Ai Long Nhai (2022)

No plot. Good kisses

First ep I was a little apprehensive, not sure where this was going. A typical college BL maybe? It's certainly a 'love at first sight' thing, at least for one of the main leads.
Ep. 2 Story got a little clearer, I kinda cringed at the oops I had drunk sex with a guy thing, And what the hell was with these stuffed socks?? I felt relieved when Nhai confesses he actually liked it and that he was the one feeling guilty towards Ai. Ai is so in love he likes everything Nhai does but I think Nhai is not as great as he looks and might be chaotic af. Ai better brace himself. Curious to see where this goes.
Ep.3. I´m really not sure about this tbh. Although there are many things I like, there are at least as much things I dislike. Ai puts an unfair amount of pressure on Nhai, and although he has asked for time, Ai is trying to kiss him not 2 seconds later. Nhai is all over the place and says he is confused, but he seems anything but. I am really hoping for the dialogue to be more consistent and the subs being as bad as they are is not helping...
Ep 4-8 I am getting more and more worried about this drama and frustrated that the writing is not what it could be. Scenes and even full episodes seem to be made just for screenfilling and visual. There is no development. In fact, just exactly in the scene where you think something happens.... The episode is over. The next episode starts with that promising scene, but does not fulfill the promise. Characters remain flat, without any depth or real emotion. We see Nhai get jealous but who knows why. No motives, just nothing. All thats left is the fluff and the chemistry. But that falls totally flat when the rest is so severely lacking. This hurts and I do not see it getting better. Rating dropped to 6.
Ep. 9. Every time the end credits start running, I'm like: what? But nothing happened yet!. It is sooo boring! Ai's birth mother is the worst evil mom I've ever seen. She can't even get the expressions right. Also.. Usually with 'bad' bl's we can get at least some solace from the side couple. But there is none here! We are being robbed. The award for saving the ep. goes to Arm for doing the only good acting. Thank you Arm!
Ep. 10. Birth mom got slayed by Nhai. That was the best thing to watch. Rest of the ep was boring
Ep 11 and 12. Meeting the parents, being cute at night, going on a camping trip, bei g cute again, getting sick, getting orange peeling tips, getting better, being cute and promise forever. The end.

There was never any plot. Here and there are sparks of story but all of them bled out and died silently. This was Ai and Nhai being cute for 12 eps straight. Could have been half that. Got really boring in the end despite good kissing. There was no more tension, no real passion, no obstacles to overcome. No ingredients to make a good series.

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A feel good series ,worth watching

First when i started watching this i felt very excited to watch,once i finish watching, couldn't wait for next episode,actors are really cute and they did there best to portray the characters,i would recommend all of them to watch this series,u will love it ,i am still currently watching, finished watching 3 episodes and waiting next episode to arrive,A story is unique and seems this series is interesting to watch,worth watching ❤️,i usually love school and college based love stories,since it is one among them , loving to watch.guys go for it,u will never regret watching it.

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Meen and Arm were the main reasons I made until the end.

So many cons so little time.

Aerospace Engineering is an incredibly difficult facility, so someone please tell me how Nhai managed not only to enter the facility but to have the grades to stay in it. Nhai must be some village’s idiot, the guy gets lost on the way to his OWN dorm room, groans like an 80 year old man when he gets up, and is more interested in eating than paying attention to what’s going on around him. The poor ducky keychain is on the floor more often than in Nhai’s possession.

Another huge pet peeve of mine is if you’re going to give the supporting characters a possible partner at least do it properly. There certainly was enough time, with so little actually occurring, 45 mins of very slow reactions and pauses between lines.
Only when Ai’s mother was spoken about or in the actual scene were there any real animation in the actors.

This had the ability to be a really good series, but the direction let it down, and possibly tightening up the script (Sorry Run, as a side note I really enjoyed you in Second Chance). It had a capable cast but they had so little to work with.

Now for the pros…, this shouldn’t take long. Which is what saved the rating from having fewer stars.

For a first outing Arm did an awesome job as Jaonan I’ve been waiting for years to see him and Porsche in a series together.

Excuse while I pause here to objectify Meen’s beautiful body, which was sadly abused every time the script called for him to pick Ping up. Being about the same height and weight made for an odd looking way to carry someone around,

The actress who portrayed Ai’s mother was my favourite actor because she the acme of the evil (step) mother complete with shrill scream, Without her this would have been like watching paint dry.

Minor things that I liked were: Nhai’s father was reaction to meeting Ai, asking him if he knew what he was getting into.
Brother Singh’s moral support and educating Nhai’s father. Ai’s patience while Nhai worked out if he could accept a relationship with a guy. The friend’s making sure of Ai’s intentions. Jida and Jom for making Nhai feel a bit jealous, and helped him work out he really did want Ai.

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Attraction of opposites student drama , that is cute and funny. Love v sausages.

If you are looking for something earnest indepth, like the Eight Sense or Tokyo in April, this is not for you. If you want something to watch that is has charectors that you would like to meet, that is not medodramatic, full of lack of communication,and angest,and gives you a smile, then you might like it.
The worst thing about this is the title, which gives you no idea of the content, and the opening episode which sets the plot, get past that and its very enjoyable.
There are a lot of poor reviews for this, mainly about the plot. It's not Kinn Porche, which is plot dense, its charm is its a normal tale of love, not a hyped up version, full of tortured longing looks and misunderstandings. Having working with a lot of young male students, the obession with food( they will know the number of every fast food outlet that will deliver), sex, alcohol, sport and DnD type games is accurate.

One ML is tall, handsome, rich, smart and a seriel bed hopper, so doesn't make a lot of effort in relationships, and a bit of a neat freak.
The other male lead, is cute, a bit of a romantic, but lives his life a mess disorganised clutter, obessed with food, constantly losing things and himself, and his friends shepherd him constantly.

This could be a standard student drama if it wasn't for the writing and particulary the comic performance of , Ping Krittanun Aunchananunhe, the charector could be the really annoying but its played with charm. I haven't seen a charector written like this since Lorrelei Lee in Gentleman Prefer Blondes(1953),' I can be smart when it's important' He looks fluffy on the outside but actually covers up that he is astute so he thinks things through, and has a steel crow bar for a spine, and gets his own way by being either charmingly befuddled or very direct about what he wants. So the main comedy is that the Mr Cool ends up in often exasperated submission.

The story moves a long well, all misunderstanding and the villians plot are solved quickly. The plot is mainly how their realationship changes and deepens, and having consumed a lot of these student dramas recently, still trying to get over Weak Class Hero, I think this is much better than Bad Buddy, which mainly consists of two people being pretty aweful to each other most of the time, and full of the love hate cliches. The realtionship in this drama based on communication and honesty.

Episode 5, is my favorite, it covers raiding the all you can eat buffet, the enevertable drunk outcome, a frank discussion of sex scene, and then the head down the toilet. In all great evening out.

Its a refreshing change from the what seems the constant theme of sexual and student bullying of males and females that seems to be in just about every student drama, and the idea that to show you like someone you have to be nasty to them. The supporting charectors are nice supportive people, even the females!
Not often I give a 10.

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Did anything actually happen?

Saying that is in anyway related to Tonhon Chonlatee is criminal. Let’s leave aside the fact that the cast is completely different (makes sense, they were done by different companies), but the story doesn’t even fit with it. I am not familiar with the novels the two series were based off, but seeing the novels were done by the same author, I would have expected at least some consistency when it came to the plot.

Let’s start with the good first. I love the relationship between Sippakorn (Ai’s father) and his partner Nan. Nan didn’t get that much screen time, but I feel like whenever he was present, he stole the show. I loved his character. And the fact that the actors who play them, Porsch and Arm, are real life partners is amazing! They didn’t need much more than a simple look to see their love and I was there for it!

Another great part of the series was Nhai’s friend group. They are all aware that their friend is not very bright and extremely whiny, but they accept him for who is. And they are not afraid to tell him that when the chance presents itself (e.g. the reason for the ducky keychain).

Now, the not so great part – Nhai. As I mentioned before, he is kind of dumb and whiny, to the point of it being extremely annoying. I don’t even know how I sat through all 12 episodes of it, but I did. Only for there to be absolutely no character growth for him. I found the conversations others had with him boring and with no meaning. The subtitles were horrible as well, so I am sure certain things got lost in the translation, but I doubt the dialogue was actually much better. The only redeeming act of his that I can think of is how he delt with Ai’s mom. That’s it.

Ai can be a brat, but he is a brat that knows how to take care of himself. And his boyfriend. I found him much easier to tolerate. I think there was much more thought put into creating his character. His backstory showed his character growth as well, which was great to see.

Oh, one more thing that I liked was that no matter how annoying Nhai is, at least he knows how to communicate – we don’t see that very often, so it was really refreshing to see. Do you know how many conflicts can be avoided by just talking about it?

As for the plot, was there even one? I feel like there was no real plot, yet there were so many plot holes in the end, that I don’t even know where we got them from. I also feel like the story was unnecessary long and dragged out – and that is coming from a person who usually complains that the series are too short. I feel like if they only focused on Ai and Nhai getting together, made it a cute and short series with like 6 episodes, it would be much better.

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As I stated before, I need more than good looking actors to make a series good. The series started off ok, but went downhill very quickly. The script is not the greatest. The pacing was very off and everything was happening at a rapid speed. It seems to have the same “I don’t like men, but I like him” concept from Tonhon Chonlatee that was used which I can’t stand.

Random Note:

I should have listened to my initial gut reaction to not watch this series, but gave it a shot when it became available on Viki. I was also giving a MFlow production another chance before I completely give-up on them. Yet again, I was proven wrong.

The English subtitle on Viki were pretty bad (I didn’t take points off for this). It seemed they stopped caring and gave up after episode 2. The subtitles had a lot of spelling and grammatical errors. There were times they were so incoherent that I had no idea what the actors were saying. There were other times that there were no subtitles at all.

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Rape is not love

It seems that Thai BL only ever have two kinds of gay people, Camp or rapist. Why do they just keep on regurgitating the same old rubbish over and over again, can't they find any new stories? The worst thing about it is I could probably tolerate it if they didn't have to make them such disgusting filth all the time.
You do not love someone if you rape them!
Rape should not be glorified!
Childlike moron at university, what is he studying? He seems to have the brain capacity of a preteen
Can we just have someone hate their rapist one time, maybe be angry and tell them to never come near them again. Maybe get them arrested or my favorite, stab them and leave them bleeding in the street.
I watched this on Youtube and I seemed to be the only person in the comments complaining so maybe people like glorified rape, that would explain why they keep making this kind of garbage

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Just don't judge thai bls from this series

Just the worst acting and a crappy story led to this. I mean what's with the obsession with a keychain and they just kiss in the second episode without any buildup just so out of the scene.
Just putting 2 guys in a series and tell them to just fall in love doesn't work, WE NEED A STORY. NO amount of NC scenes could have helped. Seriously I am disappointed with myself to even think of starting this series. I lost my brain cells watching this.
For anyone who is watching his first thai series as this just please don't lose hope. Their are others who are much better.

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