We Are

We Are dolphins singing Symphony

It's plain happiness. It feels like we're dolphins and we're all singing Symphony by Zara Larsson together bcs it's really plain happiness. They don't have actual problems, maybe a little miscommunication but it's like, 20 minutes long, everything is simple and funny. If you want something to LOVE LAUGH LIVE, that's the series. It's just... how can you have 4 main couples, 1 hinted couple, and still, be so... empty? Also, it's unfair that ChainPun doesn't have development bcs in SIXTEEN episodes (really, for WHAT?) they have 2 proper scenes of them. TanFang and QToey being funny and cute saves the show bcs the main couple was so fucking boring... enemies to lovers? Like in the first opportunity, they're already sucking each other faces.

Well, about the couples:
- PhumPeem (PondPhuwin): Boring... cute, but still boring. Points for Phuwin meowing. Points for them being the first BL couple that I watched who really have a flirting stage. They have a normal couple development but considering all the time that it took... it was a little too much?
- TanFang (AouBoom): SO FUCKING FUNNY they carried the show along with QToey, but they were very underdeveloped. Like you blink and they're together out of nothing.
- QToey (WinnySatang): Surprisingly, the best development between all the couples. They're the only of all of them who really have a history and reasons.
- ChainPun (MarcPoon): They didn't have screentime at all but when they appeared, it was fun. JUSTICE FOR THEM!

In resume: Sixteen episodes with basically every couple with bad development and hours of filler episodes where PhumPeem was just flirting when you could take that time to make proper character constructions. It's not a bad series, fr, it's funny and it's enjoyable. But it does have BIG screenplay holes, and it's such basic things that it just feels that they did a very lazy job. They really don't have proper problems and things like that, so, if you just want happiness, you will like it. But on a technical point: it's a LAZY screenwriting job. Like so fucking lazy.

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Perfect Low Stakes Slice of Life for a Casual Watch (One Real Spoiler, but I Think it is Important)

POSITIVES
+ PhumPeem Storyline
The PhumPeem storyline is very sweet; however, full appreciation for it probably won't come until a second watch through due to the character backstories and the symbolism. Some say PondPhuwin lost their chemistry, but PhumPeem are simply a very different couple from their prior characters in Never Let Me Go. Bonus points for Peem, although encouraging Phum to forgive his parents, saying it is ultimately Phum’s decision.
+ TanFang Storyline
The TanFang storyline is cavity inducing, and AouBoom act them so well I’m half-convinced the production team stuck a go-pro on them and based it off them. That being said, when the show was airing some viewers believed Fang didn’t love Tan back, but Fang clearly loves Tan back it is simply shown in the microexpressions Boom does. Another couple where the true appreciation won’t come until a second watch through, due to revealed backstories.
+ The Third Act of the QToey Storyline
Once QToey get together, it is smooth sailing as they are very cute together; however, their getting together portion can be very rough (more detail later).
+ Accidental Demiromantic Representation in Q and Peem
I am not joking when I say Q and Peem read as demiromantic to a hilariously competent degree. I’m not surprised with Q, as the novel basically says it in all but name, but Peem reads as demiromantic too. It wasn’t intentional, so you don’t have to read them this way but I do encourage people to read them this way due to how right the scriptwriters got it.
+ Friendships
This is a New Siwaj production, so you know the friendships are going to be amazing. We Are is no exception, as even if you don’t like all of the couples you will like the friendships.

NEUTRALS
= ChainPun Storyline
I place the ChainPun story as a neutral, because I feel like it is a little unfair to critique it due to the behind the scenes mess. To make a long story short, production had to recast the actor for Pun after they did a great amount of shooting, so I believe they prioritize reshooting all the group scenes over the individual ChainPun scenes. I'm fairly sure we lost ChainPun scenes due to this, but for the scenes they kept and reshoot it is a cute story (although not to my personal tastes). This is marked as neutral due to the production hell behind them.
= First Act of the QToey Storyline
The first part of the QToey storyline is rather inoffensive, but when they set up the in-universe scheme the story revolves around there are several glaring questions the show doesn’t bother to try to explain away. This is marked as neutral because I don’t think the casual viewer will notice or care, but it might be distracting upon other watch throughs.

NEGATIVES
- Asexual Erasure
The show erases Toey’s novel canon asexuality (at minimum demisexuality). As someone on the ace spectrum, this feels important for me to note. It is worsen by the fact when We Are was airing Wandee Goodday was airing which had good asexual representation, so GMMTV is willing to portray and air asexual experiences. You might not find it important, but it does suck.
- Episode Five Continuity Errors
The fifth episode contains continuity errors with the TanFang and QToey plotlines, but you won’t notice unless you are me. Once again, willing to forgive due to reshoots.
- Forgiving the Parents for Literal Child Abandonment
As a victim of child neglect, I wasn’t fond of Phum forgiving his parents for dropping him as a child in another country and not retrieving him until secondary school (high school). That is child abandonment, and immensely strange to portray Phum as being in the wrong for holding a grudge about it and trying to cut his parents out of his life. Unfortunately, this is a New Siwaj production, so I expected it.
- Second Act of the QToey Storyline
To keep spoilers light, during the QToey plotline there are two halves to an in-universe scheme. By the time you make it to the second half, the characters involve come across more malicious than funny, especially since Q is in obvious duress, so it can negatively impact your view of QToey and their storyline. Personally, I maintain the characters are lucky this is a Boys Love, because if it was a little more realistic I feel like Q would have gotten hostile.

STAR EXPLANATIONS
Story knocked down a point for the QToey storyline issues.
Acting/Cast knocked down a point simply as I find Marc as Chain a bit boring, especially next to Poon as Pun.
Music is average, but gets an extra point since Pond and Aou became members of a boy group named jasp.er which retroactively makes their participation in the themes increase the value.
Rewatchability knocked down two points due to noticing flaws in the continuity, but retains an eight as it is a good comfort watch and putting together the grand scope of the PhumPeem and TanFang storylines.
Overall it is a nine as all the positives greatly outweigh the negatives.

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family can’t always be your safe space

I’ll admit I came here for Pond Phuwin but stayed for AouBoom.

there is something so wonderful about a group of friends that love and support each other as much as the gang of We Are. I WISH I had a friendship group like this.

honestly this series is unserious a little unhinged and full to the brim with love and the world just needs this at times.

I was also very happy with the pretty much even screen time for most of the cast. when there is this many characters things tend tog tt messy and overlooked but that really didn’t happen here. I would hav loved to seen more marc poon, that would be my only complaint in the screen time category.

if you’re looking for a unserious, fun, full of love good time series I highly recommend it.

now how do we go about getting Aou and Boom their own series?

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not good but can be enjoyable

I started this series because of the cast, and at the end of it I realized that must be the only good thing about this series.
There is no plot whatsoever and the script is kind of awkward and always the same. There's some dialogue that's been almost literally copied from another scenes. There's no conflict or something that drives the characters forward. There was so many drinking and travelling with no point at all? Not only that, but from my understanding they took out some things from the novel that should have been in the series at least to have some good conversations, like toey's asexuality that was completely ignored.
The music was placed terrible. The OST were not bad but they would put the CP song in every scene of those characters even if the mood was not right, and it was so underwhelming that I had to mute at some scenes to at least enjoy the acting.
The characters were ok, as I said the was no character development or anything because the script is horrible but at least the characteristics from the novel were kept and it was cute.
The acting is good enough, my favorite performance was winnysatang's in EP 7. The couples had chemistry so that was alright. My favorite ones were Tanfang and Qtoey because Aouboom and Winnysatang gave us some good new dinamic that was interesting to see. Phumpeem was kinda boring because I felt that the dinamic was almost the same as the other Pondphuwin series. Meanwhile Chainpum were kinda ignored the whole series, when they could have had some good friends to lovers plot there.

Anyway, I would only recommend this to people that already like the actors, because the performances were good. But otherwise? there's nothing.

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this was one big filler episode

And we are done. This headline sums this show up perfectly. I am watching the behind-the-scenes and then I will rate this. 8.59375 out of 10. So it is an 8.5 out of 10. Before I get into the spoilers and my thoughts on the show, I am going to explain what the description should have said and try not to be biased (I failed on this slightly but explained it well, also had to cut this down lol).

"We are... friends, but we fight each other and like each other so much we might hit on each other." The description of this show said, which really depicts this show perfectly, but that "we are" consists of 11 people, which is a lot. It is 4 novels smashed into 16 episodes, hence the 4 couples. Phum and Fang are brothers and Fang is the older brother of the two of them (I think). The original friend group was Peem, Q, Tan, Chain, and Pun, and then Tan made friends in his major which added Phum, Mick, and Beer into it. And now on to the spoilers, because that explains well enough before they drop you off into whatever the start is lol.

(For every episode I did some we are... and it was funny so I will put those). We are humbled and now working on AP ART: Right off the bat all of the different outfits even if they were the same things felt so catered to the character and I think the show did such a good job on that. I noticed some voice changes to make certain actors sound more "innocent" and I talk about that A LOT. "I feel like I am smoking weed. Why are all 5 of them in that bed?" This feeling sadly never went away lol. Also, they did a good job of showing the relationships and dynamics in the friendships at the start and setting everything up. I was very confused but it was funny as fuck, which made up for whatever was happening.

We are slaves Ig: It was giving fish upon the sky and I loved it. It was giving the wacky vibe of it and it seemed like it tried to match that but it kind of failed.

We are weaponized incompetence and baby voices: This sums up episode 3 all the way to episode 10 or 11. The ships were cute and it had some plot, so that was good. I mentioned that Phum seemed very lonely and I was very right. There was a lot of weaponized incompetence in this and instead of pointing it out the other pair found it cute (Q, and Chain, dude). They were like oh how cute, I can help them, Q and Toey grew out of this, Chain and Pon did not and it got very old very fast.

We are remorseful and caring alcoholics who love to drink: "This review like the final review is going to be very hard to write because there’s nothing happening. So sorry future me, because present me, has no clue what’s even happening because there’s nothing happening" Took the words right out of my mouth me 4 days ago.

We are confused and all have the same haircut: Phum once again just wanted Peems company, he desperately wanted it, wanted someone who was forced to stay with him, who couldn't leave him no matter what. "Excuses to get him alone, love to see it." The friend groups finally collide because of Tan and that started the awesomeness that is the power of friendship in this show. "Fang and {Tan} are now dating, for some strange reason. Not enough plot lol. We are dating with no plot because the gods of whatever holiday this is said so." Okay true, but not exactly, they are dating because they were already doing that in the novel and they wanted to express how their dynamic was compared to others and introduce the idea that everyone's love is very different, early on. Also, Boom IS SO FUCKING FINE, I MENTION IT SO MUCH IN MY REVIEWS BUT HE IS SO FINE I ACTUALLY CAN NOT EXPLAIN IT. "There is some plot but is very much lacking. But it is fun to watch." I think the fact that they didn't overload this with a lot of trauma and hard-to-watch stuff and instead made it funny and quirky made this show bearable enough to finish (it did take me like 4 days but that is fine). Flirty Pond is what I live for, just his demeanor and looks are just so amazing.

This was my 900th episode watch which was cool. "I am not saying this is bad, I am just confused. It is a light watch but I am losing what little plot was there to start." Matt is the fakest fucking friend ever dude, but he furthered the plot so much and I don't know what this show would do without him and Beer. Pun comes up with the most diabolical plan that actually ends up working but can't seem to get his own love life into line. We had so many instigators in this shit dude and it was funny as fuck.

We are instigators and terrible friends: "Glad they are developing this more because it is actually pretty cute and I like the fun vibe it has." I started remembering the characters' names and they all started to become unique and it brought the show to life for me. Version 2 of me thirsting over Boom. "I guess that’s what friends are for to help you with your terrible relationship, to embarrass you, to not go on rides with you, to always have your back, no matter what even when you’re obviously in the wrong, that’s what friends are for." This show would go from funny hahaha to the deepest shit ever about friendships and relationships and I really loved the switch-ups. It goes into depth about whether you like someone or just the idea of them. That was the case for a lot of the relationships in this and they all showed that you can work through it in different ways, not one way is correct and not one is wrong, as long as it is love.

We are baby voices and different interpretations of love: "Low-key a good show, in analysis mindset." We meet Kluen and his main point was to just cause problems because the show remembered they had free will. Mick played this "stupid" character who would ask a dumb question and then ask the most philosophical shit and that was one of them. Peem, Beer, and, Q (sometimes with him) are the only ones who think about things logically in the show. Peem loves Phum or knows he is falling for him but he plays the long game because he doesn't want to get hurt. Beer gives some of the best advice to Phum on his and Peem's relationship and he was thinking about it logically but with an open heart and I think that was cute. "I guess Q does not understand what love is or his feelings and well that is not an excuse to treat someone badly, he does know where his feelings lie. He knows that he likes Toey, he just isn't sure how to express it." I ate up this analysis, "I guess this drama can be seen as a pretty interesting commentary on how different love works (I am doing homework so my brain is in analysis mode lol). Like with Fang and Tan, Tan is so in love with him and starts everything and Fang is just like okay. And Fang well I don't know if it is love or he just likes the attention, that's their interpretation of love. Peem and Phum are in a flirting stage at the moment, which can feel one-sided on both sides, and that makes it on both sides love, if that makes sense. With Phum inviting him over because he needs someone to be around and he likes his company and Peem not finishing his painting so the two of them can stay together longer. Q and Toey. This is a case of mentor x student. I guess he looks up to him a lot and I guess idealization and just admiration can blind his actual love for Q and that could be confusing. Q is just confused and acts very rashly and irritated because he does not really know how to do it otherwise, but he is working on himself. And that is what matters, right? Chain and Pun, have an interesting relationship because Chain likes Pun but I guess that could be seen as Pun using him because of their acts of service relationship, which is an interesting way to think about it. I think they are cute but also a case of weaponized incompetence, on Pun's part." Great episode and one of the best in terms of content and explanation.

WE ARE VOLUNTEER: "Jealousy is fun. Peem knows where his feelings lie and we as the audience do as well, so I just think this is funny." WE WHEN BOOM OH MY GOD OH MY FUCKING GOD, FINE AS FUCK.

We are gay and hopeless romantics: Peem and Phum's cuddling was so fucking cute and I loved it. Q went from nonchalant and not caring, to this weird hostile and that quickly turned into possessiveness as he and Toey got together, which was interesting. "They had a lot of random couples, hoping that it would stick and it did and I’m kind of mad at it right now."

We are way too many couples: "Episode 11 curse? But we have 5 more to go? Lol, I don't know, this whole thing is a curse." Phum and Peem, especially Phuwin with these looks again. He has this seductive ass face and I am just like damn. "Looking up at him like you are some helpless fuck, waiting for a man to save you." "I love cute kisses that aren't a big deal, they make me happy. Phum is a traumatized kid turned evil by society." His parents made him a villain and then sat there and wondered why they didn't like him and wondered why things couldn't get mended in just one day. Kluen and his condescending ass smile, only fuck, he was good at acting and sexy.

"Addicting as fuck dude. This show is doing something right because it is very addicting. Q changing for Toey and being a better person. Byronic hero core."Q and Phum could both be considered a Byronic hero because of their personalities and backgrounds, rich kids, one turned evil, and the other one was born evil.

We are singing, We are Alcoholics version 13, and We are the friends we made along the way: "They all come to support him and I love that. Those are some real ass friends. Pun, Q, Tan, and Chain. Those are good friends. Communication is the one thing this show is doing right. They have a lot of conversations about that and that is very good. Q is so messy and I love him. "He is probably with Kluen." Funny fuck. They are having very real conversations right now and it is scary. Very cute, very manure." And they finally got together after 13 episodes.


We are broke: "Kluen is low-key fine as fuck, just the way he talks and his mannerisms low-key make him so fine." Now that I think about it he was probably watching Peem and smacked him on the head on purpose. That is fucked up.

We are actually doing something right: "The holding hands shit I am still smiling about that. I wish more bl's did that instead of trying to force so many sex scenes (I AM NOT COMPLAINING I LOVE THEM) need to have more acts of service and cute moments like this. That really brings it home and I think that the cuddling, the hand placement, and the looks are just very cute." Also, they should have ended it here but they kept going.

We are photos: "Let's bring it home, I guess? They should have brought it home maybe four episodes ago, but I guess I will live. So many couples dude. Mick respectfully looks like a freak, like not freaky looking but like a freak in the sheets." They should make a sequel but it is only Mick being a freak. "They love going on vacation, missing deadlines, and alcohol." This is what most special episodes or filler episodes do in most shows, hence the headline once more. The whole thing felt like a filler episode and they were doing way too much with this show that they did not even have to do. “The mood change with his dad is so real.” I am actually kinda glad that even though he “forgave” his parents, it was rushed showing that things can just be fixed like that. I think they did that part good. They dealt with it in the final episode showing Phum doesn't need his parent's validation to be happy.

And that brings us to the end of that very long fucking review. Maybe if I wasn't a Yapper and an analyzer then it would have been shorter but it was also 16 episodes so not technically my fault. Would I recommend it? Yes if you just watched a show that ruined your brain psychologically and need a light funny watch. If you haven't go watch some sad shit and come back to this to appreciate it more. Then again I don't care if you listen to me or not. This was long and I am sorry. Okay bye!

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A nostagic piece from Thailand

I really enjoyed this show. It was slow to find its stride (I didn’t get into it until ep 7) but I’m very glad I gave it a chance.

It’s a soft ensemble piece with multiple couples and very little plot, but I didn’t care because it’s not trying to be anything more substantial. Essentially this was a series of vignettes covering one year of uni for a queer friendship group finding love, new friends, and laughter. It’s not being harsh with us or it’s characters the way some offerings of this ilk have been (side eyes Friend Zone, Only Friends) nor did it tumble into Gen Y chaos.

In fact, this reminded me more than anything of a refined and elevated Love Sick - just with older characters and occurring with a genre that has matured too. It has that close queer friendship group meets earnest gentleness that made me adore Love Sick so much. In other words m, this was Thai BL at its finest, finding it roots again 10 years on, but also stretching upwards and showing us what it could do with that original seed. So? I loved it. Did it blow my mind? No. But it left me smiling and made me belly laugh quite a bit. 9/10

Technically it should probably get an 8/10 - too much singing, but I’m bubbling over with nostalgia rn.

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Stands out among its oversaturated trope and plot!

Squad, school, university, and friendship, these are the common formulas when creating this kind of common and oversaturated type of series. However, it does not diminish the entertainment, comedic, and fan-service value "We Are" has brought us.

It does not require a thinking hat to fully understand what the series wants to portray. Despite its lack of substance and "importance", it was executed well to bring entertainment and fan service to each of us, and I think that's what this series wanted to establish and portray, and it's effective. Personally, it seems that "We Are" is a series that was made to compile fan services of each actor and CP here and present it to their fans HAHAHA.

Positive
1. PondPhuwin presents a different dynamic of their chemistry from their other series, especially Phuwin; however, Pond's role here seems a bit consistent with his previous roles, especially with "Fish Upon the Sky (FUTS)" as Mork. Despite these personal concerns, it does not diminish how they portrayed their relationship and the personality of their characters here. It was also refreshing to see that there were times when their relationship was laid back or lowkey among the other couples in the series. It was a cute way to give way to other couples, such as...
2. WinnySatang! They are incredible in this series, especially Satang. The last time I saw them was in "My School President (MSP)" and FUTS, and this series fortified how versatile they are as an actor. A personal concern of mine was that I could not let go of SoundWin, thus I want SatangWinny more huhuhu.
3. Each character has a distinct and entertaining personalities that complement well with their partner well. AouBoom and MarcPoon are two of these examples, and they're fun to watch.
4. Their friendship was solid and one of the few friendships that is enjoyable to watch.

Negative (As someone who wants a richer/unique story/plot):
1. No plot and path at all HAHAHAHA, which is okay for me since the premise presented itself that "it's not that serious". They are just a silly group of friends that happened to love each other.
2. It's too long to the point that I've pressed 1.5x speed so that I can watch the next series in my watchlist.
3. Unserious and sudden arrival of conflicts with no foundation or build-up at all (Kluen and Phum's family). I think it would be preferable if the conflict were purely a misunderstanding or a strain in their relationship. Another one is between Q and Toey. I was gagged when they both went into a sudden heated argument; however, Satang gave us a good scene there. It would be nicer if they gave us first a glimpse of Toey and Q's backstory.
4. Marc and Poon as our underrated couple. Personally, their characters individually and dynamic together are far more unique and interesting among the couples here. It's awkward to watch how the production forced their interaction just to "justify" their status as one of the couples in the series. However, their scene in the last episode was so funny since their first kiss was awkward, but their second kiss saved it; they have so much potential, and I hate how the production treated them.
5. In relation to my previous point, there are 16 episodes, and it would be so much better if these episodes were managed carefully to flesh out each character's progression in their relationship, especially since Pun is my favorite character hehehe.

I saw a lot of negative reviews here in MDL, and I understand each of the sentiments HAHAHAHA. However, from the premise itself, I think it's already established that it would be an unserious series. Nevertheless, it is an entertaining series and I treated it as a series that is for the fans of each couple here. I will highly recommend that you watch this as your first/early BL series since you would get bored with it if you've already watched this type of trope and plot, or if you're longing for a unique and fruitful series, since this one is not HAHAHA.

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REALLY CUTE

⚠️SPOILER ALERT⚠️

Firstly I’m going to say that overall this series was cute. I’m will give my opinion on each couple. Both positive and negative reviews.

PhumPeem:

For me they were good at first. It was like an “enemies to lovers” and I love that trope so much. Maybe Phum fell in love really quickly, but he was really cute and paid a lot of attention to Peem, and I loved that so much. For Peem, I liked him at first, until he kept rejecting Phum. When he first kissed Phum and at that time he was just shy and avoiding Phum, I understand that. And then he kind of accepted his love for Phum. He kept kissing him and they acted like a couple. BUT when Phum asked him to be his boyfriend, he behaved like he did at the beginning. We don't even know why. He rejected and ignored Phum. I felt bad for Phum who had been waiting for him for a long time. What's the point of acting as a couple and kissing if afterwards he continues to reject it? Peem finally bored me to be honest. And what's the point of them being a couple at the end of the series when their evolution has been the most complete since the beginning?

QToey:

THEY WERE THE CUTEST. OK, I LOVE WinnySatang SO MUCH, but I swear I'm not biased. I love tsundere like Q so much. Toey was so cute?!? They were perfect for me. There was no cringe, just cute. Yeah, I guess that’s it, REALLY CUTE.

KhaoTan:

CUTEST #2. They were always cute. I guess the only thing missing was their screentime. They deserved much more. I loved Tang so much. He was cute, a little cringey and funny. I love them so much

ChainPun:

I was disappointed. Not because of them, but because of their poor development. Their relationship only experienced a “big” development in episode 15. They had good potential but unfortunately they were robbed. Anyway, I liked them, they were okay I guess. Maybe I would have liked them more if they had more screen time.

IN GENERAL

Overall the show was cute, but I think they just tried to put PondPhuwin in the show as much as possible. I'm disappointed because PondPhuwin already has main role, unlike the others. So I thought this series was a good opportunity for the others. I was disappointed when I saw that PondPhuwin had a lot more screen time than the other one. No hate to them of course!

The series was also unbalanced. There was episodes where I was REALLY excited, and there was episodes where it was boring.

This series is made for you if you want to watch a nice bl, without difficulty of plot. I suppose it's a good bl and personally, I find it pleasant. 7.5/10

(I’m not a english speaker, please tell me if they are mistakes and be gentle)

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A polished multi-couple BL

Multi couple BLs often have the lack of screen time for each, like for example Y Destiny. We Are is a take on this genre. We are treated to 3 couples, with the 4th and a maybe 5th in the show. It did most the couples well, you can see their progression as to when and why they like each other. Most of them feels like real humans, with backstories fleshed out. Some would lament of the lack of adversity/ conflict in the show, but GMMTV knows what their audiences want: alot of FIN and fanservice scenes to make the fudoshi happy.
Peem and Phum did not suffer the first couple syndrome: they were indeed very relatable and likeable characters, they grew up as the series progressed and they became more mature about their feelings. Thats good. But the slow burn was real. Phuwin and Pond's acting did not improve much, they had difficulty showing complex emotions. Hopefully this will improve in future projects. I am a fan.
Q and Toey's story was less nuanced and Toey's crying scene was one of the more better acting-intensive parts of the show. I think their story is not well fleshed out. Their characters characterization is not consistent either: their conversations were not tight enough. There was never any tension. Are they supposed to be the prankster couple? or the dom Q and sub Toey couple? or what? It fluctuates as the story goes along. I blame the script.
Tan and Fang's story is well fleshed out, though we never knew when Fang really fell in love with Tan. We learnt as the story goes that he's very Tsundere, the dynamic between the both of them is great. I look forward to this couple in their future projects.
ChainPun's ending was quite funny and I was sad that they did not have more screen time. I wonder if all the extra fanservice scenes like the one at the Beach could have been used to further their story. I did not mind how they resolved this thread though. This show was a breakout role for Poon. He was great, acting as that oblivious guy.
Overall, a great multi couple BL.

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A feel good show

I have mixed feelings about the show. Some parts I LOVED it while some scenes fell flat. It was a character driven story with very minimal character development and plot however the acting, script, jokes and great showcase of friendship made it enjoyable.

The plot was simple and basic. No twists, no toxicity, just story about a pretty big group of friends. What I loved his the showcase of the bond. It felt very real as if I was watching the a video journal of a group of friends in their university time. However the biggest drawback would be how there's little to no plot and barely any character development. So when the group is not together and we get scenes with the couples it falls flat. It was cute but that was all it was. I wish it was explored on the character development side.

Cinematography was fantastic. I think this is what helped make this a slice of life comfort show. They successfully captured all the moments of the university life and friendship. The little jokes and the dumbest moves of a group boys is kind of fun to see.

Acting wise they all truly captured the essence of their individual characters well, especially Phuwin who I never thought would do good in comedy but I think this is by far his best acted show yet. The rest of the cast were absolute pleasure to watch. Satang as Toey was surprised me in the best possible way. They truly felt like a group of friends.

It's a show you need to watch with breaks. 2 episode a day while having meals is the perfect way if you want to just relax while watching something. It did gave me moments of comfort and overall it's a nice show.

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PhoomPeem carried the show.

This show has just come to an end.
Here are my two cents.

This show follows the typical school romance plot. Lots of ships.
The show is humorous in many parts, I will not deny that. But some parts were just meh.

I came here for the romance, so that is what I will talk about.

QToey. Idk, but I didn't really care for this ship much. The 'let's make him jealous to win him over' part is overdone to death.
I can't say I was invested in their storyline. But they're fine. Not unbelievable.

FangTan is the epitome of cringe. It's hard to watch their scenes when Tan is acting like a child fawning over him. Outside this ship, Tan has no agency, nothing to add to his character. He is just there to be a love interest . It's just plain annoying. I cannot imagine what real person on this planet thinks it's normal to behave like that all the time. Fang could do so much better. I wish they could write a better partner for him. The backstory they wrote for how these two met was nothing special. Idk why the fandom is blowing it out of proportion saying it was such a huge plot twist. What exactly was so great about them hating each other before?

ChainPun. Honestly, the writers just paired them up since everyone else already had someone. No chemistry between these two. They give more of friend vibes. But still, no where as offputting as TanFang. That last ep kiss was a bit cringe to watch, it seemed forced as hell. They didn't seem head over heels for each other. Shoehorning it into the last few eps won't suddenly make it seems natural.

And the best for last. The only ones that kept me watching the show
PhoomPeem. These two actually have goals and lives outside each other. Nothing too complex, but it's something. These two are walking chemistry . Their interactions were swoonworthy, and the transition from enemies to lovers was natural. You can see how much emotion these two can convey with just a smile or a look in their eyes. No other cast could outshine them in this regard. The viewer could clearly pinpoint the exact moment they both started feeling a spark between them, literally even these two knew they mutually liked each other but waited for the right time to make it official, oof. I like that they didn't invite drama and were mature and honest about their feelings for each other. There was a third party involved to start jealousy drama, but that was shut off and communicated clearly. Kudos to this ship.

Towards the end of the show, though, the show began to feel lacklustre. It felt like they were just making stuff up to fill airtime as they didn't know how exactly to end the show in a memorable way. It's a decent watch if you're looking for the standard  cliche Thai bl romance.

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