Besties Do Verticals

Episode 10 is a long one, Besties! It gets spicy and serious as we recap the brand new Reelshort interactive BL, Stableboy! Lucy stayed up all night to watch and prepare so that we could get this out asap! This is such a fun show, and we were excited to see the special guest cameo!  We hope you love it as much as we did.

In Episode 9 the Besties discuss A Shot At Love. An elevated vertical experience from the brand new app Chera TV. This girl love drama has a unique look and feel compared to traditional verticals. Check out our recap.

In Episode 8 your besties have our first podcast guest!  Our good friend, writer Jeanette Kauffman, agreed to speak with us about her experience writing vertical scripts and breaking into the vertical market. 

In Episode 7 we are feeling the pressure of so many new queer verticals releasing at once! We recap and discuss a new BL “The Stepbrother I Hate to Love”, and to no one’s surprise, Lucy has another soapbox moment.

In this episode of Besties Do Verticals we talk Tutoring My Rival Boy, a personal favorite of Lucy and Aleta, which is on ReelShort and stars Evan Gambardella and Sky Kawai. Directed by Emily Qiu, this sweet and spicy boylove drama is at 34.9 million views at time of publication! 

On this episode we discuss The Prince’s First Love. This ReelShort BL vertical stars Andrew Tong and Greg Duffy. This Prince and Pauper / Enemies to Lovers boylove drama is based on a Korean manhwa of the same name. Spoiler alert, it gets spicy as we recite some of the notable lines!

On this episode we take a break from the spicy ones as we recap and discuss Next Door, the recently released BL vertical from Candyjar. Starring Nic Hermick and Justin Stanek, and directed by Caroline Playler. This sweet story about two high school boys who find love together has Heartstopper vibes.

Buckle up, besties! This week is a little unhinged! We recap and discuss Drive Him Wild on DramaWave, starring Greg Duffy and Jeff Lawless. This laugh out loud hockey romcom is as spicy as it is funny! ***UPDATE*** We found out hours before this episode released that the title for "Drive Him Wild" is now "Tamed By My Hockey Doctor" on DramaWave and was changed on 5/4/26.

On the second episode of Besties Do Verticals, Lucy and Aleta recap Bound to My Hot Rival - a dark and sexy new vertical from DramaPops. Starring Declan Clifford as Shane Brooks and Tristan Green as Roman Volkov.

In our first episode of Besties Do Verticals, we discuss our plans for a podcast celebrating LGBTQIA Vertical Dramas and actors. Then we go back to the roots of our friendship and recap Straight Until He Kissed Me, a campy boy love rom-com.