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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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Evening Cafe (Thai Mini-Series)

By Golu
This mini series of 4 episodes of about 10-12 minuted each is a series that should never have been made. Done to the death story, bad acting and direction and totally senseless logic, makes even this short series a very tedious watch.

Tham, the handsome young barista works at a cafe. He has a simple, ordinary and uneventful life. Except a female customer who comes everyday to flirt with him hoping to take him out. Tham complains of to much work and he asks his boss to hire. Anew person. In comes Sakay. Tham doesn't have a good start with him and gives him a very hard time, but eventually when he gets to know of struggles that Sakay has been facing, he is ready to help him out. Clearly Sakay is trying to get close to Tham but Tham shows no feelings except friendship. One day when the duo are hanging out, the jealous girl takes their photo and posts only as a gay couple. Initially Tham is shocked, but then randomly Sakay says, now you can be my boyfriend, and Tham agrees! WTF!! The girl eventually apologizes.

The shows tries to hit many BL tropes, but without any substance or character development, none of them had any kind of significance or impact. Its amateurish at every level as I have mentioned above. There is no reason for Tham to behave so brashly with Sakay just because of a small incident. He comes out as a complete asshole with no charisma. No explanation for why Sakay has been following him since before job (just because of his looks) and the random twist at end to suddenly become boyfriends was total nonsense. There is absolutely no sort of character detailing. The boss is a big yawn and every level of annoyance. Seeing the coffee shop log like 5 times in every episode doesn't help either. I wonder if anyone actually watched the show as a final product from the production team!! As someone else said somewhere online about this show "I saw friends making tik toks with a more convincing acting and plot, and that itself should warn you." My feelings can also be summarized in the same vein. (1.5/10)
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