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I just watched the first episode and it seemed very familiar. And then I discover I have already watched Memories of Murder dealing with the same case apparently.
So far the series is full of tropes: a young rogue police detective, corrupt prosecutors, inept and violent policeman, a genius painter girl at the right place at the right time etc.etc. I almost fell asleep halfway through....

34 currently airing BLs?!?!? Why? Unbelievable!!! Far too many!

Why the second season? Milking the cow dry?

Such eloquence is hard to find!

Thanks for the tip but I feel that these vertical series are not worth the grind! People used to upload them on dailymotion or bilibili but shoretime got to them. I am really impressed by their reactivity to pirating. Not enough though, to waste my time on the grind for a couple of weeks! Even less to pay the overpriced subscription to watch!
Hard pass!

I love these short web dramas in a shared universe. Unfortunately in this one, the main couple have zero chemistry and the way the younger man pursues his teacher is cringy. Quick and nice watch.
Still, I am looking forward to the next part of this universe....

Present Perfect ruined his career? Why has not he been in other films or dramas?

Why isn't he on our screens any more?

True! But everything before....

I don't know if you know of this but there is an extra ending scene floating around, set in the present and giving us a happy ending of sorts. They filmed it but never added to the last episode.

Nice review, it broght bzck so many fond memories of this drama....

Why is there an animated film on MDL?

Can someone explain this to me please?

So the Japanese invented bls or rather yaoi mangas. The number of BL mangas published is staggering.

So why do they go looking for Thai BLs to remake?

They have their own spicy content they could adapt. Most (not all!) of japanese BLs are on the tame side, no or dead fish kisses being the ultimate NSFW content. Why aren't the japanese adapting their own yaois more?

I have seen more make out scenes in two episodes of this drama than in 20 japanese BLs I had watched before.

It is on gaga. I watched it on my usual site kisskh and it is 10min longer than announced here or on gaga but it is still the version poached from gaga....go figure!

Loved it. But why are the actors credited with their western names: Kerry Hu and Tim Liu? Because they are chinese in a "singaporean" BL?

I love you being wordy like this!
I was actually confused by the term "queer".
I once discussed the same topic with another user here a long time ago but what you all call queer now was called LGBT content and the difference was basically the same (happy fantasy vs. sad reality). I compared BLs with Hallmark movies. I think it somehow fits: unrealistic love stories or Disney style fairy tales.

Great article! Thanks for the link!
I remember a gay man here telling me once that BLs are just queer productions with a happy ending. What do you think?

Not at a quick glance! When you really look at it , it obviously is a hoodie but not at a first glance at a small thumnail!

I have to get this out of my system!
Every time I see the poster for this drama my first thought is, why is there a woman wearing a hijab in a K drama?🤣🤣

And yet there are some amazing LGBT films coming from India which are not tragic but rather uplifting. I recently watched a couple of Indian BLs released a month ago (https://www.youtube.com/@lastleafpictures). Things move slowly, very very slowly but they move in the right direction. And like anywhere else in the world, the LGB acceptance takes hold in the cities first before moving on to the rest of the country (smaller towns, countryside etc.).

Maybe this is a stupid question, so please forgive me, but what is the difference between a BL and a queer series? I always thought that BLs were a kind of queer stories just like GLs... I suppose I got that wrong?