Welcome to my Saturday blog post, where I give thoughts on dramas I’m watching, whether at the beginning, middle, or end. Whatever I want, because I’m petty that way.
This week, I recapped episodes 15-16 of Pursuit of Jade. Suddenly, war! Which is very exciting and a little bit confusing.
I also recapped final episodes 11-12 of Love upon a Time. I’m overall pleased with this series as a whole, and I’ll talk more about that below!
What did I watch besides the show I just mentioned? Lots! And all I have to show for it is this initial review of:
A Dog and a Plane – หมาเห่าเครื่องบิน – 2026
Currently airing Flight-Attendant-EMT-to-lovers Thai BL, I’ve watched 4 of 10 episodes.
After a series of meet-cutes, a rough and tough EMT is in debt to and head over heels for a high-maintenance Flight Attendant with a wardrobe of gold.
Yesterday, I binged all four available episodes in roughly the time it takes to watch all four available episodes. This silly rom-com with adult characters with jobs doing semi-adult things is working for me.
You know already, right? It’s all about the characters
Though the actors who play them don’t hurt.
Tay and New have been around for a while in the relatively young world of Thai BL, and because of that, feel like the Daddies of Thai BL. Also, they are at the beginning of their mid-thirties. Basically ancient.
For some reason, this makes me fond of them. Also, the fact that New is the bulkier, slightly taller of the two, and yet it is TayNew. That’s still unusual enough to please me for that reason alone.
Though really, they haven’t starred in much BL. The last/only thing I reviewed them in was a bromance I quite enjoyed.
Anyway, the characters.
The character dynamics of their early BL (which I have skimmed and not watched) are back in play in a more palatable way here. Tay plays our EMT, a rough, brash, arrogant guy with little money but a sister. He falls hard and fast for New’s character, a Flight Attendent with amazing tastes in everything except his current boyfriend.
Because the new best way to get a partner involves getting them in debt/being in debt to them (though don’t try this at home, it doesn’t always work), our EMT ends up in debt to the snobby but ultimately kind-hearted Flight Attendant. This gives him an excuse to follow the Flight Attendant around and do whatever he asks under the guise of repaying his debt.
But yeah, debt or no-debt, EMT seems to really enjoy doing whatever the Flight Attendant wants.
The plot is silly fun that doesn’t worry about realism any more than it needs to
The first half of the drama has mainly been about our EMT helping his Flight Attendant prove, or disprove, that his boyfriend is cheating. This takes them through a series of silly detective-like plans with improbable disguises, suddenly dead cell phones, and a Bed Cinema (which is a real thing).
There’s just enough adherence to the laws of reality so that it doesn’t feel like total nonsense, while not letting reality get in the way of good fun.
But with these kinds of shows, my favorite part is when the silliness falls away, and we get to see the feelings at the core.
Our EMT is smitten, but with genuine feelings. He wants to do good for the Flight Attendent, not just seduce a man who already has a boyfriend.
Our Flight Attendant has other things on his mind. He has a lot of feelings wrapped up in his current relationship that he doesn’t just forget the minute his EMT is sweet to him. He’s not super aware of the EMT as a potential partner. Yet.
So yeah, I’m really enjoying this one
The main exception is the second couple, another EMT-Flight-Attendant pairing.
Part of what I like about our main couple is that they are enjoyably flawed. With this pair, there are intriguing character flaws, but the writing makes me dislike them rather than feel empathy for them. Their scenes don’t feel silly and fun. They feel mean.
But they’re not a big part of the show, and there’s still half of it left to salvage their storyline.
As far as everything else, it feels like this current Flight Attendant-centered arc is wrapping up. I’m hoping the second half will be more about some problem of our EMTs, and the Flight Attendant will get to help out with more than just his money.
And now for something completely different. A final review of:
Love upon a Time – ภพเธอ – 2026
Recently aired time-travel Thai BL with 12 episodes.
A young man who doesn’t believe in time-travel, time-travels. Romance Ensues.
This was a solid drama with a solid story that never fell apart or lost track of what was going on. That’s something worth celebrating.
For me, though, there were issues with tone and pacing that kept it from being amazing.
Let me go back in time and explain what’s going on
Our lead, Nakun, is a college student (aren’t they all) who thinks time travel and reincarnation are a bunch of nonsense. He even declares this to his Time Travel Fiction Teacher. I think he should just be grateful to get to take a Time Travel Fiction class.
As it turns out, what he learns in that class is very useful when he finds himself back in time. The person whose body he’s inhabiting has been missing, and everyone assumes he’s been off drinking. Now that he’s reappeared, speaking in modern Thai and declaring he’s not who they think he is, everyone thinks he’s lost his mind.
Once Nakun accepts that he really, really, really is back in time, he wants to return to his own time. Working with what he learned in class, he focuses on the life of the person whose body he now inhabits. This gives him a mystery to solve that, hopefully, once solved, will allow him to go home.
Besides that, the person whose body he inhabits has a childhood friend, Phop. Phop is sincere, serious, and devoted to his childhood friend. Also, horrified that his childhood friend has lost his mind. He becomes a control freak in his desire to protect Nakun, and Nakun can’t do much when Phop won’t let him out of his room.
Naturally, Phop needs to take it down a notch if he doesn’t want Nakun to hate him. And Nakun would have a much easier time of figuring out what’s going on if Phop were helping him instead of imprisoning him.
Also, feelings start happening, and it’s the past. Not the friendliest time for same-sex relationships. Also, Nakun doesn’t think he’ll be here long.
Let’s get what I didn’t like out of the way first
The episodes started at an hour and got longer and longer. In the second half of the show, they were an hour and ten to an hour and twenty minutes long.
This is too many minutes.
In this particular case, paired with the comedic/serious tone, it really hurt the pacing for me. Nakun is played by JJ, who, as far as I can tell, is a serious goof in real life, and brought that to the character. It was understandable that everyone thought he’d lost his mind because he often acted so silly and unhinged.
Yes, there were more serious moments. Moments that were extra moving because our goofy character stopped being goofy and got sad.
But still, this was by no means a deep, angsty, intense story that needed extra time for the DRAMA of the moment to sink in.
It was a comedy-action-adventure. The kind of story that needs to move quickly, not let the comedy go on and on, or send our characters on repetitive, useless missions.
And yeah, finding a Thai BL that drags things out is like finding a fork in the kitchen, but it’s more disappointing because this show had a plot. Tighter editing in the comedy/action moments would have made the slower, more emotional scenes even stronger.
Okay, so here is what I liked
I’m a sucker for a goofy guy. I like seeing them break down and cry. I am a cruel, heartless monster. But I got what I wanted here.
I also like a goofy/sincere pairing. So, check that off.
The second couple also did it for me. I don’t track all the Thai pairings activites, so I was completely unprepared for Latte and Kim, here playing Jom and Kaew (mostly). Kim/Kaew is one of the most femme BL leads I’ve seen, and I’m still of the mind that the world could use more femmes.
Latte/Jom is a tsundere through and through. Their pairing together emphasizes each other’s very different qualities.
Not only that, this dynamic was an important part of their story, with Kaew’s femme qualities an easy, visual target for the nasty, judgmental society.
I enjoyed them a lot here, and I’d love to see them in another series.
Another thing worth noting: A lot of bare chests. I’m not that big on bare skin, but if you are, This Is The Show For You.
Last and most importantly, I found the end of this show satisfying. While parts of the historical intrigue weren’t that big a mystery to me, I was pretty clueless about how the time-travel situation would resolve.
The way it all came together here worked for me. And in this section of the story, the pacing also worked for me. I’ll give a show a lot of bonus points for nailing an ending.
So overall, I recommend this drama
If you can stand the long episodes, if the comedy is your kind of comedy, if you need more bare chests in your life, it’s worth a watch.
And if you aren’t sure, you can read my full recap of the series and get a feeling for if it’ll be for you or not.
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