Beachnut

A lot of punches at a bit of love

Overall a solide series.

The raw storytelling surprised me. I don't know what I expected, but not that.
It's not for everyone: be aware of a lot of blood and brutality. As for me, I liked it, cause Im a bit sick of all these cute dramas, that are facing "problems", which aren't real problems and could be solved in a sec, if the characters would just talk with each other.
To be honest: I considered a lot giving this one a try, because I learned to be careful with these mafia-set up dramas. Mostly in the beginning the series start with brutalism and a story with potential, but turns out to be just a setting in which the protagonist can wear dark clothes and look cool and dangerous - then the story lacks of everything, but NC scenes and "spicy moments".
After KinnPorsche - which held a lot of cliches and could have done better in some subjects as well - there was nothing mafia-themed that caught my attention. Whatever, I gave Bankok boy a try.

I don't regret watching it. Overall it was a solide series with a well written story and a lot of characters, who had a lot of potential. The most interesting one was Aim, the actor did an excellent job, playing this psychopathic evil guy! He deserves a lot more attention.
Tape Worrachai Sirikongsuwan, who acted for Sun did great as well, especially in the emotional scenes. Peace, played by Cho Si Hyeon - Im not sure about this one. There were some scenes he did very good, others were kinda emotionless and stiff in my opinion. I guess it suited the character of Peace (a traumatic boy who doesn't want to be part of the mafia thing at all). His acting in the street fight scenes was extraordinary, due to the pain you could see in his eyes for hurting the one he loves. I don't understand Thai, whether Korean. I watched with English subtitles. Is it normal to sound like a monotone, when speaking Thai as a Korean? That seemed kinda off to me.
The other characters could have been written better, I think it could be interesting to learn more about how these two friends ended up selling drugs. This feld like a setting just to have a setting for these two and the acting and character building lacked of seriousness. Which is a shame, because it could have been so much better, if the actors have had a good script they could work with.

The fighting scenes: ... were okay. Nothing more and nothing less. In the end it's a BL drama. I will say it blankly: I skipped a lot of them and still understood the whole story.

The end was surprising if you didn't pay attention at all. I liked it. I liked the lack of NC-scenes, so there was more space for story telling. Sometimes the dialogue scenes could have been shorter I think.

Long story short: Its worth the time giving The Bankok boy a chance.
I'm hooked for a second season.

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Cute ... so far.

I thought about giving this drama a chance, due to the Japanese production company and the overall positive reviews. I don't regret it yet, but I'm still very eager, how this one will turn out in the end.

The good-looking populars being nice and caring is a welcoming change to most of the other high-school-romance dramas, which - obviously - all go the same way: The protagonists become enemies and then end up falling deeply and forever happy in love with each other.

I guess it's fine for me, that the boys don't want to get too involved with these nerve-scattering, superficial girls. But to be honest, not being interested in girls at all at this age seems a bit off to me (unless they are all gay, but due to their girlfriend stories that's not the case).
The story so far is (sorry to say that, but its true) nothing very special with its topic "popular guy falls in love with timid guy", BUT something makes me feel like the story will surprise us in the following episodes. The affections seems a bit too intense, maybe it will turn into something else? Thinking about it - I wouldn't be surprised if this slice-of life romance turns out to be a psychothriller. Nah, whatever - I will stay tuned for the next episode and try reading a bit of the novel in the meantime. Enjoy, you all!

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