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On Sunday afternoon I’m going to Warsaw for a few days because I have to take care of a thing there. And then to Lublin for a few days, too. And that trip is purely for fun. I’m not taking my laptop since it’s heavy. And my eyes are not very fond of my tiny phone screen, so I won’t be here much in the next week. So today I’m making a long post and dumping a lot of trailer links I acquired lately here, plus my latest drama musings. 😊
Trailers and teaser first. There are six of them – for three kdramas and for three tdramas.
Mercy for None – an eight episodes long drama on Netflix about ex gangster who has to go back into the underworld when he wants to avenge his younger brother’s suspicious death. I mainly want to watch this one for Choo Young Woo who has one of main parts here. Based on the trailer it might be too bloody and brutal for me, but we’ll see.
Our Movie - Nam Goong Min’s new drama about a struggling movie director who meets an aspiring actress suffering from a rare incurable disease (played by Jeon Yeo Been). And really, beloved, did you have to choose such a depressing looking drama again? My Dearest already made me cry buckets, and now this? But for my beloved I’m still going to watch it. And I like Jeon Yeo Been a lot, too.
The First Night With the Duke - Taecyeon’s new drama about an ordinary young woman, who one day wakes up as a minor character in her favorite romance novel set during Joseon era. Taecyeon plays Lee Beon, the lead male character in the novel. Isekai is not my favorite genre, but I love Taec so much and this drama looks cute and funny, so I’m in.
Reset - a BL drama about a famous actor who dies after being betrayed by his lover, who then wakes up in the past on the set of his first movie where he was just an extra. I linked to the pilot trailer before. And this is the official trailer, which I like even more than the pilot trailer. The drama starts airing on June the 1st.
And last but not least two Thai GL dramas - B-Friend about a complicated love triangle (I think?), and Un-trovert about a romance between an introverted closed-off girl and an ultra-confident extrovert. Both look very nice to me.
And now let’s talk about dramas.
I started:
The Next Prince
It’s entertaining and funny, although I have to say that the 1st episode was just so-so for me. The 2nd ep was much better. And wow, very good production values, it’s visually stunning, you can see that they had a lot of money for this drama. And NuNew’s acting improved so much. Not that he was very bad in Cutie Pie. But it was his first acting job and it showed. But here he is genuinely good. I like Khanin a lot already. Zee as Charan is gorgeous as always, but a bit stiff for now. But I guess it suits his character.
My Sweetheart Jom
It’s Idol Factory’s new BL drama about 19 years old Yo, who’s heart is in the right place, but who has a penchant for getting into trouble that is serious enough that he couldn’t even finish high school in Bangkok. He gets into a fight with a violent asshole, who’s unfortunately a son of a prominent politician. And since that fight put the politician’s son in the hospital, Yo’s father, afraid that the politician would want to retaliate against Yo, sends Yo to live in the small village when he himself used to live many years ago. Jom from the title is a young Chief of that village, who is loved by everyone, because he’s always helpful and caring, and kind.
The first episode aired on Friday and I liked it a lot. It’s cute and funny, and Saint who plays Jom is great. I only saw Saint in Why R U, which I haven’t even finished, since it was pretty bad IMO and the only good thing about it was explosive chemistry between Saint and Zee. But I know he had very hard time in this industry, and that he later decided that he still wants to do it, but on his own terms, and he set up his own successful company Idol Factory. While being only 24 years old. I’m in awe. 😊
Twinkling Watermelon
I’ve heard a lot of good opinions about this kdrama and it has time travel, so I wanted to check it out for some time.
The main character is Ha Eun Gyeol, who’s a CODA and whose older brother is deaf, too. His family is lovely, his parents are loving and he has a great relationship with his brother. But he feels like he has to excel at school and always behave properly, because when he does not his parents are blamed twice as much for not raising him properly. And when all this starts to overwhelm him, he discovers a mysterious music store, where a kind old man teaches him how to play a guitar.
In 2023 Eun Gyeol tries to navigate the responsibilities of the last year of high school and his secret dream of becoming a guitarist in a band. After the fight he had with his father he's unexpectedly transported back to 1995, where he meets his father, Ha I Chan, as a high schooler.
I watched the 1st episode yesterday and I enjoyed it so much. It’s cute and touching, and it made me laugh, too. Will watch more for sure.
I finished:
4 Minutes
It’s a Thai BL drama written by Sammon, who also wrote Manner of Death, Triage and Petrichor, amongst other things. I tend to like her dramas and I wanted to watch this one, too. I actually did watch the first two episode back when it was still airing, but I guess then I just wasn’t in the mood for awful people behaving badly, a lot of angst and timey wimey weirdness. But I finally watched it all this week and I enjoyed it. Mostly.
But my main problem was that I didn’t really like one of the leads Great. It was very nice to see Bible on my screen again. He’s so beautiful and an excellent actor, but his character was very much not great for me. Such a spinless cowardly egoistic rich boy. He was annoying and awful in a very realistic way, and that is always a hard sell for me. Only Bible’s charisma and acting talent stopped me from fast-forwarding through most of his scenes. I really didn’t care about him getting his happy ending, and would feel much better if the ending here was more ambiguous (like in Dead Friend Forever for instance). I guess you can read that last scene in the boat as a bit ambiguous about whether they both survived getting shot, but I read that Sammon herself confirmed that it was supposed to be your regular unambiguous happy ending for them. Which, meh...
But I really loved two secondary characters – Korn played by Bas Asavapatr and Tonkla played by Fuaiz Thanawat. I liked Bas as Arm in KinnPorsche, but he seriously impressed me here. Same with Fuaiz, who I saw in Dead Friend Forever before and thought he was fine. But here he was so, so good.
Korn and Tonkla were both complex and fascinating characters, and their relationship was messed up and complicated and dark. They kept me watching in the second half of the drama. I knew they wouldn’t get a happy ending, and for sure their ending was tragic. But I liked it much more than Great and Tyme’s sugary sweet happy ending.
Trailers and teaser first. There are six of them – for three kdramas and for three tdramas.
See embedded trailers behind the cut.
Mercy for None – an eight episodes long drama on Netflix about ex gangster who has to go back into the underworld when he wants to avenge his younger brother’s suspicious death. I mainly want to watch this one for Choo Young Woo who has one of main parts here. Based on the trailer it might be too bloody and brutal for me, but we’ll see.
Our Movie - Nam Goong Min’s new drama about a struggling movie director who meets an aspiring actress suffering from a rare incurable disease (played by Jeon Yeo Been). And really, beloved, did you have to choose such a depressing looking drama again? My Dearest already made me cry buckets, and now this? But for my beloved I’m still going to watch it. And I like Jeon Yeo Been a lot, too.
The First Night With the Duke - Taecyeon’s new drama about an ordinary young woman, who one day wakes up as a minor character in her favorite romance novel set during Joseon era. Taecyeon plays Lee Beon, the lead male character in the novel. Isekai is not my favorite genre, but I love Taec so much and this drama looks cute and funny, so I’m in.
Reset - a BL drama about a famous actor who dies after being betrayed by his lover, who then wakes up in the past on the set of his first movie where he was just an extra. I linked to the pilot trailer before. And this is the official trailer, which I like even more than the pilot trailer. The drama starts airing on June the 1st.
And last but not least two Thai GL dramas - B-Friend about a complicated love triangle (I think?), and Un-trovert about a romance between an introverted closed-off girl and an ultra-confident extrovert. Both look very nice to me.
And now let’s talk about dramas.
I started:
The Next Prince
It’s entertaining and funny, although I have to say that the 1st episode was just so-so for me. The 2nd ep was much better. And wow, very good production values, it’s visually stunning, you can see that they had a lot of money for this drama. And NuNew’s acting improved so much. Not that he was very bad in Cutie Pie. But it was his first acting job and it showed. But here he is genuinely good. I like Khanin a lot already. Zee as Charan is gorgeous as always, but a bit stiff for now. But I guess it suits his character.
A bit more with minor spoilers here.
I think I will like it much more now that Khanin and Charan finally arrived in Emmaly in the 2nd episode. And because we finally met Jimmy’s character Prince Ramil. Who’s a hot arrogant jerk, clearly playing a role of a villain for now. And you know me, it’s my kind of character. 😊 And I already know that I will ship Ramil/Paytai so hard - a cruel prince and his loyal servant is my kind of pairing. And I love Princess Ava, too. She’s feisty and lovely and I can’t wait to meet her love interest. Give me my secondary GL pairing now, show. 😊My Sweetheart Jom
It’s Idol Factory’s new BL drama about 19 years old Yo, who’s heart is in the right place, but who has a penchant for getting into trouble that is serious enough that he couldn’t even finish high school in Bangkok. He gets into a fight with a violent asshole, who’s unfortunately a son of a prominent politician. And since that fight put the politician’s son in the hospital, Yo’s father, afraid that the politician would want to retaliate against Yo, sends Yo to live in the small village when he himself used to live many years ago. Jom from the title is a young Chief of that village, who is loved by everyone, because he’s always helpful and caring, and kind.
The first episode aired on Friday and I liked it a lot. It’s cute and funny, and Saint who plays Jom is great. I only saw Saint in Why R U, which I haven’t even finished, since it was pretty bad IMO and the only good thing about it was explosive chemistry between Saint and Zee. But I know he had very hard time in this industry, and that he later decided that he still wants to do it, but on his own terms, and he set up his own successful company Idol Factory. While being only 24 years old. I’m in awe. 😊
Twinkling Watermelon
I’ve heard a lot of good opinions about this kdrama and it has time travel, so I wanted to check it out for some time.
The main character is Ha Eun Gyeol, who’s a CODA and whose older brother is deaf, too. His family is lovely, his parents are loving and he has a great relationship with his brother. But he feels like he has to excel at school and always behave properly, because when he does not his parents are blamed twice as much for not raising him properly. And when all this starts to overwhelm him, he discovers a mysterious music store, where a kind old man teaches him how to play a guitar.
In 2023 Eun Gyeol tries to navigate the responsibilities of the last year of high school and his secret dream of becoming a guitarist in a band. After the fight he had with his father he's unexpectedly transported back to 1995, where he meets his father, Ha I Chan, as a high schooler.
I watched the 1st episode yesterday and I enjoyed it so much. It’s cute and touching, and it made me laugh, too. Will watch more for sure.
I finished:
4 Minutes
It’s a Thai BL drama written by Sammon, who also wrote Manner of Death, Triage and Petrichor, amongst other things. I tend to like her dramas and I wanted to watch this one, too. I actually did watch the first two episode back when it was still airing, but I guess then I just wasn’t in the mood for awful people behaving badly, a lot of angst and timey wimey weirdness. But I finally watched it all this week and I enjoyed it. Mostly.
More with major spoilers, an a bit of complaining, here.
The screenplay IMO fell apart a bit in the second half. And I found the ending unsatisfying.But my main problem was that I didn’t really like one of the leads Great. It was very nice to see Bible on my screen again. He’s so beautiful and an excellent actor, but his character was very much not great for me. Such a spinless cowardly egoistic rich boy. He was annoying and awful in a very realistic way, and that is always a hard sell for me. Only Bible’s charisma and acting talent stopped me from fast-forwarding through most of his scenes. I really didn’t care about him getting his happy ending, and would feel much better if the ending here was more ambiguous (like in Dead Friend Forever for instance). I guess you can read that last scene in the boat as a bit ambiguous about whether they both survived getting shot, but I read that Sammon herself confirmed that it was supposed to be your regular unambiguous happy ending for them. Which, meh...
But I really loved two secondary characters – Korn played by Bas Asavapatr and Tonkla played by Fuaiz Thanawat. I liked Bas as Arm in KinnPorsche, but he seriously impressed me here. Same with Fuaiz, who I saw in Dead Friend Forever before and thought he was fine. But here he was so, so good.
Korn and Tonkla were both complex and fascinating characters, and their relationship was messed up and complicated and dark. They kept me watching in the second half of the drama. I knew they wouldn’t get a happy ending, and for sure their ending was tragic. But I liked it much more than Great and Tyme’s sugary sweet happy ending.