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Absolute Zero | S01E03
Thai Drama - 2023, 12 episodes
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Fall Teaser
And we're back!
Despite all sorts of obstacles in our lives, Ben and NiNi managed to put together another season!
We have five episodes for you, beginning with two retrospectives on I Told Sunset About You and I Promised You the Moon! For the panels we invited some of our friends to reflect on the show with us, and decided to split up to talk about each show. Ben hosted the ITSAY panel and Nini hosted the IPYTM panel.
For new shows, this season we will cover Tokyo in April is...; Be My Favorite; Wedding Plan; Be Mine, SuperStar; Hidden Agenda; Minato's Laundromat 2; Sing My Crush; Heartstopper 2; and Why R U? (Korea).
Look forward to the Catchup Corner where we watched nothing we promised we would, but have some cool things to share.
Episodes release every Monday and Thursday starting on the 16th.
In the meantime, here's a teaser for what's in store.
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This is gonna be a lot because I have many thoughts and they are not coherent in my own brain so who knows what they’re gonna be like when written out. But I was thinking about Only Friends and the friend group and the queerness of it all and something unlocked in my brain. Not entirely sure what unlocked but let’s find out together, shall we? Buckle up children, we’re going on a ride.
I will be the first to admit, I am not the biggest fan of the people in this friend group, particularly Mew and Cheum, BUT my personal feelings on these characters do not matter. If I were in college with them, I would probably have befriended them. I’m about to make a whole lot of assumptions but I feel comfortable making these assumptions. What are the odds that there’s another queer friend group at that school? Maybe April has queer friends? Maybe April is THE queer friend. So, assuming that there are not a whole lot of our queer people at that school, it makes sense that Mew, Cheum, Ray, and Boston stick together. Whether or not they remain friends after college doesn’t matter. What matters is they found each other during school and they stick together.
Even when they’re angry at each other, they don’t abandon each other. Have they helped Ray like they should? I’d argue no, but they also didn’t leave him friendless (how they treat him is another post). Have they judged Boston for sleeping around? Yep! But they also still count him as their friend even after he slept with Top. Do any of them leave Mew because he has more rules and boundaries regarding sex and relationships than them? No. Do they leave Cheum even though she’s in a committed relationship and her experience as a lesbian is different than their experience as gay men? No. They do not leave each other (again whether or not they’re good friends is not the point here).
I went to college in a small, conservative town. And you’ll never guess what happened. They queer people found each other. My friend group was made up of queer people (and some straight people but mostly queer) and we found each other. Even before some of us were out. Before some of us even knew we were queer. The friend group we found offered us something we would struggle to get elsewhere. It offered us safety and security. Especially because my friend and I could also offer our families who warmly welcomed anyone regardless of sexuality or gender. And there is a lot to be said for having not only friends, but the support and security of a family when you’re queer in a less-than-friendly space.
So the Only Friends group offers each other something so important that they can’t get from a straight friend group, even a group full of allies: they get people who are safe to be themselves around. They get people who understand. They might not understand how each different person expresses their sexuality, but they understand what it means to be queer at that point and time in their lives. Being Mew’s friend gives them, particularly Ray and Boston, a family that will support them. We don’t know how much their father’s know about their queerness, but we do know that both of them feel a certain pressure from their fathers. Having a friend like Mew, that comes from a supportive family, that is willing to extend that support, is huge. And not only a supportive family, but a queer one.
This is a lot to say that regardless of anyone’s feelings towards a specific character, queer people stick together. Not every queer person is going to get along with every other queer person, but being queer gives us all a unique experience that binds us and makes us family. The Only Friends group is a family. I don’t think they like each other very much but they love each other and they do their best to protect each other. Families don’t always get everything right, but what’s important is that at the end of the day, they all have a safe place to fall back into. As they go out into the world, they might remain friends or they might grow apart, but what they will always know is they gave each other a safe place when they were younger and what could ever matter more than that?
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Singto Prachaya and Fluke Natouch's '#ViuShadow #เงาล่าตาย' is coming to GagaOOLala starting on October 31!
'SHADOW' is a teenage suspense drama with supernatural stories, psychology, love, and friendship of friends who try to find the truth about the dark past
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Taikan Yoho | S01E07
Japanese Drama - 2023, 8 episodes
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Guardian | S01E20
Chinese Drama - 2018, 40 episodes
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people do get mad at the characters in this show me included but fwiw given the time and focus I could write a thesis-length defense for every single one of them including boston
my favorite thing about this show so far is how complicated and human they all get to be. yeah there's a lot of brokenness in these characters and relationships! yeah they're doing some terrible shit to one another! most of the worst of it is not actively malicious which is what makes it feel so relevant and messy and true: we hurt each other in all kinds of unthinking sloppy selfish ways in real life, too.
I'm not here to come after anyone who gets any catharsis hating on a fictional character. one of the few things that does not have the potential to hurt these little shits is how we the viewers of their fictional(/ized) lives feel about them. but unless something major changes you're not going to see much of that around here
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You’re My Sky | S01E12
Thai Drama - 2022, 12 episodes
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Absolute Zero | S01E01
Thai Drama - 2023, 12 episodes
~~ Adapted from the novel "Absolute Zeo Ongsa Sun" (องศาสูญ) by Salil (สลิล
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Generations on Tumblr
The first poll was done in April 2023 which you can find here
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S.C.I | S01E10
Chinese Drama - 2018, 24 episodes
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Bon Appetit | S01E01
Korean Drama - 2023, 8 episodes
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Uesugi Shuhei and Nishimura Takuya are reportedly to star in MBS’ Tunku Drama ‘#OneRoomAngel #ワンルームエンジェル’, premiering on October 19th.
There are a lot of things that Kouki doesn’t have – no hobbies, no friends, no lover, no stable job, and no will to live. So when a random tussle with some kids gets him stabbed, he thinks maybe this is finally his ticket out of this crappy life. But just as he’s about to pass out he sees a beautiful “angel”… How is Kouki supposed to cope when less than a month later, he’s mysteriously healed, has astronomical bills to pay, and suddenly has the same beautiful angel as his amnesiac roommate?
The drama is an adaptation based on Harada’s manga of the same name and taking over ‘My Personal Weatherman.
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Who is Mew Anyway?
I realized we are over halfway through Only Friends now, and that I have only talked about Mew once in my write ups. Which…makes sense for me, all things considered, until now he’s kind of been a blah character in my eyes. And I am leaning in to and really appreciating how intentional that is beginning to feel on behalf of Jojo and co.
When you think about it, until literally halfway through the show we have known almost nothing about Mew besides the fact that he is the table keeper for his friends, he is a hotel management student, and he’s a virgin. If you asked me to list any other facts about Mew’s life or his role in life, I would not have been able to answer much of anything.
And that’s because Mew isn’t really anything. Personally, I feel like Mew thinks he has a strong sense of self and the second that something comes along to question that, all those illusions he has of himself start crumbling. When I look at Mew’s character, and I mean start getting in to the nitty gritty of Mew’s character, I don’t think Mew has any idea who he is. Which, for a show about college students is fucking brilliant. I thought I knew who I was in college, and then I graduated and promptly became queer and trans. I thought I knew what career I wanted, and then I ended up going to grad school for something outside of my initial plans. I know @waitmyturtles mentioned something similar about trying on different personalities in college in her Episode 7 Review.
Think about Mew’s apartment, it was his mother’s old place. He took it over after she moved out. He didn’t choose this place, we can’t be certain this is the type of apartment or the location that Mew would actively decide to be in. When he brings Top home the first night they meet, Top comments on the place:
“Your room is nice, it suits you”
To which Mew replies ‘It’s my Mom’s old room. I decorated it using ideas from the internet”
Which says to me that Mew’s own personality, his own interests weren’t even involved in the creation of his own personal space. He decorated it based on inspiration from what other people had done to their own places. And Mew’s apartment fascinates me further, as a color-coder in BL kinda person. Because Mew’s apartment is all over the place in its decoration.
On one wall we have striped wallpaper, in orange hues.
On another we have light blue walls with white and golden patterning. A yellow couch, a blue bookshelf.
In his room he has a wall that is painted a solid green
And I can’t quite get a good image of it, but the opposite wall in his room is painted a dark turquoise with white patterning, which is different from Ray’s house, but still evokes a similar visual point of comparison.
Even Mew himself, when we first meet him is alllllll over the place with his colors. He has lines all over his shirt, with squares of different colors. His second look of the show is a solid light blue shirt over top of a striped shirt with orange, green, yellow.
His bed sheets are similarly stripes with dark gray, green, yellow, and orange.
Which is to say, at the beginning of our time with Mew, it is hard to pin down who he is as a person. He doesn’t have a color, he doesn’t have a pattern, to associate with his character. He fluctuates between rich, saturated colors and light, washed out pastels.
When I think of Mew, I think of all the outfits he’s worn that have a strong green tint to them, but honestly, looking back through his wardrobe, Mew has a broad range of colors he chooses from.
(Now, I recognize that all of this could be because the costuming department does not actually care about color coding, and that the eclectic styling of Mew’s apartment was just how it already was. And that’s fine, but I’m here so I’m gonna overanalyze it.)
All this to say that, Mew’s colors, Mews home, Mew’s pattern choices are all very disparate. All this to say that as a result I am now assuming that Mew does not know who he is, and neither do we. He could go any number of ways. Mew could go orange, yellow, green, blue. He could be complicated (with complex patterns) or straight forward (with solid colors). But none of us know at the beginning of this show quite where he will go.
Truthfully, the only aspect of Mew that I have seen be steadfast throughout the show, is Mew’s moral superiority complex. Everything else is mutable. Mew has throughout most of the show, regarded himself as a good person. He doesn’t drink much, he doesn’t dance much, he doesn’t sleep around at all, and that somehow in his mind, grants Mew the opportunity to talk down to his friends.
He’s not an alcoholic like Ray who he has no problem lecturing in the bathroom about how he is going to be dead by 30, despite knowing that Ray is/was suicidal. He’s not a slut like Boston, who is far too obsessed with Mew’s virginity, etc. etc. etc. Mew fucks with Top, deciding that he is going to wait to have sex with him for awhile. And that is his right, but Mew doesn’t say he’s waiting because he isn’t comfortable with sex. He tells Boston and Cheum that he is waiting to have sex with Top to make sure that Top is serious about their relationship. Because if Top is serious about dating Mew without sex being involved, that means that Mew is worthy of the top tier because he is top tier, and not because he is an easy lay that Top can use for bragging rights (bagging a virgin).
And I would have previously entertained a conversation around whether or not that is true, but unfortunately for any dissenters to my read of Mew, now that Mew has decided to #embracethenasty, there is no convincing me out of my observation that Mew does not know who he is.
Why? Because the second that Mew starts retaliating against Top, the second he decides to ruin Top’s life, to stoop low, to be the lesser person…Mew starts dressing like Ray. I am certainly not the first person to notice this, it has been circulating in multiple different forms across my tumblr page, but.
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Mew doesn’t know who he is, Mew doesn’t know how he fits in to the world now that he has decided to make Top’s life a living hell. I am not convinced Mew is capable of seeing himself as a bad person, because he isn’t a slut or an addict or a cheater. [As an aside here, this is Mew’s thinking, not my own personal beliefs on what makes someone a good or bad person]. So, of course, if he wanted to become a bad person. If he wanted to play at being as toxic and terrible as the people around him, it makes sense Mew would don the wardrobe of his “best friend”, Ray. Ray, who Mew looks down on for being an alcoholic, for not valuing his life. Who Mew has told time and time again to love himself, and to quit drinking and doing drugs, as if that is going to cure Ray’s addiction. And who in under five minutes just took a blowtorch to everyone’s relationships.
Why? Because Mew is so self-righteous that he looks down on others around him. Mew isn’t ready or willing to look at and acknowledge the nasty, flawed parts of himself, so he adorns the nasty, flawed parts of others, to abstract himself from his own behavior. He uses Ray’s clothing, Nick’s methodology, and Boston’s personality to retaliate at the people he feels wronged by.
Mew uses Boston against himself, wielding Boston’s sexual prowess, his willingness to fuck, his Hunter charm to get himself in to Gap’s apartment. He uses Nick’s methodology to steal the video of Boston and lords the knowledge over Boston’s head (like Nick did to Top), and again, he is wearing Ray’s clothing. But while Mew is trying to be a chameleon in his behavior, his appearance, his strategy to get back at Top, Mew’s own flavor of flaw starts becoming ever more clear.
Mew has a superiority complex.
It is absolutely, unbelievable shitty and vile to threaten to out Boston to his father. To treat Boston’s privacy and safety with such disdain. Boston records others and he keeps those images as evidence, so Mew steals Boston’s MO. Mew takes the recording of Boston, looks Boston in the eye, and makes Boston think that he is going to hold on to that for evidence.
Now, right before this, Mew does actually draw a comparison point between himself and Boston.
“You and I have something in common.” he says
“We’re both gullible”
Mew makes Boston beg. And after he has made Boston sweat sufficiently, he throws the flashdrive on the ground. He says: “I’m kidding. No matter how much I hate you, I won’t do it. Because I don’t betray my friend like you did.
“Then I’d be just as filthy as you are.”
While Mew is able to identify a potential flaw of his own, being gullible isn’t a fundamental aspect of Mew’s personality or character, being gullible isn’t who Mew is. It’s a flaw that he is pointing out only because he is still reeling from allowing himself to be fooled by Top and Boston. It’s a flaw that he is point out so that he can weaponize his superiority complex.
In other words: “You and I have something in common, but I am better than you because I don’t betray my friends”
As if he didn’t just threaten to publicize Boston’s sex life to his father, the implications of which could have a national impact.
And while it is ultimately unsurprising that Mew channels Ray in doing all of this, it is interesting. Interesting because Mew is using Ray. Mew not only knows that Ray is capable of fucking up his own life, and the lives of the people around him, he also knows that Ray is the least liked by both Boston and Top. Boston’s distaste for Ray is subtle, as his obsession with Top and Mew has been more at the forefront of his interactions with his friends. But we have seen from the very beginning of this show that Boston does nothing to care for Ray. Boston is assigned to take care of Ray and make sure he is safe when he’s been drinking too much. Boston literally never once helps Ray when he’s drunk. Boston sees Ray and Sand crossed, cuddling, and generally having a good time, and Boston goes and airs Ray’s dirty laundry. Ray is the first person to confront Boston about cuckolding Mew.
So wearing clothing that is reminiscent of Ray when Mew goes to Boston’s house to threaten him is a flavorful undertone for how Mew is hoping Boston will see him.
At the points in which Top and Mew interact during the episode, Mew is not dressed like Ray, but he sure as shit does lord Ray over Top just to fuck with him. When Top comes to apologize to Mew, Mew asks Ray to find a new designer, literally asking Ray to replace Top. When Ray helps treat Mew’s injury after the group fight, Mew decides to use Ray as a rebound. To use Ray’s feelings for him as a way to experiment, once again, with the type of person he wants to be and the type of person he wants to be with. We end the episode with Ray and Mew dancing together at the bar, Mew dressed in a very Ray style
Because Mew is trying Ray on for size, trying his fashion, his company, his lifestyle (as we see from the promo for next week) and that is prone to make RayMew crash and burn, because Ray is self-destructive enough as is, and I don’t think Mew is going to do well with treating himself with Ray’s level of self-care.
Mew doesn’t know who he is, Mew doesn’t know what he wants, the only thing Mew knows is that he’s better than everyone around him, and he can only stoop as low as them is by pretending he is them, rather than facing the fact that he's just as terribly human as the rest of the group.
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All I'm saying is that Mew burning a single page instead of the entire notebook was telling.
I was born in the fires of gay drama, I AM the gay drama, I know these things. If he really wasn't down to give Top a second chance, he'd have burnt the entire thing.
Ray's setting himself up for disappointment here. Mew said it himself. He was obsessed with Top. He's not going to able to turn that off, and his need to try to, to control his own emotions, is probably going to hurt a few people around him.
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