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Tonhon Chonlatee thai drama review
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Tonhon Chonlatee
29 people found this review helpful
by RainaSummers2002
Jan 23, 2021
10 of 10 episodes seen
Completed 5
Overall 3.0
Story 2.0
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 3.5
Rewatch Value 1.0
This review may contain spoilers

Trash, just trash.

There were so many stereotypes, and it was incredibly heteronormative. It was like watching a BL from about five years ago, where people were a lot less educated than they are now.

Chonlatee:

He wasn't as innocent as they made him seem. He was fine until he kissed a sleeping Tonhon. That was not okay. He also used Na. Even if Na said he didn't mind, Chon shouldn't have agreed. It was tiresome to watch Chon be so blindly in love with Ton. He was openly discriminating against the LGBTQ+ community. How is that attractive?

Ton:

Ton was just so incredibly insecure. It doesn't matter whether your parents are homophobic or not. You can still have your own opinion. Ton chose to be like that. No one forced him. The number of times I've heard the "It's okay, we're both men" in an attempt to make something not gay, Jesus fucking christ. That implies that it's okay because, well, men can't like other men, apparently. Also, it was so unrealistic how quickly he went from being against everything gay to loving Chon openly. That doesn't just happen. When he kissed Amp to prove his masculinity to his so-called friends, he lost all likeability. He was already together with Chon at that point. Also, to my disappointment, despite Na and Ton talking about the possibility of Ton being bi, Ton still went on to say to Chon that he still liked women and that he had never liked any other men except for Chon. Which basically was to say that Ton was only gay for Chon. WTF. There is no such thing. He was either bi or pan. You can NOT be selectively straight or gay.

Na:

I liked Na. At first, he might have seemed like a bit of an ass, but he redeemed himself completely. He was willing to love Chon openly right from the beginning. Even after everything they put him through, he was still there for Chon and Ton. I always enjoy bi representation. I'm glad Na got his happy ending. He deserved it.

Ai & Ni:

Their characters were almost unnecessary, in my opinion. It was so weird how the camera panned away every time they were going to kiss. As if this series was meant for literal children. Also, what gay person would be okay with living with someone that discriminates against gays all the time? They tried to make homophobia funny, I guess? Ai and Ni also forced both Ton and Chon to come out. I don't think a real gay person would force another gay person to come out.

Miriam:

She served no real purpose other than always having to fix other's idiotic choices. She was also the typical annoying BL fan that seemed to fetishize gay relationships more than actually support them.

Pang:

She was a good friend. I don't have much else to say about her.

Chon's mother:

She was one of the better characters. She was there for Chon no matter what. But she also wasn't unreasonable. She told Chon when he did something wrong, like kissing Ton when he was asleep. She lost me in episode ten, though.

Baipai:

She was okay until she outed Ai and Ni to her homophobic dad and then acted as if she was doing the right thing?

Nueng:

He was disgusting. I don't know why GMM always feels the need to have a character that tries to rape someone and then gets away with it. They hardly even acknowledged it.

Amp:

More trash. The typical jealous ex-girlfriend. Amp was just even more thick-headed than the ones before her. Probably one of the worst characters of all time. All of these ex-girlfriends in BL's make women seem crazy and obsessive. Oh, and she was also homophobic, of course.

Ton's dad:

One of the most homophobic and misogynistic characters ever. All he wanted was grandchildren. He treated his daughter like an object, a thing that only existed to give him an heir. He was completely against Ton and Chon being together until Ton's mom suggested surrogacy. Then all was fine, apparently. Also, it was Ton's dad who chose the surrogacy mother, not Ton nor Chon. They didn't even ask Ton and Chon what they wanted. It didn't matter to them, obviously. He chose Miriam, whom he earlier on disrespected because she had been a call-girl. Miriam clarified that she was still a virgin, which made Ton's dad fine with it. Disrespecting someone because of their work is disgusting. There is nothing wrong with being a call-girl or a prostitute. It's the ones that utilize these services who are in the wrong. But yeah, they didn't even really ask Miriam. They just declared her as the chosen one. In the end, everything was about pleasing Ton's unreasonable dad.

Another thing was the Wifey thing. In a same-sex relationship, there is no such thing as a husband and a wife. That's literally the whole point. There is a husband and a husband or a wife and a wife. Unless someone in the relationship says they want to be referred to as such, it shouldn't be a thing. I don't think I have ever felt so disrespected and disappointed by a BL as a woman and a member of the LGBTQ+ community. A whole other story was how many times Ton took off his shirt. I get uncomfortable when shirts are continuously taken off. It was just unnecessary to sexualize him so much.

God forbid they make another season.
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