This is giving me the same vibes but the L Word did when I first watched it! I'm expecting there to be a few genuinely romantic couples, and then some very messy ones.
It looks like we're on a good trajectory toward Duang becoming less childish and more serious, which I really appreciate. They set up his character to have so much room for growth. I can't wait for Qin to meet Duang's family and finally understand why he is the way he is.
The last scene was epic, but now I'm curious how Thee knew that Peach was in danger, since he showed up so quickly.…
The guy in his memory with the golf club is his dad, I'm pretty sure. So Wiwid attacking him in the same way just brought forward that memory. I don't think they're linked in any way.
As much as I love lighthearted series, I'm really impressed that they seem to be sticking to a darker theme with this show without breaking the mood with jokes or sound effects. It's a bold choice, considering the current market of Thai BLs.
The directors of the show are the authors of the novel. I don't know if they ever directed anything before this.…
I've read the novel, and I noticed that they stick very much to their stage directions in the show. As a writer, we usually don't write walk-and-talks - we write hand, eye, or facial movements, and that's enough to keep the readers' interest. So it makes sense that the novel writers don't have much experience translating those to a visual medium. I saw that they do some gentle panning with the camera during the seated conversation shots to add some visual movement, but I hope they do a bit more in future episodes. Perhaps getting up to look out the window or to refill coffee or something. I'm just fascinated by the process of transferring a novel into television!
I'm partway through episode 3, and while I'm really enjoying it, I desperately need the director to learn about walk-and-talks. I don't know how many more seated conversations I can handle where two men just talk about a pharmaceutical. Usually, I have a pretty good attention span and a high tolerance for detailed convos, but I need them to move - walk, run, do jumping jacks, whatever.
I love that this wasn't a show about a woman and two men who love her. It was nice to see that they were all the glue that held the relationship together in some way.
Holy shit. Someone posted that beard screenshot in the photos section. Why this torture?????😂😂😂😂
The way I paused and giggled for a minuted straight at the facial hair. Who let him out of makeup like that?? I kinda love the idea that Sorn drew it on himself in a bid to gain sympathy over his heartbreak, and no one had the heart to call him out on it.
I thought I would just enjoy this series as a guilty pleasure (and oh boy did I get a million giggles out of Sorn's facial hair), but they're doing a pretty good job of getting at some deeper layers. The title makes me think of Pride and Prejudice, where Elizabeth and Darcy are the epitome of both pride and prejudice, but neither of them really want to admit it. Sorn keeps calling Jun stubborn, but hello? I was especially struck this episode by the way they juxtaposed Sorn/Jun and Thai/Champ - Champ is clearly pissed off that Thai is jumping down Sorn's throat about not knowing what he wants with Jun, when Thai himself hasn't nailed down any specifics with Champ. Like, maybe save some of that energy you're using to get into other peoples' business to address your own relationship. And Sorn's fears are proven to be legitimate by the fact that Thai hits him *while* Sorn's trying to tell Thai that he didn't let himself feel anything for Jun because Thai is so protective of him. I didn't fully understand until that scene why Sorn was so worried about Thai. Then, of course, there's the depiction of how two people with drastically different brains fight. Jun always has the words locked and loaded, ready to pull out whenever he's mad, and Sorn just stands there like a sad, disgruntled pelican (iykyk) who can't seem to find any words at all. Almost makes me feel bad for him. Almost... I know some people don't love that Sorn's reasons for not dating Jun seem to keep changing, but I think that's the point - he has a deeper reason (being burned from his last relationship) and a more immediate reason (Thai, who is ready to beat him up at a moment's notice). Even after he pushes past his relationship trauma, Thai is still there guarding Jun. Sorn is a much more complex character than I was anticipating. I thought he was a suave playboy at the beginning, but he seems to be suffering from arrested development that makes him less emotionally mature than Jun, leaving him constantly confused as to what's expected of him and how he keeps messing up.
This Episode Had Everything: Sink Acrobatics, Beige Underwear, and Sexual Antihistamines1. Thanu: Straight, But…
This is the perfect summation of all my thoughts every episode. This is definitely a guilty pleasure watch for me, because it really really shouldn't work, yet somehow it does. I'm always surprised when the episode ends; I just get so sucked into how bad Sorn is at talking about or acknowledging feelings.
While I enjoyed elements of the series, I'm sad they didn't pace things differently to allow for more with the mother and with the alternate world characters.
Loving the show so far, but I'm pretty annoyed at the brothers' reaction to their mother's explanation. She made it clear that she was just coming over to say goodbye to their father, which means she wasn't planning on telling them she was leaving until she had already left. Even when she's apologizing, there's this extreme selfishness to everything she's saying. This episode just made me feel so sad for Faifah.
I had so many thoughts on this episode, but my main one is that I love that they brought Rak's character full circle. It's like his dad was the final boss in terms of standing up for himself and saying what he needs. I thought the scenes between the dad and the rest of the family were a great reminder that we still live in a world where almost every society is patriarchal. I kept wanting the mom or sister to say something, but when you've been raised to believe that the dad is the head of the household, what can you say? It made me think of the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding where the mom says that the man is the head of the household, but the woman is the neck. She turns him wherever she wants him to go. There are so many women out there who are in relationships where they have to subtly steer their husbands in the right direction. They can't overtly tell them to do something, or else the man feels like he's being emasculated. I also think that the dad's quick change was pretty realistic. There are plenty of parents who dote on their children as long as their children are obedient. The minute their child steps a foot out of line and is no longer easily controllable, the parent punishes them. I'm glad that Rak stood up for himself and held firm instead of giving into his father's need to control him. This show has turned out to be far better than I thought it would from the first episode! There's so much character development that I feel we don't always get to see in these shows.
I was especially struck this episode by the way they juxtaposed Sorn/Jun and Thai/Champ - Champ is clearly pissed off that Thai is jumping down Sorn's throat about not knowing what he wants with Jun, when Thai himself hasn't nailed down any specifics with Champ. Like, maybe save some of that energy you're using to get into other peoples' business to address your own relationship.
And Sorn's fears are proven to be legitimate by the fact that Thai hits him *while* Sorn's trying to tell Thai that he didn't let himself feel anything for Jun because Thai is so protective of him. I didn't fully understand until that scene why Sorn was so worried about Thai.
Then, of course, there's the depiction of how two people with drastically different brains fight. Jun always has the words locked and loaded, ready to pull out whenever he's mad, and Sorn just stands there like a sad, disgruntled pelican (iykyk) who can't seem to find any words at all. Almost makes me feel bad for him. Almost...
I know some people don't love that Sorn's reasons for not dating Jun seem to keep changing, but I think that's the point - he has a deeper reason (being burned from his last relationship) and a more immediate reason (Thai, who is ready to beat him up at a moment's notice). Even after he pushes past his relationship trauma, Thai is still there guarding Jun.
Sorn is a much more complex character than I was anticipating. I thought he was a suave playboy at the beginning, but he seems to be suffering from arrested development that makes him less emotionally mature than Jun, leaving him constantly confused as to what's expected of him and how he keeps messing up.
I thought the scenes between the dad and the rest of the family were a great reminder that we still live in a world where almost every society is patriarchal. I kept wanting the mom or sister to say something, but when you've been raised to believe that the dad is the head of the household, what can you say? It made me think of the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding where the mom says that the man is the head of the household, but the woman is the neck. She turns him wherever she wants him to go. There are so many women out there who are in relationships where they have to subtly steer their husbands in the right direction. They can't overtly tell them to do something, or else the man feels like he's being emasculated.
I also think that the dad's quick change was pretty realistic. There are plenty of parents who dote on their children as long as their children are obedient. The minute their child steps a foot out of line and is no longer easily controllable, the parent punishes them. I'm glad that Rak stood up for himself and held firm instead of giving into his father's need to control him.
This show has turned out to be far better than I thought it would from the first episode! There's so much character development that I feel we don't always get to see in these shows.