Telomeke

Yes I did the research. The Internet is so powerful nowadays! It's amazing (and a little bit scary) how much info you can find on Google Maps and Facebook now. Hope you have a good time in Thailand! I've found more locations and will post them later. Takes a bit long to compile them unfortunately

Yes it is -- it's actually the Satit Bilingual School in Rangsit. More info on my Tumblr if you're interested about the filming locations: https://telomeke-bbs.tumblr.com/post/678798642889523200/bad-buddy-filming-locations

The hospital in BBS at Ep.10 [1/4] 18.30 is also the same one in "Star in My Mind" at Ep.3 [1/4] 3.02 -- it's the Boonyavej Hospital at 836 Petchkasem Road. 😊 Director Noppharnach said it was one of the few open for filming during the pandemic. I think GMMTV films in a lot of the same locations. PatPran's high school is also Suppalo School in The Eclipse.

Thanks Benedict! 👍 😉 I arrived at the same thoughts independently (GMTA/FSD!) and posted the following on Youtube Ep.9 [1/4] a little after Ep.9 aired – thought I'd share by reposting here too:

The scene at the picnic table is really significant. When Pran clasped Pat’s hand for all the world to see at Ep.9 [1/4] 13:44, he was making a powerful statement, after he’d refused Pat’s offer to take their relationship back to covert and private, a sacrifice that open-book Pat was willing to make to help Pran reconcile with his best friend Wai. Pran’s gesture basically showed that he understood Pat’s need to be publicly honest about their relationship, and he was going to support it by continuing to be overt about expressing his feelings. And even when Pat got cross at Pran typically deflecting difficult questions (Ep.9 [1/4] 11:40), he still found it in him to pass Pran’s iced milk tea over in a quiet, thoughtful gesture of conciliation (Ep.9 [1/4] 11:58). Pran’s apology by way of playful double-speak (at Ep.9 [1/4] 12:02 “Here, the last bite. It’s yours only, Pat. No one else gets to share it”) was matched by Pat doing the double-speak (“This iced tea is very sweet” at Ep.9 [1/4] 14:00). Of course, they're talking about each other, not food and drink – and Pran’s response (“But I ordered less sweet”) was actually a full-circle moment, a throwback to earlier scenes in their history, all significant to Pran.

I only realized this upon rewatching, but one of Pat’s favorite drinks is iced milk tea (we find this out way back in Ep.1 [1/4] 9.54, when we see that he’d ordered it so often at a stall, the vendor already knew his order beforehand). And while they were still in school, Pran gave in to his budding feelings and bought Pat some iced milk tea as a gesture of love (Ep.4 [2/4] 0.56) – but when he went to give it to him, Pran’s romantic hopes were crushed at the sight of Pat flirting affectionately with Ink instead. He was brutally reminded of this disappointment years later, when both Pat and Ink re-entered his life and he saw Ink buying Pat iced milk tea at Ep.4 [2/4] 0.20 – she says “Here. Less sweet” to which Pat responds a couple of beats later “It’s still sweet.”

So the exchange at the picnic table is significant, and doubly satisfying for Pran – no longer the heartbroken outsider who can only love Pat silently from afar, he gets to re-live the scene where iced milk tea symbolizes a relationship moment sweetly lived, made sweeter by love, but with both him and Pat now firmly in the couple seat instead. 💖💖💖🦋 🦋 🦋😍

I think Director Backaof wanted Ohm and Nanon to focus on the emotions conveyed by the song, and have them react (Ohm especially) based on that. Actors instinctively react to each other's visual communications; removing that connection means that they would have had no choice but to focus on the message carried by the lyrics and the melody -- and hopefully Ohm's reactions would convey Pat's genuine, heartfelt understanding of that. The song ultimately has a simple, poignant message at heart, but it's a powerful one -- that true love doesn't live (or have to live) in a fantasy escape (a lesson that Pat has learnt by the end of Ep.11). It's just as valid and as mountainously beautiful when wrapped up in the mundane details of everyday life. I read it too as Pran's message of comfort to Pat (since they'd already agreed to go back home) that wherever they are (in a paradise by the beach, or trapped in the war of their feuding parents) it doesn't matter -- the truth is they only need each other ("The answer I've been searching for/Love is only you").

Hoping against hope here... but if you look at Pran's eyes just after he tells his friends they've broken up (at Ep.11 [4/4] 14.47), it looks like he's doing a shifty side-eyed thing reminiscent of his sideways glance at Wai while pretending to fight Pat at Ep.5 [4/4] 2.37. Nanon's known for subtle touches in his acting like that... Could it be Pran's pretending here as he was pretending there? 🤔 And he's STILL wearing that watch...

PS
If part of you is wondering if it's really me (I know that thought would be in my head too 😉)... My latest comment on Ep.10 [1/4] has a little tip of the hat to you, BenedictTan and Mermaid for inspiring it... 🙏

I came to check out your re-posting of my two YT comments -- and got sucked in. Then I saw your comment and couldn't resist replying. 😊 Boy this comments section is addictive

🤣🤣🤣 Tale of a Thousand Bad Buddies... I think one of Pran's old singing bandmates would like to join them up there too -- but she just doesn't have the heart...