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Minlee absolutely carried Payback, what a main role debut! It's not easy to play such a stonefaced, emotionally locked down character and do it with such ferocious intensity and subtle nuance.

Yeah, especially for more plot heavy dramas with more complex characters the fixed couples is a problem, when maybe one half of the ship fits one MC very well but the other half doesn't... But they still have to cast them as a pair, which will drag the whole adaptation down. Then again the avid cp fans will be happy and will defend the less competent actor in the pairing tooth and nail... but I still wish the Thai BL pairings were more flexible so we could get castings that would be the best for the characters, even if they break the CPs...even though I know a lot of people would get extremely upset about this notion.

Or, I guess, they could just be a bit more stringent about acting talents and skills when they hire actors and form pairings, so that they are better matched, talent-wise (no names named, but I think we can all picture one or two pairings)

@miniMONIhyukKAI Don't forget to watch the post-credits scenes in Deep In! There's one in every episode! Saying it because Viki cuts you off during the credits and shunts you to the next ep unless you actively click to stay until the end

Exactly. It was even said at one point that the best revenge is to live a happy and fulfilled life.

This is the big downside with the fixed pairing system in Thailand 😭 So few actors in BL are staying outside of it. I can only think of one off the top of my head (Pond Ponlawit)

Don't Be Too Emotional. Very different story but also dark and psychological

Deep In is different, it's not so much 🚩 as ambiguity and psychological confusion about what is real and what is just character bleed. I wouldn't say Zhen Xin is a total green flag because he's not, he makes some very dumb decisions, but it's not exactly toxic either?

I wasn't a super fan of the Thai original because the pacing was way too slow and uneven with too much filler, and I also didn't feel that Thomas and Kong really suited the characters. At least this has a ML who actually looks like a bad boy (and not just a quiet, introverted boy) and because of the shorter runtime, they've tightened up the pacing considerably. Often the shorter runtime in Japanese remakes means they skip over plot elements and things feel a bit too rushed, but maybe in this case it will come out better.

What a solid performance especially from Min in this. It's not easy to play such an emotionally locked-down and stone-faced character and still have so much intense presence and quiet menace. Especially for a rookie actor! The first thing that really impressed me was during the photoshoot with Pakin, where Sun's gaze was kind of blank, with zero expression, and then Pakin gave him some direction, and his eyes just... *changed*. It was very subtle but also very powerful. Min managed to work with microexpressions to the point that just the shadow of a tiny smile on his face stood out like a major event. I'm extremely curious to see his future projects after this, whether it's with Toptap or some other constellation of actors.

I think there might have been a translation error (or exaggeration) with the "for weeks" thing. He was probably only unconscious for a day, at the most two, or he would have been on life support and his wounds wouldn't have looked so fresh. And he got caught up in Sky's kidnapping/trap and then got stabbed and lost consciousness, so he probably didn't have time to send it until after he woke up in the hospital. I'm assuming Sunny/Bank kept Two-O locked up somewhere in the mean time (remember that he was setting that trap for Sun and Sky, using Sky as bait), but it can't have been two weeks because it doesn't make sense. What I'm wondering is, how did Sun get the video when Sunny/Bank grabbed Two-O's phone before he could send it? Because we saw the convo on Sun's phone and there was no file transfer. Sun lost contact with Two-O at that point. Either I missed something, or that's a continuity error.

Hahaha I was thinking the same, Jay is like an unhinged version of Thada

Good thing he let us know what a medieval mindset he has. Now we know not to follow him or like him

Thank you for letting me know, I'll check them out! Makes me wonder where those "actor profiles" on the photos tab for this page come from..

Yes please! Because his bio here says he is a university student, which would make him over 18 (not that I'm as concerned about that as many people here, I'd just like to know the real facts)

Do you mean that his entire bio is a mix-up with someone else's bio? So all the info is wrong?

Yeah, I would be VERY surprised if Ohm Pawat ever chose to act in a BL again. It's not worth the fandom toxicity. I bet he even regrets ever doing Bad Buddy.

They're airing "Reverse Love Into a River" where he's the main lead, so...maybe?

I'm confused by the tag "censored adaptation of same-sex original work". A censored adaptation only makes sense if it was licensed to air in China, but in that case it probably can't even be aired unless it's completely butchered beyond recognition (and it also cannot have 96 episodes). But if it is made only for non-mainland distribution, then a censored adaptation doesn't make sense at all. Especially if it's helmed by Chai Jidan.

I saw a tweet with a screenshot that said production would start in May this year (though the tweeter seemed to have misinterpreted that as the air date), which seems to indicate the latter case, uncensored but only for distribution outside of China. Which only makes me wonder how they'll have a budget for 96 full length episodes. Usually only Chinese mainland dramas can get that kind of budget.

I too would like a poly gay throuple but I don't think that's in the cards with Thai BL for a long time, if ever. Too many people see it as "cheating".

Also, Pat and Pran were secretly friends, just pretending to be enemies to appease their families.
People were saying the same about Head 2 Head, which was also nothing like Bad Buddy, in H2H they were indeed enemies (or rather frenemies, constantly competing).