Lovely Writer (2021)

Lovely show

This was cute and I enjoyed it overall. I struggled through the first half and almost dropped it twice by episode 9 because it was just so slow at some parts!

Some episodes were an hour and a half and so much silence and nothingness happened. It drove me crazy. But when the plot was plotting it was really good. Perhaps it would've been better if it were a shorter series and filler was cut down.

Other thoughts:
-Aeoy was so frustrating, I couldn't believe he romantically liked anyone tbh. He had no chemistry with anyone.
-Gene's freakout over the past history was a little dramatic.
-The coming out (ep 9) was emotional, and important to this show. Very well done!

This is the epitome of slow burn, but it is worth the watch for the sweet romance story.

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Strong Start, Weak Progress

This show had its potential, it was a good story and it could’ve been executed a bit better. The beginning of the show was good, I was actually contemplating continuing the show based on first few minutes of episode 1 because it didn’t necessarily catch my attention enough to want to continue but I still did regardless. I liked, somewhat, how the story was developing but as each episode went by my interest in the show declined as well as the storyline itself. I feel like this show would’ve been better if it was shorter in the episodes, like maybe each episode being 40-50 min max but 1 hour and 17 or 20 minutes it’s just too long. Some scenes felt too long and boring and I just couldn’t continue after episode 8. After seeing a preview of episode 8 I realized that they were just gonna keep adding random drama to this show to make it “interesting” but it didn’t play well. Usually by episode 8 I slow down and maybe watch another show or something and then continue where I left off but this one didn’t give me any motivation to continue, so dropping it is. I gave this a 7, because it wasn’t necessarily extremely bad, it kept me somewhat entertained for 8 episodes and that says a lot, but it also made me feel bored at times and for that a 7 is a perfect score.

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Interesting Story with A Great Premise

**Brief Synopsis**
B (Writer): Gene
T (Actor): Nubsib

Beginning: B is a BL write whose series is getting a TV series. During the casting for this series, B meets T, a new actor interested in acting one of the male leads. From the start, T shows a lot of interest towards B and even asks the help of B’s friend, who just happens to be his manager, to convince B to let him stay at his loft. Because T says he has no place to live, B agreed. As they start living together, T tries numerous ways to flirt with B, including asking him for help rehearsing lines and then kissing him in the name of practice. Slowly but surely, B starts to feel other feelings for T as well.

Middle: While their relationship develops, T continues to act in the drama he had auditioned for, the one based on B’s book.

End: Before they could have their happy ending, there are three obstacles. First while on a trip to his family home, B realizes that T has lied about everything, that he was actually his childhood friend and that he actually had a place to stay. Devastated, he tells T to get out, but T doesn’t. In the morning, T explains to him the reason he lied was to get B to stop looking at him as a kid. Although B ends up forgiving him, he still asks T to move out so they could start afresh. Apart from this problem, the couple also dealt with letting their parents know about their relationship. Finally, on a trip to the beach, videos of them being intimate on the beach is uploaded, making fans of the upcoming series furious that he wasn’t single. In order to save this show B and T are ordered to stay apart for a while until it dies down. B knows its for the best so despite how sad it was making him, they stopped meeting up for some time. The series end with them getting back together.

**My Opinion**

WHAT I LIKED ABOUT IT
- I like how they showed how a BL show is produced from casting to final marketing. I like how the ensemble cast isn’t too cringey or awkward.
- I like the plot a lot, because it’s new and not everything is focused on the relationship. Apart from the relationship, the whole series production thing is also very interesting to watch.
- I really like how the main characters looked together. They are a cute couple and the way B shows affection, careful and sweet, is just heart melting. Sure B is gloomy most of the time but when he smiles, normally because of T, it’s extremely sweet.
- The editing was nice and the pace was nice. It’s not too fast or too slow and their relationship feels well developed and not rushed.
- I like how B isn’t thinking T is cheating on him.

WHAT I DIDN’T LIKE ABOUT
- I didn’t like they spent a lot of time developing a het relationship.
- B can get a little gloomy but that is part of his personality.
- I didn’t like how many characters they tried to develop.
- There is a lack of intimate scenes, and kissing scenes are weird because they give a detail look of the kiss and its obvious it’s fake kissing, I would have preferred if they only showed it from afar.
- Acting can get a little too much, especially when it comes to side characters. They tend to exaggerate their moments, making certain characters rather cringey.
- This is really slow burn as they officially get together in the last episode (they get together earlier then that but there were always things threatening to split them up but now with everything resolved, they are together).

**Conclusion**
This is an adorable show with an interesting plot that should be given a chance.

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Overall I Love This Series

Please read to the end becayse i have good stuff to say then. I'm going to be brutally honest...I skipped through a lot of this show. There are a lot, and I mean a lot, of scenes that are way too long...and I'm talking 2 minutes too long. Making me watch Aey cry for 2 minutes, at least 3 times in the series, is not going to make me like him or feel sympathy for him. His character sucks and has 0 redeeming qualities...but he is crucial to the story and I appreciate that. Besides having to skip all the crying or staring at a wall for 2 minutes...this show is actually great. It's so well produced and the acting is really good. Despite all the negative stuff I had to say...this show is still in my top favorites of the BLs I've seen. Mostly, because of how unique and engaging the story line is.

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Good leads with irritating side cast.

How should I start? I delayed watching this series because I wasn't too sure about it. I finally decided to go ahead and well, it was pretty good except for some confusing parts.

Why didn't Gene remember Nubsib? Wouldn't his name look familiar to him in the audition form?

Nubsib is a sweetie. I love his persistency. He knows what he wants. He wants Gene to understand the love he has for him but didn't rush or pressure Gene to accept it. I like also the fact that Nubsib didn't take advantage of Gene when he was drunk.

Gene...he can be rather annoying at times. I was pretty pissed with him when he didn't stop Aey for trying to kiss him. It almost happened if not for...well...watch the series to find out.

Arghhh...Aey!!! What an irritating character! In fact, his acting gets on my nerves. The crying, the crunching of his face, etc all looked so fake. Aey thinks the world revolves around him. Everything should be about him. I was kind of glad when Tiffy told him that she was resigning as his manager and when Aey offered a salary increment, she said if was not about money and he should know the reason. Adding insult to injury, Mhok was given his own series whereas Aey was not. Yeah man!

Mhok...he likes Aey...yucks! Unfortunately, I watched The Tuxedo before this series. Chap and Green were the main leads. Maybe I am bias but I just cannot visualize Chap liking anyone else except Green. Green had a minor role in Lovely Writer. If you have not watched The Tuxedo, go for it. If you are still not sure about it, read my review.

I adored the parents. Despite the initial objections, they gave Gene and Nubsib their full support.

I don't know if it is just me but I didn't get the ending of the series. Gene was shown throughout the series writing a new novel entitled, Lovely Writer (which was changed from Lovely Actor). However, the ending featured a female writer receiving a call from her publisher informing her that her novel, Lovely Writer, was going to be made into a series. That part didn't make sense to me.

The OST is cute and light-hearted.

All in all, it was a good series...worth a watch.

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lento, più lento, lentissimo

Avrebbe potuto essere veramente qualcosa di splendido. Gli attori principali, e specialmente quello che interpreta lo scrittore, sono stati molto bravi. Sono state molto brave anche le spalle, e l'unico che veramente non mi è piaciuto è l'attore che ha fatto il terzo incomodo: non mi è piaciuto di viso e soprattutto non mi è piaciuto alla sua recitazione. La musica non ha brillato ma costumi e ambientazione hanno fatto il loro dovere.
il problema vero di questo drama deriva dal fatto che si tratta di 12 lunghissimi episodi, che sono stati spesso riempiti da gran minuti di niente. La musica scorre e il personaggio di turno guarda sconsolato o pensieroso o innamorato nel vuoto. Mai come qui mi è capitato spesso di mandare avanti di 10 secondi e poi di altri 10 e poi di 10 ancora e la scena non era ancora cambiata... Non so perché abbiano voluto rendere le cose così lunghe e noiose, quando 10 episodi sarebbero stati forse la lunghezza ideale. Alla fine sono stata tentata di abbandonare tutto e sono riuscita ad arrivare alla fine solo mandando avanti le scene senza pietà.
il pre finale è decisamente fuori di testa, ma apprezzabile, il finale vero e proprio molto carino e simpatico.
un titolo su cui difficilmente ritornerò perché bisognerebbe guardarlo in versione riassunto.

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Fiction ≠ real life, and Lovely Writer did an amazing job in delivering that message.

This is one of, if not the best series I’ve watched. I thought it was gonna be a series with unnecessary drama and an unhealthy relationship between the couple. Happy to say it wan’t. Love the way Nubsib and Gene talk things through instead of leaving their problems unfinished. Props to the actors, writer(s), director, staff, and all the people involved in the production.


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I applaud the ending. Even after the final episode, they reminded us viewers again that the characters are all FICTIONAL, and to separate reality from imagination. It’s so cute and creative to include the actual writer into the ending.

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The meta deserves first billing

Stick with me here I've just come off a Lovely Writer bender. I'm so high off of:
- the acknowledgement of tropes I hate because they're just bad for humanity,
- that weird watermelon button down Gene wears in like episode 5? I want that,
- the cheeky smile Sib seems to reserve only for Gene,
- the unexpected MVPs: Jab & Nueng, who just saw their brothers needed to be seen and loved and did that,
- the acknowledgement of fandom behaviours that hurt actual persons,
- my favourite recurring charafter: the overalls with only one strap done,
- peeled shrimp, and
- whatever combination of scripting, production design and acting that meant scenes of Gene without Sib by his side or Sib without Gene by his side started to feel incomplete. Like, Sib's light dimmed without Gene. Or Gene's entire body leaned toward the empty spaces when Sib wasn't there to fill them.

Was it a flawless series? No of course not. But budgets aren't endless and it is not the responsibility of one crew to turn the industry around though storytelling. But they tried, and I admire them for it.

But, like, please everyone cry faster (walk faster, argue faster, put on sunscreen faster). A judicious edit could have sharpened up some pacing wonderfully.

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Cute show, funny dialogue, healthy relationship

The last scene, the coming out, the growing conflict: all amazing. Nubsib's expressing his feelings made for many cute scenes. I liked how they showed Aoey. He was a flawed person who needed time to grow and learn to be happy with himself. Tum and Tiffy were also an interesting pair.
This show was calmer than some BLs, so I can see how people might have felt that it dragged on. The music also decreased the tension in most scenes. The final resolution happened too suddenly which took away from how great the plot was and left me feeling a bit unsatisfied. I think this show was supposed to be more light-hearted, so I probably should have expected this resolution.
This is a healthier relationship with boundaries, consent, and communication which is too rare for this genre and provides better representation for the LGBT community. We also get insight into problems within the industry. I recommend this because I think these are important things for BL fans to see and they happened to be packaged in a great show.

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I love the incorporation of the real life problems

Lovely Writer marks a milestone with mixing romance and real life problems of BL publishing industry. The humour is both fun and dark when thrust in front of the mirror.

Gene is a BL writer and writing is his bread and butter. Even though he wants to write more than BL, his publishing house forces him to write more BL with extreme explicit content often bordering NC (which I believe is the short form of non-con or non-consensual) because that is profitable.

One of Gene's story is picked up by a production house for drama series adaptation. And he is invited in the casting couch. There he meets Nubsib, one of the actors who is finally chosen as one of the main characters of his novels.

Nubsib takes an interest on Gene in the first meeting which Gene wants to thwart at first. But later his feelings grows and all hell breaks loose.

Lovely Writer shows a story from a writer's pov and I absolutely love all the side stories and aspects it brings along.

Gene's publishing agent, from a very humble background, dreams to become a writer as well but is not taken seriously. The shipping wars among fans and the hate to other characters. The homophobic parents. A young man is being called "Gay" because of his looks. A strong woman portrayal (which is good but could have been better) and the best part - one morally grey character called Aoey. Bruce Sirikorn ate up that role.

Lovely Writer talks and makes fun of all the shit and unnecessary drama regarding publishing industry, specifically BL, problems of shipping real people, problems of not realising that actors and the characters they play are different beings altogether, the forceful non-consensual themes in BL (I love when Nubsib protests the production crew that what they were suggesting was almost rape) , casting one gay artists for the sake of it because "representation makes the media profitable to fans" and toxic fan culture.

The only I did not like was the overbearing sound effects.

Overall, I enjoyed the drama. I would request more people to watch it. After all, it's freely available on youtube.

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One of the best Thai BLs of this year caught my attention mainly because of the story, which is really interesting and takes the viewer, just like Call It What You Want, into the backstage of the Thai large-scale production of BL series.
Processing and sound were above average, but not top. Above all, I was bothered by the stretching of some scenes. From the 9th episode, however, the processing became more dramatic and the story began to progress. I appreciate that the plot did not deviate much from the main romantic-dramatic line. Among the actors, I was impressed by the character of Gene with his excellent portrayal, the shapely Nubsib made almost all the girls go crazy, and he also shone with a good performance (we know the actor from the series Until We Meet Again). Tiffy was interesting, and Tum (I think we'll be hearing more about him) was the most interesting to me physically. On the contrary, I found the character of Aey the least interesting, even acting wise.
I have described the main characters in the Pictures. I definitely recommend it to BL lovers, but they have to "bite through" the first parts.



Jeden z nejlepších thajských BL letošního roku mě zaujal především příběhem, který je vskutku zajímavý a zavádí diváka tak, jako i Call It What You Want, do zákulisí thajské velkovýrobny BL seriálů.
Zpracování a zvuk byly nadprůměrné, ale ne top. Především mi vadilo natahování některých scén. Od 9 dílu ale nabralo i zpracování na dramatičnosti a příběh začal gradovat. Cením si, že děj moc neodbíhal od hlavní romanticko-dramatické linky. Z herců mě zaujala postava Gene-ho výborným ztvárněním, z urostlého Nubsiba byly asi všechny holčičky paf a blýskl se rovněž dobrým výkonem (herce známe ze seriálu Until We Meet Again). Tiffy byla zajímavá a fyzickým vzhledem mě nejvíce zaujal Tum (myslím, že o něm ještě uslyšíme). Naopak postava Aey se mi zdála nejméně zajímavá, a to i herecky.
Hlavní postavy jsem v Obrázcích popsal. Určitě milovníkům BL doporučuji, ale musí se "prokousat" prvními díly.

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