Cheer Up Baby! is a 57-episode American vertical series that dropped on July 22, 2025 on DramaBox. Although I think this is one of the better vertical dramas, we still get the typical delusional antagonist to create drama, and hilarious to see how many different accidental kisses they can put into the plots, LOL…
(more…)September 8, 2025
September 7, 2025
Married A Gardener, Got A Prince (American Vertical Series)
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 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 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…
(more…)August 31, 2025
Hellfire Chef: You Are My Final Taste (British Vertical Series)
Hellfire Chef: You Are My Final Taste is a 60-episode British vertical series which dropped on August 10, 2025 on the ShortMax app. Well, what can I say about this, it is MasterChef gone bonkers, LOL… So far with the western BL vertical series, we are still stuck on mafia, CEO types of plots, but with the BG vertical series, we are getting a wider variety of stories. Recently there are a lot of stories based on janitors, and now we are getting two series centred on chefs just this month… I will introduce the other one in my next post.
(more…)August 22, 2025
Daisy Tucker and Mr. NYC (American Vertical Series)
Daisy Tucker and Mr. NYC is a 78-episode American vertical comedic romance series which dropped on August 11, 2025 on ReelShort app. It is so trashy that I guarantee you will chuckle and trash talk the drama right from the start until the end, but still have an enjoyable watch as long as you don’t take it seriously… I don’t know why I clicked to watch the free episodes in the first place and then I couldn’t stop watching as it is so hilarious. Maybe it is the name Daisy Tucker which sounds like one of those bad TV series about hillbillies or country bumpkins from the olden days, LOL… You know the type of show that is so bad it’s good…
(more…)August 18, 2025
Jacked Janitor vs Golden Boy (American Vertical Series)
Jacked Janitor vs Golden Boy is a 54-episode American bromance vertical series which dropped on August 10, 2025 on DramaBox app. The series stars Mark Ciccarelli as Jack Hurtz and Jared Staub as Paxton Whitlock.
(more…)August 5, 2025
The Killer Next Door 이웃집 킬러 (Korean Vertical Series)
The Killer Next Door 이웃집 킬러 is a 60-episode Korean bromance (?) vertical series which was dropped on August 4, 2025 in South Korea. There’s a lot of confusion as to if this series is just bromance or indeed BL drama; the Korean Wiki says it is bromance, so we’ll just have to wait and see since it is currently only available on the TVING streaming platform in South Korea only…
(more…)August 4, 2025
Phantom Ties | Ye Gui Han 沒關係是家人啊 (Chinese Vertical Series)
Ye Gui Han 沒關係是家人啊 (Chinese title can be translated as It’s Okay, We’re Family; English title Ye Gui Han is the name of the protagonist, the demon king 夜晷寒 – also see August 7, 2025 update below for the official English title) is a 105-episode Chinese fantasy comedy vertical series which dropped on August 3, 2025. The drama has two male leads and basically it is about a high-spirited human and a cold demon king battling against monsters and spirits, at the same time being forced to raise the demon king’s cheeky young sister together…
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