Things I watched in 2024-25 that aren't Thai

This won't blend into anything else in my memory. Third time through but over a year since the last I saw it, so I knew its beats and rhythms but was still delighted to revisit details which I only remembered as I saw them again.

Everyone involved did such a lovely job with keeping it light and moving whilst still giving it real substance.

Japanese (slightly older) coming of age, unhurried slice of life, low angst, and LGBT+ affirmative. It's fantastic.

Excellent drama about the dissolution of a marriage, wrapped in a story of love between women. i can't find fault with it, but it is sad and often painful.

The way he beats the shit out of his umbrella, big red flag. Oh let's make a joke out of it and laugh it off and wasn't it romantic the way she waited in the rain for him.
Marital rape. To prove that he's a man.
Yeah, it showed that he was all kinds of upset, but the caning he gave the kid. Super yikes.
And it's all so romantic he's worth dying for. %(*$£ to that and the male-gaze misogyny and homophobia it rode in on.
Acting was good. They made drama out of a man who can't control his emotions. Yippee.

Sweet, very gentle, with more of a focus on disabilities. Same sex love was very much accepted without question. Wendy the friend was a great character too.

Aside from it turning a bit of conventional crime thriller in the last episodes (perhaps its pile it on stress comes from its kdrama roots), this is excellent and quite compelling. Enough melodrama I want to see a Thai version. The framing makes for fascinating story-telling, especially in how it examines abusive relationships.