The Stranded

Similar but different

The Stranded is probably by far the best Thai series centered around teens that I have watched. The show has many aspects that are clearly rooted from the US TV show LOST and from the book Lord of The Flies.

There may be similarities, but you can feel that The Stranded has its own identity and never struggled to show it throughout the entirety of the series. Gay relationship is almost trivial and not a biggie. The director also managed to focus on the deeper bond and what makes Krit/Jack tick instead of them being just a horny gay couple.

The director effectively used plot devices like "flashback" and "hallucinations" to tell the character's past. I like how at some point I was hating on Ice but then during his fake exorcism, I found myself reaching for the paper napkins to clear some dirt on my eyes.

The incidental music used is similar to LOST wherein the objects are the ones creating the ambient music and this makes each scene even more eerie and mysterious.

One of the reason I've watched this show is because of Perth Tanapon and Mark Siwat. I know that their management is making "them" happen. As a Perth fan, I'd rather see him with Saint but of course its their management decision that will prevail. I just hope that they will reconsider.

I would highly recommend The Stranded to sci-fi/thriller/mystery fans! I can't wait for season 2!

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The storyline is one of a kind

I like this kind of series and the storyline is really so unbelievably mind-blowing with its plot-twists !!! The actions made me want to finish the serie as soon as possible and till the very end everything was so cool ( which made me eager for a second season) !!! Don't leave us hanging please 😭
The actors did a great job as well, they delivered the characters as they should be. I felt sad for baby Perth but he is a great actor too! I liked the way he made me get attached to Krit.
Some parts made feel like O.O oh my god how am I supposed to UNDERSTAND that !!! But then everything gets more exciting !
Once more, we need a season 2 please it can't stop right there !!!! Wishing for season 2 soon 🙏

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I know this is being compared to Lost and coming from someone who used to be a die hard fan of the show at one point, when you grow after watching things like Lord of the Flies and Japanese fiction you find something like Lost very trite and lacking in complexity. Because any time you put a bunch of people stranded on an island the comparison is rather unavoidable. But apart from having some minor similarities with lost tbh personally you know what I was reminded of? BATTLE ROYALE. Which is basically Lord of the Flies Japanese version with teens instead of younger kids. The reason why you're stranded is never important in any of these masterpieces, the whole point is to tell a story that's sincere, raw, poignant and powerful and Stranded delivers on all these aspects. The characters portrayal is realistic, and the writing so honest you'll be an emotional wreck in no time. Something that gets lost when you 'Hollywoodize' any story. Not knocking on it if that's your taste, just feel like sometimes it's good to watch something like this, if for no other reason than to see things from a different perspective.

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Just watch it

I don't feel like writing a full review so I'm just going to jot down a few of my thoughts.
- I'm so dumb for not watching this sooner, I put it off because I knew that the BL couple does not have a happy ending, but, this series was so much more than what I was expecting. I love love loved it!
- All the characters were perfect and perfectly executed, including the ones that I hated.
- Ying is gorgeous, I have a massive girl crush on her now.
- I was super terrified through half of the series, it's funny how many times I jumped, but again, in a good way! (one of the reasons why I noted the rewatch value as a 9 because I can't go through all that again straight away lol)
- All the scenery was super beautiful.
- All the music was perfectly suited to each scene.
- Such a fun mystery that left me super confused even past the ending.
- I'm pretty such that PP (from I Told Sunset About You) was in the final scene of the series and I am still recovering from the prospect of him being a main character in the next series, please please please?? I would love that.
- Only down side is that there may not be another series?? This was released at the end of 2019 so there may have been some issues filming because of COVID - I'm hoping its just postponed rather than cancelled because I HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS!!

I'm not one for rating every series super high (check my list, I think I've only rated 4-5 other shows a 10) so watch it if you haven't already! You won't regret it :)

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cosa ho appena finito di vedere?

questa recensione è molto breve e credo si basi tutto sul fatto che se all’inizio le cose più o meno si capiscono perché il signore delle mosche lo abbiamo letto tutti e tutti sappiamo come si comportano i capponi di Renzo quando l’aitante uomo va dall’amico (che poi amico non è) Azzecca Garbugli) che si vogliono uccidere e quindi dovrebbero fare gruppo, ma non lo fanno? ecco, prendi questi presupposti, aggiungici una coppia BL (che ho apprezzato, easy, erano Mark e Perth), un po’ di GL, gente che si da da fare nel bel mezzo del nulla e hai la trama dei primi due episodi. poi va tutto downhill e non si capisce più nulla. poi non è che gli attori non siano bravi (anzi, amo Perth e Mark, e si sono l’unica ragione per cui ho visto la storia, quindi non voletemene se parlo solo di loro)(e no, non lo ho visto perché loro sono la coppia BL, ma solo perché mi piacciono molto (e molto è riduttivo) come attori), però tutto il resto di capisce poco, male e ci sono dei mostri. lo salvo per Mark, Perth (mi piace che ogni tanto inverto l’ordine), Nawin (che avevo scoperto in seguito essere presente nel cast) e i luoghi in cui è stato girato. overall è carino, forse avrebbe giovato di una seconda stagione che ahimè, vista la prematura scomparsa dell’attore non si è potuta fare

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Don't watch if you don't like being left on a eternal cliffhanger

I'M PISSED!

Before I get into why I'm pissed, the OST was good, and the acting was fantastic.

I really liked Arisa & Kraam, while I couldn't stand Anan.

I did really hate the cheating, but Kraam and May as characters I still liked. They just have very poor judgment. I may have hated Anan, but I don't like that to happen to anyone.

I also really didn't understand May's logic with some of her treatments. I'm not getting into Joey because I don't know enough, but why did she never try to drain the infection out of Jack's leg? Why was it never elevated above his heart? She drained a blood clot that honestly would have been better left alone because it was far enough away from the heart that she could have just let the body absorb it naturally, but no, let's do that and do NOTHING for the infected leg. After a certain point, the leg should have just been cut off, but that was never considered either because why would it be!?

Now then; WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT ENDING!? I'm assuming they planned on doing a season 2, but it never happened because the actor for Kraam, Beam, passed away. Understandable that they didn't want to continue the project. I'm not mad about that.

I'm mad because I don't understand what the fuck happened.

The writing for this series started really strong, but it seemed like once it got to the mystery aspect of the story, it started to crumble. The foreshadowing didn't connect with what we are being told at the end. Which was honestly a little of nothing. The whole time I kept thinking some Island spirit was trying to cleanse the Island of sin since we kept focusing on the wrongs the characters committed. But that's not it? I'm still not sure because we don't really know anything about Kraam's dad, who seems to be like the fake Professor Lin.

I also think some kind of loop is happening. As Kraam went through the gate as a baby, he can't leave the Island; he goes back through the gate, maybe leaving his baby on the other side. Does this baby belong to both worlds? Will it be able to leave the Island? Is Kraam part of both worlds?

This other world is clearly an alternate universe, but did the same tsunami hit in both worlds? If so, why isn't the Island completely submerged? And as for the other world, Joey: is he alive in this world because he died in the other? Are only people who died in this world? Will Jack be there? Can you only travel through the gates if your other self is dead? Wait, Joey knew Kraam, so that means there would have been a version of Kraam in this world, but how is that possible if this was the world Kraam was originally from?

Also, how did Kraam not drown? Not once, but twice, he should have drowned, but didn't. At first I thought that at least his father was a merman and he could actually breathe underwater or something, but we never see how he gets out of the truck in the beginning & he just wakes up near the end like he wasn't breathing while unconscious underwater. Why didn't he drown? What more is going on? Is it because he went through the gate, or does it have something to do with him? I'm assuming him since his mother died not long after passing through the gate.

Honestly, trying to figure out anything in this show gives me a headache. The point is, they didn't explain anything to us and left us on a massive cliffhanger. It's sad, but if I had known this was how it was going to end, I never would have watched it. I don't like unanswered questions or cliffhangers, and that's all this series left me with.

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Keeps you guessing ....

So this is not something I would normally watch, but i thought i would give it a try and try something different.

I could honestly say that I was not disappointed, but not over excited about it, it does have the whole keep you at the edge of your seat, and the fact that I watched within a day says a lot. I did get the feeling that it was very similar to Lost as well, you have an almost identical and equally pivotal scene of the main character waking up on the ground in the jungle at one point. You have the unworldly creepiness that can't be explained and the mysterious suspense wrapped around everything.

Also it just really busy and everything was all over the show, for me, the one downside was the teacher that came back from the jungle and acted like a child, especially blackmailing the student, instead of being the Main Adult and step up, then we have the bullying aspect when she finds out what happens to her brother, any normal person would have been able to see and know that there was no way he was going to be able to make that trip and that his leg was getting really bad, then you have a affair and emotional black as well as a student trying to paly doctor. Although I do get it, if in a situation you do need to step up and grow in order to survive there were things there that I feel could have been handled better.

Overall: nothing bad to say, good series. (Okay, but I can say that the storyline was a few times (very little times) little bit messed up but not too bad. And the end left almost everything open, cant honestly say if I would be watch the second season if there is one.

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Awesome but confusing

It was an awesome drama but the end had me asking about ten questions that I thought would have been answered by the last few minutes.
Unfortunately, I'm still as confused as I was at the beginning. It's a shame there were so many unanswered questions... that fact leads me to believe that there could be a second season. I doubt it, though. I feel that the cliff-hanger at the end was intended to be left there, all things unanswered.
I guess it was still great just had a questionable ending. How do I put it? There was no moment of catharsis. But the characters and setting and whole dystopian feel was quite cool. It reminded me of maze runner actually.

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