Dead Friend Forever - DFF (2023)

Series my goût

The cost of renting equipment is very high, the crew and the actors will be under a lot of pressure. Here are the young men. I'm very proud of them. These are the boys who are more beautiful than the F4 flowers. I feel they are equally beautiful. It says F4 but in heart there is only one person CopperPhuriwat Right from the first pilots I noticed he Since then I've been looking to learn about him. I've seen him in Our days and tiktok. In the previous series, he was a cute boy in every action. In DFF, he's more mature and charming.BoC must win the lottery to get him a beautiful son with a good family background Being obedient and having a good personality will win the love of many people I want this to be the first of many of my next films, it must be very famous, my dear

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DFF tried too hard to be different

This series has probably the worst case of plot development/planning I’ve seen recently. The main issue is the wish to be different and way too mysterious. BoC loved saying this was the first BL with a murder mystery and that’s where they got it wrong. The first 4 episodes are terribly boring. Nothing really happens, while a lot of things happen. But how? It’s all filler.
Once the flashbacks are introduced, the series is light years ahead in terms of quality and actually starts to have a story. Episode 5, out of 12, is when the series really happens for me. BoC missed the mark by not including flashbacks since the first or second episode. We don’t even meet the main character, Non, until episode 5, that’s a bad move.
Regarding the ending, everybody dies is the best case scenario. I didn’t think BoC would actually go for it. The only character I could see living and it working well would be Tee. Being alive is his big punishment after causing everything that happened and literally killing his boyfriend, the only innocent person. Saving Jin would be a major letdown, since he actively caused Non’s spiral and helped destroy his life with that video. All because he was jealous.

I love Barcode’s original song for the series.

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Well... Someone is really dead

Hah… What to say about this? I went into it completely blind, with my only reason for watching it was Barcode. And I think this definitely convinced me that I don't need to see everything that the actors I like are in.

To be clear, DFF was definitely not bad. On the contrary, I enjoyed the series. People who know me know that I don't like horror things, but this was probably the most horrory horror thing I've ever seen. The best part was when I was alone in the evening in my dorm room and watching this... Before I could take it off, I was already too curious about what was going to happen next.

For the entire first four episodes, I asked myself: "Wila, are you really going to watch something like this just because it's BL?" I'm not proud of it, but in part it really was. I told myself that I would drop after fifth episode, because Barcode was supposed to appear in the fifth, and then I would see. However, with the fifth episode, a flashback started, which lasted for several more episodes, and this flashback was no longer quite horror.

The first four episodes are really scary (at least for someone like me), but after the fifth episode, it slows down a bit. Horror turns into a psychological genre centered around high school kids. They want to make a movie and they need the help of the class weirdo, whom they like to bully.

I'm writing this review with quite a distance, but I still remember how I felt watching each new episode. I started watching when there were five of them and I looked forward to the rest every week.

I'm not going to go into the details of the plot so as not to reveal spoilers. I dare say that the story itself was really well written and the actors also did an amazing job. Most of them were just rookies and these were their first acting roles, but they did a really amazing job.

I apreciate Barcode the most. Partly because I already know him, but also largely because his character was full of all kinds of emotions and Barcode managed them all in one piece. He was able to play love, pain, fear, despair, frustration, madness... And everything was believable.

Overall, I don't have a problem watching something like this (BL and everything that belongs here) in public, but I watched DFF exclusively when I was alone because I'm too expressive a person and things like bulging eyes, gasping for breath, gasping for breath at certain moments and sometimes screaming into a pillow are not for me nothing special.

I've read various comments on facebook, instagram or MyDramaList, and I came across opinions that some people don't like any of the characters. I totally understand them. This really isn't the type of story where you can say the characters are cuties because they're not at all.

But once I got into an argument about one character that I don't want to say is a villain, because everyone in DFF is a villain in a way. It just depends on who you think did the worst thing, because it all ties together in some way, and I think if even one event hadn't happened, the story would have gone in a completely different direction.

One character was probably hated the most by everyone, but I liked him for some reason. I did not justify his actions, but when I got to know his background, I perceived him completely differently. To say that I liked him is perhaps too much, let's say rather that I didn't hate him.

If I remember correctly, the flashback ended in the ninth or tenth episode, and then we brought the ss back to the present again, where new facts are revealed.

All the time, I was consumed by the question, is there something supernatural behind all the bad things that are happening there or is everything the work of man. I was leaning towards the first option, but to be honest, I would be much more pleased with the second one. Not because I wanted fantasy, but because it was all really twisted and I was sick of the idea that a living person could do such a thing.

The end... Um... I really don't know what to write about this without giving something away. I'll just say that I never expected a happy ending and I didn't get one. However, not a happy ending does not mean a bad ending in the sense that it was not handled well. I have some reservations about it, and maybe someone who loves horror movies would have a lot more, but I liked the ending. I noticed a long time ago that the last episode is sometimes completely unnecessary in Thai BLs, and here I was of the same opinion for about half of the episode, but the last scenes made up for it all.

Overall, even though this is far from something I would willingly watch if I knew what it was about, I have to say that I really enjoyed the show. As far as possible, of course. I know there are people who enjoy horror movies, but I'm not one of them. I rather enjoyed the psychological part, which really made my stomach growl, but it was also full of deep themes such as bullying and its possible consequences on the psyche or the fact that the truth always comes out, no matter how long it takes.

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Be on Cloud's Attempt at Scripting a Thriller Fails

“Dead Friend Forever” (DFF) started out rather slowly paced, gained a lot of momentum in the middle, however, by episode 8, the show provided too much unnecessary exposition and plot that did not quite tie in, and fell short in their resolution which resulted in a subpar finale. However, as a slasher/horror series, it delivered on the scares, gore, and delved into the horrors of the human mind which acts as a cautionary tale against bullying and being complicit in the face of others’ wrongdoings.

Read the complete article here-

https://the-bl-xpress.com/2024/03/21/dead-friend-forever-series-review-ep-4-to-12/

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Mediocre

It's a good thing that someone took a step to make horror with gay characters but that doesn't mean I will ignore the obvious plot holes, unnecessary and abandoned plot devices that were completely forgotten out of nowhere...the ending is quite fitting for a horror-thriller if done correctly...but it was not done properly with many loose ends...too many questions were left to be answered to call it an open ending, rather call it and incomplete ending...open endings does not work like that...seemed like the writer didn't know what to do with it anymore...
as someone said in the comment section that the writer of this show has a tendency to do that as the same thing happened in manner of death...she did not improve at all rather worsened a bit...I see her potential so if she really tries I think she can do a good job...some actors really did good but some of them were overdoing it time to time...but overall it was okay...
As a huge fan of suspense thriller horror etc genre I hope that upcoming projects of this genre will be better...

In conclusion the comment section was much more interesting...so many creative people...so many weird people...

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It was very good until the last ep.

So i have watched this from bugging to end watched many reactions and also rewatched it as well. And finally give you my honest, unfiltered opinion.

1) Is the show good?

+) Yes and no. why? The show started with amazing plot but at the end of the series it left me on a huge disappointment. The show was good and it some ep's it was getting better and in some ep's it was getting worse. I couldn't even bare the last ep,vthats how bad the ending was. The ending of the series was not build apon at all. Im fine with an a open ending and they could have just ended it but nooo, they must drag on. The open ending was not structured properly, it wasn't strong, It didn't have a back-bone. ( One good open ending that was very very build and had an actual back bone was The ending in "P.S I Hate You" that Wanwan's open ending made so much sense and it was so beautiful. The dff open ending makes on sense.)

2) Is the acting/Characters

Acting was very very good specially the actor who plays 'Tee' and the actor who plays 'Fluke'. Fluke was played beautifully. Tee made me cry so hard.
Acting was amazing.

3) Is the producting good?.

+) Yes but something its pure garbage. Like cutting of someone's head with just a string. That's not possible at all. That makes no sense at all.

+) There is a character that makes no sense. They say "They dont want to be a murderer" and they literally kills someone . They say they don't want to be a murderer when they just murdered someone. (This shit was 180 and it makes absolute no sense at all. Im not even joking they say they dont want to murder and legit kills someone the same day. wtf?)

4) How is the romance.

The romance was beautiful and got me shipping ans invested in there love love. Kina sad we didn't get much romace between white and tee (Not a spoiler. they are together from the start).
They where the most pure, healthiest relationship of the series who where so cute together, and which was very wholesome. But the ending ruined it all. They fucked up there relationship and left me with the most bitter tast i filt ever in my whole life. When i mean the fucked it there relationship, I mean it. They fucked up there relationship so bad u couldn't keep watching and just skipped, yup it was so unbearable.

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Very bad at the beginning, much better afterwards but an unexceptional ending

It gets off to a very bad start: messy, excessive, directionless and, frankly, not very well acted (these actors generally have trouble with intense scenes). I almost gave up.

Then the story takes a step backwards, and the story becomes more interesting. The whole is much more coherent and we begin to understand. There's a desire to get away from the traditional Manichean schema, and this complexity is welcome. Karma plays its part, which is logical for a Thai series.

But the last episode ruins it a little. The aftermath should be more developed and - without wishing to spoil anything - the very end is rushed through with more questions than answers. I'm okay with an open ending, but this one's just too confusing.

In short, this could have been a great show; in the end, it's just okay.

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Highs and lows series

For a horror, I was scared or had goosebumps just for the first two episodes and then it was quite dragged until ep 6 with the backstory and reveal of the culprits behind Non's disappearance. It was entertaining and Barcode did fucking great job! But then when it returned to their timeline, I was quite disappointed with how it was solved. New was a maniac but random killing few people, even White who didn't even freaking know Non, was bullshit tho Top with his wounds wouldn't get out but it could end better way like Phee's father could come for them and take them to hospital which would finally end this crazy manslaughter but instead it end with an open ending and what for? Guessing if they got out or not? It's not really satisfying and half of the final episode was just about what we saw before but different. The hallucinations didn't have to be shown when we knew Non's taking revenge on them in all of the hallucinations which they had and instead someone could finally take them out and end the case but otherwise I really enjoyed the series and actors' chemistry with each other.

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Focusing on the ending and ending only.

Okay, as a literature major with a passion for psychological thrillers and horrors, I’m gonna be completely honest and very unhinged in this review so be warned, also I’m writing this from memory of the last few episodes so sorry if I forgot or misremembered anything. This is going to be a VERY long review of the final episode including what I though about the fate of every main character (except for Non).

Every character had an ending that corresponded to their role in Non’s death, but I feel like the symbolism could have gone further.

Por- Por was the creator. He oversaw the short film and was the director who wanted to create the film and took over Non’s script as his own. The camera was also his too. Everything technically started with him, he created the situations that caused Non’s downfall, so he was the first to die. He wanted the money back for the broken camera, and in the end he died by Top’s hand, the person who really broke the camera. I think that was a fantastic way for him to go, death by his friends hand without his friend even knowing what he was doing. I was very satisfied in that moment when Top pulled the branch out.

Fluke- Fluke was the observer. He saw and knew everything that happened around him, had he ever spoken up everything would have been different. He saw Top break Por’s camera, he watched Jin record Non and Keng, and yet he continued to stay silent. In the end, he stabbed his own eyes and took his vision away, he can no longer be the observer. But I wish they took it even further, I wanted him to cut out his own tongue or something equally as symbolic. Fluke never spoke up for fear of losing his future as a doctor, now without his sight he cannot become a doctor anyway, and would therefore have no reason to hide anything else. But if his ability to speak was taken away, it symbolises how it is too late, you don’t get to fix things after they already happened, he lost his chance to speak up so now he never gets to speak again. As graphic as that is, I wish they went for that route instead of killing him, I think him staying alive with no real future would have been the greatest punishment for him.

Top- Top was the destruction. He destroyed the camera, he knew about Tee dragging Non into the horse accounts, he knew about Non getting money from the teacher. He was the one who spread the news and picture of Non supposedly running off with Keng that caused Non’s mother and later his father to kill themselves. I’m glad his story ended in his death, but I would have loved it if his death was self-inflicted. Because of the pain he caused others, I wish in those visions he could have taken his own life instead of going down with Fluke.

White and Tee- For me, as much as White’s death broke my heart, it was the perfect punishment for Tee. Tee was the catalyst, the one who put the blame of the broken camera onto Non, who manipulated Non into earning money through his uncle, and who was unwillingly the cause of Non’s death. Tee brought Non into this situation then, despite his best efforts, Non ended up dead. This creates a parallel with White, as Tee brought White into this situation at the house, then unwillingly was the reason White died. Tee, the cause of Non’s suffering, lived. But now he’s stuck with the trauma of killing the one he loved most. But honestly, as much as I’m glad he didn’t die because I think living with the knowledge of what he did was the best form of revenge, they had an amazing opportunity to create a parallel with Tee and his dad, and I’m kind of angry they never took it. I wish, instead of showing Tee lying in his bed and calling out for White, they could have showed him in the same situation we saw from Tee’s dad. Walking along the street, grabbing people and asking for White, destroying people’s property and demanding they bring him to White. Showing that he completely lost his mind, just like his dad, would have been the perfect ending for this show in my opinion.

New/Tan- There were 2 potential endings I wanted to see from him, the first was that he got his revenge and killed everyone in the house before taking his own life, and the second was him living having never got the full revenge he wanted. It’s hard to tell what ended up happening with that open ending, all I know is that whatever happened, I loved it. An open ending to this kind of psychological horror is the perfect way to end this series (but we better get a season 2 or I’ll loose my mind lmao.)

Phee and Jin- I knew from the beginning I wanted everything to end with them. Phee was the main one I wanted to walk away from this mess, not because I like his character, but because I wanted him to live with his own actions. He couldn’t see what New was planning until the last moment and things were taken way too far because of his inaction, people are dead because of him. Regardless of whether they deserved it or not, their blood is also on Phee’s hands. I also kind of wanted Jin to survive as well. If Tee was the catalyst, then Jin was the final straw, recording and uploading that video was Non’s breaking point. The original ending I had in mind was for Phee and Jin to have walked away from the house and gotten to safety thinking everything was over, only to discover that things aren’t always what they seem. Generally speaking, BOC managed to create that ending for me which I loved, but I’m still not completely satisfied. If they are still at the house, why would there have been a 2 year time skip? I don’t understand where they were going with this, and I wish Phee and Jin walked away with more obvious and permanent injuries. Something like a lost hand, or large scar on their face, something that they will carry with them wherever they go and remain permanent reminders of everything that happened, reminders of Non and his fate. Truthfully speaking, I thought this would end with Phee having secretly been the mastermind behind everything so it’s difficult to comment on how else I imagined the ending when I really thought Phee might be the one to kill Jin.

My final thoughts were that the theories for this series were better than the actual ending, and either the open ending was in preparation for a second season, or BOC really just didn’t know how to end this series. Either way, there was a lot that could have been improved but I’m very satisfied with this series overall and I’ll definitely be rewatching this at a later date.

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After that finale i got fucking noooooothing ??????????

Just finished episode 8 and it has me in my fucking feelings. My baby NON. everybody he trusted turned on him Everybody. Even though phi decided to fight for him in the end he still walked away when he needed him the most but his hurt was justified, but you see that Teacher, Tee, Jin, Por, Top, fluke all of them needs to die. Non is no saint but he didnt deserve that from them. For people to sympathize with jin has me confused. The apauler is worst than the theif. He did not just stand by while Non was being bullied. All of them needs to fucking die and i hope tan is non brother and phi there for revenge. As the lady said in GOT let it burn. Just finished episode 10 and they all still needs to die Just finished episode and am like WTF ENDING IS THAT

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