Pop Culture Punch

God bless the Youtube algorithm! After my month’s long (and let’s be real, it’s still going) obsession with KinnPorsche The Series, the numbers and formulas decided that Only Friends was right up my alley. And they were so right!

In fact, it was this show, only six episodes in when I came across it, was the catalyst for all of the other GMMTV shows that I’ve watched in between. The only difference is that everything else I’ve watched up to this point was already completed. Because trust me, if Only Friends had been, I might have burned through all twelve episodes in one day. I will say that until I watched Love in the Air, this was almost as racy KinnPorsche, but it was still one of the most racy of the BL series I had tuned into, so I was pretty into it. They took the relationships to a much more real level, and for that, I am grateful.

The show centers on some late college students whose class project is to start a business together. Ray, the rich friend of the group, offers up a property his father isn’t using to open a hostel. Cool. Wish I had friends like that! Anyway, Ray is the drunk of the group who harbors a crush on Mew, the nerd of the group. He pretty quickly falls for Top, a former playboy who decides to change himself for the better in order to win Mew over. Too bad that happens after he sleeps with Mew and Ray’s other friend, Boston. If Top is a playboy, then I don’t know how you’d categorize Boston. A player, I suppose. He’s not looking for commitment at all, especially since he plans to move to New York to pursue photography. Nick changes that for him…at least Nick would like to think it does. Finally there is Sand, who gets sucked into Ray’s drunken orbit.

All of these guys have messy ass storylines that duck and weave among each other, and there were a few weeks where it was like whiplash. So, maybe not everything about this show was that realistic. But they do make the characters face some hard truths that I’m sure lots of people have had to face in their lives. And I will say that not everyone gets a happy ending, but that lends itself to the more realistic beats of the show. Some dilemmas our guys face include forgiving an unfaithful significant other, going and committing to rehab, and finding someone that actually love you. Aside from all of these intertwining storylines, there are even some significant side characters that wreck some havoc on these guys’ already complicated lives.

All of that to say I loved every minute of it! A few weeks ago when the last episode aired, I was bummed to know that I would no longer be spending my Saturday mornings with these characters and their hot mess express. I am keeping my fingers crossed for a special episode, as the BL networks tend to do, but if not, I am also keeping my fingers crossed for a second season. It ended in such a way that one really could exist, but if not, I am truly satisfied with how it ended. As for all the main actors in the series, I will be checking out any finished projects and hope to see them in their respective pairs in many, many future projects.