A Mesmerizing Tale of Eternal Love
"The Sign" is a captivating series that masterfully intertwines elements of fantasy, mystery, and romance, ensnaring viewers from the onset. As the narrative progresses into its dramatic and intense latter half, it manages to maintain a grip on its audience with unwavering intrigue and escalating stakes.Central to the series' allure is the electric chemistry between the leads, Phaya and Tharn. Their dynamic is the pulsating heart of the narrative, radiating both tenderness and tension that is palpable. This duo is enchanting, their interactions marked by both intense sparks and profound concern for each other, setting a high bar for on-screen romantic chemistry. The love story of Billy and Babe challenges cosmic forces, presenting a romance that defies the odds and captivates the audience's imagination. Complemented by stellar acting, the chemistry between the cast, and breathtaking cinematography, "The Sign" offers a compelling viewing experience from the very beginning.
A heartfelt appreciation is extended to the production team for showcasing Thailand's rich culture, myths, and folklore with such elegance and authenticity. The depiction of these elements adds a unique depth to the story, enhancing the overall narrative and setting "The Sign" apart from other series in its genre.
At its core, "The Sign" revolves around two souls, Phaya o Sakuna (Billy Patchanon Ounsa-ard) and Tharn Wansa (Babe Tanatat Phanviriyakool), who have loved across centuries. Reincarnated and brought together at an academy for future police officers, they find themselves amidst a journey filled with visions of their pasts and a mysterious criminal investigation that tests their love.
The series shines in its action sequences and fight scenes, which are executed with precision and aesthetic grace. The integration of various genres, including action, thriller, fantasy, and romance, is seamless, offering moments of sweetness, humor, and suspense that are equally well-crafted.
The ensemble cast delivers performances that resonate deeply with the audience, with particular praise for the leads, Phaya and Tharn, whose portrayal is nothing short of stunning. Surprising is the level of acting prowess displayed by all, especially given that for some, this marks their debut.
"The Sign" stands as a testament to the dedication and hard work of its crew, evident in every frame. It's a series that deftly avoids cliché and unnecessary fan service, focusing instead on genuine storytelling, authentic chemistry, and well-choreographed action. The background music, authentic soundtrack, and visually appealing cinematography further elevate the series, making it a must-watch for fans of the BL genre and beyond.
In summary, "The Sign" is a beautifully crafted series that not only entertains but also showcases the depth of talent within its cast and crew. From the laughter and camaraderie of supporting characters to the intense love story at its center, it's a series that leaves a lasting impression, making viewers yearn for more.
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People, really?
Are we really doing this? Are we writing reviews before even the last episode dropped? Are we crazy?Well, I guess we are! Crazy in love with The Sign.
The cast is composed of eye candies, who also manage to show all those strong emotions that the plot requires them to. In short, beautiful and talented. OK, I didn't like the acting of one side character, so here you go, I'm objective, right?
The plot lets you follow a complex criminal case and learn about Thai mythology at the same time. You see Bangkok, but also venture out of the capital, which is always interesting. You follow the boys, as they their crazy training from Mr Inspector. You also get to see a modern dance performance and action painting, and oh my, what awesome action is that!
It's like if you asked the showrunners, what else are we going to have in this BL, and they simply answered "YES".
So it's a big YES from me.
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Annoyed ? Me to the core!!!!
This the 2nd bl I ever dropped and the 1st time I've ever written a review it bothered me so much. I gave the sign a 5 I really couldn't get into it I dropped at EP 9 it just was boring and annoying to me. Thanks idk if I want to date anybody because I'm afraid of them dying yet is jumping in front of knives and bullets got on my nerves. In addition the fact that Tharn had warning ⚠️ visions which he believed and wanted to protect set fine with him. yet Phaya had warning ⚠️ dreams wanting to protect but Tharn would discredit him and not believe him was so fukin stupid to me I just wanted to kick his lil azz it got on my fukin nerves I couldn't finish it. the story was the only reason I gave it a high score I was interested in finding out everything but it bothered me so much I just couldn't go further in trying to force myself to watch it or like it.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
Great series!
For me all 10 point out of 10, because BillyBabe chemystry and the plot are fresh.Combining all the gendre in one story is not easy, plus this is something new in Thai bl series, and also we're getting pampered CG. The fact that Babe is a new actor, he's new in the acting, making + grades because acting him is so good.
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action/fantasy bl with fire chemistry ?
First of all, the fact that Saint is the producer blew my mind a little bit, but lets get into it.This story has everything-- our leads are new recruits in a special investigation unit, they train together and hunt down criminals, the murder mystery alone keeps your interest pretty well, but there's so much more. The two MLs are linked by destiny, they have a past that goes much farther back than they know, the fantasy element of this show is pretty good, I love a good lore. The merging of these two aspects of the story, or rather lack thereof, is the only thing that had me kind of disappointed. They invested so much time and energy into building up both the story of their past lives and the story of this big wig criminal that they have to hunt down, I expected the stories to be somehow linked. But it was kind of a crime fighting by day, fantasy love dtory by night type of feel, with a bit of both in some scenes. It was great at first but towards the end it started to feel like they were trying too hard.
Im not sure who threw this cast together, but it was beautifully done, theyre all well written characters played by good actors with fantastic chemistry. The tension between our two MLs gives you butterflies, Phaya and Tharn are both lovable in their own ways, I love love love their chemistry and can't wait to see their relationship develop even more. I love our side characters relationships too, wish we had seen more!
High quality everything, rarely do we see good storyline, good acting, and good graphics all in one BL, so the fact that we have all 3 in one, recipe for success right there. These aren't short episodes either, these are hour + long episodes packed with content, you feel like you just watched a short movie. Unfortunately, toward the end it started to feel a little more dramatic, the length of the episodes seemed to drag on a bit.
The ending was happy, but felt a little ?????
I'm not sure how to explain, I just felt like, oh, okay, that was it?
Part of me wonders if they started to lose it towards the end because they got such good feedback that they started to think they'd get a season 2 and wanted to save some of the plot twists for S2, which is why they ended it the way they did. All in all it was a great show, the ending wasn't bad, just didn't match the energy of the rest of the show in my opinion. I'll be excited to hear if there's a season 2!!!
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Not the masterpiece that everyone is talking about...
After PitBabe the Series, I've been had once again by the rating and the praise that I've read about the series. However, once again, I'm feeling disconnected with all the people praising those two series because I don't find them really enjoyable to watch (but to be fair to The Sign, PitBabe was way worse!).I'll be totally honest, this was not a bad series. But it is far from the masterpiece that everyone on the net is saying it is. There are a lot of flaws that I can't ignore as they were pretty big to fully enjoy the story.
So, I'm going to talk about the things that I liked first:
- the CGI (and the mythology plot). I was really impressed with the shot in episode 1 where Phaya is almost drowning and he sees the Naga and the woman trying to save him. It was really impressive and I was hopeful about the quality of the show. Unfortunately, the mythology part of the story was put aside very rapidly but everytime Phaya was stuck in his "dreams", the CGI was very good. Apart for the fights between the Naga and Garuda and sometimes the image was too blured that my eyes started to hurt but I'll still put that as a like.
- Billy. I'm not really a fan of his work (I hated and dropped Secret Crush on You and have only seen War of Y that I liked) but I'm not denying that he's a good actor and he knows how to deliver emotions (contrary to his partner...) - even though, it was sometimes too much but it's undeniably the director's fault and not his because he was asked to act that way.
- Doctor Chalothon. The best thing in this series (with maybe Lieutenant Akk). I wanted to punch him in the face so many times but, because he was supposed to be the villain (or one of them), he did it perfectly.
I can't thing of any other things that I liked so I'm going to move on with the things that I didn't like (and there are more!):
- Tharn / Babe. I don't hate the actor as I disliked Charlie's actor in PitBabe but we have to admit that he only has one expression throughout the series (except when he tries to cry). I wasn't moved by his delivery and I'm pretty sure that it's also because his character was badly written. Despite being the hero of the story, Tharn is not a good character: he is dumb and, even though, I could believe he loved Phaya at the beginning of the series, I was not so sure about it from the middle until the end. The guy believes in his fate and in the dreams that Phaya is experiencing (he also has visions of the future). He believes Phaya when he tells him about their past lives and that there's a man that wants to separate them (and he's actually dumb not to immediately think about the doc when the guy is mentionned but not named - but I can excuse him for not thinking about him). However, I can't excuse him for not believing Phaya when he finally tells him that the guy he was talking about earlier was the doc and that he even accuse him to just be jealous of him. I'll be honest, if I was Phaya at this very moment, I would have told him to f**k off. Especially because, at the beginning of the series, when Phaya is angry at him because he thinks Tharn told the doc about his dreams, Tharn says that he would talk to the doc about it but he never does!! Also - I was so shocked about that -, he didn't even react when the doc openly confronted Phaya in front of everybody and openly said that his behaviour and traits were those of a mentally ill person (or something like that). And the very end of the series confirmed my suspicions about him not loving Phaya as he came back ONE YEAR LATER and the only excuse he had was that he felt bad for Chalothon, like WTF!!! The guy prefers to stay with the guy that almost killed his supposed lover several times and that blackmailed him to kill his loved ones instead of trying to flee and go back to the one he's supposed to love. That was ridiculous...
- the fight scenes and the whole Montree plot. For a seven-month special training, I found that the guys were sometimes easily at a disadvantage in a fight against someone sometimes not specially trained and not even that muscular... You're not going to tell me that the forensic guy that were working with them at the beginning can fight both Tharn and Phaya and make them difficult to catch him, I won't believe it. And yet, it happened... Also, the scriptwriters decided to leave the mythology plot aside to focus on Tharn's father's death and I couldn't care less. I thought at the beginning that it was linked to his past life as the characters around him and even himself constantly repeated that he was cursed and every person that he loved was condemned but it had nothing to do with that. They are two different stories that they tried to link without success... Also, I'm curious to know who is the person that Yai was talking about and that supposedly died because Tharn loved them because I don't think he was talking about Tharn's parents at this moment so I'm still waiting for an answer...
- the abbot and Tharn's grandmother. A lot of people on YT wrote in the comments that the abbot deserved his own series because he was protecting Tharn so much and so on. But... if the abbot wasn't there, it would have been the same... He did nothing the whole time while he knew who was after Tharn! He even asked Phaya to bring Tharn to him on the day this whole mess was supposed to end but he did nothing to protect Tharn at all!!! And I would even blame the grandmother as she knew that the doc was preying on her own grandson and was not even human... I know that if they told him the truth earlier, there wouldn't be a story but make it make sense if you want your audience not to be disturb as the fact that the closest persons to Tharn were the ones that let him be in danger his whole life.
- the NC scenes. I don't really mind s*x scenes in general but I felt like they were making them just for the sake of it and I hate that kind of thinking. Phaya just woke up after almost being dead, he's not even recovered, and the only thing that he does is to go to Tharn's flat and sleep with him. What a great mind... Also, the "good bye" s*x scene they have before Tharn disappears was so freaking long that I had to skip most of it. It lasted more than 6 minutes and I wouldn't have complained that much if it was animated but nothing happened, it was boring!! They were simply kissing gently for 1 or 2 minutes before changing position... Also, I know they have to censor some of the scenes but instead of blurring the a**es of the actors, they could've just not shot below the waist because the blur was a bit disturbing...
- the second part of the series. The first part was mostly watchable for me to be kept interested but from episode 7 or 8, I started watching it with my phone on the side which is a good indication that the series is not entertaining enough.
- the delay of the last episode. The last episode was supposed to be out on the 11th and it was really annoying to wait another two weeks to watch the series...
As a whole, I don't particularly recommend the series, but I'm not saying you shouldn't watch it either. You probably will like it like 99% of the people who watched it, I feel... It is simply not my cup of tea.
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Ta perfeito recomendo muito .
História, fotografia, enredo ,plot tudo perfeito estão arrazando demais, esta incrível de se vê.Billy Babe química de milhões ♥😍✨O Brasil amo vocês parabéns pela série, recomendo muito💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
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Interesting story
The series looks to be fun and the storyline got my attention as I love mythology, but this series is overrated. Sadly the characters feel like something is missing. Not a fan of Babe at all. The acting looks like acting. Billy is a great actor, but for this pairing just did not work. The side cast was great and the costumes were lovely. It a fun series, but felt lacking in story and slo at some parts then felt rushed. I hope Babe grows more. I know this is his first role but I just did not feel the chemistry and I am sure lots are going to say the opposite but then they are reading into the fandom that people love.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
Such an ambitious project; I can't wait to see what Idol Factory does next!
First off, this was such a cool project for Idol Factory to take on. The thai mythology aspect was interesting and very unique as that's yet to be done in a BL production to my knowledge. It seems that I may have an unpopular opinion about this series as I'm not rating this a 9.5 or 10 stars but I've gotta say that I'm so glad that IDF decided to create this. Hopefully it's another step forward so that we'll get more dark and complex BLs in the future!I loved the opening action, the fight scenes were really well done and the shots are pretty aesthetically pleasing. I had no issue with the acting. The character are likeable enough and both couplings had good chemistry as well. This series has so much to include, there's the crime, the police investigations, the fight scenes, the mystery, the mythology, the romance and the lore to be established about Tharn's abilities, as well as the past lives aspect. Nevermind the human relationships part with this big cast of characters. That's a lot to juggle in one show especially considering that this is only IDF's third production, so big props to them!
That being said, beneath the novelties and all of the aspects mentioned above- the flashiness of it all, if you will- it's decent but is falling flat for me. The show doesn't seem to know what genre or tone it wants to be/hold and shifts it every episode or so. At multiple points, it was boring and kinda draggy and then sometimes, it's just really really CAMPY out of nowhere?? Sure, that could be chalked up to the contrast and sum of all of the different aspects that The Sign has set out to include and while it could surely be smoother, that's not the issue at play here. At first, it keeps it interesting but it's not consistent enough and didn't necessarily feel the most cohesive to me; it was weird. It feels like there's different directors alternating between the episodes.
The writing and storytelling isn't great, it's the same issue that I had with GAP; it's trying to do way too much without the quality writing aspect that's needed to bring it all together for what the production really deserves. The characters are likable but not memorable. They don't have that much depth and I find them to be underdeveloped which in turn means I'm not that invested in their stories. I'm definitely someone who enjoys character driven stories so I need the characters to be compelling enough so that I can connect with them and care more about their storylines.
The CGI was great especially for the budget of the production but the costumed mythological flashbacks felt like an odd 'stage play' (as someone else had mentioned in the comments while airing). It really took me out of the scenes and distracted from their importance; it was also frankly a little painful to watch. But I've gotta say that The Sign has really mastered the art of strategically blocking NC scenes which some of the bigger BL production companies have yet to master *shade intended*.
My favourite characters were probably KhemThongthai, Nee and Nee's cat, Namami. Namami is my favourite. But as of right now, I've currently lost interest in The Sign after episode 8. This series is just really missing something and I can't quite put my finger on it but I'm fairly certain that it has to so with the writing. I do like this series so I'll probably pick it back up when I'm more in the mood to watch it. I am happy to hear though that so many people here are enjoying this show because it does have a lot to offer and will keep you visually entertained, if that's what you're looking for!
This show has a handful of really good concepts, so much potential and I could see the artistic intentions behind some of the storylines and production choices, but unfortunately, it just wasn't all that to me.
My rating would be about a 7-7.5 out of 10 stars.
(If I do pick this title back up again, I'll make sure to edit this review :))
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Really lackluster, I was so bored by the end of it with the anticlimactic scenario
I was super disappointed by this BL action drama. The first couple of episodes were interesting enough when they were training and I kind of liked the mythology with some of the fantastical elements. However, it quickly got very boring with the various investigations...I got so bored by the script that I had trouble to finish it. The conclusion was super anticlimactic for both the investigation part as well as the fantasy plot.It is unfortunate, I wish they developed much more the part of the story relating to the supernatural elements as well as done a better job with the "fated mates" trope. Overall, I wish the scenario would have made the characters spent much more time at the Police Academy. Once outside of it, all we had was relatively amateurish police work, no interesting side cases and not enough tension with the villains being really one note.
The visual FX were okay but not great. The action scenes were overall good but not remarkable. The acting was also clearly a let down for me...The chemistry between the leads was okayish but the scenario really did not offer a lot of room for development of the characters and their relationships. The side characters were really just there to be there and fill a bit the void...And I really wish the actors playing the enemies (especially for the fantasy role) had been better and more compelling to follow to amp the angst.
I will not recommend this to people as I was pretty bored for most of the drama. The mediocre scenario and acting, as well as the anticlimactic ending totally brought down my enjoyment of the series which missed the mark on the compelling elements that could have been developed. Indeed, there are too many things I wish would have been done differently especially on the fantasy aspects of the story. I would have loved the focus to go there and not on tedious and amateurish investigation.
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Perfectly balanced
Perfect balance of the serious murder mystery, well placed comedy and the right amount and good pacing of the romance. As someone who likes mythology and is interested in it this series is even more interesting to me.The acting is great and the chemistry is amazing and the cinematography is great. It's a great start and I look forward to every Saturday now.
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A SECOND SEASON ANNONCED AT THE END CREDIT !!!
This series is fantastic. Not only its a mix of everything you love in action and fantasy series, but make it BL is even better.The chemistry between the two is amazing. The s.x scenes (mostly in their head at the beginning of the series) are not "shocking" for regular public. It's more romantic.
The story is also fantastic. Well written to the end, you can not be disappointed.
What exited me is that after watching the last episode (12), they had a preview of a second season with a new bad guy, this time related to Phaya.
The other thing I have to say is how amazing Saint Suppapong is. As an actor, who didn't have a little crush on him in the drama Why R U? But here, he's the Executive Producer for this drama with A Natthaphong as Director. Saint is not really an BL actor of producer, and you can see the "straight touch" on this drama. Even if its a BL, the element of action and sci-fi are really taken seriously, so it doesn't look kitch. The only thing I didn't like is the "cross dressing" of Tharn as a woman (he was a woman in his previous life) like we wouldn't have understood. I think that was a mistake. They could have show the link, and then tell the story in his woman form.
Other thing that suggest a second season is all the other powerful people that appeared but we don't know who they really are like the mysterious woman at the restaurant, or the man at the end of ep12. Also, we want to know more about the stories of those legendary beasts. It's not official yet, but if the show is popular, I guess a second season may be possible by 2025 or 2026...
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