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The Boy Next World thai drama review
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The Boy Next World
3 people found this review helpful
by Komentator isenk
Mar 21, 2025
10 of 10 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.5
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 8.5
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 8.0
This review may contain spoilers
Another Boss & Noeul drama... Let's watch it...

Story about Phukan (Phu) & Cirrus (Cir). Phu is a pure, naive & kind hearted man that never dated anyone. Because he's quite a naive guy, all of his friend & family quite protective of him. So, yeah Phu is another character with full support system around him.

Cir, on the other hand, is a rich son of a powerful woman. But Cir's mom is having iron fist not only at her company, but also in her way to raise Cir. Cir's parent were divorce, and Cir's mom had love but also grudge against his dad, so Cir's mom raising Cir with a way to take control Cir's life & that's one of the way Cir's mom had her revenge against his dad.(Yeah that's sicko kind of thinking). Cir had one deal with his mom, to let him roam free until he's graduating from collage, after that Cir's life basically belong to his mom, Cir's mom always said Cir's as her property. So, taking advantage of the deal, Cir enroll to the same university with Phu & choose to live in Phu's apartment building too...

Our story started when one day Cir, a handsome senior suddenly walks into Phu's life. Cir is a famous senior at their university. Cir handsomeness yet cold deminer attract a lot of girls. Cir told Phu he's his boyfriend from a parallel world and that's he's the most important person in his life. Although at first Phu don't want to believe Cir words, but Cir tells Phu a lot about his personal stuff & habit that quite impossible for other person except the closest one of him know, like Cir could know that Phu had birthmark at the place that usually cover with clothes.

Slowly Phu start to accepting Cir in his life & getting used having Cir around him & of course Phu's feeling for Cir start to grow too. But deep inside, Phu also start having inner fight with himself. Cause he's always remember that Cir is not Cir but he's from another world that already had boyfriend. So, the first problem is Phu don't know if he's just another replacement of Phu from Cir's world or Cir's feeling for him is genuine from his heart. And 2nd problem, Phu feels guilty cause he feel he took Cir from Phu in Cir's original world.

On the other hand, soon we learn, Cir is actually not from parallel world. But he's actually from the same parallel world with Phu and already had feelings for him since middle school. One day Cir got into accident, Cir walk into his parallel state of mind, it like a white room in your mind... In there Cir actually really meet another Cir from another world (to make you not confuse, I'll said our Cir using White Cir, cause he wear white, & another Cir as Black Cir, cause he's wearing black). White Cir watch how Black Cir is having relationship with Phu & how happy Black Cir in that picture. White Cir wants that to be his reality too. So when he got back to his body, he just lie to Phu about everything & just said that's he's from another world & Phu is his boyfriend.

But our story still rolling with Cir started to rebel against his mom, because he doesn't want to lose Phu in his life. So, the crazy idea comes to their mind, to make Phu pretend as Cir's boyfriend. So, the question now is how Phu put his feeling in all of this...? Will he find out that Cir is lie to him regarding him from parallel world or will Cir just confess to Phu? And also how about Cir's mom, will she just stand still when she find out that Cir's having relationship with Phu...? And lastly... What the heck is actually that parallel state of mind...?

That's pretty much the story without giving any more spoilers. Now what I like and don't.

What I like:
+ Interesting concept of story. But as usual with Mame, a little bit toxic. It's like she can't write a story without any toxicity in it. Haha...
+ Boss and Noeul chemistry never disappoint me.
+ How to correctly create Naive & Pure character without the need to make him like 5-year old boy.
+ Friends around Cir & Phu
+ I got to see Boss in Payu's style. Haha...
+ I got to see Thorn, although actually I prefer to see Tharn. Such a shame. Hoho...
+ The cute relationship between Wim & Jin. Although it feels a little unfinished too...

One biggest stupidity:
- They never tell us how powerful or rich Cir's mother actually is. I really want to know this.... Cir seem so afraid about his mother, but come on you're an adult. Can't you break free from your mother's wing...

Well overall this really one interesting story concept, parallel world but not quite parallel world too. But with Mame really toxicity is unavoidable. Now I think I need to read the books. Haha...

Below I’ll write what I don’t like & that’s quite a big spoiler. So… Read it at your own risk...









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What I don’t like:
- This feels like unfinished story. This is the biggest reason why I lower the score. I mean the story between Cir & his mom & his brother. Oh come on... Can't you add a few more episode to conclude this. How can they just leave Ozone in his mother's mercy...?
- I really hope we get more screen time for Wim & Jin.
- We got no more clear explanation about that parallel state of mind. Why must happen to Cir...? Is everyone actually can experience it...? Yeah yeah I know this is not a science-fiction drama...
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