This movie became a sleeper hit in Thailand and turned Mario Maurer into a household superstar. However, the plot of the movie revolves around the story of two boys who fall in love. Love of Siam is a movie about love, or as the director so poetically puts it in the epilogue, the movie is about “all the loves that brings us to life”. Studying the roots of Thai BL, we find Love of Siam, which was released in 2007. ![]() While some may argue that SOTUS or Love by Chance helped BL become an international sensation, I would counter that it was Love Sick that took the first steps in raising the profile of Thai BL all over the world. Thus, we can truly describe this series as ground-breaking and a trend-setter. To my knowledge, Love Sick is the first teenage romantic gay series to air anywhere in the world. Love sick was the first Thai series in which the main story was a BL story. Remember that at that point, most Thais were not familiar with “wai series” (BLs). When Love Sick the series first aired seven years ago, I doubt anyone could have predicted it is impact in the Thai mediascape. In this blog post, I will reflect on how Love Sick helped spawn the BL industry in Thailand, which of it is influences are still felt in BL, how its creators and actors have continued to influence the BL industry, and how viewer’s expectations have been changed by Love Sick and how that has affected writers and producers of BL in Thailand. My apologies!) In July of this year, Love Sick turns 7 years old! The series, which first aired on MCOT’s Channel 9 is widely regarded as the “ mother of all Thai BL series”. I apparently confused the airing of S2 with S1. ( EDIT: The original article had the airing date of Love sick wrong, which is weird considering that elsewhere in this site I have it correctly listed as 2014. ![]() It was Apand no one could have predicted the impact of this series in the Thai mediascape. ![]() This was the first video uploaded with the full cast.
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