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You just know there will be a scene where Boyo finally learns about Locker and Music ... and hears that Locker has dissed Boyo as just a fling ...

Grab the popcorn, folks.

And what a great actress!

I don't know what approach they're taking. If it was me, I'd look at the date the account was created, the date of the rating/review, and see if the user has been to any other pages or written any other reviews.

AnniaD (below) seems to have some insights into this.

Last night as I thought about this new episode coming up, I imagined all the outraged commenters sharpening their knives to get ready for the kill.

I'm sure over the next couple of days we'll get told which parts of Episode 4 were dark and offensive and damaging to gay culture and encouraging homophobia.

With the new rating algorithm and MDL's efforts to ignore the ratings from accounts that were created for the sole purpose of influencing the score, an 8.9 is actually very good. Some other dramas dropped by much more.

This site is different from one like Viki, where if a drama isn't rated higher than 9.0 it probably sucks. Grade inflation over there is the rule.

And his Instagram is ... ? :)

You rate it a '10' and say we should watch it (I agree), but you also say you dropped it?

So you're not going to keep watching?

Ah, sorry, but I do think Thanu and Phai (cafe guy) are going to be a couple. In their big 'first encounter' scene they do the traditional 'eye lock' and are both wearing NY Yankees shirts. Given that, it would be BL malpractice for them *not* to get into a relationship.

Yes, he's a total knockout. If he also has a buff body under those clothes then I am DEAD.

For those interested, the translation of the novel that I link to in the discussion section has been completed.

Book Three has a PG13 sex scene where Itt turns out to be the uke. Not what I expected lol.

The book also has an epilogue chapter where the guys are 60 years old.

This could well end up being a classic BL. What a great trailer!

LOL someone has already written a review of the series.

The article on the tropes is interesting. Thanks for sharing it! I wish the author had said which series the stills were taken from. Many I recognized, but not all of them.

Also, these tropes are common in all Asian dramas, not just BL. Especially 'the held stare' and 'accidental kiss'. It's rare for a romantic drama not to have one or both of those occur during an early episode, signalling to viewers who will be coupled up by the end.

A bit of a mess but I'll stick with it.

Loving this a lot. It's so relaxed and fun. Each pairing is worth following and the chemistry is on point.

In Episode 4 that first encounter between Thanu and Phai was done really well. They were both wearing NY Yankees gear so it seems we are being told that they're destined to be soulmates.

Exactly. It's a very flawed assumption, because people who were sincerely touched to the point of creating an account to express themselves are being treated like shills. There are other series where I suspect that ballot-stuffing could be a factor, but not this one.

I'll be honest, as much as I ship Tan and Oil I'm starting to worry that their relationship has been one big tease for the entire series. I am so tired of 'fake-outs' in BLs.

Given the intimate mood that pervaded most of this episode, I think if that wasn't able to get one or both of them to confess then I don't know what will. What we got instead were the usual BL cliche of almost-kisses and almost-confessions, and it gets irritating. In this episode it was a waste of some nice set-ups that seemed to promise something special. Instead we get the usual last-second swerve away from a kiss or confession. Annoying!

I thought Oil's motivation was to get Tan to have dinner with his father and half-brother without Oil being there, and that Khun showed up unexpectedly.

I didn't get the impression that Oil was plotting to get Tan out of the house so he could hook up with Khun. Which means I should go back and rewatch that part.

I'm not a Thai soul (although I like to think of myself as kind) ... but I've seen a few videos on YouTube that claim to have spoilers for the series. I haven't watched any so I can't vouch for them, but they might have what you're looking for.

For the rating to drop so much shows that they still need to work on that algorithm.

Just looking at the comments here it's obvious that this series is touching people in a way that is extremely rare. Not many pages on MDL have such an outpouring of appreciation and positivity. There ought to be a way for the score to reflect that.