Poolboy is a 67-episode interactive vertical western BL series which dropped on July 30, 2025 on the ReelShort app. This is one of the few western BL dramas set in high school.
The two leads are Sky Kawai who played the character of William Randolph Harrison and Declan Clifford who played the character of Aidan Crew. Apparently both actors are gay in real life according to Reelshort fandom articles and Sky Kawai is also a first-time ReelShort actor. Declan Clifford has also played a gay character previously in another ReelShort drama, Falling for My Ex’s Mafia Dad.
When high school swim team captain Aidan Crew loses his essential after-school job due to his rich bully Will Harrison standing up for him to his boss, he has no idea how he’s going to pay his mother’s substantial medical bills and rebuild his college fund, until Will offers Aidan a humiliating, but lucrative job as his pool boy. Aidan reluctantly takes the gig and the two start to fall for one another, but they must navigate the hatred between their families and vicious school bullies, while protecting the secret of Aidan’s pool boy gig and the feelings building between them.
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