#thai pulp

I am weirdly in love with it.

Terrible Thai pulp of the En of Love style and will all familiar characters (and soem familiar actors). Wooden acting, awful sound, confusing editing.

I'm in.

It's just nostalgia, I think. It feels like a million years since Thailand gave us a soft pulp of this type. I guess I missed them?

I'm such a strange bean.

2 Moons Ambassador 

AKA 2 Moons 3 AKA 2m3

Thailand 2022 Motive Village 

7/10 

Tropes: E2L, obsession, popular/nerd, university set, pining seme, sunshine/sunshine, openly gay seme, bisexual uke

(I usually don’t review 7/10s because there are so many of them, but in this case I binge watched and took notes, so hey, here’s what a 7/10 looks like)

Random thoughts:  

Basically we open with a recap of 2 moons 2 (NOT 2 Moons original), some are scene for scene re-shots, which acts as an introduction to the new actors in the same roles. 

Pairs are:

PhaYo - uke has glasses

ForthBeam - no distinguishing features 

MingKit - uke has braces 

But these are all side couples, and we have a different new main couple of loser moon + ultimate hot guy too-lazy-to-moon, TatchLom. 

Gay af Tatch has a huge crush but only knows how to neg. Honestly, this is so common in BL it should be a seme character archetype. 

This BL pulp acts like a show that came out 5 years ago (considering the source material I'm not at all surprised). It’s full of ALL the flaws & tropes: 

faen fatale

stilted dialogue & bad sound

blushing maiden trope 

awkward acting & stiff (in the wrong way) physical chemistry

nonexistent yet also convoluted plot

punching down humor

gayest bridge in Thailand 

They even have the thing where the boys’ makeup on jaw line isn’t blended properly. 

On the bright side, when the main couple starts liking each other, they communicate properly, talking about why they behave the way that they do, and why they flirt that way. It’s actually a really sweet relationship. They gave me Nitiman vibes only with better resolution. No bad thing, frankly, I have a soft spot for Nitiman. They also both have nice wingman, and friends trying to be supportive and giving them good advice. 

There’s a noted correction for dub con, permission around sex, and one of them is openly gay, and his not liking women turns out to be a defense and a plot point in a good way. 

There is a lot of unnecessary manufactured drama and angst. For the sides this was basically the definition of their plots and they intersected not at all with the mains, so you can safely skip them. The plot is dumb. 

That said, a small part of me enjoyed some of the drama around the twins and Tatch’s broken friendships prior to university, and I wish that was more of the whole plot and we got less of manufactured misunderstanding couple angst. That said it descended into some TharnType Mame level kidnapping nonsense at the end.

Favorite scene? 

The table of gay boys going gaga over the new hot one in their midst was pretty darn amusing, very germane to the queer experience, quite frankly. 

Oddness? 

Main couple moves right on from first kiss to first sex scene. Although I do like how realistic that part felt to a first college relationship, especially when one half has been jonesing for so long. 

Quick Pitch

A Thai pulp that felt like it came out 5 yrs ago with many of the flaws inherent to that time and studio system, including manufactured angst and convoluted plot, but an ultimately sweet main couple that (as a pairing) feels a bit more modern and is satisfying to watch together. 

This will probably go down in history as one of the few BLs where I genuinely didn’t care about any of the side couples. 

(source) 

La Cuisine Elevator Pitch

Except Por.

Por can go fuck himself.

I KNEW YOU WOULD LOVE IT.

Yay!!!

I'm watching it.

The last ep was good!

It reminds me a bit of Second Chance.

A solid pulp.

I like the messy cheating ones best of course (best chemistry), with the jock/nerd as my secodn favorites. Not wild about the main couple tho.

I'm chronicling it in the weekly update.

It's fun!

Brothers, did I write a review? 

I did! 

But it’s waiting for my year end summation because it’s not very kind. And I don’t do individual posts pitches for stuff I didn’t like. 

Here’s what I wrote: 

Brothers (Feb 2021 - Thailand) 4/10

Foundational Romance Tropes? Stepbrothers + multiple side dishes  

Super rough going and uneven, in trying to be edgy, Brothers was just real awkward. Line keeps churning these out in some futile effort to recreate the questionable magic of Make it Right. The older couple, KhunKaow, was the only good pairing and I liked them so much I considered doing myself a cut of just their arc, but that meant I’d have to rewatch the whole thing again and I couldn’t STAND the idea. So yeah, it’s bad. The actors deserved better and so did the audience. Line should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

NOT RECOMMENDED

So there you have it. 

It's NOT good. It's pretty classic Thai pulp, so like Top Secret Together or Friend Forever (both of those I rated 5/10 so slightly better, watch them instead). 

The one good couple, KhunKaow is a younger seme med student tutor character and his mad crush on an adorable baker. So it is really very very cute. But is it worth watching the whole thing for them, I don’t really think so. 

But the anchor couple, stepbrothers trope, are not great and the other side couples all get dropped or forgotten about.

If you’re craving cute and Thai pulpish, obscure, but with a satisfying ending, what would I suggest? Probably En of Love - Tossera.

Ingredients is ideal of course, but they don’t have an entirely satisfying ending. 

I did a post on 

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