Giselle

GMMTV has a big problem in the casting department. I am the first one happy whenever a couple leaves the high school/university dungeon, but why tf did they choose such young-looking actors in roles such as police captain and police inspector? It looks so wrong for some reason, like why tf is the boss a 9-year-old?? It's not even like they don't have older-looking actors available.
It is not a problem of acting, I want to make this very clear. Besides Joong and Dunk not being the best or most experienced actors in the company, I know that they are able to do their job (and they did), they can carry various scenes, they have arguably one of the best chemistry in the entirety of that building, which genuinely was the truly best thing of the show, the only one that didn't disappoint me.
I will stand by the fact that they were not the right actors for the show, but honestly, besides being pretty bothering as a thing, it was not as bothering as basically everything else in the show.

Let's start by saying that the show is based on an absolutely impossible situation: they expected us to believe that Puifai was some sort of "Juliet", that took something to fake her death and then came back like nothing happened. If she took that KCl in that moment, by the time everyone was awake and the ambulance arrived (mind you, they explicitly said at the beginning of the show that they took their sweet time to call any help when they saw Puifai dead because they were scared), all of her vital functions should have been irreversibly shut off and she would be already dead.
And honestly everything after that was just a mess. You are telling me that Dr. Puth was the only one to have access to the body, that nobody else checked her? That nobody else noticed she was alive?? Bullshit.
Now, I was completely 100% on Puifai's side. She deserved to take her revenge. But the way she took her revenge was so goofy I always giggled when the killer appeared. They had to put the killer under an animated mask; I just know that whoever was in charge of it (I guess the director, but not sure) thought they ate when they put happy, funny and cute expressions on the killer mask, in the attempt to portray a psychopathic character and give a feeling of discomfort when opposing a happy mask to such cruel acts. But honestly all I could do was just laugh at them. Instead of thinking he was a sociopath, all I could think of is that they had to buy a mask and the only one available was this one.
And then again, why tf would the killer go out of their way to print those personalized truth or dare cards? Why doing so? No killers on the face of the earth ever did this, like just pick a paper sheet from your house and write on it. No really, goofiest killer ever. And also most powerful killer ever?? Can someone tell me how tf were they in possession of literally everything??? They had possession of basically every single security camera of the entire city, private or public. They knew and had everything, even when there was no way such a thing was possible. Literally wtf was this??
With this said, I want to make clear that I was 100% on Puifai's side, I was happy whenever one of them died, and I honestly hoped that both Champ and J met their fate too for the way they treated her.

And the police investigation was even worse?? I hope the Thai police department won't sue them because they genuinely give them such a bad look. Now, I'm no Thai police officer, no Thai law expert, and all my knowledge comes from years of following homicide cases on TV, so I don't want to sound like "I know everything", but damn, even a 5-year-old would have handled those investigations better.
Honestly, already from Bell's killing it was very much clear that there was not one killer, but that Puifai had a different assassin compared to the others given how different their deaths were. The police was sure instead that there was only one man they had to find… how? Puifai's killing had nothing similar to the others, there was no truth or dare card attached, she was not violently killed like the others. Of course they had different killers, it was so clear.
But in general, what did they even do? Kamin was in charge of the interrogations, and somehow messed up even those? I don't know how Thai laws work, I don't know if they have their own version of Miranda rights or whatever, but coming from someone who had their education and first years in the world in the United States, I found it very funny how he did his interrogations. When the suspect asked for a lawyer, instead of shutting up like he's supposed to, he got even more angry and refused?? Does he know it's not legal??
And honestly speaking, they could have very much prevented literally every single murder (besides maybe the first one) by placing the guys under constant police control, preventing them from being alone the specific moment they receive the letters. But no, what about we just let them be.
And in general, why tf are there just like three/four people to take care of a serial killer? It's a killer with an unprecedented amount of victims in a short time, and a lot of those people that are dying are pretty rich and involved in society, with powerful family members. The whole city should be in lockdown, they would have used way more than just two dumb youngsters to deal with such a thing.
And why did it take them so long? Couldn't they just give some police officers as personal guards until they discovered the killers? Couldn't they have done a more thorough investigation? Like digging into the victims' pasts, thinking of who could want them all killed and why (given that they all came from the same social group)? Or even just deeply searching the victims' houses?? It took them 0 seconds to find the cameras hidden.

You know what, I lost hope. Jade and Kamin, the two protagonists, have absolutely NO professional ethic. Nonexistent.
Let me talk about some instances where I was like ??? (buckle up cause this is gonna be veeery long)
It was already from their second meeting at the crime scene, when they decided to compete on who would solve the case first?? My face when I read that was absolutely disgusted. A girl is dead and you want to compete??
Or when they were at the bar and Jade, for jealousy reasons, decided to show his gun to a random man that was simply trying to approach and hit on Kamin?? I'm pretty sure it's illegal to do so. So unprofessional and also extremely risky given that you were undercover.
Or the fact that they keep taking statements from suspects outside of the police station? Are they even considered valid in court given that most of the time they are not recorded or taken in a private context? I guess we will never know.
Whenever they search for clues basically anywhere, but especially in a victim's house or at a murder scene, they don't follow a single protocol. They just vibe completely, which can result in ruined investigations and evidence that cannot be taken to court because it was not obtained ethically.
The whole way they discovered Bell's apartment would have been enough to fire them: if they tell you that there is a possibility of an assassin in the house at that moment, you check the ENTIRE house, not just trust that no one answered your "is anybody here".
And the worst part was how they kept flirting on literally every single crime scene. There is a mutilated body on the floor, blood everywhere, a young life has just been lost and your first thought is to flirt with your coworker… oh hell no. It was so unnecessary and, to a certain degree, even disturbing and uncomfortable to watch. I very much didn't like it.
To summarize how dumb this show was, let me tell you about a scene in ep 1 or 2, where Jade uses a spy that works at a food stand and the moment you give him a specific word, they give him an envelope. All this secrecy just for Kamin to take the envelope and open it in public, under literally everyone's eyes. Why all the struggle if you behave like someone just gave you a present??

And now onto the worst part: the directing department. Oh my God. It hadn't been in a long time that I saw such bad direction in a show.
The directing wasn't the worst part, I feel like the scenes were pretty good, the angles, the cameras and everything were not bad.
The screenwriter was fighting demons. It's been so long since I read such cringe dialogues taken seriously.
THE EDITING. Oh my God the editing. The scenes jump between one another without a single logical connection. No time to process anything.
The coloring was terrorism. It made everything worse. They should have gone for a grey/dark palette, instead of that heavy yellow tone. Everyone looked sick all the time.
The sound: the microphones were not microphoning. But at least they didn't overuse music.
Rewatch value is honestly very low. Once you know the mystery, there's no reason to watch again.


Shout out to the makeup department for not giving a single fuck whenever Joong/Jade's tattoo disappeared, and shoutout to whoever made the opening credits and basically spoiled the whole plot.