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Journey With You (Chinese Series)

By Golu
I've always had kind of a love hate relationship with Chinese historical BLs. Some are genuinely excellent, but then there are others that cram in so much plot that keeping track of all the layers of betrayal and scheming gets exhausting, and I end up checking out mentally. Part of the issue is also just how much content is out there in this space, so something really has to stand out to keep me hooked. In this case, the production value is genuinely impressive, top tier stuff, but story wise, I just couldn't bring myself to actually care about these characters. There's a ton of political scheming and backstage manipulation running throughout. Somewhere in the middle of all that chaos, a hostage ends up falling for his own Prince Charming. The show runs eight episodes, each around 50 to 60 minutes long. After spending three years guarding the border, Fifth Prince Yin Qi gets called back to the capital because of a secret letter, only to end up walking straight into a deadly...
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City Of Queens (UK) (Documentary)

By Golu
City of Queens takes an explosive look at the real lives of eight London drag queens. To be honest, you know that this film may not have anything new to offer than quite a few other similar subject documentaries that you have seen before which tell the unfiltered gritty human truth of their lives. The real stories of abuse, attacks, past trauma dealt with through unrelenting resilience behind the glamour, fun and sharp-tongued humor that these ladies present.

The inspiration behind this documentary is when the director's drag friend got beaten up on a London bus simply for existing in drag. Next day the guy decided to come back more glittery, more fabulous inspiring the film maker. The eight drag queens presented here, each have their own story, on how they ended up doing drag, what motivates to keep them going, the message they are trying to give etc. Personally for me, the one person who stood out was an Asian, brown drag who also touched upon the fact that there is even internal racism within drag. White drag queens have it much easier compared to brown and muslim drags. The stories are told in fun, fresh manner and the core the documentary tries to humanize the people who do drag without sensationalizing them. They are friends, siblings, children, they have the same feelings and fears as everyone else which they deal with through incredible resilience and glamour. They matter, they are important, and they do not deserve to be made into targets.

The film is a good fun watch and hearing everyone's stories in interesting and gives us, the audience , a unique interesting perspective. Besides the brown drag queen, the main star is of course the person behind the inspiration, especially the scenes when the mother watches her son first time in drag. I also enjoyed the scenes when on of the drag performers is trying to select a drag from thousands of his collection (that guy was by the way extremely hot). Watch this one for something fun, not necessarily very unique though. I personally would think that the stories of London drags would not be any different from the struggles of any drag queens around the world. (5/10)
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