La Pluie (2023)

Incredibly impressive with tiny misses

I went into this drama knowing nothing about it and expecting nothing - and I was very quickly drawn in! The acting and visuals and wardrobe hardly ever miss, and even the stock footage is gorgeous. The music is CONSTANTLY on point! The plot has a very interesting premise and I liked the way the show handled and presented its message (discussion more below). At a few moments the show loses its pacing which ends up hurting the overall vibe somewhat, but the acting really makes up for it. All in all, I wish there had either been 1-2 more episodes, or some of the drama around episode 8-9 would have been tightened up. A huge plus are the kissing scenes: always nicely sexually charged, always erotic and romantic. It gets a little spicy at times in a very tasteful way! Pee and Title are both super handsome, and Suar's character was my favorite all around.

My biggest compaint: not enough scenes of Tai and Patts getting to know each other, growing closer and more comfortable. We weren't /shown/ enough of them falling in love, more so told. I think that Pee and Title have great chemistry but we just didn't get to see enough of it. And the fact that the final episode barely had any scenes of the two of them together...an abomination. It hurt my overall enjoyment of the show, they deserved better. Still, I'll be rewatching...This show is dear to me and I loved it. I'm super excited to see all the actors in other things!

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Spoilers are at the end of the review.

I often hesitate to start a show, if people disliked it much. But I try to get less influenced and built my own opinion. So far; I don't think this show is that bad. But the ending is the problem here.. I am really sad right now, lmao.

What I liked:
+ PingPong, Lomfon and Thian. While I didn't care much about them in the beginning, I started to really like them and in the end, they are my favorite characters in the show!
+ The humour is funny and most of the time I liked the editing - even though there were a bunch of mistakes, like things changing their position.
+ The OST is beautiful. I started to watch BLs this year and after watching some shows with OSTs from Boy Sompob, I definitely get why so many people are in love with him. I am too.
+ I could understand Lomfon, Thian, Tai and Phat. Even if their behaviour was not productive or unlogically for some people, I could totally understand all of them, everytime.
+ This show has for real one of the hottest kissscenes. I wonder why not more people talk about them! They shots are pretty, the kissing is great, the chemistry is kinda hot, so...yeah, I don't know why it's not mentioned more often. :D

Room for Improvement:
- around episode 7 I started to dislike Phat. I don't even know why, but somehow I lost my interest in their lovestory.
- the end was way too dragged.
- not every character was as easy to understand as Lomfon, Thian, Tai and Phat. x)
- i would like to sue the cinematographer for the shitty shots we've got from LomfonThian in the last episode. They did so well with the first couple, so what was this?! We were robbed!!! T_T

Overall the show started strong, but the last two episodes were too dragged. I still like the show, but I really have to fight my bad feelings, especially about the very very last scene.

From here, I will mention spoilers:


- Excuse me, what the f*ck was this ending, please?! I swear to god, LomfonThian are adorable, don't you dare to separate them!!! T____T
- The GL couple in the end was cute, but unnecessary. The same goes for the other couples that suddenly popped up.
- The lies were so much nonsense, wow.
- I also don't get why the parents weren't just honest. It was really not that big of a deal, lol. I thought they also found out that one of them has two soulmates, or they lost their connection, lul.

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Good if it had half the episodes - Saengthian is the reason I'm giving it a 7

I won't waste much time doing a lengthy review, I'm just here sharing my 2 cents.

Saengthian and the brothers relationship is the only thing that made me unable to give it lower than a 7/10 (actually a 6.8 but oh well). Saengthian turned out to be my favorite character in this series, even if I found him a bit childish in the beginning.

Good start but what happened in the last few episodes??? characters changing personality completely, tons of stuff left unexplained, bad choice of narrative - what directing was that?

I actually really liked it at the beginning and questioned the rating in here but I get it now. So much potential lost!? There were some beautiful shots along the way but overall I could blame the directing for most of my issues with this show. The random cuts here and there, the amount of plot holes/missing scenes, the weirdest camera angles at times, the instructions given to the actors during certain scenes (episode 10 I'm looking at you), etc.

Oh and don't even get me started on the writing. What the hell was this universe? Setting rules and set truths just to break them with no explanation? I started watching this show because it has the same screenwriters as My Ride The Series - which is a very beloved series of mine, especially when it comes to character likeability. However, I feel disappointed.

Also, the Saengtai in the show synopsis, "the man who dislikes strangers and talking to people unnecessarily" is advertised at the beginning but never makes an appearance. If he dislikes strangers and talking to people unnecessarily so much, how come everyone and their mother becomes his friend? How come he immediately gets along with Lomfon or Nara? With Nara, they even comment on it, as if that didn't happen with every single one of the other characters. If you're going to try and create an introverted character with leftover trauma and rarely goes out - then make it believable. Saengtai, who dislikes strangers, doesn't like working at the office but spends his day in a bustling coffee shop instead? He, who dislikes going out, is rarely seen at home during the day? Come on T-T

When finishing episode 6 I was wondering what they would do to fill up 12 episodes - for me the series could've ended with 6 or 7. If the show ended without the amount of things happening starting from ep 7, I would've given it a higher rating.
I'm sorry, but I can't make myself forgive the mess the last 5 episodes were. 6.8 is already too high for this show if I were to focus on those - but I'm focusing on the good moments this series actually has - like Saengtai and Saengthian's brotherhood, Dream's friendship, Nara's maturity, Bow's concern, etc. I'm not gonna lie, though reluctant to keep watching in between ep 8 and 9, then after ep 10, I still kept coming back and I was hooked every single time.

Overall, if you don't know what to watch to pass time, you can watch this one. But if you have a ton of better things to watch, I would not make this a priority.

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Não é que eu não tenha gostado, mas acho que a história se perdeu em alguns momentos, e deixou outros sem explicação algum. Até achei a atuação do elenco boa, mas não curti o ator que fez o papel de Saengtai: vi trechos dele em um fanmeeting, achei ele arrogante, com todo jeito de quem não curtiu fazer papel em um BL...mas gostei bastante do ator que faz o Phat. Fiquei esperando um arremate para o casal secundário, que não veio e parece que nem vai vir... a produção é bacana, a direção também...faltou mesmo só dar uma "ajeitadinha" na sequencia da história ...

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провалено

Какое было начало. И я уже готовая "о да детка, сейчас расскажут историю подобной "Цветовая лихорадка" с рассказом об особенности человека, воспринимающейся как болезнь", но нет... Очередной слив. Предпосылка была отличной. Новой, интригующей, интересной. Начиная с 7 эпизода что-то пошло не так и уже с 10 эпизода я просто сидела и говорила: досмотри это безобразие и забудь. Хотя бы досмотреть, что там с второй парой. 11 эпизод - это вообще полный бип, можете даже не смотреть - там вообще не о чем. Много вопросов все-таки оставили:
что же там в семье Тая и всех кто владел этим даром "родственной души". Что это вообще за феномен и есть ли он на самом деле, если это не шум дождя так действует, то что? Смотрела из-за Ломфона (Коптера), но и его роль завалили. При прекрасном актерском составе, хороших локациях, дать шанс на пересмотр - нет, исключено. Очередное разочарование от Таиланда. надеюсь я не увижу второй сезон, жаль потраченного времени.

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Uma relação de amor e ranço com essa série

Mais uma série que eu amo odiar. Revi ela por esses dias, e minha opinião mudou (um pouquinho só) para melhor.
Graças a Deus que o casal principal tinha química, pois sinceramente, foi o que salvou a série... apesar de muito fofos, serviram uma pegação deliciosa, além de abordarem a questão do consentimento, fiquei fã do Dr. quando na primeira vez que o clima esquentou e ele mesmo se conteve, pois queria que seu amado tivesse uma primeira vez especial, com plena certeza do que estava fazendo.
Sinceramente, o plot de almas gêmeas me assustou (depois de Gen Y eu fiquei com trauma), mas eu até que gostei, até que o roteirista ficou louco e começou a incluir muita alma pra pouco corpo. Não foi necessariamente o fato de Saengtai ter duas supostas almas gêmeas que me incomodou, e sim a falta de uma explicação para isso. E ainda fica pior com aquele final péssimo em que Saengtian descobre que também tem alma gêmea (????). A tal coisa raríssima nem era tão rara assim.
Fiquei confusa sobre o salto temporal da história. Pq diabos se separaram por tanto tempo? E se o Dr. já sabia que Tien ia atrás dele, pq não facilitou?
Tem pontos muito positivos: não fizeram da ex do Phat uma vilã apesar do que aconteceu, a relação dos pais de Phat que só foi de fato explicada no final, a aceitação de todos, enfim, minha pergunta mais recorrente é o pq dos trios de almas gêmeas e pq alguns só desenvolveram na vida adulta. Obs: também poderiam ter desenvolvido o GL das meninas né?

A atuação foi boa, a ost é linda, a produção é boa em todos os sentidos. O que realmente faltou foi um roteiro melhorzinho.

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Just Stop At Episode 9

This was kinda cheesy, kinda cute up through episode 9. I wouldve recommended it up through episode 9. I liked most of the characters through episode 9. Except Saengtia, but we'll get there.

Episode 10 ruined what could of been a solid, good BL series. Patt was my absolute favorite character and the side couple was excitingly cute with good chemistry. Saengtia was there, but let's get back to positives. The music was great, I actually tracked down quite a few of the songs and playlisted them. The chemistry was *chefs kiss*, you vibe? And then Saengtia decides to start lying for literally no reason. And I do mean no fucking reason.

I hate lying plotlines because, for me, a character can rarely come back from it. I already had trouble liking Saengtia, once he started lying (and to P'Patt ffs. Why??? Patt was an angel) I went from mild dislike to outright vitriol. I dont want to watch people I don't like fall in love. Lomfon was also part of the stupid fucking storyline that wrecked this show, so despite how much I'd liked his character, episode 10 - 12 was spent just fast forwarding or straight up skipping Saengtia and Lomfon scenes.

Saengtia irks me so, so, so much. He lies, gets mad at P'Patt for being mad at him for lying, stonewalls him when he asks Saengtia to be clear about who he wants, tells Patt he doesn't like his tone to shut him up like he didnt just spend a full day frolicking about with someone EVERYONE has said likes him, kisses that same guy (fucking over his own brother in the process), gets pissed at Patt for being pissed considering he just found his boyfriend cheating, stonewalls Patt AGAIN..... such a repulsive character, I was f u m i n g throughout the last three episodes. Even before episode 10, I had no sympathy for Saengtia. A grown ass adult throwing the worlds largest tantrum because his parents divorced. Amicably. All the blame on his mom with no knowledge of anything that happened. A. Grown. Ass. Adult. And then to be so overinvolved in overthinking about his parents divorce that he ignores his soulmate for TWO YEARS????? yeah, he never deserved Patt and Patt has my sympathy for apparently deserving Saengtia. I hope he has better karma next life.
Frankly, rip Saengtia out of the story (not replace, remove. Patt can kiss the air or something) and the rating would immediately go up to an 8.

I dont even want to get into the jenkiness of the trope. Wouldve been fine and dandy, but the writers were salivating to have Saengtia fuck everything up so bad they did it themselves. If you cant follow (or at least define, damn) the rules of your trope, skip the trope. You yell a bit and get real sad and now you can hear in the rain??? Youre nearby and stressed and now youre the third wheel soul mate???? S p a r e. M e.

I loved this series so much, which is really a shame, because I hate this series. Again, stop watching after episode 9, or dont watch at all, if only for your blood pressure.

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Women? In my BL? It's more likely than you think

The family dynamics are the making of this. Tai and Thian being so attached and facing similar personal issues gave us really lovely contrasts in their characters and growth. Tai's parents demonstrating their way of being soulmates, and how being both forever linked by fate but also deserving of a life that isn't solely tied to that aspect of their lives, was so beautiful and important.

The friendship dynamics are properly considered as well, which is a much better way to make space for character growth. Each lead had meaningful connections with other people and love in their life that wasn't just romantic love. Including women! I'd love a Nara and Dream spinoff.

And, possibly controversially, I really liked Lomfon. He was young, and lonely, and had no idea what to do with big feelings and philosophical questions, which is kind of what your early 20s are about. So hoping for a second season to follow Lom and Thian.

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Just had high hopes

Just an FYI I had been watching this with a friend as it released and we both said no its not worth the last 4 episodes after what they just pulled.

So like I had been looking forward to this show ever since I had initially heard of it when I was getting back into bls in late 2022 early 2023 and I thought the whole soulmates that can only hear each other in the rain was a really cute concept and like just inherently unique to my knowledge.

Then when the show was releasing I had found it strange that the supporting characters (side couple) were getting so much screen time which I get that like they need development and everything but most shows would only do around 15-20 minutes screentime per episode for them. Unfortunately this show did not end up doing that and it was pretty 50/50 with the distribution which I was unsure about for a good while and then ultimately hated because of how the characters were written. But hey I get it I love a good enemies to lovers kind of thing but like I hated that Lomfon was so dead set on ruining Saengtais relationship with his soulmate just because he had feelings for him. They just made Lomfon such an unlikeable character and then introduced the worst piece of writing I could think of as a viewer with the whole Lomfon can now hear Saengtai and Phat in the rain when Saengtai and Phat are soulmates and I bet they ended up giving a reason for it and all but I literally dropped the show the second I had seen that happen because you had a perfectly good plot and beautiful story for soulmates and then ruined it all just because you wanted to have side character relevance when they are literally side characters and no hate to the actors or anything but this is something I would never recommend to someone to watch just because of how poorly it ends up being written down the line .

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This could be a 10 but..

This is the first BL series that is almost my first 10/10 BL series ever. I watched more than 150 BL series so far and I still couldn't find my 10/10. I met La Pluie when it came out and I felt my connection to it. It's consistently a 10/10 from every episode until it reached the episode where the hearing loss of the main leads was suddenly cured without proper explanation. All stories have been closed and entered a new beginning at the final episode except that one plot hole. How the hell was the hearing loss cured? Was it because of the third-party? Was it because they were close to each other when it was raining?

Other than that, I love most of the things they gave to us. I love their solid characters. I like Tien's character the most. I like Tien-Lomfon relationship. I love how Tai realized his actions were the same as what her mother did when she and his ex-husband divorced. I really appreciate the detailed characters. There are no wasted characters. The OST is so good. Every time it was played as background music during an emotional scene, I got teary eyes. Well, the whole Episode 12 did make me cry.

Thank you to all who made this happen.

THIS IS MY TOP BL SO FAR. We may have different tastes but for me, this is the series that I would love to recommend to everyone.

I LOVE THIS!

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One of my favorites!

This has got to be in my top list. The story was so interesting and full of suspense and mystery. It kept me watching episodes back to back. The idea of sudden hearing loss when it rains is fascinating. And to be able to only hear your soulmate.

I thought all the actors did a fantastic job. Of course, I loved both leads but Tien stole my heart. What a cute guy. I just loved his acting… his facial expressions and his playfulness were so well done.

Warning: I was not prepared for the huge twist at the end of episode 8. Wow.

I will definitely watch this again.

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