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(He had the job in the bag, his employer already greenlit him)

Alrrrrrrrighty. So that was a thing.
Some well acted and key moments in this ep;
- Notably, Day's mother stopped being a 'C U next Tuesday', which, great, she needed to stand down from interfering in her ADULT son's relationship business.
- Another outstanding moment was in the hospital room, can't say I was surprised by the result of the operation, but I think the build up of excitement and let down into emotions was well done, especially the actor playing Day, he really nailed that scene. I still didn't cry (as I'm sure many did) but I was like 'yeah, bro, I feel you'.
- Phojai continues to be SO STUNNING. Also, I do hope we get at least a little insight into her developing relationship with Night. They could actually have done the 'second pairing' thing in this show with Phojai and Night as the het couple, I think that would have been great.
- I LOL'd at the recipe moment when they were all eating together, the mother actually would have had a right to be upset about Day telling someone her recipes imo, it's LITERALLY her career, but the scene played out well.
- 'Being a caretaker and being a boyfriend are different things.' Absolutely agree, mom, you're making some great leeway from the awful example you were before.

Moments in the episode which didn't quite land imo:
- Mhok's answer to the mother's question of 'Why Day?' was cheesy and kinda lame. Considering they were discussing Day being normal, but just being unable to see, should have made the answer more direct and simple. Something honest and practical, like; "For the same reason anyone likes someone else, I got to know him, I felt attracted to him, I fell for him.' That answer makes more sense to me. But eh, maybe that 'line' seemed romantic or something.
- Not a single hair net was worn in that fancy ass professional hotel kitchen and that's terrible for a restaurant.
- Being a caretaker and being a boyfriend are different things.' back to this point, 10 eps in and I'm also keen to see this point made, because so far, and maybe it's just me, but there is an imbalance in their relationship, and it feels like it's coming from Day. Mhok seems all in, Day doesn't. Mhok seems to be set on BF mode, while Day hasn't quite turned that dial all the way over. Could be the eye sight plot thing, could be the writing. Guess we'll see.

Closing scene = ugh.
- Day breaking up with Mhok because of perceived pity and his choice to lie about the job is DUMB. He probably would have lied even if Day wasn't blind (not even just because it's an overdone trope but because people actually do lie about things like that irl for all kinds of reasons). And also, the man literally explained why he doesn't want to leave and be unreachable after what happened to his sister (who was not disabled) and Day somehow came up with the result being about him. So yeah, smh. Again, maybe the eyesight plot thing, maybe the writers.
(that said, Mhok should take that f*cking job)

This ep didn't ruin the show in anyway, but it was a bit of let down for me on some important fronts, hope they sort it out believably and not in some rushed way with the ep they have left.

Thanks :D the original scenes are so lovely I didn't even want to edit them much!

Guys, I couldn't stop thinking about episode 7's ending and a certain very suitable song so I made an FMV thing!
https://youtu.be/XK__Bfr-1Bg (SPOILERS IF YOU'RE NOT UP TO EP 8 YET)

My theory of what happened is based on ep 1 opening scene and the references they've made to the incident so far. They were a bunch of little punks when they were kids, grew up together obvs. And I think whatever happened at that lodge, was a prank gone hella wrong. Because that was Non in the beginning running with Jin, I think, and maybe the whole thing was a set up to scare the ever loving sh*t out of Non, and they were all on drugs and drinking and it got out of hand, and it backfired.
And maybe Non went a little nuts after despite it only being a 'murderer hunting us' prank, and then maybe he was institutionalized and then he disappeared from there and now he's crazy and he's dead ass gonna' kill them all. Except Jin, who I found sus from episode 1, is HELPING him, because maybe Jin was also on the receiving end of the prank and he's dead ass angry and wants revenge too.

Just my speculation.

I think it's a great example of how people change as they grow up and also how their friendship has deteriorated after whatever happened between them before with Non, but they also have to stick together because of whatever happened. It's like keeping your enemies close but also who needs enemies with friends like these and then with the new friends, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, all happening at the same time 😂 They are all ticking time bombs. I love it.

Ep12: I loved it when Dan put that priest in his place when they were talking in his office, I was like YEAH BOI!

Yeah, I think TU is def not for you. And I'm not sure what your drama/tv show taste is, but if you're looking for two ML's with just real good friendship chemistry and nothing else, including interesting plots, I can think of three good Korean ones I enjoyed (if you haven't already seen them)
- Bloodhounds
- D.P
- The Guest

The female leads in The Guest and Bloodhounds are also likeable.

One of my 2024 goals was to get my mother to FINALLY watch The Untamed. We're 7 episodes in and it's going well 😁 She can't remember anyone's names 😂 but she seems to be interested at least.

On another note, I made some TU fmv's a while back, just thought I'd drop them here to share. (don't watch if you haven't seen the full series, spoilers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XowJwFijuc (song Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpOmtG82WPs (song Sugar Dragon by Brutus)

I suspect Jin, and whoever is the' ghost', are responsible. I suspected him since the first ep. As for the 'supernatural stuff, I was already suspecting drugs or some kind of hallucinogenic, and after the mention of the original group of friends using drugs, I think it's likely there's something in the 'water' that's making them see things and act so erratic.

Okay, I'm all caught up and I gotta say, YA'LL TRIPPIN'
This show is good. Even if I decided to nick pick little things in each episode (which can be done in any show ever and especially in 'BL' shows), still, overall it doesn't impact that this is actually a straight up entertaining gore/thriller serve from Thailand.

I agree, reading comments that people would get mad if an actor shoots a few romantic scenes with a different person than the main pairing (especially in this context where it's meant to be literally the same person) is just mind boggling to me 😵 like wow.

I personally would have been fine with the initial actress being in the flashbacks of today's ep, I also think it would have been better for consistency, that OR just reshooting those few initial river scenes with Babe as Wansarut, OR making Babe as Wansarut appear more female through make up or cgi.

But over all it's minor, I feel like this is not a big deal in the grand scheme of the show.

Yeah, I was gonna be really disappointed if they tried to drag that trope out beyond his reasons for doing it before ep 7's conclusion, it's a really outdated thing to do, even for fan service 😂

I kinda thought of it in the sense where Naga's shapeshift (from my vague knowledge of them used in other fiction) so I just figured Wansarat chose that male appearance in human form. But I did think that since they wanted to keep Babe playing both Tharn and Wansarut, they could have just made him wear something similar to Wanwisa, just covering his torso because then the past and present gender thing would have been a little more ambiguous at least. But they chose what they chose -(ಥ‿ಥ)ᕗ

Firstly, I'm gonna' just glaze over the police work side of things, kay. Best not dwell on ANY of that. Because overall I LOVED this ep. I LOVED the fight scenes (sans the gun fighting, where we heard the shots going off without any actual visual indication of such a thing) 😂
The physical fights scenes on the other hand, both human and supernatural, looked GOOD. I love the fight choreography and cinematography of it!
And not me laughing when this happened:
*͛♨ 𐀪 ♨*͛ VS ෴ 𖣋 ෴ and Wansarat going ))))))ꐕ ʷᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉᵉ

But no seriously, without any spoilers, that was an awesome scene and this was an awesome episode!! In the beginning of the ep, I was a little annoyed with how Tharn seemed to be pulling a Katy Perry, Hot n Cold after how the last ep concluded. It was giving those tired BL 'sub partner' trope vibes, and then I wondered whether to blame it on Tharn's precedent as a character toward Phaya so far, BUT that got cleared up and after that first scene, it was all 11/10.

The CGI scenes were cool too, I never get very bent on CGI unless it absolutely sucks, but this didn't suck and it was actually kind of shiny and pretty, like mid budget video game. So it was fine by me. Loved the past life costumes, simple but effective in creating a past world aesthetic, and even though my knowledge on this cultural belief is borderline non existent, I'm enjoying the story.

Wanwisa though, like, gurl, man's HUMAN, he got lungs! Even if he were still part boid, she just dipped like she really thought he was going to okay after spending 20 minutes down there xD
Also Khem is an absolute dork, very hilarious, and finally, WHY didn't they let Yai do his sideways core body lift shirtless? Is it because they know we can see it on IG??? Huh?

All around pleasing episode. Ep 9, let's have it!

(So at least their dramatic antics were reasonable right? 😉)
- 😂 Nah, it still doesn't make sense, had they not behaved that way, and just let him leave nicely after quitting, she wouldn't even have known anything else and become such a prison warden. Especially if Day knew what she's like.

As for the Asian household thing, yeah, that's what I suspected but it's very difficult to relate to, you know. If I were Day's age in that situation, hell, if I were 18, and my mother tried to put those kinds of childish restrictions on me I'd simply say "Nope, sorry mum. K ily bye"
But maybe eventually that's gonna be what happens if the mother ends up being an even bigger pain in the ass.

Well if it's the same, I'm keen. Lack of making out makes sense in the context 😂Planning to continue watching today.

oh, yeah, that's fine, makes sense, because it's horror and they're tryna stay alive, not gonna be much room for that, probably why they laid it on so thick in ep 1.

cp part?

Ep1: Not sure how the rating is so low, are eps 2 and 3 bad or something?
Because episode one is helluva strong start. Here Thailand is finally giving us an interesting plot and genre (horror is a bonus imo) and it has good acting (almost the best in 'BL's I've seen, being the most natural and flowing in dialogue and shooting, without unnecessary stares and pauses and 'dramatic moment' scenes, or narration cues and whatnot), decent effects, good directing and ya'll be rating it low? That's a pity. I hope eps 2 and 3, and the subsequent lot, don't suck because this feels like it has the potential to be a good one.

Even the circle of friends could make sense LGBTQ inclusive wise, because it's a group of friends and we don't know how they know each other, they could be from different schools, neighbourhoods, towns, they could have met through other people, parties, friends or however over many years (Jin implied 'years' in the dialogue). The writers have made it a BL, sure, but basically just replacing what could have been het people/couples going on a binge trip, making it all guys with mixed sexual orientations (which hopefully includes not just gay and bi, but someone het too), which in 2023/2024 is actually plausible.
It also kicks off right away, they dove right in to the action with setting the eerie atmosphere and scenes, the tension amongst some of them, the secret ominous backstory and the major injury (he'd be hella lucky to survive two days yo).

The 'explicit' scenes are even done more along the lines of how they'd be shot in a horror/gore film, or even just a 'teen comedy', except much less over the top if you ask me, and it also flowed with the story, no excess, no lingering, but still believable. I was just HOPING it wouldn't be supernatural, (more like Wrong Turn or Scream vibes), you know, rather just be a straight up murderer hunting them (ngl my money was already on Jin), but episode 2 preview and comments seems to make it clear it's supernatural, which isn't bad if it's done right. So I'm KEEN.

Judging by comments, if the next two eps are bad, it's gonna be the supernatural aspect to blame? xD