Nolan Peale

I figured they wouldn't get together because Alan is too classist to date a chicken seller. But apparently, mom had squirrelled away a noteworth sum of money and taken out way too much life insurance, so Gaipa has the money now. LOL. Its no wonder the bank manager showed up at her funeral. She was probably the reason he was making is cross-sell insurance sales targets each month. He needs to get that son hooked into the bank's financial planning services ASAP or he won't have a mark.

Regarding the police, I'm assuming a text message from Uncle Kit with a photo of the wealthiest boy in the country tied up and a note to "submit to my wishes if you ever want to see him alive again" with an address to an abandoned warehouse should be enough evidence for the police to start asking questions. So I'm assuming both Palm and Chopper did the smart thing and texted that info to Ben when he told them to call the police. Or that Ben just called his Army Colonel father and asked him. Who knows. But I mean, if you're going to send a text message like that, and the police come and find a bunch of people shot, even corrupt or lazy police are going to have to start asking questions.

Final thoughts - O.K. I've seen too much bad BL in my life to generally hate this one. And part of the issue is that it didn't live up to my hopes and expectations. So I need to make an effort to appreciate what was presented, not what I hoped would happen. So it was fine. And whew...that was a great kiss at the end. However, I really do hope that someday Thai BL will take the sub-genre seriously when working for crossover appeal. I like that it wasn't a high school BL, but I was hoping for something a bit more thrilling in the Lakhorn. Actually, I was hoping it wouldn't be a Lakhorn at all, but some kind of suspense thriller where the boys had to work together to uncover the truth about who killed Neung's father, or plot some kind of revenge for his death. That's not what we got though. The guy we thought was evil when we first met him turned out to be the bad guy and he got more wicked the longer the story went on. If there was a mystery, Ben solved it rather easily. And it wasn't so much revenge, but self-defense with a police bust thrown in.

Overall it gets a passing grade since as far as bodyguard to lovers stories it was better than most. I just hope that the next time we revisit the bodyguard-lover story, we get something worth writing about other than how bad Thai bodyguards seem to be at their jobs.

Left out of the ending, I assume, was the part where Alex read the news in the year 2022 and went back to 2012 and invested a bunch of money in bitcoin and got out in 2021 as a multi-millionaire to fund his movies. Also, was an early investor in Moderna. He has this knack...

I agree with the posters below that the ending erased the character development of everyone. Despite all the modern attitudes towards sex, all this effort was really about making sure that at least for this group of friends (save Kat), everyone's life partner turned out to be their first love from high school. That seemed to be the biggest problem for everyone - failed high school romance.

I'm going to assume that Phuwin's character never became a rock star, though. Now that he's got a supportive environment, he no longer has that chip on his shoulder to actually get good at his instrument and work through the struggles to succeed. He also just writes insipid music that doesn't mean much because he no longer has any relatable but personal struggles to inspire him and most of his money comes from writing jingles at an advertising agency. LOL.

Notes:
-Run might be the first actors in a BL series in awhile to play a doctor who IRL is actually old enough to have completed medical school and a residency. I will never be able to tell him from his brother Games, though.
-I can't actually tell how old Tin is supposed to be. Or Khana.
-I kept waiting for the relationship problem to reveal itself. Like I kept thinking Tin would walk in on Park with someone else. Nope. I have no idea what this is supposed to be about. Maybe nothing with them. They are already a couple and they stay a couple the whole time, and its just all about how this same sex couple is inserted into the fabric of the supportive neighborhood, while they visit food stalls. That's fine with me, actually.
-I'm not actually put off by the kids. Since with the exception of Park, the people in the neighborhood aren't wealthy (assuming he's wealthy as a doctor) and aren't the kinds of people who would hire daycare or nannies, so childcare would be a chore that would just fall to whomever in the neighborhood was around and available. That said, I wish at least one of the 3 children was a boy, since two of the girls seem to be the same age. Who knows, maybe they are the same girl. Tin's sister is the tiny one. Khana's cousin is the sassy talker. And hospital girl is what exactly?
-Once again, I would like to remind BL writers that the life expectancy in Thailand actually isn't as low as they think it is, so having everyone in their 20s having at least 1 if not 2 dead parents isn't realistic. Although I like the idea that there appears to be a neighborhood grandfather, because all the other men dropped dead at 50. LOL
-I'll give this one a try, but will drop it if they don't develop a storyline next week.

Yeah, I noticed that too. That girl is too old. But the point of this series is to get Wen and Jim together by the end, not to figure out who was to blame in the past relationship. We don't have enough info to analyze it, so we'll just have to go with what she said. They were dating before Jim came into the picture and she told him to stop dating Jim. There was enough attachment there for her to want to keep Beam despite finding out that he was cheating on her with another man, and she wasn't open to and open relationship with him.

It just wouldn't make much sense that these two characters would meet and like each other. I was worried initially that they would meet to scheme to break up Wen and Jim and fall for each other that way, because every other one of the Midnight Series involved a scheme of some sort. But that isn't the case. While Pattaya is a small city and there probably are a limited number of single gay men for them to choose from, Alan is a classist and isn't going to start dating a chicken seller just because he's lonely.

He is, but I'm guessing he does see it as a problem. Another complicating factor in his life. "Do you need to do this now? Go back to being just poor. We can do something about you being poor. Why add to the trouble right now? Go be rich, then work on the gay thing. Priorities, son. Priorities." :-)

Well, we only have to go by what she said about her relationship. Which was that their dads were friends and introduced them when they went to college and they started dating then. We know when he died. It was written on his columbarium door. I'm not sure why they would keep the fact they were dating a secret from their parents when their fathers wanted them to get together.

Tough call. If they had met in college, they had been "dating" for 14-15 years when Beam died at the age of 34. I some time, their parents have to start wondering why its taking them so long to get married. While I think she was very mature and collected when meeting Jim, she probably did intend to marry Beam, even if he kept lying to her about breaking up with Jim.

Ep 5-6
-I was surprised to find out that Li Ming's mom is actually alive. I'm assuming she's remarried and abandoned her kid to start a new family, something that happens a lot in Thai dramas. "She checks in from time to time" doesn't scream "mom is off working abroad to earn money to help out."
-I think Khao needs to be cast as someone who doesn't get his guy more often. He's good at being shot down. Sure, he probably doesn't want to be known as the BL Actor who never has a happy ending, but its a living.
-Was glad that they didn't overdo it with Heart's accident.
-I guess I would have wanted to have the backstory with the ex fleshed out earlier. I know that people are getting tired of Jim's "wall", but the accident happened in 2018, so it really wasn't that long ago. And he wasn't really fighting about the affair until near the end. They appeared to have been happy for a long time before it fell apart. Everyone mourns differently, but 4 years isn't that unusual after losing someone you spent a decade thinking you'd be together with a long time.
-Yeah, Li Ming had to visit the mother by himself and handle it himself. Jim strikes me as the type of guy who'd agree that they shouldn't even be friends if that's what the mother wanted.
-Not really sure how this is going to end next week. Will Moonlight Chicken be saved? (Probably not). Will Jim and Wen be together? (80/20 chance). Will the baby be born healthy (let's hope). Will Li Ming get a job in Australia and leave Heart behind? (Maybe).

Yeah, I can't think of situations where Alan and Gaipa would meet before the series ends. Pattaya isn't that big of a town, so there aren't going to be too many young, single gay men in the pool. So maybe they'd run into each other on Grindr. But Alan is a classist and is not about to date a mere chicken seller just because he's lonely.

The hospital don't really care. They want to free up the bed and in the absence of family, someone in that room had to step up.

Gong has his own life to live and Alan was never his boyfriend. In the absence of anyone else, it pretty much had to be Wen.

17 is the cutoff for onscreen kisses in the Thai code, so they were both old enough.

My only fear with that fake kiss is that tomorrow we're expecting MSP to end with a real kiss, and I'm now afraid that it will end with a "loving fist bump."

Yeah. I can think of reasons why he'd be wary of Li Ming dating Heart specifically, but I doubt the teaser is giving us the whole picture of what that conversation is about and what triggers that response. I could also see him being very wary of his nephew being careless about them leaving the door unlocked at Heart's house (like they always do in BLs) which is going to lead to a lot of problems for Li Meng and Jim due to their class differences with Heart's family.

I guess the question is what he was going to do. Make sure that Jean didn't dance in her bra? Because that is what she was expelled for. Then not sleep with her, or make sure the condom stays on. I'm not sure he should avoid the other things he did that night, though. So kiss Mollie. Kiss Army. Make sure he sees Army kissing Joe. That's really about it, since I don't think See-ew, Kat, Rose and Jedi's issues are related to stuff that happened that night.

I don't think what happened was a sexual assault per se. The sex was consensual until she realized it wasn't safe sex, and then she noticed like 5 seconds before he came. Since he had gone to great lengths to get that condom, the reason it wasn't on was intoxication. He wasn't intentionally leaving it off because he didn't want to wear one. While I understand that she was telling him to stop, he didn't have time to stop. She should have told him what had happened, though. Her trauma is more due to the consequences of unprotected sex and the fact that society makes heroes of promiscuous men and villains of promiscuous women. She should never have been expelled and she should have been able to find an abortion clinic that was safe. Left unsaid was that since her pregnancy was before 2021, her abortion was illegal at that time.

Yeah. I have more negative feelings about the resolution for Army than I do for Alex, per se. Army really did leave Joe out to the jackals in High School and then went on his merry gay way. I'm not buying that Joe wouldn't have such resentment that he would take Army back.

On the one hand, Alex didn't know what Jean was going through, so he did not have an opportunity to step up. How do we know what he would have done 10 years ago. On the other hand, Jean was right, and he did abandon her when she was being shamed for dancing and having sex with him, and to boot, he just went off to be popular and have sex with Kat. She could have given him a chance to be there, but he didn't exactly demonstrate much valor at the time. Not as bad as Army, but still pretty bad.