Amaryllis_Flower

The first three episodes are a clusterfuck. I almost gave up on it myself. It improves in later episodes although some of the juvenile behavior continues. The highlight to me is the chemistry between Duang and Qin, and the contrast between Duang's obvious happy upbringing and Qin's tortured past which is peeled open layer by layer over the rest of the series.

Usually I'm not a big fan of NC scenes. I find them boring, but the first one between Duang and Qin got me, Qin opening up physically while still showing signs of emotional trauma.

After all that good work I found the final episode a bit of a letdown, but the character development from episodes 4 to 11 was excellent.

I thought it was a worthwhile watch although not perfect.

In case you want to keep watching it I won't say anything more.

It's country restricted on IQIYI. Not available in the US where I live unless you use VPN and set it to Thailand.

They've been "eating hard" for a long time. Cutie Pie is one of the most watched BLs of all time with a half a billion views just on YouTube and I'm not sure how many on IQIYI.

You'll need a subscription to IQIYI for the rest of them. The series is in progress, but only the first five episodes plus the special BTS stuff is on there right now. Mandee usually puts the first couple of episodes on YouTube to entice you to get a subscription. Or alternatively they'll run the whole thing on YouTube but in such an abbreviated form that you can barely understand what's going on.

I put it on my watch list, I very rarely watch dramas until all the episodes have dropped.

Middleman's Love was unwatchable. This is OK if you can find it anywhere.

You certainly are. Now that I finished it I will be writing a more complete review. It had its good points but 18-year-olds acting like they are in grammar School is extremely cringey and the first few episodes were nothing but that, and there was also a significant amount of it in the last episode.

The music was relatively horrific. Not that TeeTee and Por are bad singers, but they're just okay and the engineering on the soundtracks was dreadful.

I'm very picky about music in dramas when the people in them aren't trained singers. You don't see Max singing in his dramas. If you're NuNew by all means sing. And I mean please do sing.

There were a lot of good parts, the chemistry between Duang and Qin. A pretty good representation of what a human being can look like when they've been raised in trauma, and what healing from it can look like even though it was very abbreviated.

I'll get into more once I've had a chance to think about it.

Qin's parents probably shouldn't have had children. They weren't mean spirited, they just thought that being good parents required them becoming wealthy to be able to give their kid all the material things they thought he needed, and left raising the kid up to an abusive babysitter.

These folks didn't understand that he was going to remember being beaten and abused by the babysitter as a toddler, and thought he would be better off if they never talked about it again. So they get really bad points for being clueless human beings.

If you notice Qin is an only child.

I actually give the writer's credit for dealing with healing from childhood trauma at all. They hit upon the essential elements of healing but compressed it way beyond what would happen in real life.

That's still your opinion. And you know what they say about those . . .

I don't even rate shows if I haven't watched the whole thing. I'm now on episode 6 of the series and it is improving. The first few episodes were more like the interactions between kids having childhood crushes in grade school.

Not rare at all. Cutie Pie and TNP have won all sorts of awards, and Cutie Pie is one of the most watched bl's of all time. It currently has more than half a billion views.

Khemjira has almost as good a rating as this series. And either way ratings don't tell the entire story. It's how many people are watching it and how many awards does it win.

Maybe they gave up after the first episode which was pretty unwatchable. If it didn't have such a high rating I wouldn't have continued. I'm on episode 4 now and it's picking up. I don't rate shows until I've watched the whole thing.

The content rating above says teens 13 and older. Usually if there is a mature version there's a separate listing in MDL for uncut. This is the only listing for this drama on MDL.

Just starting to watch it, but I wouldn't expect any NC scenes in a series rated for teens 13 plus.

Well he's grandpa aged. 🤷🏼‍♀️

The actor is 52.

Ask Prince Charles. He doesn't even know how to squeeze the toothpaste out of a tube onto a toothbrush. You're talking about a level of living that even normal rich people don't know.

If you've never been in a kitchen the likelihood is you don't know how to cook anything much less what knife to use when doing it. It's not rocket science.

Then you didn't understand. Kuea's family was Thai aristocracy. They had a house full of maids. Early on Kuea tells Kondiao that he had never even been in a kitchen before much less knew how to cut or cook anything. It wasn't that he was dumb it was the way he was brought up. And he didn't have any interest in learning how to cook so he didn't. He was rich enough to order in food. But he was interested in music and superbikes so he learned a lot about both of those. Got it now?

One of these days I have to figure out how to do that.

No he isn't and neither is the actor who plays him. In the show the ex-boyfriend has him investigated and finds the only relationship he ever had was with a woman long ago. I think this was a plot device to parallel Gulf's personal dating history in 2019 when he starred TharnType.

Netflix Thailand, April 9. Who knows how long it's going to be for the rest of the world.