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 started recapping two “new” shows.
The first one isn’t totally new, but I’m recapping The Prisoner of Beauty because I need some dramatic horse riding and violent murder in my drama-watching diet. Not to mention Liu Yu Ning.
Speaking of epic, I recapped episodes 1-2 of Khemjira. I haven’t read the book, so I’m not sure where this dark, horror-themed supernatural BL is going, but I’m on the ride.
What did I watch this week? I’m taking it easy in the countryside with an initial review of:

My Magic Prophecy – ทำนายทายทัพ – 2025
Currently airing Thai supernatural thriller(?) BL, I’ve watched 4 of 10 episodes.
A young man haunted by his ability to see people’s futures meets a doctor who is going to die soon and doesn’t believe in fortune-telling.
Despite the life-and-death stakes, this show has a low-stakes feel. Maybe that’s because we all know our doctor isn’t going to die. Or maybe it’s because so much of the focus is on our poor fortune teller healing from trauma.
Either way, this show is a nice chaser to the strong stuff the drama world has been giving us lately. Stuff like A/B/O Desire, Revenged Love, My Stubborn, and even Reset.
Compared to any of those shows, this is a calmer, sweeter, gentler show. A nice, refreshing cool breeze after some dramas that took me through some extreme highs and lows.

Enough with the metaphors, what’s it all about?
We’ve got a doctor played by a doctor, since our lead actor is a dermatologist in real life. His character is some other kind of doctor, so this is still acting. He thinks that instead of consulting a shaman when they’re sick, people should maybe go to doctors. Fair.
He’s not happy when his mom wants him to get his fortune told. But he’s worried because this fortune teller faints a lot and may have some medical issues.
While he’s reluctant to believe the fortune teller’s warnings about his imminent demise, he nearly dies a couple of times, which convinces him. It’s not fate that’s trying to kill him, but someone trying to hide their attempt at murder with another murder.
It’s kind of silly, doesn’t make a lot of sense, and even our doctor doesn’t take it very seriously.

That’s fine since the focus is more on our fortune teller
As usual, seeing the future sucks. Once, he saw that the worst was going to happen, and then it happened, and now he’s an orphan with too much guilt. He puts himself in danger more than once because he can’t let it happen again.
Which leads to some of my favorite moments, because both our leads want to save lives, but butt heads over how to do it.
I also like our doctor’s pragmatic attitude toward his new fortune-teller friend and the superstitious people he meets. He always wants to argue at first, but then he gets over it and works with people rather than against them. This includes realizing that the fortune teller’s sometimes erratic, emotional behavior has nothing to do with him, and the guy needs a hug.
I could do without the silly “fights” over nothing and standard Thai BL humor that drag a joke on and on until it’s begging to be let go. On the other hand, these moments keep the show light when otherwise it could easily get grim and depressing.
Much as I’ve been enjoying the extreme, over-the-top shows that the world has been handing out lately, I’m surprised by how much I’m enjoying this show. Nothing about it is intense or provocative. There’s no mpreg, sex in stairwells, fireworks, or snakes.
So far, it’s just a relaxing, slightly touching, well-intentioned, uncomplicated way to spend an hour.
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