Reviews

The Beautiful Bond of Two Brothers ❤️

The series shows their daily struggles—handling pressure from sports, dealing with family expectations, and figuring out their own dreams. The storytelling feels simple and quiet, but it hits deeply because everything is grounded in real emotions instead of dramatic twists.

One of the strongest parts of the series is how it portrays autism. Gym’s character is written and acted with respect, care, and accuracy. The show doesn’t treat his condition as something to pity. Instead, it shows how he sees the world, what overwhelms him, and what helps him feel safe. This makes the representation feel very human and honest. The acting from both leads is powerful: Gym’s performance feels natural and detailed, while Dong shows the heavy emotional responsibility of being both a brother and a caretaker. Their relationship feels raw, loving, frustrating, and real—like watching an actual pair of siblings trying to grow together.

The sports element adds more depth instead of being just decoration. The badminton scenes are exciting, but more important is what the sport symbolizes: trust, teamwork, and learning to handle pressure. Even if you know nothing about badminton, you can feel what each match means to the characters. The pacing is slow but intentional, giving space for emotions to breathe and for viewers to connect with the characters’ struggles. In the end, “Side by Side” stands out because it focuses on emotional truth. It’s a gentle but powerful story about family, acceptance, and the fear of losing the person you rely on the most. It leaves you both warm and thoughtful long after it ends.

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1% BL Romance, 99% Chaos

The Cursed Love has a great premise, but I don’t think it was executed well. Watching this series feels like solving abstract algebra — it made me question whether I was slow or something, because most of the time I had no idea what was happening. But honestly? I don’t think that’s the case. I’ve watched over 200 BL series, and even the most complex one I’ve seen — 4Minutes — still made complete sense to me. This one? Not so much.

I get that the plot revolves around reincarnation — all three characters coming back to life and trying to change their fate — but like I said, it wasn’t carried out properly. The script is messy and all over the place, and so many things just don’t make sense. Like… someone gets struck by lightning and suddenly becomes a zombie?

It’s a shame because the actors can definitely act, especially considering they’re rookies. They deserved a much better plot and script. There is chemistry between the leads, but the sweet moments are so limited. And because the romance clearly isn’t the main focus, it’s hard to connect emotionally. If you’re here for pure BL romance, I’m warning you now — stay away.

Every episode throws in some exaggerated scene or over-the-top event, to the point where it becomes unbelievable. Episode 1 already feels like a climax because of how extreme everything is. My brain was overwhelmed from the start. Still, out of curiosity — and because I like giving shows the benefit of the doubt — I continued watching. It does get slightly better around episode 6, and I finally understood some parts… but the overall chaos was still too much.

For a supernatural/action series, the episodes should have been longer. It really feels like they squeezed the entire story into just 8 episodes. Even the ending was unsatisfying and rushed.

That said, the things I did like were the actors, the cinematography, the filming location, and the OST.

All in all, this is the most disorganized BL series I’ve ever watched. I’m sorry, but whoever wrote and directed this must’ve been out of their mind — or not entirely sober while making it.

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Damn i hated the ending

The series plot was really good. The starting of the story actors everything was fantastic until the ending. They ruined the series for me with that ending. Not because siwat died. But they rushed the ending . It was so clear. Looked like they wanted to finsih the series at the 8th episode. 2 poeple died. Not a single soul seen crying for their loved one. Both were looking like oh yeah another death let's move on. And within 3 months they looked fine. Like what the hell bro. Make it make sense. It's not like they loved eachother like for 2 months. It was eternal and that guy didn't even grief for a minute. Tbh i cried for siwat more than khun. Damn idk how to curse the director or whoever planned this ending. Starting went so welll that they had to ruin the ending. The ending disappointed me a lot. And it's not even about siwat dying but the way they made it seem like it's not a big deal. Manh I'm so mad . Why did i even waited for a whole week just to get a forced ending. Zero satisfaction i swear. Cursed series for real.

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Most Loved Couple of 2025!!!

There is literally no words to describe how much I loved this drama. Really loved the main couple so much. From the romance moments, to the comedy, and to the very touching moments this drama has. For me I felt like it keeps you hooked from the very first episode.

The Story:
This starts out with a tournament of the leads competing from different realms. The female lead who has been raised up as a boy has won this tournament for seven consecutive years when the male lead comes out of nowhere and defeats her. She also finds out that through the battle she was poisoned and her spiritual veins were destroyed. Back as a girl she decides to get close to the male lead to see if he has the antidote for this poison and a whole lot of funny moments happens from them getting close. The moments of these two together are just some of the best. This drama was so well done.

Hou Ming Hao and Lu Yu Xiao:
The main leads chemistry was just off the charts for this drama. I just wanted to keep watching more scenes with just these two. They are going to be one of my fave couples definitely. I loved everything about these two and how they played their characters. There is really nothing else to say about these two they were just incredible just watch them and see if you would feel the same way.

Quan Yi Lun and He Nan:
The second couple I just think needs a mention. I really enjoyed them together to from the first time you see a scene of these two. I do kinda wished there would of been more for their romance cause I actually loved these two I know it is a bit annoying when they try to do try to focus on the second couple, but I would of liked more for these two. They were cute together.

Yu Cheng En: (maybe a spoiler?)
Have to have a bit of a rant for his character Situ Ling. Of course they had to do the obsessive second male lead like always. I am really sick of this kind of character. Especially when it comes out of the smallest gesture from the female lead. Granted he did some things for the female lead that was so sweet, but he didn't have to be of the obsessive type where even the female lead is asking him "Why the obsession." I loved the actor who played Situ Ling and he played the part so well I just really hate what they do with his character and wish they would stop this. At least they didn't try to redeem him.

If you are a romance lover this is definitely a must watch for you. The romance is really just the best!!!

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Dental Hygiene is Obviously Important, But There is a Limit!

I'm accustomed to product placement in Asian dramas, but great googly moogly, this was beyond obnoxious. I think this was supposed to be a censored boy love story about overcoming mental blocks, but it was really about dental hygiene: floss, toothbrushes and their sanitizers, mouthwash, and breath spray. I recommend this for people in the dental industry only.

I added an extra star, because my Rewatch Value was extremely low (I would never rewatch unless I was incarcerated with no other entertainment; hence, the one star), and the leads didn't deserve such a low score, being such sweet boys.

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Legends and non - linear logic

If you want a recommendation for a BL that gives Indiana Jones × Avatar: The Last Airbender vibes, do I have the one for you! Let me point you to this. It's not as good though but it's there!

The lore is this - there was an ancient city called Tambralinga, founded by four element benders - Wind, Water, Fire and Earth, that has been lost for centuries now, ever since one of the four founders of the city declared a rebellion in order to gain full control of the city and its neighbouring regions and by an extent, just absolute power. Knowing this, the three other founders managed to lock the soul of the fourth in an enchanted box and hid the city in the mountains of Nakhon Si Thammarat.
In the present day, there are multiple people and groups looking for the city, because inside it is a lost treasure that could help each of them with their pursuits - personal gain, a longtime dream or fulfilling a prophecy.

The story basically picks up from zero, with no real context and we get three seperate timelines - one of the founders in the past, the second of a past where some secondary characters tried to find the city and finally, the present, where the leads themselves hope to find it.

I'm always an advocate for a well written story, honestly, consistency over innovation for me because the faux - pas with having complete originality is that you often lose track of what makes it so. Even then, I have to give some points for the story they came up with, it was truly innovative and had some semblance of originality to it - but in trying to make something exciting they completely messed up the execution.

The most coherent timeline of the lot is set in the ancient city, even though the actions and motivations are inexplicable nonsense, it makes sense as a timeline. We get the backstory behind the fall of the city - including details of all the romantic pasts of the leads and supporting characters and a glimpse into what went down between the four founders as the city fell. It's not the most fleshed out but yes it made sense.

The other two - not so much.

The present is the timeline that is most important, it is a culmination of all the actions undertaken by different characters landing upon the heads of the leads, leaving them to deal with the consequences. We have Siwat - who is looking for the city because it was his father Michael's lifelong goal, because he believed there was something in there that could help Siwat. There's Khun - who wants nothing to do with the city because it was in pursuit of it that his father died. So when Siwat shows up asking for his help, he immediately refused and asks him to leave. Because it was by helping Siwat's dad that his father died.

This past - with both their fathers - is the worst one. It has no fantasy elements, it is simply a means to provide more context to the inner conflicts and motivations of the leads and other characters. But it makes no sense. They say they found the city in one episode, they say they didn't in another. They say that Khun clearly remembers that it was during the mission to find Tambralinga that Siwat's father caused Khun's father's death, and in another we find that Michael was nowhere near the country when it happened and the mission was called off at that point?? None of it made sense.

The story is non - linear, jumping between the three timelines and incredibly confusing. There are over ten characters who seemingly play an important role in the story but from the beginning that it's just the plot that's convoluted, but neither it nor the characters have any real depth.

We have a bunch of villians - Siwat's step mother and her lover, and an evil tweed wearing professor Thakoon, who very clearly come off as cartoonish. The only thing the evil professor didn't do was twirl his faint mustache while deep in thought, otherwise they read as Looney Tunes characters.

Then the protagonists. With Siwat and Khun we have Thara and his mother (in the present), and both their fathers (in the past) who are all presented as the absolute good who can do no wrong, and though I was pleasantly surprised to see some cracks in the stereotype, all of the writing just felt very one - dimensional. Things happen because the script said so - there's no internal conflict (when there clearly should be) and they missed a massive chance to make a romance of epic proportions because Siwat and Khun? Yeah, they're reincarnations of Wind and Fire elementals, along with Thara, the Water elemental.
I know this was a soulmates kind of story but it's unacceptable that the plot moves along because they've recognised that fact. There needs to be depth there - pain, anguish, the push and pull between past and present feelings and events. Maybe it was because Thara was salty about being the third wheel in both timelines but we got a severely watered down version.

The character motivations are one - dimensional when they shouldn't be, the story is both extremely clear but the logic is not clear enough, it's all a very rich tapestry. There's no huge plot twists, it all moves along for the sake of it.

The romance too, most importantly, it moved along because it needed to be moved along. I love a good soulmates story but falling in love just because you were in love centuries ago doesn't work. The chemistry between the leads was decent but again, if you want me to believe they're in love, I need to see it develop, even just a bit.

That ending though, worst part of the series by the longest shot, it was laughable because you do not write endings like that that for stories like this. Maybe you do but with this particular kind of execution it was entirely unexpected and unnecessary, I mean I'm not even angry, I'm just.. well maybe I am. That should have been such a sad ending but ooh boy, it was just incredibly bad - so bad it actually made me bring down my rating.

But there's no way they manufactured this series intending for it to be as unintentionally hilarious as it was, it was mostly fun and a nice glimpse into what "could be", but there's still a long way to go as far it comes to blending myths and legends with fiction.

6.75/10

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Love, love with all your heart. There is no age to stop loving.

This series is a wonderful take on the premise of ossan's love. Without changing most of the major things, they actually improved on some of the shortcomings of the original work.
This main tone of this series is comedy, so if you can't appreciate how some things seem comical in an out-of-proportion sense, maybe you will not appreciate how amazing this series is.
Let me tell you, although Heng starts off as a character that has you questioning why anyone would like him, he does improve overtime.
My fav character has to be the boss, like he is such a devote character but also so mature. His idea of devotion is not limited to being possessive, he actually understands it beyond mere words and actions even. Most importantly, he isn't some perfect person, he has his moments of weakness and flaws, but in the end he still does i tall. For thristy fans, this man is def daddy material. But just because he is my fav doesn't mean I dont like other characters, I love most of the characters in this series, and those I don't love are characters I like but not as strongly.
I didn't expect Earth to pull of this particular character as well as he did. And Mix was the perfect pick for Mo.

For those of you who don't know, Ossan's love is not a single release japanese series. There are two versions of it. The first version could be considered a prototype which received much love so they made a more complete version of it, and this complete version even got a 2nd season. But there were several aspects of that show which didn't help it. Compared to that, I appreciate this thai version more. A major change is that they gave the boss a daughter instead of a wife he has stopped loving. And not just that he had a daughter but he has a good relationship with her which is developed beautifully throughout the series. The fact that his wife has passed away, and he no longer has a lover, also explains better why he was affected by Heng's kindness and consideration despite the fact that Heng is such a mess. All in all, I loved the boss and his daughter greatly in this version

Next Chicha's character was also properly depicted in this version compared to the japanese one (maybe its just how exaggerated her acting direction was in that one that i disliked her) In this one you actually understand her and feel for her, instead of thinking damn she is so annoying.

Most of all, I loved the dynamic of Heng and Mo in this series. The gradual growth of their relationship and especially Heng's realizations about his feelings for Mo.

BRO I DID NOT EXPECT OU-NOI, I SWEAR. it was amazing and made me snort so hard i almost got noodles down the wrong tract.
ALSO DONT LET ME BE THE ONLY ONE WHO WANTED TEN X BOSS LIKE BROOOO.

I will say the last 3 episodes have a lot of plot and kdrama level of drama situations that was stuffed into a short part of the series, I wish they had done this plot in a separate season, but they kinda pushed it into one. BUT THEY ARE STILL SOME OF THE FUNNIEST EPISODES OKAY. And the show ends well!

All in all after watching 1000 series about some 20+ year olds acting like highschoolers and fresh highschool graduates acting like CEOs, this series is a breath of fresh air. And believe it or not, most of us know many Heng's irl or are just like Heng ourselves in some ways.

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romcomların şahı??

hometown cha cha cha’yı son 5 bölümünü 2 ayda izleyerek bitirdim nihayet NOGMSPET
ilk defa (yani weightlifting fairy jim bok joo da vardı gerçi de) mainstream bi romcom kdraması izledim açıkçası bunu izlemeye baslamadan O KADAR DA sevmiyceğimi de biliyodum çünkü neyi sevip neyi sevmiyceğimizi artık bilicek deneyimdeyiz ama iyi zaman geçirmek için izlemek istedim ve dediğim gibi de oldu
başrol karakterlerimizi sevdim ama kasabadaki diğer kişilerin bu small town romance’in small town kişilerinin hikayeleri daha sağlam ve ilgi çekici olabilirdi (ki böyle olmayan storyline’lara göre oldukça fazla zaman onların hikayeleri anlatıldı), genel olarak herkesin her hissi daha derinlikli anlatılabilirdi
romcom olduğu için normalde olmayacak şeyler ve normalde verilmeyecek tepkiler verildi ama bunu bekliyoduk zaten
ji pd ağabeyin hyejin’e açıldıktan sonra reddedilince şef hong’a yok ona iyi bak cart curt demesi hoşuma gitmedi hayırdır had bilme saatin gelmis?? (aslında kendisini seviyorum ama buralar harbi ne alakaydı) sonra bikaç kez daha oldu bundan ve bilmiyorum rahatsız etti iste
bakkal(?)ın sahibi ablanın doğurduğu sahne ve bölüm güzeldi en sonda gamri teyzeyi niye öldürdüler bilmiyorum gerek var mıydı
genel olarak beni tatmin edebilmek için kırk fırın daha ekmek yemesi gereken bi kdramaydı ama iyi zaman geçirdim mi kesinlikle geçirdim

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Definitely going to be a masterpiece!

I just finished watching episode one. So here is my review.

Gun’s acting is great as usual. No surprises. Off is doing an amazing job! Dew is so handsome and acts really good too. Love everything about it. The music selection is amazing. The story line. I could literally feel the tension between Dew and Gun. At the same time, the tension between Off and Gun is palpable. Jira is a really funny and sassy character. I don’t think he realizes that he is funny. But he is quite unhinged. I love how flirty Peem is. It is very smooth and his pick up lines or moves are really cute. Koh on the other hand is really cold. But I think I like how complex his character is. I would really enjoy this series.

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Just five minutes into the show and I was completely hooked!

The very first thing that captured me was the music. I had been going through a slump and stumbled upon this drama with no expectations at all. I knew almost nothing about it except that it involved music a band and Takeru Satoh as part of the cast.

What surprised me most was how deeply the show speaks through its smallest moments. Even a quiet gesture carries meaning and every emotional thread is answered through the songs. The music is not only a backdrop but a voice that adds depth weight and clarity to the story.

I am loving the entire soundtrack. It lifts the drama and gives every scene a pulse that stays with you long after it ends.

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