Player (2025)

One of best GL released on 2025

This series is too underrated, seriously.

Top tier writing and directing.
Great pacing, layers, and build up. Cinematography and editing are on point too.
The actresses are doing great job! Especially during emotional moments. They nailed the comedic ones too. God, I'm obsessed!

A few first episode is light and fun with some comedic scene, gradually becomes a little bit more sweet and heartwarming, then angsty heart wrenching in the later episodes.
Each episode is like giving me a or some pieces of puzzle that makes me understand the characters action more, what they have been through and shaped them, while never justify what they've done.

If you want toxic grey character yuri, this is for you.
Please watch it until the end and pay attention to their dialogues.
Some people might dropped it in the early episode because they thought it's just a plain romcom, no it's not.

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No, it didn’t have a ‘slow’ start

The pacing of this series was good, it had a solid start with the conflict that would lead the character, pun, to go back to Thailand and meet the other main character ploy. The relationship between the two developed well, they got to know each other and actually talk before anything happened between them…and I know the bar is in hell, but there was no non-consensual kisses or anything like that. However you shouldn’t go into this series expecting healthy communication, or green flag characters, if anything, expect the opposite…the characters are very messy and complicated and almost toxic, in my opinions, it was toxicity done well – with no power imbalance where one character is the weak poor heroine and the other character is the alpha that she will fix lol.
All the side characters were good too, pun’s friends were hilarious and I loved every second of them on my screen, pun’s sister and her partner as well; they were great and their story was nice without it feeling like a whole other side series within the main series.
The directing was excellent, this is my second series from this director and her work is admirable. The cinematography was gorgeous, the coloring is so pretty and the places where this was shot were well picked….overall I give the cinematography 10/10.
The ost wasn’t all that but the music choices were good and they never felt out of the place.
The acting is also amazing, it’s hard to believe this is memi’s first acting job, she did so well, her facial expressions, the way she conveys emotions, and gives every scene her all.. give her all the awards right now.
Lastly, I think this is worth watching, I had so much fun watching it…the comedy is top notch and the romance is great…the chemistry between ice and memi is through the roof, I love how they just fit together. It is also worth mentioning that there is no homophobic relatives or homophobic ex-boyfriend.
It is also worth rewatching, and that’s what I’ll do now that it is over :).
overall if you like toxic yuri and red flag characters, you should definitely watch player !!!

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