Earth

This has to be one of the most beautiful shows that I have watched in the recent times....the forests, the sounds, the moon, the camaraderie, and the love.....it was just so poignant....While the ending was bitter-sweet and real, it ended on a note of hope and was plain beautiful...... I still hope that they will think of making another season...but even if they don't, this will remain one of the most cherished Thai shows that I have ever watched...my verdict is just go for it....even if it seems slow in the beginning, keep at it, it is worth it.

BL-needle score: 6. Low to Moderate BL-ness so far with interesting themes on life connections

I started this one with zero expectations..... since anything with a forest theme attracts me, I started watching this out of sheer curiosity.... but I never imagined that I would end up loving this so much......the gentle and yet deeply symbolic tone of this story grew on me with every new episode...and in essence it was way deeper than just the tale that it seems to be telling at the surface...even though the script does have loopholes, I loved how deep and metaphorical the narrative was.

I loved how they show the un-rushed pace of life in the forest, the mundane and small things like eating, getting together to eat, drink and sing for a birthday, raising a nursery, trying to make a difference by drawing the faces of the people for each meal box, picking some beautiful wild flowers for your loved one ....and all this while knowing pretty well that one tiny spark of fire can change the entire scene in a just a few moments and burn down an entire forest that has grown up like that...slow, quiet, and through small but painstaking effort by all beings that love the forest and call it home....I also loved how the simple, hard, and yet joyful life in the forest was juxtaposed with the starkly contrasting sparkle of the bustling city, of Fifa's big dreams, the reality and disappointment of Fifa's results....and then Hem's holding, almost protecting him, like the tall trees in the forest..

I also loved how Fifa and Hem inched closer in small, miniscule ways and yet there was no denying the strong connect between them...the restrained love was almost hurt and yet was so damn beautiful.....and then, those small things...Hem deliberately not taking the crutch from the forest office store so that Fifa has to depend on him to move around....the insistence to sleep on the same bed....they waited untill the very last to show explicit signs of closeness and even that was so superbly restrained, as it should have been.....in tandem with the tone of the storytelling all through....

Both the leads did a fantastic job and their subtle, restrained and yet undeniable chemistry was mesmerising.......This show really, really surprised me and in such a lovely way....