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Alex

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Alex

Czech Republic
GAP thai drama review
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GAP
3 people found this review helpful
by Alex
Mar 13, 2023
12 of 12 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.5
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.5
Rewatch Value 8.0
This review may contain spoilers

Quite good actually

Lately I have problems putting my thoughts into words and coherent sentences so forgive me if this review is a bit all over the place, but I've been trying my best. I think I'll just go with bullet points as that is easier for me when writing.

What I liked:

1) Easy to watch. Maybe it was the fact that it's on Youtube and each episode is broken into four smaller parts but I found this series incredibly easy to binge-watch. I didn't do it but it would be easy to. The plot wasn't hard to understand and the aesthetics were on point.

2) Mon's parents. I loved how they were supportive of their daughter and how her step-father was so nice to her and they both had a great and healthy relationship together. Their scenes with Sam were also funny, how they were so polite to her.

3) TeeYuki. I loved Yuki. I loved Tee even more, it was nice to see a butch character. We were robbed when these two didn't have more screentime together. TeeYuki spinoff when?

4) Risa and Cher. My beloved ones. I loved to see a slightly older wlw couple, enjoyed every moment they were on screen. Seriously I liked the side couples more than the main couple.

5) The wedding. Although same-sex marriages are still not recognised in Thailand, it felt nice for them to still have one (and if I remember correctly Risa and Cher were also "married").

Mixed feelings:

1) Grandma. The last episode twist was out of nowhere. I'm glad that the grandmother changed her view on Sam, not fully but at least she supported her and let her be with Mon. Also Kirk, at the beginning I seriously thought that he was supportive of Sam not marrying him lol.

2) Sam's company. It was so vague what the company actually does lol. I liked the guy, who pretended to be dead at the beginning, that was funny. Auntie Mee portrayal was not and I hate how some shows treat trans women as just comedic reliefs, with their transness being the actual joke. It's not funny. And please stop casting cis men as trans women, even a cis woman would be better for the role (the best way would be for the character to not be there at all). I would prefer no representation over bad one any day. But yes, we need more trans characters portrayed well and with respect! And I needed more Nita, she was there as one of the minor antagonists and then just dissappeared out of nowhere.

3) The age gap. Nothing against age gaps as long as both the characters are mature enough, it is legal, it is not grooming and creepy. Sam and Mon have an age gap of eight years in the series, Mon is 22 I think while Sam is 30. That's perfectly fine. What WAS weird was that they met as children (well, Mon was a child, I can't remember how old Sam was during that encounter) and it made Mon idolize Sam and want to follow in her footsteps so I guess that it had to be there but still I was a bit icky with it. Maybe because I don't like the protagonists meeting in childhood cliche even normally, but with big age gaps it gets even weirder. At least Sam didn't seem to remember much about it and it wasn't portrayed in a romantic way.

What I disliked:

1) The character of Auntie Mee, I already talked about it.

2) The last episode felt a bit rushed to me. Like there were no time jumps in the seriee but the last episode was like "3 days later" and "2 months later" at least two more times.

Overall I give 8.5/10 rating, I enjoyed watching it and I hope that it will bring us more full-length GLs.
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