Gosh this actually open with their divorce and not the marriage. The way it escalated in the first five minutes was shocking. This is a different kind of show. It opens with impending divorce looming over Runch and Neen. Runch's mother is a Karen but Neen, isn't playing nice either. Her actions at the mall were uncalled for
Both women are fighting over the same thing, that the other stole Runch but neither are particularly concerned about Runch's well being, how she shrinks into herself. She is passive and hapless but the show doesn't support her either; the consequences of her lack of assertiveness has allowed poison into her family, her relationship with her wife and her workplace too.
The price of time and the blood that revenge demands. This show was a whirlwind that takes you through two lifetimes. A cryptic message and a story of unrequited love is what brings back Rann to Thailand, only in place of Lene's warm welcoming smile she finds a desolate funeral. A sleight of time takes her back five years where she finds Lene fighting her own demons and revenge demands a price that has to be paid.
This show was everything, the best gl of the year perhaps. There are all kinds of love but theirs is one which perseveres when everything in the world falls away. In the end they are the only ones left for each other. The darker aspects of Lene's life and how hard she fights to keep some of the light around her from both Rann, Peem and the memory of her mother made this a high stakes thriller. Well-written and most importantly well placed given that this is only 7 episodes. Also the way Lene looks at Rann, like she's about to devour her whole and then proceeds to do exactly that? 9/10
For shows we often like to poke at the potholes and I feel there are certain things here and there and convenient plot points but in the case of Love Beyond Dreams I want them to use as many plot holes as necessary to just let the three of them live because we've seen what happens otherwise and please let that not happen
Before discovering gl i just read a lot but could never get into the shows itself. I will not be watching 65792 straight couples for that fifteen minute (in total) appearance of a sapphic one! And a lot of stuff on yt was behind the paywall which came to thousands in our currency so just never got into it
And yes this! The HEA is assured in every show Asian romcom and, so as to not be deductive, it is also that for most western shows i think? but just not for the extremely side sapphic couples. AO3 has been a fabulous reserve for sapphic stuff but most of the shows aren't even canonically lesbian or end up together
I'm sorry to heart about that and hope you're ok now ❤️ it will be extremely therapeutic when Lene finally gets together with her Rann 🤭
I would too! Honestly if it weren't for the thai we would still have little to no full length lesbian shows, and while gl isn't everybody's thing, it's absolutely my favourite.
Western tv is so sad tbh because why are they always killing off lesbians. My friend has been troubling me forever to watch Killing eve and honestly that show is right up my aisle but it has a terrible ending. Idc if it was necessary for one of them to die but just don't 😒
Wait, so does this have a trans lead? All the summary info uses she/her for the protag?
I have not watched this but I do not think it has a trans lead because this is a common mistake. The thai pronouns and words have a masculine/feminine variation which we have in my own language too so I'll use an example from here instead of thai.
"He/she does the work" would be "karega/karegi" respectively and gay effeminate men (and also the uke/bottom in thai shows) prefer the female or softer versions and so would use "karegi". It's a similar phenomenon in thai language, where suffixes show gender determinant. They are not trans but a machine or AI generated transl can't grasp that hence the issue
I don't like it when shows that promise toxicity and hotness do not deliver but I love it when they go beyond…
And if it feels incomplete it's because that's how life feels, inconclusive and out of control. One doesn't chuck psychologically abusive mothers out of their loves easily neither can homophobic families chuck out their daughters completely. They accept a little, bargain more and ultimately choose to move on maintaining lies and having little contact It's not easy to leave violent partners even if you know you have to and should. It's not easy to remove the veil and show us the dark side of women in career and industry. None of the three couples might be together in the future, the breakup might be dark and messy, and all this show offers is the right here right now instead of delivering the girls into some sort of send-off into the sunset/paradise
So yes, this show went there did that. And while ratings are completely subjective, here's my subjective opinion that the one star reviews on this are unwarranted and skewed
I don't like it when shows that promise toxicity and hotness do not deliver but I love it when they go beyond their boundaries to give us something more. And that is exactly what Girl Rules did, it made the characters more than what they were seemingly going to be.
Shasha is not just a player richie rich model who breaks girls' hearts, she's a victim who fought, she's a girl without a family who makes one for herself.
Gorya is not a mere goody-two-shoes foil to her character, she's a real one who's brave enough to deal with everything head on.
Min was the most suppressed one in life, dealing with ipv then confused by her sexuality by her own feelings, her homophobic family and also by queer people themselves. Even we as queer individuals can make others uncomfortable despite our intentions
Praew–try to understand my girl– how would you feel if you were, yet again, falling fir a straight woman and without little confirmation in the way of anything. She stood up for Min even when she expected nothing from her
Prim moving yards in her career but for that one girl, she's stuck in a circle. Honestly the Prim Bambi dynamic was the only toxic one but they accepted each other despite everything. As a person she's a strong go-getter and that's part of why Bambi is drawn to her
And Bambi, oh girl. They don't get you but you were fantastic throughout. The most surprising character arc and the acting delivery sold the story. It was a sensitive topic but they portrayed her with all her rights and wrongs, lies and truths
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Both women are fighting over the same thing, that the other stole Runch but neither are particularly concerned about Runch's well being, how she shrinks into herself. She is passive and hapless but the show doesn't support her either; the consequences of her lack of assertiveness has allowed poison into her family, her relationship with her wife and her workplace too.
This show was everything, the best gl of the year perhaps. There are all kinds of love but theirs is one which perseveres when everything in the world falls away. In the end they are the only ones left for each other. The darker aspects of Lene's life and how hard she fights to keep some of the light around her from both Rann, Peem and the memory of her mother made this a high stakes thriller. Well-written and most importantly well placed given that this is only 7 episodes. Also the way Lene looks at Rann, like she's about to devour her whole and then proceeds to do exactly that? 9/10
And yes this! The HEA is assured in every show Asian romcom and, so as to not be deductive, it is also that for most western shows i think? but just not for the extremely side sapphic couples. AO3 has been a fabulous reserve for sapphic stuff but most of the shows aren't even canonically lesbian or end up together
I'm sorry to heart about that and hope you're ok now ❤️ it will be extremely therapeutic when Lene finally gets together with her Rann 🤭
"He/she does the work" would be "karega/karegi" respectively and gay effeminate men (and also the uke/bottom in thai shows) prefer the female or softer versions and so would use "karegi". It's a similar phenomenon in thai language, where suffixes show gender determinant. They are not trans but a machine or AI generated transl can't grasp that hence the issue
It's not easy to leave violent partners even if you know you have to and should. It's not easy to remove the veil and show us the dark side of women in career and industry. None of the three couples might be together in the future, the breakup might be dark and messy, and all this show offers is the right here right now instead of delivering the girls into some sort of send-off into the sunset/paradise
So yes, this show went there did that. And while ratings are completely subjective, here's my subjective opinion that the one star reviews on this are unwarranted and skewed
Shasha is not just a player richie rich model who breaks girls' hearts, she's a victim who fought, she's a girl without a family who makes one for herself.
Gorya is not a mere goody-two-shoes foil to her character, she's a real one who's brave enough to deal with everything head on.
Min was the most suppressed one in life, dealing with ipv then confused by her sexuality by her own feelings, her homophobic family and also by queer people themselves. Even we as queer individuals can make others uncomfortable despite our intentions
Praew–try to understand my girl– how would you feel if you were, yet again, falling fir a straight woman and without little confirmation in the way of anything. She stood up for Min even when she expected nothing from her
Prim moving yards in her career but for that one girl, she's stuck in a circle. Honestly the Prim Bambi dynamic was the only toxic one but they accepted each other despite everything. As a person she's a strong go-getter and that's part of why Bambi is drawn to her
And Bambi, oh girl. They don't get you but you were fantastic throughout. The most surprising character arc and the acting delivery sold the story. It was a sensitive topic but they portrayed her with all her rights and wrongs, lies and truths