Reviews

That was novel and cute...

For a change not the typical 08/15 BL we already know, a new concept which was interesting. Jiakai sees the "threads" connecting people, be it enemies, lovers, friends or undefined ones. The only thread he can't see is his own, because he does not have one - which is a bit strange, because he clearly loves his grandma and grandma loves him - so it makes no sense that he has none. But we will overlook this little "phopah" (faux pas) for the sake of the story.

Due to circumstances he meets the police officer Dawei who is hostile to him and accuses him to be a "perverted student". While this is a comedy, it also has it's depths. Both characters approach each other with a certain curiosity and certain distance. Jiakai has a very hard time to deal with Dawei, because he does not believe in any supernatural things at all.

The final episodes are especially heart-warming, but the finale does not feel like a finale because, drum roll: There will be a special episode which will hopefully give us the end the characters and we the viewers do deserve.

So all in all, this was a fun watch, it was interesting and it was not boring. The side character is more or less the comic relief but he is not even close to be annoying as so many thai characters I remember. If you wish for something light, something which will distract you from the shit happening on this world, that's the right series to watch!

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It's not that emotional.

I signed up for a deep psychological bl drama. I got a sly flip-flopping irritating must have a happy ending at all cost bl drama. The beginning caught me. The mystery. Big Jane ominous presence. Little Jane bold but innocent nature.

Somewhere around episodes 6 or 7, it lost me and never picked back up the intrigue. It's not that it didn’t have the ingredients, it's how it came across. Personally, a drama like this should have been less family friendly and darker.

The nc at the end too performative. The voices lacking desire or intensity. The music straight from a 1970's psychedelic trippy film. Try watching the first few minutes of ep 5 of Never Forget Your Enemy and you'll get what I'm getting at. In fact all nc and kisses from that series is an upgrade.

I do like the ending with everything revealed and why but the overall viewing was not that surprising in any way.

I'm taking a break from Thai bl as it has become more grand standing and attractiveness than content and talent. Possibly when more on the level of Mile, Apo, Bible, Ohm, Fourth etc. is available. This is just off the top of my head and not favoritism.

It's not bad so I will say it is an okay watch.

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MaxkyBas were great. I just wasn't the audience for this particular kind of show.

I think Maxky and Bas are genuinely one of the funniest Thai BL pairings I've come across, and they also have a chemistry that feels incredibly natural to me. They already stood out to me in Fourever You, so when they were announced as the leads of their own series, I was really excited.

I also really liked how different their characters are from the ones they played in Fourever You. It almost feels like their personalities have been completely flipped. Bas, who was so cheeky and confident there, plays a much more shy and nerdy character here, while Maxky goes from the cool and mysterious type to someone loud, chaotic and completely over the top. I thought that was really fun to watch, especially because both of them pull off the switch so well.

I was also genuinely interested in the gaming setting, especially because I'm at least somewhat familiar with gaming myself. I had hoped the series would make the competitive side exciting even for someone who isn't deeply involved in esports. Unfortunately, I often felt like the gaming storyline was aimed more at people who already enjoy that world, and it never managed to pull me in emotionally the way I had hoped.

So this isn't really a case of Be My Player Two being a bad fit for MaxkyBas. Quite the opposite — I think the series uses their strengths very well. I just realised that their particular brand of comedy and the way the gaming story is told aren't quite my thing.

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Everyone seemed to be acting in their own separate drama and then meeting in the edit.

Ah, guys. I don't know what happened between me and Eve. I really don't. This was supposed to work. The ingredients are all there: OTT melodrama, cheating, brawling, chaebol families, revenge, betrayal , honestly, it has everything it needs to be a good drama.

And I'm not surprised the story works. I hear a production company in England has picked up Eve for a remake, which shows the bones are good. The problem is that somewhere between the bones and the finished product, somebody lost the plot.

I don't know if it was casting, directing, editing, pacing — probably a little bit of everything — but something was fundamentally misaligned. The exposition is fine, the story itself is intriguing, but the pacing is just off. And then there is the chemistry. Or, more accurately, the complete absence of it.

Have you heard of this instance where an actor isn't available on the day of filming, so one person performs their side of the scene and the other comes in later, and then the editors stitch it together so it looks like they're in the same room? I genuinely felt like Eve was doing that half the time. Everyone seemed to be acting in their own separate drama and then meeting in the edit.

Song Ye-ji's character, Eve, was fundamentally misaligned with almost every man in her orbit. Her husband? No chemistry. The man she's having an affair with? No chemistry. Her childhood saviour? Still no chemistry. And these are supposed to be the emotional anchors of the entire story! There was nothing pulling me into any of these relationships.

And don't even get me started on Sora. As a standalone chaebol villain, she actually works. She's cartoonish, yes, but at least she commits to the assignment. She emotes, she goes for it, and honestly, she sometimes seemed to be the only person who had received the memo about what drama she was starring in. Her father, played by a veteran actor, is perfectly fine, but even he is fighting a very thin script.

That's really the problem with Eve. It is so heavily stylised that the styling starts doing the emotional work the drama itself isn't doing. It is gorgeous to look at, absolutely. But at some point, beautiful clothes, beautiful sets and beautiful lighting cannot substitute for pathos.

I needed movement. I needed fluidity. I needed to feel why these people wanted each other, hated each other, loved each other, betrayed each other. Instead, everything felt strangely airless and disjointed.

And I really tried. I picked it up, dropped it, picked it up again, dropped it again. By the eighth episode, it was taking me three to five days to finish one episode. At that point, the relationship between me and Eve was more complicated than any relationship actually happening in the drama.

Honestly, I think Eve needs the remake.

I'm actually looking forward to the British version because I think there is a genuinely good story buried in here. Give it better casting alignment, better chemistry, more emotional grounding and a little less obsession with looking expensive, and you might actually have something.

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Thread of Love is Red not Pink

The plot is really good, I just wish they utilize more the power of thread. Also, I hope they gave Dawei and Jiakai more scenes like how they decided to become a boyfriend, their dating and domestic life at the end. Because most of the scenes from the first episodes end up using by Jiakai's best friends scenes and I think some of them are pure nonsense.

The acting by the two main leads is really great and their chemistry is lovey dovey. It's been a while since Taiwan gave me this kind of slow burn BL without NC scenes but worth to watch at the end. Everytime I see them on my screen together, I want to hug them because my heart can contains my happiness. I hope they can work together with another BL series in the future.

Also if you don't skip the outro of every episodes, I'm loving the advice of Ms. Peggy. The advices and lessons is actually very helpful and fun to learn so I'm glad they added it at the end of every episodes. ^_^

Finally, I just wish they gave us 1 more kiss at the end of episode because what do you when we only got that cockroach kiss in the whole series? I hope they atleast give us a special episode with Dawei and Jiakai's domestic life, maybe the continuation of their dating on the amusement park? Anyways, overall it's worth to watch so I will recommend it. :)

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Loved the series

Max really took 180 degree u turn from Johan, from quiet character to a utter hilarious character, same goes to Bas, he's such a versatile actor, he could be the chaotic North and the introverted Soh.


It was my first time watching a gaming series, it was a new one for me. Max acting was so funny, the initial episodes were so hilarious


Ohh Gunner, I'm glad i got to see more of your acting here. I really liked JackTen


There were times where their fights got to my nerve, but still this series was good. I'm sad now that this series has ended

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A masterclass in watching two gorgeous people make questionable decisions

Wow. Wow, wow, wow. I lost myself in this drama. I was down bad. A total gone girl.

When I wasn't watching The Early Spring, I was watching edits on TikTok. When I was watching it, I was on my laptop while simultaneously holding my phone so I could clip the scenes I loved because, naturally, Netflix's clipping function lives on the phone app. So at some point, I had two screens. One drama. Zero dignity.

And the truly deranged part is that even while I was watching it, I was already mourning the day I would run out of episodes. That, to me, is how you know you love a drama.

What makes The Early Spring so compelling is how real its world feels. These people feel like they actually exist. The class dynamics, workplaces, families, friendships and social expectations are recognisable, but the drama still manages to put this incredibly heady, toxic, sexy romance right in the middle of it.

Luke and Flora are, frankly, two of the sexiest characters I've encountered in Asian drama land. There are moments where I genuinely feel like I should leave the room because these people deserve privacy. But part of what makes their romance so compelling is that the drama doesn't constantly ask us to insert ourselves into it.

Unlike many dramas that deliberately position the male lead as someone who is essentially wooing you, The Early Spring makes you an observer. I wasn't Flora. I was watching Flora. I felt like I was sitting in their boardroom, their marketing department, their lounge, watching these people make questionable decisions in real time. And I found that incredibly refreshing.

The class commentary is also one of the drama's strongest elements. Luke and Flora come from very different worlds, and the drama is interested in how those differences shape the way they see themselves, each other and the world around them. It doesn't reduce class to simply rich versus poor. It is much more interested in the invisible cushioning that money, family, education and social position can provide.

And then there is the discourse about who the red flag is, which I think is one of the more interesting things to emerge from watching this drama. Without getting into spoilers, I think the show asks us to interrogate something we often get wrong in romance: being a good person is not automatically the same thing as being a good partner.

Decency, kindness and attraction are not rare. But a romantic relationship requires more. You need emotional safety, reassurance, encouragement, understanding and peace. Those are the truffles.

Not everyone can be peace to another person. Not everyone can be love. Not everyone can be assurance.

And I think The Early Spring is very interested in that distinction. It doesn't give us a perfectly communicative, perfectly emotionally intelligent couple. Instead, it gives us two adults with different experiences, expectations and emotional vocabularies trying to navigate attraction, ambition and intimacy.

That is also why I think the drama's treatment of class, gender, age, money and ambition works so well. Love doesn't exist in a vacuum. Who you are, where you come from and what you have experienced inevitably affects how you love and what you expect from another person.

What I particularly appreciate is that the drama never becomes emotionally exhausting despite all of this. There is messiness, conflict and questionable decision-making, but The Early Spring has a wonderful sense of lightness and movement. It lets its characters be complicated without making the viewing experience miserable.

And perhaps that's why I've become so attached to it.

Its not often you get a drama that is romantic without being completely detached from reality, sexy without constantly winking at us, socially observant without becoming a lecture, and full of people who can be selfish, tender, ridiculous, privileged, insecure and incredibly hot , sometimes within the same five minutes. This is a feat

So yes, I highly, highly, highly recommend The Early Spring.

It is a workplace romance, a class study, a commentary on gender and ambition, and, most importantly, a masterclass in watching two gorgeous people make questionable decisions while you sit there completely invested.

I have thoroughly enjoyed losing myself in this drama

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Saving lives never looked this good

Medical dramas always pull me in, and this one was no exception. What I loved most, though, was the setting. The small village gave the drama such a warm and comforting atmosphere, making it feel different from the usual hospital-centered stories. I ended up getting attached not only to the main characters, but also to all the villagers. They made the community feel alive, and every interaction added a little more heart to the story.
Lee Jae Wook... my handsome oppa. He once again reminded me why he's one of my favorite actors. His chemistry with Shin Ye Eun was beautiful and completely natural. They complemented each other so well that I found myself smiling through so many of their scenes together. It may not have reinvented the medical drama genre, but the combination of the charming village setting, the lovable supporting cast, and the chemistry between the leads made it such an enjoyable watch.

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What a let down

finally,the tale of the demon big jane come to an end, the show had great cast with great chemistry, nice setting and locations, and a potential good story that sadly stayed as potential, i cant help but be dissapointed with it bcz it was a look forward for me
Since ep 1, i pointed out that te serie is missing something, fpr 3 episodes we've been told about bj dark side yet we didn't get to see it, by ep 5 we got just a man with anger management issue that have no respect to boundaries and cant take a no, in 2nd half we got lover boy
I kept waiting for big reveal of dark side yet it got nowhere, than there come the boring character aka Lil jane, indecisive character, he never trusted BJ since moment one, which was why i couldn't connect with their undying love story, his wishy washy personality was my enemy, bcz instead of exploring the actual conflict, the story just kept dragging the 2jane through tge same endless cycle of separation, doubt, reconciliation, doubt again, and more unnecessary angst,
Lj would question bj, distance himself, come back, question him again, decide he couldnt trust him,tgen remember he loved him, then need more time to think...an endless loop without character development whatsoever, tgqn there come amnesia which was a filler to drag show more episodes, Dan who was a plot device than appear out of nowhere than dissappear was not intersting, his encyclopedia of information by final had no impact , gladly he died tho, anyway tgis is getting long, i kinda want to cook lil jane more but ill wrap up the review

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Coming back home never felt so good

It's crazy to think that the original LoveSick was one of the very first Thai BLs I ever watched. Back then, it was something completely different. Despite the censored kisses and the open ending of the first season, it managed to capture that innocent feeling of first love and longing in a way that stayed with me for years. That's why I was a little nervous about this remake, but it ended up being a really pleasant surprise. Instead of simply copying the original, it kept its heart while cutting away much of the unnecessary drama that made the old version feel stretched at times. Fitting such a long story into just 15 episodes could have easily felt rushed, but I think they did a great job focusing on what truly mattered. The casting was excellent, the production felt more polished, and the chemistry between the leads made it easy to fall in love with the story all over again. I also appreciated that Noh and Ohm's friendship received more attention, adding another layer of warmth to the drama. This remake doesn't try to replace the original. It simply retells it in a more modern, tighter way.

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It had my heart... almost

This had everything it needed to become one of my favorite dramas. The story is simple, light, and refreshing, the kind of romance that's easy to watch and perfect for a cozy binge. The chemistry between the leads felt natural, and their performances made it easy to believe in their relationship. But somehow... something was missing.
I kept waiting for that one moment that would completely steal my heart, and it never came. I enjoyed every episode, but I never became as emotionally attached to the characters as I wanted to. It's a sweet drama with plenty of charming moments, yet it never quite reached its full potential for me. I really wanted to love it more than I did, and maybe that's why it left me with such a bittersweet feeling.

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a bl with actual plot, on top of that dark romance. yes please

id i say this is dark romance. as i havnt read the novel ik that this one is absolute gold of a series as well as of the novel. it was dark dark romance in novel idk why but the drama did it a little tone down. let me tell you big jane is the biggest red flag. his actions throughout the series prove so too. i absolutely loved the concept and the director to be bold. acting was top notch. the handsomeness in this was like eye candy bug jane took away the focus with his ethereal facecard. and not to talk abt the ost , i argue this is the if not the best ost . like OMFG . this series was absolutely perfect. if anyone is wondering if they should watch t or not, trust me it wont DISSAPOINT YOU unless you dont enjoy micommunication, red flag, a long time to continue relationship and ofc we have the toxicity. but for me all i needed was this series to feel the amazingness in todays bl . hence i say one of the best bl of 2026 and will be in my rec list

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Violent psycho maniac and his Vanilla

This has significant minus points from me, despite there being significant plus points too.

The minus points are the 20 first minutes I proudly skipped (not even fast-forwarded) — the rating, thanks to me doing the editing work for the editor, gets +2.0 on the rating.

The PWP sex scene, which was just hilarious — did Little Jane watch porn before this intercourse?

The absolutely disgusting episode where Big Jane approved of women hitting/beating. That is the biggest taint of this series; there wasn't even an attempt at redeeming it there.

Misleading trailer — I would rather see BigJ (not Big Jane's BigJ's, not to confuse!) as a seriously meant demon than it being Little J's fantasy projection.

Which brings us to... hideous sculpture.

Overuse of art fields. Like, if everyone is an artist, it gets obviously too much (no, hon, no, IRL everyone is, no worries — it stops making sense only in fiction).

Despite what was being said and/or if we like Biggie JJ, Biggie JJ IS a red flag. He is manipulative, obsessive as fuck, and approves of violence. Even contributes to it. So — no, no grass anywhere near him, sorry. 🤷

Any excuse why, after LilJj removes Dan from Jamie, BigJJ is standing there like a dumb yo-yo?

Plus points:

They are really good at angsty, dark waters. I would stick to that, and I would cut the crap about LilJ's vanilla personality.

Also, I wish they got a better script next time. Not only exciting, tensioning, darking, and making sense, but also not a stupid one.

...I mean, the first 22 minutes were absolute crap I would cut out — and no, making it extreme later on just highlights how crap the first 22 minutes were. Don't do this, please. Do not waste 22 initial minutes for some psycho move later on.

...I am gonna write down the rest later...

...OK, Imma not: I' m not surprised the rating here dropped, and I expect it to drop further.

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