Life can always go real bad-- it's the nature of being alive. Sometimes, you can make all the "right" choices and end up with more misery than you could ever have envisioned. Choices made without a heart full of love, more often than not, lead to emptiness. Life requires courage.
This drama was an unexpected gem. I was not expecting the level of quality-- wonderful acting from all actors, beautiful cinematography, exemplary direction and truly lovely score. I was locked in from episode 1 and remained fully engaged up to the final seconds of the series.
Every episode was a taut tapestry of emotions. Some of the episodes almost choked me with their emotional intensity. I could feel my heart thumping and growing heavier as the episodes progressed.
Pond's portrayal of Wang was eye-opening. The man can ACT! I felt every single one of his emotions as they either simmered beneath his seemingly placid surface or exploded out when he couldn't contain them any longer. His relationship with his mother was loving yet fraught (for good reasons), and I could always glimpse his longing for his father and attraction to In. Pond needs to be given more serious dramas, as some of the BL scripts he's had to work with just aren't up to his talents.
I read a lot of reviews of those who detested the mother character, but I really appreciated her, because I could see that she was modeled after Elizabeth Taylor's character in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF and the actress, Mam Kathaleeya McIntosh, did a stellar job of bringing the emotional roller-coaster of an alcoholic and narcissistic artist to life. Her acting almost had my jaw on the floor many times. It was out of this world. She understood the character's selfish motivations so deeply, that I couldn't hate her for her behavior, even though in many ways I wanted to shake her.
Life can sometimes be one big tangled web of complexities and this drama plowed right into the heart of those tangles. They didn't try to wrangle a contrived ending out of what were intensely complex relationships. Life doesn't always work out the way we desire. There are some who are selfish, some who are brave of heart and others who are cowardly and when they meet on the battlefield of love, rarely do we end up with a warm and cushy resolution.
In the end, the series was a beautiful sledgehammer to my heart.
😤😤😤no chemistry bro.🤔i got bored i want to see some angst i heard season 2 has some angst can i skip…
No chemistry? Interesting tastes you have there. If you're only looking for angst, watch something else, as the true power of season 2 lies in caring about the main characters. If you're just in it watch characters suffer, then I'd suggest another series.
“It will be better for everyone if im not with him” why? Why would it? No explanation either. Bl logic nonsense…
You think that it's merely BL logic? Ha!!
I didn't end up with the love of my life because he's my best-friend's brother and she asked me not to date him, because she'd always ended up losing her friends who fell for him. So, for years after her request, whenever he approached me, I kept pushing him away. Now, 27 years later, we're both still in love with each other, but have led separate lives to such an extent that it's too late for us to be anything, officially, but family friends. Still, everyone who comes in contact with us when we're in the same space (his partner, mine, our friends, our family members, co-workers), have a hard time ignoring how we respond to each other's presence. My best-friend eventually told me she was sorry she ever made such a request, because she could see just how much the two of us love each other-- she called us human magnets-- and felt she'd really f-ed up by interfering. As much as possible, I continue to avoid spending too much time in his company, as both our lives would be completely upended if we ever let the attraction have free reign.
Sometimes, fiction seems strange to you because you've never experienced something in your own life that's similar, but that doesn't make that fiction logically inconsistent. The decision that was made by Dong Hui made sad yet perfect sense to me.
It's so disturbing to me how truly repressive South Korean society is. The rules are so brutal-- seemingly, every few days, wonderful people are having their lives shattered due to the most asinine reasons. Too many talented people have chosen to self-delete because of how draconian the culture is.
This has begun to affect my desire to watch South Korean dramas, because I'm beginning to feel that though the actors are putting on a good show, behind the scenes their lives are curtailed to such an extent that happiness is impossible.
Some of us still have trauma from other tighty whittey scenes in other BLs but i feel like this scene went a long…
If I didn't buy my ex-husband underwear, he would have been using the same ones he'd owned for years. Most men just don't concern themselves with that stuff until they fall apart.
Cna anyone suggest me best BL series, this is my 1st time watching these.
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.
Poor script, poor acting, repetitive and unnecessary scenes
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.
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 have mixed feelings about this drama.I loved to watch because it is a BL inside a wuxia chinese drama (Cheers…
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.
I would like to know something. this is love syndrome III. Are there 1 and 2? just asking, sorry. 😢
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.
This version has all the best characters of all the versions.
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.
This drama was an unexpected gem. I was not expecting the level of quality-- wonderful acting from all actors, beautiful cinematography, exemplary direction and truly lovely score. I was locked in from episode 1 and remained fully engaged up to the final seconds of the series.
Every episode was a taut tapestry of emotions. Some of the episodes almost choked me with their emotional intensity. I could feel my heart thumping and growing heavier as the episodes progressed.
Pond's portrayal of Wang was eye-opening. The man can ACT! I felt every single one of his emotions as they either simmered beneath his seemingly placid surface or exploded out when he couldn't contain them any longer. His relationship with his mother was loving yet fraught (for good reasons), and I could always glimpse his longing for his father and attraction to In. Pond needs to be given more serious dramas, as some of the BL scripts he's had to work with just aren't up to his talents.
I read a lot of reviews of those who detested the mother character, but I really appreciated her, because I could see that she was modeled after Elizabeth Taylor's character in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF and the actress, Mam Kathaleeya McIntosh, did a stellar job of bringing the emotional roller-coaster of an alcoholic and narcissistic artist to life. Her acting almost had my jaw on the floor many times. It was out of this world. She understood the character's selfish motivations so deeply, that I couldn't hate her for her behavior, even though in many ways I wanted to shake her.
Life can sometimes be one big tangled web of complexities and this drama plowed right into the heart of those tangles. They didn't try to wrangle a contrived ending out of what were intensely complex relationships. Life doesn't always work out the way we desire. There are some who are selfish, some who are brave of heart and others who are cowardly and when they meet on the battlefield of love, rarely do we end up with a warm and cushy resolution.
In the end, the series was a beautiful sledgehammer to my heart.
BRAVO!! 👏👏👏
I didn't end up with the love of my life because he's my best-friend's brother and she asked me not to date him, because she'd always ended up losing her friends who fell for him. So, for years after her request, whenever he approached me, I kept pushing him away. Now, 27 years later, we're both still in love with each other, but have led separate lives to such an extent that it's too late for us to be anything, officially, but family friends. Still, everyone who comes in contact with us when we're in the same space (his partner, mine, our friends, our family members, co-workers), have a hard time ignoring how we respond to each other's presence. My best-friend eventually told me she was sorry she ever made such a request, because she could see just how much the two of us love each other-- she called us human magnets-- and felt she'd really f-ed up by interfering. As much as possible, I continue to avoid spending too much time in his company, as both our lives would be completely upended if we ever let the attraction have free reign.
Sometimes, fiction seems strange to you because you've never experienced something in your own life that's similar, but that doesn't make that fiction logically inconsistent. The decision that was made by Dong Hui made sad yet perfect sense to me.
This has begun to affect my desire to watch South Korean dramas, because I'm beginning to feel that though the actors are putting on a good show, behind the scenes their lives are curtailed to such an extent that happiness is impossible.
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)
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.