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P.S. Burn This Letter Please (Documentary)

By Golu
This documentary pulls together oral history to trace a very specific New York chapter of gay life in America. Back in 2014, someone found a box stuffed with hundreds of letters sitting in a storage unit in LA. These letters went all the way back to the 1950s and were written to a young guy named Reno Martin, who'd later become known in Hollywood as agent Ed Limato. When Martin left home to chase a radio career, his closest gay and queer friends kept writing to him just to stay in touch. Every letter's signed with a fake name and ends with a warning to burn it after reading, which tells you everything about an era when just being gay, or dressing in drag, could get you thrown in jail. The filmmakers actually tracked down the surviving writers, now in their eighties and nineties, and turned what could've been dry historical digging into something genuinely personal and intimate. The people behind this doc found the original letter writers themselves, several of whom are stil...
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MuTeLuv: “Hi” by My Luck (Thai Mini-Series)

By Golu

MuTeLuv is an anthology series built around people turning to supernatural forces to get what they want, with love finding its way into each of those journeys. Out of the full series, only two stories have gay plotlines, and those are the ones I watched and am writing about here. This particular story runs four episodes, each around 45 minutes.

The first story is called "Hi" By My Luck, and it centers on Err, a high school kid who is basically the academic golden boy, top of his class, winning olympiads, stacking up achievements. Then Mawin transfers in and quietly, without even trying, starts threatening everything Err has built his identity around. Err calls him the dark horse, and the fact that this calm, reserved new kid is effortlessly brilliant drives Err absolutely crazy without Mawin even being aware of it. A major scholarship exam is coming up, one that could send the winner abroad to study, and Err is not about to let that slip away. His friend tips him off about an app where you can ask questions and get guidance on how to handle situations, and Err starts using it obsessively, asking how to beat Mawin, how to do better, all of that. Both boys end up at a training camp with fifteen other students preparing for the actual scholarship exam, and they get placed in the same room. The fortune teller on the app starts pushing Err to do everything he can to get the icy Mawin to warm up to him, and as he follows all this advice trying to keep the fortune teller happy, the two of them gradually get closer and feelings start developing. The best part comes when it turns out Mawin himself is the fortune teller. He has been lonely at school and created the whole persona as a way to connect with people without anyone knowing it was him.

Look, the actual plot is not doing anything nobody has seen before. Academic rivals slowly catching feelings is pretty well-trodden ground. But what got me was how nicely the whole thing is put together. The vibe is calm, clean and genuinely pleasant to sit with. Four episodes and the pacing across all of them feels just right, nothing drags and nothing feels rushed. It is this sweet, funny, easy mix of high school energy, light romance and comedy that somehow also remembers these are students who are actually studying, which is refreshing. Err's attempts to follow the app's advice are genuinely funny, like when he shows up using shampoo with a cat on the label because the fortune teller told him to. What the story does cleverly is make all these lucky rituals basically just excuses for Err to keep approaching Mawin, which is how they actually start talking. Mawin is written as this quiet, mysterious figure who always has something in his ears and never really engages with anyone, but the show peels that back nicely. He actually notices everything. He has been quietly listening to classroom conversations the whole time and had already been paying close attention to Err from day one. The two actors have real chemistry and actually come across as high schoolers, which sounds like a low bar but trust me it is not in this genre. Their relationship builds slowly and gradually until it just blooms, and by that point you genuinely understand both of them and why they work together.

What the story is really saying underneath all of it is that self-belief matters more than superstition. Err thinks the app is changing his luck but what is actually happening is that following the advice forces him to stop spiraling, relax and trust himself a bit more. Four episodes, perfectly sized, genuinely fun. (7.5/10)

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