Khemjira

A truly life changing BL.

No spoilers here! Feel free to safely read this review.

When I originally saw the trailer for this show, the first thing that stuck out to me (someone who hates horror) is that I still found myself drawn to facing my crybaby scaredy cat personality to watch this BL.

For a "horror" show, objectively it's not scary! There are a few jumpscares, but most (if not all) are really predictable and can be quickly avoided! If you are a scaredy cat like me, don't worry! I think you'll be okay.

As for the show itself, the storyline is INCREDIBLE. Loss, Yearning, Passion, Strength, Charisma, Fear, Suspense, Angst, everything you could want in a show (except it being fluffy and upbeat, though our side couple helps there) is here.

Our main couple (Kengnamping) goes through so much individually and as a duo. Their story has so many twists, turns, and things trying to keep them apart. But having their own battles to face and choosing to fight hand and hand against them, even if it's not a shared problem? Yeah, I'm weak in the knees over them.

And our side couple (Tlefirstone) Oh my gosh LOL, they're incredible! I was unfamiliar with the actors prior to Khemjira but their chemistry is off the charts! I found myself smiling over them since the first episode. Their energy and relationship is so endearing. It's everything to me! They feel like a breath of fresh air with everything the main couple has to go through.

There are endless words I could say to express my love for this show so far, but all I ask of you is to give it a fair shot. Even with each episode being over an hour somehow I felt like each was just 15 minutes.

The music, acting, chemistry, storyline, and world building of this show is unlike any other show I've ever seen. The level of detail and cultural significance in Khemjira is also everything to me. A true 10/10 recommendation from me (which is few and in between when it comes to BLs for me.)

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A Series So Boring It Should Come With a Sleeping Pill Warning

After watching two episodes, it's already possible to draw some conclusions. Honestly, it's a waste of time. The acting is terrible, the plot is very weak, and don’t even get me started on the special effects. The episodes are long—more like full-length movies—but incredibly boring. There's a ton of advertising, and ironically, it's filmed better than the show itself... The series doesn’t really evoke any emotions or feelings... To sum it up, there’s almost nothing good about it, except for the attractive actors—but that’s not what I’m looking for when I watch something.

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It's not that good.

This is the most overrated series of the moment.

Khemjira is a Thai BL series that promised to combine a horror story with romance (boys’ love). The premise was very interesting a character, Khem, who suffers from a family curse.

The problem is that they decided to make the story too long, and at times it’s quite tedious to watch. The romance part was the weakest, in my opinion. At the beginning, the character Keng the shaman in the story treated the main character badly because he had promised not to get involved with curses and wanted to dissuade Khem from being around him. After that, there wasn’t much progress in their romantic relationship. In the middle of the story, we suddenly find out they’re going to end up together “just because,” due to some past-life connection a very lazy type of writing.

The character Khem is probably the least developed. He feels like one of those 1950s female characters who exist only to be saved by “the stronger man, the virile hero who will rescue him.” That kind of trope should have been left behind long ago. The character lacks personality and is simply pushed along by the plot.

The character Peem didn’t appeal to me either he’s that stoic, without much expression who’s only there to save the damsel in distress, even if at first he doesn’t want to.

The main couple has no chemistry, and worse, they fall into the same type of pairing we’ve seen in other BLs: one tries to give a passionate performance (Keng), while the other feels lifeless, cold, and dull like a puppet without emotion.

The secondary couple seems to exist only to make up for the lack of romance in the main one. The main couple could be considered a “slow burn,” but there’s a difference between a well-developed slow burn and complete stagnation.

The acting was very poor, as is common with this production company. Especially Namping there are about three more demanding scenes that required stronger acting, and he didn’t deliver in any of them.
I also found the dialogue uninspired and sleepy, and the episodes overly long and boring.

The good part of the series is the special effects, the music, and the performance of the actress who plays Ramphueng. You can see there was at least some effort and investment in this BL series.

As for the ending, I found it anticlimactic. I didn’t like it much, to be honest.

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boring

This BL is far from being my favorite one this year…

Personally, I think they chose the wrong novel to introduce a new DMD couple. Why do I say that? Simply because this story seriously lacks Boys Love. For me, the main couple had absolutely no chemistry probably because the story itself didn’t help. It honestly felt like I was watching Ari Aster’s Midsommar.

The story drags on for 12 episodes, each almost two hours long, and in my opinion, much of the series had nothing to fill that amount of time, making the BL feel slow and boring most of the time.

What I didn’t like:

Acting:

Namping: He still needs a lot of training and acting lessons to become a convincing actor. In this BL, there are about three scenes where the supposed love of his life is nearly dying, and he just keeps that blank expression — it was driving me crazy. He’s also really dull in the romantic scenes.

Keng: Didn’t impress me either, but compared to Namping, at least he tries. Especially in the romantic scenes, he acts in a more passionate way.

Tle and FirstOne: I don’t think they’re acting geniuses, but they made the show more bearable for the viewers. The main couple was just too boring, bland, and chemistry-free. I had seen a previous BL with them and liked it much more.

Episode Length:

Way too long, and several of them had nothing interesting going on to justify nearly two hours. It became dragging and tiring.

Past Lives:

We find out the protagonists are connected through past lives, but honestly, I think that plot point only made their lack of chemistry worse. It felt like they were obligated to be together in the present.

Story:

I found it very dull and slow. Scary? Not at all especially for people used to horror movies.

Characters:

Characters often act in ways that make no sense none of them felt consistent.

What I liked:

Culture:

This BL shows a bit of Thai culture — chants, traditions — and I found that part really interesting.

Production Value:

You can clearly tell there was investment in this BL.

Special Effects:

Also very well done.

Music:

I liked it too.

Ramphueng:

The actress who played the ghost definitely delivered the best performance in the series.

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A bad hallucination

Honestly, you can’t look me in the eyes and tell me this series was good.
For me, it was pure psychological torture.
The positive points:

The budget, sets, costumes, and makeup — you can tell there was real investment in the production, and I really liked that.

The reincarnation of Chan and Jet as Da and Jintana — their love story was heartbreaking, and I’ll always be happy to see a little GL couple.

Ramphueng — such a memorable character; honestly, she’s the reason I managed to finish the series.

And lastly, episode 9, which in my opinion, was the only one that managed to raise the bar a bit.

The negative points:
Unfortunately, that’s where things fall apart…

The script — Domundi really needs to work on their writing. The romance between Khem and Peem just didn’t work for me at all.

The acting — I’m sorry, but I wasn’t convinced at all.

The dialogues — flat, awkward, and in serious need of rewriting.

The episode length — way too long for what was actually happening.

In short, I really wanted to love this series, especially since I’d been looking forward to it, but it was honestly very hard to watch.

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the script should be written in a more interesting way

Domundi’s two BLs this year didn’t really work for me. Both The Next Prince and Khemjira felt like sleeping pills. I think if they had been condensed into fewer episodes and with shorter runtimes they would’ve turned out much better. The story simply didn’t have enough substance to stretch that long; at times, it felt like psychological torture for the viewer.

On the positive side, the actress who played Ramphueng really stood out. In terms of acting, I thought she was the best in the whole cast.

The special effects were great, the songs were beautiful, and I liked that the main characters shared a connection from the past it gave them a bit more depth.

But that’s about it.

I found the leads’ performances flat, bland, and unconvincing. There wasn’t much chemistry between them, and especially Namping’s acting felt weak it lacked energy, passion, anger, and intensity.

The story also dragged a lot, with long stretches where nothing interesting or meaningful happened. Overall, I didn’t enjoy it.

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It could be much better but..

It took me a while to collect my courage since horror is definitely not my forte, and if you can relate this, then let me tell you that ep 1, 2 & 9 is the only scary part. So, you don't have to worry too much about it.

Tbh, horror genre is quite new in BL entertainment, so I might put a lil bit of high hope in this one, and I have to say that I feel a lot of disappointment in this one..

1. There's too much side character storyline that I wish they could prolong. Cutting them short just to fit everything in 12 eps were kinda leaving the audience hanging and confuse. (You can clearly see this at the end when one of the character ask the questions to the other people)

2. The storyline itself.. is too slow. I know that this series is mainly focuses in Ramphueng and Khem but the romance is also a genre of the series and it started to get bloom around ep 7 which is more than half of the series. The ghost itself also rarely appeared in the early eps, and started to get heavy at the end, makes me thinking that you can easily skipped the whole series in half (started on ep 7) and still be able to understand the whole series.

3. The ending of Ramphueng.. killed my mood. I don't know if the others would love that kind of ending but not me. The fact that she have hurt a lot of people during her existence as a ghost, I feel like it should be more than that. This part really makes me wanna drop the series right away, making me rethinking my whole life decision in starting the series.

I know it can be much better as it's basically not about the cast skill or series production, but more towards the plot itself.. Due to their beautiful location and settings choice, the ost is quite pleasant to hear (ofc, casting the singer couple as the 2nd lead) and the acting of Namping is soo good, the way he switched between a few roles, and also Keng, the way he express his emotion, when he cried and feel too much of his emotion.. I must say, both of them just debut but it makes me wondering if it is just a lil white lies?

But still, for me, it's totally not worth to rewatch (unless you want to see the certain scenes), and I wish the company can give another series that's much better than this storyline to the couple. They have so much potential and it's definitely shouldn't be wasted.

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Gorgeous but Drifting

This series kicked off with a lot of promise. Visually, it was stunning—right from the first few episodes, you could tell the production team put serious thought into the aesthetics. The cinematography was gorgeous, the color grading was rich, and the locations were just beautiful, not to mention the lovely face of actor Keng . It felt fresh, like they were really trying to offer something different this time around, and I was totally on board. But somewhere along the way, the pacing started to drag. Unfortunately, the storytelling didn’t quite keep up with the visuals. It stretched out longer than it needed to, and there were moments where I found myself checking how much time was left in the episode. That said, there was one clear standout: the character of Ramphueng. Her arc was hands down the most compelling part of the series. The way her journey of revenge and eventual forgiveness unfolded was powerful. It had the potential of becoming a memorable BL series, but it didn’t quite hit that mark. Still, it’s a good watch overall. The visuals alone make it worth checking out. I’d give it 3.5 out of 5 stars.

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rating pity

At the beginning of the story, we learn that the protagonist, Khem, is cursed and, at 21 years old, he will die because a vengeful ghost, Ramphueng, will come to take him and send him to the afterlife. The premise was even good, and I've always liked horror movies, so this isn't an excuse. As the story progresses, Khem asks for help from Master Peen, who soon creates several annoying and irritating obstacles to avoid helping him. So you wonder if the master isn't going to help the khen why does he spend several episodes in the master's hut doing absolutely nothing? Not even the screenwriter must know that.The DMD company tortured the viewer with a boring, irritating, and pointless BL, with episodes almost two hours long, not to mention the terrible acting and lack of chemistry between the main couple. And up until now, I'm still looking for the romance and horror in this story. some dialogues are completely irrelevant, lasting around 10 minutes. I found myself checking the clock multiple times. By the way, this is already the second mistake of the year from the DMD company for me.

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Could have been amazing but....

Oh where do I even start from?

Khemjira should have been my favourite show this season because I adore anything supernatural/horror/bl but it left me with conflicting feelings.

Let's start from the positives:

The music was amazing. I literally cannot express how much I adore Mantra. I think this was the best part of the whole show.

The plot was interesting and a nice break from all the stereotypical BLs. I also liked the fact that they icluded so much Thai lore and culture. The multiple reincarnations were also interesting to me.

Some of the side characters were very interesting, especially the villain. Her back story was so heavy and interesting, explaining her motives perfectly. Additionally, I really loved the second couple,.

The acting of some of the actors was amazing. I especially liked the Villain, the female Khem and the Peem's brother from his previous life. The second couple actors were also very talented.

Now for the bad...

The main couple. There, I said it. The main couple was, i think, the worst part of this. I don't know what went wrong. The characters were so one dimensional, I couldn't really see them as real people. They almost seemed soulless. The acting? Not that good. There were some scenes that I was so frustrated by the lack of emotion it made me want to stop watching. Khem getting tortured? He was emotionless. Khem almost getting killed? Barely blinked. Khem believing that peem was going to die? Blank expression. I needed him to cry, scream, do something instead of just standing there looking pretty while a tear rolled down his face. Was the actor so inexperienced? Did he not want to look ugly or something? Real humans don't just have blank expressions when sad or scared. Same for Peem. He didn't even cry when he watched the person he loves getting tortured. They also never convinced me that they were in love. The only times that I actually saw some emotion were surprisingly the NC scenes. I don't know what happened but the acting there seemed so much better.

Well, thats it overall. I hope the actors improve because they are both stanning.

Overall, an enjoyable watch mainly because of the supernatural elements and the side characters.

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KHEMJIRA IS INDEED THE SERIES OF THE YEAR 2025??

We waited two good years just to get this show and trust me, believe me when I tell you that it has goated  beyond normal. it has exceeded, it has transcended all expectations because it was just that good.When I talk about Khemjira the first thing that comes to my head is love.  platonic love between friends, romantic love between lovers the love parents have for their children.
I tell you this show has described and it has pointed out too many good factors that literally shape our destinies.
The music, the casting, the plot, the storyline, that pacing like everything about this show is just God damn amazing 😍 😍 😍. I have to accept it at first I might have had my doubts but right now I tell you without reasonable doubts that Khemjira is indeed the series of the Year 2025.
Domundi got a fantasy series and you put it to it's best. There was nothing to complain about everything was perfect.
Shout out to the cast, shout out to the directors shout out to the fans, shout out to everybody who has made this show reach where it is.
Domundi indeed deserves it's place in the Thai entertainment industry and trust when l say that they have outdone themselves with this one❤️❤️❤️😍😍
Thank you so much and we are anxiously waiting for your next project.❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️💯💯💯💯💯💯

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