selections from my week in media [ 10-16 august 2025 ]
The Wicked Game - The teaser that dropped recently was excellent and I'm very excited for it. I do want to try and watch Century of Love first though, so I hope I have time before it starts airing.
I made myself a birthday playlist this year, with a random selection of old favorites and new discoveries. Mostly kpop, of course, because I love it so much.
Wu Suowei, sleeping the sleep of relieved exhaustion, watched over by Chi Cheng, clearly feeling the same way. Peak romance.
Desire, ep 8 - Hua Yong is diabolical and I love him. But the longer the enigma reveal is drawn out, the more frustrated I get. Also, the Hua Yong+Shen Wenlang friendship is fascinating and hilarious, and I love that every week we get more of it.
I'll Turn Back This Time {finished: 3 stars} - I had a vague idea that this one might end unhappily and I was annoyed to be right. I would like to be generous and assume that the plot wasn't intentionally straight out of an 80s/90s "tragic gays" movie, but considering that Shi Wen was never seen with a new partner, I'm doubtful. Other than that, the core four friend group were great and I loved all of those interactions.
Khemjira, ep 2 - This show is filling the high production BL slot, now that Reset is finished. It's beautiful and even all the night-time scenes look pretty good. My full recap is here.
Knock Out {finished: 3 stars} - I never warmed up to Keen, but Thun is great and I wish we'd had more of the Thun+Thyphoon story because a lot was left on the floor there. Win and Ait were excellent and I did love their storyline. The plot itself was annoyingly repetitive until they finally revealed what was going on and then it all made sense. My favorite aspect of the whole series was actually the Muay Thai and I wish that had been the primary plot focus, with the loan shark plot more secondary. More training, matches, the doping, etc.
Revenged Love {finished: 3 stars} - This show. I'm holding a teeny tiny (itsy-bitsy) grudge against all the hype overshadowing Reset, my darling, that had the bad timing of airing at the same time. If the snake boys had hit just a few weeks later, I'm positive Reset would have hit bigger. But that's fandom life for ya. Revenged Love was very entertaining and I did like it quite a lot. My new favorite thing any drama has done is Wu Suowei's 24-hour relief sleep. I don't think I've seen any media portray that particular emotion in quite this way. Wu Suowei's just been through a long period of total upheaval, working every minute of the day trying to stay hopeful that it's not the new normal. And then everything is okay again. And his body says, okay you're done. So he sleeps. It was so unexpected and so astute of the show. I loved it so much.
ThamePo, ep 1-3 - It's such a Tumblr darling that I had to blacklist it for spoiler reasons ages ago, but everything I heard seemed like I would love it so I've been looking forward to finally starting it. And then I found out it was GMMTV, so my expectations immediately lowered, but I remained hopeful. Then I watched ep 1 and y'all. Po's tears during his speech at the end?! The heck? A+ acting choice. Then eps 2-3 just reaffirmed everything. It looks amazing, the acting is excellent so far, and the writing is great. No wonder everyone loves it. Weirdly, I'm not on board the Thame/Po pairing yet. They seem like they've already become intensely close friends. 🤣 (The big "however" is Thame memorizing Po's phone number. The romance in that action. I died.) The "getting the band back together" plot is, hands down, my favorite thing about the whole show right now. I automatically love any stories set behind the scenes and a lead singer trying to convince his group to reform their bonds (personal and professional), while fighting against the higher ups to do it? Catnip. I'm so invested.
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