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Shiro
4 people found this review helpful
Jan 26, 2022
13 of 13 episodes seen
Completed 3
Overall 8.5
Story 7.5
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 3.5

Sweet and HOT but may be missing a plot...

This is a really sweet drama filled with cute couples and sweet, sweet (thirsty) moments... But I am honestly not really sure about what the main plot is here... And it does leave you with a whole bunch of questions that fit the name of the drama

Why R U, writing a BL about your brother- The "writer" is actually a really playful fun character and I would most certainly have understood if it was a friend who wrote it but sister, just felt odd...

Why R U editing this way? this drama is the master of slomo, montage and triple everything... making sure we will not miss a kiss, a touch or a fluffy scene... we get to see every kiss three times (in a row) + maybe in a montage or ten,,,

Why R U so many? This drama has so many couples it is hard to keep track of them while all are sweet (maybee to quick and odd too) they feel unnecessary and just make this messy. I do however support them all having dramas of their own someday (if they have not yet)

Ok enough with the Why R Us... This is an enjoyable watch with a lot of beautiful shots, lovely scenery and beautiful fun characters and a sweet cat (and a kitten in the background).

The main couple is so much fun to watch, yet mr fighter does need to get a bit better at controlling himself.. but he does get points for mostly espiering to gaining consent, except for that one time... oh and that other time... but in between those times he does try to respect Tutors boundaries.

Tutor is such a fun character, charming, smart, fun but a bit of a scardy cat...

The second couple is just so much fun, sweet, talented and definitely the source of many laughs.. that the product placement and the photo angels had me laughing so I almost peed a little...

And well those are the highlights without spoiling, this was fun to watch but prepare yourself for a mess and 0 depth...

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Xayla
5 people found this review helpful
Apr 25, 2020
13 of 13 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 7.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 7.5
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 6.5
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I have very mixed feelings about this series.
From the beginning I knew the humor of the series will be too cringy for me, but I was ready to put up with it, because I really liked the plot at first.
I instantly fell in love with Zee and I already knew from Love by chance that Saint is good actor, so I was on board with Fighter/Tutor couple. They worked well with Fighters confused emotions and it made the storyline very delightful to watch.
On the other hand I didn't really feel the Saifah/Zon couple. I felt like Fighter/Tutor really outshined them with their chemistry and more interesting plot.
Till the episode 6 I was thinking that this may be one of my top BLs, but boy, was I wrong. After that the things started to go downhill. Everything got really messy and it felt rather draggy. I started to feel the urge to watch it at 2x speed and most of the time that is my red flag.
Nevertheless, I decided that I'm strong and I will watch this till the end. Ooof, but they really do know how to test my patience.

I feel like they were trying too hard to please the viewers and because of the large amount of those "fluffy" moments the storyline was really dull. They lost the balance between cute, repetitive moments and clever, naturally flowing storyline.

After episode 6 I partly lost interest in Fighter/Tutor, because it started to feel kinda forced and kinda cringy (and not in the cute way). So to my surprise Saifah/Zon creeped into my heart and became my WHY R U no. 1 couple. But then Coronavirus just casually said: ,,Nah, girl, you don't deserve this, Imma just take them from u real quick, bye."

Episode 9 really brought up the worst in me. I know that it was partly because of the pandemics, but they were really unprepared for unexpected situations. I get that they tried to get the popularity and stable fanbase by airing the series earlier then the others, but they weren't ready at all. I was thinking that I have to be nicer, because they were having issues and it's not their fault, but why is it that other BLs airing at the same time do not have such problems as WHY R U?
Okay, back to the breaking point. Ep 9 was really just montage of someones cheesy trip without any story progress whatsoever.
I was like ,,okay, I can take this. They will redeem themselves in the next episodes." But guess what? Episode 10 was even more storyless beach montage. So that is about 3 hours of beach content if I also count the last episode (but I forgive them, because in the last episode there was atleast Saifah/Zon). So my question is: did I watch thai BL or travel agency ad? Like I'm genuinely not sure at this point.

Also they made the hot and heavy scenes really repetitive. In other BLs I'm most of the time wishing for more passionate scenes, in WHY R U I was thinking if they ever do something else. Like could you stop for a moment, you rabbits???

And what was this evil korean mother bribing twist that Fighters father pulled off?!

The way this series is handling every problem feels very forced and unrealistic. I don't like how they force a problem to occur and then force it even more for it to quickly disappear. I mean don't even create obstacles at all if you cannot even execute them properly. It's really stressing me out how easily HwaHwa or Fighters dad change their minds just for the sake of the happy ending without any obstacles for the main couple.

The actors had overall great chemistry, the acting was also alright and they made it somewhat watchable.
I don't know what to say about the plot. They had some interesting ideas, but executed them terribly. Also in the half of the series the storyline is completely nonexistent. It's like every episode is the filler episode (with a few exceptions).

It surely isn't the best series I've seen, but it also isn't the worst. Had potential, but didn't fully used it, rather wasted it.

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Dropped 10/13
samsasha
19 people found this review helpful
Apr 4, 2020
10 of 13 episodes seen
Dropped 0
Overall 5.5
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 5.0
Music 6.5
Rewatch Value 4.5
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It's ok...

So this series has been hit by the pandemic, which affected the last two episodes. Even before that I was losing interest in this series. I loved the premise and how the two main couples were approached but after the third episode, it became disapointing. The main two couples are very cute but for me it got a bit too much. I also was not crazy about some of the acting. I really liked the premise in the beginning but the acting and storyline decided to take a hike imo. I feel like it doesn't know what type of show it is - is it a show about two guys bonding through guitar, two guys who hated each other falling anyways, two guys going to a beach?? It tries to do too many things in a limited amount of time which makes it feel rushed and confusing.
Maybe after it all releases, I'll try to pick it back up again and update this. Sad to make this my first review. Overall, it felt like a run of the mill BL. Check it out if you need to watch every BL out there (or want to watch more of your fav actors) check it out, but I can think of a few others that have a bit more substance. That's my taste and take.

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First of all, I feel like it suffers from the everyone is gay trope first of all - way too many couples were introduced with no time to actually flesh out their characters. Felt like a catch all - all the tropes and relationship types you can think of in one single show!

Additionally, (maybe I'm no longer a BL person but) the physical intimacy between Tutor and Fighter was super awkward. Another reviewer compared it too porn and that is incredibly accurate. It is very accurate and while its great that a gay relationship is shown to be physically intimate and loving (looking at you SOTUS and Kinou Nani Tabeta?), but this was definitely for the viewers. There was a too much of a focus on Fighter's body. When watching those scenes, I really recalled how directors of Thai BLs have mentioned they cast actors with young straight women in mind, and I felt bad for the actors and the profiling of viewers. All for fanservice and demonstrating intimacy, but for me I felt like it cheapened the show and the genre (which is already rife with this).

Finally, the relationship between Saifah and Zon is all over the place - I feel like there was some development or something missing. It confused me because in the shopping scene for the guitar pick they were acting cute and couple-y but they were barely even friends a couple scenes later. While Tutor and Fighter have a clear plot and relationship development, Saifah and Zon seem to just have fluff and pre-relationship stuff. Which is totally fine! But not what I enjoy when we had so few scenes with as it was. Couple of weird cringy acting moments from ... everyone for me too - could be how the script is written.

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Ongoing 11/13
LadiMyChelle
12 people found this review helpful
Apr 12, 2020
11 of 13 episodes seen
Ongoing 0
Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 10
Rewatch Value 10
I am so loving this one, Baby saint has grown up and the chemistry between him and Zee is freaking awesome !!! the other couple Zon and Saf are too cute, the story is good and I have laughed until i cried and cried harder than I ever have in a BL .. Please watch and support this series..
IT is good from ep. 1 and the tension between Fighter and Tutor is there right away Hwa is awesome as a best friend... Some of the scenes between tutor and fighter are ... let's just say .. Have a FAN ready ...
please please support this series, ZaintSee are getting a lot of bad backlash and it is not fair. I loved Saint and Perth in LBC but OMG this is wayyyy different -- I support ZaintSee 1000000000000%%%%

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elderlefay
4 people found this review helpful
Feb 6, 2021
13 of 13 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 3.0
Story 2.5
Acting/Cast 4.0
Music 3.0
Rewatch Value 1.5

A messy, confusing, and amateur production that can't find its footing

NO-SPOILER REVIEW

This series starts out with a unique premise but quickly falls apart into a complete mess. To the actors' credit, it was the overall script, storytelling, production quality, and pacing that undermined any potential this series may have had.

Pros
- The series has a unique premise with a few compelling moments hidden throughout
- The cast is decent

Cons
- Any semblance of a plot completely falls apart, leaving you confused and uncertain for the rest of the series as to who the main characters are, what kind of story this is, why any of the side characters even exist, and why you should care about any of it.
- Extremely disappointing and amateur production quality. Scenes that don't match up, so many multi-takes, overused tropes, and more. The various storylines seem to almost have nothing to do with each other, which each group basically being in their own world.
- The pacing was excruciatingly slow with some scenes being milked so much that you could fall asleep. The entire 13 episode series could have been condensed into 6 episodes.

Overall
- This series is worth skipping. If you're intent on watching this, feel free to skip past about 60% of it, which is comprised of overly drawn-out scenes that are there to take up time.

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sashaa
3 people found this review helpful
Mar 12, 2021
13 of 13 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 5.0
Story 3.0
Acting/Cast 7.5
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
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IT HAD NO PLOT WHATSOEVER

It had good potential in the starting but after 6 episodes they had 0 storyline and only purpose of the rest of the episodes were to show those explicit sex scenes which i feel is the only reason a few ppl like this show.
But i gotta admit Saintzee chemistry is one of the best.
Also maybe its just me but I was absolutely so bored during saifahzon scenes and found myself skipping almost all of it if not forcing myself to watch those for the 'plot'.
I could only watch till episode 8 and then I forwarded directly to episode 12 to watch the actual 'plot' or whatever.
Also those 10 other side couples were so unnecessary and felt like they were only there for fillers.
I have got to say Zee's acting being so good was not something i expected. His breakdown in episode 12 was too good.

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Dropped 10/13
Nancy Fiorello
14 people found this review helpful
Mar 31, 2020
10 of 13 episodes seen
Dropped 2
Overall 3.0
Story 2.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 2.0
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This show started out great, until it is not. What a shame, it could have been something. The fundamental problems are the show's amateur writing and messy editing.

TutorFighter storyline suffers the most from the writing. The characters themselves, they are just bad. Tutor keeps seducing his best's friend's boydfriend, while telling Hwa she and Fighter still have hope. Fighter spends a large amount of his family‘’s money (e.g. the cosmetics, the luxurious trip to the beach,Tutor‘’s debt)to court Tutor, while complaing his father controlling him (duh, you are using lots of his money). These make me unable to connect with their storyline, since I hate the characters.

What's worse, two consecutive eposides about their beach trip bore the hell out of me. In these eposides, nothing about them really change. And the scenes are copied from other series, for example, the ankle kiss is from TharnType and the underwater kiss is from SKAM and Dark Blue Kiss. Some other scenes look like it come straight out of gay porns. All in all, nothing really happens and nothing is original. I have seen them all before and i am not impressed at all.

SaifahZon storyline just get destroyed by the editing. I am confused all the time. When and why does Saifah fall in love with Zon? When does Zon fall in love with Saifah? The whole storyline is just a mess.

In conclusion, the series is over as long as I concerned. The following eposides are mainly about TutorFigter's struggle with their family members, which is chliche and typical in both bg and bl series. My questions about SaifahZon will not be answed in the following eposides due to the fact that the virus outbreak prevents them from shooting. The following eposides just seem meanlingless to me, and therefore, I will stop watching it.

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RoseQ
3 people found this review helpful
Aug 19, 2023
13 of 13 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 4.5
Story 4.0
Acting/Cast 7.5
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 1.0

Why R U so all over the place?

What did I even watch? It’s all over the place! The plot is a mess. There are too many characters to really keep up with all of them. And I feel like I watched the same two scenes about ten times each. The plot had a nice set up at first, maybe a bit too dramatic for my liking, but it was interesting. But then it went up in flames. The idea that all that happened is due to the bet between Zon and his sister quickly became a side thing. Instead, the series tried to keep with a bunch of couples and completely failed at that.

The cinematographic aspect was not the best. Some shots were very strange and with certain scenes constantly repeating, it felt like they did a lot of that just to fill in the time. The series could have easily been a few episodes shorter. Included less couples. The background sounds were all over the place too. I felt like they exaggerated with the comic sound effects.

Fighter & Tutor: they are both idiots. At first, I though only Fighter is an idiot who should just sit down with himself and decide on what the hell he wants. Or doesn’t want. His hot and cold attitude was not cute. The way he treated Tutor throughout the series (except for their cute and in love phase) was not okay. Tutor was doing okay at first. He was a bit confused, but he knew where he stood. And then he decided to keep secrets. To make decisions without his partner. To make an even bigger mess of things. That, however, does not excuse Fighter’s behavior or actions. It was how he handled things that made me absolutely hate him. I think both Zee and Saint are great actors, and they did good with intimate scenes and had great chemistry, I just don’t like the characters they played.

Saifah & Zon: I thought the two were supposed to be the main couple. But they got less screen time than the other main couple. At least it felt like that to me. They had me confused most of the time. Zon is dramatic. And Saifah is flirty. Together, they are a hot mess. I don’t think the switch in Saifah going from possibly hating Zon to being completely enamored by him makes sense. It happened in a second, which made me confused if he is simply messing with him or if actually likes Zon. There was a lot of back and forth between the two, but I also feel like nothing much happened. They sang, played the guitar, flirted and denied flirting. I don’t mind low-drama couples, but with everything else going on, they kind of faded into the background for me.

There were a few other couples – Japan and Thantai, Dew and Blue (with a sprinkle of Champ), Natee and Zen, Junior and Soda, Daw and Hwahwa. None of the mentioned (possible) couples got proper story development nor enough screen time to really round off their stories. I think they just added to the confusion.

There’s also Zol, Zon’s sister and the author. What happened with that plotline? I know it was supposed to be a way to start the story off, but it was never addressed if her writing came true or if it was just a coincidence. I feel like that just faded into the background. A similar thing happened to Zon’s parents and their role in what was going on.

To be honest, I did a lot of skipping. I also watched a lot of it on double speed just to get through it faster. I am just happy to be done with it.

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therealmvp
3 people found this review helpful
Feb 4, 2021
13 of 13 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 6.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 8.5
Music 8.5
Rewatch Value 1.0

Why R U...Such a Mess???

I really wanted to love this series. I promise you I did.
Everything from the casting to the premise was wonderful, but the execution was not it.

What could have been a really great story of love and coming of age, turns into just another university themed BL story where two seemingly opposing figures fall in love although they had no real reason to be antagonistic toward one another, and we're still wondering why one couple is even together at all. If you're into tropes, this series is full of them and is not shy about it either.
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Snitchesgetditches
2 people found this review helpful
Mar 7, 2021
13 of 13 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 6.0
Story 4.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 4.5
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The most inconsistent BL show ever

This show starts out rough for me, so much so that I put it on hold for a while after the first two episodes. It goes heavy in the romcom genre direction, and does it poorly; particularly on their use of 'shouting = funny' and crude bottom of the barrel jokes. But then after the second episode, the show completely switches tones as they start to focus on the couples, and they ditch the romcom writing and editing (which is ridiculously heavily dependent on sound bites, some of the most egregious use I have seen to date) and go full drama. Thank Christ they do, because from episode 2 onward the show dramatically increases in quality (until the last three episodes: I'll get to that later). If I had to give a numeric score to the first two episodes I would give it a 3.5. But episode 3-11, I would average the show at a 8. Let me tell you why.

THE ACTING AND CASTING for the main couples, particularly P'Fighter and P'Tutor, are great. The two actors have amazing chemistry together, and do a tremendous job making their scenes believable and emotional. The story between the two is an incredibly basic and by the books rivals to lovers trope, but it's done well; very well. The secondary couple, P'Zon and P'Saifah are also well cast, and the actors do a good job with the script they are given. But unfortunately I feel like the script and plot for this couple is weaker in general to their counterparts. While this couple too is a rival to lover trope, the characterization for the characters is weaker, particularly for P'Saifah, who has a strange character change a few episodes into the show (Which may or may not be in relation to the strange meta plot they have going on? I'll address this later) . Honestly, if someone asked me to say a few of his character traits, the only thing I could really say is that he is confident and likes to play the guitar. That's it.

As for the supporting cast, it's quite strong too. I couldn't pick out any one actor as being unbelievable or poor. They all do a good job. However, the supporting cast is related to an issue I have with the show, specifically the plot bloat which is VERY apparent in this show. They have a handful of ships in this show, some of them only get a few scenes throughout the entire series. They really should have cut a few of the ships and had just one or two in addition to the main two, so they could have been fleshed out better. In particular I really liked the lovingly termed 'Cat Couple', who only ever get a few scenes, but steal the show with how unbearably cute and odd they are during those scenes. To give them more scenes, I would have cut the Blue/Dew/Champ love triangle ship, which is just... really not my cup of tea. (They expect us to ship a couple, where in one of the first scenes together one of them tries to physically beat up the other for a small mistake, and then never address this behavior or have the other apologies ). It kinda felt like they were trying to set up a spin off show between these three if I'm being honest Lmao.

I also have to give this show credit for missing some of the pitfalls (at least in episodes 3-11, I'll get to the final episodes later) of Asian BL dramas; particularly sexual assault between couples. The two main couples didn't at any point during these episodes make me uncomfortable or mad in relation to this, and they portrayed LGBTQ folks in a good light. It's sad that I have to even praise a show for this kind of thing, but unfortunately Asian BL still has a long way to come in this regard.

Oh, and the music is pretty good. Really catchy and fitting to the mood and scene; mostly Thai vocal tracks. Considering how many BL's get their music editing horribly wrong, I was pleasantly surprises with this show's elevation of their scenes using music.

Okay, ON TO THE BAD. The meta plot like, WTF is this show even about? The first two episodes heavily set up this super meta plot line in regards to the main character P'Zon having broken a vow to his sister which plunges himself and his friends into her BL story. I thought this show was going to take the micky out of common BL tropes, and subvert our expectations based on this. It was a big gamble doing this kind of plot, because done well it can be really funny and amusing (as we've seen in other shows which have done this kind of plot) or it can bomb HARD. Unfortunately, this bombed for me. They play into the plot line SO heavily at first, but then completely forget about it for the majority of the show, only occasionally bringing it up again closer to the finale. And the show never uses this concept and plot to do interesting and new things, the show still falls into so many BL trope pitfalls; and most certainly does not subvert ANY expectations. When you start watching this show; you know exactly where it's going. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's just I expect more based on a promising concept such as this.

The second issue I have with this show is TONE and EDITING. This show flip flops tone so often and on multiple levels. First off, with something I have already mentioned; genre switches. The show starts off like a romcom, but then descends into a heart clenching melodrama. It's a strange switch and confusing. Secondly, the tonality between the two main couples is so different. P'Fighter and P'Tutor's story line is this heavy dramatic story line with lots of angst and crying, and then P'Zon and P'Saifah's story line is whimsical and child like. Having both of these tones in one show is fine, but they splice together in editing scenes of both couples often throughout each episodes; suffice to say, it's tonal whiplash. They also splice in light hearted 'couple getting to know each other' quirky moments of the side couples between heavy scenes of the main couples crying and having breakdowns. It's odd.

Onto, THE FINAL THREE EPISODES. Sigh. This show really messed up in the final episodes, particularly episode 12 and 13. I know Covid messed up their production, but this feels like a script issue which would have been present regardless of production disruptions or not. My main problem with these final episodes has to do with P'Fighter and P'Tutor's story line, the writers, not knowing how to have a conflict in the latter part of their story so as to stick to the rigid plot structure graph they were taught in film school, decided to do one of my most hated romance tropes; having P'Tutor break P'Fighters heart by pretending to cheat, because P'Fighter's father asked him to. It's such a frustrating trope not only in BL shows but romance in general. Why is basic communication so hard? Why doesn't a partner respect their significant others right to be informed and make choices themselves? Why does every damn love interest have to be a martyr?

Anyways, something else which bothers me about these last few episodes, is the weird sexual assault scene between P'Fighter and P'Tutor. Fighter literally forces his way into the others apartment, pins him down and starts undressing and groping him. And to think I was praising the show for not doing this sort of thing before hand. It makes rooting for the couple once they inevitably get back together in the final episode difficult and uncomfortable. Oh, well.

TO CONCLUDE: Poor first few and last episodes, but great from episodes 3-11. The script is weak and bloated, but heavily propped up by some great actors with some of the best chemistry in the genre. Overall, I would recommend watching this if you have the patience to sit through the weak episodes, and if you are a lover of the rival to lovers trope.

I understand my opinion might be controversial, because lots of people love this show. I don't mean to offend with this review, just put my thoughts to writing, is all. Thanks for reading :)

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Rojan Adhikari
2 people found this review helpful
Apr 26, 2020
13 of 13 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 6.0
Story 5.5
Acting/Cast 5.5
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 5.0
I am rating this series 6 only because of Zon and saifah.....this series had been or than 6/10 if you gave Zon and Saifha have more romantic seen only last seen they got love nothing more happened. If they have more seen like the other two characters than This series have good subject ?.....
And actually as I and may other people over there is international viwers so for us your given Subtitles plays vital role but You Subtitles ruined most of the interesting seen.....its ok if you give subtitles after 1-2 days after eps release but at least give best Subtitles for us so we can actual get what seen want to give us...

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8392225
2 people found this review helpful
Aug 8, 2022
13 of 13 episodes seen
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Overall 8.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 8.0

Originally, I'd give 6 stars. Then, I could give even 10, but....

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.

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