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This show didn't come from GMMTV. It was from IQIYI in collaboration with Broadcast Thai Television, the production house which usually has produced Thai Lakorn/Lakhon or Thai melodramas/soap opera style dramas for years, and that's why over the top overacting can be expected sometimes. This is probably the first BL series from this production house, and it's fun.

Pan and Pond are both my favorite actors. The novel has 3 books, so hope that the next book can be source material for a sequel to bring them back to work together again.

Right, First has done a good job here.

He did say แฟนซัปพอร์ต - fan support.
Thada is such a fan of Armin's, completely in both aspects, two in one as both the fan of the actor and also the boyfriend.

It's true that their acting skills need perfecting for several of them, but not all. Some others are pretty good, like Mile-Apo in "KinnPorsche", Bilkin-PP in "I told sunset about you", Aof-Gun in "Not me", Ohm-Nanon in "Bad Buddy", Jimmy-Sea in "Last Twilight", Bright-Nonkul in "I feel you linger in the air", Est-William in "Thamepo", Smart-Boom in "Top Form", Tor-JJ in "Spare me your mercy", Pond in "180 degree longitude passes through us" and with Pan(Peterpan) in "Reset", Earth-Mix First-Khao Gem.-Fourth and Mark in "Moonlight Chicken", etc. I think they're pretty good actors in those series.

Jaw grab was such dangerous move to tame Hubby. Oh poor Thada, the stern dead-face CEO. whose power could intimidate all his employees in the whole enterprise, but how Armin could give the big boss an order like that was just entertaining.

Thank you for your 'useless knowledge', I appreciate that too. I've read the first book from that link in the 'Discussions' as well. I found Armin in the novel calmer and quite logical like you said. Anyway I like some aspects in the novel which was a longer stretch with many chapters, so Armin's journey back to stardom was kind of explored in more details, like we got ot know about each of his auditions for different movies, what his roles were like, how he acted in each movies, and how he made friends with fellow actors.

At the same time despite more dramatized adaptation to the show, so far I really like the series too with more intensed storyline and passionate chemistry between Thada and Armin. I wonder who poisoned Armin as well and haven't found that in the first book. I like both the novel and the series, and think that they're both fun in their own ways, I haven't found the next book to read online though. I think what we're watching at the moment in the series is just the first book, so I guess maybe they can make another season from the next book too.

I feel like I kind of want more screentime for Pharit.

I noticed what you said about Pharit too. In earlier episode Armin mentioned that they'd never worked together and were rivals. Now that they've become kind of colleagues working together, I wonder whether they'll remain rivals or get along better in this timeline. I wish for more screentime with Pharit's character development so that we can see if they can really build a rapport. It might be an interesting little subplot to explore.

I've read the first book of the novel, and I like how they explored Armin's career with several movies featuring his different auditions and roles in each of them and details about how he managed to act and play each character, and he made friends with some fellow actors too. I feel like this show can actually be longer than 10 episodes if they wanna explore some more in that aspect.

Narin did a good job, he was nice to stand by Thada's side, and also he still wished them well. I feel sorry that he got heartbroken from Thada. In the novel he could finally think of Thada as a friend and I'm glad that he later got his own boyfriend too. And right, a spin-off for Wenai would be nice.

It seemed that we got sweet moments from every episode earlier. Once the drama's getting more intensed, coudn't help thinking that the sweet scenes would kind of step aside a bit to give way to intensed drama screentime. And then came episode 8, as intensed as expected, but wow they still manage to have Thada-Armin's amazing chemistry give us cute sweet moment as well.

Oh poor Thada, the stern dead-face biggest tough boss whose power could intimidate all his employees in the whole enterprise, but when it came to Armin, how Armin could give him an order like that was just entertaining.

I remember seeing that scene. I thought it wouldn't actually be in the series since it was just in the pilot trailer, but I'm glad this cute sweet scene was included in here too. Thada seemed to enter cute mode so easily whenever he got jealous or sulking.

I think the older ML character is also around 40 years old.

I watch this for both Pan and Pond who have done such a great job here, how they both just look visually captivating together, and their magical chemistry. Wow what can I say, they've delivered.

Oh I see, that's a good point. Thank you for your review.

That's interesting, so you think that Thada's background was explained too late? I haven't thought about that before. What difference do you think it might make if Thada's background got revealed earlier?

Not sure if Tada also came back in time or not. Anyway I guess the turning point was the moment at the end of the first episode when Tada saw Armin's performance of that death scene.

Then came the beginning of episode 2 which let us know that in the original past life, Tada saw this performance from Armin the rookie/extra who didn't act so well at that time, so it didn't give such strong impression enough to make Tada want to go see Armin in person, maybe he hadn't fallen for him yet at the time.

However once Armin came back in time to 'reset' and act in this new timeline, this same performance came from Armin the experienced seasoned actor and made Tada tear up, since it hit Tada so hard that he felt terrified as if he were to lose Armin. This was probably when Tada started to fall for Armin, so he decided not to just watch and support Armin afar from the shadows anymore.

If Tada actually didn't also came back in time like Armin did, I think this event from seeing Armin's performance, leading to Tada's decision to reveal himself, was the turning point which started to alter following events to happen later in the new timeline.

I watch this for both Pan and Pond who have done such a great job here, how they both just look visually captivating together, and wow their magical chemistry.

We see Pharit in the preview, so he'll be in the next episode. Hope he'll have more screentime. In earlier episode Armin mentioned that they'd never worked together and were rivals. Now that they've got to work together, I wonder what direction their interaction will go, whether they'll still remain rivals or get along better in this timeline.

Oh please I don't want him to die. Hope it won't go that direction.

The scene at the end of the first episode, very shortly after Armin's 'Reset' started, Thada saw that performance of Armin's death scene. Thada teared up after seeing death played by Armin, the experienced seasoned actor, because it hit Thada so hard that he felt terrified if he was to lose Armin. I think that was the turning point which made him decide that he wouldn't just watch Armin afar from the sideline anymore, and was probably when he started to fall for Arrmin.

Then came the beginning of episode 2 showing us that in the original past life, Thada saw this performance but from Armin, the rookie actor/extra who hadn't acted very well yet. So I guess that performance in the original timeline wasn't strong enough to make Thada want to see him, maybe he hadn't fallen for him yet at the time. So he just kept watching him afar from the shadows.

Actually at some point in the novel as time passed in the original timeline, Thada decided to go see Armin in person. Maybe he realized that he already fell for Armin, but what Thada didn't know was at that point Armin had already been with Charlie for a while but they didn't go public. Then Janine told Thada about that just before Thada was about to go see Armin, so Thada changed his mind and didn't go. Thada got heartbroken as Armin was taken, and then Thada just went back to watch Armin from afar just like before.

You've made fair points and I agree too, it's hard to ignore those flawed details. Background music was a lot. It has turned out to become like a soap opera melodrama, maybe because this production house have done a lot fo Lakhon dramas for years, so they don't know how else to do it, and that's why they've made some changes from the novel to make the series more dramatic. The overall plot was similar in general, Armin came back in time to meet Thada and navigate his way back to stardom, but with some different details. In the novel Armin came back in time from the future to the present. I don'tknow why they picked this time period like 1999-2000's either. Maybe they wanted to add something about that Y2K thing. I understand that they wanted to do the billboard thing as it was in the novel too, but to do it at that time period it was somewhat hard to believe when the country was still more homophobic back then, it would make more sense at present time.

Well, we've seen some actresses, just a few though, like the stepmother, Aunt Jeed, and Ren's manager but they're all side characters. More female characters were in the novel. Thada had another female second secretary, and Janine was a girl. This adaptation to the series has been a dramatized version from the novel, not that I don't like it though. Despite having read the first book of the novel, I still can't guess exactly what will happen next in the series because of such changes and how it's been dramatized. I guess that's good as it still keeps me anticipating what to expect. I actually like both the novel and so far the series, I think they're both fun in their own ways. Thank god we've got Pan and Pond who look great together, visually captivating, I guess they're an important part which has carried the show up until now. Anyway I'll try not to take those plotholes too seriously, thanks to the amazing chemistry of Thada and Armin. If not for them I'm not sure whether I'll enjoy and like the series this much as I do.