They're both dialogue heavy and watch more like plays than television, they both grapple with themes of grief and isolation, they're both stories about young queer men without really being genre-complacent BLs, they both rely heavily on visual symbolism, and they both end on cathartic new beginnings.
Sasiwimol is an extremely successful director. She has a close, friend-like relationship with her teenage son Wang. What will she do when Wang experiences his first love with Inthawut, her old friend? Love, relationships, understanding, mother and son learning from each other in this era of changeability. A friendship will forever be altered.
Both of them explore how the three main characters have been affected by the death of a loved one. In the case of "180 Degrees," it shows how the (ex) wife, the son, and the (male) friend have coped with the absence of their husband/dad/former crush and how his absence has also influenced the dynamics and relationships between the three main characters. Similarly, in "Dear Ex," we see how the wife, son, and (male) lover are coping with the death of the person they loved, and we get to see how his death brings them together, thus forcing them to learn more about the other while reminiscing the memories they have of the person they lost.
Both "180 Degrees" and "Dear Ex" also address LGBTQ + topics since the person who dies in both stories is a queer man who ends up marrying a woman and having a son with her to keep up appearances despite being in love with another man.
Both "180 Degrees" and "Dear Ex" also address LGBTQ + topics since the person who dies in both stories is a queer man who ends up marrying a woman and having a son with her to keep up appearances despite being in love with another man.
180 degree longitude passes through us is similar because the show is about a mom, son, and family friends who are connected because of one person, the dad. The dad though in love with the family friends still married the mom and had a kid with her later on, the dad died leaving an empty son behind. The son digs through his dad's life through the little things that were left behind and finds out about the family friends and his feelings for the family friend grow. One da by accident he meets the family friends and spends a week with him and throughout that week his love grows fonder and him and his mom grow more and more parts as she realises that the man who took her husband is also taking her son.
Sasiwimol is an extremely successful director. She has a close, friend-like relationship with her teenage son Wang. What will she do when Wang experiences his first love with Inthawut, her old friend? Love, relationships, understanding, mother and son learning from each other in this era of changeability. A friendship will forever be altered.
"180 Degree Longitude" is not the typical Bl series, but tells an unusual story involving a gay relationship of two men with a remarkable age gap. "On Cloud Nine" is an unusual series, too, and it isn't a typical BL series either, although it centers around a love story of two young men. Both series have an unusual topic, and an outstanding quality of directing, editing, and cinematography.
