Enjoyed it!
I enjoyed this drama, the only thing i didn't like is the over acting to make it comedy.The story was good.
I love Keen and Sea, they have such great dynamics and chemistry. And it isn't the most romantic chemistry and the kisses are not great, but i just saw they are only 20 years old, so i understand. And to be honest, in the real world not every couple has extreme romantic or sexual energy. Lots of couples have just more of a best friends chemistry. So i am not mad at it, i just like this pairing a lot.
Surf and Java had good chemistry, also not the greatest, but they too are still young. You can see Surf is a bit older, his acting is more mature and his chemistry and kisses are better.
Visuals were great and the music is good.
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Please stop making this kids kiss!!
This is the 3rd series I've watched with this pair and allthough their series are fun, with each new series the kissing scenes have gotten worse it seems more forced and uncomfortable. one would think tht with time they'd learn to be more comfortable with each other but that doesn't seem to be the case here. I'd rather have the kisses completely removed and just have them hug, hold hands and maybe a simple peck here and there. They have great chemistry with each other truly fantastic, but it falls apart every time they kiss.The series is actually quite fun, and has an interesting premise however the romantic scenes completely ruin what could've been at least for me and 8+ series.The second couple is far better but sadly Van is a selfish jackass and doesn't even deserve to have Farm as a friend.
JJ as always is freaking hilarious as the goofy single friend.
Although I mostly enjoyed it I doubt that I'd ever want to watch it again and doubt even more that I'd recommend it.
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plot was handled poorly ..
The acting in this series was remarkably solid, and both couples shared an undeniable chemistry that kept me watching. However, the writing didn’t quite live up to the performances; the story felt stuck in a repetitive loop, constantly circling back to the same tired plot points. To make matters worse, the future-seeing plot was poorly executed. Instead of adding intrigue, it felt messy and badly handled, ultimately dragging down the pace. It’s a shame because the talented cast deserved a much sharper and more original script to work withWas this review helpful to you?
A Fresh University Story Elevated by Two Beautiful Relationships
Finally something different!Yes, it's true, we're still at university, because it matches the age of the actors, but at least it's not the usual engineering. The story between J and Jinn is magnificent, and the one between Farm and Van is no less so, but J and Jinn were something else! I hope to see them again in Our Sky, and maybe mixed together with My Magic Prophecy, that would be fantastic! If I had to find a flaw, it would be the conclusion, which seemed rushed to me, and the fact about the track and the races. I would have explored those two things in more depth.
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Sometimes love appears where you least expect it. This series explores friendship, love, and family relationships.Considering how young they are, and that this is only Sea and Keen’s second series in leading roles, they did a really good job. In the BL world, it often takes time to get your own series, and many actors start out as the second couple in other shows before getting a lead role.
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Heads slowly
The concept of the show started off promising with the mystery of how two people who can't stand each other, but are constantly drawn together nonetheless by their family, but mostly by each of their respective obsession with one another that they interpret as hate before some kind of supernatural force intervenes.The reveal that Jinn confessed to Jerome when they were very little kids and the latter handled it with bullying Jinn from elementary school till current day in college and worse Jinn's crush still hadn't gone away in the 10 years since is so sad. Every time Jinn tried to move on in the interim with different boyfriends, Jerome kept stealing them. It took supernatural intervention of visions from his dating alternate future for Jerome to realize his extremely weird fixation on Jinn is something else. Alternate because it seems to be a world where he didn't have these visions and still organically started dating Jinn at some point. It's weird that Jerome is so not immediately more concerned about his visions more since they literally take over his vision and senses into crashing his car.
I love Jerome's speech to Jinn that it took a life endangerment to realize his feelings and that Jinn can take all the time he needs since he's still not used to them being loving to each other and even if it means that they don't end up together in the end, at least they don't hate each other. It seemed like Jerome had a plan revealing his future seeing to Jinn's mom, but they they decide to do it in a traumatizing way of driving Jinn up to the boutique to see his dad there instead of just having her talk to him like an adult, maybe with Jerome present. It didn't really resolve with any kind of communication, it just does when Jinn calms down. I did like that non of the parents are surprised or care that they're dating.
There was a scene where the director wanted to angle their faces to be visible to the camera during the hug, but there was like a cavern between their faces. The angle for the Van and Farm kisses are weird too. Despite the weird angles, I do think the kiss scenes in general between the two leads is a slight improvement at times from their previous projects, though definitely still needs more direction to look organic. The actors in the same age range in other shows are about the same. It also depends on the individuals, experience, good direction and perhaps some coaching from intimacy coordinators if there are any.
Mai has been a one man comedy show from beginning to end. Van is big walking red flag, but I do like that he's taking it slow and just gradually changing for the better with how he treats Farm without instantly just asking him to date before he can be a proper boyfriend that Farm deserves. I love that his friends call him out early and often to treat Farm right. Farm finally learning Van's parents have both passed on and Van's living a lonely life with no commitments to any of his relationships though relying on them to take care of him until he betrays the relationship somehow.
The pacing really grinded down towards the end.
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Thais don't generally sleep with the lights on.
People watching Thai BLs who have not been to Thailand may assume that Thais like to sleep in broad daylight with all the lights on. But be assured most Thais -- like the rest of us -- prefer to sleep in darkened rooms. I realize that budgets are constrained but one would hope that producers could figure out a way of suggesting darkness during the scenes in which people are supposed to be going to bed to sleep for the night. And while we're at it, couldn't the makeup artists have made some effort to suggest that Jinn and Jerome have aged a bit in the scenes set a decade in the future? It's really hard to summon the necessary levels of empathetic grief when one confronts a rosy Keen Suvijak supposedly on his death bed. I mean, he looks not a day over 15 with his peaches-and-cream complexion and silky black hair Yes, he is a superb actor but conveying impending death in a hospital bed without any help from make-up artists is beyond even his talents. At least in the earlier visions when he was supposed to have died in an auto crash, we see some fake blood trickling down his lovely face.Was this review helpful to you?
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This promises to be a fun riot and super cute!!! Reminds me of Bad Buddy!
The starting of this drama instantly reminded me of the big daddy of enemies-to-lovers series - Bad Buddy....and my Pookies Sea-Keen made me fall in love with it, as always!!BL-needle Score: 8 High BL-ness
What's not to like!!... Sea-Keen with their delish chemistry, the endless banters, steeped in every known cute-trope possible, and a rest of the cast that is sooo easy on the eye....we definitely seem to have got a winner on our hands...
Sea-Keen are my favourite pair among the new ones from GMMTV...other than their bang-on chemistry, both have reasonably good acting skills that is improving with every drama, and they have also chosen diverse types of characters even when they have only done the same cutesy-tropey romance genre, which is quite commendable!
And the way Ep 1 ended...that's exactly what was prescribed - a car crash injury for J just serious enough to break his arm so that he has to be nursed, undressed, washed (wink wink), cared for, and melted to the exact temperature needed 😍 by the 'Boy of his dreams'
This looks all set to become my go to drama for tropey-comfort ...I knew my Pookies will not disappoint 🥰
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jarring tonal shifts
Overall: the series didn't work as a romcom and it didn't work as a supernatural thriller. Adapted from the book "Nai Khrai Wa JJ Mai Thuk Kan" by My feline10> episodes about 40 minutes each. Airing on GMMTV's YouTube channel https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLszepnkojZI4HRwD1wzag844Ig0ZGT_Pl&si=xYCTDHhz8MsyjvGp (everywhere except Thailand)Content Warnings: bullying, punch, , manipulation/lying, death (it's complicated), attempted suicide (it's complicated), past: punch/hits, bullying, unwanted outing
Note: if you aren't into bickering/bullying start at 4/1, then skip 5/1 and 5/2 and watch from there.
What I Liked
- sweet moments
- tried something different
Room For Improvement
- unless I mixed up who was who in the flashbacks, the bullying felt more one sided
- the comedy sound effects didn't make things funny and did not work well with the serious visions repeatedly shown
- a character not talking to a character or his mom for multiple episodes
- did not like either character in the side couple, they each needed to work on their insecurities
- explaining the world building in the final episode was too late
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The perfect enemy to lovers
I started watching this series because of SeaKeen, loved them on both my only boo and muteluv, but stayed also because of the storylineI feel like it's different from their previous work, sea's character is portrayed very well by him showing the character development steadly and without forcing anything, Keen's charcter, Jinn, also has a major development and a change of attitude after ep 6 and i loved how well he represented the change from an hot heades guy to a head over heels in love little potato
The story is a little bit different from the novel but i have to admit that i still like it, the differences are not so relevant in my opinion and the focus of the story is still there
Overall it feels like a must watch for whoever loved bad buddy with some supernatural elements in it!
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Great Casting and acting
I love all of their acting everything was very natural also the casting was 🤌✨️ and I LOVE SURFF😍 in this series.Eventhough Java is a red carpet in this still i loved it when they reunited in the end and I absolutely loved the way SURF loved Java in this series. I mean how can someone love someone this much😫❤️.I am soo glad that they casted SURFJAVA as the second main couple this series. Thankyou sooo muchhhh. I'm soooo gladdd. The first couple were alsooo soooo amazing. Great acting i should say sooo natural noting felt artificial even though it involved seeing the futureWas this review helpful to you?
