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That's interesting, I haven't thought about comparison of romance between actual series and their trailers before. So far I guess some of us have wished for complete happy ending of both couples in 'Shine'. Aside from that, overall I like the show a lot and am pretty much satisfied and happy with both couples' romance.

I haven't got a chance to watch 'Mandate'. Just come in this comment section to see what people think about the series, and it sounds interesting and seems like a good show, so I guess I'll plan to watch it. I read some of your comments below about its subtitle which wasn't good in early episodes. I wonder if it was really AI-generated, too bad if that's the case.

Apo, Pan, Pond..., oh they're just all beautiful.

I thought your first Thai political BL was 'Shine'. Anyway that may be right, this is probably your first one, since BoC said that 'Shine' wasn't really a typical BL like boys' love, but actually men's love/gay series.

Maybe the director thought that people this age back in the past weren't as healthy as those at present and told her to act like that? The director is an experienced professional lady as well, so the actress probably listened to what she had to say. Well, that's just my guess.

Armin was in his 40’s in the present year 2025. After he died, he traveled back in time to 1999, into himself in his early 20’s at that time. The thing is they should’ve made him look older in 2025. Maybe they thought that only his glasses and change of hairstyle would do the work, but it didn’t.

In the novel, the story started with Armin in his 40’s in the year 2044. After he died, he traveled back in time from the future to the present in his early 20’s. However as for this adaptation to the series, they made him travel back in time from the present to the past.

Oh I hope she won't. Feel sorry for her though.

In comparison, I feel that 'To Sir with Love' is more like a family lakorn/lakhon melodrama in which the lead roles happened to be a BL lead couple, and that was probably why the lead couple somehow got less screen time because of its family drama's side story arcs. Whereas 'Love in the Moonlight' which is also a lakhon aired in the prime-time lakhon timeslot of Channel One-31, is more like a BL show typically giving more screen time to the lead couple.

The actress Suzana Renaud, who plays Songsawat, isn't only actress. She is an actress/model/beauty queen. She held the first runner-up title from Miss Universe Thailand Pageant last year.

I think 'ThamePo' was good too, and I like 'My School President' and 'Moonlight Chicken' a lot.

I guess Pradhana Vanalai is a popular filming location which seems to have been all over in several Thai lakorn/lakhon dramas, and probably in a few other BL series as well.

All I can find from YouTube is this one coming out a few days ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBtdLbzWNQM

Looks like this show is taking off with a good start. By the way I think we've seen some good Thai BLs coming out earlier this year, like "ThamePo", "Top Form", "Gelboy", and "Reset", including the ongoing "Shine" as well.

Oops, sorry! I read the first book from that link quite a while ago. Too bad it's no longer there.

So sad for this poor Veera, he didn't deserve this. Feel really sorry for him, he was such a loyal guy. No wonder why Por Unnop, the actor who played Veera, said that he loved this character as well.

We can find it here on this ‘Details’ page of this series. Go to ‘Recent Discussions’ section, click the title ‘Novel link or spoilers’ and look it up. I think someone has posted a link to read the first book of this novel on wattpad.

I'm glad too that Naran did that, and I guess he deserved it. He should've even done that quite a long time ago. Maybe he could've avoided that shoe if he'd let her go much earlier. Well, better late than never.

Agree with you. Naran should've even done that earlier. Well, better late than never.

I think BoC. even said before that this wasn't typically BL. like Boy's Love, but it was Men's Love - gay series. I'm not sure exactly what criteria they actually use to categorize it though.

I think his father in law who was his previous boss died a while ago. Now his current boss is the threat.

This one is indeed a soap opera drama. It came from the production house which has produced a lot of Thai lakhon/lakorn melodramas/soap opera dramas for years, so no wonder this show came out with lakhon style. They deliberately intended to do it this way, so it was over the top with overacting at times because it was supposed to be. I don’t know if they chose to do that because they really thought lakhon style was good direction for this show and it was also kind of their signature, or just because all they’ve done has been lakhon dramas so they didn’t know how else to do it. Their adaptation to the series was even a dramatized version from the novel which as the source material wasn’t originally very dramatic.

The story was also very romance-driven with sweet scenes of the lead couple in almost every episode. I’m quite familiar with lakhon style, so I didn’t really have a problem and overall I like the series, plus both Pan and Pond have been my favorite actors since before this show. I did see some plotholes here and there and think that the villain was so overacting, but for me the lead couple knew how to sell romance and their chemistry was good enough to carry the whole show through and help me overlook its flaws, so it was kind of easy for me to like it. However I do feel that series with this specific lakhon style may not be for everyone. As it was leaning heavily towards romance-driven approach, I guess the show was probably not something for viewers who look for a balance between romance-driven and plot-driven story and who are not familiar or don’t like lakhon-soap opera style (or those who expected sweet revenge trope as it didn't turn out that way), since it could give them a hard time to watch.

I think high rating is just an indicator to suggest that maybe a lot of people like it, and doesn’t translate as that a show is really good or guarantee that each of us will like it too. The production house probably tried to make this show the way they thought that a lot of people would like it. So I guess they managed to achieve a certain goal to attract them, as reflected from the rating, just unfortunately they couldn’t really satisfy or meet everyone’s expectation.