Toxic relationship check!

I'll make it short:

Pro:
- Good acting and fantastic chemistry between the main cast
- Hot love scenes (the only reason I would watch this a second time :))
- Techno! I love him, he's easily the best character in the series!

Contra:
- Everybody is toxic (except Techno) ... and I mean the really, really bad kind of toxic
- Unsympathetic main characters (Type is childish, mean and abusive, Tharn is a whiney push-over and also abusive)
- Plot could have been good, if it were consistent.... I mean, they have Types childhood trauma, which they could explore a lot more, but it's practically forgotten after the first few episodes in favor of much more unrealistic and overdramatic (!) storylines
- Acting of the support roles was meh (except Techno of course, he's awesome!)
- No-consent scenes and the overall problematic and abusive relationship between Tharn and Type

I know that the series was created after a novel, so plot-wise they were limited. I just wish, they would have used the chance to fix some of the problematic things... or added more of the NG-scenes as compensation ;)

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They can't be serious...

This was the worst possible ending for the series and I am so disappointed.
I was okay with the final episodes 7 and 13, they redeemed at least some of the fuck ups of earlier episodes. It could have been a nice basis for the special epsiode, but they totally screwed it up.

I honestly expected the special epsiode to give us a glimpse of their lives together after all the drama, their evolving relationships, their future plans etc. Instead the special epsiode focuses just on Payu and Prapai being too desireable for their own good. That itself is not the main problem, Rain and Sky being insecure and unsure in their relationships could have been a nice storyline, with Payu and Prapai reassuring their boyfriends.
But no, the insecurity-problem is brushed over with Rain putting Payu in a costume and Sky and Prapai screwing in a bath tub...wow. It was so difficult to watch, because it's so UNBELIEVABLY CRINGEY and also a lot OOC in my opinion.
That's also the reason why their acting was not as good in this episode, it feels like the actors didn't feel comfortable at all with this storyline.
Also, Payu is a gigantic asshole to Rain and I absolutely hated it.

I regret watching this clown show of an epsiode, I'm just gonna pretend it doesn't exist...

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Double Standards at it's finest...

Another BL that lives of the main actors chemistry. I admit, the two of them are really good together, the acting is on point, the love scenes believable. It's not their fault the writing is so bad, they do the best they can with a bad script.

The story is trash and boring, the typical teen-romance with almost no plot and waaay too much unnecessary drama.

But what got me the most and is also the reason I couldn't finish this, is the double standard. It's a common thing to portray women as the mean, dumb and/or lying b****** in this kind of dramas, but wtf?!

Vee is crying about his cheating girlfriend when he does literally the same thing to her with Mark. His first night with a very intoxicated Mark (which is so problematic in itself because taking advantage of a drunk person? ... I can't even...) was brushed over like nothing. Then he stalks after Mark every chance he gets, constantly mentioning their night together and the moment he discovers Ploys affair, instead of breaking up (and confessing to his own cheating!) he starts an affair with Mark behind her back. Meanwhile judging her for doing the exact same thing... Wow.
Not to mention Vees behaviour towards Mark, treating him like his dirty little secret, promising to break up with Ploy but not doing it and just let him suffer...a classic.
But who is the only one portayed as the materialistic, ruthless devil? Of course the girl...

The whole thing made me so angry that I couldn't continue watching this after episode 5, so I don't know if they manage to fix at least some of the problematic topics in later episodes. Maybe I'll try again sometime in the future, just for the sake of finishing the series but for now I'm through with this.

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Guilty pleasure

This BL is definetly a guilty pleasure show for me. I watch it for the insanely good chemistry between both couples, the kisses and the sex scenes.
The acting is overall okay, but I especially love Noeul as Rain, he does an awesome job for his very first role!

That were the good things, now moving on to the bad....

The story is dumb and just build around all the hot scenes. Seriously, the plot is just there to have an excuse for hot men feeling each other up on a regular basis, but that's the case for a lot of BLs and I'm not complaining.
The real issue is once again all the non-con elements and scenes in the show. I don't know why the industry is so obsessed with the image of the forcing somebody to "love" with literally sexual harassment. Both Payu and Prapai are hella pushy, manipulative und forceful jerks and especially in Payus case toe the line to assault (Payus and Rains bathroom scene... dude.). Nobody in real life would let them behave like that, no matter how handsome they are and it made me really uncomfortable at times.
Their behaviour get's better, once they managed to make their "ukes" fall in love with them, but that doesn't make up for them being assholes beforehand.

So yeah... I'm not proud of it, but I'm gonna continue watching and try to switch my brain off outside of the love scenes :D

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