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Listed by country. For the non-Thai series, please keep in mind that each country approaches their BLs with their particular cultural perspectives, so be prepared for a noticeable shift from the Thai esthetic.

Those that have stars are simply not to be missed. The others are very good or good. There are many others, of course, but I chose the ones that proved to be worth it for me to watch, in their entirety, with no urge to fast forward or skip scenes. The two with these symbols (⚠️❗) should be approached with caution-- they're excellent, but also pack emotional wallops.

Enjoy your BL journey!

KOREAN
• Semantic Error (2022)⭐⭐
• The Eighth Sense (2023) ⭐⭐
• Let Free the Curse of Taekwondo (2024)⭐
• The Time of Fever (2024)⭐⭐
• Unintentional Love Story (2023) [Time of Fever is the prequel to this series]
• To My Star (2021)⭐
• To My Star Season 2: Our Untold Stories (2022)⭐
• Where Your Eyes Linger (2020) ⭐
• Our Dating Sim (2023)
• Bad Guy (2024)
• Cherry Blossoms After Winter (2022)⭐
• Love Class (2022)
• Love Class Season 2 (2023)
• Blue Boys (2024)
• Blue Boys Part 2 (2024)
• Color Rush (2020)
• Choco Milk Shake (2022)

TAIWANESE
• We Best Love: No. 1 For You (2021) ⭐⭐
• We Best Love: Fighting Mr. 2nd (2021) ⭐⭐
• Unknown (2024) ⭐⭐
• Kiseki: Dear to Me (2023) ⭐
• HIStory4: Close to You (2021)
• HIStory: Obsessed (2017)
• HIStory3: Make Our Days Count (2019) ⚠️❗
• HIStory3: Trapped (2021) ⭐
• HIStory2: Crossing the Line (2018)
• The On1y One (2024) ⭐
• See Your Love (2024) ⭐
• Plus & Minus (2022)
• Stay by My Side / Immunity Shield (2023)
• Your Name Engraved Within (2020) MOVIE

JAPANESE
• Taikan Yoho [My Personal Weather Man] (2023) ⭐
• Utsukushii Kare (2021) [My Beautiful Man]
• Utsukushii Kare Season 2 (2023) [My Beautiful Man Season 2]
• My Beautiful Man: Eternal (2023) MOVIE
• Miseinen: Mijukuna Oretachi wa Bukiyo ni Shinkochu [Our Youth] (2024) ⭐
• Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu [The End of the World, With You] (2023) ⭐
• Eien no Kino [Eternal Yesterday] (2022) ⚠️❗
• Futtara Doshaburi [When It Rains, It Pours] (2025)
• Koi wo Suru nara Nidome ga Joto [Love is Better the Second Time Around] (2025) ⭐
• Old Fashion Cupcake (2022)
• Perfect Propose (2024)
• 30-sai made Dotei Da to Mahotsukai ni Nareru rashii [Cherry Magic!) (2020)

CHINESE
• Addicted (2016) ⭐⭐
• Blue Canvas of Youthful Days (2024)

THAI
• 2gether (2020)
• A Tale of Thousand Stars / 1000 Stars (2021)
• Between Us (2022)
• Cherry Magic (2023)
• Dark Blue Kiss (2019) ⭐
• Fish Upon the Sky (2021)
• Fourever You (2024) The second half is worth watching the whole series
• I Feel You Linger in the Air (2023) ⭐ TIME TRAVEL/HISTORICAL DRAMA
• I Told Sunset About You (2020) ⭐
• I Promised You the Moon (2021)
• Jack & Joker (2024)
• KinnPorsche (2022) ⭐⭐
• Laws of Attraction (2023)
• Love in the Air (2022)
• Lovely Writer (2021)
• Love Mechanics (2022) ⭐
• Moonlight Chicken (2023)
• My Stand-In (2024) ⭐⭐
• Not Me (2021) ⭐
• Only Friends (2023) ⭐
• Perfect 10 Liners (2024)
• Pit Babe (2023)
• Sotus (2016)
• Star and Sky: Star in My Mind (2022)
• Theory of Love (2019)
• ThamePo Heart That Skips a Beat (2024) ⭐⭐
• TharnType (2019) ⭐
• The Heart Killers (2024)
• Theory of Love (2019)
• The Sign (2023)
• This Love Doesn’t Have Long Beans (2024)
• Together with Me (2017)
• Triage (2022) In the same universe as the series Manner of Death
• Until We Meet Again the Series (2019) ⭐⭐
• We Are (2024)
• Your Sky (2024)

After trying valiantly to finish this series-- leaving it behind and returning to try again and again-- I finally tapped out midway through episode 10. Life's far too short and precious to waste on something with such terrible acting and mediocre, bordering on nauseatingly atrocious, script. I happily shifted it to the "Incomplete -- not worth it" pile and that's where it will remain.

🙏🏽

Yes. All that! The script was atrocious, the acting, somehow, got worse as the series progressed, and certain scenes were clearly unnecessary and only there to add time to the series.

I agree wholeheartedly.

So, saw the Official Pilot for this series, but considering how many Thai series don't measure up to their brilliant pilots, I'm not going to get my hopes up too high. I do really like that Pond's chemistry with Peterpan is far more believable than his chemistry with Earth in Fourever You.

I agree. How Zongzheng Huai En expressed his possessiveness towards Jin Xiao Bao was out of order, but it's understandable considering Zongzheng Huai En's overall mental state.

This series reminded me, a bit, of Story of Kunning Palace [Chinese]. Xie Wei possessiveness towards Jiang Xue Ning was almost as bad as Zongzheng Huai En's.

There is Love Syndrome: The Beginning, which is a movie (2024). Itt and Day are portrayed by different actors. Actually, in my opinion, these actors did a much better job, overall. The move is even more toxic than the series and, honestly, I didn't think that was possible, but between the two, I prefer the movie.

Muy mal! And that's just referring to the atrocious wig that Frank (Itt) had on throughout the series. Why was it so awful!? 😟 I kept wanting someone to snatch it off his head. Regarding the overall series? No thank you. It wasn't good. Their dynamic was unhealthy before one of the characters lost his memory and dropped into the gutter afterward.

Marijuana!? I thought it was something serious.

I agree it has the best characters (acting), but my lord was it overly long. I watched the entire series, due to the acting, but there were moments I had to watch on 2x speed until 1 or more of the main characters appeared again.

He was 25 in the flashback scenes-- when they met-- and 29 i the current day scenes.

The familiarity comes from regurgitated tropes. We've seen the same plot points multiple times. The only thing new are the actors.

I wanted someone to drag her out by her hair 😅 but her interference did lead to Thame claiming his man's space-- he went from taking it slowly to having Po get rid of his ex's clothing and moving his own things in, changing the mug and finally led to a healthy resolution, for Po, regarding those sandwiches. Without her interference and stoking Thame's jealousy (he gets jealous very easily), Thame would likely have been tamer. Po needed those firm but gentle kicks to his butt to fully let go of his parasitic ex.

I smiled the entirety of this episode and found myself blushing and kicking my feet like an overly excited and shy schoolgirl. which I haven't been in years. What a wonderful episode! A well-deserved round of applause to everyone involved. 👏🏽👏🏽

Their appearances, separately and together, are gifts for the eyes, but what I really appreciate about this duo is that they are both excellent actors. As a pairing, they are incredibly strong.

There are some duos that are as beautiful to look at, in their own unique ways, but either one or both lack the acting chops to keep me invested beyond the superficial appeasement phase. For example, I stopped watching THE HEART KILLERS because I couldn't get beyond Dunk's passable acting performance. He's OK, but when judged against Joong's, there's a clear difference. I always felt that Joong was the much better actor, but this was the first time I really saw that he was miles ahead of Dunk in the acting department and the discrepancy deflated my interest to such an extent that I stopped watching the series midway through episode 5.

😌 At least you were allowed a choice. Usually, I skip spoiler tagged comments until after I've watched a series in its entirety.

@romulo -- As @Itoldsunsetaboutmystar shared, the original commenter provided details of the story in the book this series is based upon. If the show follows the book's developments, then that person revealed things in their comment that wouldn't have been known to audience members who haven't read the book. I haven't read the book; therefore, I'm now anticipating developments that I wouldn't have before reading that comment. In a way, I'm now less excited about the series than I had been before reading that comment. I'm holding out hope, though, that the screenwriter changed certain details.

You likely didn't mean to do this, but you've provided a contextual spoiler within your comment. Now, those who haven't read the book and aren't interested in knowing details beforehand now know that something terrible is going to happen. Please think of turning on the SPOILER notice on your comment.

Spoiler warning would have been appreciated. I stopped reading your comment, as soon as I realized you were broadcasting story details I have no interest in knowing. You're responsible to place a spoiler warning on your comment to ensure those of us who aren't in the know don't receive carelessly delivered spoilers. If others spoiled for you, I'm sorry, but please think of the rest of us.