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Until We Meet Again thai drama review
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Until We Meet Again
51 people found this review helpful
by AudienceofOne
Jan 9, 2020
17 of 17 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 5.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 4.0
I hate to say it because the premise of this show is quite interesting and Fluke is an appealing and enjoyable actor to watch (and Boun is so unbelievably hot it's criminal) but the execution is just... boring. It's boring.

Pharm and Dean are MEANT TO BE so end up together despite the fact that Pharm does little but cook, cry and look incredibly conflicted for someone who's supposedly in love. Ohm is a plank of wood as Dean and Earth's acting, as usual, makes me want to punch him.

I mostly enjoy the show's tone of anti-climax in terms of its conflict. The reincarnation is the only point of conflict and, honestly, that is somewhat refreshing. But there comes a point at which the whole thing is just spinning its wheels. They could have spent that time establishing Pharm and Dean's relationship in the present but instead it's just shallow INSTA!love that quickly wears thin.

As the show progresses, Pharm's response to his so-called epic destined love gets more and more weird, until the whole thing starts to come off as non-consensual. It's deeply uncomfortable and doesn't get better but worse over time.

With the extension, the show got even slower and had to jettison screentime for several characters who were no doubt contracted only for the original run. This served to make the whole thing even more boring and forced the writers to take the show in a direction that completely undercut what was left of its own themes.

With the pacing off and an OTP you struggle to ship, this is not the show it could have been and is overall a boring disappointment.

As usual, this comment comes with a disclaimer that I am not the audience shows like this are aimed at.
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