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Mdl asked me what is important to know and I'd say: Devi
Classic Thai show which throws a bunch of tropes at the viewers for 97% of the show only to turn around and make the sweetest final episode with emotional payoff. This show feels like a dementia patient’s walking through a garden, the same path over and over but never tiring of it and i can't rate it higher than I have.
(Tbh Starhunter needs to step up it's game tbh, they always have good production values, great actors who definitely have potential, makeup is on point (honestly Dmd and gmmtv need to take notes on this count) nothing looks cheap and in theory their shows should work, but they never do.)
Sun, an actress, has always been in love with the elder sister, Rafah, of her bestie Fey. For whatever mysterious reason, neither she nor Rafah have addressed this or acted upon it until..well until Star hunter made this show? They never address why they were apart then except that Sun was overseas for some years but that doesn't explain much considering how GONE Rafah was for Sun and she'd been in Thailand for years already. It's been 9 years of unrequited crush, atleast give us the reason.
A number of plot points like Sun’s defamation, a sinister Sasaeng, her arguably sinister girlfriend Rafah, exes and all are thrown at us but the resolution is quick, easy and unsatisfactory. As for character development? What's that? Sun’s core personality point is she is a spineless goody-two-shoes and is often on the receiving end of the mattress treatment. Rafah’s personality is being an asshole to most others, clinging to Sun in a borderline psychotic manner and crossing the boundaries of healthy relationships. I love shows that explore toxic relationships but not the immature conclusion presented here.
The second leads are Fey and Peach and they didn't have much of an interesting storyline either–the tropes were also repeated for the couples like the random public kiss, media scrutiny, jealous exes etcetra etcetra.
This feels like a lot of shows back from 2021, a combustion of poorly explored tropes. One could skip twenty minutes and I assure you nothing significant will have happened. At the end of penultimate 7th episode we are yet again exposed to 10 new plot points and bestie I rushed to mdl to check whether episode 8 was indeed the last–fearing that I'd somehow gotten it wrong and it was actually 12 eps. I was not going to sit through five more episodes of this.
I still marginally like this because the actresses had chemistry. There's that one obligatory gl bubble bath scene and the way Rafah was casually moving her hands on Sun during the bubble bath? My brain was screaming! As a negative to Rafah’s possessive hotness is that there's a borderline sa scene, I say borderline because there is dubious consent, which again has little bearing on the plot itself. The show marches along with its other plotlines in tandem.
Should you watch this? If you don't mind the dubcon and are pulled by the magnetism of Atom and Devi, go ahead but really there are way too many good gls airing right now. I'm obviously in a good mood or is that Devi’s magic because I give this a 6 and the verdict is no worse than mind numbingly boring.
(Tbh Starhunter needs to step up it's game tbh, they always have good production values, great actors who definitely have potential, makeup is on point (honestly Dmd and gmmtv need to take notes on this count) nothing looks cheap and in theory their shows should work, but they never do.)
Sun, an actress, has always been in love with the elder sister, Rafah, of her bestie Fey. For whatever mysterious reason, neither she nor Rafah have addressed this or acted upon it until..well until Star hunter made this show? They never address why they were apart then except that Sun was overseas for some years but that doesn't explain much considering how GONE Rafah was for Sun and she'd been in Thailand for years already. It's been 9 years of unrequited crush, atleast give us the reason.
A number of plot points like Sun’s defamation, a sinister Sasaeng, her arguably sinister girlfriend Rafah, exes and all are thrown at us but the resolution is quick, easy and unsatisfactory. As for character development? What's that? Sun’s core personality point is she is a spineless goody-two-shoes and is often on the receiving end of the mattress treatment. Rafah’s personality is being an asshole to most others, clinging to Sun in a borderline psychotic manner and crossing the boundaries of healthy relationships. I love shows that explore toxic relationships but not the immature conclusion presented here.
The second leads are Fey and Peach and they didn't have much of an interesting storyline either–the tropes were also repeated for the couples like the random public kiss, media scrutiny, jealous exes etcetra etcetra.
This feels like a lot of shows back from 2021, a combustion of poorly explored tropes. One could skip twenty minutes and I assure you nothing significant will have happened. At the end of penultimate 7th episode we are yet again exposed to 10 new plot points and bestie I rushed to mdl to check whether episode 8 was indeed the last–fearing that I'd somehow gotten it wrong and it was actually 12 eps. I was not going to sit through five more episodes of this.
I still marginally like this because the actresses had chemistry. There's that one obligatory gl bubble bath scene and the way Rafah was casually moving her hands on Sun during the bubble bath? My brain was screaming! As a negative to Rafah’s possessive hotness is that there's a borderline sa scene, I say borderline because there is dubious consent, which again has little bearing on the plot itself. The show marches along with its other plotlines in tandem.
Should you watch this? If you don't mind the dubcon and are pulled by the magnetism of Atom and Devi, go ahead but really there are way too many good gls airing right now. I'm obviously in a good mood or is that Devi’s magic because I give this a 6 and the verdict is no worse than mind numbingly boring.
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