My Only 12% (2022)

DROPPED
It's basically a BL in 2022 trying so hard to bring back all disgusting and superficial representation about gays and gays relationships which we fought for so long to get changed . There's no plot, it's poor writing. All we see for 9 episodes is the gay "Seeiw ", fragile like a flower, giving all of his live to his confused straight friend "Cake", who said on episode 12 that he is going be gay for him" lol, having it said, there's no need to watch 2 left episodes to know that's going be a mess. Honestly, a love of siam wannabe in 2022.

Only good point : Earth and Santa acting skills, it's just a shame that it was all wasted.

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Drama of the first gay young love. Does it hurt?

I've followed this BL closely. I had no idea about the time setting until episode 4, where they watched Love of Siam (2007). So this series setting could be in 2007-2008. Love of Siam was popular at that time in Thailand, baiting straight audiences into thinking they went to the cinema to watch straight romance. The movie marketing techniques focused on showing boy-girl couples, but then boom, it was boy love. Love of Siam, indeed, is one of the best BL movies Thai ever had.

Back to My Only 12%. In ep 5, Eiw shared his feeling with his sister Hom. This scene would be powerful, noting Earth was really trying hard to pull it through to make this scene believable. But, his co-actor, Hom, was not at the same level; she was a bit flat. Hom failed to show the deepness of her sympathy and cares for her brother. Maybe because she is still new in the industry, I hope she gets better.

Rin is still being kept. We have not seen her, only one or two scenes so far. But she already created conflict by indirectly affecting Eiw and Cake relationship. Rin made Eiw realize that one way or another, there will be people coming to their small happy relationship. Rin is new to Cake, and Cake seems hard to manage his priority. But, I don't blame Cake because I think for Cake, Eiw is just a really close friend or like a little brother. Most teenagers will go for his/her love interest over their friends, and most friends will understand if their friends bail on them because they are catching a girl/boy. This is a long series (14 eps), so, I think we will see Rin more in the future to contest Cake and Eiw's relationship.

We just knew Sand from ep 4. Sand is still a mysterious guy. So far, he seems to be a perfect boy in terms of his attitude. There are two routes for Sand. One, the director and writer play dirty on him by twisting his behavior to turn to be a bad boy. And somehow, Cake will be a savior for Eiw from Sand. If this route will be chosen, the implication of Cake and Eiw's relationship will be Cake, the boy who stays with Eiw because Eiw is too vulnerable to be alone in this cruel world. The second route is, Sand stays a good boy with very clear about what he wants by showing his love interest to Eiw. We've seen this route from Bas (ITSAY). In this story, Sand's job is to challenge Cake to win Eiw over. Even though (from the title) he won't win, he needs to complete his purpose. I think Sand is a perfect opponent for Cake. If they choose Sand to be a good boy, it will be interesting to see how far Sand can go and how his presence can impact Cake's emotions.

Lastly from my note, while the story keeps intriguing and developing, the production seems backward. The color tone becomes inconsistent and visual assets for the location become too redundant. I hope they will manage to up their production quality game like the earliest eps because we still have like 9 eps. Overall, I am happy with this series. Keep up the good work, guys.

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a mais linda história de amor

quando eu decidi assistir a esse BL, confesso que foi 100% por causa do casal protagonista.
eu sou extremamente apaixonada pela química entre earth e santa e sei que onde tem dedo deles, dificilmente irei me decepcionar e assim foi.
my only 12% é uma experiência.
é delicadamente bem escrita, bem dirigida e bem cuidada em todos os sentidos.
o peso dos sentimentos vem como um todo, seja os bons quanto os ruins.
o roteiro soube equilibrar nossas emoções de forma que a jornada fosse leve e emocionante, com díalogos bem estruturados, densos e cenas tocantes.
uma linguagem de expressão que pra bom entendor, bastava.
a química do casal cake e eiw pôde ser sentida à léguas de distância e a forma como o amor foi naturalmente construído e inevitavelmente descoberto foi de nos prender na cadeira e ansiar pelo próximo episódio.
pra mim, foi a mais bela história de amor, sem a necessidade de recorrer a trágicos acontecimentos ou intrigas mirabolantes.
felizmente a história se seguiu sem usar de ganchos clichês para aumentar a tensão.
não era necessário.
foi lindo de ver eiw se apaixonando primeiro, enquanto cake se apaixonou mais intensamente.
a energia dos casal secudário que apesar do pouco tempo de tela entregou muito, foi bem gostosa de assistir.
as atuações foram além do meu esperado.
eu simplesmente sentirei tanta saudade assim como senti satisfação ao assistir esse BL.
recomendo 100%.

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Listen, I know the series is still ongoing, but I am already a fan!

Without any spoilers, to start with, I love the whole finding yourself journey or coming out story, and this series depicts the reality of so many people(it's not always a smooth ride or a fairytale).
I love the plot, the first few lines in ep1 give you an insight into the foundation or background of the story (PS: it made me so excited), and how earth brings out EWI'S character, he makes ewi's experiences and emotions feel so real and relatable, which creates an amazing rapport with the viewers, I also admire ewi's restraint, and I like the tension and relationship between the main leads or characters,(by this I mean it was easy to see them as good friends/brothers and also easy to see them as something more "kind of like the seamless duality of emotions")
the intro music gives a nostalgic feeling that builds the plot. I look forward to the upcoming episodes.

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It is so exaggerated that it is becoming exhausting

We have here a story of ordinary high school students who discover love and who, as they grow up, come to have different desires and paths. It's not very innovative but why not.
The problem is that everything in this series is exaggerated. The main characters, first of all, are too much: one is ultra whiny and childish, the other is stuck in a stereotype of an unrefined teenager but with a tender heart. The story then, which lingers too long on their umpteenth existential questions. The secondary characters too, totally inconsistent. Finally, the acting, really exaggerated, especially from Earth, who got us used to better. It's probably not helpful to cast 25 year olds as 15 year old teenagers.

In the end, it doesn't move forward, it's too predictable and I find it badly constructed. I ended up giving up.

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I love Santa so much! so I'm definitely not unhappy I watched it but this one is I guess not to my taste.

You know I love Earth too, especially in UWMA and I m following them as a couple on it IG and watching them all the time but this series itself is severely lacking.

I mean I can handle a little bit of cringe lol but showing a grown man act like a teenager, namely Earth in Eiw's role is just cringe on another level as his completely uninteresting character.

I just don't like the whole anti smoking bs either.
it becomes too much.

The thing is putting Earth in this role was just a bad idea. It's not that his acting was bad, but the direction and writing was not great and just didn't make an impact on me apart from a few scenes.

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Just go binge watch it!

Lately ive had a harder time finding BLs that i can binge watch without skipping some more cringy scenes but this one hit home. We obviously love Santa and Earth together and i feel like this is their best yet (that i have watched at least) . There are many cute moments but dont be fooled. Its a pretty deep and intense drama. The storyline is phenomenally done and the acting is amazing, as to be expected. And let me just say their "intamate" scene is one of the best i have seen whille still being tasteful. And when Santas character (cake) speaks in english to Earths character (see-ew) .. i mean.....lol The conflict between characters has really great resolve and bring tissues. Seriously. Youre going to need them. We also get to see a tiny bit of Prem so thats always a win.

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A really intimate and beautiful slice of life

Before you start watching this you MUST know that is a real slowburn, if you are not a fan, than you'll probably be bored. But also I, particularly, am not a fan of slowburn but this one just sits so right.

The best thing about "My 12%" , in my opinion, is the Coming of Age and Slice of Life aspect of it, you see Eiw and Cake grow and how this growth changes their really strong, deep and also pure friendship, one that I may say, is one of the most beautiful ones I have seen in this kind of genre. Their relationship make this drama feel so warm and intimate that is really hard for you to not get involved.

Earth and Santa just went above and beyond with their acting and chemistry. I could read in their foreheads what Eiw and Cake were feeling, and this is really powerful. Even if for a lot of people Eiw was somewhat annoying for the amount of crying, I didn't see as something really out of place, Earth had so many moving, touching and powerful scenes and he really delivered then very well. Santa also did a beautiful job portraying Cake (the bed scene destroyed me and it's mostly his fault).

I didn't bother with the confusing time and the scenario details being out of the timeline (like the fleabag poster), but one of the things that I call a downside for the drama (that made it not be a 10 / 10 for me) is the plot on the last 2 episodes. The 13th episode wasn't even that bad, but the 14th was just a stretch of it and I got bored. I felt it was a little bit out of placed, and disconnected with the main story and plotline. "My 12%" should've been only 12 episodes, with a good wrapping, like we saw in the last minutes of episode 14. The other one was the bad writing on Eiw's confession scene, Cake's lines could have been way better then what they were, but it didn't made me hate the scene, however made it not be as good as it could been.

In the end, this drama made me feel A LOT and I loved watching their chemistry and intensity on screen, Eiw and Cake are one of my favorite BL couples, not gonna lie...

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Super excited after seeing 1st episode

Before going to my review, see the below link of my youtube video which is summary of ep1 (myonly12%)
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https://youtu.be/7G2Nh7kttr8

review:
1) The way this series picturized is very soothing to eyes
2) The way actors playing roles is the perfect casting according to the story
3) The scenes are very natural with 0 akwardness💕
4) There is no back story ( as like some bl dramas contain some lagging and unnecessary trauma🤣)as we can see they are childhood friends.Lol🤭
5) the location and places where this series shooting has done a wonderful job in selecting these places for their story to look tooo natural
5a) the chemistry between actors is also soo good
6) If you see first episode of this series i can gaurantee you that you will wait for next episode

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I adore them, but there’s 1 major ick

ugh, words cannot express how much I love this drama. I have very high hopes for this drama, and hopefully they will stay high.

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THINGS I LIKED
1. the plot // as basic as the high school/university bl/gl storyline is, it’s still good. The main difference with this show and others is that there will be a “military” (I’m not sure what the word is sorry) training.

2. the couple // they are absolutely adore, they stole my heart. I’m a huge sucker for cute romance stories and ugh, they stole my heart.

3. PREMMMMM // I LOVE PREM WITH MY WHOLE HEART, I WILL LITERALLY DO ANYTHING FOR HIM. WHEN I SAW HIM ON SCREEN I GIGGLED, HE’S SO PERFECT.


THINGS I DID’T LIKE
1. Earth’s character // don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love Earth. But I hate that he’s playing the typical soft boy, save me all the time, I can’t live without you; type of character. I hate bashing him like this but it’s true :’)

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it’s a good show, solid 8.7/10 excluding Earth’s character.

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