Overall I Love This Series
Please read to the end becayse i have good stuff to say then. I'm going to be brutally honest...I skipped through a lot of this show. There are a lot, and I mean a lot, of scenes that are way too long...and I'm talking 2 minutes too long. Making me watch Aey cry for 2 minutes, at least 3 times in the series, is not going to make me like him or feel sympathy for him. His character sucks and has 0 redeeming qualities...but he is crucial to the story and I appreciate that. Besides having to skip all the crying or staring at a wall for 2 minutes...this show is actually great. It's so well produced and the acting is really good. Despite all the negative stuff I had to say...this show is still in my top favorites of the BLs I've seen. Mostly, because of how unique and engaging the story line is.Was this review helpful to you?
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Good leads with irritating side cast.
How should I start? I delayed watching this series because I wasn't too sure about it. I finally decided to go ahead and well, it was pretty good except for some confusing parts.Why didn't Gene remember Nubsib? Wouldn't his name look familiar to him in the audition form?
Nubsib is a sweetie. I love his persistency. He knows what he wants. He wants Gene to understand the love he has for him but didn't rush or pressure Gene to accept it. I like also the fact that Nubsib didn't take advantage of Gene when he was drunk.
Gene...he can be rather annoying at times. I was pretty pissed with him when he didn't stop Aey for trying to kiss him. It almost happened if not for...well...watch the series to find out.
Arghhh...Aey!!! What an irritating character! In fact, his acting gets on my nerves. The crying, the crunching of his face, etc all looked so fake. Aey thinks the world revolves around him. Everything should be about him. I was kind of glad when Tiffy told him that she was resigning as his manager and when Aey offered a salary increment, she said if was not about money and he should know the reason. Adding insult to injury, Mhok was given his own series whereas Aey was not. Yeah man!
Mhok...he likes Aey...yucks! Unfortunately, I watched The Tuxedo before this series. Chap and Green were the main leads. Maybe I am bias but I just cannot visualize Chap liking anyone else except Green. Green had a minor role in Lovely Writer. If you have not watched The Tuxedo, go for it. If you are still not sure about it, read my review.
I adored the parents. Despite the initial objections, they gave Gene and Nubsib their full support.
I don't know if it is just me but I didn't get the ending of the series. Gene was shown throughout the series writing a new novel entitled, Lovely Writer (which was changed from Lovely Actor). However, the ending featured a female writer receiving a call from her publisher informing her that her novel, Lovely Writer, was going to be made into a series. That part didn't make sense to me.
The OST is cute and light-hearted.
All in all, it was a good series...worth a watch.
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lento, più lento, lentissimo
Avrebbe potuto essere veramente qualcosa di splendido. Gli attori principali, e specialmente quello che interpreta lo scrittore, sono stati molto bravi. Sono state molto brave anche le spalle, e l'unico che veramente non mi è piaciuto è l'attore che ha fatto il terzo incomodo: non mi è piaciuto di viso e soprattutto non mi è piaciuto alla sua recitazione. La musica non ha brillato ma costumi e ambientazione hanno fatto il loro dovere.il problema vero di questo drama deriva dal fatto che si tratta di 12 lunghissimi episodi, che sono stati spesso riempiti da gran minuti di niente. La musica scorre e il personaggio di turno guarda sconsolato o pensieroso o innamorato nel vuoto. Mai come qui mi è capitato spesso di mandare avanti di 10 secondi e poi di altri 10 e poi di 10 ancora e la scena non era ancora cambiata... Non so perché abbiano voluto rendere le cose così lunghe e noiose, quando 10 episodi sarebbero stati forse la lunghezza ideale. Alla fine sono stata tentata di abbandonare tutto e sono riuscita ad arrivare alla fine solo mandando avanti le scene senza pietà.
il pre finale è decisamente fuori di testa, ma apprezzabile, il finale vero e proprio molto carino e simpatico.
un titolo su cui difficilmente ritornerò perché bisognerebbe guardarlo in versione riassunto.
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Fiction ≠ real life, and Lovely Writer did an amazing job in delivering that message.
This is one of, if not the best series I’ve watched. I thought it was gonna be a series with unnecessary drama and an unhealthy relationship between the couple. Happy to say it wan’t. Love the way Nubsib and Gene talk things through instead of leaving their problems unfinished. Props to the actors, writer(s), director, staff, and all the people involved in the production.‼️ SPOILER ‼️
I applaud the ending. Even after the final episode, they reminded us viewers again that the characters are all FICTIONAL, and to separate reality from imagination. It’s so cute and creative to include the actual writer into the ending.
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The main leads are so cute
Our main lead is too much cute Gene is the best writer and our sib is best actor.And other actors also very amazing like
Ae - I wanna watch his one bl series he is to good. Most important is the story line is little bit more better than. Overall I think everything is great . I love the cast line is amazing I love all of them because they are so cute together and our boys are doing well and that true you something for you and that you have two personality and I think I can do it for you thanks bye 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘
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The meta deserves first billing
Stick with me here I've just come off a Lovely Writer bender. I'm so high off of:- the acknowledgement of tropes I hate because they're just bad for humanity,
- that weird watermelon button down Gene wears in like episode 5? I want that,
- the cheeky smile Sib seems to reserve only for Gene,
- the unexpected MVPs: Jab & Nueng, who just saw their brothers needed to be seen and loved and did that,
- the acknowledgement of fandom behaviours that hurt actual persons,
- my favourite recurring charafter: the overalls with only one strap done,
- peeled shrimp, and
- whatever combination of scripting, production design and acting that meant scenes of Gene without Sib by his side or Sib without Gene by his side started to feel incomplete. Like, Sib's light dimmed without Gene. Or Gene's entire body leaned toward the empty spaces when Sib wasn't there to fill them.
Was it a flawless series? No of course not. But budgets aren't endless and it is not the responsibility of one crew to turn the industry around though storytelling. But they tried, and I admire them for it.
But, like, please everyone cry faster (walk faster, argue faster, put on sunscreen faster). A judicious edit could have sharpened up some pacing wonderfully.
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Cute show, funny dialogue, healthy relationship
The last scene, the coming out, the growing conflict: all amazing. Nubsib's expressing his feelings made for many cute scenes. I liked how they showed Aoey. He was a flawed person who needed time to grow and learn to be happy with himself. Tum and Tiffy were also an interesting pair.This show was calmer than some BLs, so I can see how people might have felt that it dragged on. The music also decreased the tension in most scenes. The final resolution happened too suddenly which took away from how great the plot was and left me feeling a bit unsatisfied. I think this show was supposed to be more light-hearted, so I probably should have expected this resolution.
This is a healthier relationship with boundaries, consent, and communication which is too rare for this genre and provides better representation for the LGBT community. We also get insight into problems within the industry. I recommend this because I think these are important things for BL fans to see and they happened to be packaged in a great show.
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I love the incorporation of the real life problems
Lovely Writer marks a milestone with mixing romance and real life problems of BL publishing industry. The humour is both fun and dark when thrust in front of the mirror.Gene is a BL writer and writing is his bread and butter. Even though he wants to write more than BL, his publishing house forces him to write more BL with extreme explicit content often bordering NC (which I believe is the short form of non-con or non-consensual) because that is profitable.
One of Gene's story is picked up by a production house for drama series adaptation. And he is invited in the casting couch. There he meets Nubsib, one of the actors who is finally chosen as one of the main characters of his novels.
Nubsib takes an interest on Gene in the first meeting which Gene wants to thwart at first. But later his feelings grows and all hell breaks loose.
Lovely Writer shows a story from a writer's pov and I absolutely love all the side stories and aspects it brings along.
Gene's publishing agent, from a very humble background, dreams to become a writer as well but is not taken seriously. The shipping wars among fans and the hate to other characters. The homophobic parents. A young man is being called "Gay" because of his looks. A strong woman portrayal (which is good but could have been better) and the best part - one morally grey character called Aoey. Bruce Sirikorn ate up that role.
Lovely Writer talks and makes fun of all the shit and unnecessary drama regarding publishing industry, specifically BL, problems of shipping real people, problems of not realising that actors and the characters they play are different beings altogether, the forceful non-consensual themes in BL (I love when Nubsib protests the production crew that what they were suggesting was almost rape) , casting one gay artists for the sake of it because "representation makes the media profitable to fans" and toxic fan culture.
The only I did not like was the overbearing sound effects.
Overall, I enjoyed the drama. I would request more people to watch it. After all, it's freely available on youtube.
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Processing and sound were above average, but not top. Above all, I was bothered by the stretching of some scenes. From the 9th episode, however, the processing became more dramatic and the story began to progress. I appreciate that the plot did not deviate much from the main romantic-dramatic line. Among the actors, I was impressed by the character of Gene with his excellent portrayal, the shapely Nubsib made almost all the girls go crazy, and he also shone with a good performance (we know the actor from the series Until We Meet Again). Tiffy was interesting, and Tum (I think we'll be hearing more about him) was the most interesting to me physically. On the contrary, I found the character of Aey the least interesting, even acting wise.
I have described the main characters in the Pictures. I definitely recommend it to BL lovers, but they have to "bite through" the first parts.
Jeden z nejlepších thajských BL letošního roku mě zaujal především příběhem, který je vskutku zajímavý a zavádí diváka tak, jako i Call It What You Want, do zákulisí thajské velkovýrobny BL seriálů.
Zpracování a zvuk byly nadprůměrné, ale ne top. Především mi vadilo natahování některých scén. Od 9 dílu ale nabralo i zpracování na dramatičnosti a příběh začal gradovat. Cením si, že děj moc neodbíhal od hlavní romanticko-dramatické linky. Z herců mě zaujala postava Gene-ho výborným ztvárněním, z urostlého Nubsiba byly asi všechny holčičky paf a blýskl se rovněž dobrým výkonem (herce známe ze seriálu Until We Meet Again). Tiffy byla zajímavá a fyzickým vzhledem mě nejvíce zaujal Tum (myslím, že o něm ještě uslyšíme). Naopak postava Aey se mi zdála nejméně zajímavá, a to i herecky.
Hlavní postavy jsem v Obrázcích popsal. Určitě milovníkům BL doporučuji, ale musí se "prokousat" prvními díly.
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Calls out toxic tropes in the BL industry
DAMN. Did I really just watch a healthy BL drama? It has (almost) everything what one could ask for, without being toxic. And it’s so REALISTIC.I LOVE how it’s such a SLAP to other BL series. Especially TharnType. But it also reminded me of FUTS; or at least what they weren’t able to tell.
The way LW is calling out other romance shows – AMEN – by literally letting the characters say, “you know that this was wrong, right?”, instead of just letting it pass and romanticize toxic behavior.
Let me give you some aspects of what this has:
- characters asking for consent for a kiss
- both people in a relationship making sure the other one is ready for sex and not forcing anything
- parents acting like an actual married couple and not just letting the dad be the boss
- people actually talking about stuff, showing once again that communication is the key
- showing that toxic fans really can’t differentiate between work and private life of actors
- a bisexual dad
- guys who are less masculine, doesn’t mean they’re gay; and clothing doesn’t define sexuality
- authors who write BL don’t have to be gay themselves; just like crime authors aren’t serial killers, either.
(- Bonus: remaking of classic fairytales (like Snow White and Cinderella) but it’s gay 🌈)
Also the cinematography is amazing.
You can really tell the talent of the director, writers, camera team, actors, and all the other bts staff! Props for them for making such an awesome series, especially because some toxic fans really need to hear this!
I really hope it gets the popularity it deserves!
-02.12.21
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SOOOO good
I love the plot setting (finally something outside of school setting lol)!It also gives a great inner scope of BL industry in general. It shows the power of fandom, social media and also the downside of it all. Most importantly, it reminds us that these BL actors, are simply..human.....It's a great show that shows reality of this industry
Overall, I find this show has refreshing concept, lovely couple and very easy to watch.
It's one of those BL that's lighthearted yet still carries some depth!
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Genuinely funny
Typically, jokes in BLs don't land well. Whether that's due to translation errors or the constant sound effects in unclear, but this one actually made me laugh. The humor in it was well done and the storyline felt super fresh. Having a show that tackles the toxicity of the BL industry while keeping the show mostly light and fun is impressive.Gene is an author who is convinced into writing BL, even though he doesn't want to. To his surprise, his novel is such a big success that it's being adapted into a series. Gene is asked to come to the casting call where he meets the man who will play the lead in the series, Nubsib. Nubsib immediately falls for Gene. However, Nubsib is supposed to be acting as if he is in love with his costar Aoey - both on and off camera. This conflict between Nubsib's career and love life, as well as Gene's wish to stay out of the spotlight, cause tension between the developing relationship between Nubsib and Gene.
This show was a fun watch that never had me at the edge of my seat, but always kept me entertained. It was light, the romance was cute, and the actors did a great job portraying their characters. However, the classic episode 11 curse ruined the ending a bit for me, but mostly because I think it's over done and just not an enjoyable conflict to watch. Still, the show was worth the watch and a nice break from the university/engineer BLs.
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