Not Me

this needs the best director award!!

one of the best bl's made till now!!!!
this is exactly what i expected from GMMtv, everything was just a chef's kiss. the way the scenes were directed gave a whole lot of emotions to the drama.
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#genre: enemies to lovers, twin brothers, cop and vigilante, political.
#things that could've been done:
1) i do feel they should've put more scenes where black and white are bonding.
2) a special episode with 6 months later plot would've given a better closure to the characters.
3) a proper conversation between eugene and black about him explaining everything to her
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overall a great drama and worth watching!!!!!

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A show to treasure

The worst thing about this show is the power rangers style jumping lmao.

The best thing about this show is EVERYTHING. It was beautiful! The acting rendered me speechless and the story, the message...I have no words. The music matched the scenes very well and made me feel exactly how I was supposed to. I love the attention to details as well.

I didn't even realize the episodes were over until they really ended. Time flies differently when you're watching something interesting.

I cried more times than I could count. Not Me was a very good depiction of society and how it impacts everyone.
I also love the way they used the law and the group's surroundings to explain the problem, and the way they used art to express the characters' emotions.

A must watch. If i could give any show more than a 10, I would choose this one.

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My favorite BL drama

This drama is a gem. One actor (Gun) playing two roles and he nailed them both. Off is also brilliant actor. Story is amazing. They could have really got in trouble for addressing so many social and political issues in Thailand but it's an eye opening series and to top that they are adding so many interesting characters and BL love story. It's like the director decided to take all controversial sides of society and put it in one drama. Neverending battle between poor and rich. Those in power vs controlled ones. Yeah addressing those issues is interesting enough. Even without BL part it would be an awesome drama but the romance between Gun and Off is adding so much to it. Music is very pleasant and scenes are shoot beautifully. Story is a little bit inconsistent sometimes and some plots are not resolved but for limited screen time they did amazing job.

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my favorite bl series

it was my favorite and i've watched a lot of them. that's it. okay they want me to surpass the character limit. well in terms of story, it was pretty well written. there were a few gaps in the plot but they can be overlooked honestly. acting and cast was spectacular, everyone knows gun and off's talent anyway, the others were amazing actors too. soundtrack was literally the best in the whole country tbh, in every scene I was distracted about how fitting and good the music they use were. i have already rewatched it, I probably will again, and I HATE rewatching things so that's telling something. yea, that's all, it is my favorite and if it's not yours then you don't have taste.

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my ostrich moment

no one knows the violence it took the become this gentle etc etc etc this was the most devastating thing i've ever watched and i feel Insane thinking about it so i won't <3 never watching the last episode. also the pride protest scene was the Most Scene Forever and Ever. may our lives be bright and colorful and may we all have someone who will hold us through night terrors. may we all be gentle people our loved ones turn for comfort even while asleep. i love us all i love you all
adding this later as i just found out off and gun are dating and that all of the actors in the lgbt parade scene were lgbt in real life, no wonder this show is so special to me, turns out everything actually came from a genuine place c': and also found out the director is trans as well we love to see us winning!!
apparently i'm supposed to write 500 words so i guess i'll talk about the rest of my thoughts.
the entire series was so immersive as the screenwriters popped off with character building, i'm very very thankful to all those who participated in the making of this series, for portraying those who are silenced everyday but continue speaking up regardless. seriously that pride march / protest was Everything to me.
each song and track were SO good and placed at the right scenes SO well i went to spotify to find songs many times. bless whoever picked bass heavy instrumentals too idk why it isn't done more often in this type of series smh
anyways i think this isn't meant to be watched in a weird gay fetish-y way (as nothing is meant to be watched with that mindset really). this wasn't a cliche fanservice BL or whatever the fuck cishet mfs call it & i hope it will be appreciated properly for the social injustice it addresses and for telling the story of lgbt people in a realistic and respectful way.
also whoever did the artwork throughout the series really snapped. especially the mural sean's friend did after the fire, i also remember one with many eyes that make an angel wing shape? the cop dude's artwork was great too. if anyone knows the artists for this series please let me know!

edit: i caved in and finished it, the last episode was incredible as well i just have no words.

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I lately watched Semantic Error, a very short and cute Korean BL which I rated with 10 stars. So giving Not Me less stars may seem very unfair. And maybe it is. But it depends on what a series is trying to do. Not Me is a very serious series that provides us with lots of action and social criticism. It tried to do A LOT. It tried to be A LOT. It succedes in many aspects but not always and not 100%. Let me start with saying that I didn't care much for the romance, because everything else was more interesting. That doesn't mean the romance was bad or boring, it just means that everything else was more intriguing. The plot, especially the twin aspect, was great. I waited for Black to wake up, I wanted the gang to find out there is a twin, I wanted to know who is the traitor etc. But not only the main plot was interesting. The way how they told the story was excellent. The music and the filming just draws you in. There were countless beautiful well filmed scenes. So why did I not rate it higher? It just didn't feel "perfect". Sometimes the action was great, sometimes rather amateurish. Sometimes I was on the edge of my seat, then again everything was rather dragging. I was into the Sean/White love story, then again I wasn't so much into it. The plot was convincing, then again it wasn't. Sometimes it just didn't feel "smooth". If I rate this with my BL googles on it deserves more than 10 stars, but since I want to look at it as a series where BL is just the subplot, I feel like 9 stars is a good rating.

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OffGun is WILDIN!!!

First of all i reall like these couple like OffGun is always best. This bl is high quality and you can see from every aspects of it. The visuals and everything was really good. The story is captivating but very political. I can say that i feel like im really familiar to Thailand’s social situations lol. Sometimes it felt too much but generally it was ok.
The only problem for me was the other straight couple like i wasn’t here for their toxic relationship and long ss scenes.
But our main couple and side bl couples story was great. Their love and relationship really served well but i feel like we could’ve seen more. + last but not least i wish we saw more Black. I loved that character but it felt like he was kinda left out. But overall really great bl, i hope we can see more from this couple!

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What a beautiful story.

Now I will start by talking about the music and go from there. The music in this series was beautiful and fit the situation perfectly.

One thing I will say that I disliked about this is in the end that the brothers were different and when I say different I mean. That not many people noticed that Black wasn't himself. I also didn't like that no one knew what happened to Black. It was like it didn't matter.
Black handled stuff with an iron fist while White was gentle and wanted to get along and make sure no one got hurt. While it shows that Black will leave people behind if necessary.
I also didn't like that Gram got with Black's ex-girlfriend but not because of the story but because it felt kind of out of nowhere and forced if you ask me.
I was sad about the situation with Todd but then he did get what he deserved in the end.
Now I will get onto how I felt about Sean. I feel many emotions about Sean I feel sympathy, pity, irritation, and happiness in the end because he evoked so many emotions out of me. I think what Sean needed most was to know someone was there in it with him. That's what White gave him. Sean was also an amazing leader when needed but also had the majority of the dumb ideas.

Now I want to get to my main point which is about White and Black I swear you wouldn't even think they were acted by the same person considering how well they differentiate from each other. Black is cold, dismissive, and unattached a lot of the time. You can tell he cares but doesn't know how to show it. He pushed people away and keeps them at arm's distance because you can tell he doesn't want to be hurt. He is also a lot more aggressive than his brother. He doesn't value many in his life but his brother means the world to him.
As for White, he is gentle even the way he talks is softer. The way he approaches people makes them put their guard down around him. He is very loyal and caring. He often is the one getting hurt by his brother because of their link to each other but he always wants to be with his brother. If you ask me he sacrificed everything in his own life to be with his brother. He is not very sneaky compared to his brother which is funny. He also likes to stir up Sean which is funny.
But these two are like night and day. You could tell the two apart just simply by staring at the way they stand all the way to their personalities and how they treat people.

OVERALL: I would watch the show again simply because I love the characters and how they all treat each other.

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Top-tier to drama top-tier BL.

This is a drama that I absolutely loved the first time I saw it I’m a huge Off/Gun so I’ve seen every drama that they’ve done together and I like them all. So going into this one I was super excited and I knew that I would love it, but I was not prepared for just how much I truly did love the drama. It’s rare that we get a BL that’s not all fluff in. This one was really intense and there was so much drama and you really were on the edge of your seat for some of these episodes and I loved that on top of being able to see you know the characters, Sean, and pretend black fall in love with each other. I thought the messaging around just is and really going for these people who are trying to control society was cool cause I think a lot of people can relate to the the want for justice in the larger societies and how hard it is when that’s not there, so totally relate it to all of the characters and I understood there motivation for why they were doing what they were doing.

I also really like that the drama had commentary on same-sex marriage and the legality of that within Thailand in the push to make it so. I think in recent years they’ve been more BLs that I’ve really been pushing for same-sex marriages to become legal and I am here for it.

We already know that Gun is an amazing actor, but I think he really outdid himself in the two roles that he had in this drama you could very clearly distinguish white from black in his voice and his facial expressions. The way he carried his posture it was really a master class on how to do this type of role when it’s one actor playing two different characters and I have not seen another actor do it as well. Usually in Off/Gun dramas, I would gravitate more towards gun in the role that he was playing but I really love what off did in this drama in the way that he portrayed Sean love it.

Another really cool aspect that I liked about the drama is that none characters really went through that phase of like questioning your sexuality when they realize they were falling in love with each other I think they both were just like hey, we like each other let’s not pretend that we don’t and I am here for it..

I want to take a minute to talk about the music in this drama because I think that’s an important part to really set the stage of the emotions that are being depicted on the screen and they had some excellent songs in this drama. Understand by Roza it’s such a beautiful, heartbreaking song and was used perfectly in the show that I have not stopped listening to it since I heard it on the show great job with that song choice and the other song choices as well.

This is the drama that I’ve been able to watch repeatedly, and still love it as much as I loved it the very first time I saw it. I doubt that another BL will ever top this one in my book. I think I want people to try to type it, but I don’t know how they could. It was just lovely in every aspect and I’m so happy that I ventured over into this land of Thai dramas such that I was able to watch it.

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One of the best gmmtv dramas

I watch a lot of Thai series' and I just have to say that Not Me is highkey one of the best. From the story line of White pretending to be Black to Dan betraying Yok and the gang, this series did not dissapoint me. GMM dod a really good job with the cast. Offgun are amazing actors but this just blowed my mind. I would like to see the cast together again for a similar style of series. Gawin and First totally made me cry with their acting. The chemistry they hold is unreal. This series shows betrayal, love, hurt, anger, pain and how bad the justice system is at doing its job. It shows how wealthy people can abuse their power. Overall, I love it.

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