Whipped
Malaysia
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DO NOT WATCH RIGHT AFTER THE GIFTED!!!
To fully enjoy this series, my advice is to not watch it immediately after watching The Gifted.
With the genre and concept being pretty similar (suspense, mystery, school secrets) and two of the main leading roles being played by the same actors that also played the two main lead roles for The Gifted, it's natural that people will compare by default. In my opinion, both series are great in its own way however, you can never quite live up to the effects of superheroes and hidden powers thus, DO NOT WATCH RIGHT AFTER THE GIFTED!!!
That said, the story started off immediately by introducing to us the main mystery of the entire series... The missing girl. There we meet Pang (Nannon) who has little to less interest in anything else in the school other than finding what happened to the missing girl who is his sister. We are then introduced to a few other students; Andrew (Chimon), Highlight (Ohm), Jim Bae (First), Title (Drake) and Bantad (Frank) who will accompany Pang in his search and solve the mystery under the supervision of Teacher Wanpadej (Bank). I came into this series for Ohm, Chimon, and Nannon but toward the end of Episode 1, Bank was the one that sold the series to me as I continue on.
The storyline is full of suspense which keeps us at the edge of our seats. There are several bits and pieces which can be quite predictable but there's also some plot twist that is really well done. This series, however, introduces romance and love lines for each of the 6 boys which consist of Melon (Prim), Carrot (View), Pakkard (Love), Orange (Prigkhing), Cupcake (Ploy) and Laily (another Ploy). The whole romance thing going on was pretty annoying in the beginning but over time does grow on you. But if you ask me if it was necessary, NO! It is not necessary to have all of them to have romance. One or two is okay but the entire group? That kinda spoiled it.
One of my biggest cons for this series is that after the big mystery was solved, they managed to introduce a new mini-mystery within just 2 episodes thus it seemed a little bit rushed. I really disliked the ending of this small mini mystery as it does not make sense to me realistically/ IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE do I was annoyed with it. If you're someone that takes in every detail of a series, this one will get you frustrated and fuming towards the very end
Where music is concerned, I think it was done very tastefully. The sound effect and the music is often the driving force behind my excitement before the scene takes place itself. It does build up the expectation for what's to come/
All in all, it's a really good show if you don't compare it to The Gifted. But if you do compare, then even for myself, Blacklist fell short of what The Gifted was able to give us.
Would I rewatch this series again? Yes, I would but I will also skip a lot of unnecessary parts.
With the genre and concept being pretty similar (suspense, mystery, school secrets) and two of the main leading roles being played by the same actors that also played the two main lead roles for The Gifted, it's natural that people will compare by default. In my opinion, both series are great in its own way however, you can never quite live up to the effects of superheroes and hidden powers thus, DO NOT WATCH RIGHT AFTER THE GIFTED!!!
That said, the story started off immediately by introducing to us the main mystery of the entire series... The missing girl. There we meet Pang (Nannon) who has little to less interest in anything else in the school other than finding what happened to the missing girl who is his sister. We are then introduced to a few other students; Andrew (Chimon), Highlight (Ohm), Jim Bae (First), Title (Drake) and Bantad (Frank) who will accompany Pang in his search and solve the mystery under the supervision of Teacher Wanpadej (Bank). I came into this series for Ohm, Chimon, and Nannon but toward the end of Episode 1, Bank was the one that sold the series to me as I continue on.
The storyline is full of suspense which keeps us at the edge of our seats. There are several bits and pieces which can be quite predictable but there's also some plot twist that is really well done. This series, however, introduces romance and love lines for each of the 6 boys which consist of Melon (Prim), Carrot (View), Pakkard (Love), Orange (Prigkhing), Cupcake (Ploy) and Laily (another Ploy). The whole romance thing going on was pretty annoying in the beginning but over time does grow on you. But if you ask me if it was necessary, NO! It is not necessary to have all of them to have romance. One or two is okay but the entire group? That kinda spoiled it.
One of my biggest cons for this series is that after the big mystery was solved, they managed to introduce a new mini-mystery within just 2 episodes thus it seemed a little bit rushed. I really disliked the ending of this small mini mystery as it does not make sense to me realistically/ IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE do I was annoyed with it. If you're someone that takes in every detail of a series, this one will get you frustrated and fuming towards the very end
Where music is concerned, I think it was done very tastefully. The sound effect and the music is often the driving force behind my excitement before the scene takes place itself. It does build up the expectation for what's to come/
All in all, it's a really good show if you don't compare it to The Gifted. But if you do compare, then even for myself, Blacklist fell short of what The Gifted was able to give us.
Would I rewatch this series again? Yes, I would but I will also skip a lot of unnecessary parts.
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