A Promising Start to Rearrange
Rearrange has a band that can actually sing, and the best part is there is no over-the-top comedy or cringe moments. It is a high school drama but written with such maturity. I love how they show the younger Win and Nut, then 27 years later we see the older Win who regrets never confessing his love to Nut earlier. It is another time travel story and I am enjoying every minute of it.It makes you think, what would you do if you had the chance to go back 27 years to age 17? The cast, acting, and plot are all excellent so far. I especially appreciate the attention to detail in the “back in time” scenes, from the old cars to the heritage houses. I am really looking forward to the next 9 episodes.
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interesting to see cause and effect
Overall: good production value and the butterfly effect is really well done. Airing on GagaOOLala uncut (everywhere except Thailand) https://www.gagaoolala.com/en/videos/5653/rearrange-2025-e01 ; FRT Entertainment uncut for channel members (everywhere except Thailand) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf0Ij-W39_Y ; FRT Entertainment cut (everywhere except Thailand) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzVKK8acXVw and TrueVisions Now for Thailand.Content Warnings: several major ones in ep 1, keeping this spoiler free for now
What I Liked
- how a character was forthright the second time
- how they showed a character beaten down by life without a voice over (showed his expressions, what his apartment looked like, context clues)
- showed the butterfly effect
- side couple dynamic
- production value
Room For Improvement
- was a bit confused in the beginning with the timeline
- a main character is kind of stupid but I'm trying to empathize that he's likely really struggling and wants another character to be happy
Note: I'm not sure how long they all knew each other, but it seemed under a year so it doesn't seem like a character knew something about another character's mom (it's generally not something people talk about), so I don't think buying her something was malicious
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Turns out this is quite good actually...at least so far
I love myself a time-travel story, and that was the ONLY reason that I started this. NGL that I was half expecting the off-repeated tropes and cringe-fest from this, looking at the (same-old) poster, but was pleasantly surprised. So far the storytelling and performances are quite good...with a story about a school band where the members can actually sing, a lot less of OTT cringe, and also a tolerably good story to boot. I would say yes, watch.BL-needle Score: 7.5 Reasonably high BL-ness
The story of a mid-40s under-performing, desperate guy Win, getting a second chance at life and possible love with his school crush Nut, is nothing new and I was half expecting to drop this after the first episode. But the show convinced me otherwise. While it is not a stunner or incisive, I would say it still works better than some of the formulaic Thai shows that have had in the recent times. The substantial gap for the time-travel didn't feel realistic given how hung up Win and Lin still are about Nut's death (after 27 Years!!). A 10-15 years at most, would have been more believable.
Win and Nut's characters are mostly believable, and so are their friends. I must mention that Win's dad is such a sweetheart. I love the fact that for once a BL-father is shown to be fun and caring. It also gives us a the stark contrast with Nut's father who is your usual shitty-controlling-abusive douchebag of a father that we have had for many a past dramas. The difference so clearly shows up in how Win and Nut are as teenagers, which I think, could turn out to be an important message, going forward.
Also, so glad that Nut's actor can actually play the guitar and sing, which is so very apparent on screen. That itself brings more authenticity to their story.
To sum it up, I am on with it after the first two episodes and suggest that you can too.
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