The best way to describe this series is to define it in terms of a psychological disorder. It is schizophrenic. It has all the symptoms of this condition. It is befuddling, full of mood swings, capricious, shows severe personality changes, weird periods of agitation with obvious emotional disorders as well, and psychological instability throughout. I could go on, but you get the point. It is not tethered to thinking, operating, or behaving clearly. The story is an incoherent mess yet sometimes just a lot of fun to watch. It was entertaining for some time but then lost its direction in the end as it did not seem to know how to conclude the story.
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“Stay By My Side After the Rain” Series Review (Ep.3 to 12)
We often make love more complicated than love actually is. Love is more than an emotion, it’s a deep look at ourselves.
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“Shine” Series Review (Ep.1 to 8)
I accept, when I watched the first episode- I didn’t understand a word of what was going on in this show!
“Love in the Moonlight” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
The human heart is much like a locked vault. The only person who truly has access is the person holding the key.
That’s what the Thai BL Love in the Moonlight feels like from the very first moment: keys and locks, duty and desire, masks and truths. Set in 1963, after political shifts in Sariangkham, Prince Saenkaew (Peak Peemapol Panichtamrong) is sent to Bangkok under the weight of an arranged marriage. His bride-to-be, Pinanong (Perth Veerinsara Tangkitsuvanich), has adored him since childhood, seeing in him not just a prince, but the man she has always wanted. For her, the match feels like a dream. For him, it’s another link in the chain of expectation, duty, and guilt that has followed him since birth.
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“Secret Lover” Series Review (Ep.3 to 10)
Taiwanese BLs these days are on a whole new level and don’t even get me started on the fan service!
“The Killer Next Door” Series Review (Ep.1 to 60)
Yet again, this is another example of a potentially good BL series that went awry. There is a lot of good acting in this series. The issue is, it was wasted in a noxious story. I want to cry over the content (or lack thereof) that is being used to construct BL stories. While I know there ought to be no topics off limits, I do wish more positive representations of ‘Boys Love’ could be portrayed. Or at least ones that are not always so pessimistic in nature and content and/or surrounded by such ugly and negative dimensions. Generally speaking, Korean BL tend to be dark and broody; this one was exceptionally morose and despairing, sprinkled with a mixture of odd personas that sometimes worked. And sometimes not.
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“The Promise of the Soul” Series Review (Ep.5 to 12)
Soulful yet entertaining, there was a literal soul transaction happening here!
I often pondered while watching this show- “If the person you hate to the core suddenly starts changing, will you start falling in love with them?”
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“Revamp the Undead Story” First Impressions (Ep. 1 to 3)
What happens when your work leads you into a world and a love you least expect?
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“Memoir of Rati” Series Review (Ep.3 to 12)
Is there such a thing as love that endures against all odds?
Memoir of Rati seems to believe so. And it proves it.
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“Friendly Rivalry” Series Review (Ep.1 to 16)
“Friendly Rivalry” is friendly enough until it turns into a tell-tale of drug abuse, murder mystery and ricocheting teenagers going berserk!
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