Elisheva

My viewing orientation is pan and mostly Thai. Give me a good story and surround the big emotions with warmth and kindness.

I watch for oxytocin not cortisol and thus rate high. 9s and 10s from me are mostly (there are rare exceptions) a combination of respect for how well I think they achieved what they set out to do and how I much I loved the experience of spending some time in that world. Moonlight Chicken fan, for the depths of emotions layered throughout and the way it cradles pain so gently. They made something truly special there <3

Chronically ill and often bed bound.

Some of my favourite and recommended series and lakorns - The Broken Us, Moonlight Chicken, The Shipper, He's Coming to Me, Astrophile, Last Twilight, Ghost Host Ghost House, Not Me, Stay, Rhythm of Life, Enigma, 55:15, Game Prattana (aka Rivalry) and Sroi Sabunnga (aka A Tale of Ylang Ylang).

If you've never seen a lakorn: Khun Chaai (for all that western audiences look to it for the gay romance, it's primarily a story about women).

Recommended movies because PTWs are full: The Library, Present Perfect: If You Could Turn Back Time, Bad Genius (all directed by Nattawut Poonpiriya); Low Season (delightful comedy horror); May Who? (teenage electricity), The Undertaker, Nang Nak and then Pee Mak, Suddenly Twenty, Dek Hor (Dorm), many more.

My favourites lists - better at keeping these up to date than the profile.

When I began watching BL a couple of years ago I was delighted by how quickly it broke down conditioned heteronormative assumptions like who the couple(s) were in series. I also liked how relationship dynamics were sometimes more equal, though sexist het dynamics recast with young men have always irked me.

And now I'm really attuned to the ways BL reinforces heteronormative conditioning to make women secondary to men. Even the best BL with say a supportive female friend, or a possible female love rival who isn't interested for her own reasons, plays into this.

I still hope for greater acceptance and real equality. Some of Thai television is a country having conversations with itself around that. May they have much success in this.

My Thai Drama Challenge 2024 post

Collecting lists from other users of things I might want to watch. There are more in my TDC 2024 custom list.

GL recs, have found some really good ones through this, of what i've watched the shorter ones are better.

Thai PBS lakorns   Thai not lakorn, not BL/GL

Thai dramas styles, the differences