MBaldelli
Covington, LA
And people say Vaudville and Bad 60s Sitcoms are dead...
...They apparently haven't headed over to the other side of the Pacific to see that they're alive and well and residing in Thailand. Because this is the stereotypical epitome of that complete with sound effect/sound-board zingers and horribly canned laugh tracks in all the wrong places.
I went stumbling across this one after attempting to watch Demigods and Semi-Devils, which I dropped when I got to the point where the story ended up being one big Chinese tropes of children being friends with their parents not only bickering and fighting against each other, but hiding the truth of their sexual adventures (and misadventures) in the process.
This one was easy to figure out -- and quickly too. Further, it's not even worth the time to even synopsis as it can be figured out in less than the first 10 minutes of the pilot/first episode.
I really tried to like it because it sort of reminded me of the 1970s Odd Couple (with Tony Randall and Jack Klugman) with a BL sort of twist, but between the sound-board zingers, and the artificially bad laugh-tracks, I found myself more disgusted with the paltry and shallow attempts to make this into an end of the episode status quo trope of shallow and mediocrely stereotypical attempts at humour.
Extra bad marks go to the writer -- Kate Pimmada Pattana-alongkorn -- for making the only out gay character of the show (played by Aim Witthawat Rattanaboonbaramee) the sort of disgustingly bad 80's so-outrageously-and-flamboyantly-out-and-forever-alone and never will be with a boyfriend character that Americans still struggle to face, accept and deal with when it comes to an actor with dangly bits instead of internal plumbing. The continued bad marks go to **not remotely** dealing with the continued social stigmas for LGBT folk in Thailand (and Asia), and making Rak (played by Earth Thanakrit Talasopon) and Daio (played by Win Songsin Jaipan) so heteronormative and yet so stereotypical in the whole seme/uke dynamic. If anything, it feels like just cookie cutter attempt to rake in the cash from bored teenage girls wanting to fantasize more man on man action that's either not going to go anywhere, or will continue to play along to making these teenage girls keep watching and keep slamming them with sponsored products until they either get bored, or the writers and producers will have to put up or shut up to keep them watching.
A special nod goes to Uncle Jod (played by Yong Chernyim) for making me think of the Central American sitcom of the 70s "El Chavo del Ocho" complete with vaudevillian slapstick and outrageous comedy.
Overall, I'm through with this... I wish Earth Thanakrit Talasopon and Win Songsin Jaipan all the best of luck... It's clear this is their first "major" role and Comedy is never easy to go into for actors trying to cut their teeth in show business. Comedy requires timing, and it's clear that they're trying to find their way with a crew of people writers and scripts thrown at them in a weekly format.
I'd rather watch "Boy Next Door" (2017). Now those two (Choi Woo Shik and Jang Ki Yong) had better timing without the need for zingers and laugh tracks.
I went stumbling across this one after attempting to watch Demigods and Semi-Devils, which I dropped when I got to the point where the story ended up being one big Chinese tropes of children being friends with their parents not only bickering and fighting against each other, but hiding the truth of their sexual adventures (and misadventures) in the process.
This one was easy to figure out -- and quickly too. Further, it's not even worth the time to even synopsis as it can be figured out in less than the first 10 minutes of the pilot/first episode.
I really tried to like it because it sort of reminded me of the 1970s Odd Couple (with Tony Randall and Jack Klugman) with a BL sort of twist, but between the sound-board zingers, and the artificially bad laugh-tracks, I found myself more disgusted with the paltry and shallow attempts to make this into an end of the episode status quo trope of shallow and mediocrely stereotypical attempts at humour.
Extra bad marks go to the writer -- Kate Pimmada Pattana-alongkorn -- for making the only out gay character of the show (played by Aim Witthawat Rattanaboonbaramee) the sort of disgustingly bad 80's so-outrageously-and-flamboyantly-out-and-forever-alone and never will be with a boyfriend character that Americans still struggle to face, accept and deal with when it comes to an actor with dangly bits instead of internal plumbing. The continued bad marks go to **not remotely** dealing with the continued social stigmas for LGBT folk in Thailand (and Asia), and making Rak (played by Earth Thanakrit Talasopon) and Daio (played by Win Songsin Jaipan) so heteronormative and yet so stereotypical in the whole seme/uke dynamic. If anything, it feels like just cookie cutter attempt to rake in the cash from bored teenage girls wanting to fantasize more man on man action that's either not going to go anywhere, or will continue to play along to making these teenage girls keep watching and keep slamming them with sponsored products until they either get bored, or the writers and producers will have to put up or shut up to keep them watching.
A special nod goes to Uncle Jod (played by Yong Chernyim) for making me think of the Central American sitcom of the 70s "El Chavo del Ocho" complete with vaudevillian slapstick and outrageous comedy.
Overall, I'm through with this... I wish Earth Thanakrit Talasopon and Win Songsin Jaipan all the best of luck... It's clear this is their first "major" role and Comedy is never easy to go into for actors trying to cut their teeth in show business. Comedy requires timing, and it's clear that they're trying to find their way with a crew of people writers and scripts thrown at them in a weekly format.
I'd rather watch "Boy Next Door" (2017). Now those two (Choi Woo Shik and Jang Ki Yong) had better timing without the need for zingers and laugh tracks.
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