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It's on LineTV, if you're able to watch it there.

Yes, but that was just a guest role for 30 seconds.

I got Golden Blood meets Hometown's Embrace, but I hope it turns out like you see it.

I blame COVID, but I hacven't watched a lot of BL, I've watched ALL the BL. :)

"A bit annoying" in the way having cancer is "being a bit under the weather." You have to wonder what people are thinking when they write these stories - and was nobody watching the dailys while filming and seeing how painful and unfunny all her scenes are?

Kind of like Solipsism says, the other two adaptations had the same problem - they're sort of trying to be a comedy about severe trauma and child murder, which really only works if the story is absurdist and the children are horrible like in Willy Wonka. It's funny that owner of a dessert shop won't eat desserts. It's a little less funny that it's because he was being forced to eat it by a predator and then his cake got topped by blood spraying from someone's severered artery after he stabbed him with scissors. In a comedy, the baddie would be accidentally crushed by a falling piano or something, not a child stabbing someone in self-defense.

I think S5 is correct that it's supposed to be funny that Punn is a really nice guy that gets mistaken for a creep because of his misguided efforts to flirt, but then Weir is treated like The Most Gorgeous Man That Ever Lived even though his behavior is way past creepy and into sexual harassment. And in my opinion both Punn and Krathing are way, way more attractive (although Singto is looking good in Paint With Love [but not so much here]).

There are some casting problems - Singo is cute, but he's just not sexy, at least not in a way that says "gay conqueror". Lee is 2 years older than Singto and 4 older than Pluem, and it's fairly evident, so the "uncle" jokes fall flat and are tiresome, especially because Lee is obviously gorgeous and at his peak.

I'm basically watching this for Pluem and Lee, but I'm not sure there's enough here to hold my interest, especially as this is the third time I'm watching the same story, and they've done nothing to freshen it up.

I have a pretty serious crush on Jimmy too - it will be nice to see him play a character that smiles. I went back and watched the preview for Midnight Chicken again, and it does look good - the cinematography is great, and even thought it's YET ANOTHER restaurant BL, it looks like all the characters aren't comedicly wealthy, and it's really more like a fast-food place, so not really the same as the others. Plus Earth is in it.

That is indeed what it's called! On this forum and on YT, people routinely respond to rational criticism with a direct personal attack, and don't seem to recognize that attacking another person for their opinion is 1,000 times worse than a critical opinion (it's actually infinitely worse, because there is absolutely nothing wrong with expressing an opinion).

And before anyone says it, yes, there are ways of expressing opinions that are wrong ("In my opinion, Hitler was right"), but it's hard to go terribly wrong when offering a critique of light entertainment.

I went back and watched it - there was clearly already tension between the gangs, but it started when Wai flipped off Pat at the bar after his team lost the game they were watching, and it was Wai's group that posted the video that provoked more violence. Of course being provoked to violently attack someone because of a video is psychotic, but the whole situtation is hard to believe - they should all have been expelled.

People whose first recourse is always violence at college age are not really redeemable - if you haven't matured enough to find healthier ways to deal with social tension you don't belong in college and probably not society. Competition is very easily channeled into constructive activities, and Pran and Pat should have laid down the law with their groups - they should have said "if you want to be my friend, then no more of this", then stuck to it.

What the gangs are doing is felony criminal behavior, not "boys being boys", and it's a miracle nobody has been seriously injured or killed (it's not really a miracle because it's a BL, but whatever :)

To me this incessant gang-war violence demotes this series from a 10 to an 8 and prevents me from wholly enjoying it because I'm always dealing with the expectation that the writing will return to it - I probably will stop watching if it doesn't stop because it's just not enjoyable or believable. Last episode was perfection, but here we are again with this.

Maze is me pre-COVID. Phap is me now. I don't think I've worn anything tailored since early 2020.

Anyway, I liked it! Tae is effortlessly sexy, and this is a better role for Singto than in Baker Boys - and he looks really good in a suit. The writing is funny - still Thai-slapstick but more intelligent than usual, with some real inspiration, like the suicide run of the cockroach or Phap's neon suit.

Also, how is Yacht not in a ton of starring roles? He's fantastic - he had 30 seconds of screentime and every bit of it was outstanding.

This ep was a bit filler-esque, but necessary after last episode - you're not going to get that level of intensity every episode - or we'd need hospitalization (or at least long cold showers). I wish they'd step away from the violence, but the writing is consistent and makes sense - so far I haven't had that frustration that people are acting like... not people.

I totally agree - it would reflect well on him and Pran if he was protective without being psycho. Plus good marketing for Jimmy for his series next year. But despite what a dick his character is, he's doing an excellent job with it - I don't feel like he's evil, just tribal to a fault.

I just realized you meant "for once not agonizing over liking" not "being for once being bixexual". So about that point, never mind!

Ohm did a great job of looking 100% turned on but keeping it cool. There's a lot of broad humor and emotion in this, but it's the subtlety where you can really see how talented both these guys are. Actually, although his character is unlikeable, Jimmy is excellent as Wei, too.

Pat was proviking Wei - taking food off his plate - twice - deliberately sitting between him an Pran, etc. - nothing totally OTT, but certainly not helpful given the tension he knew was there. Again, I have no objection to the writing - I think he's behaving like a real person, which is all I care about - but I would not characterize their situation as knowing how to communicate (all caps).

I'm not sure what you mean by "bisexual for once" - all but maybe three or four Thai BL characters that have ever existed were functionally bi (really "straight, but I only like__________" ) - ironically one of them being Ohm in He's Coming to Me. (Tae in Cupid Coach, Tharn , Oh-Aew in ITSAY and Oil in Friend Forever are the only other explicitly gay characters I can think of. Well, not counting Brothers, where the entire male population of the world was gay.) But your point is very valid - it's nice to not have to deal with the "BUT HE'S A GUY!!!" confusion that's gotten old.

The problem with most BL is that the characters behave largely like adults until Huge Drama needs to be generated for Ep 11, in which case the story is dependent on a failure of communication so ridiculous that you want to throw your device out a window - 1,000 Stars being an excellent example, if that's what you were alluding to. Likewise Lovely Writer. What I like about this series is that the characters are written to be their ages and they consistently act like actual people would. I have no issue whatsoever with poor communication if it's within character.

However, Pran needs new friends - if their response to someone being mildly irritating is to hunt him down and gang-beat him up, they're not people he should be associating with - they've already caused him a lot of trouble and their belligerence could ruin his life. Ditto Pat, although his friends are all very minor characters, whereas Wei is fairly important.

Oh! No worries, i do that all the time!

Wai is so hot I can forgive him anything. Im looking forward to his series next year.

100% true!!! I'll relax after ep 11 because this is GMM and they like to have toxic ex-GFs fall out of the sky at that point.

I'm definitely not complaining. Pran's reaction to me was very realistic and in character - i was impressed with the writing. But i wouldnt say this was an example of excellent communication - i mean it was literally the silent treatment!

Aww, thanks. My enjoyment of a series is generally not dependent on other people's opinion of the show - although I do enjoy discussing them with other people.