Day 7 of April Challenge: Favourite Friendship
Many candidates here, especially among Thai BLs - so to further help me narrow things down, I will focus on "groups of friends" rather than individual friendships. In contrast to BLs from the other countries, which tend to have smaller casts and to be more focused on the protagonists, a strength of many Thai BLs is friendships and family (although often at the price of having an excessive number of characters), so all of my nominations will be Thai.
Although I love the endearing Four Friends in "Secret Crush on You", I already chose this series for "Favourite Female Character". Same for the Pharm-Team-Manaow friendship in "Until We Meet Again", which I picked yesterday for "Favourite Male Character".
So here are my three new nominations for "Favourite Group of Friends":
(1) The 5+1 boys (and arguably the sister) in "Remember Me", who we follow from their close friendship as young children, through school and university and all the way to adulthood.
(2) The six friends (Tin/Park, Khana/Pao + Barbie + Pai) in "Tin Tem Jai".
(3) The gang in "My School President" (the six band members + Tinn, Thiu and arguably Jorn).
So which to pick? Virtually everyone loves "My School President", so that would be an easy and popular choice. Although I also loved the other two series (despite their considerable flaws), these were far less universally popular.
But no, I will pick the boys in "Remember Me" because - despite some big weaknesses in production and in the third and fourth storylines - there was much that was good in this serious, authentic, sentimental and emotionally moving series, first and foremost the way it ties everything together and connects it all back to their close friendship as young children. I get all teary just thinking about it. (P.S. Anyone who says "But this isn't even really a BL" has obviously not watched it to the end.)
All five above-mentioned series are on Viki.