Wednesday Club (2023)

“I don’t know why I feel like I’m not part of my family.” (Tam)

Let’s be honest, I gave it a shot because of the actors and actresses. The plot seemed interesting enough too, an angsty story about a group of misfits that come from different backgrounds and might not have a lot in common except that they are all middle children. A bit farfetched, but I can understand the appeal and it makes sense that they share certain experiences because of that.

It had a lot of potential, but it all frizzled out the longer the series went on. Instead of focusing on the problems that the Wednesday Club’s members face, we were following the stories of Venus and her political campaign, Top and his relationship with his dad, and Mink and her husband Karn. Not exactly what I signed up for. And while I can understand the plots related to Venus and Top, the whole ordeal with Mink and Karn was unnecessary. I don’t think it brought anything to the table except for taking up time.

Most of the side characters were very unlikeable. They did try to give them tragic backstories for us to sympathize with them. Or they tried to have them turn a new leaf, show them in a different light, etc. but none of that excuses their actions towards the others, including the Wednesday Club’s members. This goes for their family members but also characters like Top, Mink and Karn.

While it looks like they were trying to go for a found family trope, they didn’t necessarily achieve that. That might have been the plan. However, I don’t think that’s a bad thing. All of them are flawed and are dealing with their personal problems. That affects them greatly, it is not something they can just carry around with no consequences. It is expected that it will all come to a boiling point sooner or later.

Kong (Ohm) – He’s honest and reliable. Kong is also very loyal, which is both his strongest and weakest point. His loyalty makes him a friend anyone would want, but it also leaves him vulnerable when those friends turn on him. I think the biggest mistake they made with Kong is that they made him too similar to Ohm’s character in Double Savage. Ohm is incredible in such roles, I get that, but with the two series airing in the same year, it does blur the lines between his two characters.

Pali (Nani) – I don’t think he had any other purpose than being there for Kong when he remembered him. He was involved with the whole Mink thing too, she is his sister after all, but Pali’s relationship with Kanya was not developed enough. There was a lot of potential there, but it was all glossed over and we see very little of the two. Which is a shame.

Tam (Film) – Tam can be described as sweet, innocent, and positive. But she is carrying a lot of hurt with her. She keeps that hidden though. I do like that we get to see her stand up for herself as the series progresses, but I still feel like she was a very passive character most of the time. I was also not a fan of how the whole story with her grandmother ended. It was not a proper conclusion.

May (Piploy) – She is the character I wanted to hate, but I ended up liking a lot. She does appear like someone who doesn’t care about herself, like she gave up on life once her father ended his. She does play games with people around her, trying to make things go her way. I do like her character growth, the way she changes and starts to regard those around her differently. She becomes a real friend to Peem and Tam in particular.

Kul (Phuwin) – Kul might say he would do anything for money, but it’s obvious that he still feels excluded. Just like he did in the past. Yet he tries so hard to belong to what he considers the popular crowd that he often does things that hurt him, deeply, and hurt those around him. I am not excusing his actions, but I can understand where he is coming from and why he is the way he is.

Max (Kay) – It might be just me, but I found Max extremely unlikeable. Sure, he has a sad past, but who doesn’t? He is not someone you can trust, which is proven very early on. He is also very vindictive and can be quite malicious. And I think a lot of what happened to others could be avoided if he was a better person. I still think what happened to him before and during the series is sad, but it doesn’t really excuse his behavior either.

Peem (Satang) – He’s a glass child, someone’s whose life was always based around his brother and his condition. Peem loves his brother but also craves a chance to be himself, to discover who he truly is. He is very caring and protective, as he was taught to be, which is something that can easily be used against him. He is also loyal and doesn’t want to use his friends, that’s not what friendship is to him.

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Stranger's to Friend's to Stranger's

I have not been writing review for almost 7 months now and strangely the last review I had written was also Ohm's drama Double Savage. Double Savage was so disappointed that I had to share my thoughts somewhere. Now even though I really don't wanna write any review but I really have to do this because of Ohm and Wednesday Club because they deserves it.

From the first trailer to the original trailer I literally had zero expectations from Wednesday Club. Even the first few episodes felt boring but with every new episodes the excitement started increasing. I wanted to know what was going to happen next. The main leads were really suitable for their characters. We could see them in different characters and another version of their acting.

One the main charms of this show was May and Peem. When Satang and Film was replaced in place of Joong and Jane I was really disheartened. But guys Satang did a great job portraying the character of Peem. And Satang and Piploy had great chemistry together. And Man I really wish Jane wasn't replaced because I wanted to see Ohm with Jane as we already have seen Ohm and Film as a couple before.


Maybe this wasn't perfect drama with a great storyline. But important issues like Friendship, Love, Marriage, Abortion, Mental health, Politics rivalry etc were discussed and portrayed in a great way. And in the end it was far better than many other dramas that got higher rating than this one.

I truly enjoyed it and if you guys give it a chance instead of looking at the bad reviews, I personally think you also might like it!

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Started with a bang, ended with a fizzle

Expanded review title: Started with a bang, ended with a bang that fizzled out so fast that maybe I imagined that gunshot?

When I started Wednesday Club, I was telling my friends that it was like P.S. I Hate You and Not Me had a love child. The elements of PSIHY with the toxic messy friend group and the beginning of the show starting with a death (or threat of a death). The elements of Not Me with political intrigue and borderline gang activity. It was what Only Friends was supposed to be! And for most of the show, that's what Wednesday Club delivered! But once again, I fell victim to the fast paced = good story myth. It was a good story, just kinda fell flat at the end.

What I liked
- May and Peem's friendship, genuinely so refreshing and their plotline with Mink/Karn had me rooting for MayPeem every step of the way
- Kun's storyline, heartbreaking really, he was such a complexly written character and the buildup to him holding the gun in the end had great payoff

What I disliked
- Kong/Palli/Tam love triangle, we wasted soooo much time on Kong and Palli liking Tam when it was pretty much resolved immediately AND it didn't even get called back to later on in the series/in the finale. Like Palli and Kong moved on and Tam was pretty much relegated to support character
- Ranking of the characters in the credits, this is me being petty but no way in HELL should Piploy be the last in the credits, May had the most character development of the entire ensemble
- The finale, specifically part 4, I just hate endings where two characters basically have a rundown conversation of everyone's endings, BORING!
- Nani's acting.......my dude.......where are the acting workshops???

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Nothing special

Let's face it... I'm sure most people who have watched this series saw it for the cast and ofc I'm one of them.
I had no expectations, also because I mainly watch bl but no, I didn't like it very much...
In my opinion there were too many stories, some of which were not necessary at all.
The only thing I would have expected is that a strong bond could be created over time between the guys in the club, from perfect strangers to best friends, but this was only seen at the end of the last episode, and it seemed very forced for me.
I honestly don't recommend it but if you are a fan of the cast, it's fine but don't expect who knows what.

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Another opportunity to waste Ohm Pawat’s talent.

If Ohm Pawat wasn’t in this I would’ve bailed. I really think GMMTV series there aren’t any really good series that’s worthy of Ohm’s talent because their roster of young actors in these kind of series aren’t up to his level as an actor. To date, Double Savage with Perth and Forei is his only non BL that is worth nothing.

ISTG, I don’t know how Phuwin keeps getting the roles he gets because he’s so miscast. As a former PondPhuwin shipper, I cannot watch Phuwin in anything non BL. This is only because Pond is doing all the heavy lifting to keep that ship sailing. Every time he comes on screen, I cringe at his performance. The only part he did well was when in episode 1w when he gave his bully the finger. But this is how I see a Phuwin in everyday life from how he is with Gemini and other friend he hangs out. Something about Phuwin’s acting for the most part looks like acting instead of being in character,

Anyway, the serie had potential. While I might have wanted Joong in a series with Phuwin but I don’t mind Satang recast in the series instead. He has potential.. plus the fact that he can sing helps with the role. I think he fits the role of Prem better than Joong.

As for Piploy as May, the performance was good.She played a flawed character to some degree of believability. However, Film always comes up short in acting. She seems to give the same kind of performance. Im. It sure if it’s because she plays the same kind of character or it just not good acting. It’s bland and boring at this point.

The other actor who gave a decent performance was Kay as Mac. Like that’s acting to be and being in character.

I think Thor as Top gave a decent performance. Kul’s brother, Kong’s brother and sister, Pali’s sister, Tam’s grandmother/ father, and everyone else did their job.

My biggest issue is the lack of a cohesive flow in the storyline. It’s jumbled and try ending was a hot messy rush job. This might be the series that makes me stop watching Phuwin all together if it isn’t a BL.

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Story fell through as episodes went by

Honestly speaking when I 1st heard of this show, I was excited bcuz it looked like a really good show with actors I liked. But sadly what I was met with was a huge disappointment. It started ok and I was heavily invested but somehow it got progressively worse as episodes went by. I was struggling to finish episodes and at some point dropped it but later on continued bcuz it was abt to end.
The main problem of the show was the really sh*tty writing. The characters had barely any depth to them. Their background was around one or two scenes long and I felt like they could've gone deeper bcuz they barely scratched the surface with them. And the plot was inconsistent. Some parts they gave us too much and other parts too little
I swear to God, the director has some sort of piss kink bcuz why were they peeing on things so much. I know it was only three times but tbh one is already too many times.
The only good thing abt this show was the acting. U can tell that they tried to give life to their characters but with what they were given, they couldn't do much.
This show was kinda like Only Friends but worse than whatever that mess was. imo this is not worth the watch. Save ur time and watch sth else. Just bcuz ur favourite are gonna be in ti doesnt mean its gonna be good.

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Rushed, but super interesting

Wednesday Club was one of my favorite shows this year. It's a story of a group of young people who came together in hopes of becoming friends. That didn’t exactly work out. Each of them came with their own problems and challenges, family conflicts that spilled into political and societal issues, and while their stories interlocked, the friendship promised in the official synopsis never really materialized.
The show was super interesting and had some of the most talented actors in GMMTV. Unfortunately, it had one major flaw: the plot could easily be stretched into 14, 16, or even 20 episodes. There were so many characters and so many stories, 12 episodes were not enough to do any of them justice. As a result, it felt rushed. Very rushed.
Other reviews talk enough about plot and writing, so let me just summarize my feelings.

Kong – Ohm Pawat was the best actor in the show, and Kong was the purest and most wholesome character. It’s a shame then, that he’d been relegated to mostly a background character. His family story was kinda in the center of everything that happened, but even that was very shallow.
I’d love to see more scenes of Kong interacting with his siblings and know more about how he felt about the whole situation. In the end, even the family scandal was swept under the rug and forgotten.

Palee – was the kind of character you could replace with a coat rack with no loss to the series. The acting was also like that of a coat rack. Given that, he and his love escapades were given entirely too much screen time.

Kanya – if Palee was a coat rack, she was a coat.

May – I can see why she was the favorite character of so many people. She started as very toxic, (which was later explained), and gradually changed to be a better person. Even when she manipulated Tam to get together with Palee, she gave her some genuinely good advice about makeup and protection.
In the beginning, she was interested in Kong and it bugged me how many people shipped them. What did my boy ever do to you that you wish him so ill? Somebody said they would end up like Mink and Karn, but I doubt that—May would eat Kong alive.

Tam – an innocent girl, the complete opposite of May. I felt like she could be on an autism spectrum, given her constant spinning, her avoidance of eye contact, and her strange custom of giving names to everything. Or Film just picked up some of Pennhung’s behaviors from Home School.
Her story was one of the most developed in the show, but I still don’t like how it ended. Spoilers ahead.
We don’t know how was her biological mother’s situation 20 years ago, but she said she worked like an ox to be ready for her younger daughter. It must have been hard for her to have an unplanned child earlier, and giving Tam up was the best of the terrible options she had. Is that a surprise that she didn’t want to talk about it with a virtual stranger? Especially in front of her very young daughter? Tam should go back to her and have a proper talk—not starting with stupid questions.
On the other hand, her adoptive grandma was abusive as hell. Every time we saw her, she was berating Tam, yelling at her, or beating her with a cane. And all of that is supposed to disappear because of one sappy message she wrote twenty years ago? I’m not buying it. I know for some people family is family, and they can treat you like dirt, but they love you, and it’s supposed to make their abusive behavior fine. It doesn’t. I’m glad the old hag is dead and I think Tam is too, even if she wouldn’t admit it.
Now she just needs to go talk to her biological mother.

Kul – look, I’m old and cynical, I don’t give a damn about young people’s love polygon. But a story of a male escort? Hell, yeah. Gimme full 12 episodes of that!
Unfortunately, for most of the show Kul only got one scene per episode and his story was criminally underdeveloped. I'm especially curious about his relationship with his siblings and friends outside the club. Even at the end, a lot of threads were left loose. Did he pay off P’Dream? How did he deal with P’Yam?

Pheem – the character was meant to be played by Joong and I won’t lie, I was initially drawn to this show by the promise of seeing my favorite himbo. However, Satang did very well in this role. There were just a few scenes where he lacked Joong’s physicality: when Baby Satang says he’d protect the ladies, it’s hard to take him seriously, but if the same lines came from Joong, across Bangkok, Karn would wet his pants. On the bright side, Satang can play guitar.
As for Pheem, I feel like his character was also underdeveloped. Even most of his screen time was about Mink or May. I’d love to see more of his interactions with his family, know what drove him, and what his goal in life was.

Max – yeah, you guessed it, another underdeveloped character. To the point, where I don’t even know what to say about him. He was important to the plot and Kay did a great job portraying him (I saw him previously in Home School, where he played a totally different character), I just… don’t feel anything about him.

But even without the full development, the slices of lives we glimpsed grabbed me. The ending left me feeling melancholic. I wish it was longer. I wish we could see all characters getting their happy endings. Who knows, maybe in five years they will meet again and become friends they failed to become now?

And yes, the irony of GMMTV making shows about how people get different opportunities in life while giving main roles to the same chosen few, and keeping other, genuinely talented actors as eternal supports, is not lost on me.

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Different Young Adult Program

An amazing story giving a snap shot of 7 fresh university students life, how they deal with becomming adults and dealing with various difficulties in their upbringing while their lives intersect over the time as the series progresses.

I personally enjoyed some of the storylines more than others, however overall they were all interesting and varied. The supporting characters are also great and bring a lot to the stories.

If you expect something cute and fluffy, this is not the series for you. But, if you would like something more gritty, dramatic and at times action filled then this is the series for you.

The acting of Phuwin, Ohm, Piploy and Satand is top notch and I particularly enjoyed seeing them in roles we have not seen from some of them before. It gave it freshness and newness that kept my interest throughout.

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Disappointed

Sadly I have to say nothing new same old story, but I have to say the acting was bad and a strong pass. I am thankful it's not BL, because it's just lacking chemistry and no development. A let down on acting and storyline. At times it did not even make sense. This was not greatly put together and felt like it was just something to do. Some of the actors are good, but boring and lack a lot in not being interesting. I found my self fast forwarding just to get to the end. Very over done feels like it won't do anywhere and very close to looking like a bunch of other straight and BL series that have already been done.

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Entertaining Ensemble

When you're trying to tell seven different stories in twelve episodes and make sure that watchers will love and sympathize with the characters, it's always a balancing act.

Wednesday Club came pretty close.

I started watching this series shortly after the second episode aired, so this time I had to do the Weekly Wait thing rather than binge.

I'm going to watch it again, and I'm going to binge.

The premise of the story is pretty relatable--lonely people get together and form friendships that then start to effect the lives of all seven of them. Granted, this is done to varying degrees, and there are a couple of episodes where one of them(usually Mac or Pali) didn't do much other than take up space on the screen, but it was still entertaining to see what hijinks everyone else was getting up to.

Pali's storyline was a little bit flat, and I felt kind of bad that Nani didn't really have much to do in the series other than stand quietly in a corner(at least for the first half), but once Mink showed up, Pali had more to do, and that helped. One thing I'm starting to figure out about Nani is that he when he gets a script and character that mesh with his acting style, he's GOLD, and when he gets one that's...a little bit of a mess he misses by *that much*. I hope "High School Frenemy" is the former, cause Nani can deliver snarky and dry asides really well, and this series looks like it'll be full of them(and Kay is in that one too!).

Tam's story made me cry. I mean, how much shit can this poor girl go through in one series? Apparently, a lot. Her struggles with finding her place in her family, and her relationship with her grandmother hit me right in the feels and when she sobbed after she was literally alone in the hospital I did too( and it's REALLY HARD to watch something when you can't see the screen through your tears, so that episode took a little longer to watch). Film delivered the way she always does.

I....could not sympathize with Kul. Like at all. I tried, I really did, because I love watching Phuwin, but something(maybe the way Kul was written?) just didn't vibe with me. That being said, Phuwin played Kul to the hilt and even if the character was unevenly written and his storyline was kind of a mess, Phuwin's acting was not.

May and Pheem are the cutest couple ever. Their relationship stays low-key without getting to over the top dramatic and makes me grin like an idiot. Also, when may meets Pheem's older brother and has a day out with him made me awwwwwwwwwwwww. Satag and Piploy should be paired together more often, cause their chemistry is fantastic and natural.

Kong. What can I say about Kong. I---kind of wanted him to get up to more hi-jinks, I guess? I mean, the opening shot of Ohm and Nani running down the street in their birthday suites was GOLD, but then it all seemed to peter out, and I wanted Kong to do more to move the plot along. He did, sort of, in later episodes, but he was spurred on by the other characters, which was a little bit of let down.

Having just come from "Home School", the best surprise for me was Kay's performance as Mac. This is a complete one eighty from Hugo and Kay is so good! Rather than wanting to shake him like I did in "Home School", I wanted to hug him. He was so sweet and humble and the look Mac gave Venus when he was in trouble broke my heart. As an added bonus, sometimes when Kay was on the screen as Mac, then AJ and JJ were there too(as Ma Han and Wang Chao, two other boys who are not in the Wednesday Club, but are close friends of Mac) so it was kind of fun to see the three of them again(they were also in Home School together).

I didn't read the novel, but being a writer I know how difficult it can be to balance multiple storylines and make them stick. "Wednesday Club" came close(although, as with "Home School" they did the "girls gets shot protecting her friends" trope which was kind of a cop out, but I went with it), so I'm watching it again when I need fluffy messy entertainment.

And I'll also rewatch for Kay and Satang and Piploy and Film, because their performances were !!!!!!!!!!!

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