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Deep Night (2024) – BL (TV) Drama review

The official cover of "Deep Night The series" with all of the couples. The main couple (Khem & Wela) on the left, the polycule (Ken, Seiji & Pan) at the top right, the GL couple (Freya & Meiji) in the middle right, and the side BL couple (James & Great) on the right bottom.
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Deep Night – the 8 episodes (+ 1 special ep) series title and club name, where the characters work at. It’s a host club, where the hosts are booked by costumers for the night to talk, dance, make out, drink etc together with them.
Wela, a nerd university student during the day, is the number one host in the club at night. Both men and women love him a lot, so it’s no surprise that Khem falls for him at first sight, when seeing him perform trapeze on stage. To get closer to him, he accepts a job at the club.


The series is available for free on Youtube, however, Youtube’s version is cut (smut scenes are missing, even though you don’t see more than their naked upper body, otherwise a few naughty sounds). An important scene from episode 7 is completely missing, which makes more sense for episode 8’s conclusion. (You’ll still understand ep8 without the scene, but it gives more character depth, and the scene is generally worth it.)


– Main couple: 

Nothing new, a bit shallow, and quite the stereotypical (sweet) couple you’ll find in almost every BL series. 

The difference: communication skills. While they do have their jealous drama scenes and misunderstandings, it never stretched for more than one episode. They have a pretty quick character development when it came to the little (but important) things, and also show they’ve learned from that. 
As (Thai) BL series are known for having two men that absolutely cannot communicate other than with their body, this verbal change was quite refreshing. 

My personal issue was that each of their sweet scenes was always concluded with a kiss. Their kisses are good, yes, but not every emotional/sweet scene needs kissing, so after some time it felt a bit too forced. 

There was a hint in the first two episodes that they might be switches, but sadly never brought up later on again. I’d loved to have another switches couple, but it’s at least safe to say that Wela is a switch. 

(Side note: They did low-key gave me YaiKorn vibes sometimes. But more as in, what YaiKorn wanted to be (at the end of their series, where they’ve been more sweet.) Maybe cause of the short/slight BDSM scene?)

– Everyone is gay/queer: 

We’ve all seen that trope at least once. If there’s one BL couple, there’s likely a second one, maybe a third and a fourth, and at the end it’s like the whole cast is gay. Sometimes that will feel very unrealistic, however, as this is a night club setting with male hosts, it’s not surprising and it works. 

I found it actually quite funny that they were very direct about it in the first episode already. There was only one character I was more or less surprised to find he’s gay too, but it’s also nothing new for his character role. 

The sexualities aren’t actually said anywhere, so you can assume that some characters are bi or pan as well, especially considering that the club is a mixed one (where they serve every gender). Wela for example was seen serving both women and men, but as it never went past stroking and cheek kissing, you won’t know for sure what his orientation is. (Not that it really mattered for me, but in case you prefer bi rep.)

– World-building: 

When so many characters are queer and openly queer as well, you’ll wonder in what society they live in. And that was another fresh aspect. Queernormaticism. None of the characters were heteronormative, no one was queerphobic and no one batted an eye when seeing same-sex couples make out. There was only a bit of a slight drama with a lesbian couple, but overall very relaxing. 

None of the couples had a “oh shit I’m crushing on the same gender, wtf should I do about that”-moment. No one questioned their crush, no one had to “find themselves” and no one was afraid of telling it to people.  

These kinda settings are my favorite, and I’d give it a 10 just for that. 

Not only sexualities, but self expression was great too. Dai for example was slaying with their wardrobe, and there was one guy that Wela served who was slaying their make-up as well. No fear of femininity whatsoever. I think all of the main guys wore make-up at least once (especially lipstick) and it looks so good. Can the west please adapt this? 

– Side BL couple: 

One of the 2 BL side couples was very bold in the first episode, so i was a bit surprised they didn’t continue with that maturity, until the last episode. But it was hinted at why they’re distant, so that’s fine. Great (the character (yes that’s his name)) made for some good laughs. 

The actor of James (Nathan?) is really good. He made the scenes so natural. And mature. I’d love to see him in more BL Dramas.

– Throuple: 

My favorite BL pairing is the lovely polycule, and I cannot tell you how happy I am to finally see a BL polycule in a (Thai) TV Drama! ‘Only Friends‘ kind of had a threesome but it was more of a “fooling around” (still loved it). Very happy to finally get the real thing. 

It was just way too short. They were hinted to be an item very early on, but the majority of time was focused on pining and the love triangle, until they finally realized: “why choose?” (And that’s why you need to see the uncut version of episode 7.) 

Please please please give them their own series!! They had a few new ones in the special episode, but it was too few yet.  

– GL couple: 

Gotta love that lesbian couples are becoming more and more popular, especially in BL Dramas. 

Only Friends‘ made a big breakthrough with their 2 lesbian couples, and I guess that served as an inspiration to not only have an old couple (characters in their 40s) but also give them kissing scenes. Whatever the inspiration was or not, I’m just glad to finally see real kisses between women, and not the awkward cheek smooches like in ‘Big Dragon‘ for example. 

They were cute and badass as well. A power woman with a power woman by her side. I’m really glad they got their own series

In that regards, it was also nice to see women not being whiny characters only, but actually with personality and a non-annoying role. (Well, there was one woman that was very annoying and the antagonist of the non-romantic plotline, but that wasn’t because of her gender.) Glad to see women being respected more and more in BL Dramas. It’s been a long way. 

– Setting: 

I haven’t seen a trapeze (aerial silk) male dancer in a tv drama yet, so that was nice as well. The cinematography in those scenes were amazing and the actors got skills. 

The characters do also go to university, but there aren’t many scenes there. (Luckily, because who isn’t lowkey done with the school setting?)


Overall: 

There were scenes that were a bit shallow and could’ve been better, but all in all quite refreshing. If this is where the BL industry is steering to, then yes please. And also please more polygamy.  

CriteriaScoresOur Score
Acting1 – 53.5
Script1 – 54
Cinematography1 – 54.5
Soundtrack1 – 54
Originality1 – 54

Watched & finished the series: 2nd September 2024
~Arden Skye

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