Love Area started out as Thailand tackles love triangles BL pulp style, but by season two lockdown had changed everything. Valen & Kaitoon dropped some great kisses but traded off crazy hair and makeup in a scene-by-scene whiplash that was clearly pickups done months after lockdown, and the second lead vanished. It was... surreal. Side dishes jumped up screen time but tackled mental health... badly. A fantastic new queer side character was randomly introduced, June, who was the best thing to happen to BL linguistics in 2022 but had nothing to do with the rest of the cast, show, or plot.

I’m not saying the kisses are worth suffering through this show, but almost. And if you are intersted in the Thai language June is something pretty darn special. But honestly? What a profoundly big mess yet simultaneously dull show.

In conclusion? Some very good chemistry in a few episodes and June was a GREAT character. BUT. Look, it wasn't as bad as Bite Me, but it wasn’t actually good, either. In the end, I didn’t know what I was watching, and neither did it.