A really enjoyable show. Light and funny.

First and foremost, this series is nothing really as special because it's quite typical like other BL series, however it was really entertaining for sure. And that's why I later LOVE this series. I honestly watch this series because there wasn't much new interesting Thai BL shows out there during that time. I also knew a bit of Phuwin in some of his previous series, which was the only reason why I watched this show. To be honest, I don't even recall their pilot trailer from last year too lol.

I really had no expectations in the first place, but I gave it a try even though it's another university theme. At first, I thought Pi was annoying in some ways, or the way they portrayed Pi was kind of annoying, but because we see him being a loner and was bullied, you cut some slack for his character at the beginning. As the story progress with his transformation, I feel that's when Pi's character started to be less annoying and we start to see a side of him wanting to better himself. I personally do think that Phuwin played Pi's character really well. He's a guy who literally has social anxiety and have trust issues. His only support is just his own brother Duean mainly. You can see lots of emotions and facial expressions Phuwin has when he plays Pi. I think this is why I think he's actually the perfect fit for the role Pi.

As for Pond who plays Mork was also a good candidate for the role as well. Since Pond is still a new actor, you can see that he's still somewhat a newbie, lacking a bit of facial expressions at certain situations within the show. However, I think he fits the role of Mork really well too. For whatever reason, Pond's staring tend to give serious emotions. I feel that the series tend to focus on his eye contacts with Phuwin to build that love connection within the series. I'm not gonna lie, I always stare into Pond's eyes about half of the time in the show lol. His sexy jawline and sexy lips came afterward lol. Oh and his sexy voice too lol.

Aside the two main roles, Neo who played Duean was also perfect as well. When you look at Neo, he really has this comedian vibe with him and I think he would fit in lots of comedy roles too. He's actually perfect for his role. For Louis, I feel like he somehow fit the role Meen too. He has this child-like vibe when you look at him. Overall I think the director chose the perfect people for the roles.

What I do like about this show is that it shows the struggles of self confidences specifically in gay men, although it didn't dive deep into it at all. Gay men do have their own set of insecurities too. I like the fact that this series shows that just because you have changed or transform yourself, it's a lot harder than it seems. In reality, that's the truth for most people. It takes a long time to gain self confidence (including with therapy or not). For some, it's not a big deal, but for someone like Pi, it's an everyday struggle for them. I like how realistically the show portrays this well within the series.

Usually in other BL shows, there's complications about the main characters sorting how and why they are gay, but it's refreshing to see that the main characters Pi, Mork, and Muang Nan didn't go through those complications and struggles. Of course it's important as well, but it nice to see that they already accept themselves as gay and this doesn't take too much focus away from the show's plot. I like it how it just really focus on the story instead. And honestly, most gay guys in real life do not go for straight men because most of the time, it's nearly impossible to turn a straight guy to like men anyways. So another plus for me in this series is that Pi did not go for a "straight" guy... which is also quite refreshing to see something like this in a long time too. We also don't see anything like "I'm not gay, but I only like you" kind of senerio as well. For me, that's also another plus and truly refreshing to see because I've just seen so much of that situations in BL genre in general.

I also really love the originality aesthetics of the show. I like it how when Pi talks to Mork on Facebook, and everything turns dark with the blue light in the background and we see only Mork's bottom half of his face with Pi. With the fish tank noise in the background, it's like they were two fishes talking to each other lol. I'm gonna miss that a lot because it's was very unique within the show. Then they had the ending balloon scenes too. The balloon confession scene was also unique to the show too.

I think the plot is indeed typical in itself, but I think Fish Upon the Sky really set their version well. Most of the time in other romantic comedy BL shows, I feel like they tend to focus on the comedy at the beginning and focus on the romance later. As the show goes on, it tend to lose a bit of the comedy along the way while I think Fish Upon the Sky does pretty at maintaining the comedy and romance throughout the whole series. That's a thing I really like about the show. It really kept me wanting to come back for the comedy every Friday. And for those who truly like the show, episode 10 has got to be the best episode within the whole series packed with both comedy and romance lol.

There are some issues in the show that I thought it would have been better if they elaborate more and it would definitely make this show a lot better to understand. For example, especially when Pi found out that Mork was the secret friend talking to him all along, I feel like the show didn't elaborate that much on Pi's feeling towards Mork being the secret friend in order for Pi to actually accept Mork's feeling in episode 10. We see that he has conflicted thoughts and thinkings of Mork throughout the series, but I don't recall a scene where Pi says to himself "I do like Mork" or something like that. Maybe it's in the novel, but doesn't show as much within the show. We often see glimpses that Pi has heartbeats when he sees Mork, and swoon by Mork's touches, but we don't know if he actually really like Mork that much, or he's annoyed with Mork the whole time because we see him reacted negative when Mork tries to get at him. I did feel like they brushed it off a bit too easily, although it's actually a serious problem in real life. That's the only thing I wish the show elaborate more. Maybe if they added a scene where Pi talked it with Mork more about being the secret friend and forgives him about being the secret friend on Facebook, then maybe the relationship would turn out more realistic overall. I did like it how the show elaborate that the shippers and Mork going beyond Pi's privacy were too much. People found out about Pi's home and things about his family. I wish the director would have done a better scene turnout for the whole secret friend thing.

I don't need to talk about the whole fan girls thing and the shipping because I'm sure people talked about it enough lol. I know the shippers are annoying and creepy in real life, but they were kinda funny within the show. I actually enjoyed watching the shippers too (please don't hate at me lol).

One thing I am gonna be a bit disappointed about is that there wasn't enough sweet moments between Mork and Pi when they both became a couple publicly lol. I swear if this show had like 1 or 2 more episodes, the story and the couple screen time would feel more complete overall. I'm just not satisfied enough that we didn't get to see Mork and Pi sweet moments as an official couple publicly lol. I really hope that it's possible for a special episode, special movie, or a special short season 2 to complete it all.

Overall, I ended liking this show more than I expected. I had seriously no expectations of this series, but because of the right comedy and the cuteness of this show, I enjoyed it a lot. It was really a lay-back show where you didn't have to concentrate so much and the problems were resolved easily. The comedy was always there too. It just made laugh majority of the time watching it. I truly recommend this series if you just want to have a good laugh and don't expect anything too much. Plot-wise it's not the best, but aside that, it's really enjoyable. I've watched this show like 3 times and I can't stop re-watching. Maybe this how it must feel when other people were crazy about 2gether, Tharntype, Sotus, and so on, while I wasn't crazy about those other shows lol. This show just happened to be one of my favorites for this year.

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