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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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Night Time (Thai Mini-Series)

By Golu
This three part mini series is a show that no one asked and was never needed. Sure, maybe 15 years ago, a basic storyline like this might have been ok for a short film but stretching it to almost an hour of mini series is a torture to anyone's sane mind. The series is so hollow and badly acted that I felt sorry for everyone involved.

One day in a street gunfight, an innocent bystander Night gets shot. His attacker is Time, whose friends make him feel guilty about the attack. They explain that Night is a poor orphaned child who can barely support himself. Time’s friends encourage him to apologize for the accident. Time goes to meet Night, apologizes to him and insists on taking care of him while he has a cast on his hand. He shows up regularly at his place helping him to go school and with food. Slowly they both start to gradually get used to each other and out of the blue, Night even gives him his home keys. Clearly there are unspoken feelings between them and after the one night that Time spends with him, he disappears for a few days. Turns out he had a girlfriend and now he needs to be true to himself.

This was a short little indie drama, so part of me does feel bad to just pull down someone's efforts, but come on, this series is just too weak and bad from every single angle. Story, acting, direction; the absurdity of it all. Who thought of the fact that one could hand over your house keys to a total stranger, in fact, the one who actually shot you. I was like WTF! And only days afterwards, you finally learn what his name is. It just keeps getting worse. The shyness and the coyness that both characters display by looking here and there or biting lips or smiling is so damn annoying. I am also so tired of most of these series bringing in the cliched girlfriend angle out of nowhere and now the person has to choose. The mediocrity of this show is at another level and I blame most o fit to the most nonsensical script ever written. The inadequate boring so called romance of the leads just doesn't connect with anyone. (2/10)
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