Unforgotten Night - One Dumpster Fire to Rule Them All
I expect a monster of steaming trash. I expect giggles of BDSM. I expect heaping tablespoons of deep friend dumpling wrapped sugar coated tripe.
I will be extremely disappointed if this show exceeds my expectations.
Let’s do this thing, not with a bang but with a
squelch!
Let’s take that flying fuck at a rolling doughnut... together! (What would a doughnut gang bang be? A slam dunk? A double dipper?)
ARE YOU WITH ME!?!?
Episode 1 - If Your Expectations Are Low, Limbo Under Them
In case I wasn’t plain enough at the opening, let me make this clearer than a well-hydrated golden shower. The kink rep is gonna be poor in this show. The queer rep is gonna be absent. The business CEO rep is gonna be appalling. The acting is gonna be wooden. The script is gonna be abysmal. I expect scenery chewing so bad we are all farting wood chips out the other side. Your safeword is not reading this blog and not watching this show. Got it? Okay.
Dom introduction (Kamol).
Excellent. We begin with the classic black limo, the classic black on black suit, and an actual rolled carpet. Also cameras from the late 80s. Top marks from complete lack of subtly. Also, it is just me who finds Thai accented Korean incredibly odd?
Sub introduction (Kim).
Gurrl! Cosmos? Martinis? Srs? I am beginning to think this is a period piece.
Right so we got: Bathroom drama breakup. Plus the lonely slide floor sit. Thailand, we have discussed this at length: no singing & no crying.
For this drama and this drama alone, I will make one exception. Crying is allowed if you put him in eyeliner and those are pain tears. That’s the rule.
Def no singing. I refused to allow guitars in my BDSM. Wait no, I’d allow them, but they’d always be just out of reach and anyone caught reaching for one would be immediately gagged and trussed.
*nods in sadist*
Awe, it's really nice to see some of the old Wabi Sabi crew like Sammy and Title show up. Hi cuties!!! The band is back together again, isn't it?
OH NO I SAID BAND.
Do not take that as a hint.
Where was I?
Right actually this a god opening sequence set up, nice plot movement, broken hearted (yet still desired & beloved by all) sub, unsatisfied dom. Clear characterizations and support cast. I’m satisfied. And now for the unforgotten night!
50 Shades of BL let’s DO THIS THING!
Okay so we see depicted and established consent, even if there’s no proper negotiation, considering we skipped straight to robes, Imma assume there was some ordered cleanliness and negotiation going on before the robing, and go from there. *nodes in plotonium*
Those restraints are amusingly lose. That said I have had subs with fastening triggers and their binds were mostly for show, so *shrug*. Reminder for anyone out there interested in wax play (a personal fav of mine) you do need special candles. Finally, a light whipping. Nice tame little intro-level scene. It’s pretty good kink actually, for a BL.
The aftercare bath scene was actually cute.
Why is product placement in a BDSM BL SO FUNNY?
So far this is DUMB and GREAT and I am ALL IN. This was exactly what I wanted. Did you know the B in BDSM stands for bouncy? No? Well it DOES now.
Kinky books corner: romances with great BDSM rep
I was asked in comments about this show for kinky books with good BDSM rep:
Alexis Hall's For Real is not only brilliant, hugely romantic, and incredibly well written, it’s age gap (younger dom, older sub). I have issues with no limits play, but given the reverse power differential in the D/s dynamic I’m okay with this one. This is also my hands down favorite Alexis Hall.
If you’re interested in gay BDSM with a wide rep of different kinks and always done very well executed with established safewords, contracts, and protocols then the Collars & Cuffs series by K.C. Wells is probubly your best bet. Which one in the series is your favorite will depend on your kinks, I like Dom of the Ages. They can be read in any order but do feature lots of cross over characters and an overarching linear story about one dungeon in the UK.
A personal favorite and for those of you loving Old Fashion Cupcake, there is Not Safe For Work by L.A. Witt which features an out bisexual, mature characters, and a secret office romance. It’s got great communication and all the tension is from work drama not miscommunication.
For het, I think Natural Law by Joey Hill is pretty good. It's mixed up with a police investigation crime thriller aspect, though. I don’t read much het, so there probubly are better BDSM reps out there now.
If you want something highly erotic and very queer and poly but mixed up with historical (follow me here), then I remember enjoying Bound to Be a Groom by Megan Mulry but I read that one a long time ago. It’s a quadruple 2 Doms, 2 subs, mixed M/m, F/f, M/f, F/m pairings (they are all with each other in various ways/kinks).
I’ve linked to Zon because I lazy, some of these are only there, some are wide. Pay the author, don’t steal the books. Nash.
I’m not claiming they have good kink rep but here’s: BLS with BDSM elements, and a lot of the dark BLs from Japan are very heavy into kink
A brief list of shows featuring BDSM that I liked: Love & Leashes (Korea - Netflix), Bonding (UK - Netflix), The Secretary (USA).
Everything kink comes with triggers attached.
But why is this director so fascinated with faucets? Is it a metaphor? Seriously, that direct are we? OKAAAAYYYY
Episode 2 - Kamol Repping for the U-Haul Gays
I would officially like to request doomy Thai mafia music be played every time I give a presentation to my Korean overlords, thank you very much. And also when I step out of my private plane? Sound good?
I’m of 2 minds over Kamol’s sunglasses. On the one hand, Yoon does look more badass in them. On the other hand, they are ALSO PATENTLY ABSURD.
(Honestly, I am seriously not joking about the presentations. Can you just imagine regression analysis, graphs, and charts only with THAT MUSIC playing the whole time? It would certainly add a bit of... oh I don’t know... je ne sais quoi?)
Do I think they think they are being subtle putting the Dom on his knees in this shot. Yes yes I do. Are they subtle? No, No they are not.
THAI LINGUISTICS CORNER
We pause your regularly scheduled snark, to point out that Kim uses pom/khun with Kamol (as we might expect, this is formal and distancing) while Kamol uses chan/nai with both Kim and his bodyguards. I don’t know what this means (chan as used by a man is somewhat informal but not rude, but also not super common), but I find it intersting. (In the research I could find nai as you was usually paired with rao for the I pronoun, not chan). Nai has been pretty rare in Thai BL, but as we move out of school settings I guess we are going to get more unfamiliar pronouns. Nai is technically the slightly less formal version of khun, gendered specifically for a man of equal social standing defined as: นาย • (naai) Cognate with Lao ນາຍ (nāi) a you pronoun “used to address a male friend.” The bodyguards seem to be using the archaic (semi frozen) from of nai back to Kamol (used to adress or refer to a superior male).
moving on...
Nothing much happened. We spent too much time with Kim’s ex. The director made Kim cry again (stop it, Thailand). Kim tried to kick out the mafia. The slightly sus stalker character is back with fruit, and the work ladies are all a flutter.
Why does this whole show feel like kiddies playing dress up?
We got a bite-size sample of side dishes: age gap + class gap AKA housekeeper’s baby boi meets sexy head bodyguard. ME LIKEY.
It’s a bit slow, but ya know what? I’m still not mad about it.
Carry on.
Episode 3 - If you’re confused as to whether I like this show, imagine how I feel.
Our leads continue to have a basic (and very gay) misunderstanding:
Gay Party The First - Kinky One Night Stand to Get Over My Ex
Gay Party The Second - MINE FOREVER
Been there. Run from that.
Nothing happened in this episode except the stalker/Dom still wants the sub and the sub still wants his ex. But hey, I remain engaged. That’s something I suppose. Now move aside UN, I got Triage to catch up on!
Also, so far, def not enough BDSM. I am disappointed, but then I expected that.
Episode 4 - The Background Music is Okay, I guess?
Recent discussions over the craptastic nature of Thai BL credit sequence tunes has made me appreciate this one aspect of this show, if nothing else. The music is fine.
Look, it’s crystal clear, while Yoon can (attempt) to be in every Thai BL he can’t play every role. CEO mafia Dom does not suit him - I keep wanting to pich his cute little cheeks and ask, “What so serious?"
What is it with Kamol climbing on beds with his shoes on? First of all: SHOES inside the bedroom at all? Ugh disgusting. Then on the bed? Yech.
Also, can we talk about how impractically dumb this wee mirror is?
"I have a tiny mirror but have you seen the size of my... tattoo?”
The dinner table “you should speak in a nicer tone” conversation was actually pretty funny. Kamol is a fun character when others are mocking him like I want to.
I adore the “assistant” and his baby boy ( @heretherebedork you are with me, right?) Please make them happen. I know this isn’t Japan (who loves an age gap), but isn’t this MEANT to be a kinky drama? There are more than a thousand ways to be kinky, you know?
Give Assistant Daddy his baby boy, okay?
Okay.
Look at the little face. He wants P’Daddy so bad.
Oh wait.
Is that?
Do I feel...
Expectations happening?
CAN’T HAVE THAT!
Bad expectations! No BL for you.
I can’t believe I have to explain this. But D’Kamol, Kim wants you to TAKE form him SO he can get angry about it SO you push him around and punish him. I cannot believe I have to explain your business to you like this. Your sub is being a brat that means one thing and one thing only: he’s asking for it. Sheesh. Is this BDSM 101? For goodness sake.
Ah, now that is the annoyed frustration I was expecting from this show.
Carry on dumpster fire, do.
And it will burn-baby-burn, for it looks like next week we continue with the Unnecessary Femme Fetalle! Thailand - the only nation where more UFFs are spotted in one year than UFOs in a decade.
Oh, I am on a roll tonight.
Next week....
See you then!
Should we be calling this show Forgotten Kink rather than Unforgotten Night?
Episode 5 - The First Rule of Body-guarding, Don’t Get in the Middle of a Bitch Fight
Poor Lop stuck in the middle of an A1 class bitch fight.
I do like that Kamol is direct and open about romantic communication, it’s a very Dom thing to do, at least it should be.
The tiger was dumb. Don’t keep tigers as pets you moron.
So I guess they’re boyfriends now?
Episode 6 - Sucker for Side Dishes Manifests
There is a terrible party, and a terrible fight sequence, and some terrible dialogue.
About what I expected, actually.
This is a crappy dumb show.
We got the tiniest of scraps of a side dish, but they are so unbelievably cute together. They have both mine and, of course, @heretherebedork ’s hearts.
Sometimes I think I should rename this blog
“sucker for side dishes and second lead syndrome.”
Or is that just a poem I’m writing about myself?
In case you’re keeping track:
Faucets not turned off - 2
Shoes on bed - 6 (3x)
I’d say “make it stop” but can’t stop the dumpster fire!
Episode 7 - They’re Separated, What a Relief
I do love it when Thailand tries on domesticity for size.
I have no idea why they insist on leaving that one for Taiwan and Vietnam 90% of the time, tiny gay families are THE BEST. And you know Thailand can handle it.
Ah, now I’m getting all misty eyed over My Ride...
I was going to say that the promise of this show is being squandered, and then I realized that it had no promise.
Look, the safety precautions and sending Kim away makes absolutely no sense in any universe even a Thai mafia one.
OMG! It’s the house again!
You know, that house. That one house that all the gay boys live in. The only house that exists in all of Thailand.
That House.
FEAR THE STAIRS!
Look here Thailand. I demand that either:
Someone dies and artistically bleeds all over these floating stairs in a lovely splash of red or
Someone falls off these stairs or (better) is pushed at some point
If you insist on option 2 I will, under sufferance, accept that it be a pratfall crash into the seme.
It’s only fair, you keep taunting us with these stair. USE THEM as all the gods of BL intended, for murder or comedy.
Those are your only option.
Honestly, I really kind of liked this episode. The fact that the lead couple is apart for most of it was all to the better. I don’t know what that says about this show (nothing good) but there it is.
Meanwhile, that secondary couple hug was too much. Age gap gets me every time.
The tentative nature of it and the way P’Daddy really wants to hug back but can’t. These two have more chemistry in one glance than the leads do in chains.
And NOW A kidnaping. How exciting.
Episode 8 - WAIT, no kidnapping? how disappointing
Is it just me, or did the fight scene improve this time around? That’s nice.
Still no blood on the floating stairs, but you can’t have everything. Especially not in a Thai BL.
I like the fact that they highlighted the flawed reasoning and the weird plot point from the last episode (sending Kim away from the safety of a fortress and a million bodyguards “for his own good”.)
But there still wasn’t a good explanation for Kamol’s decision.
Shrimp trope!
Thai Language Corner:
At one point I reminded you all that gin กิน (the Thai verb) for “eat” is a double entendre, well here it is being a single entendre.
Ooh, and an arse slap!
A rare and remarkably unusual trope. I shall treasure these moment’s between us, Unforgotten Night, for the rare gems in the cess pit that they are.
I got to say, a true Dom would make that slap sting a hell of a lot more. The point would be to be remembered for the entire day, every time your sub sat down.
I’m stuck teaching this BL its kinky business,
Me to Unforgotten Night:
Apparently next week we have Jake from Enhyphen* in the role of Kamol’s ex-mafia-boytoy.
* just a little joke don’t coem after me engines
Episode 9 - I keep yawning, is it the gummy or this show?
Honestly I don’t have very much to say about this episode. I guess they are cute boyfriends? But do we want cute boyfriends from our mafia daddy? I ask you?
Rise up BL fandom, because NO WE DO NOT.
Eh, don’t bother to rise up. Have a gummy to gnaw on instead. It’s not like Kamol’s gonna gnaw on anything soft and sweet. Even when it’s showering RIGHT THERE.
Speaking of which: obligatory gratuitous shower scene. Everyone say: Thank you Thailand!
And some hair drying in a WAFFLE ROBE! Haven’t seen one of those in a while. Hello my old friend.
The side dishes just just got crumby again.
Very soft crumbs.
Meanwhile, plot.
Wait... was there plot?
Enter Danil former fuck-buddy also the boss/adopted dad’s younger brother. Well done there, Kamol, stepbrothers trope! Sort of. Look he’s as half-arsed about his tropes as he is about his kinks.
I do like that Kim & Kamol had an adult mature communicating conversation about the situation. That’s unexpected.
Episode 10 - WHOAH THERE BOYS
Okay, I made myself a boozy affogato of chocolate vanilla peanut butter ice cream with creme de cacao and chambord on top (DON’T JUDGE).
The handhold thing in the plane was very cute, I like those little Dommy insights. But the whole vacation house thing was weird. A forced found family dynamic or something?
WHY IS EVERYONE SUDDENLY WEARING NAVY? It’s like the mafia does Ralph Lauren.
WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THIS SHOW? What’s its purpose in life? What is it trying to do? How am I supposed to feel about it? What the point of anything anymore? What’s the point of life? What’s... ooo...
*distracted by boozy affogato*
And now Kim has gone off sex? Why a sudden blushing maiden moment?
OH WAIT, RIGHT.... bratty sub.
He’s asking for it.
NOTE: This is why you should never top drunk.
In other (not new) news Khom is a strict but gentle Daddy & Baiboon LOVES it and him so much.
Meanwhile rando bodyguard sex, what? Three way. Okay. Well isn’t everyone just hella gay allasudden?
My stars.
I am not that drunk, right? It really happened. And in the shower.
I guess everyone is getting laid but Kamol tonight?
Also Unforgotten Night is clearly vested in going where KinnPorsche elected not to, aren’t they? (KP, to my understanding, originally had a throuple in the y-novel.)
Well, this show is indeed total trash. I mean it takes a lot to make me feel dirty, and this random bodyguard 3 way did it. Not because I’m opposed to group sex, but because with no character development at all, it came entirely out of nowhere.
One hopes they did too.
Moving on to Kamol getting some.
WAIT.
No.
Gear in the shower is one thing (shudder) but fastened to THE SHOWER HEAD? What what what?
Have I taught you nothing?
Well, no obviously not.
Hay you, tumblr kinksters, don’t fucking fasten your sub to a shower head, you unmitigated morons. It’s one thing to be a monster and quite another to be stupid about it.
*grumbles about safety precautions and slippery surfaces*
Where was I?
Bodyguards doing actual bodyguarding? Claps hands, goodie! Dead people in pools! Fun times.
And then these two fuckers are SO GODDMAN SOFT.
The torture of it all.
I lose my tiny mind over the weirdest is shit.
And the affogato has worn off.
Sadness.
Alright, ya navy clad slackers, what have we learned from this episode?
No navy.
No chaining people to shower heads.
Got it?
Good.
Goodnight.
Episode 11 - Plumbing
I am three glasses of wine in the sink, so it’s time to start. And also, just let’s get this out front first, no chaining people to plumbing in this episode. No shower arbitrary threesomes. No faucets left on.
In fact, just stay out of bathrooms entirely.
You can’t be trusted.
What I saw:
What I thought of:
Right off the plumbing and back to the, erm, plot.
Evil ex is evil in a way that is so one note and awful it’s almost as if he were written by MAME.
OMG I can not drink enough booze to get through this episode.
There was this time at this one industry event where there were strawberry daiquiri on tap and it think I stayed up until 4 am drinking them.
Maybe that would do it?
Thank the BL gods this ends next week.
I’m sorry I just.... could NOT resist.
Episode 12 - Let’s Flush This Thing
Look I am boozed up for my last Thursday lush day, and we have to finish this show. Somehow.
Kim is the biggest most immature whiney baby and honestly they just need a Daddy/boy dynamic butt cause (Imma leave that typo for good reason) who else would put up with his nonsense?
Worst bodyguards in the world? Likely.
First mention of gay poly marriage in BL? Unquestionably.
Bummer these two things had to be combined? Oh yeah.
There is a moral to this “story” but I’m not sure what it is.
Don’t combine your BDSM-but-not-really BL pulp with plumbing issues?
That’s it, that’s what I got.
You should have heard the disgusted snort noise I made over the white suit handcuff.
Look, in the end, this dumpster fire got extinguished with a garden hose and all we’re left with is leaky pipes and the smell of damp trash.
And the only kinks were in the hose.
Could be worse, I suppose.
Hard to imagine how, tho.
5/10
WATCH IT IF YOU HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO, BUT I WARNED YOU
I, on the other hand, do have something better to do since I have a nice new little subscription to WeTV and am going to binge We Best Love for the millionth time. I recommend you do the same.
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