Both 2024 Taiwanese dramas combine thriller elements with main characters feeling haunted by their life circumstances even before the bodies start racking up.
Both shows are horror comedies that feature ghost whisperers working for haunted skeptics and explore hauntings in a professional capacity.
Both shows have very similar premises as they're about a realtor and a ghost whisperer teaming up to sell houses. Both also have comedic elements.
Both stories are about exploring ghosts from a domestic angle; also, both of the respective main male leads have personal familial connections to and interests in the supernatural.
If you want to see Perth in a teenaged BL role that feels more authentic and less polished, then give his og series a try. His acting has definitely improved since 2018, but the lack of challenge that DR's script provided for both Perth and Chimon means that their performances feel very 'acty' if that makes sense? They're hyperaware of the camera and it shows. I can't recommend Love By Chance for anything else, but Perth and Saint have equivalently good chemi and a more interesting relationship. Just ignore the side couples.
A quirky coed uni friend group obsessed with aliens, the supernatural, and other inexplicable phenomena? Check. An actual supernatural who then ends up crossing paths with said friend group? Check. Comedy? Check. Loveable idiocy? Check. Five dollars and a dream? You better believe it.
If you're into BLs that revolve around time travel and fighting destiny with the threat of death hanging overhead at all times, then look no further. Also good for fans of *actually* interesting soulmate plots.
Both have similarly dark time travel/alternate universe plots. What starts off as an interesting back-to-high school hook soon develops into something far more grave. Also, the acting and production of both is very high quality. If you can stomach seeing people who are mentally in their 20s-30s falling in love with high schoolers, then go for it and watch them both.
Older man with kids hires a quirky nanny who melts his heart and learns how to love and care for others in the process.
If you can stomach stepsibling plots, ridiculous supporting characters, possessive x passive ships, and moments of beautiful cinematography or acting that are too good for their respective shows, then look no further for messed up yet oddly compelling watches.
If you are able to stomach the frank depictions of sexual assault, you will be rewarded with an engaging story that firmly takes the victims' sides no matter how hard things get. Scumbag characters may victim-blame, but neither show itself does.
Creepy boarding schools with abusive teachers that insist on being called "Master" and hypnotize their students as a form of advanced gaslighting, all while becoming surrogate parents to those very same kids? Yeah. Two nickels.