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I'm enjoying the show a lot but honestly five episodes in I'm seeing zero romantic chemistry. It's still a really well done show and very funny so worth watching (at least so far)

I find the FL incredibly abrasive and I know it's supposed to be funny but the way she keeps slapping, shoving and speaking rudely to her brother is so off putting. I also disliked her in the scene where she refuses the phone from the ML and her behavior at the police station.

I love strong FLs. For example, My Lovely Sam Soon is one of my favorite dramas and I loved Gorya in F4 Thailand. But there's a fine line between sassy/assertive and rude and for me the FL keeps crossing that line.

I'm up to ep 3 and I'm struggling with the FL in the same way I struggled with the FL in Into the Ring (which I ended up dropping). Details in reply so I can hide spoilers. I'll probably drop this too but it's a shame because I love the hot mess of a ML and all of the wonderful actors in the supporting roles like Hwang Bo-ra.

Pluem was excellent too, would love to see him in future projects. Otherwise the show was a freakin' mess

The way Luk turned out to be the real super villain of the show 🥲

Yes, this!!! Also she was an adult and he was a minor when they got involved and the show never really dealt with that, Phukhao's mother was the only person who called it out but she was almost treated like she was wrong minded or unkind when she was just making 100% sense.

"Kongkwang feels like a completely flat character without any depth - what exactly do we know about her apart from the fact that she likes Phukao? Genuinely asking. What do we know about her because I can't come up with a single thing." <<< It's fair to criticize Tu for a poor performance but it's not fair to blame her for a shittily written character. If you don't know anything about Kongkwan it's because of bad writing. We don't know anything about Lak or their mother either except they all suffer a lot and martyr themselves. I don't know what the director was thinking when she wrote those women.

By contrast, Zo and Nink are great and Phukhao's mother and her girlfriend are at least complex and interesting. Yes it's helped by good performances but it's also there in the script. Kongkwan and the women in her family are written to be symbols, not people.

It started out strong but went off the rails once the romance kicked in because it makes absolutely no sense. It's also very melodramatic even by lakorn standards. So even though there's a lot I like about the drama, on the whole I can't recommend it.

Some Thai dramas I enjoyed: F4 Thailand, Not Me, Midnight Motel, Bad Buddy, The Gifted, The Shipper. If you don't mind 18+ rating with explicit scenes, KinnPorsche is a crack infused fever dream with great production values.

Agree on View and I would add Pluem and the kid who played Young Phukhao, they are fantastic.

You're making good points and I agree with you that Tu's lack of experience is showing. On top of that, I think she and Ohm were both poorly directed because IMO Ohm is overacting in a lot of scenes and I know he's a good actor from other dramas I've seen him in. I'm not sure what the writer/director is trying to accomplish with these characters but it's not working.

I see people blaming Tu for how lackluster Kongkwan is as a character but it's not her fault. It's the writing. There's nothing to the character. She has no personality, hopes, dreams, aspirations, she's just long-suffering and that's it. There's nothing for Tu to latch onto. Same for Luk's character, how did she fall into a relationship with a student, why did she not see any hopes for her future, what was she missing in her upbringing that led her to making such a terrible mistake? Who knows, it's not in the writing. Compare how they are written to Mai, Plu, Phukhao and even Zo who are all complex characters. It's like the sisters exist to suffer and be martyred and that's it.

(on another note, who knew Phukhao's mother would be 100% right about how wrong it was for Luk to get involved with Mai but it was entirely predictable that she would screw up handling it by not telling her husband or Luk's family)

Another problem I had with eps 9 & 10 is how Mai's mother came out of nowhere to be the main supervillain. We didn't get to know her in earlier episodes so it's hard to care that she's turning out to be so important to Mai's death and the problems with Kongkwan's parents. I will say tho that Pluem's scenes with the actress playing his mother were so good, if those scenes worked at all it's because of the incredible performance he's been giving throughout the story.

It's disappointing how this is turning out because I was in love with the drama at first but now it's just a slog. I'll finish it but I can't recommend it.

Peerapat was on medication for some unspecified illness. He took the meds the night Mote made his pitch and he fell to the floor, hit his head and died (that's why there's blood on his head when the body is found in the cooler). Turned out that the reason he died was because his wife swapped out his meds for poison (proven by Sun when he feeds the pills to the goldfish and they die)

This was really fun! Yes plot holes but nothing that bothered me. Mond was the best out of the main cast, he made his character so creepy and charismatic but I wasn't on board with Kat forgiving him because he paid back her kindness by being a freakin' psycho. Off was obviously having a good time and some of his reactions as things kept spiraling more and more out of control were hilarious. I think this deserves a higher rating even with the plot holes. Speaking of which, I'll explain what happened to Peerapat in a spoiler reply.

He was so good! He basically blended into the background in Not Me so I wasn't expecting him to stand out the way he did.

His wife swapped out his medication for poison

Because he fell and hit his head. I think.

There's a lot I love about this show, especially the performances from Pluem, Baby Ohm, View, Off, Gunsmile and the older actors and also the cinematography. But two big things aren't working for me:

One is that it's so melodramatic and tragic in every scene with no lighter scenes in between to break it up a bit and give you a breather. Eps 1 & 2 managed this better because we did have scenes where the kids were having fun which made the tragedy even more painful. Now I'm kind of eye rolling through some of the melodramatic scenes.

The second problem I have is that the central romance isn't working for me at all. I love Ohm and Tu and they aren't the problem. It's the writing. The romance is progressing way too fast and it feels forced, like at this point of the story there's no reason for these two to be falling for each other. I wish the writer had built it up more organically. As it is I'm practically fast forwarding through their scenes so I can see more from View, Off and the rest of the cast.

Midnight Motel also not BL

Too bad this isn't getting more love because this is much better than the usual GMMTV shows. I think they are investing more in their series as they get more international attention. Off has great chemistry with Jan and it's good to see Louis in a more mature role after the mess they made of his character in Eclipse. The writing is a little wobbly and the idea of an escort app isn't exactly new but it's still fun to see it all play out, esp. with dark humor moments like Mote explaining to Kat why blackmail is a bad idea. The cinematography and music are very good, esp for a low budget productions. I would definitely recommend checking it out.

No not the investor 😭😭