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I'm sorry but it bugs me that his dad's suit jacket was only half-lined, like he got it at Gentleman's Warehouse.

When Ben and Chopper discuss Ben's interest in Nueng, Ben seems to forget that he threw Nueng under the bus by saying Nueng initiated their kiss. Ganging up on poor An for selling the photo won't change that.

Ben's sudden change to liking Chopper could be partly motivated by the realization that after what Ben did, all hope for him and Nueng is now lost ... but I don't think the writers had that in mind. My guess is they just wanted to jumpstart the Chopper-Ben relationship so they just had Ben randomly switch teams.

How does this series rate an 8.2 while "I Will Knock You" gets an 8.0 ?

Thank you. It's been downvoted into oblivion but somehow kept a toehold. ^_^

I think we will soon see the last of Ink ... my guess is that instead we'll be witnessing Burger's sexual awakening. Now that he has upset King with his attempt at matchmaking he'll come to realize that King's attention means a lot to him.

That comment about King's "cute smile" didn't come out of nowhere haha.

Curious to know what is the reference to "50 Shades" that you noticed? ^_^

Maybe the stuff he said when he played himself in "War of Y" reflects his true opinion of BL.

I did a quick calculation to determine the "frequency of Hia" for this series. (In case you were unaware, this statistic is a new area of research in Thai drama physics.)

Under study for "Between Us" was the frequency of occurrence of the word "Hia" in character dialog, specifically Team's.

Let's see how we can arrive at a number.

For this series, Win and Team were "an item" for, say, 9 out of 12 episodes. This means that during the first three episodes Team was less inclined to address Tin as Hia, but for those other 9 the floodgates were open.

Now, let's say that in those eight episodes, the scenes where the two of them had a conversation took up roughly 30% of screen time. (A conservative estimate, I think.)

Their other time together was spent when they were sleeping, or when they were in scenes together but didn't converse, like at the pool. And, of course, there was the screen time given to the other storylines.

With this as a starting point I tried counting the number of times per minute Team said "Hia" when he and Win were having a conversation. I came up with three as a reasonable estimate.

This means that the possible number of times we heard the word "Hia" during the entire series was:

(9 episodes)*(60 minutes/episode)*(3 Hias/minute)*(30%) = 1,134

This is a lowball number, as I said earlier, but nonetheless by the final scene of the final episode my ears were bleeding.

It would be interesting to get stats for the other "Hia" series that ended this week, "Cutie Pie 2," but I found that one too excruciating to watch. There's only so much facial smoothing a pair of eyes can stand.

I urge Thai screenwriters to retire this word for the rest of the year, then use it sparingly beginning in 2024.

Thank you for the dazzling gift that is MSP.

I rewatched the opening of the first episode and saw that the dead kid was not Matteo. He has a couple of hoop piercings at the top of his right ear, through the cartilage. So, it's probably a character we haven't met yet.

Episode 2 is a vast improvement over Episode 1.

I could watch King flirt with Burger for an entire series. That kid's got game. I think Newyear is the best actor of the bunch, too.

I wonder if King will somehow win Burger over? I like how the mixup was explained by the end of the episode. I also like how Burger had a chance to express the ways in which he feels inferior to both King and Ink. That was so poignant. It would be nice to see King get closer to him and help to turn that around.

I know we're supposed to hate Ken, but he's got that "sinister but sexy" thing going on and I'm a sucker for that (at least in a drama -- wouldn't want to date someone like that in real life, thank you.)

What doesn't work, though, is the height difference between Ken and Shokun. When Ken's trying to bully him, Shokun towers over him and could probably deck him with a single punch.

The murder mystery seems completely unnecessary. Given how that last scene went, though, I'm wondering if the dead kid is Matteo.

A kiss to congratulate or a kiss to comfort him. I can dig it.

If he was still 17 during filming then I don't think a romantic kiss would be allowed. He turned 18 last October 18, so hopefully they filmed the final episodes after that.

If Fourth turned 18 by the time they filmed the later episodes then maybe we'll get a romantic kiss.

So, I hope production wrapped sometime after October 18th last year. 😊😊😊

(I should say that Tinn's comment about the kind of kiss Gun will get if he wins the competition has certainly raised expectations ... unless the outcome will be that they lose. 😢 )

It says a lot for this series that the only plot flaw I've detected so far is Tinn's mom hearing his excuse about pouring rain outside and not calling him on it.

She'd just been running around outdoors looking for him!

So, I thank the writers for knowing what matters as they let the story play out, because of course we'd rather hear Tinn and Gun's conversation by the pool in addition to the bonus of seeing them shirtless. (Sorry, I'm shallow like that.)

That was a shining moment in drama history for me as well.

Every other damn series would have had Tinn withhold that info, then while performing Gun would react and stumble with his singing until Tinn finally showed up in the audience.

It's such a better approach to have Gun accept that Tinn can't be there then be delighted that he shows up instead of just relieved.

At best it's a bromance. We probably won't see straightforward BL from the Mainland anytime soon.

I'm a recovered Christian and can relate to Yoo Han's predicament. I tried to pray the gay away but found my true salvation in college, where I faced up to who I am.

The story is light on character detail and we can only go with that they show, and Joo Won seems selfish and predatory.

He got the gay vibe from Yoo Han from the very first day, then wormed his way into the Bible study so he could case things out a little more. What made me feel really bad it is how Joo Won learned about Yoo Han's parents being dead and, after not offering any words of condolence, came up with the lame excuse of retrieving his Bible (how do you leave your Bible behind at a Bible study where your Bible is the only thing you showed up with?) to go in for the kill. As soon as he started talking about being too hot and sweaty I knew where that was going.

He did so much damage in such a short time. I'm glad I didn't meet someone like him when I was in my Christian Delusion phase.

I'm pretty sure that's sung by Alan Campana, the ML we haven't met yet.

One of the tags on here was "nudity", too. I just noticed it's gone now.

Tul more or less saved Waan's life but nobody in that family acknowledges it or thanks him.

A word I will be fine with never hearing again: "Hia". In this series it's like the Thai version of a frat boy addressing someone as "Bro" ever few seconds.