Wednesday Club

Plotlines with unsatisfying endings

I'm not going to lie the writing in this show was pretty bad. The plot wasn't very thought out either. It just felt like the show was trying to have too many plotlines going that didn't really entirely matter or had a good start and then was wrapped up quickly and not satisfying at all (an example is we kept hearing about how Phali wasn't over his girlfriend and then once the two of them got back together we never saw them together again except maybe once or twice and they didn't feel like a couple at all). The thing that bothered me the most though was that the show is called Wednesday Club, but we barely ever saw all seven members together at the same time. We saw the first meeting and maybe a few other times, but for the most part we just saw the same pairs of people interacting over and over. I just really wish we got to see them all develop some kind of relationship with each other, but we really didn't. I think this show had great potential but just needed some major tweaking in the writing room.

Characters:
Kong: He was really nice and clearly cared about his friends a lot. It was cute seeing him fall for Tam and I liked that they ended up together. Him and May had chemistry together too, but I definitely think Tam was more suited for him. I felt bad for him for how he's always been treated by his family, even if it was with a reason, it doesn't make it any better. After the first episode or two we didn't really see his and Phali's friendship much either which I thought was weird since they started this whole thing.

Phali: He really shouldn't have tried to get with Tam when he wasn't over his past girlfriend. I thought he was a pretty funny character but after him and Tam split, I feel like we didn't see him much at all, and especially not with his girlfriend (like I mentioned previously). I did feel bad for him when we heard about what happened with the two of them in the past. I liked seeing that he does and enjoyed doing the volunteer work and seeing him trying to make it right with different people he's wronged. Again, I wish we got to see of more of his friendship with Kong. Shoutout Nani, he was the whole reason I watched this show in the first place.

Kun: He sucked. I didn't like his character at all. I did feel bad for him in different moments for sure, but overall, he was just an asshole and was quite rude. I get he was trying to make money for his family, but he was awful to people (especially Mac) for literally no reason.

Pheem: He was such a sweetie. Not only for everything he was trying to do for Mink, but how he took care of May as well. His crush on May was really sweet too. I loved seeing the scenes with his family as well. He was just the nicest of all the characters for sure.

Mac: This poor dude. Every time he was on screen I just felt bad for him. Someone was always being mean to him, or he was going through something. I loved his friendship with Kong a lot. I didn't really have strong opinions on him other than I just felt bad for him.

Tam: She was the other character I thought was really sweet. Even when she was being mean to her family, I didn't blame her at all and thought they deserved worse for all they put her through. Her crush on Phali was cute but I definitely liked her better with Kong. Her friendship with May was really sweet too and I liked seeing what they brought out in each other.

May: I liked May and thought she was one of the most interesting characters. She was one of the more complex I feel out of everyone. I knew her crush on Kong wouldn't go anywhere because man never seemed interested at all. I loved her friendship with Tam as well as her relationship with Pheem. She always just brought something interesting to the show which I liked.

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Disappointed

Sadly I have to say nothing new same old story, but I have to say the acting was bad and a strong pass. I am thankful it's not BL, because it's just lacking chemistry and no development. A let down on acting and storyline. At times it did not even make sense. This was not greatly put together and felt like it was just something to do. Some of the actors are good, but boring and lack a lot in not being interesting. I found my self fast forwarding just to get to the end. Very over done feels like it won't do anywhere and very close to looking like a bunch of other straight and BL series that have already been done.

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had my hopes up but ...ugh

Thank goodness this is over....I only stuck this out because of
Nani, Ohm and Phuwin.
The story could've been better and there are parts that were unnecessary like
the whole deal with Mink and her husband. If they had to have a story with the Nani's
character sibling it could've been done better. I found myself rolling my eyes and hitting
mute whenever the Mink character was on screen and her husband as well. Was not a fan of
the Tam character from start to finish. The character of Mac could've been written better because
I just found him annoying. I think the show would've been good maybe if it had
a writer with some imagination. Overall this show really wasn't a show about a group of college kids that are middle children in their families. That seemed to have been lost after the first ep. 😒Unfortunately this is not a show that I'd rewatch even if its got Nani, Ohm and Phuwin in it.

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Another opportunity to waste Ohm Pawat’s talent.

If Ohm Pawat wasn’t in this I would’ve bailed. I really think GMMTV series there aren’t any really good series that’s worthy of Ohm’s talent because their roster of young actors in these kind of series aren’t up to his level as an actor. To date, Double Savage with Perth and Forei is his only non BL that is worth nothing.

ISTG, I don’t know how Phuwin keeps getting the roles he gets because he’s so miscast. As a former PondPhuwin shipper, I cannot watch Phuwin in anything non BL. This is only because Pond is doing all the heavy lifting to keep that ship sailing. Every time he comes on screen, I cringe at his performance. The only part he did well was when in episode 1w when he gave his bully the finger. But this is how I see a Phuwin in everyday life from how he is with Gemini and other friend he hangs out. Something about Phuwin’s acting for the most part looks like acting instead of being in character,

Anyway, the serie had potential. While I might have wanted Joong in a series with Phuwin but I don’t mind Satang recast in the series instead. He has potential.. plus the fact that he can sing helps with the role. I think he fits the role of Prem better than Joong.

As for Piploy as May, the performance was good.She played a flawed character to some degree of believability. However, Film always comes up short in acting. She seems to give the same kind of performance. Im. It sure if it’s because she plays the same kind of character or it just not good acting. It’s bland and boring at this point.

The other actor who gave a decent performance was Kay as Mac. Like that’s acting to be and being in character.

I think Thor as Top gave a decent performance. Kul’s brother, Kong’s brother and sister, Pali’s sister, Tam’s grandmother/ father, and everyone else did their job.

My biggest issue is the lack of a cohesive flow in the storyline. It’s jumbled and try ending was a hot messy rush job. This might be the series that makes me stop watching Phuwin all together if it isn’t a BL.

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Entertaining Ensemble

When you're trying to tell seven different stories in twelve episodes and make sure that watchers will love and sympathize with the characters, it's always a balancing act.

Wednesday Club came pretty close.

I started watching this series shortly after the second episode aired, so this time I had to do the Weekly Wait thing rather than binge.

I'm going to watch it again, and I'm going to binge.

The premise of the story is pretty relatable--lonely people get together and form friendships that then start to effect the lives of all seven of them. Granted, this is done to varying degrees, and there are a couple of episodes where one of them(usually Mac or Pali) didn't do much other than take up space on the screen, but it was still entertaining to see what hijinks everyone else was getting up to.

Pali's storyline was a little bit flat, and I felt kind of bad that Nani didn't really have much to do in the series other than stand quietly in a corner(at least for the first half), but once Mink showed up, Pali had more to do, and that helped. One thing I'm starting to figure out about Nani is that he when he gets a script and character that mesh with his acting style, he's GOLD, and when he gets one that's...a little bit of a mess he misses by *that much*. I hope "High School Frenemy" is the former, cause Nani can deliver snarky and dry asides really well, and this series looks like it'll be full of them(and Kay is in that one too!).

Tam's story made me cry. I mean, how much shit can this poor girl go through in one series? Apparently, a lot. Her struggles with finding her place in her family, and her relationship with her grandmother hit me right in the feels and when she sobbed after she was literally alone in the hospital I did too( and it's REALLY HARD to watch something when you can't see the screen through your tears, so that episode took a little longer to watch). Film delivered the way she always does.

I....could not sympathize with Kul. Like at all. I tried, I really did, because I love watching Phuwin, but something(maybe the way Kul was written?) just didn't vibe with me. That being said, Phuwin played Kul to the hilt and even if the character was unevenly written and his storyline was kind of a mess, Phuwin's acting was not.

May and Pheem are the cutest couple ever. Their relationship stays low-key without getting to over the top dramatic and makes me grin like an idiot. Also, when may meets Pheem's older brother and has a day out with him made me awwwwwwwwwwwww. Satag and Piploy should be paired together more often, cause their chemistry is fantastic and natural.

Kong. What can I say about Kong. I---kind of wanted him to get up to more hi-jinks, I guess? I mean, the opening shot of Ohm and Nani running down the street in their birthday suites was GOLD, but then it all seemed to peter out, and I wanted Kong to do more to move the plot along. He did, sort of, in later episodes, but he was spurred on by the other characters, which was a little bit of let down.

Having just come from "Home School", the best surprise for me was Kay's performance as Mac. This is a complete one eighty from Hugo and Kay is so good! Rather than wanting to shake him like I did in "Home School", I wanted to hug him. He was so sweet and humble and the look Mac gave Venus when he was in trouble broke my heart. As an added bonus, sometimes when Kay was on the screen as Mac, then AJ and JJ were there too(as Ma Han and Wang Chao, two other boys who are not in the Wednesday Club, but are close friends of Mac) so it was kind of fun to see the three of them again(they were also in Home School together).

I didn't read the novel, but being a writer I know how difficult it can be to balance multiple storylines and make them stick. "Wednesday Club" came close(although, as with "Home School" they did the "girls gets shot protecting her friends" trope which was kind of a cop out, but I went with it), so I'm watching it again when I need fluffy messy entertainment.

And I'll also rewatch for Kay and Satang and Piploy and Film, because their performances were !!!!!!!!!!!

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