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Well, the typical November weather is upon us. It’s only 2°C today, and it’s dark, cold and raining all the time. What can I do but watch dramas instead of going outside? 😊

Love Senior episode 1

My first GL tag, woohoo! And the drama gets its own tag because I really, really liked that 1st episode and I will be watching every week.

Manaow is adorable. She’s confident, honest and kind. Every girl instantly falls in love with her. And I get them, because I did, too. Her love interest Gyoza is wonderful, too. The leads have great chemistry and there are already feelings and flirting (like for instance this scene 😊) and looking into each other eyes with lovey-dovey gaze.

The secondary couple, what little we could see about them in that episode (one is strict and serious, the other is sweet and perky), was very cute, too.

It’s available on Youtube. The link to the playlist is here.


Laws of Attraction

It’s a Thai BL drama that reminded me a little bit of Manner of Death. In the sense that this is more a gay romantic suspense drama than a BL. Here too the main plot is about two leads, who are on the opposite sides at first, but who have to join forces to solve the case of the violent death of a person close to one of them. And the romance (or rather two romances) is secondary to that.

The main romance is between Charn, a clever and ruthless lawyer with loose morals and with traumatic past and Tinn, a kind, humble, and down to earth martial arts teacher, whose young niece is killed in a suspicious car accident.

The secondary pairing (and my current obsession, because loyalty kink gets me every time 😊) is between a broken rich young man who is abused and beaten badly by his own father and his devoted bodyguard who is willing to become a whipping boy if it means protecting his young master, with whom he’s so clearly in love with.

There is a third amazing older f/f pairing between Charn’s friend, a cool and beautiful club owner Rose (played by the actress who was also Nueng’s mother in Never Let Me Go) and a sexy and saucy singer Maya (played by very talented queer Thai singer Silvy). They’re so great separately and together, but they don’t have much screentime, they are more of a background pairing.

And there is a lovely and beautiful happy ending (with a touching appeal for marriage equality) for everyone.

I compared this drama to Manner of Death, but I have to warn you that it’s much worse when it comes to the screenplay and the production values and the fighting scenes and the heat level. It’s not true lakorn (Thai soap opera), but it’s lakorn-ish. And don’t expect much kissing, either. I mean, there is some, but not much. And I have to say that as much as Film (Charn) and Jam (Tinn) are good at acting and their chemistry is fantastic, and there is quite a lot of touching and small intimate moments, they’re not that good at kissing unfortunately. They’re not horrible, but they are definitely nowhere near MaxTul level of hotness. 😊

But I enjoyed this drama immensely, I’m feeling very fannish about it (like writing fics fannish), and I recommend it for those who like more mature BL dramas that aren’t set at high school or university. The drama has only 8 episodes, but each episode is around 50-55 minutes long. Here is the playlist on Youtube with all the episodes.


Kiseki: Dear to Me

I finally watched the last three episodes. It was very entertaining. The plot IMO didn’t make much sense, but the acting and chemistry for both pairing were so wonderful that all the plot holes were very easy to ignore. At least for me. 😊 And this drama had so many wonderful, surprising cameos by actors from a few other Taiwanese BL dramas – History 3 MODC, Be Loved In House, Plus & Minus, History 4 Close To You. Here is the post on tumblr that lists all those cameo appearances.



I also watched two more episodes of Lucky My Love (yeah, it’s still cute, but nothing more than that), and the 1st episode of Last Twilight (it was ok, JimmySea as a pairing doesn’t do much for me, but they’re both decent actors and the story looks good, so for now I will be watching).



Last but not least - GMMTV posted the official trailer for OffGun's new drama Cooking Crush. Watch it here. It looks very fluffy and cute and I can’t wait to watch it. It premiers on November 26th.