Love Sea

Not as toxic as the other of MAME works...

Sky x Prapai aka Peat x Fort, of course here I come... Haha...

Much like any other MAME works, this also works for me... Haha... I like it. And quite surprising, this time the relationship between the main couple is not as toxic as the other... Of course, sometimes there is no drama without toxicity & sometimes we just crave for it... Haha.... But enough about the introduction, let's just dive into the drama...

Tongrak is a writer of popular romance novels, forced to go to the island by his friend. On the island he met Mahasamut, the local tour guide guy, who loved teasing him... Of course right out of the bat, they start bickering, because Mahasamut thinks Tongrak is just an arrogant city guy & Tongrak pissed cause Mahasamut likes to tease him.

But of course they’re still our main couple. So one thing leads to another, they start their one night stand. And it turns out Tongrak just can’t get enough of Mahasamut, and vice versa. In the end, when Tongrak vacation days ran out Mahasamut just hopped to the ship that brought them to Bangkok.

In Bangkok, Mahasamut has to get the stamp approval from Tongrak inner circle, aka his assistant Vivi & Khaimuk (Mook), Tongrak best friend. And later on, we also get introduced to Tongrak’s family, aka Tongrak’s niece; Meena, Tongrak’s cousin; Prin & Tongrak dad; Jak. Meena is a cute little girl, but Prin & Jak is a whole toxicity itself…

Prin, with her jealousy, tries to bring all the misfortune to Tongrak. And Jak with his own scheme also tries to ruin Tongrak & Mahasamut. So, what will happen to Tongrak & Mahasamut in the end…?

That’s pretty much the story without giving too much clue about what happened… Now let’s talk about what I like & don’t like.

What I like:
+ Peat x Fort. Oh I love their chemistry…
+ The cute Meena
+ Loyal Vivi & Mook

Overall this is quite a good story to tell. I like it.

Below I'll write about what I don’t like, but that also means SPOILER ALERT!!! So read it at your own risk!!!












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What I don’t like:
- The half baked story. If not about Tongrak & Mahasamut, all the other stories feel like half baked. Like the story about Vivi & Mook. What happened to their relationship in the end…? Or like why Prin is so f*cking jealous of Tongrak…? See half baked….
- I need more background about Jak’s abuse toward both of his children, until Tongrak, his sister, and even Meena are so afraid of him.
- The most unfortunate is Vivi & Mook story. I really need closure for their relationship.

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are we all here for the soft core?

This drama is what summer calls for... hot and uncomplicated. Well, it might aspire to look "complicated" by the traumas and supposed depth of characters, but for regular drama-watchers these are just the go-to cliches to make it spicier...
So here we have two flirtatious guys who meet in the gorgeous setting of Thai beaches and develop a love interest with sensual scenes. Everybody is well-off, good-looking, single & willing. The acting is exaggerated but i guess the entire drama is not to be taken seriously. The ML is great at playing a sex-bomb guy.
Joking abt buying a person merely for s*x would be way funnier if Thailand hadnt been reputed as a s*x destination.
The sense of fashion is also weird, the skinny guy looks like a male pimp from the suburbs of Paris in the 70's.
Whoever gives this a 10 is not thinking with his/her mind lol.

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oww, uhhh... alright

this was bad, terrible, unenjoyable, etc.

The chemistry is there but again, for me, if they can't act or at least they don't have a good plot, the chemistry won't even matter.

A lot of nc, not a good story, the second couple is terrible and one of the main reasons why I don't like this series. their acting is so cringy, their story is bad, no chemistry at all😭 please give those girls acting classes.

now, the main couple, there were moments where I liked the acting but the story It's just mid 😭 definitely the main thing here is the fanservice. I don't have a problem with SOME FANSERVICE, but when the production makes that the main points, it's definitely going to ruin the whole series, because they don't focus on a good story, not even if their actors are keeping the same poses for the next scenes, the lighting doesn't matter, editing it's going to be mid, they only focus on the nc scenes and that makes the series bad.

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Ok series with a few flaws

Mame always writes the most cliché and toxic stories, this is no different. I went into it thinking I would not like it because I often just roll my eyes at the stories Mame creates. That said, I enjoyed the series for the most part.

The guys are cute, and I thought they did a good job acting. I think Fort and Peat saved this series. Their chemistry is great, they act like a real couple. Oh and props to the actress who played Meena as well. That girl, despite being so young, does an excellent job. I think she has a bright future in acting.

There were a couple things that let this series down in my opinion:

* The girls story seemed like mostly filler, and didn't add much value to the series. Their parts either needed to have more depth to expand and explore their relationship, or less depth so they are truly supporting characters. The dynamic here is strange, it almost feels like harassment at times.

* I question the Dad's storyline and how that played out. Without spoiling too much, I can't see how Dad was allowed to get to this point without someone calling the police or involving the authorities in some way. Beyond that, the resolution to his storyline was odd. Like they just threaten to take away the money, and he never bothers anyone again? Why not do that 10 years ago?

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Wasted potential

This feels like a whole lot of wasted potential.
The first 3 episodes were pretty solid. The idea of the writer going away to complete a novel was a good idea. He has good reasons to fear love and slowly falls in love with the island boy....
So why did they end up in the city? Once Mut goes to the city all his personality traits magically disappear and hes nothing more than a live in babysitter.
The actor that plays Rak is basically playing the same character as he did previously in his other BL. Sky/Rak are both messed up and their lover spends all their time trying to fix them.
We also never get a reason why Mut is in love with Rak. Rak spends most of the 2 weeks being awful to him and then he leaves his home with nothing but the clothes on his back to be this mans live in sex doll. It makes no sense why he is so devoted to Rak.
I actually really liked the idea behind Raks trauma and would have liked to see it being explored in a different show. His mother marrying a man she basically paid and suffered mentally. His sister being abandoned. His father being nothing more than a loser who uses people and is incredibly selfish. I even liked the moment when Rak looked at his dad and realized how pathetic he was.
I enjoyed the moments when he was tearing apart his cousin as well. It showed a lot about his behavior and the type of people he was around constantly. Like if this bitch was my cousin no wonder you dont let people close to you. It showed why he is the way he is instead of him just explaining it with sad music playing in the background.
Those were good ideas but it also seemed like they were trying to tell 2 stories at the same time.
The light hearted island love story and the darker story involving his family. Muts family is completely cut out of the story by this point.
I honestly think that if they comitted to one story we'd have a really good show. Either go with light hearted island love story and keep them on the island for majority of the story or tell the slightly darker story about a rich messed up family.
Also the GL side plot.... i hated it. I enjoyed Vie as Raks friend but shes a huge red flag. She treated the assistant like a slave and that girl was annoying with her overacting. When she wasnt screeching i liked her. She was kind and sweet and all she wanted to do was her job which Vie made almost impossible with her ridiculous requests. I wouldnt have dated her. She enjoyed causing that girl pain, confusing her, messing with her feelings and not being serious. I would never have believed her if she said she seriously liked me.

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I Wanted to SEE More Love, Less Trauma

So I love complicated stories don't get me wrong. I want a well-versed story, with relatable-ish characters. I really enjoy Peat and Fort overall, I think their chemistry is amazing. I also think their previous series is far superior to this, adding more "spice" doesn't change that fact. Though both series include trauma with Peat's character, whereas this show it felt forced and rushed, "Love in the air" had half the time and managed to do the story more justice than this ones. The plot also ended and it was only for the favor of the special episode. Without that special episode I was sat there on the couch like...that can't be it? It made zero sense. This was watchable but I want to see so much more with these actors, and not just trauma dump.

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Comedy gold? mild spoilers

I made an account for this review lmao
1). 5 min in I saw that it was a MAME production and audibly screamed NOOOOOO, but it was too late
2). I mean the nc scenes are very hot. Not perfect, but very nicely done, meatbeatable
3). It is very funny, but not the way you would think. I'm watching alone in my flat and keep going HAHAHAHAHA because some scenes are so so so stupid. It's giving "I've been sold to One Direction", but instead of One Direction it's a twink with a horrible personality. (Peat is great though, I love his mannerisms and he's so pretty)
The biggest problem that I have is that the characters are not only speaking, behaving, breathing in cliché, but the fact that those clichés contradict each other too much. I don't even know how to explain that, just check it out for yourself.

I've consumed my fair share of bad Thai bl to understand myself. I really don't have a problem with predictable behaviour or phrases, I watch that sh to extract a particular emotional response from myself, not to expand my intellectual capabilities. Like LITA was objectively not good, but I liked it, cause it made me feel fuzzy. But here, oof, some scenes pretty bad. Usually (since I'm not good with cringe) I mute or speed up uncomfortable moments and I had to watch most of this drama on x2 iykwim. Every once in a while I just had to say out loud "Omg I'm cringing, I'm cringing so hard". Especially every time someone would mention "buying" of a human.
I think you should still watch it tbh, it's nicely filmed, I enjoy the actors and actresses, also I had no problem with the whining others mentioned. But most of it was just sooooooo poorly written. Made me laugh a lot though, like laughing at the plot, not because of it.
Also, I kept thinking... Some things don't need explanation?? Like, why do we have to know that P'Rak HAS to sleep with someone to write? That's a super dumb reason. Why can't it just be "He saw his and wanted to have sex with him"?

Upd after finishing: The writing still sucks, but some plot holes were sewn back together with thick thread. The scenes are still hot, but there are less of them towards the end. The characters are like one and a half dimensional, but Meena is very likeable and the little actress is going places.

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TongrakMahasumut...

First i'd like to say the actresses all did a great job especially little Meena but my patience wore thin with the GL part of this story; The assistant, Mook came off as whiny and annoying and Vie annoyed me to with not telling her how she felt instead of bossing her around in disguise for wanting her around. I kept wanting to go back to the boys and in the end anyways nothing really happened with the girls? Idk I guess the Special that I have yet to see will show something but for how long the finale was, something should've happened.

Anyways onto my babies...

Tongrak poor baby, I wanted to hug him and hold him and tell him everything would be alright up till the finale; where I wanted to knock his head a little. Peat did such a great job with the sassiness of the character, which is it to be expected he is our Sky after all. Also really felt the pain and panic within Tongrak as well. He allowed me to relate with the character with his feelings of dread, of not wanting to be hurt, of just wanting to be loved and I know people aren't a fan of Peat's crying but it really tugged at my heart strings. The drama with his Disney villain dad ended a little too quickly in my opinion, I wanted to dig in more to what happened with the uncle and also the drama with the annoying jealous cousin I could've done without; Though I did enjoy that scene in the dressing room.

Mahasumut... as their names together suggests, I in fact did and do love him and not just because Fort played him, though I can't think of anyone more perfect for the role. His persistent, goofy and loving nature, I loved it all. I do wish we dug more into his trauma like a flashback or something like we did for Tongrak but even still i related heavy with him and his need to prove himself that he could make something of himself, especially at such a young age. As Fort does, he tore at my heart with his tears once again so my heart was feeling heavy for Mut at parts and I loved it. Also his relationship with Meena made me wish we'd seen more scenes with her and Tongrak doing family stuff.

TongrakMahasumut...the chemistry...had me squealing like a little school girl. ( I became Meena whenever they were together xD) As to be expected with FortPeat though, they never disappoint me with their chemistry on and off camera. In the intimacy aspect, they really turned up their game; had me blushing so bad from their scenes that I felt like I was totally interrupting something or shouldn't have been watching.

Rewatchability? Overall, despite the lackluster side GL story and annoying subplot with the cousin; I'd rewatch it, mainly for FortPeat.

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Slow burn with a side of stress

Love Sea is a pretty average series for me, to be honest. What really got on my nerves was Rak’s character, haha! He’s just so cold and serious all the time. It felt like he was carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders, and despite being a successful, wealthy writer, he never seemed genuinely happy.

Watching the series actually felt kind of stressful. It gives me headaches. I get that his behavior stems from childhood trauma and being brainwashed by his father, but come on he’s a grown man now. At some point, you gotta stand up for yourself.

The romance was a major slow burn, like really slow. Even with Mut putting in so much effort to connect with him, Rak barely responded or he responded negatively. It got frustrating after a while. A lot of intimates scenes that makes zero sense. It is understandable if the story is about FWB but hey they tagged it as romance.

The secretary she is very annoying, I can't tolerate her. The GL story is not exciting at all, no chemistry between them. Girls' acting was terrible. I feel like the director or writer just gave them a screen time to make the series lengthy.

That said, I’ve got to give props to the visuals, the beach setting was absolutely stunning. At least it was nice to look at, even if the story felt heavy.

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