Married A Gardener, Got A Prince is a 58-episode American rom-com vertical series that dropped on March 4, 2025 on a few different short-form vertical app. including Playlet and BestShort. It is quite enjoyable if you can suspend your disbelief about the plot, especially those surrounding the royalties in the story… because there’s virtually no security around them… Alright, they did try in the beginning, but later they (the production) just gave up, and not one security or bodyguard can be seen, and only the valet and the butler acting as security, LOL…
(more…)September 7, 2025
September 6, 2025
Lap by Lap, Back to You (American Vertical Series)
Lap by Lap, Back to You is a 60-episode American vertical series which dropped on August 26, 2025 (?) on the DramaWave app. Surprisingly, this one is actually quite decent in terms of vertical dramas because most verticals are full of plot holes so big that can swallow you up just to drive the story forwards… Although still very tropey in terms of fairy-tale plots and the typical evilness around them, it does have green-flag protagonists which I like…
(more…)September 4, 2025
Taiwanese Campus Folk Songs 50th Anniversary 校園民歌50
The Campus Folk Music Movement is a cultural phenomenon in Taiwan that began in the mid 1970s and lasted to the late 1980s and the early 1990s. It became a very popular music genre, not only in Taiwan, but spread to South East Asia as well. This year, Taiwan is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the campus folk music and there are concerts being held across the country to honour the lasting impact of those songs.
(more…)September 3, 2025
Love Has Its Ways 愛，總有開始的地方 (Taiwanese Short Film OST)
Last year, Taiwanese singer Eric Chou 周興哲 celebrated his 10th anniversary as a recording artist by releasing a new album, Almost 幾乎是愛情, and at the same time in October 2024, he started planning this music short film, Love Has Its Ways 愛，總有開始的地方, based on the title of 3 songs from the new album. Filming started on November 15, 2024 and finished in December 2024. The film premiered on April 17, 2025 at the Golden Horse Fantastic Film Festival 金馬奇幻影展 in Taiwan. On Qixi Festival 七夕, or colloquially known as Chinese Valentine’s Day, which fell on August 29, 2025 this year, Love Has Its Ways 愛，總有開始的地方 was finally released in full on YouTube by M Star Entertainment Ltd. 星空飛騰國際娛樂股份有限公司 for international audience.
(more…)September 2, 2025
Random Ramblings on BL Dramas – Straight Until He Kissed Me
Straight Until He Kissed Me is an upcoming western vertical BL series that will drop any day now on the GoodShort app. It is still listed as coming soon on GoodShort as I’m writing this post but a couple of drama database sites has it premiering today, September 2, 2025? Anyway the first teaser has just dropped and it looks like a fun series… I just love the titles given to vertical series, straight to the point, LOL…
(more…)September 1, 2025
Cooking My Way Back to Love (American Vertical Series)
Cooking My Way Back to Love is an 86-episode American vertical series that dropped on August 29, 2025 on the ReelShort app. The plot setup is quite similar to Hellfire Chef which I posted yesterday, that is a top chef fell into homelessness, then a kind restaurateur took him in and gave him a job, and so on… However I felt that this one is less crazy than Hellfire Chef but still, let’s say, Iron Chef gone bonkers, LOL… This series stars Adam Daniel as Leon and Christine Gonzalez as Ada…
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Corner Café 