Love Storm (2022)

Nunca sairá do meu top 10! Melhor de 2022 com toda certeza!

Antes de começar a falar sobre a série, gostaria de falar um pouco sobre as polêmicas que a antecederam. A série é baseada numa novel escrita pela polêmica autora MAME, e também é ela a pessoa que está à frente de todo o processo criativo e produtivo da série, exatamente como ela fez com TharnType, outra série que fez história e se consagrou como uma das melhores do ano de 2019, tendo um fandon fiel até hoje.

Mame é autora das novels do universo Mame, e foram as novels desse universo que deram vida às séries Love by chance 1 e 2 (da qual MAME não foi parte tão atuante da produção) e TharnType 1 e 2.
De acordo com os haters, as novels são extremamente problemáticas e tóxicas, e com isso, mesmo as séries tendo sido bem amenizadas em relação aos livros, o hate persistiu. Enfim, li todas as novels... as polêmicas, pelo menos a maioria, eu nem considero discutir, pois acho meio óbvio que se tratam de obras de ficção, e a ficção, assim como na vida real, tem coisas com as quais não concordamos, existem pessoas tóxicas, existem pessoas ruins. Se vc pretende ler conteúdos cheios de amor e ilusão, recomendo a saga Crepúsculo. Os livros retratam abusos, que na verdade também acontecem na vida real todos os dias e aos montes, com pessoas de todas as idades. A série mostra pessoas LGBT bem tóxicas, mas que evoluíram com o decorrer das séries, que fizeram tanto sucesso que ganharam segunda temporada, inclusive, TharnType, da qual Mame esteve à frente de tudo, abocanhou diversos prêmios na Thai. Existe um problema na escrita dela, a meu ver: a romantização de alguma coisas ruins em detrimento de uma crítica contundente, mas a própria autora em entrevista já se desculpou por isso e hoje tem uma escrita bem mais madura! Prova disso, é que o que ela toca vira ouro... o casal de TharnType, foi composto por Mew Suppasit, cantor e ator maravilhoso mas que estava afastado da indústria após um escândalo colossal envolvendo uma denúncia de assédio (eu acredito que ele foi a vítima), e Gulf Kanawut, um completo desconhecido, mas ambos protagonizaram a série que foi um dos maiores sucessos do Mundo BL até hoje, ganhando episódios especiais e segunda temporada, numa série com beijos verdadeiros e sem frescura, e cenas e diálogos de sexo memoráveis (para 2019 foi o auge).

E chegou Love in the air... quando foi anunciada, atiçou os haters, enlouqueceu os fãs e deixou a indústria em grande expectativa sobre o que a Mame traria de bom. Ela prometeu tudo e entregou mais do que prometeu, mais uma vez seu toque de Midas fez com que atores iniciantes, ou sem muita visibilidade na indústria, simplesmente formassem dois dos melhores casais de 2023, numa série simplesmente maravilhosa em cada detalhe. (espero que a segunda temporada venha também)

Sim, a escrita dela amadureceu, e muito! Se ela continuasse seguindo a mesma linha, provavelmente continuaria fazendo sucesso e sendo milionária, pois mesmo reclamando, os haters continuavam lendo os livros e vendo as séries. Mas ela mudou sus escrita na única coisa que a meu ver precisava ser mudada: os agressores passaram a ser punidos. A série não é perfeita pois nada é, mas com certeza é um trabalho brilhante em cada pequeno detalhe.

Os série mostra em primeiro plano, o relacionamento entre Phayu e Rain. Na verdade, no começo fiquei com um rancinho de Phayu ao ver como ele tratava Rain, mas aos poucos a série foi explicando o comportamento dele, que na verdade ele já estava apaixonado mas preferiu priorizar os estudos de Rain. Também me incomodava a forma infantil como Rain agia, até ver as cenas de sexo e entender como era importante esse contraste de dama na rua e puta na cama. O relacionamento entre os dois é bem saudável, e é bem notório o caráter honrado de ambos.

O segundo casal, tem sua história contada de forma mais detalhada nos eps 8 a 12 (O ep 13 é um especial com os dois casais),e apesar de eu ter uma predileção pelo primeiro casal, posso dizer que Sky e Praphai foram uma das viradas de chave mais importantes de Mame, devido ao tratamento dado aos traumas de Sky, a forma como ele automaticamente se objetificou e se entregou a Praphai sem nenhuma resistência quando Praphai propôs sexo (e nem venham militar aqui, se ele tivesse negado, Praphai teria deixado ele ir, ele só deu em cima e a cantada deu certo, mesmo que pelos motivos errados, que ele não tinha como adivinhar), quando ele automaticamente não conseguia confiar em Praphai, mesmo ele fazendo todo o possível para provar que queria algo sério, e principalmente, por ele não ter coragem de se abrir com ninguém, nem mesmo seu melhor amigo. Dessa vez, Mame deu a devida punição aos abusadores, calando a boca de muita gente. E os relacionamentos que começaram de maneira duvidosa, acabaram sendo dos mais saudáveis que já vi.

As acusações, todas as que li, caem por terra quando vc assiste a série. Não houve absolutamente nada de tóxico entre os casais, mas infelizmente Sky tem um passado triste, que vem à tona para que o agressor seja punido. Também houve uma vez que Phayu tentou ficar com Rain de forma um pouco insistente, mas depois de Rain falar algumas vezes que não, ele o respeitou. Entre Praphai e Sky, até mesmo quando Sky cedeu Praphai não queria transar com medo de que Sky achasse que ele só queria isso, então, os argumentos desmoronam.

A história principal conta o desenvolvimento dos dois casais, dois amigos estudantes universitários, que trazem muito alívio cômico por sinal, e se envolvem com dois melhores amigos já formados, ricos e que se transformam em gado deles.

O ponto alto dessa série são as cenas N/C, que são as mais bem feitas da indústria. Existem duas cenas de sexo entre Phayu e Rain, que várias pessoas alegaram terem percebido que eles estavam de cueca e que isso seria uma falha na produção. Ao ler a novel, percebi que foi proposital, pois a novel relata as duas cenas detalhadamente, explicando que nem deu tempo deles tirarem as roupas. Os gemidos e beijos foram reais, as cenas de sexo foram realmente muito bem executadas, conseguindo captar o tesão, o desejo, mas também o carinho e o afeto entre os casais, uma cumplicidade mútua que também era mostrada no dia-a-dia deles, na normalidade com que falavam de suas fantasias, que se desejavam mutuamente e não faziam apenas para satisfazer o parceiro, e a rotina diária de carinho, beijos, afagos, alguns carinhos mais quentes, tudo na maior normalidade, exatamente como ocorre na vida real. Apesar da dinâmica de cada casal ser diferente, ambos conseguiam transmitir de forma muito real o sentimento de amor através da intimidade que partilhavam.

Rain, apesar de um pouco chatinho no começo, descobriu seus gostos sexuais através desse relacionamento. Ele também quebrou o estereótipo de passivo tímido e conservador, pois na cama ele era selvagem e não tinha medo de provocar Phayu, nem muito menos vergonha de seus fetiches. Phayu que parecia tão cruel, apenas mostrou o quanto era generoso e capaz de fazer qualquer coisa pelo seu amor.

Sky, já estava calejado por tanto sofrimento trazido pelo trauma, o relacionamento trouxe vida à ele, trouxe de volta seu amor próprio e sua capacidade de amar e confiar de novo, especialmente no sexo. Praphai, que inicialmente parece um stalker, se mostra um garoto do coração de ouro, muito paciente e fiel. O ranço inicial com quem acha que ele forçou a primeira relação sexual se desfaz, pq fica claro que ele não teria obrigado Sky, mas que a cena foi necessária para iniciar a trama sobre os traumas causados pelo ex de Sky.

As subtramas dessa série são os clichês de sempre, alguns melhorados. Raine Sky são universitários (Engenharia, pra variar), mas esse clichê é bem focado no quanto a vida de estudante é dura, e o fato de Rain ter sido reprovado em um exame escutado todas as coisas ditas pelo professor, com certeza fazem muito sentido. Também existe a corrida, que é algo ilegal, mas não poderia ser perfeito não é?

Apesar dos atores novatos e com pouca experiência, a atuação é muito boa, chegando a excelente em vários momentos. A ost é maravilhosa, uma das minhas preferidas, além de uma fotografia muito boa. A única lacuna pra mim, foi o pouco que ficou claro sobre as corridas e o porquê da presença de Phayu e Praphai nelas.

Sim, irei assistir essa série de novo muitas vezes. Sim, eu recomendo e panfleto ela em todas as ocasiões, afinal, uma obra de arte deve ser apreciada por todos.

Lire davantage

Stop reading and go watch it.

Seriously this is one of my top 5 shows & i still notice different details when I rewatch it. The story is great & the characters are great. I want expecting a whole lot when I started this show and I honestly don't know why bit OMG it is so good. It definitely have it's NC-17 parts but it fits in and flows with the story. There were a couple of scenes in the last episode that I muted or skip ahead 10sec because I knew it was something I didn't want to see. The chemistry of the couples and the friends is the best I've seen outside of ZeeNuNew & I hope either couple gets a new series fast. The special episode & guest appearances in Wedding Planner are amazing bonuses. SERIOUSLY GO WATCH THIS NOW!!!!!!

Lire davantage

Short episodes and Some Scenes are cut!

Watch until Episode 13 which was aired yesterday.

I am editing this comment as I watch complete the entire full season.

Prapai and Sky storyline on Episode 13 really touch my heart how their acting skills. But Sky mood changes too fast its like a flip of dice which makes me stunned. After Sky was raped again by his Ex in Prapai room I cannot think how Sky can change his mood or the fact he was just raped as okay no problem. I don't know how others might think or feel regarding this part here? Rain is shocked looking at Sky being raped this part here and asking are you okay "Answer me!" (Of course, Sky isn't okay. How can he be okay after being raped???) Watching this part makes me think is Rain in the right mind??? 🤔 Rating remains the same. Like I said below unless they do season 2 or else I won't change the rating. The storyline jumps very fast and both couples. Makes it unexplained the unending who is Prapai uncle? And who is the guy in the photo with Prapai? If season 2 explain these mystery it would be good.

Phayu and Rain storyline is lovely drovey and I expected to see more because of the short preview I watch when Phayu grabs Rain outside the cafe while it was raining, Rain tries to run away from Phayu but we never get to see this scenes. Both their acting skills are good. Specially when Rain was kidnapped the scenes really capture my sight.

For Prapai and Sky their relationship progress too fast alot of people are unable to catch what's going on Sky suddenly change the inner feelings. We only watch Prapai persistent of wooing Sky.

The only thing is each storyline is too short. It cuts off when their relationship starts, we should get to see the sweetness after they started dating, if each storyline have 10 episodes I would rate full stars. Unless they do season 2 I will change this rating.

Lire davantage

Yessssss...no more highschool bullshit

no more school love story

What is really nice about this drama is that it is not about highschool love. The difference and uniqueness in the premises of the story is what made me hooked on this drama from the teaser only.
The set up of the teaser gave it all a Wattpad and unrealistic but lovable vibes what only best fictions can provide and the trailer didn't disappointed as well.

The story between rain and payu started nicely but also weirdly based on the circumstance they were put in but it didn't looked forced or out of flow due to how rain's character is depicted. Payu on the other hand is a well written bad boy and the actor did justice to it( when I say 'well written bad boy' i am not implying being bad is good).
Payu on the first episode is shown as a person who sleeps around if he's interested while rain as a person who sees the world way too nicely (he is very naive, will probably sell himself out without even knowing).
I love how their story went and how they were both persuing each other with mutual respect towards each other, their studies and work which other bl series take for granted (like how the hell do they even pass even though all they do is fall in love) being the first ever series to put this much attention on studies and exams. The most astonishing trait about payu was how he was always making it clear about what kind of relationship he wants and how serious he was. And also thanks to the non dragging plot and length, rain was smart enough to figure out his feelings on time.

The second couple was nice. Not a wholesome start at all. I actually hated how pai didn't really left any choice for sky but ofcourse that was how his character was. However the development was very cute and believable on pai's side and wholesome but a bit unrealistic on sky's side considering how it all started. But ofcourse people change and so do feelings.

Anyway everything about the drama is well written with Mount Everest level chemistry. Ignoring one or two flaws won't do any harm hence a mature drama with unique and enjoyable plot.
Definitely worth watching atleast once.

Lire davantage

Chemistry is phenomenal but story... ehhh

I personally think that one of the biggest factors why people liked this is because of the loveteams' chemistry. Tbh, story-wise, this series isn't the best but also not the worst, I would say. Through how realistic the casts in terms of acting & expressing 'love', this series worked. But let me break down this series...

STORY:

Ngl, I have to agree with what others are saying; it is somewhat questionable(?) And another thing I have to agree with is that why all Mame's stories have to go like this, having questionable things in it. Idk why, tbh haha.

Bestfriends being inlove with another set of bestfriends, what a thing haha.

I dont hate how the story goes but at the same time, I got confused and sometimes questioned myself about the things happening. Like at first you'll feel giggly coz' of the characters' interaction but as it goes by, things get a bit off for me. I also dont understand why ppl think that PayuRain is the main and PrapaiSky is just a side couple where story-wise, the 2nd one is more interesting and somehow has more meaning to it. (Just being honest here..)

What I like about the overall story? Tbh, idk either, I just feel like watching it til' the end haha.

ACTING/CASTING:

I think this is where the whole series gets interesting and captivating; the casts.

The chemistry of BN and FP as PayuRain and PaiSky is just so good. How Payu looks at Rain in the series have no difference on how Boss looks at Noeul. Same as how Pai is so affectionate towards Sky is like how Fort is being clingy to his P'Peat. What I mean is I think character-wise, the casts are meant for their characters, indeed. The acting? Not perfect but still effective.

MUSIC:

Nothing too special but just right for the series. (Note: the scene where Payu sang makes the ost somehow cute hehe)

REWATCH VALUE:

Rewatching this is okay, just skip the NC scenes haha. But as someone who barely rewatch shows, yeah.. I'll maybe rewatch some scenes but not the whole series.

OVERALL:

For me, this series is 'okay' overall hehehe.

Ps. Pai is a green flag BUT only to Sky 😉

Lire davantage

Boy meets boy, thinks he can avoid his affection, doesn't work out, falls in love instead. Other story is boy is traumatized, falls in love, the rest is history truly. It was cute and I really enjoyed it, it was easy to watch, nothing too crazy, the main characters on both ends were just very sweet, I loved the chemistry but it was confusing at some points and fell short to me sometimes. Overall just not bad at all. I don't think I'd rewatch it but I wouldn't mind if it was on again. It seemed like it was going to be right off the bat toxic and horrendous but it wasn't anything like that. Definitely give it a try.

Lire davantage

IMPECÁVEL

Esse foi um dos meus primeiros romances Boys Love e é simplesmente impecável.
A história começa com Rain e Phayu e eu sou apaixonada pelo desenvolvimento do relacionamento deles, tem atração a primeira vista, tem uma breve fase de implicância (amo justamente por ser breve e nessa série ser feito de forma leve), relação muito legal com a chuva e principalmente tem um romance gostoso de se assistir com muitas cenas fofas, românticas e picantes.
Agora um ponto importante, a história é dividida em duas e quando chega na metade o casal principal "some" e agora vai focar no outro casal. Eu gostaria de saber disso antes de dar play porque eu senti muita falta de acompanhar o primeiro casal ao longo da história kkkkk.
Agora estamos na segunda metade e a história vai focar em Sky e Prapai e a história deles é mais pesada pois o Sky tem histórico de abuso e é linda a forma que o Prapai o ajudou com isso mas no meio do caminho muita coisa ruim acontece com o Sky mas é uma história muita linda e delicada.
Começa com Prapai obcecado pelo Sky e o Sky fugindo do Prapai mas é desenvolvido de forma excepcional e tem muitas cenas incríveis (fofas, tristes e picantes).
Todo mundo deveria assistir essa série pois ela é perfeita.

Lire davantage

A show you'd wish never stops

I recently started getting into asian dramas. I began watching a lot of Ancient Chinese-mainland dramas such as New life Begins, My heart, Oh my lord, etc. Recently I've just started getting into BL/Yaoi shows and I came across TLITA series on IQYI. For it to be my first show out of the many I've began watching this show is top 2 for me compared to Kinn and Porsche.

TLITA is a show that showcases a realistic view of how things are for the LGBTQIA+ community. The twist and turns from abusive past relationships, to misunderstandings, to the fear of trust others is something that many BL dramas haven't been able to replicate so far since I've began watching them.

TLITA showcases two couples P'Payu and Rain; P'Pai and Sky, both Sky and Rain and friends and same with P'Payu and P'Pai. They both have differences between their own relations with each other and how they've cultivated their relationships up until the end and even in the special episode.

THE SYMBOLISM IN THE RELATIONSHIPS
The relationship between P'Payu and Rain give you the glimpse of the naughty side of a relationship. From how they've met, to how they started bonding, to their current relationship status as of now they've been able to keep that side true to the characters. They both have a deep connection that surrounds this Dom/Sub sides of theirselves as its portrayed relatively in the series. P'Payu always teasing Rain and Rain always shy around P'Payu will give you the lighter view of the LGBTQIA+ community.

The relationship between P'Pai and Sky really showcases the very serious and common side to the community that, unfortunately, many people may deal with at times. Sky's abusive past is no strange too many people apart of the community as many of us are always objectified for sexual pleasures rather than being actually loved. Sky's past trauma is to bring light the many reasons why some people have hard time trusting others, and some may not be able to overcome that trauma or have someone out there like P'Pai willing to walk your path if you trust them enough.

If you are just getting into BL/Yaoi shows like I am here's my rating for a great show. Anytime you read one of my reviews and if you have a similar taste in mine then you'll trust my rating.

RATING
Symbolism: It's okay to not be okay, Be true to who you are, Love is strong, It's okay to trust again.

Plot/Storyline (9.9/10): The story that was told by the writers and directors are the best. With maybe one minor hole in the story such as how P'Payu knows P'Pakin, but overall the view of P'Payu and Rain to the very real traumas that was portrayed in Sky's character just makes it amazing.

Spicy/Hot scenes (10/10): They really showcase love between the later hot scenes when the couple has established themselves together. The motion between the actors, and some of the spicy language used during the scenes really shows an inside view on how sex really is not always hardcore and crazy sex.

If you love a show that going to make you fall in love with it TLITA is a show for you. It gives you everything that is needed for a thrilling, exciting, steamy show that makes you want so much more. If they make another season and its anything like the special episode trust me you're going to want to WATCH!

Lire davantage

Could have been a 9.5/10 without villians

It's so frustrating. You have an AMAZING show, with couples that have very good chemistry and overall their couple's lives are really interesting and character development is good. Not to mention it's all blazing hot.

But then they go and ruin both arks with the most lazy, most problematic writing for villians. Eventhough absolutely 0 villians would have made the show fantastic. I had to lower my rating so much cause the poisonous stuff is really going extremely overboard. I can only be grateful that at least those parts ruined "only" 1 episode per arch.

Have absolutely all red flag trigger warnings for all the "romantic-heckin'-no-it's-just-plain-out-r-culture-tropes" prepared. Though thankfully the great majority of them is NOT between the couples! When you see those parts, skip over them for the sake of your sanity till you see the couples interact again, then it's basically over and you get all the lovely fluff again.

Why they did this to the show and the poor actors, I do not know! But if the ppl in charge make anything in future, they better cut it out. Noone, absolutely noone, will have take anything positive out of those scenes. By being that graphic, these scenes just trigger survivors and show the wrong ppl how to be particularly destructive!! Why promote that? Why not keep it down? People with empathy will get the horros without the visuals and ppl who don't get it, won't get it even if you show them! They learn from personal or close family&peer relationships only!!


- So, 70% really top!
- 10% dubious and "it's only not stalking cause they end up together". Can you plz stop promiting it these tropes. In real live the outcomes are mostly bad so do not sell to survivors & ppl unsure how to pursue a crush, that they could have had happy endings this way! Not happening!!! Don't do it! Bad messaging, bad behavioural modelling!!
- 20% are "r you kidding me? Where's the antidote to this toxic mind-broken stuff??


I can only recommend to watch the legit fluff, not normalise anything that doesn't fall under true consent (if saying no comes with negative consequences, then it's NOT consent), and really skip the r-culture stuff!

(If you do not know what r-culture is, then think 'making light of abuse in physically intimate context' and you'll probably figure it out)

Lire davantage

Fell short of the mark

First 5 episodes were fairly good; I didn't love the dubcon in the beginning but it wasn't dragged for too long so I enjoyed watching the smut/fluff. Boss & Noeul are hot so that helps. Episode 6 is where things start to go downhill, the biker guy was so cringe and was probably the worst actor in the series. Him kidnapping Rain in Episode 7 was the most OTT thing I've ever seen, it was silly and I had to look away from the screen a lot because of how much I was cringing.

Now, whereas I tolerated the first couple well enough, I straight up did not like the second couple and the show got extremely hard to watch. Unlike how Rain/Payu had a clear 'mouth says no, body says yes' thing going on, Sky was being HARASSED by Prapai. He did not show interest in the first few episodes of their story, he genuinely seemed bothered. Also, there was no REASON for their relationship to happen. There was no reason for Prapai to fall for Sky. It just didn't make sense. Prapai had no character or personality at all.

LITA is only hyped for the NSFW scenes and yeah those are good, but it's not enough to hold up the whole show. I couldn't really enjoy the scenes because even though the chemistry was there, there wasn't anything actually strong about the relationships so I didn't feel as connected as I should have.

Acting: Ranges from bad to okay, but no one was good if I'm being honest. Some facial expressions were repetitive from each character although I guess the acting matches the low budget vibes so I can't complain too much.

Lire davantage

Sky has stolen my heart

I don't know how to rate this because I only love the second half. The first couple (Rain x Phayu) didn't work for me. I couldn't get over the non-con elements, their relationship dynamic was seriously upsetting to me and Rain was annoying.
I really like the second half of the show however. I've watched it three times already and it's probably gonna become a comfort show for me. It ONLY works as a fictional story! A lot of Prapai's actions would not be okay in real life. Also, the ending felt rushed, the story could have used another episode. But that being said, I really like Sky as a character, he feels very relatable to me and I totally understand his actions. I also enjoyed watching Sky and Prapai's relationship develop. I like the scenes with Sky's friends, their very buys college life. I don't know... this show (the second half) just works for me even though I am fully aware of it's problematic aspects. I'm a sucker for some of the tropes. Like character A comforting character B who's having a nightmare is probably one of my favorite tropes of all time. So yeah, it's not a show that I feel comfortable recommending to others because it's problematic af and potentially quite triggering but I will just quietly enjoy it by myself every once in a while.

Lire davantage

Plain, superficial, only good parts are sex and kiss scenes

I was excited when I first saw the trailer for this BL. The main couples are beautiful, the story involves motorcycling hot fuckboys, and the production looks of decent quality. Sadly, this BL falls short on pretty much every aspect except for the intimate scenes. The storyline is boring and barely existent. I tried to care for the characters but I ended up watching the rest of the episodes with the fast forward button.

The music is low budget, the acting is fine but specifically Rain stands out as awkward with his manga like acting.
Also, they should have renamed to title to fit the motorcycle theme beter. Love in the air does not describe this drama well.

It is a shame that such pretty faces are not doing much more than portraying some simple bad fuckboy story. I don't think the actors are to blame for everything of course, the writing also needed work. Not recommended unless you just wanna see some cute guys be gay, but an edit video is good for that.

Lire davantage