favorite bls ever is my personal weatherman so trust me, i fuck with toxic yaoi, but only when its done RIGHT. literally both of the main leads were insufferable. jisung's character was a cry baby whiny little bitch boy i genuinely would have wanted to punch in the guts if he weren't played by jisung, and the other main character is a standoffish asshole who genuinely infuriated me everytime he opened his mouth. the dialogue and the writing was weak, as well as the character developement. you may be asking, are there ANY positives to this show? yes. jisung from wanna one being a yaoi bottom. thats about it. IM KIDDING IM KIDDING!!! okay but actually, i was very impressed by the intimate scenes in this show. kbls are usually VERYYYY bad at them. they either leave them out alltogether, or when they're done they are done so poorly that it almost feels homophobic. recently, however, korea has done a lot better handling them. im not one to critique scenes like that usually since they honestly are NOT why im here, and i dont really enjoy them anyways. but i do appreciate that korea is putting a little more effort into making their bls seem less like they put two straight guys in a room and told them to have sex. progress, people, progress!! oh, i almost forgot, THE COUSINS THING. so from what i gathered from the plot, the top thought that jisung's character was his cousin. the. whole. time. or at least until the very end.. MY MAN YOU WERE FUCKING THIS MAN AND YOU THOUGHT HE WAS YOUR COUSIN??? BLOOD RELATED COUSIN??? WHAT THE FUCK????????? ive always hated like the "brothers but not by blood", or "raised like cousins but not blood related" trope in bl because like, lets be real, you were always RAISED like siblings or family members so its still weird. but here, oh its just so much worse becaue one of the dudes actually thought the other WAS his family. so weird, so gross, so alabama, not a fan. in conclusion, this show is a boring and melodramatic kbl thats biggest strength is its sex scenes. sounds crude, but it is what it is. watch this show if you wanna see jisung from wanna one be a freak i guess, but if thats not your thing (since it wasn't really mine), then i'd say skip this one for now. much better recent kbls are out there, so go for ball boy tactics or secret relationships if you really want a good kbl from the last year.

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gmmtv's best show of all time and its not even close

okay so i just want to say that it usually takes me 2-3 weeks to finish thai shows bc i have the attention span of a five year old, and i also have lectures + i am an athlete. im telling you this so that you will understand just how hooked i had to be on this show because i finished it in less than two days. TWO FUCKING DAYS. no skips, no 2x speed, nothing. i was so addicted to this show that i genuinely could not stop watching it. this show has 3 (or maybe 4 i can't really tell if pertar were like official) main couples and i had a great time with ALL of them. while all the plots definitely relate, they aren't fully intertwined the whole time, so i'll break this up into paragraphs for each couple.

1. kim + mon (chokunaston) my babies
GUYS KIM AND MON WERE SO CUTE LIKE I WANTED TO CRY THE WHOLE TIME THEY WERE ON SCREEN THEY WERE SO SWEET IT MADE MY STOMACH HURT ADFJLAKLSDFSDKFJ ADF I LOVE THEM SO MUCH MY BABEIS. okay but seriously, kim and mon were by FAR my absolute favorite couple in the show, and honestly, they're probably my favorite bl couple of all time. this is chokunaston's first show together and they killed it SO hard like WOAH. these two have so much potential you already know im hype as hell for their upcoming show. kim is so freaking cute. greenest of green flags he is so obsessed with mon its hilarious. mon is probably my fav bl character ever he is so me. together, kim and mon are so sweet. they had such a cute confession with the giraffe doll like i squealed like a 12 year old girl at that scene and im not even ashamed because that is the only appropriate response to that. kim also delivered one of my favorite lines ever that i quote daily "he reads shakespeare, i read doremon" that is SO funny to me. i really appreciated that kim and mon got together within like three episodes instead of dragging it on for ten episodes. sometimes i lose interest in characters once they get together but it was the exact opposite with these two they were just so cute together i never got bored of them. i need a bf as obsessed with me as kim is with mon. that one scene where mon is trying to study and kim is just staring at his face for an hour genuinely makes me laugh every single time i rewatch it, and you already KNOW that i have rewatched this show at least ten times. i also really did enjoy the dynamic between kim and mon's mom. usually parents in bls kinda piss me off, but the actress who played mon's mom was really good, and she made the character make a lot of sense. i think it was really cute watching kim do literally anything to win over mon's mom because he was just SO in love. i hate red/black flags in bls and kim + mon were SO far from that. they were so soft and so fluffy. the rest of the show was soft and fluffy too, but these two REALLY delivered the fluff. this show made me fall in love with chokunaston, and i am SO excited to see their futures. gmmtv please please PLEASE give them a character i would spend thousands like i need a chokunaston doll to be friends with my permpoon!!!

2. kit + shane (lukemick)
kit and shane started off good but ended AMAZING. i'll be honest, i was REALLY suspicious about how these two would work together. i've known about mick for a while and i didn't think that he was really made for bl. while i didn't know a lot about luke before watching this, i knew enough to the point where i was a bit nervous. in my opinion, these two started off a little rocky. i mean, its blatantly obvious that these two are like super mega straight, which isn't like an ISSUE, but it was kinda glaring. however, as the show went on, you could tell they were getting more used to playing their roles. i think that kit and shane got cute after shane stopped being all uptight so like around episode 5-6. honestly, i just loved kit as a person, so i didn't really care about shane until they got together. i will say i was genuinely shocked when they kissed in episode TWO. like woah. but honestly, these two were so sweet. i would say that even though mdl lists kim and mon as main characters as well as kit and shane, kit and shane were the MAIN main characters. i will say i felt for shane's struggles in trying to figure out what he wanted to do in college because trust me buddy, we've all been there. towards the end when all the stress about college was happening, i really loved the connection between kit and shane. it really did feel real, they were really sweet together, and the way they comforted each other was so AWWWW. also, shane and his cat were so cute like ugh so freaking adorable. i loved that cat (sorry im blanking on its name idk why) but that cat was literally kit and shane's child i swear. all in all, lukemick did a very good job with this show. while i was a little nervous about how they woud do with their parts in the beginning, they really got it together and delivered phenomenal performances towards the middle/end. while kit and shane aren't quite as perfect as kim and mon were, they were still so fun to watch.

3. tan + nat (podpapang) aka the teachers
okay so they were cute! honestly, i dont think i have that much to say about these two. they were cute! i enjoyed their scenes. were they my least favorite couple in the show? like yeah, but i still love them. i thought their connection seemed really genuine and sweet. they were so wholesome, but then again, the whole show was. the actors did a great job and thats all that really matters.

4. per + tar (kenpaul)
so like im gonna be honest when i say i was so confused as to what these two were while watching the show, but i THINK they were something. like they kissed yes but they never officially got together (at least from what i remember) so like.. i know kenpaul are paired together but idk yall.. per and tar were SO CUTE tho, i really loved tar paul is such a cutie pie. unironically paul is my favorite person like ever he is so cute and so sweet off camera and on camera he fit the role of tar so well UGH hes so cute it makes me mad. everytime tar came on screen i felt violent because i just wanted to give him the biggest hug ever cuteness aggression is real and my proof is the existence of paul and his portrayal of tar. i wish these two got more screentime because they were so cute and funny, especially at the beach when they got lost like BRUH i love them so much. honestly, these two need their own show because i would eat that shit UP i love kenpaul i love paul my baby like how is he so cute my baby my baby you're my baby say it to me.

conclusion time!!! so to wrap this up, i think i should talk about the overarching plot and all that. i guess i just HAVE to. so lets be real here, this show's plot is very simple. nothing crazy is happening, its just a cute fluffy high school love story between the two main couples that are students and also one about teachers (and a mini one thats also students). there wasn't a lot of unnecessary drama which i really appreciated. like, all disagreements made a lot of sense and nothing felt forced. yes, kim could be a little dramatic sometimes which would cause issues with mon for like 20 minutes, but he's so cute that he can get away with it like yall i do NOT play about kim and mon. honestly, one thing i really loved about this show was just how colorful and vibrant it was. i really liked how the characters didn't have uniforms at their school, and how nothing ever looked dull. all the color is a welcome change from other high school set gmmtv shows (my school president comes to mind). overall, this show is PHENOMENAL. it is up there for my favorite bls of all time, and it is most definitely my favorite thai bl. this is my comfort show, i rewatch it whenever im sad because kim and mon bring me so much serotonin its unhealthy. i wish my high school experience was like this bruh WHY DIDNT I HAVE A KIM UGH. anyways, to officially conclude: WATCH THE SHOW IF YOU HAVENT. it is such a good time, i was smiling and giggling the ENTIRE TIME and i rewatch it at least once a week. boys in love altered my brain chemistry, and i am so excited to see these actor pairings moving forward because these boys have SO MUCH potential!!!

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pondphuwin carried i said what i said

i literally only watched this show for pondphuwin and i had little to no interest in the rest of the characters. well, thats not entirely true. tan and fang (aouboom) were really cute, especially aou as tan like OH MY BABY he was so cute i loved tan so much like i want a tan he is so green flag. winnysatang were cute, i liked them enough in my school president, and they were fine here. satang as toey was kinda annoying sometimes not because of anything he did wrong, im sure he was just following the script but like.. sometimes it was a little annoying. dont get me wrong though, i still really enjoyed q and toey. i'll be honest i didnt even try watching markpoon's scenes at all. theres just something about those two together that straight up does NOT work (ik they arent paired together anymore and i hate to say it but i honestly think its for the best) so as soon as they had a solo scene i was skipping sorry!! the three side couples were cute (minus markpoons characters) but what i really want to talk about is pondphuwin's characters.

guys. I WANT A PHUM. I WANT ONE. I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. HES SO CUTE. I LOVE POND NARAVIT SO FUCKING MUCH. EVERY ROLE HE HAS EVER PLAYED IS SO PERFECT. I LOVE PHUMPEEM MORE THAN YOU CAN EVER KNOW. okay now that i got that out of my system, i'll actually discuss the characters. their first meeting is still hilarious to me i dont even care pondphuwin are so funny together like i remember cackling watching that scene at 3am it was so fucking funny. honestly, i loved phum from the first moment i saw him. now, do i also just really really really REALLY love pond? like yeah, but phum is so baby like idk i love him guys im sorry. peem was a grower. he reminded me of a poor and less spoiled version of neung from never let me go, which was kind of fun. he was a little annoying at first, but maybe i was just annoyed at first because if i had phum chasing after me like that we would be married within a month sorry not sorry. but after like the episode 4 mark i was genuinely having the time of my life with phumpeem. i cant get over pondphuwin's chemistry together why are they MARRIED bro (im kidding) but like they have such good onscreen chemistry its always so fun to watch. once peem stopped hating phum's guts i was like crying from joy whenever they came on screen. i cant even express how dear phumpeem are to me. the only thing about their whole storyline that pissed me off was that random other dude that wanted peem. lowkey off topic but why do phuwin's characters always have so much rizz. i swear to god, in every single goddamn pondphuwin bl some random other dude shows up tryna steal pond's man like back off he has a boyfriend!!!! that other student gave me war flashbacks to ben from never let me go (who is quite literally my least favorite character in any bl literally ever i hate him so much) so i honestly skipped most of his scenes. but other than that, i feel like phumpeem are so cute. if i were to rank pondphuwin's characters so far, they would probably be third (behind palmneung and theepeach). phum reminded me of mohk from fish upon the sky and peem reminded me of neung from never let me go, so it kinda felt like i was watching an au of the two so that was fun!!! overall, the pondphuwin scenes stole the show. my god do i love those two #myparents4life

in conclusion, this show is really good. i forgot to mention most of the plot, but it was basically just 16 episodes of dudes flirting and being college students. idk why it felt like lowkey nothing of importance happened over the entire course of the show besides boys dating and also peem getting an art gallery. but anyways, the show was a good time. if you want a plot heavy and super interesting + complex characters, go somewhere else. this show was a good time, but thats it. turn your brain off, watch pondphuwin be cute, but dont expect anything crazy from this series. honestly, if this show was JUST pondphuwin (and maybe aouboom as a sideplot) the show would probably be rated a 10, but sadly, the other side couples lowkey pissed me off a lot so i had to dock a point :( still WATCH THE SHOW IF YOU HAVENT especially if you love pondphuwin like i do just lowk skip all the other scenes without them you wont be missing that much

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its so fluffy im gonna die

yeah sooooooo.. im obsessed. this show didn't seem like anything special to me when i first heard about it. all i knew was it was about a popular boy falling for his very unpopular classmate, and i knew the actor of hioki had been in smells like green spirit. so when i got into this show halfway through its airing, i had medium to low expectations. with that being said, this show is really good. the plot is.. ehhhhhhhh. i mean, its not bad by any means, but the plot is pretty cliche if you ask me. popular boy for some unknown reason becomes obsessed with his unpopular classmate and chases after him. we have seen this 127,000 times before. however, the plot wasn't BAD, and the mediocre plot still allowed for the cast to really deliver. oh my god these actors were PHENOMENAL. kan hideyoshi hit it out of the fucking park playing watarai. it really seemed like he had actual feelings for hioki, which i can't always say in other bls. the chemistry between kan hideyoshi and fujimoto kodai is really sweet and genuine. the characters were super cute, and the actors did a great job playing them. not only did i love the main characters, i also ADORED the side ones! i was really glad that there was no mean kid in watarai's friend group that would hate hioki or something, because that was a big worry of mine early on. the friends were really cute and supportve, which kinda just added to the overall fluffy vibe. except for a couple moments where fellow female classmates were jealous of hioki, there was not a ton of girl drama which i always appreciate. there actually wasn't that much drama at all. i was having a good time for 99% of the show. the conflicts were solved very quickly and the conflicts were already few and far between to begin with. overall, this show is super cute and fluffy. what the story is lacking is made up for with the great acting and chemistry between the two main leads and also all of the side characters.

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this was the most peak fluff bl i've ever seen out of korea

oh my godddd yes yes yes yes yes yes this show was SO cute. i'll be honest, i didn't even know this show existed until i saw an edit of it on tiktok, and as soon as i saw joowon i was HOOKED. lets just get one thing straight: i am OBSESED with vampire stories and just vampires now. starting in middle school with seraph of the end, to now where one of my favorite kpop groups is literally enhypen. hell, twilight even used to be my favorite book as a kid. so, clearly, when i saw that two of my favorite things (bls and vampires) were being joined together, i was in. my judgement is a BIT clouded since i love all things vampires, but even leaving that behind, this show slaps. these actors are so cute bro. korea is really stepping up their game with casting actors for bls that arent literal mannequins (ball boy tactics is another great example from this year). their chemistry is so good, theyre SO cute together. this show is what i wished kissable lips was (man that show was such a disappointment especially since it was jiwoong and seobin). now, is the plot anything crazy or the characters super deep and well developed? no, obviously not. this is still a pretty small and poorly funded production, so there was nothing insane. but the cast did great, i mean the side "couple" were great as well, though i do wish we got to see them more. seonjae DID pmo for like the entire show, but i'm just choosing to ignore that because i had such a good time watching this show. 10/10 fluff, watch for a good time.

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the most comforting drama i have ever seen

i can't believe its been two years already since i first stumbled upon this drama. i found wifty when it had two more episodes yet to air, and i binged it all within four days. i genuinely think that i became a completely different person during that four day binge. the characters here are so wholesome, and the story is so cute as well. i usually get really mad at characters during shows because they always do stupid things in order to start conflict, but that doesn't happen at all here. this show is just such a comfort, and i really think everyone should watch it at least once.

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came for jiwoong, stuck around for the incredible plot + chemistry

i'll be honest here.. i watched this show AFTER watching boys planet, and after being a zerobaseone fan. so, did i originally only watch this show because of jiwoong? yes. HOWEVER, i would never rate a show only based off of if i am a fan of the actors. these exact same actors were also the stars of kissable lips and lord knows i would NEVER rate that show a 9.5/10. so, lets fully get into this show. jiwoong and seobin are literally my parents, and this show is the reason why. the chemistry is on POINT. these dudes are really good at acting like they're in love. also, sidebar, i loved seeing holland being included in the show, i thought it was super cute. but anyways, the acting here is phenomenal. i love when bl actors can kiss and NOT look like they want to crawl out of their skin and shoot themselves in between the eyes!!! the story is, i'll be honest, a little basic, but i LOVE me a good "enemies" to lovers. these two are so cute. SOOOOO cute. the relationship progression is so well done. while i don't necessarily love the whole sideplot of jiwoong's (i do not remember the character's names so i will just be calling them by the actors' names) dad and that whole weird like punishment thing. yes i get that his dad kinda initiated the whole start of the show but still, i didn't care much for it. seobin's character could also be a little bitch sometimes and he did kinda pmo like a lot but i could handle it because its seobin and i love that man. idrk how to sum this up so i'll just say again, this show is a really great cute little show that happens to star one of my favorite members of my favorite kpop band as a little bonus. :)

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four years later.. does it still hold up? (spoiler alert: YES IT DOES)

my love mix-up is a good show. it is cute, fluffy, easy to watch, and an all around good time. is it actually 10/10 quality.. no, BUT i'm still rating it a 10/10 because i had wayyyy too much fun watching this. what i loved most about this show was not actually the main characters, my favorite part was hashimoto. hashimoto is the female side character and the reason she is my favorite part is because I DONT HATE HER!!! that might sound weird, but honestly, i have heavily disliked almost every single female side character in bls from ALL countries, and when we first met hashimoto in this show, i was really worried i was going to hate her too. however, hashimoto is a FANTASTIC character. she's actually so freaking cute, shes so supportive, and she doesn't try to interfere with the two main leads (which is honestly one of my biggest bl pet peeves). besides the fact that the female side character doesn't make me wanna kill myself, the main couple here are so cute. aoki is me and i am him. he's so funny bro like genuinely i love him so much. ida is.. a little slow, but aren't we all? i really loved watching their relationship grow, it was so freaking wholesome. my biggest gripe with the show is that weird episode with the assistant teacher who's like super homophobic like.. why? i honestly hate when bls do that, when they make teachers play super big roles as like homophobic assholes. another example i can think of is at the end of my school president. i understand that it creates necessary conflict but it just pisses me off like why does a grown ass man care so much who his students are into like you weirdo it is NOT that deep fam. anyways, this show is still a super fun time. since it's a little bit older its obviously a lot more watered down. its been a little while since i've seen this but like i dont even think the main leads kiss WHICH IS FINE its just definitely a different vibe than the usual bls we see being released now. my love mix-up is like a cute comfort bl to watch when you're like lowkey really sad and need a good laugh. its a really good show, and yes, it DOES still hold up, even after four years. :)

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spectacular in quite possibly every single way.

oh boy, do i have a lot to say about this show. love for love's sake was on my list ever since it released, but with school and my focus on watching anime rather than bls, i never really got around to it. that is, until i really locked back in on all the bls i missed this summer. i remember hearing about everyone freaking out about this show when it first came out. i heard all the praise but i never thought it could ever be THAT good. i literally could not have been more wrong. this story is SO good. it has so much more to it than you would expect. myungha is such a good character. he is so relatable and his backstory is so well fleshed out. also that one scene where he kisses the homophobic guy was literally so much aura like i felt it through the screen. while i did kinda have some trouble adjusting to the fact that he was actually 29 trying to make this like 18 year old like him, i got over it pretty quick. honestly it does lowkey sound weird but I PROMISE ITS NOT. yeowoon seemed kinda annoying at first. he "doesn't like anyone" and that kinda pissed me off in the beginning, but when he and myungha got comfortable they were SO cute. yeowoon was so clingy like guys it was adorable thinking about it makes me wanna cry. these two actors really hit it out of the park with their roles. every emotional scene was played so well. thinking back to that one scene where myungha is running and he keeps like getting lost and he's in all these new places and the game is breaking like i was STRESSING taevin really played myungha well in every scene. the side characters here were also really good. i loved sangwon and how he lowkey was in love with myungha too like yes baddie i'm in love with myungha as well like join the club. kyunghoon was so freaking cute bro like i literally loved him. i literally could go on and on about this show its just that freaking good. the last scene where they're all on the beach is so beautiful. the scene where myungha decides to go back and spend the rest of his lie with yeowoon made me cry so freaking hard. lowkey its making me tear up just thinking about it right now and i watched this like four months ago. the emotions in this show are REAL. honestly love for love's sake has left an insane impact on me and i sure as hell won't forget about it anytime soon.

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i have never laughed so hard at a thai bl in my LIFE (thank you pond)

holy shit, i can't believe this show is over. gmmtv (or should i say gmm thee v) i am COMING for you, why is this show only 10 episodes this is a crime. but honestly, this show is nothing short of incredible. i mean, pond and phuwin knocked it out of the park with their performances, especially pond he was SO good. other than that, the writing was sharp and for once ACTUALLY funny, the side couples were great, and i had a TON of fun with this show. so with that, let's get into it!

i want to start off with the plot, which in my opinion is the weakest part of the show. not too much happens in this show honestly. its kinda just thee chasing after peach, which honestly, i have no complaints about. i did think it was odd how the "we aren't allowed to love" rule in the lee family was just kinda thrown out the window when it was convenient for the plot, but this is a silly show, so i'm willing to let it slide. that's how i feel about a LOT of this show's imperfections. if this was a more serious show, even if it was more like never let me go which i consider to be pondphuwin's most serious show, i would care more about poor writing choices. however, i wasn't watching me and thee for the super serious and complex plot, because there wasn't one. i was here for pondphuwin, and i was here to laugh, and honestly, i got EXACTLY what i came for. was the plot kinda lacking, i GUESS, but it's the characters that shine, not the plot. speaking of the characters, that is what i want to dive into next.

the characters in this show are so perfect. genuinely, i love them all so much. my favorite character, shockingly, is the incredible khun thee. i know, i'm so niche and different guys you don't have to tell me. but seriously, its impossible for thee to NOT be my favorite character. not only is pond my favorite actor of literally all fucking time, but thee is so funny its kind of insane. not to be mean or anything, but i don't usually laugh very much at thai shows. idk if its a language barrier thing, but it is very, VERY rare for me to laugh at thai bls at all, much less multiple times per episode, and the amazing humor in this show is basically all because of thee, and pond's performance. i get that pond and thee are kinda similar already, but lets be real, pond was giving 110% for this role. every single line, every single facial expression, it was all genuinely perfect. pond naravit lertratkosum the actor you are. besides pond's portrayal of thee, there are LOT of other incredible characters. peach was also really amazing. he was so real honestly, and i think phuwin did a really great job playing peach. peach was probably an easier role to play, but phuwin was phenomenal (as always). peach was really endearing, and i loved theepeach's dynamic. i'm just gonna say it, i think that pondphuwin have the best chemistry out of any gmmtv ship. they are SO great onscreen together, and this was definitely their best performance yet, not only in playing their characters individually but also in how they interacted together. thee and peach were basically made for pond and phuwin, and they nailed it.

other than thee and peach, the rest of the cast of characters were funny as well. plub is my baby like i dont care i love her so much. bonnie delivered a really awesome performance, i loved my thee and plub moments they were so cute. est as mok was also such a highlight. his eye roles were unironically SO funny, and my only complaint about mok is that he didn't get nearly enough screentime with rome. SPEAKING OF ROME. william may have only been in the show for like 20 minutes total, but god that man left such an impact on me. romemok are so dear to me, the fact that they got practically zero screentime is my biggest gripe with this show. if they don't get a ton of screentime in the spinoff i will be BEYOND pissed and will have some choice words with gmmtv. i have the same complaint about tawan and aran. perth and santa are INCREDIBLE actors, so why are we giving them no time to shine at all. i feel like tawan and aran could have been a lot better of a side couple if they got more screentime, especially with how much of an asshole tawan was. i mean, he punched peach, and then after his family is exposed, aran just TAKES HIM BACK??? like why? there was no buildup for that at all. i mean, i love seeing perthsanta happy together so i guess i'm okay with it, but i really wish their plot had more time to develop. but still, the characters were fun. i know i sound like a broken record but i just want to say this one more time: the actors all had AMAZING performances. i haven't been this impressed by the acting in a thai show in a really long time.

before i wrap things up, i do want to touch on the music in this show. very rarely do i pay much attention if any at all to the music in bls, but the music in this show is SO good. i'm being so serious when i say that "me and you" is in like 15 of my playlists and i listen to it at least 5 times a day. i can't get enough of this show's music. pond and phuwin have such good voices, so their osts are really top notch.

so, to conclude this very long and convoluted review, i just want to say that this show is not perfect. is my perfect rating a little misleading, maybe, but this show is a 10 to ME. in my heart, there are no flaws in me and thee, even though obviously it's not perfect. i haven't had this much fun while watching a bl in a very long time. this show was magical, it got me through the cold and dark of november, december, and half of january. i already know i will be coming back to rewatch this show again and again. if you want a show with lots of funny moments and really great characters, this is for you. me and thee is absolutely taking the cake as my favorite thai bl of all time (dethroning boys in love which is such a close second). i can't recommend it enough, so if you haven't watched it yet, do yourself a favor and introduce yourself to the world of theerakit kian lee. i promise you, you will NOT regret it!!

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this was the most heterosexual bl i have ever seen

this show is so fucking weird man. lets just address my biggest issue with this show right off the bat: THESE TWO MFS ARE SO GODDAMN STRAIGHT ITS PAINFUL. im not of the belief that bl actors have to be queer, though i do think that it would make more sense that way. with that being said though, good lord are these two actors so painfully straight. i get it, kissing another dude is probably hard, but yall are ACTORS, why are we doing a fake kiss in japan in 2024. #embarrassing. its not just the kiss though, i cant tell if its the writing or the acting or both but i felt absolutely no romantic connection between the main leads whatsoever. taichi's actor gives a little bit more of a gay vibe but its still not great. for most of the show i was just bored bc it felt like watching two friends just kinda hang out, but it got real ugly real fast when maya was introduced. im gonna sound really mean here but you just gotta hear me out: MAYA IS GENUINELY THE WORST FUCKING CHARACTER I HAVE EVER SEEN IN A BL PERIOD. somehow i hated her more than i hated yue yue in revenged love. yes she pissed me off that bad. first of all, i hate how taichi acted with her. TAICHI ARE YOU A FUCKING IDIOT??? shes literally manipulating him so blatantly and taichi just doesn't get it. god she makes me so mad. seeing her trying over and over again to get in the way of the already basically nonexistent relationship between the two leads my god it made me so mad. honestly this show is just not worth it. i haven't read the manga or anything, but the story honestly seems pretty good. i hope in the manga that there is actual romantic chemistry and i hope maya is less of a little bitch because she genuinely ruined every single scene she was in for me (no shade to the actress she seems sweet). seeing maya released like extreme anger to every part of me no exaggeration. anyways, my conclusion here is if you're really interested in this story just read the manga, because this show is just boring a for the most part a complete waste of time. don't let the high rating fool you like it fooled me.

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