audrey

i don't know. i guess mandee/domundi stuff aren't for me. i feel like at this point, they can afford to find better writers for their dramas, hello! i do like the chemistry of their actors but the material they're working with are just... not it. listen, i do watch a lot of silly-goofy-corny dramas but there has to be something fun for me in it. either a character or a trope or a plotline etc. i mean this had its cute moments but ultimately, this one was just really bland to me, from the storylines to the characters. i thought the romance did not make sense. i don't know how or when or why muenfah and teerak started liking each other. teerak's character in particular was challenging for me to watch especially in the beginning. i understand the grumpy-sunshine trope and i'm into it. i like it, i do! but it's when they infantalized the sunshine character where i just... don't get it. they always do this in BLs (sigh). they did this to middleman's love as well (that's even worse because they're grown adults). no one acts this way or no characters are reacting properly in certain situations. it's just too much. the story was just boring to me and underdeveloped. both teerak and muenfah are just not as interesting as i wanted them to be, individually and together. i feel like they could have made it better if we had a good storyline about teerak being a people pleaser or muenfah's struggle about managing his emotions and anger. but they were all surface level and not executed very well.

if there's anyone who was remotely interesting to me, it would be lee. but he was just there for the most part. they suddenly threw a love interest in there for him towards the end but how am i supposed to get invested when there's really no story that was told. i was actually a bit confused about that. real and hia are a bit cute in the end there but their story was also underdeveloped and again, it just did not make sense to me so. (also, they did this thing where they had a female character who is a "bl fan" so she ships men in her real life......... pls that always gives me the ick i'm sorry. stop it.)

the acting overall was just okay. awkward at times sure but it's the kind of awkward i'm used to at this point lol. no one really stood out. so yeah, this is a miss for me unfortunately. i thought the writing was bad, the story and characters just didn't work for me. but hey, thomas and kong are cute tho!

ps: girl, i am still rooting for mandee/domundi to get it together because i am looking forward to khemjira and my expectations are very very low now so there's no way to go but up lmao