Trailers and drama watching (BL edition)

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Boys in Love

The trailer aired a few days ago. And it looks so sweet and cute. It starts airing on April 20. And yes, I will be watching this drama for the teachers, because I love Papang, and because Pod and Papang look great and hot together. But all the kids and their love stories look like an adorable piece of fluff, too.


The Next Prince

Finally - the official trailer is here. And it looks good. It will start airing on May the 3rd. I can’t wait for this one, and I hope that it will be very entertaining and sexy.


Perfect 10 Liners Finale

That was indeed perfect. I had very high expectations and this episode exceeded them all. I laughed a lot and made a lot of delighted aww noises. I already watched the whole episode twice, and I watched Klao/Warich scenes so many times it’s embarrassing to admit. 😊

More squee with spoilers here.

What I loved the most of course was everything about Klao and Warich. A beautiful proposal, a lot of hot kisses, Boom looking so ethereally beautiful, and them being so in love with each other, and as always so horny for each other. I wrote ‘what happened in that bathroom in episode 16’ fic, now I’m planning to write ‘what happened in that tent in episode 24’ fic. 😊

And I read that their second super hot kiss during a proposal wasn’t in the script, it was improvised by Aou and Boom. I don’t know what to do with that knowledge now. Because damn... It kinda makes me want to write my first RPF fic. Oops.

But I loved everyone else, too. Arc and Arm being adorable, and Arm’s little reference to his part in Peaceful Property. Yotha and Faifa being similarly clingy boyfriends. Po’s appearance and his last hilarious scene. All the gang together, all the great friendships and couples. And so many funny, cute and touching scenes.

I will miss this drama so much. And I’m sure I will re-watch when in need of cheering up since it joins the short list of my perfect comfort shows.


Heesu in Class 2

This is a new Korean BL about 18 years old Hee Su, who’s considered a dating expert at his school, because his relationship advice is always spot on. But Hee Su has never been in a relationship before, and he has a big secret – that he has feelings for a boy, his best friend Chan Yeong.

I watched four episodes available for now. I like it, it’s very cute. But also a bit unusual because it is a BL drama and marketed as one, but it has two main pairings – one gay and one het. And in those four episodes both these pairings had more or less equal amount of time dedicated to them. I don’t mind that, I find het couple in this drama interesting and lovely, too. But it’s not something that I’ve seen in Korean BLs before.

This drama will have 10 episodes and it’s available on VIKI.


Secret Relationships

This is another new Korean BL drama that finished airing not so long ago. And oh wow, I enjoyed this one a lot. It was surprisingly good. It’s another unusual Korean BL because it’s rather dark, and it’s about messy, fucked up and complicated relationships. And when I say fucked up I mean it. I would say it’s messy and fucked up Japanese style. Japanese BL is good at messiness like that. I’m not used to Korea doing this kind of thing.

The trailer is here.

The main character Da On is smart, handsome and hard working. And he catches the eye of three different men – his new colleague Seong Hyeon, his former tutor and longtime friend Jae Min, and rich heir Su Hyeon.

Da On’s actor Kim Jun Seo is very pretty with those beautiful, huge, beseeching eyes. And he has this kind of vulnerable sweetness and gentleness in him. It’s easy to believe that those three guys went gaga over him.

I was also very impressed with Su Hyeon’s actor Cha Jung Woo. And I find it amusing that he is the younger brother of actor Choo Young Woo, who is now very famous after main roles in The Tale of Lady Ok and Trauma Code Heroes on Call, and who also started his career in a BL drama. It was You Make Me Dance in 2021.

This drama has 8 episodes, and it is available on iQIYI and GagaOOLala.

More with major spoilers here.

Jae Min is an intelligent psychopath with love for mind games. Da On is sweet and naïve so no wonder Jae Min fooled him completely. But he also fooled a lot of other people, since his students (he’s a teacher at the university) clearly think he’s a great guy. And who he can’t fool he manipulates or threatens or buys.

I feel like the drama didn’t do a good job with showing what his motivation for his behavior was. He says it’s because he loves Da On, but was afraid that he was losing him since Da On started to develop a big crush on Su Hyeon. And that’s why he orchestrated Da On’s assault and later manipulated Su Hyeon into going abroad. But then when he was the only one in Da On’s life and Da On clearly had feelings for him, he did nothing about it. And when Da On finally confessed he reacted with anger and rejected him.

I mean, ok, he says it one time that he wants to have Da On in his life forever, and starting a romantic relationship would also mean a possibility of a breakup and losing Da On. So I guess he is this kind of a psychopath who wants to possess the object of his affection completely. In Jae Min’s mind Da On is Jae Min’s precious property, his beloved pet, who he wants to have in his possession forever. He doesn’t want anyone else to have him, but he also doesn’t want to change the status quo of their relationship where he is the most important person in Da On’s life, where Da On is still hung up on him and always indebted to him.

But I have to admit that out of all four guys I love Su Hyeon the most. He’s a violent guy with an obsessive and possessive love for a kind, soft spoken, beautiful boy. Kinda reminds me of Klao from Perfect 10 Liners a little bit. And we see glimpses of his fucked up relationship with his parents, and we see how masterfully Jae Min manipulated him. And you can understand why he behaves the way he does. Of course none of that justifies his behavior towards Da On – that possessive jealousy, the physical violence, the way he uses his position at work to try and control Da On, and force Da On to spend time with him.

Also, for a kdrama there was quite a lot of very good kissing. 😊

And for a moment there I thought: yay, they subverted that very common and annoying to me kdrama trope of 'we have a childhood connection and I saw you first so of course we’ll end up together.'

“Now you understand, right? I was the first one to know you. So the person who should be by your side is me.”

Here it’s a psychopathic villain saying this not a male lead. And it’s another sign of how unhinged he is.

But of course Seong Hyeon was the one who saw Da On first in the past. I guess that trope is unbeatable in kdramas after all. 😉 But ok I don’t mind it too much here, because it also works as a counterpoint for Jae Min’s claim. Like you thought you saw him first, so he’s yours according to kdrama rules, but no, it wasn’t you, it was that sweet and caring guy other there. 😊