Leap Day

eMOtiOnAl DAmAgE

the story, pacing, and actors had me eagerly waiting for every Tuesday to come. While it may have been oversaturated with drama and injuries/violence, each incident was well carried out by the actors and I remained engaged throughout the series. extra props to Gun as Ozone 🤍
the finale had me sobbing like a baby and it was a twist that I wasn’t expecting at all. the hints in the second to last episode went well over my head, so I was properly gutted by the ending☹️
many GMMTV shows are a bit predictable, so I enjoyed being completely caught off guard. I highly recommend this series, but do proceed with caution if you don’t like shows with traumatic scenes and sadness.

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Leaps without thinking

It would have been great if there was equal care in the writing of the story as there were in the crafting of the various death scenes that range from heart breaking to cool looking. It feels like the show was more of vehicle to serve showing off the effects than the effects serving the story. That works for an attractive trailer, but not a satisfying story. A majority of the plot progression relied on the characters making the most frustratingly unintelligent decisions or things that just make no sense at all.

Dream's actress whose overacting when it comes to portraying peppiness was easier to be overlooked in her previous role in the romcom My Love Mix Up, but is particularly off putting in this story that needs a more grounded performance. Dew who plays Night has potential, but he has yet to find that breakthrough in the limits of his emotional range. The romance between Night and Dream has no inherent chemistry, though it does make internal story sense that the extremely isolated and lonely Night would fall for someone who cares about him and constantly around him. Aside from that, there isn't any kind of bond that develop between them aside from proximity that makes them worth rooting for.

Night knows Dream doesn't care about boundaries for good or ill, always forcing her way into his life and has already has penchant stumbling into traffic on a regular day, but instead of telling her to just give him space for one day or that he's leaving town for that time or something, he does it in the worse way possible, especially when she's already shown up at his house. He himself shouts for her to leave and then realizes she's exposed to being run over by cars and decides to driver her home himself instead of going back to his house where it's closer to ride out the final destination curse that is also affecting Day and Ozone. This is the only accident where it's not her fault, but Ozone running into the path of the car. All the other times is either her dropping glass on the kitchen floor then slipping from rushing, her slipping from rushing down the emergency stairs with no particular reason to run, and then her rushing into traffic towards Ozone. She is a danger to herself.

Ozone at least has an excuse for running into traffic as he's already sensitive from his autism, but also even more so with the disorientation of fear and the universe signals. He knows from his vision dreams later to not rush forward, just calling out to Night from a safe distance of the on coming traffic. His familial bond and relationship with Day is the heart of the story. Ozone's actor Gun is a fantastic actor and while the GMMTV shows are extremely hit or miss, especially ones that are contractually ship pairing based, his performances are always the best. Pond who plays Day is serviceable. Day is the one who utilizes the most sense comparatively in the entire show. He remains kind and amiable despite living through all the familial losses that Day has. It was really lovely how he models patiently interacting and communicating with Ozone instead of being angry or forceful to get Ozone to do what he wants.

I like the scene where his co-worker shop clerk calls his cousin a dimwit, so he counters by quizzing the clerk which planet the sticker from the blind box that Ozone definitely knows is, which the clerk can't answer. He's a film major who has an open mind and kind heart, but not necessarily the skills or scientific mind needed to break the curse on his own. Night is the one studying medical science to prevent deaths, but he's very closed minded and defeatist. Even when change literally hits him like a car crash in the form of Day and Ozone that results in zero deaths for the first time in his life, he refuses to work together with Day for way too long. When he finally does, he's able to decipher Ozone's drawings that contain messages from the universe that's trying to be helpful. Also as an aspiring doctor, Night immediately agrees that passing the curse on to two innocent women who will immediately die, followed by all the loved ones of the surviving children every 4 years sounds great even though he has 4 years to figure out if there is an alternative or not. He only chickens out when he's facing experimenting on an actual woman without her consent.

Props to Dream for immediately breaking up with Night and for Professor/Dr. Wiwat's wife and daughter for immediately leaving after learning about his essentially knowing serial killing via curse on their unwitting behalf. Dr. Kit goes about trying to communicate with Day and Ozone in the most traumatizing, criminal way possible made all the worse with the reveal that he is a doctor who should know better than to treat a neurotypical person, let alone an autistic person like that. He didn't even try the regular way of just straight up talking like regular person. He knows that a Leap Day curse sufferer would want to know some more information already. Just approach Day when he's not around Night or if it really must be Ozone, talk to him nicely whenever he's waiting for Day to get out of class and Dream isn't there either.

It's interesting that there were Americans that were researching the Leap Day curse, implying that it's a worldwide phenomena. There wasn't much information on how far that research went before they let Wiwat know that passing on the curse that will cause a whole other two groups of people to die works. Did they try going to shamans? Did they try passing the curse to pregnant lab rats? Did Night's mom die at midnight and the Leap Day curse is only completed by force when Wiwat induced Day's mom's labour at noon and that's why people only noticed his suspicious misconduct for Day's birth? Also despite the first episode suggesting the curse works in a final destination kind of way, most of the time it's just an act of god style randomness. The heart attack and even the kdrama car of doom is fine. But the razor blade materializing in Ozone's noodles that Day personally made himself is nonsensical, especially when there was the broken fan blades from earlier that would have at least made some kind of sense. And as I mentioned before Dream just hurts herself by her near deadly clumsiness.

There is an uncomfortable trope of neuero atypical people having magical abilities that Ozone falls into, but the show supposes that him being a direct target and his mind is just different enough to be able to hear a force that opposes the destructive energy of the curse. The force seems to seek to protect Ozone in particular, pretty much telling Day that he needs to die for Ozone to be okay. It was set up by a social worker at the beginning that Day's aunt and uncle didn't leave much money behind for Ozone and that Day would need to get a job to provide for them both. Though never said by the show, Day probably thought sacrificing himself would be better because Night who had pretty much become family at that point after living together for 4 years at Night's house would be able to take care of Ozone. Dream's family is also in a dire economical circumstance as explained by a phone call that Night overhears, explaining why they never travelled to visit her even though she's been hospitalized for very extreme accidents more than once. Day had suspected it's what the universe was asking of him, but rather than discussing with anyone else, he kept it to himself and decided to be the noble idiot trope.

Was it not great that he just made the decision himself? Yes. Is it worse that the show chickens out and cheapens his sacrifice with a coma reveal? Yes. It opens more questions, like is the solution then to arrest the heart, resuscitate, and induce a coma? Did the force lie or did the interpret it wrong, that all four of them could have just left together all along if resuscitating worked all along? It would have been better if the show stuck to it's guns, having the purgatory wearing shirt Day be dead, but his spirit stuck in the weird in between place until the souls of his friends and family join him after living full lives and they move on together. But no good grade for the wishy washy concept that we get instead.

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devastating

I don’t know how I avoided spoilers but having just finished the series I don’t think anything could have prepared me for that ending. While I do enjoy the heartwrenching feeling dramas give, this is the first that has ended on such a tragic note. No miracle or happily ever after here. I was crying the last 20 minutes of the last episode. I can’t even say a particular character can be held accountable because it was an unavoidable end but along the timeline of the show they had over 3 years to enact their plan and they still lost in the end. This has to be one of Pond’s best performances and Gun was just perfect. I don’t think I’ll ever have the heart to rewatch it but I can say for sure it was one of the best I’ve seen this year.

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Enjoyable but not the masterpiece I was expecting - LOVED the actors

I enjoyed this show a lot, specially the brotherly relationship between Ozone and Day, I didn't like Night very much and I know some people will defend him saying he is a complex character and so on, but tbh I junt think that's what the screenwriters want you to believe without giving him enough subtance to justify it, in the other hand, Dream was fine, she was cute but no my fav. The story was VERY promising but it coudn't keep up, there were a lot of plotholes and TOO many unasnwered questions, honetly at some parts I thought i was watching a Thai Final destination.
Overall I did like this show, however I probably would have rated it much lower if the actors hadn't done such a good job, without them this show wouldn't have been sostainable, so props to all of them.
Watch it if you like the actors, they truly delivered, but don't expect an instense level of complexity when it comes to the story.

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A Masterpiece that deserves more attention!

OMG! I was gonna wait until after ep 12 to write the review BUT EPISODE 7 was so freaking intense that I was holding my breath every other second hoping it doesn't end badly for everyone! And I had to come here and write about it! Lol
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! All four of them are doing a fantastic job with this series! I hope it goes on to win more awards because IT'S THAT GOOD!
The plot is so unique, with so many twists and turns that it will confuse your mind...in a good way!
Its been awhile since I watched horror/thriller dramas and this one is IT!
After Gifted s1 and s2, I think this series is gonna be one those rewatch 10/10 for me!
Gun is amazing as always 😍 such perfectionist! And Pond has blown my mind! His acting has improved by leaps and bounds! His relationship with Gun is portrayed so beautifully! Pond's expressions are so so good! The boy is going places after this one!

Please please watch this series! It's amazing!

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I was highly anticipating. And I wasn't disappointed.

I feel in Love with Ozone - Not litteraly ofc. He is cute, caring and it's Gun sooo... How to live without Ozone now... Gun really did an amazing job portraying him. But I'm not suprised, he is a great actor - and one of the biggest gem in GMMTV.

I love the relationship, how they all care about each other. Dream and Ozone, Ozone and Day, Day and Night... It was really heartwarming, even if the topic isn't funny. They could show great relationship - Even if Night tried to kill Day buuuuutt let's say he was a little bit confused :)

I was just confused about the end, about the desert. I didn't like it.

But eiter way, all the character were great - even if not perfect - and show deep emotions and personnality.

I hope GMMTV keep releasing show like this. They are my favorite kind of drama. But I don't know if they are making enough money for them to care...

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why create shows that u cannot develop beyond the initial idea

again, another gmmtv which could have substance but they could not commit to it. they had one line to prompt the entire series: what if 2 ppl born on leap day have their loved ones die. they did not build more upon this idea. why does leap day happen, why these people and how. nothing is answered. my biggest gripe is ozone's character. they went with the same way they have always represented an autistic person. and apparently ozone is the 'help' sent from someone to solve leap day. its like the team didn't have a answer to solve leap day so they created a character who does not fit the usual ways of society and make some stars communicate with him thus we solve leap day. we never know why ozone sees stars or gets messages. is it because he is autistic??? he doesn't even get a clear message from the stars so there was no point. ozone is not even day's actual brother so what does that whole plot do?
if u watch the first few episodes and then skip over to the last few u won't miss anything cause nothing of change happens. we through many years in the series but we can never differentiate . night and dream know each other since highschool but there are no changes. i assume night and day and the whole group meet each other at 2020 and become close over the years but we only see them become close in the 2nd last episode. even the solution at last doesn't feel proper, like there are no connections, just randomly came up with in the last few seconds. this series honestly felt like such a waste given that the they didn't care the develop it past its initial idea

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Making a series with such a dangerous and very flawed scenario is very dangerous, therefore it must be supported by many accurate facts. However, I imagine that this is a science fiction series, so there may be some flaws. The acting is below average, many long pauses in conversations that do not bring excitement, even disturbing watching and following the series!

Update:
I expected in the last two episodes that the screenwriter had a much better ending, and that the director led to something better with his management. I was mistaken, the actors are still monotonous, rigid, like robots, the behavior in real life is actually ACTING on the big screen, but I see that there is no one to teach them how to act.

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Fairly investing and brilliant acting

All of their acting exceeded my expectations. While there were plotholes the acting and story progression made me watch till the end. It was more character centric than plot centric, which I expected it to be the later.

The plot showed the how very clearly. How they are dying, how they are meeting, how they are separating and how to stop the curse of Leap Day but it would have been even incredible if it showed a why. They only focused on fixing the problem. I was wishing they would keep some theories on extraterrestrial elements and phenomenon as to why 2 people born on the leap days are sharing such cruel faith. This would have given more depth and clarity on the plot making it even interesting to watch.

I was fairly surprised with the acting. Gun is as good as he is, I shouldn't even say anything about him. Dew truly surprised me with his acting. Pond was different from his other roles. Pahn being new did a fantastic job. It is a heavy emotion drama and they did awesome.

The cinematography was flawless. Except the scenes of ep 12 I liked everything they did. The green screen could have done better. I loved the way the cameras showed different sides making us see the whole thing and everyone's emotions.

The plot could have gone deeper and explored more on the theories of physics, psychology, illusions, paradox and human mind. It felt too character centric but it was well made and very intriguing. It truly showcased how life, death and loved ones are all tangled in this world. Did tear up at some point towards the end

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I LOVE THIS SERIES

I never expected Leap Day to hit me this hard, but it truly did. The story was solid, the production flawless, the OST beautifully haunting, the visual effects polished, and the acting… honestly, beyond words.
The moments that broke me the most were in episodes 11 and 12, when Day (Pond Naravit) sacrificed himself to save his brother Ozone. I cried so much during those scenes.. like I couldn’t even breathe properly. It wasn’t just sad, it was devastating in the most beautiful way. Pond Naravit’s performance as Day was absolutely unforgettable. He didn’t just play the role, he became Day. Every tear, every struggle, every sacrifice felt real, and that’s why it hurt so deeply.
and also the entire cast was incredible. From the leads to the supporting characters, everyone delivered genuine and powerful performances that made the whole story come alive. The chemistry between them felt natural, the emotions raw, and the effort they poured into each scene was undeniable. Together, they made this series shine in a way few shows ever do.
For me, Leap Day isn’t just a series, it’s an emotional experience. It made me laugh, it made me cry endlessly, and it reminded me how powerful storytelling can be when every detail is done right.

Truly, one of the best series I’ve ever watched.

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