Gay shit I watched

wlw, mlm, gnc, non-monogamy. ~200 minutes

Pearl from GameBoys (2020) trying to find the one and ending up being courted by two girls.

You should watch this specifically for the character named Alex. That applies only if you are somewhat sapphic.

This will need a season two for the story to feel finished.

wlw. ~600 minutes

Investigative officer and forensic pathologist work together, against a serial killer that hits close to home.

The plot is excellent, but other works by the same author were adapted into far better series.

cw: graphic murder and forensics, implied domestic violence.

wlw. ~400 minutes

She gets saved by a mysterious lady who can turn back time, then spends the rest of her life chasing her. 

An exploration of the trolley problem. The plot is excellent, but it leaves no time for much gay romance to happen, and a bunch of time is wasted on a straight side couple.

It's about the eldest daughter of Wa and Four from Reverse 4 You.

mlm. ~200 minutes

His new annoying roommate/tenant turns out to be his boss. Yep, fun enough, solid BL, nothing out of the ordinary.

mlm. ~60 minutes

Special episode of I Feel You Linger In The Air. Khun Yai gets to time travel to the modern world for a day. It's sweet, but not as brilliant as the series.

mlm. ~240 minutes

Naive guy is unwittingly stuck in a web of jealous gay guys fighting over him, two of which turn out to be seriously scary. A really fun watch. 

cw: stalking, abuse, kidnapping, manipulation, threats of murder and suicide

mlm. ~240 minutes

Angst with happy ending. Guy meets old special friend at work. Abrupt mysterious separation back in high school, now still like each other plus trauma. Then terrible communication skills lead to both of them believing the other doesn't really like them, but they do become very horny fwb. It deals with internalized homophobia. This is worth watching. 

cw: not the best consent politics, but not the worst.

mlm, background wlw. ~240 minutes

Dude in love with bestie has the worst communication skills and avoidance issues in the world, but that's actually pretty angsty and entertaining to watch.

wlw, mlm, gnc. ~240 minutes

Intentionally creepy high school drama setting with deadly consequences. There can only be one Yuriko left in the school.  

The plot is intriguing and kept me hooked but idk the resolution isn't convincing to me. Villain motivation is extremely weak and why are there THIS many people willing to murder for this nonsense?

cw: teacher/student relationship, they're not main. Lots of gore.

mlm, gnc, trans. ~400 minutes

Dating show. Very queer. The first season of this was very wholesome and I loved that, but the producers decided to amp up the drama for this season instead, and there's one guy who's being an abusive douche, which isn't helping either.

censored mlm. ~720 minutes

Adaptation of 'Addicted'. Story is similar but changed, and that's a good thing. This could've done with a 'kill your darlings' round, aka cut out all the random things unrelated to the plot that happen. It's well-acted though, and the setting is absolutely beautiful, and they make it very obvious that these two are a couple, with some amount of plausible deniability built in.

Ending is unclear this way, but there's an extended ending on YT which clears things up.

cw: violence.

mlm, gnc. ~300 minutes

Technically a sequel to ep 3&4 of Y-Destiny, but can be watched separately. 

Guy has erectile dysfunction and his boyfriend is displeased, so he tries a magic solution and accidentally switches bodies with his boyfriend instead. Very campy, but it does have a serious message about communication, trauma, healing. It's a lot of fun.

mlm. ~460 minutes

Soulmates and temporarily travelling to parallel dimensions. It's enjoyable enough. I think this is one of the most coherent and interesting plots MAME has ever written, but the dynamic between the leads is still just macho man x smol bean, as is characteristic of her work. 

mlm. ~67 minutes.

The story of the parallel universe characters. It's fun.

mlm, background wlw. ~450

The plot in this has me hooked from start to finish. It has ghosts and mystery and that's all I'll spoil. But the acting is fairly stiff, especially from the guy who plays Mas, who seems very umcomfortable with the gayness of it all.

cw: murder and suicide

wlw. ~720 minutes

Princess x commoner bestie period piece. Marriage looms. 

The reason this gets a seven is because the set, costumes, and production value are phenomenal. The plot mostly consists of jealousy, and the acting is stiff and formal, which isn't a skill issue, but a stylistic choice that's just not my cup of tea.

mlm. ~580 minutes

This appears to have taken inspiration from Addicted/Heroin, in the sense that it is about two smarty pants popular high school guys who clash upon first meeting, and then find out their parents are getting remarried to each other. The similarities end there though. This is very heavy on academic pressure and ranking. And it's verrryyy slow. The story is not finished without a season 2.

mlm. ~510 minutes

Besties in love in college, but won't say it. One of them disappears for ten years, then comes back, more determined. 

This is funny and charming. I love the grandma and her merry band of old queers doing weed, and the one teenager who is extremely done with everything. 

mlm. ~600 minutes.

They used to be in a situationship and be basketball buddies, but they grew apart and one got involved in some shady business, now they reconnect over more basketball, and shady shit.

This is definitely not bad, but I did expect more from director Tanwarin, because they're awesome. The story is a bit of a mess, just a bunch of shit thrown at the characters without a clear character arc or throughline. But other than that, everything is competent. Excellent theme song and cinematography.

There's canonically autistic rep in here, which again, isn't done badly, but I expected better.

cw: bunch of guns, abusive relationship (not main) which includes dubious consent.

mlm. ~360 minutes

Enemies to lovers between a bright-eyed newbie and a bitter veteran BL actor, then switches gears to talking about Chinese censorship of queer media, as well as sexual abuse within the industry.

Clearly indie, but absolutely worth watching for the plot and its message. Watching it feels like listening to the personal opinions of queer Chinese filmmakers.

mlm, wlw. ~450 minutes

Clueless and unmotivated intern x cold professional. Feels like a standard GMMTV BL. I do appreciate them subverting the intern x company boss trope by removing all the glamour from the situation and instead making it silly and difficult and real.

Don't watch it for the sapphic couple, you'll be disappointed.

mlm. ~600 minutes

I watched this a long time ago. I'm pretty sure it was a standard Thai BL, trope-y. I think the the love interest was more of a douchebag than usual.

mlm, wlw, trans.  ~120 minutes

Pretty campy. Guy/girl arranged marriage. Girl casually going out with both genders on the side. Guy is very green but may be into dude he just met. Many other queer characters fucking about in their own ways. It's got good feminism, sex positivity. 

I wouldn't call it competent. I did enjoy it though.

mlm. ~135 minutes

Bummed out star meets stoic chef. I watched this a while ago and didn't write much else down. It was fun enough. Not super special. I think I also watched the second season, which was on a similar quality level.

mlm. ~650 minutes

Best friends get drunk and sleep together, then figure out how to exist near each other from then on. They have a fun dynamic and I do think this one is worth watching.

mlm. ~480 minutes

Guy's boyfriend gets murdered, then he travels through a magic puddle into a parallel universe where mr boyfriend isn't dead yet, but also a bunch of other stuff is different, and he falls for mafia boss' son instead.  Lots of drama and angst.

cw: bunch of guns and death, torture. Medium amount of gore. This is pretty intense.

mlm. ~310 minutes

Ex-law student x elephant caretaker. Good plot at beginning, kinda chaos at the end, good acting and relationship dynamic, but it does feel a little slow. 

Just stop after ep 3. Don't even watch the 4th episode.

Spoiler: It's like the story ended kinda anticlimactically, and then the writer just kept throwing random shit at the main characters for another episode. They get married twice for no reason, one crossdresses illogically, they get a child chucked into their lap out of nowhere, and then one dies during a wedding, the end lol

mlm, trans. ~1120 minutes

Critique on industry. BL actors trying to stay relevant. Very dramatic.  4 different but interconnected stories. It's not the worst, it's not the best.

cw: trans person got outed to the press and it's not treated with the gravity that it should be, instead she just gets written out unceremoniously.

mlm, wlw. ~340 minutes

He has to plan his crush's wedding, doesn't know it's an arranged wedding for a gay guy and a lesbian. The dynamic in which the groom aggressively flirts with a panicking wedding planner who is trying not to love it is hilarious.

cw: sleep kiss but he wasn't really asleep and kissed back

mlm. ~840 minutes

Brother ends up in sister's BL fantasy reality. Good acting, good chemistry. It is fun campy nonsense. Too many characters though. I did definitely enjoy watching this, but keep in mind that it does feel aged.

cw: pretty toxic relationship between soccer dude and Blue (the original MaxNat couple), and Fighter is no angel either.

mlm. ~540 minutes

Fairly typical Thai BL. Basketball guys. Besties to lovers. It's sweet, it's worth watching, nothing out of the ordinary.

wlw. ~240 minutes

Sequel to 'Apple My Love'. They deal with the daily mundanities of couple-dom, as well as external homophobic pressures. I really quite like it. It feels based in real experience.

mlm. ~140 minutes

Sequel to 'Your Sky'. Fluff upon fluff upon fluff.

mlm, trans, gnc. ~270 minutes

Another strong contender for the 'campiest show' award. This is absolute nonsense and it knows it. It's ridiculous and enjoyable.

cw: it feels kinda transphobic

mlm. ~130 minutes

This is a straight-forward middle of the road BL. It doesn't do anything new, but it's enjoyable nonetheless.

Enemies to lovers. Basketball guys who used to know each other. The one guy can't sleep if he's not near the other. 

wlw. ~460 minutes

Besties are in love with each other for forever, but don't realize or say it, then some straight marriages and lots of jealousy and drama. It's not my thing. The first 3 episodes are essentially backstory, with the plot starting in episode 4, when they meet again. 

cw: guns & suicide

mlm. ~540 minutes

Yeah it's high school boys in love, idk what you expected. Standard GMMTV formula. The characters are consistent, and they have arcs. This is absolutely very watchable, and there's nothing objectively wrong with this, I just think it's kind of bland.

mlm, background wlw. ~580 minutes

Med student x chef. Standard BL fare. It's sweet.

wlw. ~90 minutes

Spin-off of Deep Night. You don't need to watch Deep Night first. 

Bestie shows up with the news that she's going to get married to a man, but secretly hoping that her friend will get jealous and be her lover instead. Worth a watch, chemistry and production value is there. The plot is kind of bland, especially towards the end. There is a season 2.

mlm. ~150 minutes

Guy gets bullied for being rich and musically gifted, so he gives up music and starts faking his way through life with a smile, but then he meets a guy who is always unapologetically himself and who sees right through him.

I appreciate that this tackles masking, but tbh this show bores me, I wish they didn't do so much SA, and I wish the writer came up with a less unlikely reason for the guy to get bullied, because now he's just like 'y'know what I think I'll try music again' and all his friends celebrate it, so he had no legitimate reason to be hiding his true self in the first place. I understand that he's metaphorically being bullied for being queer, but still.

cw: romanticized SA and sleep kiss.

mlm. ~360 minutes

Ghostly running camp. Genuinely underrated. Not trope-y. Decent communication. Indie feel. People act like people. Does lose points for too much slow-mo and repetition in last few episodes, and for lacking production quality.

cw: repeated deadnaming played for laughs. Of a trans person, not a ghost.

mlm. ~120 minutes

Socially anxious wedding singer meets fresh faced pianist. Mental health theme. Nothing out of the ordinary. Standard BL.

mlm. ~120 minutes

I didn't write my thoughts down at the time. Do not trust my review of this.

mlm. ~200 minutes

A trope mashup. Marketing boss x intern but also they're childhood friends. Very basic clueless uke, forward seme dynamic, except times three because somehow he can't manage to catch on to not one but three rich hot guys' incessant advances.

It's watchable and forgettable. The flirting is enjoyable though.

mlm. ~180 minutes

Night needs to write a love story and find experience in order to do that, runs into ex-bestie who is now running a quaint little café. He's scared of being gay because of lack of acceptance from surroundings. I like that it deals with internalized homophobia somewhat. But this is quite bland.

mlm. ~540 minutes

Campy nonsense. This show is stupid and it knows that it is stupid. Don't go into this expecting a coherent plot. Guy from 90's pisses off ghost, ghost sends him to hot guy in present. The characters are all his old 90's friends and their college aged kids. Starts to drag a little around the 6-7 episode mark. The ending is bizarre, and not in a good way.

Would I recommend this? No I don't think I would. I did have fun watching it, but the ending is really not it.

cw: age gap kiss

mlm. ~300 minutes

Lonely dude who likes cooking meets lonely police officer who can't cook for shit. It's sweet and simple. Standard BL fare.

mlm. ~150 minutes

His new boss is some kind of spirit who's been waiting for him to reincarnate for 300 years, and the director doesn't beat around the bush. It's funny.

The series kind of just skips developing the central relationship. We don't see them fall in love. I thought the plot was going somewhere so I was entertained, but it ended up just being confusing. The plot is full of holes.

cw: age gap of about 280 years

mlm. ~400 minutes

This one is highly praised by a lot of people, and I have to disagree. The alleged 'deep-ness' of the story relies on the love interest's struggle with PTSD and depression (and possibly the main character's struggle with change and social anxiety). As someone who's been through a lot of therapy for all of these issues, this story does not feel like a heartfelt personal expression of what they feel like, or how one would realistically deal with them, but rather like a cheap and appropriative tool to make the characters appear more fleshed out than they are, and as a dramatic plot device that serves as a reason for why these characters should be together when they have nothing in common.

The editing at the start of each episode is so confusing that I kept going back to see if I had clicked the wrong episode. The whole show has a 'this is serious and deep' vibe, with no fun allowed, and I was bored. The cinematography is just okay. Acting is fine.

mlm. ~140 minutes

Yeah, nothing wrong here, nothing special here. Intern x boss. I guess I'm a little frustrated about the fact that the stakes feel insignificant, and the conflicts to resolve before they can be together feel silly. 

mlm. ~590 minutes

Twins separated because of divorce, one does volleyball, the other MMA. Wrong twin gets knocked out by bullies, other takes his role in the volleyball team and falls for the guy his twin was feuding with. The first episodes are rough, overacted, childish, but it's suprisingly entertaining the longer you watch.

mlm, trans.  ~720 minutes

This is very much 'content', not art. Very standard university Thai BL. I think the thing that works about the GMMTV uni BL formula is that they give each couple a characteristic relationship dynamic, as in, the way they tease each other is unique for each couple. 

The thing that doesn't work for me is that the relationship dynamics are pretty much all there is to this show, no other plot whatsoever. There's so much fluff and padding that adds absolutely nothing. But you can't deny that this is popular, so clearly it works.

mlm. ~160 minutes

Country boy meets rich asshat, one drunk night later he follows him to Manila to become a fellow model. This feels genuine, and I like that there is a fat character that is actual good representation, and who voices her struggles with fatphobia. But also, too many scenes were skipped or montaged. Should've been longer, spelled some things out more.

mlm. ~720 minutes

Standard BL. University hot guy contest. The prequel is terrible, but you don't need to watch that to follow this story.

cw: femme-phobic, fatfobic

mlm, ace. ~290 minutes

Virgin guy turns 30 and gains the ability to read minds when touching, finds out hot guy in office has major crush on him. This operates on manga logic, which is so unreasonable that it's hilarious, but I think it's intended to be dead serious. I mean it's watchable though? You might enjoy it. The gimmick is fun and silly. TERRIBLE theme song.

cw: the virgin guy is absolutely terrified of even mild physical intimacy and this is treated as normal, nothing to worry about.

mlm. ~120 minutes

Marketing dude x stubborn anti-alcohol chef. Pretty basic enemies to lovers. Stubborn anti-alcohol chef's motivations are really unclear throughout. Also there really is an inordinate amount of falling for no reason in here, given the short runtime. It really does promote alcoholism as a good thing, and soberness as a bad thing. 

"I have social anxiety" "Have you tried thinking happy thoughts instead?" "No I haven't, thanks it's fixed now."

Watchable. Forgettable.

mlm. ~106 minutes

Tonally inconsistent, tries to do too many things in too little time, doesn't deserve to be a movie rather than just a standard BL series. I think this could have maybe worked as a longer series. It seems like a lot has been cut. It does nothing new, but hey it's definitely watchable. The set it beautiful.

Arranged marriage in the 60's. Main character acts like a Disney princess from the 50's, fully a damsel. Characters don't feel fleshed out. It relies on you already being invested in the classic ZeeNunew dynamic. Enemies to lovers.

mlm. ~590 minutes.

This is what it says on the tin. It's not brilliant, but it doesn't pretend to be, and I appreciate its honesty. It tries to be cheap entertainment and it does that well. 

cw: murder, cheating, romanticizing domestic violence

mlm. ~360 minutes

Tsundere baker needs new assistant. Love interest is too toxic and doesn't change enough by the end and yet they still end up together and I don't agree with it. But if you want pretty pictures on your screen for an hour, an episode of this'll do.

mlm, gnc. ~420 minutes

Drunk one night stand leads to fwb leads to feelings down the road. Tries to tackle #metoo but falls into damsel trap. Kinda drags during last 5 episodes.

cw: Intense homophobic childhood abuse by parent. Consent issues between main pair.

Censored mlm. ~525 minutes

From China, so they made it as gay as was legal, and that's not very gay. Manager x rebellious son of the big boss who needs to learn a lesson. It's watchable. It hints towards gayness, but no it is not ever going to actually go there.

They do not have the healthiest dynamic, at all, but it is an interesting watch.

mlm. ~150 minutes

It's about beauty standards & anxiety. It feels too short for me to really connect to any of the characters. We get snippets of their relationship, flying from scene to scene, all far apart in time.

Some people definitely connect to it though, so maybe it's just me. You should give this a try.

mlm. ~240 minutes

Dude works in marketing, gets new neighbor who has crushed on him for long time. It's pretty cliché and boring tbh. Not much of a plot. They really have to stop trying to make me care about marketing. It's amazing how slow this is, given its runtime. Then some fabricated nonsense conflict in episode 7 and then they get back together the end.

I mean, if you have nothing else to watch, this exists.

mlm. ~120 minutes

He falls for the star he gets paired up with in 'gay concept' boy group. The actors are legitimately in a boy group together. It's alright. Just don't take it too seriously.

mlm. ~160 minutes

Two insecure guys with bad communication skills used to date but fell out, now they meet again and have to re-contextualize everything that happened in a more emotionally mature way. It's okay. I like the concept. The execution feels a bit bland.

mlm. ~540 minutes

Barbershop high school kid x friend, enemies to lovers, fake relationship to real, not really special. I'm sure you have better things to watch.

wlw. ~240 minutes

Her ex  shows up at work to be her new boss and uses her power to take revenge. This has good drama, acting, cinematography and chemistry, but it also seems to be attempting to shame career women for being unfeminine bad mothers, and I don't appreciate that message at all. It's worth watching. Just look past the BS politics I guess.

cw: workplace harassment, sexual harassment, outing.

mlm. ~200 minutes

They're adopted brothers and classmates. One bullied and with an inferiority complex, one protective.

mlm. ~130 minutes

Chef x internet celebrity. It's fine I guess. 

mlm. ~210 minutes

Kuea can't be singer and husband at the same time. Sets up the issue, then skirts it. Kinda meh, plot-wise. If you can't get enough after Cutie Pie season 1, then yeah why not watch this.

mlm. ~360 minutes

I watched this forever ago. I would put this in 'queer media' or 'slice of life' rather than 'BL', but it does definitely have attractive guys who kiss, within the first couple of minutes even. Protagonist is kinda unlikeable and unreasonable, and the only guy who did seem like a perfectly nice character is the one who got dumped lol. This is watchable, not super forgettable, but just not super high quality. Give it a try.

mlm. ~450 minutes

Just your typical engineering students, except with hogwarts mechanics based off 6 types of things you can be good at, like being smart or strong, or apparently 'handsome'. The plot is stupid and it doesn't make sense.

Subtitles are absolutely terrible. Honestly you need to understand quite a bit of Thai in order to follow this at all. 

"We want to use our engineering skills to start a company that will fix the environment, so we're going to be selling pure air and gasmasks to people who need it." and the series treats that like it's actually a good idea.

"I couldn't accept that I like guys, so I pushed you away and pursued this other guy."

You could watch this if you have nothing else to watch, and then forget about it the moment you click off the video.

cw: sleep kiss, a couple of times forced kiss 'but he wanted it so it's okay'

mlm. ~360 minutes

College kid likes singing, but his dad wants him to take over his funeral business, so he hires a strict employee to train his son up. Son likes the employee more than was planned. It's okay. It's a typical BL. They should have changed actors for the main character though, he doesn't do well.

mlm. ~720 minutes

This series asserts that watching benevolent sexism play out can actually be enjoyable as long as you turn the girl characters into smaller guys. This is beef I often have with BL, but this series takes it to another level. If you turn your brain off this is watchable. It does have humor.

mlm. ~170 minutes

High school kid likes teacher but doesn't want to pursue him. His bestie proposes they date so he can get over his teacher. Nothing extraordinary.

mlm. ~470 minutes

Tontae is completely oblivious to the fact that his bestie is head over heels for him, and he instead starts dating a Taiwanese tourist. Indie low budget, not competent, but still pretty fun. The way they handled the four languages (Thai, Kam Mueang, English, Mandarin) spoken in this is really realistic, and I enjoy that a lot. If you choose to watch this, which I think you shouldn't, don't watch the last episode. Instead just imagine they had a nice Taiwan trip or something.

cw: not a happy ending, it's real crap. Bunch of burying of gays. Also some amount of nudity within rest of series.

mlm. ~300 minutes

This starts off being an enemies-to-lovers stepbrothers trope, then turns into 'fate determined you can't be in a relationship or you'll die' groundhog day. This is fine-ish. The pacing is off and not much sense is being made, but it's enjoyable enough. I'm glad Chinese producers are finding ways around censorship.

Spoiler: They don't end up together.

mlm. ~140 minutes

Director meets favorite writer who happens to be his ex crush. The connection between the story they're writing and their own is really on the nose. Subtitle translations not good enough. They're refusing to communicate, and for one of them honestly I think the reasons are childish. This whole plot could've fit into a 30 minute short film and would've been better that way. There are many better things to watch, but if you're somehow out of those, this is sure a frustrating watch, but I promise you'll forget everything that happened once you click off the video.

cw: Guy A does stalker shit. Guy B got too close to a sleep kiss.

mlm, wlw. ~200 minutes

Influencer meets dude on beach, also lesbian friends. This is low quality, indie, authentic, and honestly worth a watch.

mlm. ~240 minutes

Homeschooled boy with strict music parent goes to mainstream high school and meets depressed but hot douchebag. Homeschooled boy reminds douchebag of his dead brother, so now he must make his life a living hell. This is like a 'who can communicate the worst' competition. It's very contrived but hey it could be worse. There's nothing wrong with the acting or cinematography. This is watchable.

cw: bully x bullied and it does get violent and homophobic. Off-screen suicide of supporting character due to homophobia.

mlm. ~200 minutes

Estranged childhood besties are made to live together. Sparkly sweet and home-y. Typical BL. Starts off strong, but doesn't manage to keep tension towards the end. There's just no stakes anymore.

mlm. ~310 minutes

80% landscapes, 5% BL. I like slowburn, but this burns too little for me.

mlm. ~108 minutes

I watched this probably almost a decade ago.  I don't think I should review it without rewatching, but hey, I didn't forget that I ever watched it and that should say something.

mlm,  wlw, trans. ~830 minutes

A remake of the 2014 Love Sick, the Thai BL that started all Thai BL. there were some changes to the original plot, changes that make it fluffier, which I like, but also less progressive and transgressive, which I don't like. There is barely a female character with their own plotline left. This started strong but the plot loses steam somewhere halfway.

cw: transphobic caricatures. But also one good trans rep character, so they do know how to do it?

mlm. ~350 minutes

Falling in love with a 'ghost' who's actually in a coma, figuring out who attempted his murder. Both siblings are extremely casual about seeing ghosts, but the 'ghost' is scared of other ghosts. 

This show started out decent and charming and funny and silly, and I honestly think this could have been worth at least a 7 if the editing hadn't been so bad. It's not forgettable. Scenes keep changing, as in, flashbacks show a different version of the same scene, and it's not making sense. There's a whole episode dedicated to a grandma who gets a stroke which has nothing to do with the rest of the story, and after that it's just downhill.

I will say that the side character casually being like 'oh by the way my dad's a mafia boss' is hilarious. 

wlw. ~150 minutes

Typical marketing boss/subordinate. But hey it's lesbians and they're def cute so I mean I'm hooked. Within the first ep, she's got 2 higher up ladies and one higher up dude vying for her heart.

cw: offensive comedic relief trans woman.

wlw. ~450 minutes

Rich girl with a homophobic mom re-meets childhood bestie who is now poor, in need of a place to stay, and in the grips of PTSD. There's fluff but also angst. 

Nothing about the portrayal of mental health or the treatment thereof is accurate in this show. Serious ethics violations by those psychiatrists. But well it's a show.

cw: realistic portrayal of sexual assault by uncle on female lead. Hated it. 

mlm. ~540 minutes

This is a mainland Chinese series, which was officially co-produced by a Thai company to get around censorship laws. 

Clumsy and naive rich playboy meets a beautiful 'girl' being attacked in the forest and immediately falls for 'her'. Unfortunately said beautiful girl is actually a male spy who is very ready to use him in order to get closer to his target, the emperor. This is really funny, but the consent politics are absolutely terrible, and it's making it hard to watch. Sex is portrayed to be a shameful taboo thing that is never far from violence, and I hate that.

cw: romanticized rape, bunch of casual murder, torture, parental abuse, general misery. The average of what you'd expect in a Chinese period drama. 

mlm. ~700 minutes

Just a trope-y standard Thai BL. The secondary couple is fun but their story is unfinished and will not be finished.

cw: stalker-y, consent issues

mlm. ~480 minutes

I'm sure I watched this, but I remember absolutely none of it, and that's because it's as standard a Thai BL as they come. Tutor x sports guy, falling out, sports guy follows tutor to uni and becomes secret admirer while pretending to hate him still. The shitness of communication in this is legendary.

wlw. ~600 minutes

Besties who have major crush on one another but can't communicate for shit have shared dreams in which they are able to live out their desires. This spends too much time having the main characters fight, and not enough time having them fall in love. Other than that, it's watchable, but not exceptional.

mlm, gnc. ~150 minutes

Femme vlogger gets hot new neighbor, crushes on him and makes bad life decisions. It's not bad, but it's not good. Has an indie feel. 

mlm. ~530 minutes

And another utterly forgettable standard Thai BL.

cw: femme-phobic

mlm. ~115 minutes

Ok so the lead is a manga artist who draws porn, and yet this series appears to be very sex negative. Then mr absolutely perfect stranger who is in love with him for no reason shows up being all strict and emotionless. But they can't be together because mr perfect believes artist is straight despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. 

In my humble opinion, you can't have dead fish and camera angle kisses when the main character literally draws porn for a living. 

Very forgettable. Pretty standard. Plot makes zero sense and in this case it's just frustrating, not funny.  Attempts at exaggerated camp humor were made. It works sometimes, doesn't work other times.

cw: femme-phobia, sex negativity

mlm. ~430 minutes

Supremely stupid and campy, intentionally so. None of this makes any sense. I enjoyed this for the camp, but then they went and seriously ruined it in episode 7, so I don't recommend watching.

cw: Straight up rape in sleep, but 'it's okay because we're boyfriends'.

mlm. ~540 minutes

Bummed out painter x tightly wound up manager. All of these characters are frustrating. It's not the best, but it's not the worst.

cw: Violently transphobic

mlm. ~1080 minutes

Aaaand we're back to writing about the most popular engineering students, enemies to lovers tropes. It's the standard GMMTV rom-com BL formula. It's the safe kind of content that they know works, and that they have expertise in.

mlm. ~150 minutes

Workaholic runs into childhood 'fiancé' who is deadset on seducing him for real. This has some really funny lines.

cw: nonconsensual handjob in first ep, romanticized.

mlm. ~200 minutes

Guy who can sing lives with best friend/fan who likes him. Lots of time skips early on. Should've been flashbacks. They're being adorable, and the singing is excellent, but it doesn't feel like there's much of a plot. Also, him being gently rejected once is treated as like the biggest trauma ever and that annoys me. Where are the stakes? Where is the conflict? They both clearly like each other and already live together, but pine and angst over nothing anyways. Forgettable but watchable.

mlm. ~675 minutes

Remembered as the first Thai BL to reach an international audience. It's your typical Thai BL with engineering students, hazing, toxicity and the phobia of even mild intimacy that all early Thai BL did, but that's because all the other ones copied this one.