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Chained To My Bully Stepbrother (AI Vertical BL Drama)

By Golu
This is the second vertical AI BL drama I've sat through, and honestly I went in knowing better. I had it on while I was doing cardio at the gym, and what struck me was just how much the plot echoed the last one I watched. Same step brother romance angle, same mystery girlfriend showing up near the end, same extra guy pining after one of the leads. Genuinely the only thing going for it was the runtime, the whole thing wrapped up in forty five minutes flat.  The setup kicks off with Finn moving schools because his mom just married into money. He finds out his new step brother Aiden goes to the same place, and he's warned to keep his distance from him. Their first run in at school is rocky, just like you'd expect, but there's this odd pull between them neither can shake off. Finn keeps telling himself not to read into it because Aiden's straight and openly homophobic. Things shift when some kids start bullying Finn and the student council president, Ryan, steps in to ...
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You Belong To Me

By Golu
There aren't many gay thrillers out there, at least the ones which are well made. This film had a very interesting premise. I think, this needs to be revisited with better actors, tighter screenplay and a good production team, I believe this story can have some good takers. Suspense bordering on thriller is always genre that I look forward to.

Jeffrey is a very nice young man who has just spent a night with handsome Rene and feels there is something between them but Rene shrugs him off saying that he is not looking for a sweetheart. By chance that day, he sees Rene with his boyfriend entering into a building, which is possibly his apartment. The landlady of the building Gladys mistake shim for a potential tenant and nnextthilng you know is that Jeffrey has moved into the same building unknown to Rene. Rene is obviously angry when he find this out but Jeffrey is so smitten by him that he ignores signs of ever-invasive Gladys showing a lot of affection to him. Jeffrey still doesn't know why the previous tenant left in a hurry. Soon thereafter, he hears faint cries for help coming from beneath some rotted floorboards, where Gladys lives one floor down. When Jeffrey realizes that Gladys is holding the previous tenant hostage, next thing you know is that Gladys captures him too. The rest of the film is about how Jeffrey struggles to find the truth behind Gladys' actions and how through intervention of Jeffrey's best friend, finally he is able to escape from all the torture from Gladys.

I have to say that the final reveal of why this was all being done left me wanting more. I was expecting something more chilling and compelling but it didn't resonate very well for me. I totally "get" the reason for the conflict, but the actors involved did not portray "insanity" effectively to make that explanation credible. They were just too campy. But besides that, like I said, this story has some potential but needs an overall renovation in each department. The performances by all the actors is quite alright actually. Thankfully, no one goes over the top, which is so easy to do in such a genre. There is no repeat value here and this particular treatment is average at best. It did disappoint me much but left me wanting a bit more. Need more thrills. (5/10)
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