#summerdaze

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Summerdaze: Christmas Together

So 2022 has been a great year for BLs so far and there are so many more to come, so these are the ones I’m most excited for!

10. Check Out (thai)

Airs: 11th June

Two boys troubled by love meet whilst travelling and start to fall for each other. I’ve been a big fan of Best since LBC and his real life friendship with Chahub translates to incredible onscreen chemistry. A special episode has already been released and it wasn’t incredible, but their chemistry and the poster they recently posted are so beautiful, that Check Out had to be on this list. (12 episodes)

9. Ocean Like Me (korea)

Airs: 2022

A man dreams of opening a restaurant on the beach, whilst trying to achieve his dream he meets a failed musician. After 2 years Han Gi Chan is going to be in another B.L. (WYEL is still one of my favourites) - and he’s starring alongside Holland (the 1st openly gay idol) - so I’m very excited! Not much else is known, but it’s coming and the location looks gorgeous!

8. Middleman’s Love/Bed Friend (thai)

Airs: 2022

Yes…this is 2 series, but they feature the same characters. Middleman’s Love: an average looking man (Jade) catches the eye of a handsome new intern. Bed Friend: Jades 2 best friends, don’t like each other but have a connection. Mii2 have a new drama! I love them, but the enemies to lovers story of Bed Friend is the one I’m most excited for. These are also from the same production company as Cutie Pie which I’m really liking.

7. Summerdaze The Series (singapore)

Airs: August?

A star actor gets in trouble for making a homophobic comment, to repair his image his management cast him in a B.L, his costar is an aspiring actor and the 2 fall in love during shooting. This plot sounds like my thing AND this is Singapores first ever B.L! There’s a stunning short film and trailer made for this project, they didn’t meet their crowdfunding goal, but they’re filming anyway - it’s hard to find updates, but this is a big deal!

6. Never Let Me Go (thai)

Airs: September?

A boys mafia boss father is m*rdered and a boy his age is brought in to protect him. Bodyguard B.Ls are the trend atm and I couldn’t be happier. This looks so dark and gritty, but also so beautiful. The director has revealed this is based on 90s thai melodrama lakorns and in those series the leads tend to die, which is why I can’t put this further up my list!

5. Blueming (korea)

Airs: 31st March

Siwon worked so hard most of his life to be perfect and handsome, in college he meets someone who naturally seems perfect. This is by my queen, the director of To My Star and WYEL! I love the plot and the trailers are unbelievably adorable, it looks like it carries a lovely message and it’s by my fave KBL director…I just wish it was going to be longer! (11 episodes)

4. Love In Spring (korea)

Airs: April?

A struggling nobleman saves a woman one day, but things are not as they seem when the woman he saved is revealed to be a man. I’ve been wanting a really good historical B.L. for a while now and I’m hoping this is it! I’m also a big fan of gender-bend dramas and it stars a big time idol who I’ve seen in a couple dramas and he’s always one of the highlights! Also the gender-bend is so convincing, look at him! (16 episodes)

3. About Youth (taiwan)

Airs: 2022

Two very different boys are competing to become student president, but whilst competing it seems there may be more attraction than animosity. This is from the director of all my favourite HiStory series. It’s also the first time that a Taiwanese B.L. novel will be adapted into a series! I’m so excited for this, it’s hard to find any updates online but it’s been shot!

2. I Feel You Linger In The Air (thai)

Airs: 2022

An architect is heartbroken when his boyfriend reveals he has a fiancée, he gets into an accident and is transported back in time to the 1930s. I’m really looking forward to this. It’s starring Non who’s been my thai drama crush for years and this is his first B.L! I also love a time travelling plot. It’s from the director of TharnType and Lovely Writer, his last project wasn’t as well received but I hope this’ll be a return to form!

1. KinnPorsche (thai)

Airs: 2nd April

This is what inspired me to make this list! We all know what it’s about, but incase you don’t, this is the story of a bartender who becomes a bodyguard for a mafia family. I couldn’t be more excited, the trailer, the music, the cast - it all looks incredible! The struggle it’s been to watch this series get made, but now it’s 10 days away and those 10 days feel way too long! (14 episodes)

And there we have it…✨Summer Daze✨. Well the Christmas special – for now. Have you already watched it? Otherwise I won’t spoil but say that, based on these 10+ minutes alone, I’d sent half of my monthly income to Singapore if it would help produce this joy to watch. 🥹 (Unfortunately I am poor and on social benefits – thanks Dutch government for not letting me starve. 🥲)

Now that I am here, let me use this occasion for:

Merry Christmas 🎄 (for all those who celebrate) and a Happy New Year 🎆 (for all those year starts at 1 January) to you and all your followers! 🍀

Love,

— Thel. 💚

odi-et-amo85 added:

P.S. I can’t really point out what it is about it, but I think I really like Singaporian (idk is this the right adjective? 🤨) humour. 😂

I thought the Summerdaze Christmas Special was adorable. It reminded me a lot of Ingredients, which is not unsurprising given its source. 

Some Stuff About Singapore & BL 

Singapore is one of my favorite places on earth. If you ever get the chance I cannot recommend visiting there higher. I would live there if I could (and I still might someday). And I agree about the humor, there's a tiny edge of dry wit and sarcasm that we rarely get in Asian dramas (for good reason), and to me it smacks of the UK and sinks into my brain really well.

Singapore has a unitary parliamentary republic, it is a city-sate (one of the few remaining) with a totalitarian feel because it has STRICT social rules and regulation (for example they still use caning and other forms or corporal punishment) but technically it is a republican form of government in which the political power is vested in and entrusted to the parliament with confidence of an electorate (representative governance). 

It has an absolutely fascinating history of colonial occupation, independence, modern intentional social planning, and is very much a melting pot of mixed cultures, religions (there is a large Muslim population), and spoken languages plus THE FOOD IS INSANE (it’s very very much an island port city). While English is the de facto main language and helps keep Singapore at the forefront of business trade and conference hosting (the reason I’ve been there so often) their national language is officially Malay. The constitution also states that the 4 commonly used languages of Singapore are English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil (it’s one of the only nations that does this, recognize multiple languages) but Singaporeans also speak Singlish which is an informal, colloquial form of English. 

Summerdaze: Stay Away From Me

Summerdaze started as a microfilm BL clothing advertisement (from The Authority brand) 

I list it as KBL on my spreadsheet because it was filmed in Korea in 2018 but it featured a Singaporean cast. It has no dialogue. You can watch it on YouTube.

Last year, 2021, Singapore attempted to crowd fund a full series based on this with the same leads. Unfortunately, it was unsuccessful. Then there were rumors they managed to get sponsorship, but right now nothing is set in stone.

This Christmas special was a bit of a surprise to me. While it was known about in BL circles, the team behind this series are still clearly struggling to get greater recognition.

I would LOVE to see Singapore actually make a full BL series. Singapore, like you said, has a very unique sense of humor, and their cultural background makes them pristinely perfect to give us the first Asian BL in English, and I’m dying to see what that would feel like as an immersive experience. 

They have given us a gay rom-com-esk show: Getaway. By my sorry arse DNFed the fucker. 

They are a truly tiny country of 5.6 million (that’s smaller than NYC, about 1/4 of the population of Taiwan) with an insanely high cost of living, and have little to no film industry infrastructure but very mature film quality taste. Basically they’re Vietnam level but with European aesthetics, that’s a challenging demand to meet. 

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