BL Drama Lovers Club

ElementalStar:

Anyone who has been hesitant about watching the newest episodes of A Winter Sun, listen to your gut and wait until next week. I believe they are doing two new episodes every week now. Next week should be episodes 14 and 15 and two weeks should be the last episode.

Indie Art Girl:

ElementalStar:

Anyone who has been hesitant about watching the newest episodes of A Winter Sun, listen to your gut and wait until next week. I believe they are doing two new episodes every week now. Next week should be episodes 14 and 15 and two weeks should be the last episode.

That would be meeeee! Thanks for the tip!

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Peach and Me EP 1

8 mins in and I can't believe Thee could be any more cringy than in the series. Boy was I wrong! Peach has the patience of a saint, lol.

ETA: I must be in a different headspace then I was when watching Me and Thee cuz I'm re-thinking my tolerance for Peach and Me rn, lol. 😂💀

Sadly we will have one episode a week fron now on, it ends the 21th with episode 16. But I'm glad I watched episode 11 and 12 yesterday since episode 10 was pretty sad.

So this was a weekend of final episodes

May contain poilers

Payback Episode 10

Ummm considering the suspension the show had all the way to the final ep I was surprised how "easily" thing went for Sun and Jay in the final ep. It was kind very clear cut good guys won and bad guys lost. I think for me what would have been more satisfying was to see at least some of the adversaries going to court and jail for what they did. Especially with Sunny, sure he ended up pretty miserable at the end, but he actually killed someone and did not get any legal consequences from his actions.

I did roll my eyes for Jay being bit "dramatic" at the hospital. We get it you were heart broken of what happened to your Sun, but no need to make him more agitated by slicing your own wrist.

As a series this is probably going land 7,5 for me. There were a lot of elements I liked, like the revenge plot, handling personal and professional trauma and the murky side of entertainment industry. It was heart warming to see Sun slowly beginning to learn to trust again to other ppl and form a bond with his manager and Sky.

What does knock this down for me is the relationship development of Sun and Jay as the main couple and only couple for that matter in this show.

The biggest drawback was that until the last few eps, Sun's and Jay's relationship didn't seem to go anywhere, but rather going around in circles where Sun barely seemed to tolerate Jay's advances in order to progress his revenge agenda and Jay making him look just uncomfortable most of the time. Once there was a break trough with the relationship aspect they were really cute together.

Peach and Me Episode 4

Other BL studios take notice: it is completely fine to do a plot and fit it into 4 episodes. We don't always need 10-12 episodes to tell a good story. Sometimes less is truly more.

The last episode ended this sequel perfectly. Seeing Mok and Thee saying good bye to the boss employee relationship they once shared and moving back to being friends was very touching. Similarly how Thee told Mok that he could always rely on him, even if their lives would now be different, it was great to see, after the disagreements they had on previous episodes.

The whole meta thing about Thee wanting to do the series about his and Peach's relationship, was strange. I get it that it was meant to be an insider joke/commentary about the series, but the way it was prolonged, it felt awkward for me. Second aspect that I think could have been improved was the GL plot line part, it didn't get enough screen time. I suspect it was a production choice of either giving fans more Rome and Mok content (which a lot of fans wanted already from the first series) or have more screen time to the GL pairing.

What I think was perfect was the ending scene with Peach's photo exhibition. It encompassed so well the character development that Peach has gone trough with the first and the second part of the series.

I think, bc overall we got to see more different sides from the characters in this one, compared to the first series, I will give this +0,5 higher rating. So it is a 8,5 from me. That being said, I think you will have to watch the first series to enjoy this one fully. It doesn't work as a stand alone.

ZhouYanRan:

I actually do research on BL NC scenes for my seminar on BL dramas in September. One can make some interesting observations 🤭 I made a list of BL dramas with NC scenes, but I keep working on it, so it's private for now.

do share once you're comfortable with it =D we know it will always be a work in progress =D

Tiffany:

Sadly we will have one episode a week fron now on, it ends the 21th with episode 16. But I'm glad I watched episode 11 and 12 yesterday since episode 10 was pretty sad.

i really admire how you can keep up with schedules. i was surprised that ep 13 was released today, had caught up until ep 12 as well.

ZhouYanRan:

By the way, has anyone here already claimed Minlee as their cutie patootie? Great face, great body, great moves, great acting, handsome, cute, sexy... What's not to like? 😳

toptap and minlee has become one of my faves, no doubt abt it =D

Portugalia67:

LueurArcane:

KristSingtoForever:

Since we have not done one in a while I thought about making a month daily question thing. Forget what they called lol ?

Which month do you prefer?

September 25%

October 25%

November 25%

December 25%

8 votes · Closes in 2 days

picked september because its my birthday month, but id say the ideal one is december as its the last month of the year

Exact same answer 😂

a fellow Virgo friend? 😁

jazme:

ZhouYanRan:

I actually do research on BL NC scenes for my seminar on BL dramas in September. One can make some interesting observations 🤭 I made a list of BL dramas with NC scenes, but I keep working on it, so it's private for now.

do share once you're comfortable with it =D we know it will always be a work in progress =D

Tiffany:

Sadly we will have one episode a week fron now on, it ends the 21th with episode 16. But I'm glad I watched episode 11 and 12 yesterday since episode 10 was pretty sad.

i really admire how you can keep up with schedules. i was surprised that ep 13 was released today, had caught up until ep 12 as well.

ZhouYanRan:

By the way, has anyone here already claimed Minlee as their cutie patootie? Great face, great body, great moves, great acting, handsome, cute, sexy... What's not to like? 😳

toptap and minlee has become one of my faves, no doubt abt it =D

I'm using this calendar it's really helpful

I didn’t watch much BLs the past few days, sadly. But here is what I watched:

The Servant Prince (ep 5): This series continues to reel me in each week. Naoya is blossoming again, and it is delightful to watch. Takaaki is happy to see him improve. Yet there is also a part of him that feel insecure - what if he is not needed anymore? But it was sweet how Naoya reassures him immediately. He is still the only one for him. I have no idea why this series works for me. But it does work well!

Peach and Me: Binge watched all 4 episodes. Sometimes I think timing is everything. And it looks like I watched it the wrong time. I had limited tolerance for Thee’s OTT antics. I only watched this for Rome and Mok. Still, I only gave this 6.5/10. Pretty low rating for me , as I usually tend to be generous with my ratings. Might revisit this in the future… in the far, far future to see if I feel differently then about it.

Duty First, Kiss Later (ep 1): This was a quick, fun episode. Gotta say, nobody does the facial muscle manipulation better than Japanese actors, IMO. Man’s facial muscles twitch and move so much. It was almost mesmerizing for me to watch. 😆

Love Destiny (ep 3): What in the durian was this episode? 🤣 One brother waxing poetry to the food in his mind. And the other brother analyzing the fruit like it is a sample under the microscope. Their reactions couldn’t be more different! I did enjoy this episode - it went by much quicker than I realized!

I still need to catch up on the final episode of Payback. Then I plan to binge watch the rest of the episodes of Deep In. I watched up to episode 7 as it aired, and then waited so that I could binge watch the rest. Hopefully next week I can also start Don’t Be Too Emotional.

ColourMePurple:

I started Payback today and wow... it is quite intense. Is this a safe space to say this? I don't like the lead characters. I don't know if this will change after a few episodes (I've seen 2) but Sun harmed a child in order to scare her father besides scaring other people and the director lead comes across as a narcissist and a bully. He started punching Sun for no reason.

Maybe I need to alternate it with something light and fluffy.

I think it is completely fine to call most of the characters in this show for the fact that none of them are saints.

It is definitely a darker themed BL (I just finished writing my review). There will be more not-so-nice things coming ahead so, a lighter show to balance this one out could be a good idea. It's also okay to just drop it, if you at some point begin to feel that it gets too heavy.