You Make Me Yearn For It — Bl Drama

You make me yearn for it Current fandoms: Pretty much exclusively The Untamed & other Asian BLs, plus bonus soccer & Liverpool Football Club (aka my forever fandom). She/her
The next show I am going to review is (spoilers) my favorite BL khổng lồ date. It’s called Until We Meet Again, và it is fantastic.

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Disclaimer that these are my own opinions, và I don’t know where the BL community as a whole stands on these shows. If I disliked a show you loved or visa versa, no disrespect is intended!

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Mild Spoiler Warning và TW: brief mentions of suicide & homophobia

(left: Korn, right: In)

Then, cut khổng lồ modern times, we meet Pharm và Dean, who we quickly understand are the reincarnations of In và Korn, respectively. It’s Pharm’s first day at university, and while he’s there doing all the introduction stuff, he meets his future best friends, Team và Manaow, & locks eyes with Dean.

Dean and Pharm both feel this connection, và their relationship is the sweetest, softest, kindest thing you will ever encounter in one of these series. Dean is a taciturn third year who is the president of the swimming club. He has plenty of female admirers, but he’s been looking for someone all his life. When he finds Pharm, he knows that his search is over. He is so gentle with Pharm, who is dealing with PTSD from In’s memories. At the same time, Dean doesn’t play any games. He makes it clear that he likes Pharm and wants Pharm to lượt thích him back. He never tries to lớn hide his feelings with Pharm or anyone else.

(left: Team, right: Win)

Win’s character has lots of tattoos & piercings. He looks lượt thích a bad boy, but just like Dean, he’s actually very nice. He’s more mischievous & outgoing than Dean though. This makes him a better match for Team, who isn’t afraid khổng lồ match Win’s attitude & return his teasing back at him.

Oftentimes, the secondary pairings bore me a bit, but I loved, loved, LOVED Win và Team. They are getting their own series next year, and I cannot wait for it.

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Something else I want lớn point out about this story is that there are no Evil Female Characters. No clingy ex-girlfriends or scheming, jealous love rivals anywhere to be seen. But there ARE female characters, và they’re all great. Manaow, Pharm’s other best friend, is the main one. She’s played by bầu BL mainstay Sammy. Manaow is loud và friendly and supportive. She also gets her own boyfriend, though I wish we saw more of that relationship (give it to us in the sequel, pleassssse). Dean’s sister Del quickly joins their group of friends as well. Then there’s the less prominent members of Pharm’s cooking club. Female family members who also play big roles in the narrative.

The show isn’t without its faults. The one BLARING example that comes khổng lồ mind is sản phẩm placement. Until We Meet Again has the most blatant & annoying product placement I have ever seen. It almost feels lượt thích the show is stopping và having the characters give full commercials mid-episode. I refuse khổng lồ mention the names of the products, but they are highlighted in a ham-handed way that is even more crass when you contrast it with the quality of the rest of the show. The worst one, by far, is at least relegated to lớn a sort of mini-story after the episode. It involves one character encouraging another lớn go to the sponsored clinic & get cosmetic work done. The whole thing is not just gross but also out of character for both of them. I’ve pretty much erased it from my mind. Capitalism can burn.

The other thing is that occasionally the pacing drags a bit. I enjoyed it, but the director lingers 5-10 seconds too long on some shots, especially those involving eye contact. This is normal for BLs, but not to lớn this extent. There’s an almost-kiss scene that drags on for nearly a FULL MINUTE in an early episode. At this point, I’ve rewatched the show so many times that I know when khổng lồ hit the skip 10 secs button khổng lồ move things along at a faster clip. But the first time I watched, I was like,“OK, I get it. They’re looking at each other and remembering events from their past lives. You have thoroughly conveyed this.”

But those are comparatively minor gripes & didn’t detract too much from my enjoyment. Watch this show. Have tissues ready.

And if you’re interested in fanfic, I put together rec lists for multiple BL shows including this one that can be foundhereandhere.

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(Send me an ask if you have a show you’d lượt thích me to review - with the understanding that I will be completely honest - or if there’s anything you think I forgot or got wrong in this review.)