Fair warning if you're looking for the steamy BL with all the tropes this isn't for you.
If you're looking for a gorgeously acted heartbreak, ding ding ding!
Thoughts after finishing:
This one will stick with me. It was beautiful, the long stretches of dialogue, the sets, the lighting, the music, the acting, the story itself. Immaculate vibes. And yes I am currently ovulating so my emotions are all over the place, but any other day of the month this show would still have had me bawling my eyes out.
I hate Mol. I get that the person she loved didn't love her, that's awful, and she has a lot of emotional trauma because of his death and the part she played. But the fact that she first hurt her child by sending him away, then replaced her dead ex-husband with her son was truly horrific and takes away any pity I would otherwise have for her. The damage she's done to her sons mental health, first by creating this horrible dependency where he has no freedom to choose his life, then her homophobia, her complete denial publicly that she even has a son, and her manipulation of Inn to further hurt everyone around her. It's just so cruel. She knows exactly how much they are hurting, and yet her only concern is herself.
Wang is by far the most mature person on the show and he proved that over and over. My heart breaks for him and I wish somewhere in storyland he went to therapy, healed, abandoned his mother, and found someone worthy of him.
My heart also hurts for Inn, but less so. He's clearly got a lot of self loathing around his sexuality, fear of going against the grain, self hatred for the loss of the person he loved, and heaps of guilt (both warranted and unwarranted). But it makes me so angry that he acquiesced to Mols cruel demands. Maybe if he thought Wang was too young, or his feelings were confused, and he was muddying up his love for Siam with that of Wang. But he knew how he felt, but was too much of a coward to act on it. Like okay maybe 20 years ago when he was still out in the world the fear of societal pressure got to him. But not here. The man is in self imposed exile, there's literally noone to judge him. He doesn't even have internet. Those few steps across the bridge are probably the bravest thing he's ever done, and I'm so happy they showed him making that conscious decision himself. I like to think he too went to therapy, and healed the guilt he'd been carrying for so long (throw away thought that he's only that ripped because of the weight of all the trauma he's carried for 20 years).
I hope Inn and Wang get therapy and find love in themselves (Inn) and in a partner who deserves them (Wang) and I hope Mol dies alone surrounded by her trophies and when they announce it on the news everyones like "whoa I never knew she had a son" and judges the hell out of her in her grave.

Plus: Acting, story, directing, lighting, music, cast, crew, everything.

Minus: That I can't climb through my screen and strangle that woman. I'm not sure if I'd call this rewatchable. It's beautiful and worthy of seeing again, hence my rating. But I don't think my mental health can handle another run though.