Gendli

Yes but No

I want to start by saying it was absolutely not the worst series I ever watched, but omg was it mid or even bad.
I have a lot of reasons for saying it, but let's start with some things I actually liked about this series.

Actors/acting was good, and I'm not only talking about main characters but side characters as well, there were few people I did enjoy seeing.
I also really liked the story, while I do think there was much more better ways they could've done it the idea was good, and I would love and see someone try to make something similar.
Chemistry between Gulf and Mew was there, it was nice and while I wasn't too much over the moon for it, I still found it enjoyable to watch these two to interact. I do have to say tho in my personal humble opinion Tharn and Type should've not ended up together. Because honestly, I cannot imagine a single good reason why any of them would want to be with another.

Tharn is just a spineless guy with no self-respect or dignity, who also has no concept of consent. He forgave Type multiple times without even him apologising for what he did first. Throughout the whole series I just wanted to grab Tharn by his shoulders, shake him and say “WAKE UP” because the way he would never stand up for himself when it came to Type is diabolical.
Also, the fact that he sexually assaulted Type not once is crazy and often overlooked by TharnType fans, but definitely shouldn't be. It was clearly shown multiple times how he would kiss Type while he is sleeping, gave him hickeys while he was drunk and blacked out, and the shower scene? Like let's not ignore it and instead of calling it cute, hot or sexy let's call it what it is, a sexual assault.

Type is a toxic asshole who doesn't respect a single person around him. While I know that Type has trauma, it absolutely doesn't excuse his behaviour towards people around him, people who care and love him. He disrespected and physically assaulted multiple people who absolutely did not deserved it and wouldn't apologise unless he gets some kind of “punishment” for doing so. And the way everybody around him act like it's normal is insane to me. It's important to acknowledge his traumatic experience, but let's not try to excuse his behaviour just because of something like this.

And while I'm talking about traumatic experience, I want to talk about Tar. I've seen multiple people say how tar was annoying, stupid and stuff like this. I want to start by saying that victim-blaming is a terrible thing, and y'all doing it is just disgusting.
There wasn't a single thing that he did that would make him as bad as y'all trying to paint him to be. Throughout his whole story, I was just feeling so sorry for him, and he absolutely did nothing to deserve what happened to him.
He was so scared, traumatised and broken I cannot imagine blaming him for anything at all, all the “bad” things that he did were just a Lhong's disgusting plan, and he is the only one to blame here.

Now for the Lhong and oh do I have a thing or two to talk about. First off, the fact that he didn't get any jail time or ANY repercussions for that matter is CRAZY to me. He was so disgusting, everything about him made my skin crawl. He is not just a bad guy he is a devil himself, and there are still people trying to defend him saying he was misunderstood, he is so UNDERhated.
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, could excuse his behaviour, the things he did are literally illegal. Sabotaging all of the Tharns relationship, paying three man to gang-rape a high-schooler (Tar), and then also blackmailing the same boy and pressuring him into doing things he was not comfortable with to break Tharn and Type up.
He is the worst of the worst, he is a terrible human being and all that he deserves is a jail time!!!

Honestly, there is so much more bad people in this series, since most of the characters were kinda good until they did something crazy and made my opinion about them fully change. But there were also characters that I liked, but they are not worth mentioning except for the one character that I liked the most, and it's Techno. Techno would always add this nice and comedic feel to the series when needed the most, as well as being a great supportive friend and trying to help Type with anything he could. There was one thing that made me a bit uncomfortable is when he really would not believe Tar even when he has seen a proof, and tried to tell Type that as well. But other than that, I would say that he is my favourite character.


In conclusion, I am kinda happy that I watched this series, since I wanted to give it a try all the way from 2019. I first tried watching it back then when it was just coming out, but it was too much for me, so I dropped it. But I am happy that I came back, but I am even happier that I finally finished it.
I did enjoy it to some degree, but of course all of the red flags were really hard to close my eyes on and just try to push through.
I do think though that this series is overrated, and it is really toxic, so for anybody to enjoy it at least a little, you need to be able to “ignore” a lot of stuff. Otherwise, it is definitely unenjoyable to watch.

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NO...

This was terrible, nothing shown in here excuses what Lhong did, not even in the slightest!

Oh! He had a sad childhood! Oh! Tharn never looked at him romantically! Oh, poor Lhong…

WOMP! WOMP! WOMP!

How sad…sad that I don't care at all, omg the things he did are literally ILLEGAL, and you're seriously going to sit here and make a sad ass edit of Lhong story being like: “Look!! He is hurting!!!”. SO WHAT??? Is that a reason to pay three men to gang-rape a high-schooler? Is it? Because I don't think so! And is it a reason to sabotage all the Tharn's previous relationship, I also don't think so!

So please excuse me if I misunderstood something, but I don't think that Lhong needed a whole special episode just for his “sad” and tearful story. But what he actually requires is a jail time (!!!) and a weekly if not daily meetings with psychiatrist.
Because something is clearly ain't right, and something should be done about it.

Lhong is one of the worst side characters there is, and honestly, you couldn't pay me to try to feel even a tad bit sorry for him…

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BIG disappointment...

That was indeed a rollercoaster, and not a good one.

Of course, I had low to none expectations, but somehow it was still worse than what I had in mind.
It's so slow that even watching it at x2 is not enough, that was so boring it's not even funny.
They had enough plot for 4 episodes max, but they choose to stretch it out and honestly that was a terrible idea, since in the end I had nothing to say about the plot except is that there was barely any…
The only reason I could see why anybody would want to watch it, is for a Mark but even then it is so not worth it, omg at this point just go and watch/rewatch a Jack and Joker or something because there you could at least enjoy what you're seeing instead of being bored to death and just honestly annoyed at how bad this is.
I think that hating on some series is kinda bad, but to be honest with this one it's the first time I'm literally agreeing with almost every comment and every review, because only god knows how I didn't just drop this series and went on with my life.
I'm always trying to push through the series and finish them no matter how bad they are, so I did finish that one, but I wouldn't recommend it even to my enemies.


Okay, so now that I finished with my rant, let's talk more in depth about the things that I did and didn't like about this series!

Things I DID like:
1. The cinematography was pretty good, a lot of beautiful shots, especially food. I enjoyed watching and even honestly learning a bit more about the Thai food.
2. The acting was not the worst I've seen, Mark and Zung did a pretty good job when it comes to acting, I did enjoy their performance. There were a few weird moments, but other than that, the acting wasn't lacking.
And that's about it when it comes to things that I liked…

Now, the thing's that I DIDN'T like:
1. SIDE COUPLES! We are starting strong with the side couples, throughout the whole series I was honestly so uninterested in them. When it comes to Lek and Chompoo I would just mostly ignore them since we saw them together only 2–3 times per entire series. But when it comes to Vich and Prem omg I would sigh every time I would see them on the screen, there were NO chemistry AT ALL, there were no signs that they would be together at all. Of course, it's easy to understand that they would end up together, but they had little to none interactions that would pull them in that direction.
This couple were so unnecessary, and it would make so much sense if they would be just friends/colleagues.
2. Unnecessary side characters without a proper backstory! Instead of trying to stretch this series as much as possible, they should've written better backstory to most of the side characters. Wiphob, Chef Mu and Eve had very little screen time, and the one that they did have was not enough to understand them. They were painted to be a “bad guys” but as much as I tried to feel at least something towards their characters I ended up feeling nothing since I couldn't even understand half of what was going on.
3. The Aek's mom. When it comes to the main character's mom I had a lot of questions about her “motives” and what exactly she was trying to do. The fact she was against Aek becoming a chef, and a lot of other stuff she did, do not sit right with me since it doesn't make much sense, but oh well.
4. SLOW! And that says it all. If you plan to watch it, I could only recommend doing it on x2 since watching it in any other way is just a torture.
5. Episodes № 8, 9, 10! I don't even want to talk about it, if you know you know and if you don't, believe me you don't want to know, that was just straight up garbage, no excuses.

That's about it, I can't believe I'm finally free and don't have to ever go through that hell of a ride again!!! :D

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Extremely adorable

That was such a lovely series, GeminiFourth really did a great job with this one.
Honestly one of, if not the best thai high school bl, incredibly sweet and wholesome series, definitely deserves all of the hype around it.

The things I liked:
1. Supportive parents. I absolutely adore main leads parents, the way they supported their kids no matter what made me so happy.
2. So many cute moments.
3. Main characters being green flags with good communication and great support from Tinn.
4. Tiw! We all need to take a minute to appreciate how much of a good friend Tiw was, perfect wingman. Mark Pakin is doing perfect job as usual.
5. Side couple. I just loved Sound and Win, they with their enemies to lovers trope were just so cute. WinnySatang did a great job here.
6. No unnecessary drama.
7. Friendship. This series did good at showing us a good friendship dynamic between the band members. I loved seeing them interact and spend time together. They were so supportive of each other, and even when they had a conflict they always found the way to resolve it nicely.

The only thing i “disliked” is that in my opinion this series could've been a bit shorter and still would be great, but it wasn't enough to lower my rating because of that.

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Kind of all over the place

It has a little bit of everything, it is funny, cute, and cringy from time to time. At first I loved it a lot, but by the last two episodes I just couldn't wait to finally finish it. Still, it doesn't take away from the fact that it's a decent series that is underrated and overlooked.

Things I liked:
1. A lot of cute moments that had me giggling and kicking my feet.
2. The jokes and comedic sound effects are cringy at times, but they are tolerable.
3. ThanwaPeak. I really like their dynamic and they were my favorite couple for quite a while.
4. It was nice to see Peak grow a lot as a person.
5. Latte (has to be my favorite character). He is incredibly mature, understanding, and really nice and funny.
6. I love Latte and Almond's relationship after they get together. They are super cute and have quite healthy relationship.
7. Jane. Perfect friend, great support and help.

Things I disliked:
1. Peak running away from all of his problems instead of confronting and trying to fix them.
2. Unnecessary drama between Almond and Latte, weird conflict about nothing.
3. Almond acts really childish a lot of the time.
4. Parents. Peak's father is very weirdly demanding of Peak. While Almond's mother is too overprotective.
5. Almond getting jealous and upset over literally nothing in the last episode.
6. Last episode feels like a filler episode.

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Quite a gem

I didn't expect to like this series as much as I did. Not gonna lie, it definitely reminded me of Jack & Joker in a lot of aspects, which is a good thing. There were some things I disliked, but almost none of them affected the rating, and I still pretty much enjoyed this series.

Things I liked about this series:
1. Grandma. Literally the smartest and the best character in the whole series. Saved this series so many times.
2. Thee. He is extremely smart but also humane. He is one of the characters that was keeping me sane while watching this series.
3. The chemistry between the main characters is almost unmatchable.
4. Acting. Almost everybody's acting was exceptional. I would personally love to highlight the actors that played Charn, Thaenthai, and Thee. They did a great job with their characters, and I truly wouldn't be able to find a better fit for their roles.
5. Thee and Thaentai escaping. While watching this series, almost nothing made me feel as happy as seeing them be happy and finally relaxed. Before that, every time I saw them on the screen, I felt like I had to hold my breath because I was so stressed, but once they arrived at their destination, I was finally able to breathe again. I truly love that couple. They went through a lot, but they absolutely deserve their peace and quiet after everything.
6. I loved Rose and Maya. They were a great help and support system for both Tin and Charn when needed.

Things I disliked about this series that didn't affect my rating:
1. Charn is a psychopath. He keeps betraying, lying, and going behind Tin's back again and again. It gets to a point!
2. I really liked Thaenthai, but some of his behaviors were still quite crazy.
3. Thaenthai posting an Instagram story with a clear view of his and Thee's location. That was incredibly stupid from both Thaentai and Thee (since he didn't stop him).
4. Thatthep is an absolute monster. The worst of the worst, bottom-of-the-barrel type of parent. Let's just say I'm happy karma knocked on his door sooner rather than later.

Things I disliked about this series that did affect my rating:
1. Some visual effects were a bit funky, but I didn't mind it too much.
2. I feel like the drama between Tin and Charn took too long. While I was super interested in the actual case and figuring out all of the secrets, I had to watch Tin and Charn having constant fights about anything and everything. I would've preferred if they focused a bit more on the case itself in the series.

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Same, but different

Episode 1:
I liked how cute and sweet it was, this story was definitely one of the better ones. It definitely reminded me of the series "La Pluie" with the rain and soulmates, as well as one of the characters not believing in the soulmates because his parents were soulmates but still ended up divorced.
One thing I will say, though, is that it definitely took me way too long to figure out how the whole soulmate thing works in this world and what exactly has to happen for them to find their soulmate. It would be better if they kind of explained it at the start or something like that.

Episode 2:
Totally different vibe from the first story, but I still really enjoyed this one. It was definitely my second favorite. I really liked Parinth's grandma. There are few things she did that I disagree with, but I still think she is a good side character in this story.
I also liked how good they were at so easily portraying a totally different story, which just shows how talented the actors are.

Episodes 3-4:
This one is my least favorite story. They made X to be a little bit weird/creepy ngl. Once a year, for multiple years, he's been going to a graveyard only to see that one person and then to ask his parents to be with him. I just find it weird. Also, this whole drama was so exhausting. Sucked out of thin air, and I was done with it already halfway through the fourth episode.
In my opinion, the fourth episode shouldn't have even been a thing. I feel like the third episode ended well enough that it really didn't need a continuation with all of that drama. For me this story ended on the third episode, and the fourth episode never happened.

Episodes 5-6:
This one is totally my favorite story out of all of them. So adorable and flirty, with great chemistry between the main characters.
I really liked their playful banters as well as Green just watching them and adding more to them. I really liked Green. He added a lot of cute and funny moments for sure.

Episodes 7-8:
At first I assumed all of the small stories were completely unrelated, but the series definitely found a great way to merge them all into the same universe. I can definitely appreciate the creativity they used for that. And the plot twist was quite unexpected but enjoyable.
The thing is, though, in my opinion, in these last two episodes their drama stretched out for too long. Same as with episodes 3-4, it feels like it could've been shorter with less drama. Even then, though, I still enjoyed it, and the ending was more than satisfying.

Overall, I would say that although there were some aspects of this series that I didn't like, it was still worth it.

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Cute but nothing special

That was a nice short series with a lot of wholesome and funny moments.
Due to it being so short, everything felt really rushed, but it was still an enjoyable watch.

The whole vampire thing was extremely underwhelming, not gonna lie. I wasn't a fan of how their eyes looked when they smelled blood. And as far as I'm concerned, it was supposed to be a romance series about vampires, but to be honest, it felt like just a classic “forbidden love” series. Even if we took away them being the vampires, not much would've changed about the plot.
I really liked the side couple, even though they barely had any screen time. I still loved them.

Overall it was an enjoyable watch, cute and funny at times, but as I said, nothing special, just a classic short BL series.

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Unhinged

Don't get me wrong, I knew what I was going to watch. It's just that instead of a movie about BDSM, they just made it into a manga inspired soft porn with dubious consent and bizarre behaviors from most of the people involved.
If anything, I'm guessing the manga they were inspired by to make this movie is a hentai manga. So that would explain a lot of weird and unhinged moment's, I just think that for adaptation they could've at least tried making it more logical.

So much unhinged moment's that would never happen IRL, and you can only meet in that type of movies and mangas.
Like when Kaoru's mom gave his sex toys to a neighbor girl to hide them from him. In a paper bag for that matter, at this point she could've used a plastic see-through bag… Hello? Aren't you even ashamed of giving a paper bag full of your son's sex toys to a neighbor? Like that is just so wild.

Or Nana trying on the “clothes”, without knowing where it was or if it was used by anybody! Who in their right mind would do that. I guess you could say, that since he doesn't have a girlfriend it's probably clean and unused, but what if he likes to wear stuff like this himself and don't wash it afterward? Or worse? Like girl, please, think about it before doing something like that!
As well as Kaoru blackmailing Nana into submission. That is disgusting and while I could see an argument of “well she did come back for more” and well the only thing I can say to this is: OF COURSE she did! Because you are watching a porn that has nothing to do with reality, and none of this bullshit would've ever happened in the real life.

The consent is dubious in this as well as Kaoru being an absolute disgusting creep. The way he's behaving is absolutely atrocious, no one who actually participate in any kind of BDSM relationship will ever act this way. Disregarding of what she wants and thinks and just bluntly pressuring her into doing things she isn't comfortable with, nobody is doing that unless they agreed upon that prior to action.

Overall, I think I'm just isn't one of those people it was made for, and that's why I see it to be so problematic…

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Not worth it

That was so much worse than I expected, I guess it's my fault for having any kind of expectations for this series. I truly tried enjoying it, but I just couldn't, and I had to skip through most of the last episode.

Things I liked:
1. Out of everything that was happening in this series, I found a thing that I actually liked, and it was Met's story. Even though it was made a bit sloppily, I still liked him and his family. The last moment with his parents made me tear up.
2. The idea behind this series. When I first read the description to this series, it sounded amazing, and I was hoping for a cute comedy with supernatural bits. Sadly, it ended up being just a slop that looks like they didn't even try with it.
3. Angel Shan. He was one of the most interesting characters, and the ending made me even more interested in him and his story.

Things I disliked:
1. Female doctor Nongning. She didn't have too much screen time, but it was enough to make me dislike her. She is so extra for no reason, all of her reactions and behaviors were highly exaggerated. Nongning was a good, supportive friend, but the fact that they wrote her to be so dramatic most of the time just made her annoying.
2. Cringy. Too many sound effects and cringy jokes/toilet humor. Editing is straight from 2014.
3. Visual effects. That was probably the worst part of it all, it's just hurt to watch at times.
4. So confusing. There were so many moments where I was actually confused about what was going on.
5. First episode being literally about nothing, cut most of it out, and we lose absolutely nothing important.
6. Their first kiss. I can somehow understand why Krit initiated that kiss, being drunk, confused and whatnot, but I see quite literally 0 reasons for the main character not only not to push him away but to also kiss him back… They know each other less than a day, and as far as the series shows us they had no previous flirting or anything, so I really don't see a reason for this kiss to happen.
7. ZERO CHEMISTRY! I don't know if it's the actors or the writing's fault, but the main couple has no chemistry at all, everything feels dull and all of their interactions are empty. They talk to each other like two robots, and any time they would kiss or a have a “cute/romantic” moment, I truly could not care less about it. I guess whoever made this series though that adding “romantic” music to some of their interactions will help, but it only makes it worse.
8. A lot of useless fillers. Most of the screen time is just them doing anything but what they actually supposed to. They were on the time crunch and still spent most of the time just doing nothing useful.
9. Acting is really lacking in a lot of moments.
10. All of the series budgeting clearly went to rent out a car for the main character.
11. Zero build up for the so-called “Love”!

Overall it was truly disappointing and the only reason for me to want a 2nd season is that I just want to know more about Angel Shan. But I'm almost a hundred percent sure that if they continue with it and make a 2nd season, that it's going to be the same slop. So I think I'm good on that.

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Eh...

That was quite underwhelming.
It wasn't terrible, but I didn't earned anything by watching it, except for headache.

The things I liked:
1. I'm sad to say, that out of everything I only have one thing that is worth mentioning and it's the series ost. There really wasn't anything else that really stood out to me.

Things I disliked:
1. Series villian. What was that about? There was no explanation on why he was doing what he was doing, and I truly believe even he himself had no idea what he was doing. He was the worst villian in the whole history of villians, like really...
2. This whole thing with J. Like it was just about nothing, I get the feeling that they really had a lot of complicated ideas for all of the characters. But because of lacking the time and budgeting they ended up doing just whatever and put everything together without any thought.
3. No kisses. It's honestly not that big of a deal, but come on, not a single kiss is crazy.
4. So much nonsense. Eden was deadly afraid of water and then he just..got cured??? Are we serious right now? There were so much things like that, that just don't make any sense.
5. So choppy and rushed.
One thing that I want to mention but I won't put it in the list is that in one of the episodes Eden is looking at his hand thinking about Ji Hoon holding his hand. What my problem with this moment is that he is looking at the wrong hand. Like guys please...
I could've expected this from any indie film, but that series definitly had enough people working on it to see such mistake. It's honestly not that big of a deal after all, but I felt like they don't even care about what they producing, just filmed and posted it.

But yea, I started watching this a long time ago, but dropped it because I found it pretty cringy.
I chose to give it another try, and i'm not gonna say i'm dissapointed since I already wasn't a fan of it and I knew what I was doing. I'll just say I wasn't loosing much by dropping it and not giving it another try for so long.

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Heartwarming comedy

Previously, I dropped this series halfway through because of one moment that I found cringe in the end of the episode 4.
But I'm quite happy with my choice to come back because in the end it was worth it.

I loved the acting and the chemistry between characters.
I also really liked two girl side characters who were shipping our main couple from the start, even though they barely had any screen time I still loved them.

I want to say that I haven't read this manga before, so I don't have much to go off here when judging this series.
First thing that I found a bit weird is that how they made Kaneda some kind of creep with shrine for his “god” and other strange moment's. It felt kinda odd, and that was one of the things that made drop it in the first place before.
I also think the characters could've had better communicating skills because sadly they acted like two teenagers who got their first ever crush and don't know how to behave.
Another thing is that we got almost no actual romance, especially since the series ends right after them confessing to each other. So we didn't really get to enjoy any moments of them as a couple.

Overall, it's a quite cute and funny office romance. It was not bad, maybe even good, but they definitely had so much chances to make it much better.

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