MASTERPIECE
💯 GAY & A MASTERPIECEthat’s all you need to know. i put this in the same category and level as the untamed, the best of bests. there’s like no need to kiss, their eye contact is MORE THAN ENOUGH. it— it’s like it alone provides THOUSANDS of emotions. their hands hold more chemistry than the entire periodic table! just give this a try and you’ll know WHAT IT IS OH LORD!!
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Strong Storytelling, Impressive Fight Scenes, and a Cast That Truly Shines
A beautiful series.Sky and Nani did an excellent job as the protagonists, but in reality the whole cast was wonderful!
I recommend everyone watch it because it's well made and the story is written in a linear and complete way.
The fight scenes were shot in a very realistic way, so they don't feel fake and are beautiful to watch.
The bromance between Sky and Nani is wonderful and the soundtracks used are perfect.
I've already watched it twice!
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recommendable! so worth it.
The acting of Sky and Nani made this series of friendship, love and family one of the best series. Definitely the best series of 2024 for me.There were a lot of scenes that made me cry a lot. Even the supporting casts made a great impact on me due to its own heartfelt story.
The series will teach us how to value friends and family. The plot was really great.
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Acting
Sky.. Nani and Mark stole the show in this first class series. The acting was superb.. The chemistry between the two MLs was electricand wasted on a bromance but bromance it was. The number of times Shin tried ending his friendship with Saint was a world record.. He just couldn't cut the ties because deep down he cared. Mark did a great job as an austitic young man. I wanted to wrap my arms around
him and give him a munch. All the cast was great and played their parts well. I thoroughly enjoyed the series so thanks to the scripwriters.. Director and all the staff behind the scenes. ❤️
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Get ready to walk through your memory lane in your high school journey...
The Bromance and the friendship living in this drama are so real. The last few episodes did put me through an emotional roller coaster.
All the Emotions that the roles had to play in the drama were nailed almost all the time.
It's the last day of 2024 and I just finished watching this drama. It was a great way to end the year for me my memories at school were awakened by this drama. Cheers to Class 2 in the drama and cheers to Class D in my real life.
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Bromance ❤️
If friends are like this i can give my life to my friends.. shin and saint I can't stop watching them.. I'm watching their scenes in repeat ❤️It's really a good friendship series.. I just finished this and now I'm gonna watch this again 🥺 saint and shin's cuteness is giving me diabetes ..
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AMAZING
100000000000000000/10I don't even know what to say, it's so intense, exciting and BEAUTIFUL 😭❤️
Let's start with the fights between the two rival groups, every 5 minutes they're "killing" each other and I'm smiling so much and I think it's amazing, the fights are wonderful 🤣.
Now, the most important thing for me, the friendship of the protagonists (and that kind of friendship where one would die for the other) is so beautiful, when they reconcile every 5 minutes they're declaring their love for each other and all the cutest things in the world, until today I hadn't watched a drama with a friendship like that, for me that's what a true bromance is. I only have praise for this work of art, simply incredible.
NOTE: I'm writing this with tears in my eyes 🥹❤️🩹
And this will also be the first Thai drama I watch completely; it's special and comforting to me. I had started other Thai dramas before, but I had never managed to finish one.
BR:
100000000000000000/10
Nem sei o que dizer, é tão intenso, emocionante e LINDO 😭❤️
Vamos começar pelas brigas entre os dois grupos rivais: a cada 5 minutos eles estão se "matando" e eu fico sorrindo o tempo todo, acho incrível, as brigas são maravilhosas 🤣.
Agora, o mais importante para mim: a amizade dos protagonistas (aquele tipo de amizade em que um daria a vida pelo outro) é tão linda. Quando eles se reconciliam, a cada 5 minutos declaram seu amor um pelo outro e fazem todas as coisas mais fofas do mundo. Até hoje eu não tinha assistido a um drama com uma amizade assim. Para mim, isso é o que define uma verdadeira amizade masculina. Só tenho elogios para essa obra de arte, simplesmente incrível.
NOTA: Estou escrevendo isso com lágrimas nos olhos 🥹❤️🩹
E este também será o primeiro drama tailandês que assistirei completamente; é especial e reconfortante para mim. Eu já havia começado outros dramas tailandeses antes, mas nunca consegui terminar nenhum.
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best gmmtv series no joke
DO NOT TAKE THE SKYNANI PILLthis review title isn’t even glaze like it’s true! this series is so perfect in my eyes and what would’ve made it even more perfect if saintshin kissed ! i lowkey pray for the day gmm gets money hungry enough to make an enemies to lovers bl starring skynani 😅
i literally did not expect to like this more than i did. seeing saint yearn for shin when he gave him nothing really awakened something in me. gosh any time they looked at eachother i just NEEDED for them to kiss. VIEWJUNE TOO. god i miss them, maybe im behind on the lore on why they’re not a pairing anymore but a gl couple would’ve been nice too 💔
the way the whole cast pmo when they fought with each other rlly goes to show how great the actors are. especially ken and the twins like it was so hard to sympathize with them at times. ging too omg thank goodness for her limited screen time, i really wanted to pull the braids out her head 😅😅 loved mark, both of them LMFOAOAOOA no but seriously what an amazing cast like the chemistry was overflowing through the screen
seeing beautiful men sad and emotional towards each other should be enough of a reason for you to start the greatest non-bl bl ever!
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MUST WATCH I DON'T CARE WHO YOU ARE
I originally watched this drama because of the high ratings and reviews it had on MDL, but boy I was NOT expecting it to be the literal MASTERPIECE that it is.Like I've only felt this level of heart-wrenching, soul-shattering obsession once before and that was with MDZS. I've literally put off important things in my life to spend time obsessing over this drama.
The story of High School Frenemy is about Saint and Shin, two boys who used to be best friends but then ended up breaking off their friendship for reasons that watchers find out as the drama unfolds.
...Well, I call them best friends, but I use that term a bit loosely. The truth of the matter is that what Saint and Shin have goes far beyond friendship. Hell, I don't think anyone would be able to justify it as just friendship no matter how they try. The dynamic between the two of them gets showcased every single episode and it's so beyond-friendship-coded I don't even know where to begin.
The phrases that constantly cross the friendship line, Shin's supposed "hate" that we never truly believe is hate, and most of all the stares oh my god the STARES. 10 seconds of Saint and Shin just looking into each other's eyes with all of the love and conflict and devotion in the world. Actors Sky (Saint) and Nani (Shin) really outdid themselves. The chemistry between these two was absolutely phenomenal, a transcendental kind of love that goes beyond labels.
HSF is a wonderful exploration of intimacy between two people who have had conflict, but ultimately cannot live without each other. Yes, mistakes were made, but with Saint and Shin, they would spend any amount of time to mend their bond because life without each other is simply inconceivable.
It was such a pleasure watching the two of them reconcile. I know I'm being repetitive, but what they have is a world-breaking kind of love, and that is one of my favorite things to watch on screen.
While the relationship between Saint and Shin is undoubtedly a central theme of the drama, a lot more is also addressed, including school/gang violence, the expectations of overbearing parents, wonderful representation of characters on the spectrum (through Chadjen), found family (Class 2), etc.
Promise by SkyNani is also a wonderful song. It's been on repeat ever since I watched this drama.
I can't wait for WU to come out soon! So hyped for Niran and Pete to serve that red string of fate kind of connection!!!
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not romance but bromance
I watched this and I loved it and I watch bl and I hide it from my parents and this was one that I could watch around my mom because it was bromance but there was some times that I was scared because it was heavy bromance but other than that it was a really good show and I would rewatch itWas this review helpful to you?
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Impression upto episode 10
7/10 stats, only watched for the leads chemistry.Positives:
1. Acting was generally good, esp the leads
2.Plot thus far has built a lot of angst and tension between the characters but also gave us some heartwarming moments.
3. Loved the intense friendship between the leads and the loyal friendship between the leads and other minor characters.
Negatives:
1. Repetitive plot. Every episode starts like this: homeroom scene, fight ensues, saint apologizing to shin (aka being a doormat), fight ensues, saint getting beaten/insulted, saint apologizing/beaten/sacrificing, teachers (s)hitting on each other or on their students. Scenes are repetitive even within the same episode, I ended up skipping after a while.
2. Leads hog 90% of the screen time, 5% by the TB thug trifecta and all minor characters fill the other 5%. A lot of the minor characters are underdeveloped, including the teachers, who are supposed to be mains. Though I loved the leads, this was problematic because Saint was mostly apologizing or getting beaten by Shin which got ridiculously repetitive. Saint, Shin needs his space and time to heal, piss off elsewhere please.
3. The story is riddled with plot holes. The personalities of the leads in the flashback and in the present is so different. Saint was a thug, but is now a doormat. Shin was a peaceful dude, but is now happy to hit others at the slightest provocation. I guess their past made them evolve this way but these personality changes are nevertheless very drastic. Who starts a gang at 16 and decide to hit their bf (best friend who they claim to love) to smithereens because they wanted to leave for a better future? Not a friend who loves him surely, but that was our doormat Saint you say? I'll let it slide since they were teenagers after all. Saint going completely off the radar of Shin, who was once his bf to now where he constantly pressurizes Shin to be his friend again doesn't make sense in hindsight. Did seeing Shin after 3 years open up all the floodgate of emotions? If he truly loved his friend he would not have ran away from him, but then again why not do it again now? How does Shin end up in the same school as Saint anyway? Was that ever explained? AFAIK Saint took a 2 year break to run away from his friendship and joins TB, while Shin was recuperating from his injuries during this time and joined UP to continue his education and made some friends. But how did they end up in the same year though? Isnt Saint supposed to start schooling where he dropped off? Especially since the merge happened on the first day of school, how did Saint even make friends with those TB girls? I'm hoping this gap is addressed in the later episodes. I'm also not sold on why Shin who claims to hate Saint agreed to go to the gas station to convince Saint to come back to school. Isn't he supposed to hate seeing his face at school everyday? Isnt that what he wanted? Are there no other schools in this area where Saint can go to continue his education? Shin was so reluctant to make up with his bf for 8 episodes, then bam, they hang out with eachother's family and have ice cream. I would have loved to see a gradual melting of Shin's icy heart instead of a forced event.
4. Plot holes aside, the screenplay stuck to its repetitive script for most of the episodes until every now and then some other characters were introduced for maximum drama like Saint's dad, Shin's mom, principal, mafia gang etc. These characters and their storyline don't wrap up well before the next minor character is introduced and we are left hanging with with that thread almost forgetting they existed until they were brought back. Point being, the screenplay felt disjointed at times and was quite predictable, losing its grip on me. Even the big reveal on how Saint and Shin divorced, I mean unfriended, was not super surprising since they showed a lot of their fall out in snippets so I didn't feel emotionally tense when it was finally revealed.
5. Teachers were utterly useless. Yes, it includes the homeroom ones too. They were all ignoring the actual problem with class 2 and instead focused on issues pertaining the main leads. The school looks super empty, not many characters had screentime, nor other subjects were explored. So far, the Thai teacher tried to teach a lesson, English teacher never spoke a single word in English nor taught a class, the other subject teachers were almost non existent, but there was a fine PE teacher to save the school from complete embarrassment seen hanging around basketball courts.
6. Queer Bait. For the record I went into the show with skepticism after reading the reviews that said this was closeted BL than a bromance. I did think people were probably too quick to judge intense friendship and went delulu mode thinking there was anything more to it. But they're right, there was something more about this Bromance, more so than those BL censored to Bromance adaptations from China. There wasn't explicit physical intimacy like holding hands or kisses, but a more subtle tones of two closeted best friends in love with each other but are too afraid to confess. Those love confessions every episode, those lingering glances, that need to be around each other all the time, goes beyond the friendship line. Heck Saint even made a ridiculous gang policy just to prevent his bf from ever leaving him. I mean if you truly care for his future, you would have let him go so he could play soccer and live his dreams, but nah you were completely overwhelmed by the thought of separating from your bf that you couldn't control your aggression and seriously injured him for life. No heterosexual love interest for either mains so far which is hella sus. Its hard to believe these two can develop romantic relationship outside of eachother. Heck their teenage hormones must be raging rn. I hate being baited like that.
I'm thinking of dropping this drama on epi 10 since the leads kinda got together, but I want to low key see a resolution to the mafia story, which was the most interesting sub plot threads imo.
PS. Mark Pakin was perfect as always and shone in all of his 5% screentime on this show. He was the best actor in this show for me, followed by Nani, then Sky.
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