Reviews

A Satisfying Revenge Story That’s Worth Every Minute

This drama is exceptionally well-made, from the cast and production budget to the screenwriting and directing. The female lead’s revenge is incredibly satisfying to watch, and her performance never comes across as arrogant or over the top. Instead, she portrays her character with just the right balance, making every moment of her revenge feel rewarding.

There isn’t a single boring episode, and the story keeps me engaged from beginning to end. What makes this drama even more worthwhile is that I also got to learn about some real historical events behind the story. It’s not just entertaining but also gives me something valuable to learn from.

Overall, this drama is absolutely worth watching. If you enjoy well-executed revenge stories with great acting, solid writing, and historical depth, you should definitely check it out. Highly recommended!

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Best C-drama EVER!

The writing was impeccable for this drama. It was hard to look away for fear of missing something. Both Jing Boran and Sun Qian's performances were exceptional! I would be remiss if I didn't add... I always skip the intro to any drama I watch, but the OST was fantastic. I especially looked forward to "Her" at the beginning of each episode.

This drama sets out to make you feel sorry for the FL and to hate the ML. I loved him, even to the point that I felt sorry for him. They were both products of their upbringing. However, he was thick-skinned, brutally honest, and very brash... far from perfect. Anyone with half a brain could see he was changing and only wanted to protect her. He wasn't the best at communicating his feelings, like most typical masculine men. When he was told he needed to approach differently, he did. He gave more than he received, and he changed for the better. I teared up twice during this drama: once when Sun Yuan Zhu was having a hard time and ultimately took his own life, and the second time when Luke was experiencing heartache during his trip to the aurora. For a man to break down in tears in front of his friends, while talking on the phone when there is no one on the other end of the line, all pretense has been stripped away. All that was left was a man in love with a woman he couldn't hold on to!

She was thin-skinned and dishonest, and her lack of communication skills (for a woman) was pitiful. In fact, she assumed more than she communicated. All of her relationship issues stemmed from her assumptions, deception or outright lies. Not wanting to disclose their relationship, for good reason. However, she didn't know how to create boundaries, especially when it came to men in her life. No man wants to share his woman with other men, but she couldn't get that through her head. Telling her that outright (he tried) was completely offensive because she didn't pick up signals. She wasn't forthcoming, even when it was in her own best interest. She was aggressive when she wanted to be, but timid when she needed to speak up. She sent more mixed signals than a broken traffic light. She took more than she gave... all relationships require compromise and introspection to survive. She could never see what she was doing wrong, which is what set him off every time.

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Up and Poom stand in as Cop and Informant in this BL-police hybrid

Soi Silom houses Bangkok’s redlight district. It is a hub of urban nightlife, including LGBTQ-friendly establishments. Silom clusters restaurants, bars, and massage parlors amidst its connected streets. Entertainment options include the city’s famed host bars where patrons can purchase companionship. The world over, such districts provide the kind of environment predators might target—and it makes total sense as the setting for a hybrid series about a cop falling for a bar host. Re-uniting two years after “My Stand-In,” which may be the most successful BL ever about a couple so toxic almost no one wanted to see them end up together, Up and Poom rekindle their onscreen chemistry playing two very different characters. (Of all the BL actors whose careers are tangled in Thailand’s obsession with “shipped pairs,” these two might have the best claim to be “actors who do BL” as opposed to “BL actors.”) Up plays Krit, a detective investigating a series of murders targeting bar hosts. Poom plays Wayu, a bar host Krit recruits as an informant. Soon, both are in over their heads—in terms of the danger posed by the criminal investigation alike with a growing mutual attraction. Frankly, that set-up creates a storyframe with outstanding potential as both a police drama and a BL romance. Unfortunately, the disparate threads “Love in Silom” seeks to weave together never quite gel into a cohesive whole.

Romance is the strong element. Encounters between Krit and Wayu deliver the expected romantic tingles. Most viewers should find it easy to root for the easy-going, affable student-turned-stripper Wayu and the reserved police detective trying to please everyone while leading a double life. (One to please himself; the other, to please his parents.) If their affair heats up too quickly that is more a flaw of the twelve-episode format—which accelerates the pace of all such relationships—than a flaw of the premise. Krit’s and Wayu’s attempts to commit to one another and tune out the noise around them grounds the series with the makings of a solid BL romance.

Layered on top of the romance is a lot of other stuff. Unfortunately, this other stuff reduces time available to portray “Krit and Wayu get closer.” At the bar, Wayu contends with co-worker rivalries over clients as well as clients who expect too much for their money. Many episodes dedicated time to undress the bar hosts. Costume changes, dances for clients, and even rehearsals all created situations for the actors to doff their clothes. (After the first episode, which gets a waiver to establish the milieu, few such scenes advance the plot; so, I presume they exist to serve the viewing audience a steady diet of prime Thai beefcake.) At home, Wayu contends with a gambling addict mother, plus a deadbeat sister who abandons her toddler son. The pressure to double as caretaker and provider for all three generations compelled Wayu to abandon his college education (he had been in architecture school) and take up selling himself at the bar. Meanwhile, Krit has family issues of his own. Not only is his father one of the most virulently homophobic BL parents in recent years, but he is also Krit’s superior at work, where Krit must tread carefully lest any misstep sully his father’s reputation. Moreover, his wealthy family expects him to wed a girl from a family whose standing matches their own. He has persuaded childhood chum Rose to be a beard: outwardly, she agrees to be his fiancée. Just don’t ask either to set a date, because Rose knows Krit bats for the other team. (She is a great character.) When Angry Dad learns of the charade, he takes active steps to break Krit apart from Wayu. Parental opposition to same-sex couples or couples mismatched in wealth are a tedious genre staple, but in this case the virulence of Krit's father's anti-gay rants sour much of the good feeling the BL romance generated.

In addition to the family drama, Love in Silom also delivers one of the more credible police procedurals from among the rapidly growing ranks of BL-cop hybrid series. (Police-in-love is clearly the 2025-26 trend in Thai BL!) By “credible,” I do not imply that the police work portrayed resembles genuine police investigations, but rather that the investigation itself is reasonably complex and layered, whereas many BL-cop hybrids write crimes so superficial that the characters need only go through the motions of policework. This one supplies genuine menace. Whether an actual detective would draw a civilian informant so deeply into the investigation must be overlooked for the sake of a BL. I would also argue that the seriousness of the crimes under consideration—some side characters get murdered along the way and others get kidnapped and tortured—do not necessarily fit the customary mood of a BL series. As a result, Love in Silom skews darker than the BL genre generally. Though whether Love in Silom’s creators regard the police story as primary and the BL romance as secondary is a question that could be debated.

In closing, Love in Silom merits a cautionary endorsement to potential viewers. Viewers who treasure BL for “idealized fantasy” and pure escapism could skip it. This series portrays a gritty side of life, and its romance never quite eclipses its heavier elements. If the BL romance often feels lost amidst noise from the characters’ familial and professional responsibilities, that romance itself delivers exactly what BL fans crave: a romance they can root for. Up and Poom once again deliver solid chemistry between themselves and solid acting in bringing their characters to life. If the duo’s latest pairing falls short of the prior one that judgment does not necessarily signal a complete disappointment. “My Stand-In” was excellent. But if the earlier work set a benchmark to indicate the potential of this pairing, this particular script falls short of hitting that same high level. It settles for merely good.

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what's with all the AI??!!

The story has not progressed far enough for the rating to be accurate yet, but what's standing out to me the most at the moment is the abhorrent and obnoxious use of AI. The entire intro is ai, they use ai for clips that they could just film, such as people walking and rain falling. Like come on! If you want to make a tv show why not actually make it yourself, not just run it through a computer. Its incredibly distracting and just a bit unattractive. To me, it makes it feel like no passion was put into this show, that it is completely half assed and no real effort or consideration was put into the making of it. Ai is a disastrous and ridiculous tool that has absolutely NO place in the film industry, rather ruining the show for me from the beginning.

However, despite of this, I have decided to continue watching it. From the beginning I will say that they are not shy, with a fiery and strong physical relationship established almost immediately. I think this show will be a hit with watchers who prefer smut and passion to deep and emotional connection. I can sense a toxic and unhealthy relationship developing, but I don't think that's particularly a bad thing in this show.

From what i can see in this show, there is little to no plot outside of the smut, choosing to completely neglect plot lines or developed characters outside of their sexual dynamics. I understand that this is a show for the smut enjoyers, but even just a little plot would do it some good, but instead each episode is 20 minutes of pure sex, with a few lines of dialogue here and ther. It just feels empty and incomplete, rather a waste of time.

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I'll definitely be rewatching this chaotic, hot, and so very loveable show again!

Okay, so Season 2 actually made me go back and reevaluate my rating of Season 1 because I liked it so much… I know there was a lot of hate over S2 and I’m honestly not sure why? Was it messy? Oh absolutely! Did it expand on pretty much all the characters and punch the angst levels waaaay up? You better believe it did!!

Like with the first season, car racing is really more of an excuse to put the characters in all kinds of situations™ than anything else. Because what’s way more relevant in S2 are the challenges the special Alphas of the main cast face as their powers start to intensify and a certain father figure reappears and starts to manipulate his ex-kids again. S2 felt even more speculative/sci-fi than S1, which was very enjoyable and gripping. I was also expecting to hate the Willy plotline, and the tease that Babe would cheat on Charlie, but this whole plot turned out to be both more angsty and relevant than I expected. Also this goes without saying for most BLs, but PLEASE watch the BTS for S2! It’s so funny and provides a great perspective on how they approached a lot of the acting/production choices!

Pretty much all the couples that are teased in S1 get together in S2, including a few surprises like Pete and Chris, Way’s long-lost twin brother and Kim and Kenta, my beloveds. I wasn’t sure about the recasting Nut as Chris thing, but omg did this guy serve as his new character! In the BTS, he refers to him as Christina and has this whole very gay persona for the role and I love it so much. Definitely made me like the character a lot more than I expected.

Again, the ending of S2 was pretty messy, but I honestly liked it a lot better than S1’s ending. I felt they took more time to flesh out characters and their relationships, and the Charlie and Babe plot had me absolutely on the edge of my seat. I get that S2 wasn’t for everyone, but I frankly found it made me like the show as a whole even more. Getting to spend this much time with these characters was amazing as a 8 or 12 episode show sometimes feels too short, and I will definitely be rewatching this chaotic, hot, and so very loveable show again.

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I’ll admit, I started watching this series with a lot of apprehension because it tackles such a heavy, delicate subject: religion, faith, and sexuality. At the same time, I was really curious to see how the story would play out in just 6 episodes.

Tanrak is a deeply religious, orphaned young man who believes that by faithfully following his faith and becoming a priest, he’ll be able to reunite with his parents in heaven. His religious calling isn’t just a choice, it’s deeply tied to his grief and his longing for his family. But everything he believes in is shaken to its core when Barth arrives at the school: a rebellious guy with family issues and a lot of emotional baggage.

Living together starts to change them both, bringing a growing intimacy. Tanrak gives Barth emotional safety, while Barth gives Tanrak the freedom to actually feel. Eventually, they stop pretending it’s just friendship and realize they’re truly in love. But Tanrak still believes he has to choose between Barth and his religious calling, constantly living in fear of being found out. One scene that really got to me was when he gathered all the little things Barth had given him and burned them, trying to convince himself that if he destroyed the memories, he could destroy the love. At the same time, Barth is hurting too, because he feels like loving Tanrak might be destroying the most important dream of Tanrak’s life.

Ticket to Heaven isn’t just a typical teen romance about coming of age, It’s a story that handles the conflict between faith, religion, and a supposedly forbidden love with so much delicacy and wisdom. It’s a beautiful journey of spiritual growth. Tanrak starts out close to God and learns not to be afraid of love. Barth starts out far from God and learns that faith doesn’t automatically mean rejection.

The series was a total emotional rollercoaster. It made me smile and it made me cry. When Tanrak says, “I’m scared God will reject me,” it genuinely broke my heart for him. The last two episodes were absolute masterpieces and had me crying an ocean. How can anyone ever be 100% sure who is closest to God? Just looking religious or going to church doesn’t mean you have true spirituality and that’s what both characters learn.

As for the cast: A powerhouse ensemble with solid acting that just made the whole series shine even brighter. It was so great to see Gemini and Fourth in a much more mature, dramatic series than the ones we’re used to seeing them in. Both of them did an incredible job. I’m so glad they got the chance to really show off their acting skills.
The character who won my heart: Auntie Lek. So much wisdom! “I did wonder, I wondered if, after leaving, God would still love me. But in the end, here I am. I can still love Him just the same.” I love her with all my heart.

The character who surprised me: Father Arnon. I’ll admit I started the show fully prepared to hate him, but when Tanrak goes to him and confesses that he loves Barth, the father’s reaction caught me completely off guard. Tanrak’s confession is heavy with guilt and fear, but instead of condemning him, Father Arnon comforts him. He tells him that God will always love him, that love isn’t wrong, but that he has to take responsibility for his actions and choose how he wants to live. He gives Tanrak the freedom to choose his own path in life and faith. And when Father Arnon hugs Tanrak, he gives off the energy of a parent who doesn’t stop loving their child just because they chose a different path than imagined, He’s someone who will always be there, no matter what. Father Arnon is a drop of water in the desert, both in fiction and in real life.

As for the pacing/direction: I was worried about how the story could possibly develop in only 6 episodes. But they were perfection. No need for filler subplots or unnecessary characters. They told the exact story they wanted to tell and delivered the exact message they wanted to get across. If it had been any longer, the plot probably would have gotten lost in unnecessary clutter. Smart writing filled with powerful metaphors and sensitive direction turned this into a little masterpiece.

“If God teaches us to love, but we’re not allowed to love each other, then what’s the point of having God in this world?” If God is love, why would Tanrak’s love for Barth automatically push him away from God? Is loving someone really wrong? Ticket to Heaven isn’t simply a story of religion versus love. It’s about religion AND love. It shows that one doesn’t have to be the enemy of the other, and that they can and Should coexist harmoniously. A little masterpiece about two people who have to rebuild the meaning of love, faith, and freedom after being taught that those things could never go together.

Highly, highly, highly recommended!

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Pit Babe is one heck of a ride

Okay, so I finally got around to watching Pit Babe!! Omg, absolutely not what I was expecting and frankly, I’m really happy about that! I knew it was Omegaverse-adjacent, but after THE Omegaverse BL, ABO Desire, I was prepared to be disappointed. I also didn’t know about the whole nontraditional CharlieBabe relationship and admittedly hesitated because I assumed it would be another cool big guy/cute little guy dynamic which isn’t my fave… So first off, it’s not really an Omegaverse show. Yes, Mpreg is canonically possible, but it hovers as a vague threat over Babe’s head and the Alpha and Enigma titles mostly refer to having supernatural powers. Instead, what seems to be a sports drama turns into a bigger story involving human trafficking, adoptive siblings, betrayal, and mafia-type activities. The car racing mostly functions as a way to heighten the drama at pivotal moments—my absolute favorite racing sequence is when they cut between a particularly pivotal race and an incredibly steamy locker-room scene between Charlie and Babe.

Regarding CharlieBabe, there has been a lot of hate about the nontraditional top/bottom dynamic in Pit Babe (the mock-bickering about it between Pooh and Pavel is really funny tbf). Frankly, I LOVED this choice and I appreciate that from what I understand it is more emphasized than in the novel in which Charlie is significantly bigger than Babe. I personally don't often enjoy the assumption that the smaller, more feminine partner has to be the bottom while the bigger, more masculine one has to top. And with Charlie and Babe, I feel like those tropes are further destabilized because neither of them are forced into a more feminine or masculine box, even with the whole “papa/mama” thing. Babe is giving major James Dean while Charlie’s nerdy look and sassy attitude truly make him such a puppy.

I was not as invested in the second relationship in the first season between Alan and Jeff, but it was definitely cute and fit a more traditional vibe for those who prefer that. There were a few other relationships teased throughout, but you gotta see season 2 for most of them to actually blossom (and boy were they worth the wait)! Also shoutout to Kim, the bestest boy! He’s somehow both the normalest and least messed-up of the entire cast and he still gets dragged right into the middle of the chaos.

The ending was pretty rushed and messy which is what lowered my rating a smidge, but over-all Pit Babe was one hell of a ride!

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NO

No lie, this entire series needs to burn. It actually doesn't get enough hate because the actress but watching it for the story itself you come to the realization that its disgusting. Sure the young girl is 20-21, but we literally watch her go from Highschool to college. Her grandma, Her dad, Her mom treats her like a child and she acts like a child. Like i just watched a 36 yo groom a child and everyone around her is rooting for her..

On the bright side i figure out that Gap, Blank, Affair are in the same universe.
On the dark side Nueng and Sam are questionable

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ABO Desire is an utterly wild show… Mpreg, anyone?

I started ABO Desire intrigued by the promise of an Omegaverse BL but otherwise largely clueless as to what it would be about (I heard about the show from a comment on Tumblr of all places). The first few episodes lay out the wild world of bureaucratic intrigue that all of our main characters have ties to, while also teasing the relationship between the delicate Omega secretary Hua Yong and the wealthy Alpha CEO Sheng Shaoyou. I’ll admit, at first I was disappointed with how straight-foreward this couple’s relationship seemed to be. Shaoyou’s heart melting for Hua Yong, while cute, wasn’t particularly compelling to me and I kept wishing that Shaoyou would be the bottom in the relationship instead, idk he just had those vibes. I settled in to watch the drama between the second couple, Omega-disguised-as-Beta secretary Gao Tu and Alpha CEO Shen Wenlang, which seemed more intriguing…

Okay, but the entire show is built on an important twist that I began to piece together pretty quickly: Hua Yong is actually the secretive CEO of X Holdings, and a rare Enigma. His plan? Make Sheng Shaoyou fall madly in love with him and then turn him into his own Omega. Why? Because he’s obsessed.

The plot of this show is chaotic, full of forced ruts/heats, so much business drama, and many relationship red flags, particularly from the two platonic besties, Hua Yong and Shen Wenlang. Gao Tu spends most of his screentime throwing up in the bathroom or passing out from his pheromone disorder/his secret Omega identity/being pregnant. He is truly the saddest boy and I love the guy so much! Shen Wenlang wouldn’t know love if it passed out in front of him (see Gao Tu), but is somehow incredibly, infuriatingly likeable. Hua Yong is… well, the man is the textbook definition of a toxic, obsessive partner and somehow still manages to have the audience root for him?? He’s special that way I guess… And then there’s my beloved Sheng Shaoyou. Turns out my bottom-radar was correctomundo because guess who gets pregnant?? Mr. S-class tough-boy Alpha himself. God I loved that twist.

Two cases of Mpreg, plenty of angst and peril, and some deeply sexy scenes—this show is well-worth a watch, even if you know next-to-nothing about the Omegaverse. And out of all the BL I’ve watched so far, these characters are definitely four of the most iconic.

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ridicola!

le storie di vendetta sono uno dei miei generi preferiti e così ho dato una chance a questo drama.

trama: una donna si insinua nella vita di uno uomo sposato. ciò che rimane al termine della loro relazione sono detriti e rancori che la moglie deve sistemare.

tutto sembrava nella norma ma la serie non decolla mai.

sebbene la trama fosse interessante,la messa in scena è assolutamente ridicola.
tutto risulta sopra le righe e illogico.

prendiamo ad esempio la protagonista. una donna tradita che scopre le vere intenzioni dell'amante del marito mesi dopo che questa relazione l ha portato al suicidio.
furiosa, questa donna cerca vendetta contro golia, ma lei non si avvicina minimamente a Davide. cosa intendo? questa donna non ha alcun strumento a sua disposizione per rovinare la vita alla villain. si susseguono interminabili episodi di lei che minaccia l amante del marito con frasi ad effetto senza mai poter realmente agire sulla situazione. ad un certo punto si ritrova senza casa , senza soldi, senza mezzi.
non ha nemmeno l'astuzia dalla sua parte perché continua a spiattellare alla sua rivale i suoi pianti di vendetta. una roba che ti manda ai matti alla 20esima volta.

sono sempre gli uomini della serie ad intervenire per salvarla. lei non raggiunge alcun risultato da sola.

la villain:
sebbene interessante all'inizio, non si riesce mai a capire. le motivazioni che la spingono a comportarsi così sono incomprensibili. la serie punta al fatto che sia una sorta di rivalsa contro un padre respingente ma la trovo abbastanza lacunosa come giustificazione per tutti gli atteggiamenti della "cattiva".

punto chiave:
la storia ruota intorno a un agenzia matrimoniale di elite , che apre porte altrimenti inaccessibiliti , ai propri membri. la dirigente dell'agenzia è una donna misteriosa e tale rimane. ancora brancolo nel buio sul perché questa donna abbia messo in piedi una tale agenzia per poi gestirla come il dietro le quinte di un teatro per bambini.
gli interessi della proprietaria sono chiari: tenersi stretta l'elite e negoziare affari utilizzando matrimoni vantaggiosi come merce di scambio. seppur logico come punto iniziale, la gestione di tale agenzia è quantomeno illogica.

il protagonista:
ne ho visti di interessi amorosi che non sanno né di carne né di pesce,ma questo li batte tutti. un uomo agognato da qualsiasi donna per il proprio portafoglio. un personaggio assolutamente di carta pesta senza volontà ne personalità. la cosa che mi fa morire dalla risate è che quest' uomo viene trattato alla stregua di un Jeff Bezos , ma in realtà possiede una compagnia di video giochi. nel mondo reale,a parte pochissime grandi aziende, le piccole società non navigano certo nell oro.
nel drmaa viene persino mostrato un gioco in fase di sviluppo... dire che ho riso per non piangere è dir poco.

conclusione:
l'unico pregio che vedo in questi drama è la capacità di inserire un bel cliff hanger alla fine di ogni episodio tanto da farti tornare.
è una storia di vendetta di una donna che non riesce mai a concludere niente e di un altra che tratta tutti come pezze da piedi perché si.

sconsiglio

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