BradBluddy16

The YothaGun and FaifaWine arcs both felt fresh to me. YothaGun gave echoes of DeanPharm, but all the right ones, and their traumas, though contained in time and space, were equally resonant; while complimentary green flags FaifaWine felt like a brand new animal. Faifa was the show’s true heartbeat, and the connecting tissue between the two arcs (Sawadee krub, bro!).
You could make your case against the ArcArm arc; New Siwaj once again gave the weakest story to the top billed couple, possibly in the hopes that they could keep eyeballs on the screen until the more innovative stories had a chance to unfold.

I must have been daydreaming like Wine😔

I know he sings Phuwin’s “We Are Forever” at one point.

Recency bias, but should definitely be in the 8’s. Despite a few fumbles, director New’s best work since UWMA. Junior’s star turn, Santa’s breakthrough , Perth’s reemergence, and Mark’s breakout all in the same show. AouBoom showing their range and setting the stage for what should be their star turn in OFDO. When a romcom does it right, why shouldn’t it be rated as high as some of the more “sophisticated” series’s ?

Part of the mixed early reactions, at least from international fans, stems from the fact that Mark has been on such an upward trajectory for the past few years, and we’ve all highly anticipated his leading man debut. Established ships can weather the odd Cooking Crush or My Love Mix Up, but to start off there could be more of a challenge. Hopefully this series will find its legs, and the debate will die down.

Are you not Perfect 10 main-Lining? If you have any lingering Boss And A Babe trauma, start on Ep. 9. PerthSanta reincarnate classic, red-thread OhmFluke, and the JuniorMark arc is just brilliant. And, I might add, ForceBook make a perfectly lovely side couple.😉

Oops you said FaifaWine. Well Junior is also bringing the riz; it is hilarious following Faifa’s love confusion/irritation. He also brought extra riz to the YothaGun arc, which I would still add to your list, despite the questionable choices made in the last two episodes.

Keen and Santa brought the Riz. Something that ThamePo could use more of…

The YothaGun ending wasn’t perfect, and 8 episodes might have been too restrictive for a maximalist like New, but I think episodes 9 through 14 were as absorbing as any of the best BLs in recent memory. Perth and Santa should be applauded for their brilliance, and New, as well, for creating and facilitating the world where they could shine. I think a lot of the dissatisfaction with the ending comes from the fact that those 6 episodes were so remarkable.

Absolutely. You must!
Best to start on Ep 9 to get the PerthSanta arc, and see what all the fuss is about, and go back for ForceBook after JuniorMark are done.

Hahaha. Santa be showing his range and verse-tility!

If we were all living in a Perfect 10 Liners world -and let’s face it, most of us BL watchers are, at the moment - “Only Boo” would be a Beagle, as in, “Sunshine of this world”. You may prefer a Yotha, as in something darker and broodier or melancholic. If so, have you tried My Stand In, Let Free the Curse of Taekwondo, or Jack&Joker?

I think PerthSanta can magically resolve many issues. Restart on Ep.9 and follow their arc.

You’re not psycho. There’s definitely something supernatural happening here. Somehow New has reincarnated DeanPharm into YothaGun, and they have followed the red thread back to create a new New classic.

It’s Ashi’s eye acting for me

Junior and Mark are also killing it in Perfect 10s-across-the-board Liners, so I was more concerned about our Only Boo babies. But maybe the Wabi Sabi downsizing has freed up New to be New, as he is delivering a Perfect 10 BL masterclass. SeaKeen should be in good hands.

With director New regaining some of his old magic with Perth-ect 10 Santas, are we starting to believe he can do right by SeaKeen in Head 2 Head? We all witnessed Keen eating up a screen, the way Santa’s doing currently, in Only Boo.
One lingering concern from the H2H pilot: the hinted at role reversals. We may have collectively buried the memories of the failed FotGem experiment with Our Skyy 2, but that trauma could be reawakened if Head 2 Head flatlines. Everyone please make merit for SeaKeen😉

I’m guessing that due to Only Boo’s budget constraints, the shooting of the series ended up being an extended workshop for the young actors, especially greenest-of-rookies Sea. Keen and Ashi, with their Project Alpha training behind them, were better set up for out of the gate success. With Sea, we got to witness the progression in real time, and by the time the series wrapped up he felt like a genuine breakout star. The kisses seemed to follow the same arc; I’m sure the Poongduck-y episode 9 kiss was shot late in the game and we were treated to two fully-formed actors deftly blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.
It can’t be stated enough that the forces working against Only Boo only make the triumph of the final product that much more impressive. Many a fully-financed, star-studded series couldn’t catch the lightning in a bottle that Only Boo did.

Totally Un-Boo-ased End of Year Awards 2024

Best BL Series: Only Boo.
In a year when the better dramas went deeper and darker, absorbing various genres in search of relevance, “Only Boo” managed to reinvigorate the classic BL formula, and explore a few heavier themes itself without sacrificing its lightness of touch. Ever since the runaway success of the brooding Trojan horse, “KinnPorsche”, there has been a collective forgetting that “2gether The Series” managed to reach the far corners of the earth as well, by acting like …well… a BL.

Best Actor - Keen
Despite ending up a lovely sixth alternate on Project Alpha, in retrospect, Keen’s gifts were already on full display there. But in “Only Boo” he is a revelation. Not only is he a triple threat with his singing, dancing, and camera-mugging-comic-timing, but his Moo character manages to fuse Singto-Kongpob’s forthrightness with Fourth-Gun’s generosity of spirit, and take them both further by finding the depths in Moo’s sadness and hurt.

Best Supporting Actor - Milk
“Only Boo” marks the return of “husband material” Milk, doing what she does best; supporting her besties through their gay awakenings. If Ongsa makes a brief appearance in Neth’s scenes with Louie, “Only Boo” reminds us that MilkLove is much superior to LoveMilk. GMMTV please don’t swap their roles again in another fit of MSP-Our Skyy madness.

Best Song - “Louder”
If the “Only Boo” title OST is the perfect effervescent pop shot, splicing together “Hook” and “You Got Ma Back” for maximum fizz, “Louder” cuts deeper. Although Keen’s emergence as the BL Adele fully flowers with the melodramatic “Station 0”, with “Louder” he echoes Shania Twain’s “From This Moment On” with its unbridled declaration of romantic love at it’s zenith. No wonder the creators of “Only Boo” choose to employ the instrumental track from “Louder” at the drama’s most transcendent moments. It is truly “Fin” in four chords.

I can’t disagree with you…even some of the OSTs are next level. But then again, the ship that launched the ship that launched a bazillion GemFot fans can’t be wrong…