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Eh.... More like a Bromance/roommates?
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Story:▷▶ It was... Okay. I enjoyed how sweet it set out to be and it does follow one of my personal favourite tropes but unfortunately it was executed quite poorly. I struggled to find a reason why Tine started to like Sarawat or even why Sarawat liked Tine apart from a poorly added in "love at first sight" reveal during a flashback. A lot of the story felt undeveloped and flat in contrast to the performance that the actors brought to the screen. This entire story felt more like an awkward wannabe bromance, it's like the writers forgot that is romance is actually allowed to be developed and represented in BL dramas. It felt like I was watching a bad censored-gay character drama, which got worse when they forced a relationship between Mil and Phukong. That relationship suffered to poor development on the same level that Sarawat x Tine did.
Acting/cast: ▷▶ The best part. Mike, Gunsmile, Drake, Toptap & Frank did great. I loved their characters and how they interacted with each other.
Now, for our leads.... Bright and Win are talented actors with fantastic visuals. The two had some good snippets of chemistry. Win especially did amazing during his emotional scenes.
The biggest issue, I believe, lies within the writing and directing of the drama. Bright and Win are new to the Bl scene, and a drama in the likes of Sotus is not bad. However, this drama does not come close to Sotus' greatness in the Soft BL sub-genre. Sotus genuinely had character development, and portrayed the characters' feelings perfectly... 2gether, however, expected the audience to fill in the blanks and failed the actors. The actors did phenomenal, I personally loved them and they're my favourite part!
[ I strongly recommend watching Bright and Win's new drama F4 Thailand: Boys Over Flowers, alongside Mike's new upcoming drama where he stars as the main lead with Krist!]
Music: ▷▶ It was okay... Didn't blow me away.
Overall:▷▶ It's barely a mediocre drama. I think it's just underdone and missed its full potential. Sarawat and Tine never felt like a real couple no matter how many times the "boob" gag happened alongside the "I'll kiss you till you drop" line was said.
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Don't waste your time
You know, there are some parts of this series that I love, but so many more that I just can't stand. This was the first time I had to force myself to finish a series.First of all, there were so many toxic and problematic characters. Mil was the worst and really didn't deserve the forgiveness he got. What the heck was with Green chasing after Tine when he was already in a relationship with Dim. Man was just literally a stalker!!!! Like... what the heck? I really don't mind toxic characters, but only when they're SHOWN to be toxic. When you're watching a light hearted comedy, you don't expect so much glamorized toxicity.
All that aside, the thing that I think annoyed me the most was how Tine and Sarawat moved in together VERY fast after they started dating... and yet a kiss on the cheek is just TOOOOO much for them? It makes no sense. Tine acts like a virginal princess despite them sleeping together in the same bed every night. Like... just what is or isn't going on in this relationship? It felt so completely strange. It's fine if they have some reason to not to be physically intimate, but that reason was completely absent.
So seriously, skip this show unless you like toxic stalkers played for laughs and the most pristine, PG adult relationship you've ever seen.
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If you are searching for a classic fluffy cute BL, this is for you! MUST WATCH
I dont get why there are people that are hating on it, most of them say that is boring idk actually why, maybe because there is no nc scenes but that would be very dumb, I think it has a good cute plot, the acting was great, and the cinematography too.DONT BELIEVE THE BAD REVIEWS AND WATCH IT!!!!!!
It has a 2 season too, I usually don’t watch any sequel of the series but this, I NEEDED to watch the 2 season, and the other season was good too!!!!!!!!
I MISS THIS SERIES TOO MUCH IT WAS SO GOOD I CANT FORGET IT, EVERY MONTH I CATCH MY SELF SEEING EDITS (I watch it a looooong ago)
I need university BL recommendations btw ???
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PURO BROMANCE
Eu acho que uma das maiores dores que tem é ver uma série boa e que começa muito bem rapidamente se perdendo e indo de encontro ao fundo do poço.O começo dessa série é muito forte e bem construído mas isso rapidamente se perde e logo estamos no meio de uma bagunça.
Se você não soubesse que a proposta é ser um drama de romance você pensaria que está vendo a história de 2 melhores amigos, o casal tinha mais química quando estava fingindo namorar do que quando estava namorando de verdade. A intimidade simplesmente não existe entre esse dois, eles chegam num ponto de morar juntos e não vemos um beijo, uma cena de sexo ou até uma conchinha quando vão dormir, momentos de casal são completamente inexistentes e em nenhum momento eles parecem perdidamente apaixonados, parecem 2 irmãos se provocando.
Sem contar com a infantilidade do Tine, a falta de comunicação e a cena de ciúmes ridícula que aprofunda ainda mais a imaturidade do Tine.
É uma série extremamente fraca no quesito romance, ou seja, não cumpre com o que se propõe.
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Bromance
I personally think this BL series would have been better suited as a bromance! although the drama is easy to watch, the story behind both characters confused me. it was fine until the last episodes then it got dragged out and it was cliché.i do recommend this, if you like cliché college bl’s or if you like easy watches.
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at some points i didn't really like sarawat and tine throughout the series as they both lead each other on and gave a sense of ‘false hope’. sarawat seemed somewhat forceful with tine.
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Sarawat keeps me watching
It's extremely juvenile, exaggerated, the sound effects are annoying and the product placements are extremely obvious BUT Sarawat is cute enough to keep me watching lol. The acting is pretty decent although I have to give credit to the actor portraying Sarawat since this is his first TV show. There are 3 things I particularly love: Sarawat was actually pretty forward with his affections for Tine. The other thing that I love is the reveal that Sarawat has been in love with Tine since a year ago and that his stoicness in front of Tine is absolutely a facade. That's a good twist. He's actually incredibly happy to have found Tine. That's super cute. He joined Instagram for Tine and even wanted to use LoveTine as his username. On the other hand, it's disappointing that Tine always holds back, and is so insecure with their relationship. He feels like an entirely different character since he went on the reforestation camp. Lastly, Green is based on a stereotype but he's more than that. He's stereotypically gay: hilarious, hyper feminine and extremely clingy. However, the show balances these traits or subverts this stereotype by making him an excellent fighter and by revealing that he's actually in an on-again-off-again relationship with Dim; Green is romantically desired, not rejected (by everyone). And to add on to this point, the show also avoids common BL pitfalls, like calling one of the gay men "wife," or using the rather homophobic premise of "I'm straight but I like this man only." I make a point to mention this in every review I do. The sequel, Still 2gether, fails the "wife" criteria in the first episode.One of the weakest points of the show is how absurd the premise is. If Green is this persistent, it's sexual harassment. Instead of reporting Green to the school and getting rid of him permanently, Tine is putting more effort into chasing Sarawat. Also, convincing Green that he's straight is way better than making him think he still has a chance by flirting with Sarawat (because it shows that Tine accepts men). Tine is also painfully, unreasonably oblivious, which is annoying, because it's obviously to drag the show on. There's too much repetition and tells from Sarawat for me to believe that Tine is unsure of Sarawat's feelings for him. It'd be more believable if Sarawat made Tine confused about his sexuality and have him spend most of that time sorting that out instead of being unsure of Sarawat's feelings. Also, the assaults on Sarawat and then both Sarawat and Tine: why didn't they report them to the school? Absurd. The return of Pam felt completely out of place and unnecessary since she's introduced in the second last episode. She should have been introduced much earlier to add fuel to Tine's confusion about whether he's bi, and whether Sarawat likes him. THEN comes Mil who tries to chase Tine too. Anyway, if they made this change, and shortened the series to maybe 8 episodes, I feel it'd flow a lot better. Some nitpicking: I've never saw any cheerleader perform any cheerleading moves. They just put their arms up. Their first aid is crap. Really. Can't they disinfect properly?
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No chemistry
I don’t know why so many people liked this serie. The story wasn’t that really original, and more importantly there was no chemistry between the main couple. Nearly nothing about the other one.I didn’t feel anything about the acting of Bright (Sarawat), I didn’t feel that he love Win (Tine), even as a friend.
I really liked the other couple, but we have nearly nothing about them, I really like Mike (Man) and Toptap (Type) but there was not a lot about them, even Frank (Phukong) and Drake (Mil) story was more interesting than the Main couple’s.
And why nothing about Guy (P’Dim) and Gus (Green)? Green is cute, I really liked him!
I know that the story is about Sarawat and Tine, but the part about the other couple are too short.
All the other serie I have watched have longer scene about the other couple than this one.
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A cute series to binge
This is the first BL I've watched and I quickly fell in love with BL Series ever since. The overall atmosphere in this series is pleasing and light. It's just a light drama but still good to binge on. It's just me that I don't want complicated storyline and this one don't have it so I'm glad. The casts are great and cute. Some scenes are lovey dovey. I honestly wished that Gigie's role there as Pamela changed. It's a cute series and I adore everything. Yow, the soundtrack is very nostalgic and It's All In My Head All This Time is my favorite, I kid you not. Story-wise, somewhat digestible but I was just caught up of chemistries of the casts. It's not top of the top but still freely appreciated.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
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my opinion
okay so firstly i did enjoy this thai drama but it also pissed me off like there’s no hate t it it was good i have t agree but there was also so many obstacles and i just hated it i disliked how tine had to suffer ngl i kinda got annoyed by him i also kinda wanted sarawat t suffer by seeing tine and his ex gf meet again instead of sarawat and his ex crush from highschool pam like ugh and then i just really got annoyed by it that i literally dropped it on the last FUCKING EPISODE!!! the last one!!! cuz it was that bad i hated it sm honestlyVond je deze recentie nuttig?
To encourage those who are afraid to watch this do to all the negative comments
I would actually suggest to watch this to people if you-1. Want to relax and watch some fluffy drama
2. Want to watch some very good looking actors? (Yes more than two)
Yes I would also agree that it is overhyped. But still it's not something unexpected since the whole thing is so fluff. A lot of people actually like rom-coms (in the asian drama fandom) haha like me.
About the quality, oh gawd the editing, honestly gmmtv what happend to this. I have never seen such half-hearted editing in all the gmm production so far. Not bad per say but REALLY could be much better.
About Bright's acting, if you actually see the interviews, you will know that even he was not quite having it with the protagonist's characteristics. It's not that he can't act or has wooden expression, the thing is he wasn’t allowed to show it. He said it yeah. Though the script was improvised a lot by him, lord just imagine how much worse it would be if it wasn’t.
I would also say that bright and win actually have chemistry. Tho not the usual touchy feely one. And i actually quite like that. Like it because they don't give us the extra expectations like MewArt did. Yessss lol i said that.
I think i have addressed the major concernings. Do watch it without much expectations, you'll like it. Cause I did.
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This is a Bromance
Like that's a good chunk of my life I want back. So much hype SO MUCH HYPE! For this steaming pile? Like I thought at some point they would maybe actually have a real kiss or even a passionate hug but I got nothing and this couple had zero chemistry. Like I thought Mean and Plan from Love by chance 1 & 2 had no chemistry but they make these two look like soul mates and there is a sequel!! Who asked for that!?! I'm glad this wasn't my first BL because I would have tapped out right there. OMG! I need to go rewatch Bad Buddy, Not Me or Love in the Air just to get this monstrosity out of my head.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
