Putting an elimination system in a dating show is cruel and disgusting, the show producers should not play with people's feelings like this. The candidates are fully emotionally involved into this adventure and they develop real feelings, eliminating them or eliminating someone they have a crush on for the sake of entertainement is just wrong. After the show there could be very bad consequences for the candidates who are eliminated, this bad experience could mentally and emotionally destroy them. I still can't fathom how the producers came with such a dehumanizing idea...
Anyway I enjoyed this season. I think the conversations they had were really good. The 2 couples also make sense…
About elimination it's not about the fact that it's fun to watch or not, it is just cruel and unfair for the candidates. In a dating show neither producers nor the viewers should be entertained by torturing the candidates' emotions. Because these people involve themselves fully into this adventure and they develop real feelings, so eliminating them or someone they have a crush on for the sake of entertainement is just wrong.
Sorry for the three month pause, everyone. A lot of stuff is happening lately, most of it very stressful. If I…
Glad to see you back ! As said by others your well-being is the most important, so you don't need to apologize. I hope things will quickly get better for you ! And thank you again for maintaining this list 😊
I really don't understand why he didn't get more success in the show and more support from the viewers, he's handsome, funny and has always a cute and positive attitude. What the production of the show did to him is just cruel and disgusting, I hate it. I hope he will find happinness in love and in life, he's brave and he deserves it ❤︎
Agreed, its the best Thai BL I've ever watched and my favourite BL of 2025.
Yeah it’s understandable because Gelboys is way better than the shows you quote in terms of realness and emotions. But to each their own indeed.
As for Shine maybe it gets better afterwards but even if the setting was original, I personally found the first 3 episodes quite boring. This was a succession of confusing scenes with the couples being poorly built and having very little chemistry. But that's my own opinion. And I never rely on awards to determine my favourite shows :p
I've been waiting this BL for many years so I'm happy it finally comes out. However if this BL has really been filmed in 2023 then I'm afraid that its style and execution might feel outdated compared to all the other recent BLs we got since. But hopefully I'm wrong and this BL will positively surprise us !
tbh i prefer 1-2 months than 1 week gay dating show as candidates cant know each others well to pick in a short…
I agree with you on the fact that one week is too short, but I still think that a month is too much. They should go for something like two weeks maybe. Anyway as viewers it's more about how packed the show is and how it pushes the candidates to interact and do stuff. For example in a dating show like "Single Inferno" the contestants stay only for 10 days, but as viewers we never get bored one second because we always see new things happening. Also the way episodes are directed and edited help to make the show dynamic.
I'm still at the beginning of His Man season 4 so I can't tell much about it, other than it was a mistake to put the candidates in different houses as it limits interactions between them. Otherwise the only issue I had with season 3 is that they made the episodes longer for no reason, as some of the dates were too long and therefore boring to watch. And I personally wouldn't want His Man to copy The Boyfriend, each show should keep its identity and find their own good pace and things to do to entertain viewers.
This season was not bad but quite boring tbh. It's not because season 1 was successful that they had to make them stay longer together in the house and make more episodes. Living one month together was already a lot. So expanding it to two months was useless imo, besides being very draining on an emotional level for the candidates. On top of this the show doesn't have any real dynamism. They had very few dates, wrote only two letters to each other in two months, had very little activities all together.
Also the first half of the season was focusing way too much on William and Izaya, and to me their interactions end up being very annoying and boring to watch. Beisdes leaving the candidates at home doing nothing while two go with the coffee truck needs to be changed. First of all I already disliked the coffee truck concept in the first season and thought it was boring and useless, so I hope they'll finally get rid of it next season. And secondly they need to make everyone busy everyday, I'd rather have a show lasting two weeks but with a lot of things happening rather than two months when the candidates stay home most of the time and do nothing.
Other than that the candidates of this season were endearing and I love how they all supported each other and emerged from the show stronger and more mature. I only hope season 3 (if it happens) will change the formula and make it more dynamic and more entertaining to watch.
Jira would have been better ending up alone or with Pheem, but not with Koh. Anyway overall this was a very nice and engaging bl, it's been a long time I didn't enjoy a GMMTV bl this much.
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The candidates are fully emotionally involved into this adventure and they develop real feelings, eliminating them or eliminating someone they have a crush on for the sake of entertainement is just wrong. After the show there could be very bad consequences for the candidates who are eliminated, this bad experience could mentally and emotionally destroy them. I still can't fathom how the producers came with such a dehumanizing idea...
In a dating show neither producers nor the viewers should be entertained by torturing the candidates' emotions. Because these people involve themselves fully into this adventure and they develop real feelings, so eliminating them or someone they have a crush on for the sake of entertainement is just wrong.
And thank you again for maintaining this list 😊
What the production of the show did to him is just cruel and disgusting, I hate it.
I hope he will find happinness in love and in life, he's brave and he deserves it ❤︎
As for Shine maybe it gets better afterwards but even if the setting was original, I personally found the first 3 episodes quite boring. This was a succession of confusing scenes with the couples being poorly built and having very little chemistry. But that's my own opinion.
And I never rely on awards to determine my favourite shows :p
Edit after cancellation : 😢
Anyway as viewers it's more about how packed the show is and how it pushes the candidates to interact and do stuff. For example in a dating show like "Single Inferno" the contestants stay only for 10 days, but as viewers we never get bored one second because we always see new things happening. Also the way episodes are directed and edited help to make the show dynamic.
I'm still at the beginning of His Man season 4 so I can't tell much about it, other than it was a mistake to put the candidates in different houses as it limits interactions between them. Otherwise the only issue I had with season 3 is that they made the episodes longer for no reason, as some of the dates were too long and therefore boring to watch.
And I personally wouldn't want His Man to copy The Boyfriend, each show should keep its identity and find their own good pace and things to do to entertain viewers.
ps : and this profile picture doesn't do him justice, please change it haha. He's way more handsome than on that picture.
On top of this the show doesn't have any real dynamism. They had very few dates, wrote only two letters to each other in two months, had very little activities all together.
Also the first half of the season was focusing way too much on William and Izaya, and to me their interactions end up being very annoying and boring to watch.
Beisdes leaving the candidates at home doing nothing while two go with the coffee truck needs to be changed. First of all I already disliked the coffee truck concept in the first season and thought it was boring and useless, so I hope they'll finally get rid of it next season. And secondly they need to make everyone busy everyday, I'd rather have a show lasting two weeks but with a lot of things happening rather than two months when the candidates stay home most of the time and do nothing.
Other than that the candidates of this season were endearing and I love how they all supported each other and emerged from the show stronger and more mature.
I only hope season 3 (if it happens) will change the formula and make it more dynamic and more entertaining to watch.
Anyway overall this was a very nice and engaging bl, it's been a long time I didn't enjoy a GMMTV bl this much.