Love is an unpredictable journey that leaves a lot up to chance and complicated individual human emotions. We don’t choose who we fall in love with. Sometimes that leads to heartbreak. Other times, it leads to joy and healing.
Continue reading “Although I Love You, and You?” Series Review (Ep.3 to 10)
New beginnings.
Second chances.
A fresh start.
Continue reading “Love is Better the Second Time Around” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
This series is an erotic roller-coaster ride through the world of gay love. If non-gay people want to know what it is like to be gay, then this is the series to watch. Not the idealized versions of BLs. This is what the world of gayness is, whether you want to believe it or not, accept it or not. It is what it is. Sure, it is the darker side, but it is no less real than the ornament sanitized version of what GAY love is via BL. In other words, this is its antithesis. This expresses the real world.
Simple, Sweet but Ordinary
I’ll be honest from the beginning. This is not going to be a very positive review. If you’re an OffGun fan who loved the show and don’t want to read anything negative about it, I would suggest to stop reading this review right now. If you’re an OffGun fan who was massively disappointed by the show like I was, go ahead.
Continue reading “Cooking Crush” Series Review (Ep.3 to 12) [Cut Version]
This series is marred by something, and I wrestled with trying to find the most appropriate word to describe that. A word that is strong enough and powerful enough to impart disconnect to what is happening in this series. Finally, I found the precise word: Eschew, which literally means ‘to keep away from or shun, avoid, circumvent, boycott, or dodge’. Quite literally everyone in this series does what he can to avoid telling the truth, or face reality, or abstain from communicating effectively, openly, or honestly. It seems to be the driving force of Thai BLs to be as evasive and elusive as you can to create artificial dramas. This is another sad example of that artifice.
Whether we realize it or not, we, as humans, are always looking for another person(s) to connect to. A person who understands us. A person who can become the place we come home to. A place to rest. A place to be.
Adapted from the manga of the same name by Tsurukame Mayo, the new Japanese BL Perfect Propose gives its characters a place to come home to—a place to be comfortable being themselves.
Continue reading “Perfect Propose” Series Review (Ep.3 to 6)
I pondered endlessly on how to best handle this review. Should I make a detailed comparison between the Thai and the Japanese versions? Should I compare the acting calibers of the main pairings in both versions? And ultimately, which version was better?
Continue reading “Cherry Magic Thai” Series Review (Ep.3 to 12)
Strongberry, a name Boys’ Love fans know internationally as one of the most honest and profilic gay production companies in Korea comes back with a short series titled “Happy Ending”. After the success of “Choco Milk Shake” I was pleasantly pleased to see actor Kim Seong Hyuk who plays the silly Kang Dong Ho, in this new series. In the three episodic series, he is paired with Park Jun Mook who plays his good friend Hyun. The pair exist in a pre-established story already in progress which is how Strongberry normally does it.
Adapted from the manga of the same name, here comes season two of this really cute, and mature love story between two women. The prequel ended pretty well but on unclear note about what these two gorgeous ladies consider each other. We all got to know from Season One that they are also confused about their feelings, not for each other but the feeling of loving someone from the same gender as they have been told their entire life that only men and women can have feelings for each other; they still find themselves being shackled by society, even more being a women.
Continue reading “She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat Season 2” First Impressions (Ep.1 to 4)
![“Cooking Crush” Series Review (Ep.3 to 12) [Cut Version]](https://the-bl-xpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/240307_113256_774.jpg?w=672&h=372&crop=1)
The BL Xpress 