n0ctural0wl

My very honest review about this show lol

Contains major spoilers!!

Overall it was honestly an ok watch but slightly irritating… I mostly wanted to watch bcs of the enemies to lovers couple (Dao and Arthit) but ended up enjoying Nao and Tiger more.

Lowkey Typhoon and Tonfah were cute too but then they had to bring in the borderline SA scene like seriously wtf… The only part about this story which I liked was the reason behind their tension in S1 was something much more complex than I expected and how they tackled it was interesting. Also Tonfah suddenly seeing Typhoon as a love interest rather than “his younger brother” kinda pmo, like wdym you suddenly like him when you essentially knew he liked you but still brother-zoned him for like majority of his life??

I ended up hating the enemies to lovers couple even more because Arthit was crossing Daotok’s boundaries every episode… It was genuinely really icky and I hated it. Not to mention the repeated SA and borderline SA scenes for this couple… Like in some of the intimate scenes, Arthit basically forces himself onto Dao and maybe consent is there but like from essentially pressuring him. Like it's honestly tiring how BLs still have a rape culture acceptable mindset in the big 2026... It was esp. disappointing because their dynamic was v appealing to me at first, completely opposites who didn’t exactly have the best impressions of each other at first end up liking each other. In the scene where Arthit was telling North & Johan about how much he liked him and wouldn’t do things that would “hurt” him was when I had thought this was going to be my fav couple, but the stuff that happened later on just cancelled it out.

For Nao and Tiger, majority of their entire story was wholesome and I’m a sucker for this dynamic but even with them I still had issues… When Nao was only friends w Tiger, Tiger was just insanely possessive over him to the point where he was basically pressuring him into not having a life outside of him. Like I get its super heartbreaking seeing your crush talking to someone else, but imagine your friend not letting you have a single love interest in your life just because they want your "time" all to themselves. Its v selfish honestly, esp when you don’t see them anything more than a friend, and have no clue that they even like you. It was also ridiculously unrealistic how oblivious Nao was the whole time, and more so because of how he suddenly started looking at him more like a love interest and just started liking him suddenly, like after a week after Tiger confessed? Also noting it was implied that he had only ever found women attractive before dating Tiger, it was just very out of the blue and it wasn’t something that may not have even been anticipated. Guys ik bisexuals exists but their ending just seemed extremely rushed and there wasn’t really anything like a real connection between them that was formed outside of their friendship (esp from Nao's side)… And it’s definitely not that easy to get out of the friend zone after 6 YEARS!! Moreover, it was funny to see how the brother is like Nao in his own relationship w Ben, completely oblivious to his own assistant's/bodyguard's years of devotion to him. Plus, wtf happened after Tiger killed that guy after being forced by his borther?? I understand it's because they're "mafia" but they would still have to face some consequences to their actions right?? They live in a governed society, so this is just straight up outrageous... And the fact that I'm pretty sure his brother and him didn't want to continue being part of the Mafia gang because of their stupid rules and expectations but they essentially take over over it after their father dies.

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