GrungtephGuy

Oh, so it is not her? I am in episode 3 and I thought she was the villain. She is evil trying to expel people from their houses.

I wanna know about future fanmeetings because I want to go there.

Do you guys know where I can know more about the actors? I would like to see them in some meeting or something like that, but I don't know where to find information.

Yes. I don't know why people are so surprised about this.

Have you been to Thailand? They do that here.

No.

It was racism. Colorism is something Americans created for their own society. It doesn't fit everywhere. What happens in the series and what happens here in Thailand is clearly racism. One ethnic group (specially Thai Chinese) is on the top of the racial pyramid. The actress who plays Phri is a Thai-Chinese. I had a Thai Chinese boyfriend some months ago and his family used to make awful comments about how dark people are ugly and how Thai Chinese are smarter than the other Thais.

Besides that, the series normalized her attitude. There wasn't one single moment where her attitude was criticized. Her racist comments are part of the comic relief moments. This is a common thing in Thai society. I am a teacher here and I have seen how darker Thais feel about these "comic" scenes. This series was very vocal when addressing discrimination in Thai society. They were very direct when they talked about homophobia, for example. When we see the comments made by Phri, we can notice that they weren't criticized during the show. If you watch other lakorns or if you come to Thailand you are going to see that she is behaving like a normal Thai and the series endorsed her attitudes. When the characters faced homophobia, the series denounced it. But there is no denounce related to Phri's comments.

Believing that her comments were intended to be a critic on Thai society is a very naive belief. Most Thais will hear her comments and just laugh. It won't create any awareness on this subject.

About her attitudes related to Taohoo, she couldn't blame him for stealing Nat because Nat was never hers to be stollen in the first place. Even though they tried to create a redemption arc for her, she didn't pay for her actions. What she did was criminal. If I was Nat I would go to the police to report her for sexual harassment. I am tired of Thai series portraying this kind of behavior as a funny thing. BL fan girls act like crazy b*tches because of this kind of normalization. Phrit is the alter ego of BL fan girls who are in love with gay characters.

About the character called Phri, I really hated her annoying behavior chasing after Nat like that. She was a stalker and toxic job colleague.
Besides that, her racist comments about how her uncle was "too dark to be handsome" were unacceptable. Channel 3 should avoid this kind of shit.

The ending was not unexpected. This is the same ending we have on the books. And we had a lot of hints of what was going to happen at the end.
People don't like it because they wanted a fluffy happy ending. Although I think the end was happy enough.

The ending was extremely open and unrealistic. Nothing happened to Tawin, they didn't face any consequences for their actions and there is no reasonable explanation for the bad cops and the gangster stop chasing them.

If the series was realistic, all of them you be in jail for what they did, lol

The romantic plot had a satisfactory ending, but the political part of the story was full of holes. They committed a series of crimes but they didn't face any legal consequence. What did happen to Tawin? Why did the bad cops and the gangster give up chasing the boys? We're they tired?

I disagree. Nanon was already appreciated as a good actor for a long time. He got a lot of positive responses from The Gifted, for example.

Not exactly. When you don't use any word before the name, it doesn't necessarily means equality or intimacy. You have Thai words to replace the "P" if you are close to the person. Example: Muang or Gae. The lack of a word might mean defiance, not intimacy.

Even Bad Buddy is full of comedic sound pollution. Although it is not so much as Lovely Writer. In LW the sounds are insanely annoying.

Nope.
That was just an advertisement moment created to sell a product.

The scene was unnatural and forced.

I wanted to write "Wai", lol

No. Comedy is not a side element in Bad buddy. Comedy is all over around the entire show. It is a light-hearted story full of comedic/fluffy moments to please the audience and make them feel butterflies are flying inside their stomachs. People watch it to relax, to forget about their problems. No one take it seriously.

C'mmon, they filmed a creepy embarrassing dance scene only to promote an energetic drink. How can you talk about something being ridiculous after that? I still love the show, but it has a lot of ludicrous situations. And that's fine for me.

Not me is too political to be a series to watch for relaxing purposes. Specially when you live in a dictatorship and University students are the main political prisoners lying on Thai jails.

I didn't like ep. 9 that much. I think Wai and Korn needed to ask sorry for their attitudes.

Wai was terribly wrong and set himself up as a victim and ended the episode without apologizing. I think they took the idea that every conflict must be resolved in a single episode to its ultimate consequences. In general, this idea has been good, but in this episode it didn't work out very well, as they didn't satisfactorily resolve what Wai did.

I didn't like Korn's attitude either. People were praising him, but the guy just defended Pat under the hood. In front of the veterans, he acted wrongly. And he didn't apologize for that either. And worse: Pat found this attitude completely normal! If I have a friend and he says he's just supportive without the others knowing, I tell him to get screwed.

That advertising energetic dance between the two of them was cringe also.

But I liked the criticisms of common BL lines (like "I don't like men, I just like you" and also calling the boyfriend "wife".

Yes, it is a ron-con. Classic Thai ron-con full of noisy pollution. The dramatic scenes are a bit exaggerated like a telenovela, which soften the tone of the series making it more a teenage light-hearted show. A dramatic romance is Young Royals, for example. There is no noisy pollution for comic scenes, no caricature dramatic scenes, no use of jokes every minute.

No. BB is not a drama. It is comedy with dramatic elements. Dramas are not fluffy as BB is.
BB is a series we watch to relax. It doesn't make you think about any problem. There is no psychological or social problem addressed. It is a classic Thai ron-con full of sweet moments and noisy pollution during 'funny' situations.

Even though the idea in Not me is pretty much like a telenovela, the issues addressed and the seriousness reaches a higher level. It is much more difficult to write this type of series. Ron-cons are a safer ground for GMM.