Ocean Likes Me (2022)

These are both understated BL mini webseries with 2 protagonists navigating a change in their relationship dynamic as they help each other pursue and reach their dreams. There's also a food component and metaphor to them as one pair has a cafe owner and the other has a chef.

Both of these korean BL miniseries focus on a grounded romance story between a young reserved chef and a disillusioned celebrity/celebrity-hopeful seeking respite. In these stories, the romance presents inspiration to both leads as well a conflict originating from the leads' different personalities.

Both have a seaside setting. One ML is a resident, the other a stranger who arrives. The MLs have a grumpy/sunshine dynamic and come from very different worlds.

Both are healing, warm dramas with a fall/winter setting and focus on meals. ......................................................

Both are cozy short length BLs that focus on food, with one of the MLs a singer and the other a chef,

Both are Korean BLs about the romance that grows between a singer and a stranger he meets. Both are short - one a mini drama, the other a mini film.

Both are BLs centered around food and both have a rather melancholy feel. ........................................................

Both BLs are centered around how love can happen at work. The difference is that in Ocean Likes Me two strangers meet and work together at a restaurant while in Where Your Eyes Linger two seemingly childhood friends growing up together with one character being always the bodyguard for the other. As a bonus you get the same actor, who plays Ocean as the bodyguard in Where Your Eyes Linger. It really shows how divers his acting is.

Both are short length BL dramas centered around food. .................................................................

Both are BLs in which one of the characters cooks and touches the heart of the other with his food, while the other ML is richer and more famous/popular.

Both are short length Korean BLs set in a restaurant with a chef ML. ..............................................................

Both are short length Korean BLs with a restaurant setting and a chef ML. ..................................................................