Rudravarman

The story is bizarre. I guess, that the series is a kind of flashback, told from a point, when a death occured.

Which teenager in the age 15 has a secret BDSM torture chamber in his closet???
I couldn't even hide an old gay magazine which I accidentally had found in the train and hid under my cupboard, from my mother. *LOL*

They did not even get some screen time in the final. Some secs here and there...

Yes . A short movie would have been ok. I guess, they made 4 eps for more product placements.

Totally agree. For me, this was the best series in 2022. People were upset with the ending, though it is actually happy. The score dropped drastically because all were so disappointed about the final coupling...

I don't care about the story and content. I would even watch this if it were a still picture of Yeon Woo...
I wish someone like him would hang out at my windows.

My thinking. Liang was praying "Dear God, let him be alive" and I was thinking: If you really care about him so much, he wouldn't lie on your bed in the bedroom but on a treatment table in the emergency room of a hospital.
I also find this extremely bad, because a lot of viewers take series and their contents for real and live like that (that is why many series are used for framing = framing effect in psychology)...

Another totally illogical point. Sorry, but I must throw that out... Who thinks it is a good idea to hide at Mum's place? I mean, it is not a secret that Palm is the familiy's servant and took Nueng away. Police will always start searching at relative's places, as will probably also every hitman do. If it was the uncle, he knows Palm and his role (they met some episodes ago). He is mafia - would be easy to find out about Palm's relatives and the mother, where she is etc...

Good advice. But the story is really so illogical that I am forced to think here. I really want to shut off my brains, but as soon as a new scene starts, I am rebooting...

It's not "China" it is mostly the Chinese government and its bureaucrats. China has an extremely large gay/lesbian scene, and even transsexuals are able to come out. In most cases, when LGBT has problems it is because they go too public (like TV series and movies do) and become too political (in the meaning, too critical of the government). It is the same here in Vietnam. I can literally do what I want, as long as I am not political in public. You just don't want to piss off the Communist Party, neither in China, nor in Vietnam.

I apologise that I started to "think" about a Thai BL *555*

So funny that people born and living in big cities, especially capital cities, look down on everyone not born/living there. Otherwise I cannot explain why we haven't seen anything like a TV, a phone, or Internet. Yes, such cultural developments also exist in South Thailand, though I understand that that area must look like a Thai jurassic park for someone who is only used to Bangkok. People from New York probably think someone in Nebraska lives like prehistoric troglodytes.
I mean they do a lot of press conferences. And I am also sure they showed Nueng's picture on TV. I do not therefore see that it is plausible that a) Nueng does not know about his mother, whether she is alive or not, and b) that people would not recognise him.

I just imagined how courts will decide in about 15 years: XYZ, you're guilty of.... Your sentence is: You will get deducted 10,000 followers from your Instagram, TikTok, Bigo and Youtube accounts....

Biased about this. It is too early for me to judge this series. Episode 1 had some points which I absolutely did not like. The mesaage "He was killed...because he had sex". I know, a lot of people will now say...boah, why so serious? It's a joke. Yeah, I know. Okay, you can find homophobia everywhere, if you just dig patiently enough. But I am tired of such statements in BL series.

And then...20 seconds later, we see a bunch of naked guys playing basketball.
I stopped there, had a morning walk, said Happy New Year to my neighbours and enjoyed the first coffee in the year of the cat.
Then I watched more. The episode was quite okay, so so... I can clearly see why a lot of people have fun with this. Maybe it is me. Maybe I have just watched too many Thai BL. Or I am getting too old for this? Or is it the fact that I am not really into this age group (I like more 30 and up, but hard to find, at least in Thai BL where even elderly are played by 20yo - remember Oxygen?).

This isn't a recommendation. In fact, I invite all to watch it. It's for free on Youtube anyway., so no loss.

Ah, and to all in East Asia: A Happy Year of the Cat (in Vietnam) or Year of the Rabbit (outside).

I like this show too, but on the other side I am a bit upset/confused??? that this show has 8.4 while My School President is 8.5. There are worlds in between those series regarding acting, fun, script and directing....

Not sure why this is in my Plan-to-watch-list. Looks interesting, though.

I am not teenager enough anymore to understand why the one excludes the other. Aren't there any singers, actors, artists on this planet who are married?

Yes, sure, they must be celibate. However, it depends all on the school of Buddhism you are ordained in. Southern Buddhism, ie. Theravada, which is prominent in Sri Lanka and Thailand, asks for absolute celibacy of monks. In the Northern Buddhism in China, this is also practiced. In Japan, as you already mentioned, the "monks" do not follow these rules and are allowed to marry and have children. They are therefore called priests instead of monks. Some do vow celibacy, though.

There are several sets of rules.
- every Buddhist, be it monk or lay person, usually follows the 5 basic precepts: not kill, steal, no illegal sex, lie and no use of alcohol/drugs. The last one is usually broken by most lay people. On the Buddha days (4 times a month), there is a set of 8 precepts.
- Novices have to hold on 10 basic precepts (the 5 above plus 5 others, for instance, not alowed to go to party/theater or touch money). The third, the illegal sex, is changed to "no sex at all" for novices (and also monks).
- Monks will have to hold fully on all monk rules, which depend on the school of Buddhism. There are between 227-249 rules.

Having sex is the first rule of all and a so called "broken" rule. If you do that you will lose your status as monk (you can stay in the temple, but will be lifelong a novice, which is a disgrace, so most broken monks will leave).

In other countries, however, like Japan it is a bit different.

I am an ordained monk. Not sure what the screenwriter is up to, but if they follow normal customs, Syn would take the pabbaja ceremony and become a novice. This is what Thai boys and men usually do once in their life. You can do for some weeks, or months, and then just go back to normal, secular life. You can also stay a novice for some years and become then a fully ordained monk. As a novice he must stay celibate. But to be honest, a lot of novices aren't. I mean, those are often just normal boys and men who stay for some weeks. As long as they do not have sex publicly nothing won't happen (The spiritual realm left outside).

I guess they do not need to discuss a relationship, because Syn might come back in some weeks. Thai BL depicts everything so inevitably. It is not that Syn will become a lifetime monk.

Let me guess...the main sponsor was a wig producer...

A bit hard, but I think...directing is neither...