BL Drama Lovers Club

ElementalStar:

My current BL watch list (no particular order):

Holy moly that's a lot to keep track of!!

There are prob 2 full size BL series on my CW list and only 1 currently airing. The other 3 are YT short series. I'm afraid to start more new dramas cuz I have 2 more trips within the next few weeks or so. Things will settle down by the end of June and I can focus on watching more dramas then, yay!

Yeah I still haven't finished POJ...**sigh** There's a LOT of war scenes so I've lost my excitement for it.

I'm currently still watching The Sun From Another Star. This is weird but is anyone else noticing some of their MDL text showing up in another language? Or maybe it's just me? I saw Spanish, I think, where it should be English. I know I'm not going nuts...

Love of Silom (Uncut Ver.) - episode 5

In this episode the issue of coming out and the challenges of being in the closet are what stood out to me. I also found the issue of parental expectations and pressure to be front and centre.

I cannot relate to the relationship between Krit and his father as I do not have a relationship with mine, so I cannot imagine being under any pressure from him or having any regard towards him whatsoever. However, I can appreciate the burden Krit is carrying and how he fears disappointing his father. He will eventually come to the crossroad where he will have to choose between his own happiness or his father's. I can already foresee his father being very against Wayu, especially because of Wayu's job. Krit's father cares a lot about image, and you often find that people like that are shallow in character, and are willing to sacrifice happiness in every form to please some subsection of society.

One thing that always irks me about these types of stories is how the mothers just stand-by while the fathers break down their children emotionally. The mothers often give excuses and play referees in the name of keeping the peace. Is there really peace being kept where your child has no peace? This is quite off-putting to me because I come from a very strong female led household and family, so this type of family dynamic is completely against anything I am used to. However, I do understand as a sociology student (well former) that these types of traditional patriarchal family units do exist and how they operate.

Due to Krit being in the closet he is a slave to it. His ex weaponizes it. Only Krit can emancipate himself from his situation, and I hope when he does it, it is not solely because of wanting to be with Wayu, but he does it for himself and his truth.

I look forward to seeing how these different issues will be dealt with in future episodes.

I do have comments on Wayu and his nephew's family situation, but I will save them for another time; possibly I will do one of my very long finale reviews that I am known for lol.

I finally got around to watching the ending episode for Cat for Cash. It's really wild that I got so overwhelmed with so many series that I actually left that one with just the last episode not watched after all these weeks that the series has been finished lol.

That said, it was a really cute and solid series. I really really enjoyed it, and it was so much more than I ever expected it would be. A lot of really wonderful touching moments. The inclusion of the speaking cats was very well done and and not overdone. I think they struck a really good balance with the cats and it was a really good story overall.

ElementalStar:

Favorite Streaming Service

Basically, which you find yourself using the most.

IQiYi 67%

Viki 0%

WeTV 0%

Netflix 0%

Gaga 33%

Tencent 0%

I just pirate! 0%

3 votes · Closes in 2 days

I tend to have mainly gone back and forth between iQIYI and Gaga a lot. Those tend to be the ones that host most of my BLs are on. However, I also would often end up on WeTv, Tencent, Viki, and others, because no one streaming service has all of them.

LueurArcane:

Lost to You page is on mdl now 🎊🎊

Finally!

ElementalStar:

Favorite Streaming Service

Basically, which you find yourself using the most.

Interesting survey question! (I interpreted the question as "for BLs" and thus answered iQiyi, with Gaga a close second, but for general watching it would be Netflix).