Category: Thailand

BLISS RATING: ★+ “Just because someone desires you, does not mean he values you.” – OurMindfulFile.com This series is full of lust and desire, but truth and honesty, not so much. I have seen my fair share of bad BLs, but this one stands out for having no scruples. None overall and none with any…

BLISS RATING: ★★★★★ “We see each other but we do not co-exist.” – Quote from 7 Days Before Valentine Undoubtedly, this is one of those series that will either be loved or panned, mainly because of the esoteric and metaphysical nature of its theme and its presentation as a Greek tragedy. It is allegorical with…

BLISS RATING: ★★★★+ “Fool my once, shame on thee; fool me twice shame on me.” – English Proverb The allegory behind this theme is fascinating. Its screenplay is where it fell flat. If they had followed the initiative of the story, the saga would have been a way more compelling BL. Instead, it became spasmodic.…

BLISS RATING: ★+ “There is nothing wrong with entertainment. As some psychiatrist once put it, we all build castles in the sky. The problems come when we try to live in them.” – Neil Postman from his book “Amusing Ourselves to Death” My sympathy goes out to those who started this series way back in…

BLISS RATING: ★★★★+ “True blindness is the inability to see any hope. We live to pursue hope in life” – Quote from Last Twilight I had almost given up watching Thai BLs are they had become so formulaic and standard. Then this gem comes along with its stunning, nearly perfect love story that crashed and…

BLISS RATING: ★★★★+ “Love is friendship on fire.” – Susan Sontag How can you possibly not love or at least fall in love with this sonnet of adolescent love defined by the sparkle of the light from stars in the sky? The story is as old as time perhaps and to a degree overdone but…

BLISS RATING: ★+ “Wait! I can’t catch my breath.” – quote from My Dear Ganster Oppa No more appropriate words were spoken to better describe this series than those above. While they were not meant to summarize this series, this is nonetheless the most fitting phrase to capture the spirit of this awful series. Something…

BLISS RATING: ★★+ “You do everything with love.” – Quote from Bake Me Please What can you say about another trite, tropey, cliché-ridden Thai series centering around a cooking theme that has not already been said? Both from a positive and negative perspective that seriously does not sound like a broken record (I know that…

BLISS RATING: ★+ “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. The shadow knows” – Introductory line from the radio adaption of The Shadow (1931) While the quote above is from a completely different era, its premise is the same. In the above, the Shadow was a detective and human while in this…

BLISS RATING: ★★★★+ “With love comes a softening, a gentleness, a kindness, a joy.” – Laura Jaworski Sometimes a title to a movie is so spot-on that nothing more needs to be said about it. The summation is expressed, quite literally, in this title. It is a story about a very lonely young man who…