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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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To Be Continued (Thai Series)

By Golu
This Thai series of 8 episodes of 50 minutes, may have a simple straight forward love story, but it feel simple and natural and nice without any melodrama. In one of my favorite scene the characters say to each other towards the end "Only if we had talked to each other all these years ago", and thats precisely what I keep saying in my reviews that communication is always the key. 

We meet Dr Jirawat (Ji) taking a break and going to his hometown in Chiang Mai for his school reunion. Unexpectedly he meets the latest pop icon and teen heart throb Achi. Turns out they were school mates form 10 years ago and best friends and but for some reason Ji is harboring some resentment towards him, despite secretly being happy. Achi doesn't give up and continues to pursue Ji on multiple occasions hoping for them to talk about the past and rekindle their friendship. Ji is clearly happy about this and has secret feelings for Achi but what's stopping him? Through flashback scenes in individual episodes, we get to know that these two were real close friends with one another. In fact they even liked each other but because they were so young, they did not know what it means; to the extent that they both pretended to have girlfriends. One night, while watching porn on TV, they decide to give it a go and have a passionate , love filled night. But both of them are quite confused after that and decide that probably it's better to stick as friends even hough they both liked each very much. Heart broken Achi moves to US and now finally 10 years later, we realize why these two have been sort of avoiding each other. Of course, eventually we have a happy ending. We also have a parallel story of Ji's younger brother and his crush on the farm owner with whom he makes food vlogs. And the two doctors, who work with Ji in hospital add nicely to the humor.

On of the things that I liked about the show was towards the end when Ji finds out how his best friend and younger brother helped Achi to come back in his life. Initially angry, he is later glad that his loved ones did that for him because everyone deserves true love. In fact, even their father showing full support was praise worthy. I understand that makers slowly reveal what really happened between the two in school, but in the process, as viewers, it becomes a little tiring with seeing Achi constantly pursuing Ji and him rebuffing it. As I mentioned the story is quite simple at best. your typical best friends fell in love, but were driven apart by misunderstandings and miscommunication, only to reconnect ten years later. I have to give Achi props for willing to take that risk of reconnecting with Ji, not knowing whether or not Ji would say yes. Both actors are extremely good looking and do quite a decent job at portraying what's demanded of them. This show may not be the greatest but it's a simple, straight forward love story devoid of any unnecessary drama. I also like that there were no toxic characters trying to make life hell for others. Even Achi's manager eventually comes around and has a logical explanation when he confesses to Achi that he asked Ji to take a step back for the sake of Achi's career. Overall, a decent watch. (6/10)
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