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True queer representation
My brother in Christ if you have ever wondered what the true queer experience looks like then this is exactly what it is. It shows a good range of the culture and I like that it's not showing any as good or bad but just how it is in the real world. I don't know fully what it's like in Thailand but this is very similar to how a lot of it works in England. I'll probably but my rating to a 10 on a couple of episodes if they keep up this quality, I just don't like rating a 10 just one episode in. I have really high hopes.Was this review helpful to you?
From episode 1
I feel like my standard for Thai BL's is pretty low, but the fact that I didn't have to pause once from cringing in the entire episode is a very good sign. It's a cute concept from the first ep and I like the trend of including characters with disabilities that I've seen popping up here and there in the industry. I hope the other episodes are just as good as this one!(Ngl the fact that my review has to be 500 characters long sucks, so here I am just writing to hit that limit sorry for wasting your time)
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Honestly what even-
Honestly I was super excited and super disappointed by this show. I really loved History3: Trapped and heard really good stuff about this so went into it was a positive attitude; boy was I wrong.This show is basically like Tharntype, but this time the rape scenes and emotional abuse are done using a power dynamic so toxic the IAEA should be investigating them. No amount of trigger warnings could have prepared me for some of the abhorrent scenes shown, that are treated often as nothing more than a joke or a means to an end.
This show is a spit in the face to victims (especially queer victims) of abuse; be it emotional, physical or sexual. The lack of care the writers and directors took with these really traumatic scenes, and how they ever made it to the final cut is baffling to me. Since I started watching I also heard rumours about the behind the scenes of this show which is just.... wow.
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Very Convoluted
I basically watched this drama for 2 reasons:1. it's only 6 episodes long so if I don't like it I won't feel like I've wasted much of my time
2. Boun + Prem are the main characters.
I think this drama had a lot of potential, the overall premise is pretty good but the execution was off. There are too many characters and plot points and not enough time to explore them all. It feels like some of them were forced in for no reason, and their existence has no influence on the overall plot, you could take them out and nothing would change. By episode 3 I just started skipping through their parts because I actually had no attachment to them and felt like their existence was just there to bulk out the run time, which makes no sense when you're only making the drama 6 episodes long.
The writing is also kinda cringe, I had to pause a lot. I know it's not meant to be an ultra-serious drama, but apart from that it doesn't actually seem to know what it wants to be.
I wouldn't in good conscience recommend this show to anyone, but I don't regret watching it. However, I don't think it has much rewatch value, if any at all.
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This is literally one of the best show's I've ever watched
I don't even know where to start, this show is so good. I'm upset that it's not longer, it definitely would have benefitted from longer episodes because then we could have had better / more in depth character exploration, but they did great with the time they had.The story is amazing, I won't spoil anything because I think it's good to go into this show blind, but I like that it's not a conventional sappy love story, it feels raw and realistic. It a very interesting take on the whole soulmate / destiny-esque trope and explores some really intense and serious themes. If it was longer and had more time to explore and go in depth this would easily be a 10, but it Korean so what can you do.
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