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One31 announced their newest lineup, which includes a modern retelling of the classic tale of "Romeo & Juliet."

Juliet & Juliet | Official Teaser

When the heirs of two sworn families become each other's first love, will it end in love... or tragedy?

A classic love story, retold in GIRL LOVE style from the creators of "Girl from Nowhere" (เด็ก ใหม่).

"JULIET & JULIET" coming soon on One31.

Starring Mingming Kanyakorn and Nepjune Nutkitta.

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10 Great Thai BLs That Are Not GMMTV

I'm choosing from those that are GMMTV-style (so prestige stuff like ITSAY are not right for this list). Inspired by an ask that @heretherebedork got, bet you can guess what comes at the top...

Until We Meet Again

2019 Wabi Sabi (YouTube)

UWMA is, without question, a work of narrative genius with a powerful and cohesive romantic backbone and stellar performances. Basically a non BL trope reliant fated mates romance that just happens to have the right setting and age of protagonists to fit the genre. The way the two romances, past and future, weave and interconnect is surprisingly satisfying. There is even a glorious much beloved side pair.

It is (to date) the only Thai BL (of hundreds) that I’ve rated 10/10 predominately on the basis of its story structure. That said it is also very well cast (and it is a BIG cast), with solid production values, beautiful food, powerful themes, and enduring memorable couples.

More here.

My Ride

2022 K10 Global (Gaga)

Thai BL grew up with this pulp (the first ever to make my end of year top 10). It’s a truly lovely and special little show featuring the extremely rare pairing of sunshine/sunshine (AKA a cinnamon roll couple) plus mature explorations of relationships using one of the softest, sweetest and most innocent friends to lovers vehicles. Kindly, overworked doctor meets broken-hearted motorcycle taxi driver in an “other side of the tracks” slow burn romance. The support cast is excellent, making for great friendship groups and family dynamics.

With honest queer rep that adds to, but doesn’t impede, the story, and genuine conversation about the nature of class, wealth, and classism, not to mention communication, honesty, and respect for boundaries, you can’t go wrong with this show. In other news, I am a sucker for a single dimple.

Full review.

Laws of Attraction

2023 One31 (iQIYI)

Triggers for violence, beatings, death and torture depicted on screen.

This is a great gay suspense thriller with several solid couples, fun plot, killer characters, queer rep, and a happy ending. Charn may be my favorite lead character in all BL. EVER. He is utterly unhinged in the best possible way.

However, this show is not entirely BL, more on the fringe like Manner of Death. Add that to several "singing incidents" and pairs being a little weak in the chemistry arena, and this lands safely in 9/10 territory. It’s tons of fun tho: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. 

Reset

2025 Red Management (iQIYI)

A true BL lakorn about an established actor murdered on his big night who wakes up in his own pre-fame past and falls into the arms of the man who may have been there all along.

A strong lead pair, on point with both acting and chemistry, beautifully shot with a tight script, stunning tender sex scenes, no consent issues, a good dose of cheesy obsessed seme, and some scenery-chewing evil makes this one of our best modern Thai BLs. This was an easy 9/10. You should watch it. Any BL fan should watch it. It's great.

Also, it's gotta be said, the lighting in this show was off the hook.

Lovely Writer

2021 Dee Hup (YouTube)

Thailand criticizes itself and the BL industry while simultaneously giving us classic seme/uke with great chemistry in a one-two punch of “we love it, but are we supposed to? and must we think this hard, yet enjoy it SO MUCH?” This show won’t appeal or make sense to those who don’t already have at least some Thai BL watching experience.

What Lovely Writer does, at heart, is reexame Thai BL has done to queerness, but in a very gentle way that has more to do with Thai BL growing up than any actual queer authenticity. It’s not parody or pastiche, but it is self reflective and trying to correct for some chronic mistakes.

Whether it is ultimately successful in this matter is going to depend on the watcher’s relationship to BL and queer identity. But that’s what makes this show beautiful, interesting, and thought provoking. And I, for one, applaud the effort even if I didn’t personally connect to the characters.

I Feel You Linger in the Air

2023 Dee Hup (grey)

IFYLITA is an exquisite BL, from filming techniques to narrative framework (much like Until We Meet Again). It's about a gay man from our time who falls into the past, becomes a servant to a noble house, and falls in love with the heir. It turns out this has all happened several times before.

Steeped in history and family drama it edges into lakorn (but not as much as To Sir With Love and with way less scenery chewing). This is an elegant and classy soulmates BL… from Thailand which normally doesn't even try for classy.

The main couple (both as a pair and as individuals) were excellent, particularly Bright (Yai) whose eye-work acting style is a personal favorite of mine. Pity about the ending. Oh it wasn’t that sad but it wasn’t good either.

This show could easily have earned a 10/10 from me except that it fumbled the… erm… balls in the final quarter. Argh. Whatever. My full feels detailed here.

Step By Step

2023 Dee Hup (Gaga & Viki)

This was Thailand’s answer to The New Employee, and everything I loved about that show I loved about this one. This office romance between a stern boss and sweet subordinate felt more authentic to cubical work than previous Thai BLs of this ilk. That authenticity added tension to the narrative and its characters development (how novel).

I also really enjoyed the charming side characters and the brothers' relationship to each other (although I could have done without that brother's side BL).

The Sign

2024 Idol Factory (YouTube & iQIYI)

This show is literally everything (except straight) all at once. It's BL, queer, band of brothers, romcom, erotica, PNR, fated mates, police procedural, fantasy, mystery, suspense, and slasher. It’s the king of genre mash-up chaos. Sure, it's madness but there is genius in it.

Was it a crazy unhinged mess +1 roll for damage? Yes. Yes it was.

Did it manage to hold all those tangled threads together? No it did not.

Was it also a charming, sexy, engaging, non-stop piece of entertainment? Sure thing.

I think this show is basically my KinnPorsche, and frankly I’ve been chasing that dragon naga since KP aired.

Is it perfect? No. But it was balls to the wall FUN. Emphasis on balls.

Khemjira

2025 Domundi (iQIYI)

The story of a boy laboring under a curse, haunted by ghosts and demons, who’s family, friends, and (eventual) lover all try to help him via spiritual and physical means. While very much a horror BL (not my genre), I’m very glad that I gave this a chance.

This is a diaphanous magical BL of the kind that only really comes along once a year these days - with more lingering notes of I Feel You Linger in the Air than any actual gay horror I could name. It’s not going in my personal rewatch rotation, but I admire its (and its actor's) otherworldly beauty, stylish NC scenes, cultural relevancy, and elegant execution and impact.

Century of Love

2024 Open Label (Gaga)

This is a very pretty drama about a young man who fell in love with a nice girl 100 years ago, and when she died in his arms, he was cursed to live until he could meet her reborn self. Only this time around, she’s reborn into the body of a man. Or is she?

I love it when Thailand gets all up in its own historical business and reincarnation and shizz. I like this pair (it’s not DaouOffroad’s fault I didn’t enjoy their first series.) Daou’s wushu is snazzy and we got a unique meet cute. (Erm… Remeet cute? Meet cute 2.0?)

Ultimately, this is I Feel You Linger in the Air + First Love Again, rather than (as one might expect) Until We Meet Again or The Director Who Buys Me Dinner.

The leads turned in great performances, although Daou outclassed everybody else on that screen. It’s a good story and a great BL and I can’t find any major faults with it beyond a certain level of camp that is sadly endemic to lakorns. Also I’m going to give it credit as the kind of BL that one could safely recommend to lovers of melodrama and historical romance, without having to qualify it as “good for a BL.” It was, to put it succinctly, a VERY ENJOYABLE show. 

I dithered but ultimately cut:

La Pluie 2023 Acttraction Ent (Viki) Review here

Knock Out 2025 WeTV

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The Last Duel หงสาวดี ENGSUB - Links Masterpost

Official Logoless Uncut on OneD (Free from EP 1-4, needs subscription from EP 5-10)

Official Uncut on Youtube with English Subtitles Nekocaps (Available to directly select on Youtube if you have Nekocap extension installed)

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

Episode 7

Episode 8

Episode 9

Episode 10

Unofficial Logoless Uncut on Pixeldrain (for downloading) (MP4s embed with English subs, has separate English subtitle files and Vietnamese subtitle files

Unofficial Logoless Uncut on Ok.ru (for streaming)

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THE BANGKOK RED OPERA สอดสร้อยมาลา — 2026, dir. Sant Srikaewlaw

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Dawn: The Edge of Horizon trailer

Inn Jakkrasin (who played Chet's bodyguard in Wicked Game) has his own series coming later this year and it looks amazing

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I'm really moved by what Love in the Moonlight is doing so far.

When I finished episode 10 today, I was first marveling at how committed the show is to showing the brutal depths that homophobia can take us as a society, but this show is also doing a few other things really well, as well.

1) The homophobia: The last time One31 took us on a journey of a young gay man who had to marry a girl named Pin, it was in Khun Chai, and Khun Chai embraced a totally loco approach to the homophobia of its period. Tian was forced to hid his sexuality, and his secret was so threatening to his family's future and fortune that his mother and her aide were literally out there killing people with glowing-cicada-mushroom glitter powder. Khun Chai was over-OVER the top in its dramatics.

Before I watched Khun Chai earlier this year, I had watched an older One31 lakorn called The Fallen Leaf, which was Thailand's first lakorn featuring an LGBTQ+ main character. The Fallen Leaf was also extremely crazytown in its narrative and dramatics, even more so than Khun Chai.

Love in the Moonlight is taking a more restrained approach to its story, and I think this editing and restraint is working to highlight the brutal impact of social homophobia on Saengkaew's life. LITM still contains hallmarks of One31's penchant for over-the-top drama (the scene on the balcony in today's episode made my stomach turn), but there's something about how direct the show is about homophobia, and I think that's coming out in the way the show is edited to glom directly on Saengkaew's dad and his singular focus to have Saengkaew married against his will.

This line took me out.

We know that Saengkaew's dad

needs Saengkaew to get married to transfer assets,

blames Saengkaew for Saengkaew's mother's death, AND

is just plain disgusted by Saengkaew and his sexual preferences.

Prince Kamfah is not just saving face and his family's fortune. This is a guy who, down to his bones, is disgusted and devastated by his son's sexuality. We have certainly seen Kamfah exhibit sadness over Saengkaew's heartbreak and his rejection of his father's demands -- but Kamfah IS also determined and obsessed to get to the endgame that he wants, no matter the consequences on his son and his son's lover. This is so brutal, and the show is barring no holds on showing this in depth.

It's brilliantly done. It gives me a similar sick feeling towards homophobia that I got while watching TharnType. While One31 has certainly tackled and grappled with homophobia before in Khun Chai and The Fallen Leaf, I don't think the channel (at least in the LGBTQ+-focused shows I've seen) has grappled with such an unsympathetic, but also very realistic and DIRECT, lens on a homophobic parent. I keep calling Kamfah my Asian Dad 101, because he will simply not. let. go. of his obsession to control Saengkaew, and to me, that's very realistic of the demands that many old-school Asian parents have of their children.

2) Pin and her many emotions: I admit that I haven't dived into the tag on this show yet on Tumblr, but Pin's not popular on Twitter right now -- not a surprising outcome amongst the sao wai girlies.

But the show is not unsympathetic to Pin. I really can't blame Pin for her reactions and her demand to continue the wedding (h/t @negrowhat for the original post). Her reaction to Sasin and Saengkaew meeting in today's episode -- the screaming of "help, help!" -- was dumb. Her rejection of Ms. Ratchawadee's advice was more realistic, and still dumb. Pin is caught between multiple people and many hard places. Right now, she cannot see herself winning, and feels utterly abandoned, including by the person who promised her dying mother that he'd watch over her. It's brutal. Pin being left alone on that stage was brutal, and so well done.

I really appreciate how the show is very much non-binary on Pin, and has not (at least up to now) retconned her into an easy-to-digest enemy. Unlike what Shine did to Krailert's wife, Dhevi, LITM is showing multiple facets to Pin's humanity and her sad story. I'm bruised by Shine and what Shine did to Dhevi, so I'm watching critically at LITM to see what they'll do with Pin to end the series.

3) The village of friends and chosen family: Despite all of this, LITM still directs a spotlight on hope. Sasin and Saengkaew have friends, confidantes, and helpers. While the show focuses on the characters who NEED Saengkaew married -- the show also gives light to the people who want to see Saengkaew happy. Thip, the musician homies, Songsawat, Ratchawadee. There's a world out there that wants Saengkaew and Sasin together and happy, and that world keeps making moves, despite the efforts of every one of the guys' enemies to destroy their lives.

I've felt so burned lately by dishonest endings to Thai BLs as of late that I'm not necessarily holding my breath for a perfect ending to this show: I will allow myself doubt, because One31 does like to go over-the-top on many of its shows.

But color me impressed by what the show has done so far, and how it has balanced continuing depths of despair and bad behavior with hope. I started this show to support my Make It Right chaos boy, Peak Peemapol, and I'm glad I did, because One31 is surprising me with how GOOD and balanced this show has been so far.

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The Edge of Horizon starring Ongsa Tthuchh and Inn Jakkrasin premieres June 20th!

“A love across different classes and ranks. One has only his honour, the other has a royal lineage at stake.”

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As of the 2025 fiscal year, GMMTV has overtaken One31 to become the top-earning company under The One Enterprise.

(Not sure if it's of interest to the folks around here - there are more details in the full write-up on Reddit.)