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I ended up binge watching Bed Friend yesterday evening (and early this morning), and it was a good surprise, given the low ratings the series have on MDL (7.6). I honestly liked the relationship between King and Uea, even though the topic of sexual harassment was pretty repetitive and omnipresent.

Uea the main character and the one suffering from it many time either in his family and in the workplace may be seen as pretty passive and assertive, which maybe could explain why people didn't like the story. I found it ok, as long as the series was clearly against any kind of harassment and didn't romanticize it (don't get me on TharnType or I may end up putting an all-nighter and we'll reach page 4000 in this forum pretty quick).

I didn't watch any series with NetJames, so now I have something to add to our Ships we loved thread in the BL group. I fell hard for Net's smile, he's quite close to Gulf in my personal ranking.

Cherry on the cake, Thomas (from Your Sky) had a support role, and he was killing it.

Now comes the dilemma, should I watch the spinoff The Middleman's Love, given that the ratings are even lower, and by experience I hated most of the shows below 7 I watched. I may binge watch it for Net, James and Thomas (in support roles).

My Summer of You ep2 was good. Not wild and crazy good, but the 25-min episode fled so quickly, I'm now craving for another one. Will have to wait until next Wednesday.

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ElementalStar
Portugalia67:
Tiffany:

I didn't know The Boy and I Who Will Break Up in 100 Days finished airing yesterday so I'm binge watching it right now. The first episode was so original ! The whole episode was filmed like a documentary. At first it felt weird but I slowly got used to it and ended up getting interested in the documentary itself not just the drama.

Oh that's good to know, I wasn't sure about this one! It's on my watch list but I keep delaying it, so now I'll try and watch it this weekend.

ElementalStar:

I'm on the opposite on this. In my drama update notes I wrote: Thank goodness this was short or I might have seriously considered dropping it. There was some moments I thought were really nice but overall it was just uninteresting.

Oh sh*t, now I'm unsure again. Let's see if I have a bit of time this weekend.

To this I do want to say I'm watching about 8 BL that I consider really really good, so when watching this it didn't hold up. Might have been a different story if I was watching it only. Like Tiffany said, they were in the right head space for it, because overall it was a competently put together drama.

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Portugalia67:
I ended up binge watching Bed Friend yesterday evening (and early this morning), and it was a good surprise, given the low ratings the series have on MDL (7.6)

There has definitely been MDL rating inflation for BLs over the past 2-3 years, at least + 0.5, so that was a reasonably good rating at the time (2023). Reviews at the time were also decent.

Portugalia67:
should I watch the spinoff The Middleman's Love

The first two episodes are awful ("cringe comedy" would be putting it kindly), but it gets better, and I actually loved the last two episodes: Gus & Tong in ep. 7, Tutor & Yim nailing it (excuse the pun) in the final episode.

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