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AbsoluteBL

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AbsoluteBL

chronic traveller
Love Area Part 1 thai drama review
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Love Area Part 1
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by AbsoluteBL
Dec 5, 2021
6 of 6 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 5.0
Story 4.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 2.0
Rewatch Value 4.0

Thai Bl Pulp featuring a love triangle: tsundere/sunshine\piner in food service setting

Food service is one of the better premises I’ve seen taken up by the pulps in particular in 2021 (although it seems to be leaking into a lot of BL). This love triangle started off strong but went askew by ep 6. It gave me a terrible case of second lead syndrome (and not in a good way - in a True Beauty kind of way.)

It’s interesting to compare this BL to Light On Me, which handled the love triangle so well. In this one, audience sympathy became weighted too strongly towards the 2nd lead, and Kaitoon looked like a jerk because of it. Light On Me managed to keep all 3 sympathetic, understandable, and endearing. Love Area waffled. It’s a bit unfair to compare a Thai pulp to a Korea BL so I’ll stop now.

It is all apparently a moot point because this BL ended abruptly on ep 6 and a cliffhanger. Because this is a pulp there is no knowing if we will ever actually get a Part 2. My low rating is partly because of this.

RECOMMENDED ONLY IF YOU HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO AND CAN TAKE A LOVE TRIANGLE + CLIFFHANGER
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