Grab A Bite (2021)

Good but not great

I loved the show, I actually enjoyed the slow pace. The details are so vivid and very lovely polished. The end (last few episodes) were forced and not so well executed. If felt a bit weird and the great chemistry that entered the story was somehow lost for a moment. Like the drama that should highlight the series was artificial and I didn’t like it.

It is 2021 people show affection with more than a hug, it felt a bit restricted. But this is my personal preference, I love besides chemistry a little bit of passion 😀if you know what I mean. Overall undeniably chemistry between the leads from the start and very beautiful visuals execution of the story. Good but not great!

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Boring Snoring Watching Grass Grow Is More Exciting.

This Dreary, Snore Feast is Truly one of most Boring Watches Ever……..Move Over 2 Moons, you just got beat by Bite Me as the 100% Nothing TV Event. Dull, Boring and truly will put anyone to a rip van sleep. Everyone makes Cow Eyes at each other…….and Nothing Has Happen…and we all are in the Eighth Episode…and I still no nothing….Do You… ????? It looks good the Episodes, but truly nothing in the storyline!!! Watching a River Flow, Watching a Snail cross the yard…is more exciting. Bite Me has some wonderful Production Value. The Cooking Scenes are Truly Nice…If the Writers, Director and Producer had paid attention to the very boring and slow moving story line…That Truly never went past 1st Base. Bite Me is a true letdown, boring show.

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Mark and the food look good...

...but this series doesn't have much else going for it...

I think, like many others before me, the title mislead me. But that's because I thought the show was foremost a BL (Boy's Love). I realized from the first episode on that it was actually first a FL (FOOD's Love) and THEN a BL. "Bite Me" as in: "Don't you want to have a taste of this sumptuous food we are filming? Don't you feel like taking the phone and order something while watching our show?"

SYNOPSIS:

A cute boy (Mark) works for a company that delivers FOOD. One day, he goes to a new restaurant where a customer has ordered FOOD that he must deliver. The chef realises that this cute boy knows a lot about FOOD. So he decides to give him a job at his restaurant where they can make FOOD together. He falls in love with the boy and the show is about how they get together while making FOOD, entering contests about FOOD and, hopefully, they can make FOOD together for the rest of their lives...

STORY:

Paper thin. They devote so much time to plans about FOOD, that the rest doesn't get much chance te develop. Too many characters, not enough time to get to know them. The lead actor is the FOOD. The two would-be leads are the main couple and as much as we root for them because they're nice people who look good, we don't know much about what makes them tick. The payoff (if it can be called that) is there, but it doesn't feel deserved at all.
The secondary characters are so under developped that there's not much to say about them. There's even a secondary couple that you can find between plans of FOOD if you squint. They don't have much chemistry but they're there...

ACTING:

The FOOD is the star of the show. It always looks good and really knows how to work the camera.
The two leads are OK. Mark looks cute and can tear up when it's time to. I didn't feel much chemistry between him and Zung but they did look good together.
Aek's friends are all forgettable. I don't know much about the actors but they feel very green.
Aek's mum is a stand out for me.
The staff of the restaurant are equally forgettable. Not because of their acting but because we spend barely any time with any of them.

MUSIC:

I don't pay much attention to music in BL shows because I generally don't like it apart from a few exceptions. Here, it didn't bother me, so I guess that's good.

REWATCH VALUE:

This is a BL series with a beautiful cinematography and lovely plans about FOOD sprinkled with Mark cuteness but not much else. Tons of potential resulting in little more than a gigantic ad for Thaï FOOD. I like FOOD and I do think Mark is cute, but it's not enough for me.

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Food on BL

The story itself isn't that bad as it leans more into food more than the relationship itself. It focuses on the realization of dreams and aspirations as well as the importance of support on one's walk towards their dreams. The story centers more into the realization of being a chef more than anything else as well as an introduction into Thai cuisine.

It tells the story of a character's maturity, development, & realization of one's own self. BL-wise its not much except for the last few episodes. At the very start up to the point of the dinner it leaned more into bromance. It was a bit lackluster when it came to the character and relationship development and I don't recommend this to ultra BL fans as it does not really tell much on it other than the sequence of Love at first sight "Aek vs. Talent" ---> Friendship & Brotherhood (most of it) ---> failed confession ---> revelation ----> I guess being a couple.... You know what IDK.

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Et donc?

je n’ai aucune idée de ce qu’il s’est vraiment passé d’interessant là dedans.
C’est creux. Vive la lecture en accéléré et malgré cela j’eu du mal à terminer
Il y’a avait pourtant des sujets : la relation mère-fils, le concours de cuisine, les rivalités, l’acceptation de soi et d’une attirance qu’on a peur de ne pas voir acceptée
Mais rien n’est mené clairement. C’est long, confus et même les personnages secondaires ne remplissent pas le vide. Les flashback ne sont pas clairs et peu utiles, les ambiances mal posées ou inappropriées.
Je n’ai vraiment pas accroché malgré un casting qui fonctionne et certains décors magnifiques.

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Remaining unsatisfied

... because I don't understand what is going on in Aek's brain ... The episode 8 was painful for that. Aek is totally opaque.
We can see the importance of his origins ( his hometown/region, his family, his mother and grandmother, two strong but loving women, the translation of these feelings in his cooking, ...), but for the rest, his sentimental life, his heart, it's foggier than the worst day in London ... He is mute, he does not communicate. He lives in his head, reading books and cooking. Even when he is with his close friends, he does not say anything, and the three friends are, on the other hand, pretty talkative, funny, expressive. In episode 8, there is a very good sequence to illustrate that: when, at the end of the contest, he learns he passed the first test and his buddies rush to him, congratulating him, wanting to hug him and to be hugged, he stays there, frozen, with no joy, no pride. It's terrible to have someone like that, you like. Mark, the actor playing Aek, is excellent: his face and eyes are blank and yet, Mark is very cute, his shy smile is to die for, but boy, was it painful to want to love him ... Poor Aue ... Aek's rejection of his feelings is so brutal, incomprehensible, almost mean... he even does not touch the dinner prepared lovingly by Aue. He is like a volcano: most of the time, silent, sleepy and suddenly there is an eruption that destroys everything around ...
And now, even if nothing has been resolved between Aek and Aue, Chef Viphob enters the game, obviously having a crush on Aek who called him after his fall to take him to the hospital ... What game is he playing? Is there a vicious evil behind the silent angel? The characters are piling up but nothing happens ... It's weird.
I don't care ( most of the time) about the very slow pace of the series because I like this type of cinema when not much happens not much is said but the characters generally have been well defined at the beginning of the story. Not here and it's where my dissatisfaction, my frustration lie in.

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Delicious visual and foods, and slow-moving romance, story, and everything!

Honestly, I don't think this show is that bad. At least, not for me. I like the characters, the visuals, the story, the romance, but the way they chose to tell the story hinders its ability to become a successful show. The pacing was, at times, too slow, and it didn't contribute much to the story/plot overall. And this is also a problem with the romance. It's like they have everything right at their disposal to create a fantastic show, but they didn't quite manage to get there.

Don't get me wrong, I like this show. I really do! It's a stunning show with good actors; the story just wasn't there. They needed more time to develop the story. Or maybe it was one of those experimental type of storytelling, which is good, because it's always good to have different type of storytelling. But this kind of story didn't really draw me in even though I wanted it to. And to this day. I still can't figure out what's missing, and that's the problem for me.

But sometimes, I found myself, wanting more in terms of storytelling, and not getting it. Instead, I get pretty visuals, which is nice, but I wanted more. That being said, I still think they have a decent story here, and it's a good show to watch to pass the boredom. I might not rewatch it (but I'm also someone who doesn't rewatch shows until years later no matter how much I like them).

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Awful, Banal, Monochromatic

Where to begin with this tedious series that went nowhere and said nothing. If this was supposed to be a BL, then the L was missing. Watching this series was like watching paint dry - slow, boring, tedious, I have never seen such portrayals of characters so wooden and stilted that it was hard to see them even as 2-dimenshilanal people, Yes, the cuisine looked good but the endless food preparations got to be too much. The ending made no sense at all. Honestly, this was awful and a waste of time to watch. Or perhaps, I just did not get it. And I honestly do not care if I did or not.

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poetic but kinda odd

I don't even know where to begin... okay, it started slow but enjoyable and I was looking forward to see the develop of the story but the more I saw the weirder it became. I'm not even talking about the story itself, that sometimes was hella confused, but the interactions and lines was SO weird. I don't think no one speaks like that in real life... it was poetic but sounded unrealistic and make all the charecters interactions look "not organic".

One think that probably made most viewers confused and maybe angry was the part where Aue confess his fellings to Aek but get rejected, but suprisedly I did understand that part. I mean, Aek was a young man that never has fallen in love before and was always trying to be a good boy to make her mother proud and suddendly recieve a love confession from his phi, that he admires more than all people(with who he was in love but until then had no ideia), that must be confusing and scaring. He suddently becomes aware of not only Aue fellings but his own and freak out, what was undestandeble in my point of views whereas that it's not only his first love but it also a same gender love, what problably make him fear to disapoint his mom and not be accepted. Aue reaction wasn't the best too because kissing someone against their will is always worng, doesn't matter the circumstances. But in the end Aek could accept and undersand his own fellings and after getting his mother approval, felt free to accept the love he felt and everything ended well.

The both men chef antagonists came and went with almost no explenation and it was weird too but okay. The female antagonist seen to accept that Aue doesn't love her and was paired up with Bie(I didn't see that coming).

The dessert couple was cute but interections was weird too but still cute haha.

In short, It wasn't good good but wasn't a bad story. It was beautiful sometimes and the thai dishes were beautiful but it was simply odd sometimes too.

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If you like slow series with an amateur plot-this is for you

Stunning food and very attractive main leads which were hindered by a poorly thought out slow moving storyline containing amateur dialogues. Taking things slow can some times work if it’s done right however Bite Me is a perfect example of when it doesn’t work. Also the chemistry between both the lead couple and side couple were blahhh, wouldn’t think about writing home about it, that’s for sure.

Would I recommend watching it - yes but only if you have nothing else to watch… it’s super boring! Especially the last 9 episodes 😭the first 2 episodes were good!

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