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Untrue.

He does not grow or change, from beginning to end. He repeats his various neuroses over and over. Sad.

Obviously, you haven't watched many BLs. Or you don't pay attention. There is loads of the f**ked up misery you want to see among BLs.

That you consider the sad, messed up life of this show's MC as "the most realistic depiction" you've seen of gay life is what's really f**ked up.

THIS

You think that all "actual" gay people's lives are as f**ked up as this loser's? Your outlook is tragic.

Why are you pushing the offensive term "QUEER" so hard? It's the gay equivalent of N****R and I don't see or hear Black folks raving about "N****R" shows.

I'm gay af and I don't like this series. And it wasn't made "ONLY" for gay people.

8.4 isn't high enough for you?
I'm a gay man. This series is boring garbage.
Also, lots of gay people have lives that are more happy than sad. Stop thinking in black/white terms. Life is not either "sunshine and rainbows" OR thunderstorms and lightning. Life is BOTH.
Furthermore, the MC in this series is the source of his own misery, over and over again. The character learns nothing and never grows. From one awful relationship to another.
Terrible casting too. A plain-looking, annoying fellow such as this does NOT have men falling at his feet, one after the other.
Absurd.

lol

Hi. I already dropped Fahlanruk.
I was amused by much of it, but 30 minutes in, I could tell it was not for me. I found the guy playing Sherbet to be entirely ridiculous from a casting perspective, and was not willing to invest 8 hours in watching the show.

It seems I've completely outgrown that sort of Thai BL, along with most other Thai BLs. There's just so much wrong and annoying about the acting/writing/direction in Fahlanruk. If you're interested, I left a brief comment on the show's MDL page explaining why I was dropping it and giving it a rating.

Oh well...

I gave this a try on the recommendation of a fellow MDLer. Thirty minutes in, I know it's not for me, but it was kind of fun to watch even that much of this show's old-school BL vibe, especially leads who are clearly what MDL Church Ladies like to call "toxic" and "red flags" and all the other terms they think are negatives, but which the rest of us know as "fun, fucked-up bad guys who make lame plots watchable."

That said, even excellently toxic lead characters won't be saving this one for me. Whoever cast that James dude as Sherbet, who is supposedly hot af, a total and very successful player, who all gay men and straight, and trans, women too! obsess over and are in love with, should be shot. Dude is not hot, he has a string-bean bod, and an annoying affect. It's excruciating to watch an actor who is not a devastatingly attractive, romantic lead, try to convince us with each expression and gesture that he is just that.

Tanklao as Fahlan seems to have that leading man vibe potentially, but I'll not be sticking around to find out.

Got a kick out of seeing the Thai BL Uni ratio of two trans women for every one cis woman among the student body. And that queeny gossip in the early lunchtime scene was a stitch. :) Those weird, chopped-bangs Thai haircuts! What is up with that? :)

Dropped. I'm out of here.
1/10

Yes, indeed. Often with her mouth hanging open.

Thanks for the rec.
I have never watched "Fahlanruk." I gave up on almost all Thai BLs past 2020, so never got around to this one. But, at your suggestion, I just went and read the synopsis, which sounds intriguing. But the real clincher is that one of the most supercilious MDLers in the history of MDL, someone I have long found annoying af, left a review there with the title, "Hands-down the worst-written BL of all time."

And thus, I knew I would probably LOVE Fahlanruk. :D

The ass-hat of whom I speak proceeded to write a lengthy piece about how terrible and offensive Fahlanruk is, yet for some reason, he watched the entire show, of course. He has never been big on self-awareness.

So, I am definitely going to give Fahlanruk a look-see.

Come to think of it, actually, this was done well in several old-school Thai BLs, back from before Thai BLs went to s**t: "Together With Me," "Tharntype," "Love By Chance," "Make It Right," and several others, portrayed fervent, young, male romance, right alongside youthful, often raunchy, male lust, and were better for it.

Bingo! And lol at the way you say it. :)
But remember, "you can't have the 24/7 libidos of two young men AND the passionate, romantic, emotional love between two young men, portrayed in the same drama." That is not allowed...or something. :)

With much better casting in the role of Ryu, this might have been a great little psychological thriller.

As it is, however, the idea of handsome, accomplished straight men turning gay and falling in love at first sight with this rather plain-faced, scrawny midget is absurd. When I first realized Ryu was to be taken as the prize stallion among a small stable of money boys, I chuckled. When the Korean photographer was stunned by Ryu's beauty and mystique in the camera's eye, and immediately demanded he follow him back to Seoul, where he could "join any top modeling agency," I laughed. When the strikingly handsome, jilted groom swooned at Ryu's advances and porked him, I guffawed. By the time, near the end, when the Korean photog crossed the hotel hallway to knock, drooling, at Ryu's door, I rolled my eyes.

With an actor whose facial and physical features/charisma match the requirements of the role, this could have smoldered. Instead, it plodded. It didn't help that the Korean's supposed passion for Ryu was played so flatly. It's one thing to sense that heat beneath a calm facade, it's another thing entirely when there's no heat to sense.

The goofy hotel guest who picked Ryu up at the hotel at the end was the highlight of the film. lol Yet one more unsuspecting man turned to jelly at the sight of Ryu's stunning, 4-foot-high looks.

5/10

Nice spoiler.

Exactly.
:)

Martian?

Genie, schmeenie, whatever.

I just considered shutting up and decided not to.
Get to work on that condom thing.