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 -

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.