BATHOS

This section is dedicated to those BLs and gay series and movies that did not live up to some magical standard of what is ‘good’. I know that is subjective but now that this overall site has been operational for a while, there is a certain minimal standard to being entertained or feeling satisfied with what I think its objective, message, or theme was. In addition, the need to review its production worth must also now be taken into consideration as well. I am of the opinion that you can do a lot with a little as we have also seen that having a lot does not mean necessarily doing a lot. I expect no one will agree with my list of Bl series or movies for each year that made the Bathos List.

In addition, I shall have an ongoing list of DUDS that just did not make it to the promised land and fell short of expectations, yet something still made them a bit salvageable. They may or may not end up on the Bomb List at the end of the year. Again, all of that is so subjective, I know. But that is the point to this. I want to make you think, and therefore define what are your best and worst lists.

1. Boyscation. A supposed reality show where 10 gay guys are to find ‘dates’. The problem is it never allowed for natural connections and seemed so controlled and direction by the production. I never got a sense these were real romances except for one couple. C - -
2. Cutie Pie 2. Simply an awful follow-up to Cutie Pie 1. Drab, boring, and self-indulgent. Everyone looks depressed in this series and the romance is painful to watch. It just is not there. C - -
3. Individual Circumstances. A most unromantic romantic drama. If you want to define a 'kissing a dead-fish', then watch this bore. C -
4. Bed Friend. This is another self-absorbed, self-indulgent romp of snobbery cloaked in the reality of abuse and bullying. Unfortunately, that is not a front and center issue, and it only manages to enhance obnoxious behavior. And that obnoxious behavior only gets rewarded. Wrong message. C - -
5. Future. A rather incoherent story that falls flat from the beginning because it has no direction. It vacillated from silliness to pointlessness with crying tearless tears. That is when you know you have a bad series. C - - 
6. Past Senger. I found its underlying message subtly abusive and disconcerting, not funny, and mostly sad. And very little understanding of what it is like to be gay. Its negative message overpowers its cuteness and slight humor. C - -
7. The Promise. What can you say about this complete letdown? Its prequel started out so engaging and then it slipped into a trope-filled, endlessly looping miscommunicating belaboring and pointless soppiness. C - -  

1. Physical Therapy – an incoherent mess from beginning to end with no one even attempting to act. One of the worst. This series itself needed a lot of therapy.
2. Love Area 2 – a terrible screenplay with toxic relationships.
3. Quarenthings 2 – an abject failure with no sense of love and a story filled with self-indulgent and self-absorbed individuals. The pandemic hits home here.
4. Cutie Pie – an abusive relationship classically meant to ‘help’ mature and grow the abused. Bad messagecompletely and nothing cute about these relationships.
5. The Young Royals 2 – a romp through privilege and ego with the ‘bad guy’ the only one showing any signs of being alive in this snooze fest. Royals, stay in your palace.
6. Love Victor 3 – a dull, vapid story that should never have been made. Please love anybody but Victor.
7. Senpai, This Can’t Be Love – and they are right. It is not.

1.  The Cupid Coach – an incoherent mess orchestrated from the gods with astonishingly bad acting. Sometimes gods should simply stay on Mount Olympus.
2. Paint With Love – it would be more interesting to watch paint dry than to watch this dribble. 
3. My Toxic Lover – one of theworst series I have ever seen. It was toxic from beginning to end.
4. Love With Benefits – there were no benefits to watching this drab series with very poor secondary characters as well.
5. Cherry Magic – A love story with no physicality. There is no magic in that and only insults the audience.
6. Alter – is one of the worst BLs ever made. Trying to play your twin sister in a cheap wig will not help alter the fact this series was a complete disaster.
7. TharnType 2 – a contrived mess with way too much unnecessary conflict. Even a wedding could not make this series come to love.
8. Baker Boys – was a complete waste of talent with an incoherent story that has no central focus to it. The story was half-baked.
9. Bite Me – a tediously slow-moving story of two-dimensional individuals. The only thing worth biting in this schizophrenic-like tale was the food.
10. Evening Café – filled with one trope after another. No place you really want to hang out and have coffee at.