sth cute for the girls
I, personally, did not take this show seriously as the show didn’t even take itself seriously to begin with. the show was prolly a lil sth studio wabi sabi put out as an appetizer, however mid it was, before between us. there were alot of plot holes, but it is expected because it is a 6 episode show. the cinematography was gorgeous though, i’ll give it that. i rate this high because i think of it as a filler show and not an actual serious body of work. i did enjoy seeing bounprem on screen! also the boxing couple were very cute!Was this review helpful to you?
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Unforgivable
I don't know where to start. With a cast and scenery this good, how can the result be so unsatisfying? The main plot is interesting, but the holes make the story so strange. It was too forced to finish in episode 6.If it was designed from the start for only 6 episodes, the story could be more condensed, the first 2 episodes that tell Sun as a debt collector have too many unimportant scenes. The main reason why Sun's father lied and made Sun go to the island is also unclear, did he give Sun as collateral or what (or was it explained in the series that I missed it?).
Athit had recognized Sun from the beginning because of their promise as a child, but the process of Sun suddenly falling in love with Athit was made too fast. Though the process could have been made sweeter and made us smile supported by their setting on an island with such a good view.
With the chemistry between Boun & Prem, it's a shame that it's not utilized to the fullest.
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Summer break fluff
I love Boun & Prem. Mainly because of their chemistry and acting. Well... Boun's acting that is. Prem is seriously lacking, or it must be the bad script/direction. It started getting better the moment Boun showed up. This boy is going places for sure. He is giving me Mew vibes with his looks (jawline!!) and charisma.The scenery and the interactions between the 3 dads saved the series for me. Without these it would have been Physical Therapy-level boring. And on top of that there were some really confusing bits.
What was the point of the youth miemory? Why was this not discussed at all? What was the point of all the s&m items in the room? I suspect it was solely meant to remind us of a few other (hit) bl-s, because there was no follow up of any kind.
The scenery takes a big part of the plus points for this series. Sea, sand, mountains, monkeys and coconuts. Paradise!
It was sweet, but not cute. It was nice but not good. Just something to kill summer holiday boredom.
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What a disappointment
Absolutely watched this solely for BounPrem. After their spectacular acting in Between Us, this story did them dirty. I only watched to the end (fighting sleep) because of BP and the scenery. It really was filmed in a beautiful location! The younger cast all did a great job but the older gentlemen were just ridiculous. They were advised to act like clowns? And, I’m not really sure you can call this a BL. It was all too forced in the last episode. If BounPrem were not already an established couple, I would never have believed how they went from squabbling one minute to in bed together the next. Stupid story. Guess they didn’t have time with only 6 episodes. Hated his orange hair and black eyebrows. Prem is too cute for that.Was this review helpful to you?
Not my favorite...
Boun and Prem are some of my favorite actors since I seen them together and until we meet again. the storyline however took a few episodes to understand I didn't really understand what was happening with son and why specifically he had to go and deal with collecting the debt that was owed to his father. I think I would like to have seen Boun play more of the bad boy role. To me Prem doesn't give off that vibe. I think he does better with the soft roles like his character Team in Until we meet againWas this review helpful to you?
Not much happened, but it was a quick and fun watch
Honestly, I only watched this because of BounPrem. The plot was fairly uneventful but the chemistry was great. They definitely could have done more, but for a short series it was a fun watch. The initial conflict seems a bit odd, but it sets up the story nicely and the beach scenes are nice to watch.Sun being unable to collect debt from anyone even though his job is a debt collector added some nice comedy to the show. It was lighthearted and enjoyable, but if you're looking for a deeper plot, this isn't it. A debtor and a debt collector meet up, some things take a turn for an unexpected twist, and naturally they fall in love. Simple as that.
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Waste of potentially great actors
I wish that someone would have taken this cast and given them a script. The younger of the cast have great acting skills, but they had nothing to act on. I finished watching this series for the actors alone, not the story. The story was lame and disjointed in my opinion. Honestly, the behind-the-scenes was more entertaining. And I hate saying that, because I LOVE Boun and Prem, and wish them the best. I also enjoyed the other boys. The fathers seemed to be comedic relief without the comedy, and there was a lot of overacting that just came off as ridiculous. There was so much space that could have been filled with story....ANYONE'S story...none of them were complete. Instead, there was a lot of staring out over the ocean/river/sunset. It was a waste of a lot of talent. From day 1, it has seemed that this is just a little drama to keep Boun and Prem relevant until their next drama airs.Was this review helpful to you?
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The worst drama with the best actors
Illogical but logical nice story but the script was more than lacking some times i had to give myself a pep talk not to drop it and to keep saying it only has 6 ep you can do it. Watch it just for BounPrem and the other handsome actors they did their best it's disrespectful to them to drop the drama 😤 😒 😑Sun's character was just stupid i mean for the love of god i was screaming internally to grow some balls fo the love of God
I liked them the actors were ok handsome and cute and sexy and talented they did what they could with a crappy script.
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Even 2 suns can't heat this one up
Characters exist, characters inexplicably fall in love. And some possible, muddled ships. That's about it to this BL.The storytelling is rather incoherent. Sun is sent to collect a debt from Athit--Sun is part of some debt collection company (it seems) and somehow Sun's own father engages the company's services, which sends Sun to collect the debt. (Weird.) And Sun is a debt collector who never manages to collect any debts--it is not clear why; it is not as though his colleagues have superior debt collection tactics, but I digress like the series keeps doing.
Anyway, it turns out that Athit does not even owe Sun's father anything. In fact, it's the other way round. So what purpose does it even serve to get Sun to collect a debt? Boun and Prem are the leads playing Athit and Sun respectively, and the acting is understandably weak because ... how are they supposed to act with such randomness? It is not like there's any nuance or depth of character to bring out.
Another couple, Ashing and Mangkorn, has an even thinner storyline (if you can call it one). It seems that Mangkorn is basically enslaved because of a debt his father owes (Ashing's father is the boss of the aforementioned debt collection agency). They don't get along well at first but suddenly fall in love.
Then there is an assortment of characters whose behaviors are often inexplicable. One vaguely sees some possible ships here and there, but everything ends up being quite confusing.
The storytelling style makes things worse. One quirk of this series is the use of flashbacks to show how what is happening in a scene happens to begin with. This style is most of the time purposeless and does not enhance our engagement or appreciation of the story.
The only really entertaining thing in this series is the ending. And I don't even mean the happy ending for the two couples. It's how the boyfriend of Athit's brother (a terrible person) is left stranded on an island, with everyone forgetting he's there. Initially, I thought that the careless scriptwriters simply did not realize that they had left him on the island. Perhaps they did, but it is funny how they made use of it at the end so generate some humor.
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Well cast series has potential, but fails to live up to expectations
I had high hopes for this series, because of BounPrem of course, but also studio Wabi Sabi because they typically deliver high quality shows…But, I was let down by the plot - it just wasn’t interesting enough for me to keep watching and if not for BounPrem I might have stopped, but I saw it through because I wanted to see their relationship develop. Unfortunately the pacing of their relationship felt a bit off to me. Maybe because we didn’t get enough time to see their characters develop fully with this short series. Their chemistry was undeniably great & their acting was superb, but I think they were ripped off due to bad writing.
One relationship I really liked, was the 2nd couple (I won’t put their names, as I don’t want to spoil the pairing). Their development felt more natural, and I actually liked their story more. As another user said, I also wouldn’t mind seeing them in another series, maybe even as the mains :)
Some more things I liked were: the gorgeous scenery, the intro which I never skipped, cuz that shiz is catchy as heck (why are all Thai drama intros so good huh?!), and the last episode, which gave me edge of my seat, heart clenching’ feelings, waiting to see what happened next, which I hadn’t felt a lot of this series. Please make more episodes like this in the future!!
Good luck to all the talented actors in this series & I can’t wait to see more from BounPrem! Until Between Us airs, I will be rewatching the specials + their cute scenes from this & UWMA hehe ☺️
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It's bad... Not terribly bad but bad nonetheless.Right from the beginning the direction pulled me off and then, it only continued.
There is absolutely no continuity in this series and a lot of errors that could have been easily rectified if the filming crew was paying attention to what they were doing. I have two examples in mind.
The first one is when Sun goes down the mountain alone. He decides to go back up for a reason that he is not even doing at the end and then, goes back down but... the road he's walking on is climbing and Arthit comes from the opposite direction from where Sun is, which is totally illogical if they both are going down the mountain. They should walk in the same direction. Also, I have to add that when Sun is halfway to the hotel when he is first descending, it is totally dark outside, but when he goes up, the sky is lighter than before.
The second example is when Sun begs Arthit to free him from the handcuffs and Arthit accepts. But the next scene shows them walking side by side, with the handcuffs locked on their wrists. So what happened between those two scenes?...
And there are so many errors like these throughout the series that I sometimes wondered if they didn't lose any footage and tried to deal with what they had left.
We also lack information about important things. Like the fact that Sun's dad has scammed an old man for 10 million bahts but we don't know if the old man realised he has been scammed and what happened next. We also have a flashback of Sun and Arthit when they were young (and Arthit remembers who is Sun) but we don't know if Sun remembers who is Arthit. And why is Ashing's dad sending Sun take back the money when he knew that was Sun's dad that owed money to Arthit's dad? Unless, Sun's dad was owing money to both Arthit's and Ashing's dads? I'm so confused...
Last but not least, the pacing of the series is awful and badly done. There is absolutely no progression whatsoever between the two leads throughout the whole series and, all of a sudden, at the end, Sun wants to stay with Arthit (when he wanted to escape the last 5 episodes) and Arthit accepts with a smile and a tear in his eye. Since when did they develop such a relationship? Is this again a case of missing footage that I was mentionning earlier? This is ridiculous. So I couldn't care less about these characters and their relationship because we didn't see anything interesting between them.
To conclude, I would say that the plot could have been interesting if it were correctly written and directed. I even thought at one point that maybe it was because 6 episodes were too short to develop such a story but the problem wasn't it: the main problem is the filming crew... The same filming crew with a 12-episode series would have been the same or even worse because our suffering would have lasted longer.
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It didn't feel like I was watching a fully thought out show
I recently discovered Boun and Prem and wanted to see more of them as leads, unfortunately, the two series I've seen of them aren't must-watch. This show had an intriguing plot but its execution was all over the place. I don't understand the need for four couples in six episodes. We literally got over two minutes of Sun cleaning up a room when that time could have contributed to exploring Sun and Thai's rivalry or Sun and Mek keeping each other up to date over the phone about their work. Sun's phone call with his dad did not need to be as long as it was. I understand it was going for comedy but because it was prolonged, it became boring and cringe. Honestly, the boxing arc felt so out of place, it might have been fine if it wasn't taking so much screen time from Athit and Sun's storyline but it did and I found myself skipping a lot of it despite appreciating boxing films and games. Mangkorn and Ashing's story should have been a spin-off or "Even Sun" should have had more episodes.It's odd that Athit and Sun's dads are best friends and close enough to lend and borrow 10 million baht yet Athit and Sun never knew that fact and only met once before Athit moved away. Sun's dad being the reason Athit's dad had a stroke/heart attack was so random and incoherent. If Boun and Prem weren't the leads, I wouldn't have given this show a chance or anything higher than a 5.
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