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I just decided to hate on this series. I tried to brush off the cringey acting from the beginning, then the unbelievable and messy plot .But when it went for a nose dive i said "Fuck It!", your going in the BURN BOOK. Why do Thai BLs keep casting hardly capable actors? Once that are not even committed in giving justice to the character they're playing. We do not care if you're uncomfortable with being intimate with an actor of the same sex, just make sure it is not visible in your performances. Where's the professionalism? Also the writers cast have every chance to redeem this series but it was all turned to trash in the end. Was this review helpful to you?
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I wanna preface this review saying: I have not read the novel so this is only a judgement of my experience of the series. First points I did enjoy :
1. The music. It was chosen well and especially the band Scrubb had some really touching songs and unlike in some other Bls I never felt like the music was overpowering.
2. The side couples storylines. I likes them, they almost all had real and relatable issues and were all acted really really well. The only complaint is that they barely got enough screen time but more on that later.
Now points I really didnt enjoy :
1. Just the story overall. Now don't get my wrong some points of it were quite lovely. However at the start when Green starts stalking and harassing Tine, I started to feel really uncomfortable with the whole thing. I was watching it with a friend and especially the scene where Green kept touching Tines arm and body on the bench and Tine constantly scooting away, trying to flee this situation, made me cringe and feel bad. Even my friend said that this is a really toxic person and not something good to be around. I was thinking the entire time that if Tine was a girl and the boy would show up everywhere, join every club, isolate or physically drag you from your friends, beat some people up in front of you and say something according to: Thats what happens to people I don't like or something similar. It would be a case for the police and not just a fun drama. I do get it was exaggerated for comedy purposes, but as I personally have bad experience with being stalked this drama in the first episodes took me right back to those dark time and Greens behavior was never shown to be wrong or excessive. He was never met with and real criticism for what he was doing.
The the relationship between tine and sarawat starts to develop on the grounds of that fake relationship to keep away from Green. I do get thats the whole premise but what kind of messed up person is Green that he only stays away from a person when he is taken and not when that person clearly says NO multiple times. Its like a person in Greens eyes is defined by relationship status more than their own feelings.
I was kind of hoping for some really close and cute scenes and them having loads of time together and being all cuddly in front of people so green would get the idea. But no. It was kind of a let down. The fake relationship hardly came into part and only in certain moments even played a role. It was just kind of boring and not that interesting. It speaks volumes that I binged the series last night and I can hardly remember the mid section of this series for Tine and sarawtas relationship.
OK then I guess at some point Tine finally gets the idea that Sarawat likes him and through the jealously tool that was used waaaayy to often I might add, he realizes he likes him too.
One positive point I also have to mention to be fair. I liked the whole point of Tine wanting to See if Sarawat is jealous of him to see if he has real feeling ( even though Sarawat has already clearly shown his jealously multiple time in previous ep) and then get jealous himself and realizes his own feeling.
After this point it was like 8 or something the whole series started to feel extremely rushed. Sarawat starts flirting with Tine for real but again nothing really changes ! Then asks him to be his boyfriend gets a yes later on and they move in together ?!!?!?.
Ok was I the only one who thought the whole moving in together was way too fast and weird. They were dating for like 2 days and sarawat already rents a place for the two of them ? It just felt so unnatural and rushed.
Also no real cuddle scenes in bed ? I mean you sleep in one bed but everytime they always stay on their separate sides.. Like are you sure you are a couple and if you aren't ready for that kind of intimacy thats fine but then you are ready to move in with each other.
OK then the whole brother thing happens and i actually like the part where they sleep on the couch together. Really cute. It kind of felt like a drop in a desert though.
Then the whole Pam situation happened. And I was so confused. Like did Sarawat just have an entire character change, Tine was shown to be priority the entire time ´, he did some really weird things and used the whole Green situation to force Tine to be close to him etc. And then suddenly he starts spending loads of time on her and it creates that misunderstanding. However for me it wasn't really a misunderstanding, even though in the end he wrote that love song for Tine he did state that he tried really hard to write it for her !!! So even when he was in a relationship he spend lots of time with a girl he once loved and tried to help her get into his university and tried to write a love song for her.
It made no sense with his character before and from what i read from comments, it wasn't like this in the novel either.
It kind of seemed like they wanted to add some drama for the ending but ignored logic for the hell of it.
Ok another trope that was used way to ofter was. if I win this football game / Music competition you have to stay away from Tine or then Ill ask Tine out. I have always hated these kinds of bets cause it makes it seem like Tine doesn't even have his own mind and make choices for himself. Use it once fine but it was literally so many times that i was just like I don't care who wins if this seriously effects a relationship then it wasn't much to begin with.
Now on to the side characters story line if you even wanna call it that. As i mentioned previously they had a solid story but i couldn't really get into them as they each only had like 20 min of screen time together MAX. Also no kisses or extremely cute scenes there.
And again the storyline with Tines brother is based on his love interest stalking him to conventions etc. Even when they officially meet he then starts following him around like a puppy. To cafes and even his place of work. Its not as bad as what green did at the start as he did keep his hands to himself but still !
OK now to greens relationship. I don't know if I got that right. But was the storyline seriously, his bf hurt him, they broke up and then Tine. and then he just forgives him after he apologizes. and then there is this weird scene where green flirts with some boys in front of a bus and his bf shows up and raises his hand to threaten but then drops it and its played like a joke! I feel like I missed context here but if that is the storyline then it is so messed up !!!!!
The other couple with Sarawats brother was the best in the whole series. Had the best chemistry. If they had more screen time and were the main couple this could have been really good.
But it felt like half of their story got told and in the end it just jumped to them dating ? or something similar ? I again felt like i had missed an episode in the end? Like i get it you want a happy ending but just give them an open one and give them their own series.
2. The friends of Tine
Am I the only one who felt the portrayal of tines friends at the start was terribly sexist. The only thing they talked about was girls, they dropped their friend when girls where around, the broke promises for any girl that came around. Like what was going on? It was so hard to watch.
They got better as the series went on though.
And I did like how one friend was the devil and the other the angel on tine shoulder.
3. Something was just missing
This series could have been great but something was just missing. For me it felt like the two leads conducted themselves more like close friends then boyfriends. There were only two scenes I felt genuine chemistry and the rest felt either forced or just like close friends would act around each other. I mean yay we got back together and my babe won an important contest, lets high five???! The kisses also seemed too weird and without passion. Like they were being so careful to make sure it wouldn't look like their are into it.
I am not one for hardcore kissing and make out scenes they aren't always necessary. But they never had the casual skin contact a couple would have and only hugged in critical moments and never just to feel their partner close. Even when tine had his arm around Sarawat there was noticeable distance between their bodies, which made is seem like the actors were really careful not to touch more than they had to.
Also every time there could have been a casual touch or a slightly dirty joke was made, Tine always reacted by saying pervert and pushing his bf away. But it didnt come across a flirtatious or shy, but instead came across as serious and at some point I was like: If you don't like to touch or be a couple, then why aren't you just close friends.
A lot of scenes I just really felt the acting ! Like it was just too clear that they were pretending to be their characters. I don't know if that makes sense but that is how I feel about the series.
Some of this can be explained by character traits but I still blame the series as it made in not really entertaining to watch and at some point I actually wished they wouldn't get together so at least something interesting would have happened.
OK if anyone has made it this far, congrats....
This is obviously just my own opinion and I do have to admit I skipped a bit in this series as It became too boring sometimes.
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I mean... honestly? I'm sick of dramas that start off so well but end up being just average/disappoiting. 2gether started off so strong but I can't hide my disappointment. The first half was AMAZING! I almost thought that we finally have a decent BL with good pace. The chemistry between Tine and Sarawat was exciting and their scenes were super adorable. Sarawat was hot as f*ck. Boyfriend material 100/10. I loved the way he teased Tine and Tine's cute reactions. I loved how Wat was constantly giving hints to Tine, but Tine was a baby who knows nothing. It was just cute, you know. They were ''fake dating'' but their chemistry was on fire and I was so so looking forward to them dating for real.
What happened then though? Their chemistry disappeared as soon as they ''got together'' and it was replaced by awkward scenes and sloppy editing. I loved when we had a cute scene between them but then they suddenly jumped to another scene like?? It was like some scenes were cut off. Very disappointing.
And because the main couple lost their charm, they gave some supporting characters I couldn't care less about even more screentime. I was so done. There were 2-3 episodes that were total fillers. The whole episodes, not just some scenes.
The acting was decent I guess. Bright and Win did an amazing job portraying their characters and I don't think it's their fault for the disaster that happened in the second half. It's just that the writing was bad. They couldn't save the situation.
Would I recommend this? Not really. I believe that there are better BLs out there that are better than 2gether. But if you've seen it all, then yeah, just give this one a try. But you shouldn't have high expectations.
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Definitely a must watch!
I absolutely love this drama! The pairing of Bright and Win is literal perfection and I adore them as a pairing in the drama and off-screen as well. The plot to me is simple but effective, it's eye-catching and it makes you want to watch more. I can't help but yearn for more episodes because to me 2gether is one of the best shows I've seen, from the acting, the osts, and the cinematography. I don't know if it's me but I'm a sucker for watching romance stories and this one really touched me in a way, it's a slow-building love story which I love and I believe that love shouldn't be rushed. The story showed that perfectly and I loved watching every second of it. It's sad that it's ending in 2 weeks, we only have 2 episodes left. The acting to me was superb even tho bright and win have only just entered the acting industry. The only thing I can complain about is the directing skills, that's what's bringing it down. Otherwise, it's one of my favorite bl's. I'd say drop everything and go watch 2gether now. The chemistry of BRIGHTWIN is off the charts, they really did their characters justice with the bad script they were given.EDIT: Okay so after the last episode, I really don't know how to feel. I feel empty and I really hope they make another season with more sarawat and tine moments and focus more on the development of
the side couples as well. Whoever wrote the script and changed
70% of the novel needs to be fired. BRIGHTWIN must really be
tired from carrying the whole show. *sigh*
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around episode six or seven i forgot.
The acting of Bright and Win are good. The chemistry i just want to say superb! their chemistry reminds me with my old ship yuzhou. And for win, win bunny honey sweety as your first debut acting you did a great job nong :" mommy proud of you baby.
For the soundtracj and music i really really like it from the opening and close ending even for the insert song untill the instrumental song from this series i do really like it ! Scrubb, max jenmana & bright vachirawit i liked you boys :'' this scrubb band had similar music vibes with one of indonesian band favorite all time sheila on 7.
Will i rewatch 2gether again? oh pretty sure yes. Now give me the remote am gonna watch this again
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What a Series! I was skeptical about watching it at first when the initial trailer was released, but I changed my mind after watching the pre series trailer. I was hooked from episode one and I still am. This was one of the series that everyone was looking forward to and it does not disappoint!THE STORY:
The story is so fluffy! It will keep you smiling throughout the episode and is extremely addictive. It is sweet at times, makes you cry at times, but at the end of the day, it is extremely satisfactory . The storyline follows Tine and Sarawat and their relationship, most of the times. The rest of the time is dedicated to Mil, Phukong, Type and Man. Every single episode is so cute and makes you feel all warm inside.
THE ACTING:
So natural. The actors suit their roles very well and have executed them very well. The leads as well as the supporting actors are very good. Props to Win as this is his first series and he’s already amazing as Tine. He surely has a very ‘Bright’ future ahead of him?( Sorry for the pun). This series has made me fall in love all over again with actors I’m already familiar with, that’s how good it is.
THE PRODUCTION:
The production was handled very well for this series. The story has been consistent and so has the quality of the series. The team has done a very good job with this series.
THE OST:
The OST man! Every time I hear it I start smiling like an idiot and my grandma has started giving me dirty looks about how often I’m smiling to myself. It perfectly encapsulates the series and the feel the series is trying to give out. Bonus, I also love Scrubb now.
THE NEGATIVE:
The only negative of the series was how the story progressed. Until the minute, Sarawat and Tine were pretending everything was perfect, but once they became an actual couple, the story was thrown out the window. Also, it seemed like Tine was way more into Sarawat once they were dating. The last few episodes were extremely out of character for Sarawat, who at the beginning was very intent on announcing to the world that he loved Tine, but when it came to telling one girl, he was suddenly hesitant? This was what I didn’t like. Other than that still a great series.
THE ENDING:
This was seriously such a beautiful way to end the series. While I will admit I would have liked them to at least hold hands, this ending was perfect enough for me. All the couples got together in the end, and I would like to believe they’re all happy. I just finished it and I saw a lot of people complaining about the lack of kissing, so I’m saying this once again, it’s not just physical touch that matters. Every time I see Tine and Sarawat on screen, I can feel their chemistry and love, and I feel that’s enough. A great end to a great series.
I hope this review was helpful to everyone and helped you make the decision as to whether you were going to watch 2gether the series or not. Thank You!
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The plot was a cliché, but still promising. The first episodes were good but then it stopped there. In mid-way there was no further development.
I believe both actors are straight and new to BL acting (not sure though). They seemed to have chemistry at first when they were faking the relationship (and didn't really have to act as couples do), but once they were dating for real it felt as if the actors had some type of problem with showing affection as a couple.
I'm not talking about kisses or sex like "TharnType", that's not necessary to show two characters in love. But what they did here is plain bromance, not BL.
I compare "2gether" with "My Engineer" which is still ongoing. In "My Engineer" the main couple didn't kiss (yet) after 12 episodes, not sure if the series will even have a kiss scene between the leads. However their actions and the emotions that the actors put on the characters are enough to make you belive that they are in a love relationship. The same goes for the other couples on the show, having their right amount of screen time despite not being the leads.
Those are things that are missing in "2gether".
I've read on some comments that this is Win's first BL drama and it shows. I watched a video of Win and Bright reacting to one of the episodes and Win seemed to be more focused on making clear that Tine is not him than to watch it, while Bright looked way more relaxed and chill. What makes me wonder if Win is ashamed of being on a BL drama...
The acting, excluding the lack of chemistry to make the audience belive that there is love, is not bad. I've seen worse.
The music is nice too. Maybe they pushed Scrubb too much but it was okay.
Worth to watch again? Not really. It goes on the bottom part of my list. Not the last spot but almost.
Looking forward to the whole cast's next project and see if they improve.
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"If you keep staring at me, I'm gonna kiss you so hard you'll drop"
There's no more iconic line when meting someone for the first time than "If you keep staring at me, I'm gonna kiss you so hard you'll drop"... Only if they could have kept that feeling all the way.I've been watching LB for as long as I can remember and because we don't have that many live actions takes on it you kind of learn to appreciate everything its thrown to you, so I don't care much about the acting (not expecting an oscar's perfomance) nor the plot (I'm a sucker for LB cliches), and also have learn not to be SO put off by harmful stereotypes or toxic relationships. Saying all this, by episode 10 I was so done with this that I hated myself for watching it. The catch here's that is not so easy to just say that I hated it, because I absolutely loved the first 5 episodes, I can watch them everyday all day. So what, in the name of hell, went wrong? The story got drag so much it was painful to watch, the characters went from adorable dummy to insufferable stupid, there's no stop to the level of stupidity in some of this people!
The relationship went downhill just when it was beginning, it was perfect when they weren't dating but suddenly everyone was too afraid to show some feelings? some chemistry?? anything other than toxicity traits??? gosh, you realize those two were dating because they kept saying it, but girl it was not shown; my god! that pat in the head killed something inside of me!! The side stories were just rubbish, not worth a single minute of my life. ALSO, I get that in most of boy love stories the women either do not exist or are just used as plot device, but this is made for a larger audience of FEMALES they should, at least!, not used women as background figurines that can help your shitty couple to fight and made up one more time.
But the music was great, the actors were all really handsome and not half-bad at acting... and yes, that's all the good I can say. The first episodes were so good but I don't know if its worth the trouble.
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If anyone of you is planning on watching this series , I don’t suggest you read my review But if you feel like you don’t want to waste your time watching a bad series , I still don’t suggest reading them?, I don’t want my opinion to have impact on people who are planning to watch this, So skip this if you can ?Tbh I start watching this series because of the actor visual and drama popularity, I hope I am not the only one , but aside from that, this is my first bL series and I guess many of you, are also starting to watch bls because of 2gether the series, at first I really don’t have enough knowledge or any idea of how the bls world works, after spending plenty of time during quarantine, I manage to watch many Thai bls series, when I first started watching 2gether I thought it was the best bls series , but oh boy I was wrong , hahaha I bet many of u can relate to this .
?? So straight to the point , the story started off a bit ridiculous like how tine and his friend would set up stupid plan to get rid of green, although it was cliche but it was really good and interesting of how the fake relationship start, i personally love the characters sarawat, his character was just fresh and interesting, i love how the series involves an actual band and great ost, tine character was really energetic and interesting, I love how Sarawat turn this poor child gay ?, the chemistry growth between them was great, it was very cheesy involving many cringe pickup line, which make the series even more better.
But as the story possesses I started to get very disappointed and annoyed, the storyline was a bit draggy in the middle and rushy at end, like how they rush things to end on the last ep, I cannot express how disappointed I am on the last ep , yes it has a happy ending , but for me personally, it left me unsatisfied and hanging, I feel like the actor was having a bit of awkwardness on the last couples of ep, we know that the actor are straight, but I wish they could pick actor that can fulfill the series and fully committed to any character they played in, moreover the part where Pam came back, it was just stupid how tine end up crying without asking a proper question, Sarawat did not have a chance to explain the situation, both the character chemistry was such a mess , their love did not involve understanding and trusting one another, it was just a mess how the fake date is better than the real date, many people also talked about the kiss scene, let me point that up , yes I respect the actor consent about skin ship , but the director could have done a better job instead of having Sarawat to forcefully kiss tine twice , they could have gave one real kiss scene between the actors, and yes I don’t consider that a kiss scene , as a matter of fact I wish they ended the last ep with a real kiss where tine can finally express his feelings instead of waiting for Sarawat to do it .
I really want to say that this series could have done so much better, but I guess the writer and script writers decided that they’ll rather sleep after the first couples ep, what makes it more disappointing is the side couple, man and type were doing great but aside from them, I see no chemistry from the others , I feel like the director just put them there , just so they have gay couple hanging in the series , which is absolutely ridiculous, because this make the series very rushy toward the end since they have to create something out of nothing, the main couple did not have as much screen time, and If they do it would always come with the couples facing problems each time, I have to say that their chemistry suck , they’re love wasn’t as interesting as it should be, the novel was so much better , I wish the director spend more time reading then slacking off , tbh I didn’t really have the feeling to watch the last ep , it was very boring and stupid, it was sort of like filler to the series which just ruin everything from the start.
Lastly I hope there will be a season 2 where the actors are comfortable enough to do skin ship, by that I mean an actual kiss, and more chemistry between them, I wish they can be more mature to fixed their relationship problem instead of having others to get involved.
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Story.The first 8 episodes had me in my feelings for both Tine and Sarawat and some of the other characters too. The series started off so great and had great potential to be even more great but the last 3 episodes ruined it for me even though they started to go downhill before that.
Jealousy?? Even though Tine and Sarawat were officially dating at this point they had begun falling for each other, or should I say Tine was falling for Sarawat. We saw the whole jealousy scene with Earn and Sarawat, So for the writers to use Pam as a plot device to make Tine jealous was just lazy and irrelevant for me because we had already seen that with Earn and Sarawat.
I don't know what happened along the way with some characters, this minute they are apart of the series and other time they completely vanish, this happened sometimes with both Tine and Sarawat's friends they only seems to be used only when needed and I wish the producer and director had used them better, I was happy to see that Tines friends were there for him when he needed them, especially Frong and same for Man and Sarawat.
Green ~ I really appreciated Green's character because as a bl fan, we don't ever get good femmie gay representation so it was refreshing to see his character, but that's about it. His character had its flaws from being stalker-ish to being just used as a tool by the writers to help Tine and Sarawat get together, silly but I guess it worked well for the first couple of episodes.
Communication ~ The communication in general is very inconsistent between the two main leads, they seem to have communicated better when they were faking their relationship, but once they became a couple the communication between the two just became non-existent. I'm not sure how the filming went prior to the release of the series airing but the main leads look slightly uncomfortable in the last few episodes compared to the earlier episodes and I found it really awkward to watch, and to even sit through that crappy end.
Oh my gosh, again where do I even start with the writers??? Sarawat character was first introduced as a confident guy who says what he feels and goes after the one he loves and will also protect that person he cares about. We see this multiple times throughout the series where he confesses to Tine, etc., yet the writers still manager to ruin his character in the end and sadly, they did the same to Tine character as well. The writer of this series is just sloppy.
Acting
In terms of acting all the actors played their roles well but I must admit I wasn't expecting much from the acting I was more interested in the story which was a huge let down. Metawin proves that he's really a hidden gem, I was very impressed by his acting after watching him, it's hard to believe that this was his first series. Bright a brilliant actor as well, don't get me wrong but I wish he had shown some more emotions in his face in this series.
Music
I loved the OSTs for this series a lot more than I thought I would have and that's a great thing, I never skipped the into or the outro of the series ever. The music again seems to have played a major role in the entire story, from being to end seeing that couple meet at a Scubbs concert and main characters favorite band is the Scrubbs, etc.
Overall, this isn't a terrible series at all but watching while it was being aired and having to wait every week for a new episode the ending came as a disappointment seeing that it had shown so much potential in the beginning. It feels a little bit more like a betrayal to fans honestly. I am not one for overally excessive sexy scenes or a lot of intamacy in bl but Tine and Sarawat should have just stayed fake dating because after they became official the two felt more like they've been in a relationship long enough and is just sticking around without any real love (if you know what I mean), sorry to say but in the last few episode I was slightly rooting for Mil his character seem to have been a better pick for Tine.
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I started this because I need to feed my fujoshi spirit every once in a while. I thought this would provide sustenance after watching TharnType and being fully wrecked by that- this doesn't even come close lol But I found myself waiting every week for the new episode because Tine and Sarawat were just so adorable. Unfortunately the side characters didn't get too much shine and I ended up not really caring for them as time went on which NEVER happens for me. Anyways, would I recommend this? Sure. It's kiddie pool deep and the actors are good looking with a light story.
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