Okay, first of all: Hello guys! I decided to write this review after finishing this series and reading the one below. I can't just put in words how angry I got after reading that, so I decided to write my own view towards this series. Before I really start this I must say that I didn't read the novel, but I did do some researches about the storyline as the series was going. I will try not to spoil it so much, but it will have a lot of spoilers.
The first thing that caught my attention here was how they focused all the show in the development of the relationship between Tharn and Type. We did had some side characters, but the main focus was about Tharn and Type and that made a huge difference. If you think about it their story starts in a very harsh way, as Type starts the show assuming to be a homofobic and keep messing with Tharn to make him move out. But at the same time is really clear that Tharn is very sure and proud of his own sexuality so he choses to stay because he's not doing anything wrong. And that is the beginning of the drama. From there we begin to watch how much they will grow as people as they start to share the room and to share feelings.
Okay, I must agree that sometimes the directing was not done really well... but, come one!!! We are talking about a BL drama, and if we compare them with the one that were their predecessors they did it really, really well! This is a fast paced romance that don't spend too much time on fillers, like almost all of the dramas out there.
Going back to Tharn and Type, I would like to talk more about each of those characters. Tharn is the most caring type of person, and we can see through the whole drama that he is always putting himself in the other shoes. He does have a very strong personality and really knows what he wants, but he tries to get it by showing his good side and caring if the other person is or will be getting hurt. It's clear since the beginning why Type came to his attention, as from nothing this guy started to mess with him just because he was gay, and at the same time he was pushing and cursing Tharn away, he was also showing him his vulnerable side. I do believe that the more he got to know Type, the more he fell in love with him. I can really write a lot more of Tharn, since he is the most human character that I met through my BL drama life, but I don't wanna spoil everything about him and I do wish to get some people to watch this show and find those qualities by theirselves. So I will end this by saying that he is a very forbearing person.
Now let's talk about Type. Firstly I don't agree when I read people saying that he is a aggresive person, to me he is more like an imature and a person with really heavy issues. So now we all know what he went through during his childhood, and yes this is a very important characteristic of him. Because this bad experience made him look to the world with a very narrow mind point of view, and that's not a bad point of this drama... on the contrary: for me the real beginning of this drama was when he found himself trusting Tharn and confessing all his past to him. It was the moment that Type really began to come out of the bubble he was living and was the moment that he began to get to know his ownself. BUT, PLEASE WAIT BEFORE COMMING TO ME: I am not okay with him being violent towards Tharn, I am just saying that if we look at his character we can understand why he did it those times and we can ALWAYS see how regretfull he was everytime that happened.
I must say that after Ae, from LBC, I was not expecting to see too much of character growth in one BL drama, but Type changed the world and my mind to me. I love Tharn so much, but I love Type like hell. I can totally see myself when I was at Type's age, comming out and discovering our ownselves is the most hard thing to do. All the confusion, the storm of feelings, the decisions and how those decisions will make people look at you, everything is really hard to deal with when you are "okay" so imagine doing it with a trauma like Type's. Every person has his own time to come out (and I don't mean with just sexuality, we will come out from a lot of things during our life) and Type's began to be more confident in himself when he founds out Tharn. By finding out Tharn, I mean when he began to get to know Tharn and began to rely on him. And that my friends is when we can see that he starts to deal with his trauma, I don't know if what I am about to say is wrong ... but I do have some traumas in my 29 years old life and the easist way for me to deal with them was to share them with the people I love and trust. It was not easy at all, but when I did things began to become more liveable.
Before I can continue this review I must say that I don't see myself as a mature person, but as we grow older we start to see things from a different point of view. Meaning that I can totally understand what happened between them between the first 3 episodes and I don't understand why there is this much hate about what was happening, People seems to forget how is to be 18~19 years old, we are all impulsive and imature, Most of all would do the same or even worst. Point.
I don't think I can talk about their relationship without spoiling so much, but I can say that was a really good portrayal of a LGBT relationship. We can see the difficulties that both sides go through: as Tharn was already an "out gay" and Type wasn't. I really liked how the show dealt with it and how they showed us little by little how much their love for each other was growing week by week. And the most important is how they showed us that at the moment they decided to be together, everything about them changed, We could see how supportive the family of Tharn was, and this was just so f**king amazing. I loved everything about this part of the drama. Now, do I really need to talk about their chemistry? COME ON!!!! The way they look at each other and the little touching was just everything. The kissing scenes were superb, but I just loved how they were always touching each other and the look in their eyes *_____*'. Please give us more of Mew and Gulf, their skinship seems so natural and genuine.
For us, international fans, we will have to wait a bit more to see Type's family side.. but for now I am okay with how they did on those 12 episodes.
Talking about the side characters it was impossible for me not to fall in love with the friendship between Type and Techno, I love how they are always picking fight with each other but at the same time they are very supportive. Techno is a very good friend of Type and always give him good advices. The same goes to the relationship between Tharn and P'Thorn, it's really nice to see a thai drama where brothers have a good relationship. For the others side characters, they did well where they were supposed to do.. I'm not so into Tar and Tum plotline since LBC, so although their side was necessary to this drama I was not really interested on it. But I must say that Kokliang delivered one amazing performance for the little screen time he got. Now, I don't really wanna talk about Lhong, because this kind of character should be extinct for any kind of drama. I can't deal anymore with those kind of characters that go around doing evil things just by using the justificative of being "alone" or being "in love". Point.
Overall, if you read until here, you should know how much I loved this drama. After Tharn and Type the BL's that are upcomming will have to catch up a lot, And I mean a really big LOT. And that is first because of the amazing chemistry between Mew and Gulf, you can see that they are really comfortable with each other what makes the acting really genuine. The second thing is all about the focus, TTS focused just on one couple, so we could explore almost everything about their relationship and I really think that BL dramas are terrible at doing it. Third is the comunication between them: Tharn and Type are always talking about the problems during the drama, which almost never happens in any BL dramas... it seems that couples that are together for like 3 years, as in DBK, don't ever talk about the issues they are going through. So the upcomming ones will have to deal with a lot of high expectations, since TTS has set a new standard for thai BL dramas in my opinion.
I almost forgot to rate the music: this the third time a thai drama got my attention for their amazing OST, I really mean when I say that their songs glue on our mind! And the performance of Mew and the last episode was just the best thing ever!
ANyways, congratulations for the best thai BL drama of 2019/2020!! And please give us a second season :#