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Dance and romance come together in a badly written story
Was this supposed to be about Likay? Romance? Unnecessary drama? We'll never know because you can almost watch this as three different dramas - episodes 1 and 2 are kind of weird but in a nice way. We're introduced the characters, everyone's finding their legs and it's not bad, just kind of shaky and scrambled.
Episodes 3 to 6 1/2 are the actual best. You get a bunch of stuff you will never see in BLs - communication, exes being amicable, break-ups that didn't occur over misunderstandings, a new love interest respecting their crush's past relationships, an ex not being a controlling jerk, I could go on and on, it was truly so nice.
From episode 6 3/4 onwards - they went full Lakorn. Shocking CEO reveals, characters who just want to live their life being killed off for the shock factor, memorial concerts that are hijacked by love confessions, I hate it all. Just got worse and worse.
The story itself is such a mixed bag, it's supposed to follow a rising star as he practices with a Likay troupe so he can look professional in an upcoming series, where he plays a Likay performer. But Likay itself plays no role in the story beyond that - even being a part of someone's identity doesn't afford it enough importance. Again, it's only in the first couple of episodes that they talk about specifics, show us tons of performances and it's amazing.
Episodes 3 to 6 1/2 are devoted to romance. Honestly, very well done - for all the reasons I mentioned above, but also because it felt like three mature adults in a grounded relationship. There's a love triangle by the way, but it really had one of the best executions of a trope I usually hate. It's quite hard to explain just how well all the love stories came off.. If it helps, I'm still convinced the MC had more chemistry with his ex than the ML. It was not the romantic chemistry or the banter or anything that got to me, it was the calm, grounded relationship they had.
I was pleased too soon though because episode 6 3/4 onwards - DRAMA. They leaned heavily into it and it ruined everything. Every piece of good writing was thrown out the window. Characters behaving like children, which is jaring going from wholesome adults to petulant children. I kind of wish it was just six episodes, I could've managed without knowing how the series in the series turned out. Which, if this is any indication, was probably pretty bad. This phase almost completely ruined the experience for me but I pushed through and it got a little better, just not in the way that the audience completely forgets everything they tried to sell us to create drama.
The acting is not bad, I did enjoy the Likay performances and the cinematography was well done too. It was just a very strange way to tell a story that could've been insanely straightforward. Even the characters who at times behaved completely out of character (thanks to the plot) were actually well written and just overall great people. At the end of the day, I wouldn't categorise this as a must watch, but for a one time watch, it wasn't completely terrible
(Note - the last two episodes do not currently have any subtitles but Thai auto-generated ones, and I'll remove this note once they do. Hopefully they do)
Episodes 3 to 6 1/2 are the actual best. You get a bunch of stuff you will never see in BLs - communication, exes being amicable, break-ups that didn't occur over misunderstandings, a new love interest respecting their crush's past relationships, an ex not being a controlling jerk, I could go on and on, it was truly so nice.
From episode 6 3/4 onwards - they went full Lakorn. Shocking CEO reveals, characters who just want to live their life being killed off for the shock factor, memorial concerts that are hijacked by love confessions, I hate it all. Just got worse and worse.
The story itself is such a mixed bag, it's supposed to follow a rising star as he practices with a Likay troupe so he can look professional in an upcoming series, where he plays a Likay performer. But Likay itself plays no role in the story beyond that - even being a part of someone's identity doesn't afford it enough importance. Again, it's only in the first couple of episodes that they talk about specifics, show us tons of performances and it's amazing.
Episodes 3 to 6 1/2 are devoted to romance. Honestly, very well done - for all the reasons I mentioned above, but also because it felt like three mature adults in a grounded relationship. There's a love triangle by the way, but it really had one of the best executions of a trope I usually hate. It's quite hard to explain just how well all the love stories came off.. If it helps, I'm still convinced the MC had more chemistry with his ex than the ML. It was not the romantic chemistry or the banter or anything that got to me, it was the calm, grounded relationship they had.
I was pleased too soon though because episode 6 3/4 onwards - DRAMA. They leaned heavily into it and it ruined everything. Every piece of good writing was thrown out the window. Characters behaving like children, which is jaring going from wholesome adults to petulant children. I kind of wish it was just six episodes, I could've managed without knowing how the series in the series turned out. Which, if this is any indication, was probably pretty bad. This phase almost completely ruined the experience for me but I pushed through and it got a little better, just not in the way that the audience completely forgets everything they tried to sell us to create drama.
The acting is not bad, I did enjoy the Likay performances and the cinematography was well done too. It was just a very strange way to tell a story that could've been insanely straightforward. Even the characters who at times behaved completely out of character (thanks to the plot) were actually well written and just overall great people. At the end of the day, I wouldn't categorise this as a must watch, but for a one time watch, it wasn't completely terrible
(Note - the last two episodes do not currently have any subtitles but Thai auto-generated ones, and I'll remove this note once they do. Hopefully they do)
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