Gay shit I watched

mlm. ~360 minutes

Tsundere baker needs new assistant. Love interest is too toxic and doesn't change enough by the end and yet they still end up together and I don't agree with it. But if you want pretty pictures on your screen for an hour, an episode of this'll do.

wlw. ~44 minutes

Look man I was really exited that there'd be multiple wlw series coming out so I excitedly watched the prologue which is essentially a long trailer, and it looks fine I guess, but now the filming for the series is indefinitely delayed and I am sad about it.

wlw. ~41 minutes

Short film. Two girls talking at a picnic.

Spoiler:  Plot twist they're mafia and ready to kill. It doesn't end well.

mlm. ~420 minutes

Drunk one night stand leads to fwb leads to feelings down the road. Tries to tackle #metoo but falls into damsel trap. Kinda drags during last 5 episodes.

cw: Intense homophobic childhood abuse by parent. Consent issues between main pair.

Censored mlm. ~525 minutes

From China, so they made it as gay as was legal, and that's not very gay. Manager x rebellious son of the big boss who needs to learn a lesson. It's watchable. It hints towards gayness, but no it is not ever going to actually go there.

They do not have the healthiest dynamic, at all, but it is an interesting watch.

mlm. ~150 minutes

It's about beauty standards & anxiety. It feels too short for me to really connect to any of the characters. We get snippets of their relationship, flying from scene to scene, all far apart in time.

Some people definitely connect to it though, so maybe it's just me. You should give this a try.

mlm. ~240 minutes

Dude works in marketing, gets new neighbor who has crushed on him for long time. It's pretty cliché and boring tbh. Not much of a plot. They really have to stop trying to make me care about marketing. It's amazing how slow this is, given its runtime. Then some fabricated nonsense conflict in episode 7 and then they get back together the end.

I mean, if you have nothing else to watch, this exists.

mlm. ~120 minutes

He falls for the star he gets paired up with in 'gay concept' boy group. The actors are legitimately in a boy group together.

It's alright. Just don't take it too seriously.

mlm

Low budget silly little show about a cat who turns human. Enemies to lovers. There are better things to watch, but you could watch this I guess.

Apparently part of something called 'youth in the breeze'? Idk still working on it.

wlw. ~240 minutes

Her ex  shows up at work to be her new boss and uses her power to take revenge. This has good drama, acting, cinematography and chemistry, but it also seems to be attempting to shame career women for being unfeminine bad mothers, and I don't appreciate that message at all.

It's worth watching. Just look past the BS politics I guess.

cw: workplace harassment, sexual harassment, outing.

mlm. ~200 minutes

They're adopted brothers and classmates. One bullied and with an inferiority complex, one protective.

wlw. ~45 minutes

They were roommates. Utterly forgettable, but hey it's GL.

mlm. ~210 minutes

Kuea can't be singer and husband at the same time. Sets up the issue, then skirts it. Kinda meh, plot-wise. 

If you can't get enough after Cutie Pie season 1, then yeah why not watch this.

mlm. ~360 minutes

I watched this forever ago. I would put this in 'queer media' or 'slice of life' rather than 'BL', but it does definitely have attractive guys who kiss, within the first couple of minutes even.

Protagonist is kinda unlikeable and unreasonable, and the only guy who did seem like a perfectly nice character is the one who got dumped lol.

This is watchable, not super forgettable, but just not super high quality. Give it a try.

wlw. ~40 minutes

She keeps deleting her girlfriends from her memory, until one of her exes comes back and takes issue with it, and it all comes flashing back. 

This is perfectly watchable. Just too short for me to really connect.

mlm. ~450 minutes

Just your typical engineering students, except with hogwarts mechanics based off 6 types of things you can be good at, one of which is 'handsome'. The plot is stupid and it doesn't make sense.

Subtitles are absolutely terrible. Honestly you need to understand quite a bit of Thai in order to follow this at all. 

"We want to use our engineering skills to start a company that will fix the environment, so we're going to be selling pure air and gasmasks to people who need it." and the series treats that like it's actually a good idea.

"I couldn't accept that I like guys, so I pushed you away and pursued this other guy."

You could watch this if you have nothing else to watch, and then forget about it the moment you click off the video.

cw: sleep kiss, a couple of times forced kiss 'but he wanted it so it's okay'

mlm. ~49 minutes together

Short films. Indie. They're alright.

wlw. ~75 minutes

Bar singer x drunk girl who recently got broken up with. It's messy but sweet.

mlm. ~440 minutes

The dynamic between the leads is strange and unequal. It's watchable but barely. Plot isn't great, acting definitely isn't great, and the blood thing is weird and definitely not how that works IRL.

There's two support girls who really should've ended up together, but lesbians didn't exist in Thai media back then.

mlm, I wouldn't call this a BL. ~48 minutes

Quite short. Boy accidentally drowns friend who just came on to him and then gets haunted in drama class.

It's dark and original and I guess I would recommend it.

mlm. ~500 minutes

Nerd x jock. Watchable. Some likeable characters. Good acting. Good production quality. I still wouldn't recommend it.

cw: minor x adult sexual relationship, kinda graphic.

Spoiler: Not a good ending.

mlm. ~140 minutes

Director meets favorite writer who happens to be his ex crush. The connection between the story they're writing and their own is really on the nose. Subtitle translations not good enough. They're refusing to communicate, and for one of them honestly I think the reasons are childish. This whole plot could've fit into a 30 minute short film and would've been better that way.

There are many better things to watch, but if you're somehow out of those, this is sure a frustrating watch, but I promise you'll forget everything that happened once you click off the video.

cw: Guy A does stalker shit. Guy B got too close to a sleep kiss.

mlm, wlw. ~200 minutes

Influencer meets dude on beach, also lesbian friends. This is low quality, indie, authentic, and honestly worth a watch.

mlm. ~240 minutes

Homeschooled boy with strict music parent goes to mainstream high school and meets depressed but hot douchebag. Homeschooled boy reminds douchebag of his dead brother, so now he must make his life a living hell. This is like a 'who can communicate the worst' competition. It's very contrived but hey it could be worse. There's nothing wrong with the acting or cinematography.

This is watchable.

cw: bully x bullied and it does get violent and homophobic. Off-screen suicide of supporting character due to homophobia.

mlm. ~200 minutes

Estranged childhood besties are made to live together. Sparkly sweet and home-y. Typical BL.Starts off strong, but doesn't manage to keep tension towards the end. There's just no stakes anymore.

mlm. ~108 minutes

I watched this probably almost a decade ago.  I don't think I should review it without rewatching, but hey, I didn't forget that I ever watched it and that should say something.

mlm. ~55 minutes

Dudes end up in same hotel room near beach. Uh yeah that's pretty much it.

mlm. ~350 minutes

This show started out decent and charming and funny and silly, and I honestly think this could have been worth at least a 7 if the editing hadn't been so bad. It's not forgettable.

Falling in love with a 'ghost' who's actually in a coma, figuring out who attempted his murder. Both siblings are extremely casual about seeing ghosts, but the 'ghost' is scared of other ghosts. 

Editing is bad. Scenes keep changing, as in, flashbacks show a different version of the same scene, and it's not making sense. There's a whole episode dedicated to a grandma who gets a stroke which has nothing to do with the rest of the story. The episode after that simply doesn't add up at all. 

I will say that the side character casually being like 'oh by the way my dad's a mafia boss' is hilarious. 

Very anticlimactic. Final episode is just filler lol

wlw. ~150 minutes

Typical marketing boss/subordinate. But hey it's lesbians and they're def cute so I mean I'm hooked. Within the first ep, she's got 2 higher up ladies and one higher up dude vying for her heart.

cw: offensive comedic relief trans woman.

mlm. ~700 minutes

Just a trope-y standard Thai BL. The secondary couple is fun but their story is unfinished and will not be finished.

cw: stalker-y, consent issues

mlm. ~480 minutes

I'm sure I watched this, but I remember absolutely none of it, and that's because it's as standard a Thai BL as they come.

Tutor x sports guy, falling out, sports guy follows tutor to uni and becomes secret admirer while pretending to hate him still. The shitness of communication in this is legendary.

mlm. ~150 minutes

Femme vlogger gets hot new neighbor, crushes on him and makes bad life decisions. It's not bad, but it's not good. Has an indie feel. 

mlm. ~530 minutes

And another utterly forgettable standard Thai BL.

cw: femme-phobic

mlm. ~115 minutes

Very forgettable. Pretty standard. Plot makes zero sense and in this case it's just frustrating, not funny.

Ok so the lead is a manga artist who draws porn, and yet this series appears to be very sex negative. Then mr absolutely perfect stranger who is in love with him for no reason shows up all emotionless mask + strictness. But they can't be together because mr perfect believes artist is straight despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

In my humble opinion, you can't have dead fish and camera angle kisses when the main character literally draws porn for a living. 

Attempts at exaggerated camp humor were made. It works sometimes, doesn't work other times.

cw: femme-phobia, sex negativity

mlm. ~540 minutes

Bummed out painter x tightly wound up manager. All of these characters are frustrating. It's not the best, but it's not the worst.

cw: Violently transphobic

mlm. ~150 minutes

Workaholic runs into childhood 'fiancé' who is deadset on seducing him for real. This has some really funny lines.

cw: nonconsensual handjob in first ep, romanticized.

Censored mlm. ~100 minutes

Bromance about shooting competition. The source material is gay.

cw: They are brothers, but then they aren't.

mlm. ~90 minutes

Heartbroken abused guy comes to live with friend and her little bro, little bro likes him but he's still trying to get over ex. Authentic but boring.

Part of the 'My Universe' collection

mlm. ~200 minutes

Guy who can sing lives with best friend/fan who likes him. Lots of time skips early on. Should've been flashbacks. They're being adorable, and the singing is excellent, but it doesn't feel like there's much of a plot. Also, him being gently rejected is treated as like the biggest trauma ever and that annoys me. Where are the stakes? Where is the conflict? They both clearly like each other and already live together, but pine and angst over nothing anyways.

Forgettable but watchable.

mlm. ~675 minutes

Remembered as the first Thai BL to reach an international audience. It's your typical Thai BL with engineering students, hazing, toxicity and the phobia of even mild intimacy that all early Thai BL did, but that's because all the other ones copied this one.

mlm. ~585 minutes

They are no longer students, but their relationship has not progressed.

mlm. ~90 minutes

They're neighbors. There's a granny. It's sweet. Has a queer indie feel.

Secondary pair was together in high school but got outed and separated, reconnect.

cw: the framing device is some random girl telling us these two stories, and for some reason the series has to start with her having sex with a guy and us watching that and personally I really hate it.

mlm. ~120 minutes

High school, dude gets hit by ball, then falls for guy who hit him.

spoiler: not a happy ending.

mlm. ~42 minutes

Heartbroken tourist x hostel owner. I thought it was sweet and worth watching.

Spoiler: not a super happy ending.

Not technically mlm. ~80 minutes

Empress dowager time travels and occupies some dude's body, and falls for a guy. Honestly campy and fun.

spoiler: not a happy ending.

mlm. ~390 minutes

Adorkable. It's a little silly and annoying and stupid and I don't recommend it, but it's also not the worst thing in the world. Insecure dude attempts to match-make his crush with another guy, managing to get in the way of both his own ship, and that guy's ship. These are some odd comedic choices. It gets a little better as the episodes go on.

Not technically mlm, T. ~540 minutes

I don't recommend this one. Fujoshi bodyswaps with a guy she ships with his friend.  It's cringey, and not really in a fun way. I feel like this show kinda hates its audience. 

The nonbinary angel of death is fun though. She is kind of a standard comedic relief trans woman, but idk I like her.

spoiler: not a happy ending.

cw: consent politics not great.

wlw, GNC. ~70 minutes

I do recommend this one, but only because there's not enough GL to go around, especially with butches in it.

Dance school students. Badass lesbian does streetfighting.

cw: I think this one had consent issues. And it does have violence and toxicity.

wlw, GNC, mlm. ~77 minutes

Tomboy, friend and heartbroken lady on a roadtrip. It's watchable. 

cw: fatphobic.

mlm. ~240 minutes

Feels rushed, low budget, makes you realize why cinematographers exist, because man I just can't even see what's happening with these camera angles. Snippets that don't go anywhere and scenes seems chopped up beyond repair. Subs not accurate. Plot is different from original and I'm mildly confused what's what. Should take more time to introduce its characters. Too many irrelevant 'friend' extras. It's also campy fun stupidity though and I'm always up for that.

mlm. ~900 minutes

2 episodes per couple. Standard Thai BL. Plot and character motivations don't seem to add up chronologically. It just generally doesn't make a lot of sense. Ep 5&6 quite weak. Didn't like  9&10 at all.

consent issues in some of these.

mlm. ~54 minutes

Thai tourist company promoting Thailand through BL. Short and sweet. Standard. Watchable.

wlw. ~50 minutes

Low quality indie. Girl pressures barista into teaching her how to make coffee. This one was pretty watchable.

mlm. ~230 minutes

Cook guy likes uptight customer. It's awkward and they do the Japanese emotional constipation -> explosion thing. Plot is a bit of a mess and I've never seen two actors with less chemistry than these two. The characters have absolutely no reason to be together.

mlm. 200 minutes

Goody two shoes is constantly overshadowed by his chaotic neutral colleague at his paparazzi job. Subpar mysteries. Something missing in the chemistry, and I think it has to do with subpar editing and camera work, but it might also be the blonde guy's acting, because he doesn't make any facial expressions, like at all. Or it's the lack of buildup in the relationship. They suddenly love each other and want to live together even though they are practically still strangers who can't communicate with each other about the most basic things.

Some people like this, so idk maybe you will too, but I can't say I understand it.

mlm. ~100 minutes

It's sure gray. Their lives suck, one is a douche and the other is a grey blob. Nobody in this series appears capable of talking to people in their life without sounding like they hate them. Production quality is low but acceptable. I'd need more scenes and less abrupt time skips and flashbacks to feel like this is complete. As of now the plot feels confusing.

cw: parental abuse.

mlm. ~190 minutes

I think they attempted to use BL to promote this one singer. But he can't act for shit and we don't see him sing, so this is baffling. The other lead acts just fine, but the plot is not good.

Stuck up domineering star x young temp manager.

cw: consent issues, power dynamic issues.

wlw. ~48 minutes

H'our channel indie miniseries. Not very impressive. Two babysitters live in same house and fall for each other.

mlm. ~160 minutes

Guy who doesn't believe in love gets aggressively courted by guy deadset on proving him wrong. It's pretty stupid and cliché. Sense is not being made. Bunch of childish nonsense.

cw: stalker-y harassment. Romanticized.

mlm. ~460 minutes

Oh no the girl I fell for as a child is actually a guy.

cw: forced feminization, felt kinda transphobic, getting outed, consent issues.

mlm, T, GNC. ~225 minutes

Actors have to live together to improve chemistry. Watched this a long time ago, don't remember much. There's a nonbinary person who is shown respect in the script, and a trans lady who very much isn't. Honestly those characters are the ones I remembered, not the main leads lol.

cw: offensive comedic relief trans woman 

mlm. ~90 minutes

Secret gay wedding, oh no parents show up and they perform several unfortunate switcheroos. Over the top attempt at comedy.

Part of the 'My Universe' Collection

mlm. ~120 minutes

Bury your gays shit with lack of relationship development.

Spoiler: not a happy ending.

mlm. ~44 minutes

Indie low budget. Just tropes. Not really worth watching.

wlw, T. ~390 minutes

Well it isn't good, but it is GL. They're beautiful, I'll give them that. 

This is possibly the shallowest series in existence. Vaguely based around beauty contest, but the contest doesn't seem to actually matter. There are no stakes. They just kinda wanna win. 

It's pretty stupid. Lots of reality TV style bitchiness. Not much character development. No one grows or learns anything, nobody takes responsibility for any shit they did. I'm really glad I don't have to meet any of these people IRL. 

Lots of on the nose exposition. Would be so awkward without the overwhelming music all the time. Too many antagonist characters, can't keep track. Some plot hooks are set up in the beginning, and then just abandoned, replaced. 

At episode 7, scenes are no longer even edited together in a cohesive manner. It does not chronologically add up at all. Feels like they were just going like 'well we shot this scene, so we have to put it somewhere, I guess it'll go here.' I'm not even sure if ep 7 and 8 got switched. 

mlm. ~360 minutes

Just classic tropes, uni life, except somehow worse. Why are there SO many characters that all fill the 'supportive friend' role?

mlm. ~135 minutes

Besties like each other and don't communicate. They keep being angry at each other for dumb reasons. Like bruh it is actually possible to express emotions and communicate without anger and violence. 

Plot, timeline is confusing, as in, I don't know what's happening when or why. Chopped up. Frustrating inconsistencies between the same scene shown twice. E.g. there are two completely different versions of one crucial scene, or for another example, one minute he's black out drunk, and within one second stone cold sober. 

The one guy's motivations are impossible, unreasonable, stupid. He gets confessed to and likes him back but just says nothing,  for no reason.

cw: violence between partners. Possessive jealousy

mlm. ~200 minutes

Very much a domineering non-communicative abusive seme/ clueless dependent stuttering uke thing. People told me it only seemed abusive but it was told by an unreliable narrator and would get better in the end, so I continued watching, but it very much does not get better. 

The seme guy looks severely anorexic and everyone in the show treats him like he's the most beautiful man they've ever laid eyes on and I don't think it's healthy to promote a beauty standard that gets people killed. 

There's lack of communication, there's 10 points above that, and then way past the end of the scale, there's whatever this is.

cw: serious consent problems, power dynamic, stalking, getting tied up, extreme possessive jealousy.

censored mlm. ~575 minutes

I watched this ages ago, but I remember it being silly and low quality. Not really worth watching, but not super terrible.

mlm. ~45 minutes

This should be a horror story, but is presented as a BL.

Dickbag actor doesn't want a BL partner, but does it for the money, hates his partner for classism reasons, but comes around by the end.

I watched the censored version because this would be way too much for me otherwise.

The dynamic between the guys feels wrong, and the way they essentially do sex work because otherwise they'd die also feels wrong. Maybe the discomfort with this is the point of this miniseries, but idk then why do they appear to get a 'happily ever after' while still stuck in this shitshow? How come their reservations about doing this are suddenly gone? Are we supposed to think this is okay, or not?

mlm, wlw. ~630 minutes

I don't recommend this one. It's just not worth it. Swimming club.

cw: serious consent issues and all sorts of other issues.

mlm. ~660 minutes

I know there are people who like this, and that's because it's horny, no other reason.

cw: serious consent issues, romanticized and played for laughs.

mlm. ~540 minutes

Don't watch this. It's a university hot guy contest, and it's homophobic.

mlm. ~120 minutes

I can't for the life of me understand why people like this. It has pretty boys I guess?

Based on a cliché gimmick, barely has a plot, no character or relationship development.

mlm, GNC. ~80 minutes

Major consent problems. Abusive. Guy gets dumped by boyfriend, dies, reborn 9 years ago, tries revenge, falls in love again. They all look pretty queer, so that's nice.

mlm

Just don't.

mlm. ~270 minutes

This one isn't good, but part 2 is worse. Just classic tropes. Too many characters. There are tomboy lesbians I think, but they're on screen for so little time that I'm not actually sure, they might be gay boys. Gay panic is funny. Plot is a mess.

mlm. ~70 minutes

Period piece. Bodyguard returns to life one year ago to change the outcome. The acting is very typically Chinese, conniving ladies, stoic men, robotic lines.

Spoiler: not a happy ending, but retconned.

wlw. ~145 minutes

I forced myself to finish this but I don't think I've ever hated watching anything more than I hated watching this.

Unless you somehow ran out of lesbian pornhub videos geared at straight men and want more of that, you should go watch the 2005 series 'Fingersmith' instead. It is based on the same novel, and executed better in every single way. I thoroughly enjoyed Fingersmith.

cw: Everything. Just all of it. This is gruesome and graphic.

mlm. ~90 minutes

Vampire angst, pacing issues, character development issues, plot unclear.

spoiler: not a happy ending.

dropped because unavailable

mlm. ~85 minutes

This was pretty good. Assassin x secret assassin there to kill him.

cw: I think this had consent issues, but not sure.

dropped

mlm. ~500 minutes.

Beautiful rich dipshit gets sent to tropical Island where a hot guy has to make him feel less lonely. Rich dipshit tries his very best to annoy the guy, but the other guy is better at annoying him back. 

Too horny for me but don't let that stop you.

dropped

mlm. ~900 minutes

I don't this is going to be bad, but it is not for me. From the roughly 10  minutes I did watch, it appears to be about sex positivity, and openness surrounding the topic.

dropped

mlm. ~210 minutes

Enemies to lovers except the one guy is taking things really far and the other is entirely reasonable. The connection between them seems to be only based on appearance, because these legitimately hate each other, not in a playful way. 

I kinda really hate the plot, it feels cheap and shallow but it wants to be taken seriously.

cw: that's abusive.

dropped

Censored mlm. ~750 minutes

Bodyguard x cute guy. This was fine I guess, but I realized it wasn't going to actually be gay.

dropped

mlm. ~540 minutes

Intern fanboy x tv star. There is campy fun and then there is just secondhand embarrassment and unfortunately this one is the latter.

cw: Too parasocial. Transphobic. Evil trans woman does casual sex trafficking. Guy too drunk to consent to 2 night stand, said no when sober, they're meant to be together anyways.

dropped

mlm. ~144 minutes

It technically has everything a standard BL should have, but really no more than that. Nothingburger. 

dropped

mlm. ~360 minutes

Awkward guy meets mysterious guy in online game. Mysterious guy turns out to be mafia. This isn't bad per sé, it's just a recombination of all the standard BL tropes. It's mid.

dropped because people told me not to watch last 2 episodes, so I didn't.

mlm. ~560 minutes

Childhood best friends to lovers. Shy kid x jock. Set in early 2000's. Watchable but barely. Gets better over time. 

cw: Weird age gap thing in secondary couple.

dropped

mlm. ~640 minutes

Omegaverse except there are no omegas? Horny racer star needs fwb to focus, guy with dream to also be racer comes along and fulfills the role. It is flashy and dramatic, well-acted, good cinematography, competent.

But. So many characters fulfill the 'toxic masculinity x 1000, I was basically born the coolest guy alive' role. It's too hierarchical and stoic and yell-y for me. Also I'm not familiar with how omegaverse works and not really interested in learning.

dropped within first episode

mlm. ~240 minutes

Teacher x student. Age gap + power dynamic is not cool. Other than that it did not seem special/original enough to look past it.

dropped

mlm, wlw. ~300 minutes

Quality very low. Broke coffeshop owner re-meets singer-songwriter old friend he crushed on, besties to enemies to lovers.

cw: This series fully said out loud that it's good to have sex with a drunk person even if it's the first time.

dropped

mlm. ~650 minutes

Subtitles are bad. Guy travels back in time to see younger version of current lover before they met. That boy falls for him, he reciprocates, and it's a problem. Plot kinda directionless. 

cw: age gap involving minor and full grown adult.

dropped

mlm. ~140 minutes

Boring, low quality indie. Guy gets cheated on by DL boyfriend, gets hit on by best friend, but he doesn't want him to be rebound so he goes off to heal first, then meets other guy who is somehow permanently shirtless.

dropped

mlm. ~530 minutes

Not unwatchable. Dude accidentally sleeps with friend (who was hitting on him), then month of relationship trial.

dropped

mlm. ~290 minutes

Too many characters, not enough plot. Boyband concept with underwhelming dancing and visuals.

dropped

mlm. ~270 minutes

This is actually a marketing ploy for a real boyband. Showing scouting process, training process, but also a standard BL. Reviews are bad and it's hard to access, so I chose not to.

dropped

mlm. ~460 minutes

Two playboys start liking each other after one night stand but don't trust each other.

cw: I think this may have had consent issues.