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It's not that good.
This is the most overrated series of the moment.
Khemjira is a Thai BL series that promised to combine a horror story with romance (boys’ love). The premise was very interesting a character, Khem, who suffers from a family curse.
The problem is that they decided to make the story too long, and at times it’s quite tedious to watch. The romance part was the weakest, in my opinion. At the beginning, the character Keng the shaman in the story treated the main character badly because he had promised not to get involved with curses and wanted to dissuade Khem from being around him. After that, there wasn’t much progress in their romantic relationship. In the middle of the story, we suddenly find out they’re going to end up together “just because,” due to some past-life connection a very lazy type of writing.
The character Khem is probably the least developed. He feels like one of those 1950s female characters who exist only to be saved by “the stronger man, the virile hero who will rescue him.” That kind of trope should have been left behind long ago. The character lacks personality and is simply pushed along by the plot.
The character Peem didn’t appeal to me either he’s that stoic, without much expression who’s only there to save the damsel in distress, even if at first he doesn’t want to.
The main couple has no chemistry, and worse, they fall into the same type of pairing we’ve seen in other BLs: one tries to give a passionate performance (Keng), while the other feels lifeless, cold, and dull like a puppet without emotion.
The secondary couple seems to exist only to make up for the lack of romance in the main one. The main couple could be considered a “slow burn,” but there’s a difference between a well-developed slow burn and complete stagnation.
The acting was very poor, as is common with this production company. Especially Namping there are about three more demanding scenes that required stronger acting, and he didn’t deliver in any of them.
I also found the dialogue uninspired and sleepy, and the episodes overly long and boring.
The good part of the series is the special effects, the music, and the performance of the actress who plays Ramphueng. You can see there was at least some effort and investment in this BL series.
As for the ending, I found it anticlimactic. I didn’t like it much, to be honest.
Khemjira is a Thai BL series that promised to combine a horror story with romance (boys’ love). The premise was very interesting a character, Khem, who suffers from a family curse.
The problem is that they decided to make the story too long, and at times it’s quite tedious to watch. The romance part was the weakest, in my opinion. At the beginning, the character Keng the shaman in the story treated the main character badly because he had promised not to get involved with curses and wanted to dissuade Khem from being around him. After that, there wasn’t much progress in their romantic relationship. In the middle of the story, we suddenly find out they’re going to end up together “just because,” due to some past-life connection a very lazy type of writing.
The character Khem is probably the least developed. He feels like one of those 1950s female characters who exist only to be saved by “the stronger man, the virile hero who will rescue him.” That kind of trope should have been left behind long ago. The character lacks personality and is simply pushed along by the plot.
The character Peem didn’t appeal to me either he’s that stoic, without much expression who’s only there to save the damsel in distress, even if at first he doesn’t want to.
The main couple has no chemistry, and worse, they fall into the same type of pairing we’ve seen in other BLs: one tries to give a passionate performance (Keng), while the other feels lifeless, cold, and dull like a puppet without emotion.
The secondary couple seems to exist only to make up for the lack of romance in the main one. The main couple could be considered a “slow burn,” but there’s a difference between a well-developed slow burn and complete stagnation.
The acting was very poor, as is common with this production company. Especially Namping there are about three more demanding scenes that required stronger acting, and he didn’t deliver in any of them.
I also found the dialogue uninspired and sleepy, and the episodes overly long and boring.
The good part of the series is the special effects, the music, and the performance of the actress who plays Ramphueng. You can see there was at least some effort and investment in this BL series.
As for the ending, I found it anticlimactic. I didn’t like it much, to be honest.
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