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Episode 11 so good (tension, pace, a sense of purpose) I ignored the plot holes and almost forgot they’d tried to sell a second BL couple around episode 9 only to realize it was too late and say ‘nah let’s just leave it there’.

Correction: the writers missed the plot. You’ll miss nothing.

Watch up to eps 3 or 4, skip everything else and return for ep. 10.

Considering the eight episodes that came before, it’s high-stakes gambling having another chapter after this one. Episode 11 would be quite the finale—they remembered their plot and it was everything the series promised to be and failed to fulfil—and I’m not sure they’ve got the chops to top that.

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

The cute ending of this episode reminded me of a guy who tried to defend the finale of 2gether The Series on YouTube: “Why should they kiss? Their love is PURE!!!!” I guess they’d have a stroke if they saw The Eclipse episode 7.

The gods will bless the kind soul who uploads a supercut of the actors struggling to get into/come out of Kamol’s private jet.

(Spoiler alert) Major plot development in episode 10: we’ve got Nivea product placement instead of KFC.

PS: I’ll defend Sea from the Ohm/Nanon fan club anytime. He managed to deliver the line “Thank you for cleaning my face and cleaning off my dusty heart” with a straight face. Not many seasoned pros can do that with such dignity.

PS2: OMG, the showrunners remembered the plot of their show!

By the gods of TharnType! There’s nothing like a nightmare to bring a BL couple together!

I want a smartphone like Aye’s. You can talk to another person in the same echo-y room and they will never notice you’re there!

Episode 7 - First scene: late night.
(Yi kisses Plaengrak's cheek goodnight and goes home by himself because there's no healthy sex life in this corner of the BL universe.)
(P's ex-boyfriend, the one with cheap soap bitch vibes, the one Y learned everything about some 2 episodes before, storms past Y out of nowhere and tries to kiss P. P clearly rebuffs him and runs to Y.)
P: It's not what you think. I'm telling the truth!
Y (crying, drooling, and risking serious Botox intervention in the near future): Even if nothing can happen between us, I'm fine with it.
(P cries, drools, and risks serious Botox intervention in the near future as Y walks away from him.)


Me (after watching the scene twice to check if I got it right): Drugs.

Kudos to the director and writers of this. It’s not perfect but then what is? It’s certainly engaging, they believe in their premise, you have a sense of character and narrative development, and you can see there’s care and heart involved. The actors got a chance to try different acting muscles, and even the tiniest character is interesting. By episode 5, I was already rolling my eyes at Vice Versa. Here? I want to see what happens next.

Silly me. It took me 9 episodes to understand why they’re showing an “uncut version”: for two-and-a-half minutes KFC infomercials, two-minute Gatorade-drinking-thing product placement jokes, and a post-credit Lays chips story! It’s probably a world record. I really hope GMMTV fans are buying all this stuff (they’re certainly buying into the series). As for me, all I’ve got is psychosomatic high cholesterol from seeing all that greasy chicken.

(PS: Yes, by now I’m just anger-watching this show, which is fun in its own way. It’s like doomscrolling but with nice production values and actors trying their best.)

(PS2: For those few who are reading this and wondering whether they should start watching, I’d say you should move on to GMMTV’s own The Eclipse for a nicely developed premise, Unforgotten Night for well-done trash, or My Secret Love for competently scripted, character-driven, old-fashioned fluff.)

You gotta give it to them: it takes a lot of nerve to start episode 9 with ‘hey it’s not what you were thinking duh’ for the umpteenth time.

How could I have forgotten Nittiman?

Why isn’t this series called The Loop? It goes on and on forever without ever going forward. It's the first (and second) time I sleep while watching a BL series, and believe me I've seen Top Secret Together until the end, which says a lot about my resilience.

Let me just highlight that the series has queer characters who are neither comic relief nor defined by their queerness in the story. Bravo.

The drama! The angst! The acting! The directing! The ending! The post-credits scene! Pitch perfect.

I play 10 minutes of Even Sun whenever I can't sleep.

What’s it about all this cheek-sniffing in Thai BL series lately? Is the government cracking down on kisses?

GMMTV is a funny place: they’ve already proved they can do natural intimacy (Bad Buddy, Not Me, Friend Zone 2…). But lately they’ve retreated to their gay-panicky ways.