Watching first episodes, I was like: To be perfectly honest, maybe I WOULD like the BL fascination to quiet down a bit in Thailand, lol. Opening yet another BL series, I did appreciate this one incomporated the today's tendencies (and BL fangirls pushing gay-romance culture) straight into the story, and in a fun way. There ARE new kinds of pressure on goodlooking boys today, and it's more natural for the show to address it directly than to pretend they live in special universe where everyone is automatically gay... First, I identified with Zon as the main character. He is scared that he started living in some "gay land". I found that funny and also I could relate. It began to be rare to find a straight guy in today's "idol dramas". Thailand already had queer even in straight dramas and those are here, too. In total count, everyone either looks gay, acts gay or IS gay. While some can be 2 or 3 of these things, it seems nobody is 0. The engineer school uniform became like gay uniform...

It's funny how Zon enounters the main duo from 'TharnType', and believes he really traveled inside BL fiction. I felt for him and hoped he would be able to find 1 ordinary straight person on the whole campus lol. But then he thinks he got saved as soon as he sees the character portrayed by Saint Suppapong, which is ironic because that "actor" looks so much like a girl that it's scary.

Which brings me to the Saint & Zee couple. After 'Love By Chance', I was convinced that "Saint" Suppapong can't act even at gunpoint. He SIGNIFICANTLY improved, here (well, he couldn't possibly get any worse). The dynamics works, Zee's character is the right amount of predatory, while Saint's character makes perfect prey, who answers with just the right amount of spunk back. So completely different from Saint's character in 'Love By Chance'.

With Zon & Saifah, you realize the cast in this series is a bit problematic. Some "boys" are 28, some barely 20 and look like underaged baby in compare to their "peers", let alone to be believable as their seniors. Zon looks ridiculous paired with Saifah, who looks 10 years younger and 10 times more feminine than Zon, but it's all supposed to be saved by him being taller. Most scenes the baby-boy looked like he needed to return the senior jacket to whomever he stole it from. Probably to Zon, who keeps wearing freshmen shirt despite looking older.

At first, Zon & Saifah's interactions are funny, thanks to Zon's perceptions and fears that make it funny. Any stale lame scene is made funny by Zon commenting on it in his head. But that doesn't last long and soon we watch montage of the two along with sweet music? The funny inner commentary is gone and sweet scenes keep piling on... I felt treated the same way Zon was treated. The BL was just forced on us audience. It did not happen organically. By the way, I felt like that watching most BL shows...

This respect, Saint & Zee couple line definitely works better. The tension in between the two is undeniable. Sadly, the plot uses a third party, which is a girl "dating" Zee's character, who chooses Saint's character of all people to confide about her relationship problems. And he gives her like girl magazine advice, instead of saying: "Well, I think the problem might be he is into guys. He already kissed me twice." This he doesn't tell her AND he doesn't stop giving her "advice". It feels ancient old way to keep the triangle going. This was obviously inherited from straight dramas, where two girls always tend to be "friends", while nang'ek believes in the friendship sincerely, nang'rai abuses it to get the guy and to get into her rival's head. So, Saint's character in this plays one of the girls? Episodes where Janis Janistar's character is omitted are better. Also, when showed as cartoons, all scenes look better:)

But when the two boys are left alone, it's as steamy as it gets. First, its's clear and clearer that Zee's character is CRAZY about Saint's. He kisses him a couple more times, saying he's "just teasing him", but then Saint's character's here is NOTHING like in 'Love By Chance'. Wow. Now I wonder, is this show going make fun of BL, or become a strong piece of it itself?

Back to Saifah & Zon... The two are cute together, still I'd prefer them to be just friends. They're more enjoyable just making fun of it. I don't really like them as a serious couple. Started more or less skipping their scenes, I just don't get those two. Then, Saint & Zee couple progressed from supressed angst to both-side confession during one single episode. Huh? Peaked too soon, just like 99% BL.

All this was just 1/2 of the series. What now?
Saifah & Zon kissed. I cringed. I just don't get what happened to Zon. No matter how "nice" has Saifah been to Zon, it's so weird Zon would jump into being physically involved with him just for that. It felt all constructed and I lost my overall interest. Instead of focusing on Zon as the main character, I quit watching his line entirely.

Opening episode 9... With me watching a bundle of other shows in the meantime, I mistakenly thought it was the last episode. The main couple is together already, they go happily to the beach... Then I noticed this was not the last episode. And I was like: You know what? For me it can be. I have like no reason to keep watching this... Them just being happy at the beach and getting all mushy was almost unsufferable to watch. Wouln't it be great just to end it now? It's not like I care whether they have a huge fight later, break-up, or reconcile at the end. The second couple, we don't see them this episode, and we don't miss them.

So, I dropped the series after epi 9, rated it 6 stars. Then more or less accidentally kept on watching. I totally skipped the other couple and I still didn't like Saint, but Zee was giving me something to watch. Apart from him being hot and the only one of the cast actually having manly body (and therefore they made him wear his shirt constantly open... while everyone else just has a t-shirt:) it's was him solely who raised my Overall rating, he really made me care about his character in the end, meaning the 12th epi, where we can watch him completely break down and confess all his feelings. It's a great scene, very authentic. Zee's voice breaks, picture frame falls... Be it accidental or not, the scene was a treat. Including the poignantly inserted flashbacks. Else I wouldn't give the Overall rating 2 additional stars. Because as soon as Zee leaves the scene, and it's just Saint sitting there on the bed awkwardly clenching his little fists, it's not working anymore.

Thanks to Zee, this could easily be a 10 stars show. But for that, he would have to not share his scenes with someone like Willie McIntosh, or Saint Suppapong. I really wish to see more of Zee, comedy or drama, gay or straight.