Love Upon A Time and To Sir, With Love both explore the societal pressure to conform to a heternormative existence and the intense agony experienced by those who must deny who they love for "duty" and "normalcy".
Similarities:
- internalized homophobia is intense in both (mainly Jom in LUAT and Tian in TSWL)
- both have main characters who (initially) sacrifice their queer love to please their families through an arranged marriage to a woman (Phop in LUAT and Tian in TSWL)
- both reveal tragic stories of queer couples (that took place prior to the story) that characters use to reinforce internal (and external) homophobia
Differences:
- LUAT involves time travel and reincarnation
- TSWL is decidedly more soap opera/lakorn-ish with exceedingly high stakes as characters try to thwart the main characters' relationship
- TSWL features a wholesome (and tearjerking (in a good way)) brotherly bond between half-brothers Tian and Yang
- set in different time periods
Similarities:
- internalized homophobia is intense in both (mainly Jom in LUAT and Tian in TSWL)
- both have main characters who (initially) sacrifice their queer love to please their families through an arranged marriage to a woman (Phop in LUAT and Tian in TSWL)
- both reveal tragic stories of queer couples (that took place prior to the story) that characters use to reinforce internal (and external) homophobia
Differences:
- LUAT involves time travel and reincarnation
- TSWL is decidedly more soap opera/lakorn-ish with exceedingly high stakes as characters try to thwart the main characters' relationship
- TSWL features a wholesome (and tearjerking (in a good way)) brotherly bond between half-brothers Tian and Yang
- set in different time periods
Love Upon a Time and Love in the Moonlight both deal with the pressures of a homophobic society and the tension between love and duty.
Similarities:
- both deal with one of the two main characters being engaged to a woman as part of their "duty" to their family (and/or country)
- intense internalized homophobia (specifically from Saenkaew in LITM and Jom in LUAT)
- both have very heartwarming friendships between the main characters
- YEARNING--THE YEARNING IS CRAZY
- both will make you BAWL be prepared to CRY
Differences:
- LUAT is set in the Ayutthaya period while LITM is set between 1964-1965
- LUAT involves time travel and reincarnation
- LITM focuses on one mlm couple whereas LUAT features two
I recommend both of them they are MASTERPIECES, just absolutely EXCELLENT BLs you will not regret watching <3
Similarities:
- both deal with one of the two main characters being engaged to a woman as part of their "duty" to their family (and/or country)
- intense internalized homophobia (specifically from Saenkaew in LITM and Jom in LUAT)
- both have very heartwarming friendships between the main characters
- YEARNING--THE YEARNING IS CRAZY
- both will make you BAWL be prepared to CRY
Differences:
- LUAT is set in the Ayutthaya period while LITM is set between 1964-1965
- LUAT involves time travel and reincarnation
- LITM focuses on one mlm couple whereas LUAT features two
I recommend both of them they are MASTERPIECES, just absolutely EXCELLENT BLs you will not regret watching <3
Both main characters travel back in time (though to vastly different time periods) and fall in love with someone of that era.
