GL Drama Lovers Club

Turkic Korean LatinaGLBa:

is anyone watching PLS LOVE

I'll be starting it in about a week and a half so I can binge it. It sounds like an interesting plot.

Turkic Korean LatinaGLBa:

is anyone watching PLS LOVE..... already know it’s going to sound a little toxic, but honestly, this show hits a little too close to home. As a queer Asian woman who has worked in a high-income professional field and previously dated another woman who worked in the sex industry, I can say that the dynamics portrayed here feel uncomfortably realistic. The second female character, in particular, reminds me of someone I was once involved with, and I know firsthand how complicated, emotionally intense, and potentially toxic these relationships can become.

Thank you for sharing your experience with us. To be honest, shows like Pls Love with this rich/poor romance can seem very distant, unrealistic, and ungrounded in reality, but I feel like after hearing your words, watching this one in particular will carry more weight when I think that it is in fact not that uncommon of a struggle. Obviously sex work has always presented an emotional and psychological challenge to traditional monogamous relationships, so it was never going to be a light watch, but it certainly hits harder when you aren't under the impression that the narrative is so fantastical it's floating in the sky.

I definitely agree that relationships involving significant socioeconomic differences can sometimes feel distant or overly dramatized in fiction, but real-life experiences remind us that these dynamics are much more nuanced than they appear on screen. I think what makes PLS LOVE particularly compelling is that it explores the emotional complexities, power imbalances, and vulnerabilities that can arise in these relationships. Sex work does not automatically make a relationship toxic, but navigating boundaries, trust, intimacy, and societal judgment can add layers of complexity.

Khom Khlang

I don’t know if anyone can help me. Boom Raveewit is supposed to have a featured guest role in Khom Khlang. I got confused because WeTV was showing him as awarded best character for September but I didn’t remember seeing him. Google says he’s mainly in ep5, but that aired in October. I have scanned through episodes 4 and 5 again and don’t see him anywhere.

Am I just clueless and didn’t recognize him, or has he not shown up yet? Has anyone watching recognized him?

This is his promotional poster for the series. He looks like he has similar tattoos to Master.

BTW I’m still really enjoying this show!

Binkau:

dora:

Khom Khlang

I don’t know if anyone can help me. Boom Raveewit is supposed to have a featured guest role in Khom Khlang. I got confused because WeTV was showing him as awarded best character for September but I didn’t remember seeing him. Google says he’s mainly in ep5, but that aired in October. I have scanned through episodes 4 and 5 again and don’t see him anywhere.

Am I just clueless and didn’t recognize him, or has he not shown up yet? Has anyone watching recognized him?

This is his promotional poster for the series. He looks like he has similar tattoos to Master.

BTW I’m still really enjoying this show!

He hasn't shown up yet, but he will later. Spoiler to who he is: He's Bulans brother

Thank you! I thought I was crazy for missing him!

MarkWasHere:

Arty:

Has everyone watched Girls' Dorm by Blue Meerkat?

I've found it to be pretty grounded for a reality dating show, without any feeling of forced drama, so I was pleasantly surprised to find it has a second season.

Yep. I've watched both seasons. I really liked season 2, probably because three of the couples I 'shipped ended up together. Season 3 is in production now. There was one character who annoyed me because she was super clingy towards one of the other contestants. I actually paid for YouTube membership for their channel to see some of the members only content.

Oh really? Did you find out if any of them got together after the first season ended? There were a few ambiguous links left there~

Its been a while since I did an update on what I was doing on the GL side of my life. 😆 I originally wanted to finish my 200 thai BL challenge this year and then discuss with the group on building a GL challenge list, but I got sidetracked when I saw a reel on Insta with a list of 50 sapphic horror books. Well, I put aside my BL challenge to read what is now over 100 sapphic books. 😅

Dramas

1. Moonshadow: Just ended today! Overall I will give this a 7.5. This is an anti-drama drama. Not a criticism but everything works out and tied up in a neat little bow. It's a relaxing watch if you go into it with that mindset, but kind of boring too.

2. Fairway of Love: I dropped this like a sack of potatoes. Boring in the worst way for me. I cringed while watching this.

3. Khom Khlang: Eye candy everytime Bulan is in frame. Plot is awesome, and the horror moments are so good! I just want to scream!!!

4. Pls Love: This is not how I like my toxic relationships. I would love to see a good stalker, controlling, and obsessed GL. Similar to the BL 'To My Shore', but this is just mistrust and trauma. Still, it has moments that keep me interested in how it will turn out. I've been on the fence about dropping it for 2 weeks now. 😅

5. Juliet & Juliet: I didn't expect to like this drama, but damn is it just blowing me away. Their relationship is adorable and the plot around them is intense. I'm always at the edge of my seat whenever their fathers are involved. This and Khom Khlang are my two favorite dramas right now.

Books (so far)

1. Hearing Red by Nicole Maser: currently reading, zombie apocalypse with badass doctor and blind woman.

2. Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall: dropped about 30% in, YA haunted forest.

3. Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power: completed, YA sci-fi horror

4. Knock Knock, Open Wide by Neil Sharpson: completed, really weird supernatural horror

5. The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling: completed, sci-fi cave horror that was good.

6. Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin: completed, I don't know if it was meant to be funny, but I was highly amused by this one. It's a sentient man eating plant. 90% of the book is told from the perspective of said plant.

7. Wilder Girls by Rory Power: completed, YA sci-fi'ish' body horror about school girls isolated on an island with a disease.

8. Come Out, Come Out by Natalie C. Parker: completed, YA haunted house that deals with the horror of conversion therapy. Emotionally tough even for a YA.

9. Dead Girls Walking by Sami Ellis: completed, YA haunted house that was fun to say the least.

10. The Isle in the Silver Sea by Tasha Suri: completed, and not horror but fantasy and so good. I just wanted to read this one okay!