Amaryllis_Flower

IQIYI already changed the closing credits to episode 1. First it was some kind of a March melody and then they changed it to NuNew singing Above.

I don't think the terrible ratings have anything to do with the quality of the series. It's just anti fans. That will have no effect on the popularity of the series or on the awards that it's bound to win after it finishes airing.

Eventually the entire series will be on YouTube but not until the first run is complete on One31 (Thai TV) and IQIYI streaming service. That should be sometime in August. If you want to see it before then you'll have to subscribe to IQIYI if you're not in Thailand.

I have a subscription to the VIP level of IQIYI and it cost me around $70 a year or less than $6 a month. In other currencies it converts to way less than that in US dollars. It's only a little bit of money and you support the actors by viewing the series through official channels.

An IQIYI VIP subscription is dirt cheap. Support the actors and get a subscription.

I'm not sure what the purpose of this is. There is not one person who's going to skip watching TNP because a bunch of delusional anti-fans have given the series a 1 or 2 rating.

The PILOT won awards. And I don't know how TV shows work in Thailand but in the US they get renewed due to viewership.

There's no chance that Zee and NuNew won't get cast in a lot more series, and win more awards for doing it. They will only stop getting cast someday when they decide they don't want to do it anymore.

Yeah they seem to be really at it. 7.6 here but 8.8 on IMDb. They can't outpace the much larger fan base there. Even Pit Babe 2 is 7.8.

Khanin is still in college so I assume somewhere between 20 and 22.

Edit. Just finished the beginning of episode 2. We have a definitive age for Khanin. He was born in 2003 so he is 22 in 2025.

I agree with you that not everybody has to like this show but it's definitely being targeted by anti fans for one reason or another.

It almost never happens that MDL ratings are worse than IMDb ratings but TNP is rated one point higher there than it is here.

This series has definitely been targeted. Not sure why.

I liked it, but it is the background episode so you understand what's to come.

Go to IMDB. It's 8.8 there. 🙂

I'm sure there are plenty of people in the UK that speak English with Asian accents. His was sort of Asian mixed with English. The kid tried.

I knew exactly what you meant. I think international schools in Thailand teach The American accent though. At least that's what my Thai friend told me. For all I know there are some that teach American accents and some that teach English accents.

The kids that go through those schools do not come out speaking English with a Thai accent.

Edit. The one notable actress in the series that spoke almost native sounding English was the character Samantha. She did go to an international school as a kid. But I think with an American accent. She has an English sounding name which means to me that she probably has an American or English father as well.

There are actually some YouTube videos of her as a teen working on losing her Thai accent when speaking English. She barely has any accent at all.

I think NuNew is doing a great job outside of his accent, and it's not like he's doing an entire series with that accent. So it's a little annoying but not going to ruin my enjoyment of the series.

NuNew appears to be pretty good with languages. From what I understand his Chinese is close to native and even in languages he doesn't speak fluently, like Japanese, his accent is quite good. I'm taking this from people who speak those languages since the only foreign language I speak is Spanish.

I'm sure if NuNew was willing to spend the time to work on his accent and his English language skills he could do it but his workload is such that I don't know that would be worth his while.

That being said I think both of them should work on English because it will help them a lot if they want to have an international career. If they're not pretending to be native English speakers in a drama accented speech is just fine. That I think would serve them well. Spending the time it would take to try and sound like a native speaker probably isn't.

International students are not native speakers. Khanin has been living in London since he was a baby.

My best friend is Thai and speaks English as a second language. She speaks it fluently but does have an accent.

NuNew is playing someone who was born speaking English, probably as his first language, or maybe second language from a very young age. So he actually shouldn't have had any kind of accent.

If you look at the girl who played Samantha she doesn't have an accent or has almost no accent because she went to a Thai international school as a kid. And given that she has an English or American name I'm assuming her father is one of those things.

As long as Nhu isn't extensively speaking English in this series I'll live with it. But I found it jarring.

I'm not even sure why he dyed his hair for this series but the hair color doesn't bother me.

No didn't miss it. It was sort of annoying, but I don't think he's going to be speaking a lot of English throughout the series.

Typo. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I agree with you. And I already said that NuNew's accent was good enough considering he only spoke a few sentences and I don't expect him to be speaking extensively in English in this drama.

I'm American too, and I was brought up by an English nanny and had an accent until I was around 10 years old. So I definitely know what a native American and English accent sounds like.

Just because he wasn't perfect does not mean he didn't do a great job in the drama and I expect that to continue.

72. And reading comprehension is important. I hear his Chinese is much better, but I'm not in a position to judge

That's exactly what I said. 🙄

He did it everything else except for his English. Let's just leave it at that.