MaybeBaby

Right?!

The dad - “I can’t let my son live in sin!”

Me - “Baby, he been livin in sin for 10 episodes! Where the hell have you been?!”

I don’t know, Nakhun’s way of wording the completed bond thing had me laughing so hard because that cringe moment is exactly how I feel whenever a straight couple says to me they’re “trying” 🤣 that moment made the whole episode for me.

Some of the stray thoughts that entered my head during this episode:

-Phatsa’s dad looks like a slightly older version of Shane from Heated Rivalry

-These servants sure have a lot of gall bossing around their bosses in this show, first with all that force-feeding of the smoothies and now not letting Nakhun out of bed… someone would’ve been fired quick

-Everyone in this show looks like they wandered in from a different 1980’s music video with their hairstyles (Nakhun is from Flock Of Seagulls, Phatsa’s got Judd Nelson Breakfast Club Hair, Nakhun’s brothers look like Duran Duran, that poor unfortunate servant has Linda Ronstadt’s 80’s bob, the Mom looks like she should be holding a guitar behind Robert Palmer, the villainous guy with the bad acting has Huey Lewis & the News hair… it’s all sooooo over the top)

-I wonder if I could meet the person who came up with this Omegaverse concept at Folsom Street Fair because all this terminology has strong ties to the kink community (but I’m unsure if the people who are fans of it, just based on what I’ve read on here and on ABO Desire’s or PitBabe’s pages, understand what they’re saying when they use the terms)

-Nakhun’s dad’s emotional turn around made no sense to me… do Alpha’s go through menopause?

-The villain guy with the bad acting got lectured by a servant… but the servant’s suit was not fitted correctly and it was really distracting.

-Phatsa’s suit also doesn’t fit well and at first I thought it was a maternity suit (then I started googling if they make maternity suits because that would be cute)

Final Thought - This was an 8 episode show they
s t r e e e e e e t c h e e e e d into 12 episodes.

Having lived here for 5 years now (I came from the US), I can tell you it is definitely not “most”. Around 1/4 of tv here is BL/GL or LGBTQ (admittedly, that’s much more than most countries). But it is increasing, and it’s doing so at the behest of the government. The Thai BL industry is a big money-maker in foreign money coming into the country. I attended a panel a year ago where the former Prime Minister and Director of BL Programming at GMM spoke about increasing BL output because of its international popularity and soft-power for raising awareness of Thai culture around the world. The current Prime Minister hasn’t been quite as supportive, and there have been many more raids on LGBT businesses in recent months (particularly those that cater to foreigners).

For a moment, I got really irritated by the enormous plot hole in this episode, but then I remembered the goal of this show is to knock-up men, and then I calmed down.

Soooooo nothing happened.

I’m sorry but the hairstyles in this series are really bad… did the stylist come out of a coma they fell into after overdosing at a Mötley Crüe concert in 1987?!

And in the opening credits, why is Oat dressed Vampire Lucy from Bram Stoker’s Dracula?!

I cannot stop looking at the awful wig they put on Fu’s father. Like this is worse than the wig from Until We Meet Again.

This whole thing is fantasy. I live in Silom and hang out on the street where they filmed the exteriors (which by the way, is one alley that they shoot from multiple angles to make it look bigger than it is). You shouldn’t take ANY of this a realistic example of their culture… that would be like watching Cinderella to learn about France. This has nothing to do with Silom, it’s just make-believe.

(I’m not saying those places don’t exist, they do… but the ones that are dancing only are across town… the ones in this part of town, the dancers wear nearly no clothing [in Thailand it is illegal to go nude, however, due to a loophole, condoms are considered clothing] and are strictly sex workers. Everyone in the place is, the waiters, dancers, bartenders… even the dj was bought one night and they just plugged in an iPhone and ran Spotify for the night.)

Thais had a long weekend for the holiday, so they made the episode available online for people to binge watch earlier than the regular air date for a fee (because nightclubs & bars closed)

Krit has to be the worst police officer ever. He should watch some Law & Order to get some tips.

Talking and communicating with words, sharing one’s feelings, is not Thai culture. All of my Thai friends here brag about being jealous and toxic, those things are considered virtues in Thailand and signs of love.

Thank you! Like every measure is not good. The editing of the scenes is confusing or choppy, the translation is way off (the doctor gave 1 guy medicine to treat his cervix), the ADR and foley work is not good… that’s not even counting the story which seems like it was written by an 8 year old who just saw Scarface for the first time.

The second couple are the only problem I have with this series. They’re boring, the most chaste “slutty couple” ever in a BL, and the fashion kid’s HMU team did him dirty. He looks like a special effect from a Lord of the Rings movie with that bad styling… and his Tinglish is bad, but probably the only thing I pay attention to. Although I think the knitting hobby was a nice touch.

I like this except the way they dressed the weird second couple fashion kid like a space alien in every episode. I don’t know what they did to him but I am sideways on the couch and I cannot get a focal point. What did they do to his poor face?! I’ve seen his IG, he does not really look like that. Seriously, every time he’s on screen I just get dizzy and start crying.

Rewatching out of boredom and I forgot:

They really dressed poor Salin like he was going to a gay funeral in New Orleans in every episode.

Sun’s butt looks good covered in blue paint.

Sam is jacked!

Still terrible writing but more enjoyable after not expecting it to be good.

Ohhhhh this was written by the writers of Gen Y and Gen Y 2… this explains everything.

It sounds like you don’t know what therapy is. Not all therapy is talk therapy, and some types do involve experiential activities. But without a trained practitioner to guide the patient through the process, there is not much progress made and can actually inflict further harm or reinforce traumatic stimuli.

My wild, left-field theory is that Mawin’s father is actually Pond… because that is the only way this show makes sense in my head. And I don’t know why every tv show character named Akin has to be a total d-bag…

I got all the way to the end and realized I did finish this series but blocked it from my mind. After having been in Thailand for several years now, I know that all that shipping nonsense really does go on here. I’ve had discipline problems in classes because couples were being harassed by outsiders or other students. That didn’t upset me as much as it does now because Thailand doesn’t have privacy laws like the United States. It’s very sad how real this series actually is.

I think I hate it even more now.