IT'S THE BEST DRAMA YOU'LL EVER WATCH ISTG!!!!!
trust me y'all it's the best drama everrrr!if u came and are planning whether to watch or not then go for it watch it!
the cast, storyline, plot twists everything is firee!
even the song ost!!
it's not GL or a BL!
GMMTV did a greatest job in producing this series my fav one soo farr!, after 23.5!
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Sibling Mind Games
The show has interesting twist and turns and secrets. The core sisters are of course all flawed and has their own secrets. It would have been good if certain characters had more savvy though on paper it makes sense for the individual characters, but the execution is not as exciting to watch. All four sisters just so happening to be wearing white pajama dresses is striking, uneasy imagery of cults, and the loss of innocence when the clothes are drenched in blood. While I get the artistic vision, it's weird for their characters who other wise dress differently to suddenly have matching sleepwear.Chom wanted to become a news anchor and she was doing decently well in school, but all her alcohol consumption must have depleted all her brain cells because she repeatedly makes the worst decisions and it also exacerbates her poor impulse control. She's an easy target for Chat who effectively ruins Chom's reputation and gets Chom bullied by texting the whole school with an fake account pretending to be Chom all to supplant Chom as the popular girl and taking Chom's school and job opportunities. It's chillingly evil, made even more so with their mom praising Chat once it's revealed revealed to the mom. Chom really lucked out with Thana, who while is creepily obsessed with her, she does find as a helpful ally, and while he does keep the hammer as blackmail to keep her around, is generally less harmful to her than her family to her or her to herself. Nathat happened to date Chat before dating Chom. It's pretty rude of him and on brand that he never told Chom. He gets blackmailed to cruelly break Chom's heart by getting engaged to Chat and without explaining goes to sleep with Chom thereby threatening his deal to protect her. I'm glad Chom chooses to leave him at the end. I hope she chooses to leave alcohol as well as Pi given she learns from Bua that Pi is the co-murderer of Chat and lies and lies.
It's so nonsensical that the sisters and Chom in particular continue to have a relationship at all with Chat after this immense betrayal, which continues to give Chat opportunities to make their lives more hell than their parents are already making it. Chat is absolutely her mother's daughter, the bald faced favorite raised to be secretive, selfish, and to sabotage her sisters. Chom sneaking her underaged, sister who has already shown very willing to harm her into the club was so dumb. Chat is shown having some humanity in that she actually does care and wants the love of her siblings of sisters, but all she knows how to do is hurt them as trained by her parents to. She just can't stop, won't stop. She steals Pi's designs and leaks them to other jewelry designers to ruin Pi's hard work to premier her collection, so Chat can become the ambassador to those brands. Chat is obviously very intelligent, but instead of just doing her own thing, she just wants to systematically destroy each of her sister's career's, hopes, and dreams. Her life's purpose is to make her sister's lives hell while also craving their love.
It's another good twist that Pi is also an affair child like Chat, but ironically the most beloved by her dad while physically abused by her mom from hampering her freedom because she's ill and the housekeeper pressures the mom to take care of Pi who was a sickly child, often getting seizures. There's no explanation why she no longer gets them as an adult. She holds key trauma hidden memories that reveal the truth about the family business and where the most normal and moral person of the family disappeared to, her aunt who is the skeleton in the hidden well. I'm not sure it was explained who was the person digging up the dirt of the well area that led to the police finding the skeleton and well. She gives very damsel in distress vibes, but she comes the girl who cries wolf instead by deciding to fake her brake lines getting hit, fake threatening note, and hiring people to fake hit her with a car in an attempt to throw suspicion off of herself. In the end, she did effectively get away with murder with Parn being the person who stabbed Chat who already became a skeleton by the time her remains were found in the river area, so there's no evidence of strangulation. Her deeds only known by Bua who also tells Chom.
Bua gets the most CW romantic entanglement, with the guy Arch ending up to be her sister's brother. All she wants to do is to run her family's Orchid business well. She's ambitious and hardworking, but she doesn't have much cunning, always perpetually a few steps behind her scheming uncle. She says that she wants to be a politician if she can't run her family business, but she doesn't really show that she has the aptitude to outsmart her opponents at any point of the show. She does have connections at the hospital where she got the pregnancy results of Chat and the paternity results for Pi. There wasn't really an explanation why she got paternity result for Pi, but that's how she figures out Pi probably murdered Chat. Bua for some reason decides to hand rip and toss away the pieces in the family mansion's trashcan, which is the worst way to despose of sensitive material. It got taken by Arch, but it could have been seen by the housekeeper, regardless of whether the housekeeper had murderous intent or not. She discovers the family business is actually drugs with the help of Arch who wanted to discover the truth of the death of his father.
Arch's background is very nonsensical. He seems close with his dad, but at the same time he ran around with gangs. That was pretty racist that his gang buddy that betrays him is a black guy. He also said he did stuff for his dad. What was it, was it also gang stuff? The writing to make him a bad boy that is also connected to the family is so lazy. Even though Bua didn't know he's Chat and Pi's brother, he knew that she's Chat's sister and he didn't have any second thoughts about sleeping with her. Good thing he was stalking Bua and not Pi who also turned out to be his sister. He's not open minded to have a relationship with Bua no matter how strong their attraction is after finding out her dad killed his dad though he stuck around after saying good bye to her to save her from Parn. It's also ridiculous that he just pushes Parn away rather than disarming and restrain her, which he most definitely can do with his fight skills and being physically stronger though she has supernaturally murderous strength.
Cousin Parn has very legitimate beef with the sisters. Chat set the fire and the other three left her there to die. Chat at least had some sense to go back to save her in time though the fire leaves Parn scared and needing a long recovery process to be be able to walk again, but effectively her actor dreams are ruined. It can be implied that Parn has the immense arm and hand strength to strangle her cohort house maid who self volunteered to help her after witnessing her stabbing Chat, to death, killing Thana, and also killing her own father to frame Bua by stabbing him into a tree with his own garden shears. Bua and Chom chasing after her with no weapons while Parn was still wielding a knife was really stupid. Her offing herself seems pretty anticlimactic and too convenient after all her revenge plotting. She has such strong will, it seems more like she would survive out of spite and continue to plot her revenge.
Pi is the ultimate winner successfully getting away with murder and even getting her guy Khem back. Khem's partner Chain who had a thing for Parn has a sense that Pi is more guilty than she seems but has no proof, like Detective Doakes in Dexter. She along with the remaining sisters have a split of the remaining inheritance that isn't effected by the reveal of the drug family business. The sisters, still seemingly keeping her secret, the way that was instilled into them by their parents. Overall flawed, but diverting enough family drama thriller that tries to do something different.
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so this is where the boys' balls went ;P
After a run of disappointment (Enigma Black Stage), marshmallow writing (Whale Store), over-produced music (all of these), fan service and soft-focus women's romantic fantasy BLs (Ex-Morning, Memoir of Rati and My Magic Prophecy), I was really wondering if GMMTV had sold out their best writing and youth-series energy to chase inter fans and slots on western platforms, so much I was considering giving up on them altogether.And then along comes Hide & Sis - truly women-centric, intense and ballsy. The first six episodes are excellent story craft, full of complexity and well-grounded, well-integrated surprises. And the power in the women's performances.
The twists never stop. Just when you think there can't be more, they find another. And another. I personally would have preferred it to have slowed down in the second half to allow more room for the complexity of the emotions to breathe and expand and be fully felt before it went on to the next surprise. It was in the story and the cast were very capable, it just needed more time between the reveals (or fewer of them), increasingly so as it neared the end. It is impressive that they kept the plot so coherent and the twists well-grounded in everything which came before but still largely unexpected.
I have some other quibbles, like the way so much exposition was given to Arch. Luke played the role very well, but long explanatory monologues are never the best story telling (which they proved they could do over and over again) and it took up space from Bua. I would have preferred for Jan's skill and talent to be allowed to shine in the middle episodes as much as Aye's did. At least she got strong early episodes.
There are others I want to praise as well, like Piploy's shape-shifting ability, but can't for spoilers. All of these young adults have grown so much as actors over the years and they delivered. If you want details, watch for yourself.
I'm still trying to figure out how to convey this, but they somehow managed to craft an understated lakorn in delivery whilst also giving it plenty of intensity, psychological complexity and suspense. There is A LOT going on, everything matters - though not in the ways you think it might - and it needs attention. It's not one to race through but it's also probably best to not leave too much time between so the energy carries through.
GMMTV has under-utilised their actresses for, well, their entire existence. May this be the start of something different.
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