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Spare Me Your Mercy thai drama review
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Spare Me Your Mercy
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by Ambers79
18 days ago
8 of 8 episodes seen
Completed 2
Overall 5.5
Story 4.0
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
This review may contain spoilers

This doesn't work as a BL and it alters the source in a negetive way


No, I reject this entire mess of a show. The only prasie I CAN give to it is the production team because it was visually a stunning piece of work complete with some of the best atmospheric visuals I've seen. The rest is an absolute dumpster fire and if I was Sammon I would have NEVER approved this script. I sincerely hope it was something she had no choice over.

For honestly the last 2 and a half episodes I sped ran. I did fully watch in pivotal moment without 10 sec skipping my way through.

The BL aspect was a bust on every level of this show. Up until this episode these two did not in any way shape or form act like people in love. Leaving the suspecting each other aside there was little dialogue to support it and when it was there it came out of nowhere. Their body language always had a major distance between them and even the way they looked at each other wasn't that of lovers.

The initial I like you was out of left field and I feel sorry for anyone stepping into this without knowing it is a BL because it is such a confusing piece of dialogue. There is no lead-up to it and no reason for him to say it. Another very jarring moment is Tew grilling Kan about the director's death and leaving Kan's house in a snit with a different lead other than Kan. The next moment we get a scene of Tew giving Kan a pen and saying happy birthday. 🤯 Mood swings much? Even Tew moving in feels more like he is doing it to get access to the house more than they love each other.

These two share nothing in common other than the mother which Tew is suspicious of, not I love the doctor for taking care of her. The book leans on FWB but these two don't have sex until the very end, so what is left? Nothing. There is no earthly reason for these two to like each other in the drama and the actors do NOTHING to encourage us to believe they love each other.

For this episode, we get all the BL moments as skimpy as they were. While not a dead fish kiss it lacks passion. The only thing that could be said about it is that visually the camera work and editing is top notch so at least it looks pretty. It is hard to feel anything without a connection between the characters.

Now I can forgive ALL that . From episode 1 it was very obvious this wasn't going to be a good BL show. The actors lack chemistry and very much felt like the guys in a crime show that someone forgot to mention was a BL. You really don't watch Sammon's shows for the romance. But this was a failure in the storyline as well.

There was very little mystery since they laid it all out fairly early. The cast was tiny so you only had two options for the killer. I'll admit I did suspect the nurse at first but it didn't take long for Boss to be the obvious pick. To be fair this wasn't really a mystery sort of show but at the same time the info dump of the paitients in the end felt out of place because they were trying to keep it one, so I brought it up.

You turn your BF in after he is in the clear in all kinds of FU. After that impassioned speech, Tew STILL didn't get it completely screwed over the whole point of the show in the direction they took it. By changing the story to make it so the only people Kan killed were people that wanted to die there should have been no reason for Tew to want to arrest him. Tew should have been able to come to terms with his mother's death realize the mercy in euthanasia and let Kan go. Instead, Tew understood nothing. While he still "loves" Kan he views euthanasia as wrong. The nicest interpretation is a ridge view of the law is the law. Still, after that impassioned speech where Kan lays his soul out Tew's words, will you confess ,was like a slap in the face.

With the book, there is a good reason for Tew to arrest Kan. There are even some fascinating discussion points on where euthanasia, murder, and the slippery slope where the two can collide. This drama is a big fat NOPE on any of that. In the end, I will give credit somewhat to the dive they did into the trauma of terminally ill patients and how childhood trauma shaped both Boss and Kan as well as nurse. Boss, the dad tried to kill the mom so both parents ended up dead his lesson was terminal patients were bad and needed to be gotten rid of. While Kan's was his mom trying to kill herself and needed to be released from suffering. Along with laying out all of Kan's patients' last wishes, it did do an ok job of laying out Kan's side but it misses the very important aspect of the families of those paitents that live with daily grind. Tew's perpective isn't nearly as importnat as many of the others. Also doing a run through at the end of the paitents last moments not coupled with the little we do get of their familes leaves their stories disjointed. I half forgot that the mentor and the director were connected by the end.

It completely throws the work the show does do to show euthenaisa in a postive light out the door with Tew turning Kan in. When you look back at all the characters in this show, not one single person changed their stance on euthanasia. Even the coroner who caught Kan out and understood why her dad died. She warns Kan NOT to do it again. Tew is even worse because he ARRESTS Kan. I applaud the police department in the respect that they didn't want to dig deep into this case, only Tew did. If they were going to change the book so drastically then they should have changed the ending as well. The takeaway is euthanasia at the end of the day is wrong. I guess if you believe in that stance it is a great ending but still a screwed-up one for a BL. The very fact they didn't have a time jump of Tew fetching Kan from prison just drives home how bad of a BL this is.

TBH from what I've been told of the book this show does a disserive to them. It has change the overall theming of it by not having Kan be a murder of people not ill and not lying and going behind Tew's back to cover things up. By making Kan a good guy but punishing for it and making it seem like his childhood trama lead him to killing people instead of a nuianced approch strays too far from the book I think The nusciances of euthnasia and murder have been stripped beyond the Boss and Kan simple contrast. They tried to put too much in one drama and cast extremly poorly for this.
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