O-Negative (2016)

Oh... Negative review, I'm afraid;)

I'm sorry if I can say only negative things about this title.

I liked the music. There, I tried to write something nice.

Truth is, for me this was loong watch I didn't particularly enjoy (though I finished it) so I cannot recommend it. Because if it was quite unwatchable from the start, then at least that would save me lot of time.

The first episode looks like another SOTUS and then an unlike group of 5 "friends" forms, just because they all share the same blood-group or smth, I didn't quite get why these five should be friends, except that it was in the script. The group consists of 2 guys and 3 girls, so you know from the start that pairing within would have at least 1 odd person out. Then again the only girl NOT having any romance line here and really acting just as a friend quickly becomes your favorite.

As this is GMM25 and not Channel 3, the romance line doesn't have the lakorn-ish "feisty start-middle drama-happy end" arch. Positive or negative as this may be, I don't find the romance here particularly successful so I'd really prefer if this was a friendship-story only.

But soon the most "attractive" and ambivalent girl in the group starts playing manipulative "love" game with one of the boys (who happens to be Tor Thanapob whom I loved in Club Friday but hated here: the same silly wide-eyed expression 80% of the screentime), actually taking over the role of the boys, who are both passive here (as SHE is the one who pushes things forward, she makes the move, she acts, initiates sex... her weird "masculinity" is kinda symbolized by the strong car she drives, etc.) and then we never get that show's first grip back again.

The other girl, later I have found out she's a singer, but it's not put in any use in here (perhaps end credits?), who is unobtrusive at first (they made her wear unflattering clothes & makeup the whole time) though having cute smile and curly hair, has both boys competing for her at one point. The only trouble being, that the one only mildly interested in her is overdoing it in coming forward, while the one truly interested is like purposedly putting himself behind. Poor girl who cannot mind-read understandably falls for the wrong one. Enough for the story: as this should be spoiler-free review, and also I don't bother to really care. That's not what's most important.

The main problem is this series showing potential repeatedly for being something worth watching and then dropping again. Nothing really comes out of it and it's a waste of time, as the story is not something which would make you like the characters (see other reviews), and - what's essential to ME - it was not ENJOYABLE. And I just want an enjoyable watch: that's it. This dragged and never delivered.

O-Negative left me emotionally empty and had no fun, so as for me, thumps down.

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