Great start but the closer it to the end the worse it gets
When I just started watching it I was honestly in love, it was such a great series, but the last few episodes were definitely lacking in a lot of places.But I do want to start with the things I liked.
I loved the story/plot and the way they executed it as well.
Music was also a good part of the series.
Acting was exceptional, all the emotional moments were shown beautifully, I honestly fell in love with the main characters acting.
Main characters and their differences, I honestly adored them a lot. Actors did a great job showing them to us.
I loved the Fu Li Kung's father, he was like a fresh breath of air after what Cheng's father did. The way he was supporting them was really cute.
Now to the things I didn't enjoy as much.
Fu Li Kung in the last episodes, I don't know what authors were thinking, but they absolutely made him into a full new character. I didn't understand why he would do what he did. A lot of the things he did and said were crazy out of character and felt like I was looking at the different person.
I wasn't the biggest fan of the side couple, for me, they were kinda just there. While the actors did a good job, the characters themselves weren't really a match for me personally, and I didn't felt much chemistry. At the same time, I did like the daughter and the way she was so supportive of her father's relationship.
I think the bartender Nikita storyline was really unnecessary, it was short and had no sense. We didn't get any backstory that would help us understand her and her feelings better, so in the end I was just bored by it and even slightly annoyed.
Overall it was pretty enjoyable to watch and ill definitely will rewatch it in the future!
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Yes but No
I want to start by saying it was absolutely not the worst series I ever watched, but omg was it mid or even bad.I have a lot of reasons for saying it, but let's start with some things I actually liked about this series.
Actors/acting was good, and I'm not only talking about main characters but side characters as well, there were few people I did enjoy seeing.
I also really liked the story, while I do think there was much more better ways they could've done it the idea was good, and I would love and see someone try to make something similar.
Chemistry between Gulf and Mew was there, it was nice and while I wasn't too much over the moon for it, I still found it enjoyable to watch these two to interact. I do have to say tho in my personal humble opinion Tharn and Type should've not ended up together. Because honestly, I cannot imagine a single good reason why any of them would want to be with another.
Tharn is just a spineless guy with no self-respect or dignity, who also has no concept of consent. He forgave Type multiple times without even him apologising for what he did first. Throughout the whole series I just wanted to grab Tharn by his shoulders, shake him and say “WAKE UP” because the way he would never stand up for himself when it came to Type is diabolical.
Also, the fact that he sexually assaulted Type not once is crazy and often overlooked by TharnType fans, but definitely shouldn't be. It was clearly shown multiple times how he would kiss Type while he is sleeping, gave him hickeys while he was drunk and blacked out, and the shower scene? Like let's not ignore it and instead of calling it cute, hot or sexy let's call it what it is, a sexual assault.
Type is a toxic asshole who doesn't respect a single person around him. While I know that Type has trauma, it absolutely doesn't excuse his behaviour towards people around him, people who care and love him. He disrespected and physically assaulted multiple people who absolutely did not deserved it and wouldn't apologise unless he gets some kind of “punishment” for doing so. And the way everybody around him act like it's normal is insane to me. It's important to acknowledge his traumatic experience, but let's not try to excuse his behaviour just because of something like this.
And while I'm talking about traumatic experience, I want to talk about Tar. I've seen multiple people say how tar was annoying, stupid and stuff like this. I want to start by saying that victim-blaming is a terrible thing, and y'all doing it is just disgusting.
There wasn't a single thing that he did that would make him as bad as y'all trying to paint him to be. Throughout his whole story, I was just feeling so sorry for him, and he absolutely did nothing to deserve what happened to him.
He was so scared, traumatised and broken I cannot imagine blaming him for anything at all, all the “bad” things that he did were just a Lhong's disgusting plan, and he is the only one to blame here.
Now for the Lhong and oh do I have a thing or two to talk about. First off, the fact that he didn't get any jail time or ANY repercussions for that matter is CRAZY to me. He was so disgusting, everything about him made my skin crawl. He is not just a bad guy he is a devil himself, and there are still people trying to defend him saying he was misunderstood, he is so UNDERhated.
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, could excuse his behaviour, the things he did are literally illegal. Sabotaging all of the Tharns relationship, paying three man to gang-rape a high-schooler (Tar), and then also blackmailing the same boy and pressuring him into doing things he was not comfortable with to break Tharn and Type up.
He is the worst of the worst, he is a terrible human being and all that he deserves is a jail time!!!
Honestly, there is so much more bad people in this series, since most of the characters were kinda good until they did something crazy and made my opinion about them fully change. But there were also characters that I liked, but they are not worth mentioning except for the one character that I liked the most, and it's Techno. Techno would always add this nice and comedic feel to the series when needed the most, as well as being a great supportive friend and trying to help Type with anything he could. There was one thing that made me a bit uncomfortable is when he really would not believe Tar even when he has seen a proof, and tried to tell Type that as well. But other than that, I would say that he is my favourite character.
In conclusion, I am kinda happy that I watched this series, since I wanted to give it a try all the way from 2019. I first tried watching it back then when it was just coming out, but it was too much for me, so I dropped it. But I am happy that I came back, but I am even happier that I finally finished it.
I did enjoy it to some degree, but of course all of the red flags were really hard to close my eyes on and just try to push through.
I do think though that this series is overrated, and it is really toxic, so for anybody to enjoy it at least a little, you need to be able to “ignore” a lot of stuff. Otherwise, it is definitely unenjoyable to watch.
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NO...
This was terrible, nothing shown in here excuses what Lhong did, not even in the slightest!Oh! He had a sad childhood! Oh! Tharn never looked at him romantically! Oh, poor Lhong…
WOMP! WOMP! WOMP!
How sad…sad that I don't care at all, omg the things he did are borderline ILLEGAL, and you're seriously going to sit here and make a sad ass edit of Lhong story being like: “Look!! He is hurting!!!”. SO WHAT??? Is that a reason to pay three men to gang-rape a high-schooler? Is it? Because I don't think so! And is it a reason to sabotage all of the Tharn's previous relationship, I also don't think so!
So please excuse me if I misunderstood something, but I don't think that Lhong needed a whole special episode just for his “sad” and tearful story. But what he actually needs is a jail time (!!!) and a weekly if not daily meetings with psychiatrist.
Because something is clearly ain't right, and something should be done about it.
Lhong is one of the worst side characters there is, and honestly, you couldn't pay me to try to feel even a tad bit sorry for him…
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BIG disappointment...
That was indeed a rollercoaster, and not a good one.Of course, I had low to none expectations, but somehow it was still worse than what I had in mind.
It's so slow that even watching it at x2 is not enough, that was so boring it's not even funny.
They had enough plot for 4 episodes max, but they choose to stretch it out and honestly that was a terrible idea, since in the end I had nothing to say about the plot except is that there was barely any…
The only reason I could see why anybody would want to watch it, is for a Mark but even then it is so not worth it, omg at this point just go and watch/rewatch a Jack and Joker or something because there you could at least enjoy what you're seeing instead of being bored to death and just honestly annoyed at how bad this is.
I think that hating on some series is kinda bad, but to be honest with this one it's the first time I'm literally agreeing with almost every comment and every review, because only god knows how I didn't just drop this series and went on with my life.
I'm always trying to push through the series and finish them no matter how bad they are, so I did finish that one, but I wouldn't recommend it even to my enemies.
Okay, so now that I finished with my rant, let's talk more in depth about the things that I did and didn't like about this series!
Things I DID like:
1. The cinematography was pretty good, a lot of beautiful shots, especially food. I enjoyed watching and even honestly learning a bit more about the Thai food.
2. The acting was not the worst I've seen, Mark and Zung did a pretty good job when it comes to acting, I did enjoy their performance. There were a few weird moments, but other than that, the acting wasn't lacking.
And that's about it when it comes to things that I liked…
Now, the thing's that I DIDN'T like:
1. SIDE COUPLES! We are starting strong with the side couples, throughout the whole series I was honestly so uninterested in them. When it comes to Lek and Chompoo I would just mostly ignore them since we saw them together only 2–3 times per entire series. But when it comes to Vich and Prem omg I would sigh every time I would see them on the screen, there were NO chemistry AT ALL, there were no signs that they would be together at all. Of course, it's easy to understand that they would end up together, but they had little to none interactions that would pull them in that direction.
This couple were so unnecessary, and it would make so much sense if they would be just friends/colleagues.
2. Unnecessary side characters without a proper backstory! Instead of trying to stretch this series as much as possible, they should've written better backstory to most of the side characters. Wiphob, Chef Mu and Eve had very little screen time, and the one that they did have was not enough to understand them. They were painted to be a “bad guys” but as much as I tried to feel at least something towards their characters I ended up feeling nothing since I couldn't even understand half of what was going on.
3. The Aek's mom. When it comes to the main character's mom I had a lot of questions about her “motives” and what exactly she was trying to do. The fact she was against Aek becoming a chef, and a lot of other stuff she did, do not sit right with me since it doesn't make much sense, but oh well.
4. SLOW! And that says it all. If you plan to watch it, I could only recommend doing it on x2 since watching it in any other way is just a torture.
5. Episodes № 8, 9, 10! I don't even want to talk about it, if you know you know and if you don't, believe me you don't want to know, that was just straight up garbage, no excuses.
That's about it, I can't believe I'm finally free and don't have to ever go through that hell of a ride again!!! :D
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Cute and short
This was pretty cute, and I liked how he reacted to the various versions of his boyfriend in ways I didn't necessarily expect!It's nothing crazy, but sometimes something simple and short is great. The idea was really creative, and I would say it was implemented very well.
I wouldn't mind if it was a bit longer, but even so it was pretty good!
My favourite thing about this short film just has to be the meaning behind it all, and the ending, it was very sweet!
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Interesting, sweet and mature story
It's great, I loved it a lot. I was a bit unsure about watching the second season, especially after watching the special episode, but I'm really happy that I watched it after all, because that was perfect!I do appreciate the maturity that this show has, especially with all the themes that were included here. The mental health problems and the problems that some people have to go through because of them.
The main couple was great and had an interesting story line. I was a bit disappointed when I realised that the dinner with main character's father that Shi De suggested won't be shown to us. I think that would be a great way to show that their previous conflict is resolved, or at least they are working on it.
I did however was really pleased to see main character's dialogue with his father, I'm happy that father found his peace and accepted main character because that's what makes him happy.
I also really enjoyed the side couple, I was extremely happy for them even in the first season, after i first time saw them interact with each other I was hoping that they could at least be good friends, so I was really happy when I saw them together.
Of course, I would prefer for CEO and Pei Shou Yi to have more of a happy ending, but as much I wanted it, I'm more than pleased with how everything ended. Not everything in this world is rainbows and unicorns, so I cannot expect a happy ending from a "couple" that was doomed for the worst before it even started.
I did enjoy the second season a bit more than the first.
Will definitely rewatch it again!
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