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TharnType Season 2: 7 Years of Love thai drama review
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TharnType Season 2: 7 Years of Love
14 people found this review helpful
by immoralq
Jan 31, 2021
12 of 12 episodes seen
Completed 1
Overall 6.0
Story 4.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
This review may contain spoilers

what even is this???

I need someone to explain this to me, like I'm three, because I just don't understand how this not only got approved, but filmed and aired.

Who thought this was a good idea?

To be clear, i don't blame Mew or Gulf for this mess. They're actors, doing their jobs, and doing them pretty well in spite of the terrible writing, bad direction and awful editing.

I want to start with something positive. But there's nothing really positive to start with. This whole series is a mess.

THE PLOT: It's been seven years since Tharn and Type got together. They're now sharing an apartment and, after his brother announces his engagement, Tharn decides he wants to marry Type.

Type does not want to get married, for reasons which are valid but which Tharn completely ignores.

Type is working for a boss that seems to hate him (we never find out why, not really), which is causing him a lot of stress as his boss just piles the work on - even work that Type is not supposed to be doing as part of his job - and it's putting a strain on their relationship.

That's basically it for about eight episodes, then things take a hard right and suddenly Type has left to go stay with his parents and become a monk.

THE PROBLEMS: Tharn is lost in his own world. Type and he barely communicate about things, especially important things, and Tharn becomes so obsessed with having what his brother has (an engagement and a wedding) that he doesn't listen to Type at all and completely dismisses Type's very reasonable fears and objections. Tharn's wanting to get married appears to come out of nowhere to Type, and to us as well. Tharn never seems to consider actually talking about why Type doesn't want to get married and makes it all about him.

Cir and Phu just confuse me. Cir acts like a five year old and Phu acts like a combination of his brother/father/guardian. How am I meant to believe these two are a couple?

Fiat and Leo also confuse me. It's obvious from the first episode that Leo is in love with Fiat, and if he'd just have said something the worst of this story's problems could have been avoided (Fiat acting like a little stalker, and Type kidnapping and threatening Fiat) but Fiat, who is probably the most realistic character out of them all (eh, he's still a teenager and lacks emotional maturity and does stupid things - sounds about right), could try and take a hint. Hint: best friends don't let you lay all over them. Next to them, yes, but not full body contact all over them.

Techno, who I rather liked in S1, has been ramped up to eleven and gone from funny and charming to obnoxious and annoying.

a bit like the sound effects that are overused to the point to stupidity through the story.

The Doc and Champ had a rather sweet relationship, which was nice, but sadly their screen time was limited because the writer clearly wanted to focus on the other couples.

let's not even get started on the female characters. It's a Thai BL so it won't end well.

S1 had it's problems, but at least it was a cohesive story and every episode felt necessary. Half the episodes in S2 feel like filler as things rinse and repeat (Type gets in trouble with his boss, Tharn and Type have an argument, Tharn does something romantic and they make up, start again) and nothing changes until the last three episodes or so, when the pair of them finally learn to communicate a little better (which shouldn't have taken seven years.)
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