FrothyMix

Why are you watching it if you dislike it so much?

They were willing victims, though. The whole idea that these girls would not pick up on the homo vibe between our boys is ridiculously bad writing. I do hope they go Lesbo.

I love Gun just because I like his general vibe as I have since LBC, and you are absolutely right that the director failed him and the show here. He needs to vary the level of emotion and expression and tone back almost all of his emoting. But if no one tells him that, he doesn't know.

I totally blame the director, as I think Gun is capable of much better work and I hate to see him making a fool of himself. It's the director's job to call bad acting when he sees it and fix it with the actor...that isn't happening here.

OK...I went to your links:: The first one shows two photos with absolutely zero context. One is from an apparent public event of some kind. The other is from...what? There is no caption, no explanation, no nothing. Is it the same actor? If so, who is she and why is she made up as she is on the right? Who knows, you don't bother to tell us.

Regarding the second link...as the article itself says, within Thai culture, this blackface is just considered a harmless joke. So does it matter what the "international community" thinks about it? I don't know, aren't you kind of telling Thai people what should and should not be OK within their own culture? Why is that OK to do? This is NOT limited to Thailand by any means; throughout Asia, especially in China, light skin is prized, as it has been for thousands of years. It was considered a sign of high status and wealth because only the poor needed to work out in the sun to make a living. If anything, the lightening creams are a classist phenomenon, not a racist one. Are the Thai people, most of whom the articles says are of darker skin, naturally dark or is work in the sun or leisure in the sun producing a tan, considered a thing? I don't know...the article is too busy spouting PC outrage and telling people within the Thai culture how to think and behave to bother telling us.

Finally, why is this a big deal to YOU? I would never have seen the brown and black-face if you hadn't spread the news. lol

Oh for god's sake. You really think watching this show free is going to uplift underprivileged Thai folks who work in the sun? Besides, you're too late: GB has been the #1 BL for its entire run, despite my boy Gun's often-cringey acting.

I blame the director for not working harder with him. I think he's capable of much better work but he needs direction and it seems like he didn't get that here. I really like Gun, who can be really funny, but isn't this his first big mostly dramatic role? Yeah, he shouts too much and uses that savage grimace a lot too often. There is a lot to be said for understatement, but apparently the director doesn't know that.

I kind of do, but I also feel like they're pretty clueless as to what is going on right in front of their faces.

Bumped it up half a star to 8.5/10 for the fight scenes which by BL standards were pretty bad-ass. Sun does the best job of realistic fighting. I'm impressed with him. That one "The Untamed" flying-through-the-air move was awesome. :D
I wish the director would have worked harder with Gun on his angry/upset/sad scenes. I love his heart but he tends to over-act and do a lot of shouting with that savage grimace stuck on his face. Still touches me though.
How kick-ass were Pitch and Bank? And Sky didn't so much as say "yo, thanks."
Hate when scripts make the girls out to be so blind to the obvious affection between two dudes. In real life I think straight girls pick up on that really quickly. If the plot requires they not catch a clue, then give me a reason why not. Here they just seem stupid.
We've got a lot to wrap up in this next episode, looks like some happiness and then some hairy showdown of sorts.

A commenter here answered a question I posed as to why the ratings on this series are low by saying he thinks it's because it's about cancer and people are sick of death and dying from the Covid 19 pandemic. Never occurred to me, and I LIKE sadness in drama. What do you think?

Seriously? Hmmm...never even occurred to me. Even without a pandemic, many thousands of people die every single day, you know. Oh well, I've always been drawn to sadness and dark story lines, so this doesn't bother me at all. There are lots of bubbly, happy and horrible Pinoy BLs out there for you to watch.

YOU say that makes him a "rapey" person...thousands of people disagree with you. Seems like you ought to have committed a rape before someone credibly labels you a "rapey" person. Crossing unnecessary and gross boundaries makes for great drama. Think of how many dramas feature the ultimate boundary-crossing: Murder. Are you in comment sections of those dramas complaining about that? Kidnapping, robbery, extortion, blackmail, and hundreds of other boundary-crossing events form the core of thousands of dramas every year. For some reason, you're hung up on a sexual aspect...interesting.

Do you deny that even when he is being aggressively manhandled by Jin Teng, Yi Chen goes back and forth between WANTING what is happening and being repulsed by it? He gives in and kisses back and then resists again, then gives in, then resists...then finally pushes Jin Teng away. THIS is great drama, passion, wanting two different things at the same time, etc. It seems to me that people like you should just stop watching BLs. They often feature sexually aggressive situations and that upsets you, so why not just stop watching? I don't get that. I don't like situation comedies on television so I don't watch them. I don't like documentaries about serial killers, so I don't watch them...it's quite a simple concept.

The incident in this series that jolted me was when Jin Teng grabbed that girl by the throat when she was threatening to expose his fake amnesia to Yi Chen and seemed to say that if she did so he would physically hurt her. THAT is when I thought "wow, this guy is out of control..." Yet you don't even mention that incident as being "problematic" (favorite SJW word). What's up with that?

So what? It's part of the plot/story line. The aggressive guy is, you know, "obsessed" and acting irrationally. All kinds of not-nice things happen in dramas. So there was no rape, and there was one attempted, not completed, sexual assault. So why did you refer to this series as "rapey?"

Great comments although the pacing still doesn't bother me, although the pacing of the DIALOGUE itself, with long, meaningless pauses between line deliveries, is really starting to annoy me. That is a sloppy tic of many BL directors, but I'm sad to see Mean adopting it here. And given the high hopes I had for this after the first episode, it is sad that we're beginning to make excuses for it. As I wrote below, I am totally with you on the four-year gap and Nut's now spineless acceptance of no real explanation from Phob. But I also wrote what I think may be going on there. Check it out if you haven't read it already.

Can anyone explain why this series, which is far from perfect but very engaging, is receiving such a low viewership? My god, the horror that is Nitiman has twice as many viewers as The Yearbook. Is it a marketing/promotional thing? No one knows about it?

Pretty much.

Episode 2: lol, so bad...it's good. I guess so, I kept watching. I hope Uno and Liam, that homewrecker, have had all their shots. I kind of like that our protagonist is an outright cad and makes no bones about it. The Shasha/BF/Maid triangle is outstandingly awful. Is Shasha post-op transgender or just a dude with Kleenex stuffed in a bra? Love that Uno and Owen, who are obviously impoverished, as they can't even afford paint for their walls, are able to have a full-time maid. hahaha

haha, this is horrible. But I kept watching...THAT was the longest, most drawn-out, bizarre make-out scene I think I have ever seen in any medium. They kind of started at 60 mph and stayed there for what,,,? 15 minutes or so? I thought sure Owen would cum in his shorts from the dry-humping, which was at times actually hot. But Uno kind of laying there and putting up with it was oddly hilarious...I think the most amusing part was when Owen would run his own hands through his own hair very passionately and melodramatically. He was plainly, in his head, making out and dry-humping himself. To hell with the Uno dude.

So bad in so many ways. And of course, this being Pinoy, we started right out with a bitchy, mean, over-the-top transgender chick bossing and slapping everyone around. Why DID she slap her boyfriend there at the beginning? wtf? Terrible acting all round.

lol Thanks for the quick review. i'm going to check out the first episode anyway just to see how bad it really is and because I'm out of fresh BL material. I miss the days of a year or more ago when I just discovered BL and there were endless finished series and movies to binge. Now I'm grasping at ANYTHING involving two Asian boys/men or more in love.

What is it with the Phillippines that the BLs are so bad? And so preachy? Gameboys and Hello Stranger are about it for me.

Well, I bumped it up to a 6/10 for having a good heart, but still pretty bad. This episode featured endless minutes of boyfriends standing around staring at each other with stiff half-smiles on their faces. The high point of course was Grandma, who is a goddess simply by being on-screen and exuding life/personality/love/gentleness. She is awesome.
How, exactly, does a transgender young woman end up being a "husband" to a gay guy? Hey, I'm for what works, but trying to fit together the puzzle pieces of that one, so to speak. BTW, it has to be hotter than hell to wear a wig in Thailand.. Bald?
This is the gayest village in all of Thailand. They need to bring in some straight couples to pro-create and boost the population or these guys need to start adopting or surrogating quick or both.
It's very sweet, but pretty fast that Mongkorn's parents have him and Teacher married off already, but they're pretty damn amazingly progressive and gay-friendly for people from a village in the sticks. Whatever...the scene with the four of them and the theme of "home" was sweet and touching, and featured plenty of awkward staring/smiling.
The sudden addition of visual effects/slapstick was...interesting.
Din is SO freaking handsome/beautiful. I find it difficult to breathe when he's on screen, especially wen smiling, as he did a lot this episode. Still upset they killed off his pony-tail.

OK, it's over.