Playboyy

Pretty Interesting and Different

The 18+ rating on this is definitely needed, as there are very adult scenes and themes, though sometimes the NC scenes weren't necessary to the plot and therefore could have been left out. Some characters got more than others for no particular reason, as well. The series almost gives off softcore porn vibes at times, just without the nudity, right down to the music, but overall it's very sex positive in the way that we see different characters who all have different relationships with sex, sometimes bad and sometimes good.

The pacing was a bit slow to start, the story didn't really pick up until the 3rd or 4th episode and there's quite a few characters to keep straight at first. I thought the plot was interesting and the twin infiltrating his missing twin's friend group to find out what happened to him reminded me of the Not Me series, though obviously the plots are very different.

I liked the focus and handling of the sex work industry and how we see both good and bad come from it. i liked some of the couple dynamics a lot, particularly Puen/Aob and Prom/Nont, but some characters felt a bit under-developed to me, namely Keen, and I would have liked to have learnt more about Prom as well, though i adored him anyway. One thing i found super odd and kind of distracting was the frequent but really random use of english between characters that wasn't really intrinsic to the story or the plot, especially when none of them were fluent and everyone spoke thai natively, it was a bit jarring to have half conversations spoken in english for no reason.

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wowza

it is i, the niel.

this show deserves a 1. there was a lot to unpack with this one. it was entertaining for the sheer shock value of how awful it was. ROUGH to get through. way too many couples. however, i could tell that there was solid chemistry between most of them. it was a genuinely ambitious storyline.

with that being said, i am appalled. it had its moments, and the plot was going somewhere. any of the good moments and any amount of actually, somewhat interesting plot, is just suffocated by the insanity and vulgarity of it all. one could argue that this was trying to emulate queer indie media with the range of relationships, even though it felt inherently over-sexualizing at certain moments (oftentimes seen with portrayals of gay men in media). however, there were so many characters that made it incredibly frustrating to watch. furthermore, i disliked the codependence/toxicity of most of these couples. i see what it was going for, but it missed the mark by miles. it was raw, very uncomfortable.

there is certainly a representation of kinks and sex, which is not what makes it bad. i think it's bad because it was not well-written, and there wasn't enough time to understand the characters and come to like them as a whole. in general, i questioned the motivations of all of these people (including those on the production team). i'm fine with characters that aren't necessarily great people all the time, but we have to know why they aren't great people all the time because otherwise, they just suck. especially if they are never good people, and you insert random trauma but don't follow up on it.

there were elements of it that were interesting. if the core of the plot had focused on the disappearance of the brother, it would have made the show much better. instead, all of these couples and characters felt disjointed, and it was confusing in the grand scheme of this universe. if you wanna watch it, pop off...i'm not convinced you'll get much out of it, though. shout-out to the actors who tried their best. nothing wrong with them, lol.

lmaooo.

best,

the niel.

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Something interesting to look at

Writing my thoughts about Playboyy, I’d like to say I started to watch when it was ongoing, watched the first 7 eps and had a long break. Then I decided not to drop and finish it. Why? Despite Playboyy is a low budget project with many failures in its production, the show has potential.

What did I like? The main thing is that it’s a kind of erotic thriller with cinema d’auteur vibe. It has an idea, a plot, a question about the real killer until the last minutes. Some characters have very logical motivations for their actions. I liked the image in many scenes, I liked some actors and hope to see them onscreen again.

What was weaker? The feeling of the low budget movie was quite strong and permanent while I was watching it. It was too dark, some characters and scenes looked very unnatural, the angles of filming didn’t impress me as much as they could.

In general, if they make the season 2, I will watch. Because they tried and they wanted to make something special.

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Unusual topics are addressed in the subtext, good

short conclusion:
I don't think it's as bad as many people are making it out to be. yes, it's not a masterpiece, but it's something completely different from the usual bl. The ending is extremely unsatisfying, the last shot is "to be continued". I'm curious and hope for the best.
Positive:
it depicts the different facets of sex and how people react to the different forms (stigmatisation of bdsm/masochism for example). other important topics such as the problems in the sex work industry and homophobia are also addressed. the acting ranges from good to bad, depending on the character. yes, there are a lot of sex scenes, but if you fade them out, an interesting thriller story emerges.
Negative:
I find the English sections very annoying. Why, I don't check. does the series want to come across as more international? maybe one of you can explain it to me.

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I'm confused by other People's Reviews?!

I'm not sure if we all watched the same Show?
I agree that their sound design is off, especially in the first two episodes but I'm confused why so many people apparently think there is no plot?
There is so much going on in this Show!
Also, Sex CAN BE PLOT! Figuring out what you like or don't like, how your and your partners preferences work or not work together? That's PLOT!
Let's not forget the big picture. All the talk about Sex Work and the literal missing twin that might have been killed or trafficked?!

More for Fans of QaF than of "BL" in my Opinion because a lot of the BL Fans seems to not be able to watch anything that doesn't include a beauty filter...

Also... Showing Queer Sex on TV is not Porn... I think some people need to think hard about why explicit hetero sex in shows is totally play but queer sex automatically makes a show "porn"

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Poor production choices let down what could have been a gripping gritty mystery

I tried really hard to carry on watching this show.

Some of the sex scenes were alright, the ones I didn't care for I just skipped or paid half attention to. A couple were great. You can tell the actors are trying their best for the most part - the director and everything else are failing them substantially.

The biggest issue I have is that the main plot line of the disappearance of Nant isnt very well written. When the investigations happen they either go nowhere (like the party?), or happen suddenly with all the motivation or reasoning for the characters chosing to follow that route of investigation completely skipped over.

I enjoy a mystery show and am left sorely disappointed by the ham handedness of the writing and production choices.

Another gripe I have and the reason the sex scenes are pretty skippable is that I don't think most of the characters actually enjoy them? It seems like the kinks were written by people with a distaste for them, who want to portray them as inherently 'wrong'.

I understand that they're trying to showcase some of the realities of sex work especially somewhere where it's criminalised, but it doesn't need up to 14 hours of sexual violence to showcase it. At that point it just feels like the reason some self-gratification being sought by the production team.

Maybe it's changed in the subsequent episodes since I dropped it but this would have been better as a 3 hour movie with way fewer couples. I'm going to continue reading spoilers for the show so I can find out what happened to Nant in the end but I'm not wasting another 7 hours of my life when I know most of it will be filler.

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Wtf..??

So, this review is probably gonna be kinda off since I only watched one episode. I don't remember the plot I only remember and know that pretty much 95% of the episode was pure sex and I was embarrassed for the characters. I really love how the actors were able to do that scenes without laughing their ass off. Of the plot I guess someone disappeared and they were supposed to figure out where he was. However the series is only there for the sex. That's not how you catch proper public, unless u wanna catch the girls fetishizing gay men. So yeah as a gay man I really hate this, I could watch better porn on other sites if I wanted to.

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The Gasp I Gusped

I truly have no words. Absolutely speechless after every episode. I did not watch the trailer and quickly skimmed the synopsis but BABY nothing could have truly prepared me for what I was about to get into *insert crying emoji*. I genuinely am not able to predict what is going to happen at any given point.
If you watch this just know it’s a lot of unnecessary masturbating scenes, random English dialogue thrown in and a lot of voiced over moans like I mean A LOT. There have been some good shows that have a good balance of sex scenes with and without plot but this show missed the mark with both.
Lazy writing and poor direction. The only thing that I’ve found memorable and laughable so far with this production is a Japanese voice over with a heavy THICK Thai accent *insert crying emoji*.
This biggest thing that irks me is one of the main storylines involves a twin brother trying to find out why his brother went missing. So he’s pretending to be his brother but he literally knows nothing about his brother or his lifestyle so he just looks and sounds dumb trying to get information he should know before pretending to be his missing brother. Anyways I’m actually so serious with I don’t know what’s going on and what’s the plot and it is draining me to continue this tbh.
Good luck if you watch this lol.

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when is 2nd season coming

Damn the cliffhanger that it left is on, I want more information on everything and everyone especially zouey and his boyfriend and his reaction in how he works out zouey was raped and that is his reason for not wanting sex with anyone. Zoey was my favourite as he seems the one that is easily hurt from others so have to be gentle with him. I was not expecting that ending with him being involved in his friend's death and him covering that from his fiends.
Nont/Nant, well done honestly as his coming shook everything up exposing everyone's true nature and how he changed throughout the investigation and what it meant to him. The raw emotions were executed with perfection making me really feel for him.
First was so misunderstood by his father and as soon as he did wrong he is called out for it without him being heard. He is vulnerable and weak like everyone else but tries to hide it by constantly want power and sex.

Now everyone else I didn't see the need for them as they were confusing and irrelevant to the story especially nuth and his boyfriend

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