good acting, amazing plot, not too much romance. enjoyable if you like watching shows that are a lot of people talking to each other, making political deals, playing tricks on each other, twists and turns 🤗
Totally unrelated but somewhat related, I'm from Vietnam and we have two local platforms that constantly buy One31 dramas (especially the hetero lakorns that interfans basically dont get to watch anymore bc there are no fansubbers taking them on any longer), almost every single one. Except very recently there's one drama that they didn't buy which is Love In the Moonlight. Which would come off very weird because they already bough 8 out of 9 airing lakorns on One31, have bought several queer thai bl series from GMMTV on their platforms, why wouldn't they buy one more right? But like that thing just harshly reminded me that selling distribution rights to online platforms are not absolute/done deals, foreign platform don't need to buy every single dramas from a channel, or sometimes they buy them long after it's become popular from fansubbed... just to give you some other perspectives on the whole exporting thai tv matter
I think they're trying their best. It's been a long time since Monomax even sold their series to foreign platforms and its fashion designer Moo Asava first time creating a series with his brand new opened studio. They were able to make a deal with a japanese platform already so japanese fans are getting good subs, they're working out a deal with some south america platform? so i think it's more a problem like they don't have experience exporting their series or selling their series to foreign platforms for distribution or it might also be because this very niche content might be very hard to sell to platforms
In Episode 7, Dr. Nhong isn’t really battling his opponents so much as confronting the rot within his own party…
I love your observation about the core spirit of the show being about how flawed humans inherently are. I appreciate that there are no idealistically, flawless, squeaky clean politicians in this show, not even Dr Nong, not even his junior Nat all of whom started their politicians' journey with much hopes of doing more for their people.
Mandate isn't afraid to tackle the reality of family members/close relatives taking the fall of their trusted ones but they're not entirely whitewashing this action and Jump's earnest conversation with Ni shed light on regret/guilt, facing the reality that even once he's released/bailed out, there are still society stigma against ex-cons, regardless of whether the person had committed a crime or not. The writing in this show is really something else, very refreshing I think in the current waves of Thai BL series.
unfortunately they're not so im just slowly fixing ep 3 and 4 on my own😅 at least they lessen my load so i can lock in and edit the subs for only those 2 eps left. after seeing ep 7, i have no worries that the final ep 8 subs will be decent as well
To make you understand more about the series, I picked out three question that covered much in interviews:Q1:…
Thank you for sharing. Another point that P'Boy also mentions in a few interviews is that he himself is a person who follows politics news a lot himself so it was exciting for him to step into the role of a politician. All the actors in the show portrays really well their politician characters, in their own very different ways and styles.
im so happy with that ending. would have loved if they could have delved further into phet and her post partum…
cuz it would have been nice for them to conclude somewhere on the point that it's perfectly normal and not something to be stigmatised about even if she's not like others
im so happy with that ending. would have loved if they could have delved further into phet and her post partum ptsd and her inability to have intimacy bc of the ptsd
I thought your first Thai political BL was 'Shine'. Anyway that may be right, this is probably your first one,…
I've been fixing the subs for earlier eps so perhaps whenever you decide to check out the show, it'll be alright 😉 The link I've also posted in the discussion
I thought your first Thai political BL was 'Shine'. Anyway that may be right, this is probably your first one,…
I know you're replying to oddsare but I just wanna chime in and note that I think it's very interesting that as watchers of both Mandate and Shine, personally felt like Shine had way more romance than politics (positive) despite my expectations from its trailer, whereas Mandate became a much more political (positive) show than what they had shown in the trailer. Just a fun observation 🤗
Thank you very much. I have a question, in the files the audio tracks from the second half of the video do not…
I personally don't find them out of sync when I'm watching so could it be that whatever you're using to play the files is lagging? If watching on okru is lagging, you can try downloading the file on pixeldrain and open with any video player on laptop, it should be sync
i wrote a little post about this a while back. i hope this somehow adds to what you've also noted. i should probably…
atp it almost feels like EP 7 is one parliament dissolution or cabinet reshuffle away from making this show a "based on a true story" drama 🤣. one of the lines that gave me chills was when Khunnawut was talking about how he conceded too much power to Phasakorn when forming the government that he's rebelling now. it feels like a very telling line about the frustrating situations that political parties put themselves in when they make grand compromises at the expense of their policies
you might also be able to draw some comparisons between one of the backdeals Pheu Thai made when becoming government involved minimal jail time for former PM Thaksin upon his return to Thailand vs the backdeals Phasakorn talked about with both Wiwat Siam and Nititham to help his dad former PM Phanu who was in monkhood temporarily fleeing from law enforcement (of course before he himself ruthlessly put his dad in prison in EP 6).
i wrote a little post about this a while back. i hope this somehow adds to what you've also noted. i should probably…
Another point interesting point I wanna add (which I should write a whole post on) is how close the situation in EP 6 reflects the stagnant state of policies implementation that is the result of a cabinet borned out of a huge compromise in Thailand.
2nd ranked party Pheu Thai betraying the 1st ranked more progressive People's Party who ranked first in the 2023 elections although they were expected to form a governent together -> Pita of the People's Party blocked by the parliament from becoming PM -> Pheu Thai goes on to form the government with more conservative parties -> Paetongtarn government not making much progress/delivering on their promise a year into this (some roadblocks created by the very own conservative parties they chose to collaborate with) -> Paetongtarn facing political scandal -> motions of censure and no-confidence vote in parliament
the show is so eerily close to real thai politics that the Boy Pakorn and Producer Moo Asava kept having to clarify that it's all a coincidence that a lot of the things happening in Mandate is similar to what's happening in Thai political situation during the press junkets i've watched 😅
Mandate isn't afraid to tackle the reality of family members/close relatives taking the fall of their trusted ones but they're not entirely whitewashing this action and Jump's earnest conversation with Ni shed light on regret/guilt, facing the reality that even once he's released/bailed out, there are still society stigma against ex-cons, regardless of whether the person had committed a crime or not. The writing in this show is really something else, very refreshing I think in the current waves of Thai BL series.
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you might also be able to draw some comparisons between one of the backdeals Pheu Thai made when becoming government involved minimal jail time for former PM Thaksin upon his return to Thailand vs the backdeals Phasakorn talked about with both Wiwat Siam and Nititham to help his dad former PM Phanu who was in monkhood temporarily fleeing from law enforcement (of course before he himself ruthlessly put his dad in prison in EP 6).
2nd ranked party Pheu Thai betraying the 1st ranked more progressive People's Party who ranked first in the 2023 elections although they were expected to form a governent together -> Pita of the People's Party blocked by the parliament from becoming PM -> Pheu Thai goes on to form the government with more conservative parties -> Paetongtarn government not making much progress/delivering on their promise a year into this (some roadblocks created by the very own conservative parties they chose to collaborate with) -> Paetongtarn facing political scandal -> motions of censure and no-confidence vote in parliament
the show is so eerily close to real thai politics that the Boy Pakorn and Producer Moo Asava kept having to clarify that it's all a coincidence that a lot of the things happening in Mandate is similar to what's happening in Thai political situation during the press junkets i've watched 😅
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Doesn't the headline in this article just screams the timeskip you see in EP 6 😉 https://www.nationthailand.com/news/politics/40054460