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I'm learning that crime-centered plots are hard to write with enough complexity and without losing steam. Despite this story not being original at all, it worked reasonably well right until the end, with the last episode being a total failure on all fronts. Did they completely run out of money and drive or what? The acting was also just good enough for a non-BL (Off, Neo, and Dew probably gave my favorite performances), though it sometimes falls apart (most noticeably with Singha and Tee), and certain heightened emotions didn't convince me, and some supposedly dangerous situations lacked the necessary urgency.

I found out in the middle of my watch-through that this is "just" bromance (I really need to start reading the tags), which is fine because I believe this subgenre can do some things better than straight-up romance. But this show unfortunately only intermittently gave me what I was looking for. Still, I must give everyone their flowers. Kaye looking all pensively at Phat cooking him breakfast, and Phat pulling a gun on Nop, telling him to drive after Nop says Kaye won't make it out of this—that's the shit. Even if I've seen it all before, I'm never going to get sick of such moments.

I think for this to actually work they would've had to commit to a certain degree of tragedy (I believe in you, GMMTV), be it death or separation or, you know, any real danger with lasting consequences. Otherwise the stakes don't work for me, I can't take the relationship seriously, and it takes the enjoyment out of the leads' delectable emotional turmoil. You cannot give the main characters too much of what they want; half the fun is in what they can't have despite desperately wishing for it. And no, Praew's tribulations, the uncle's death, and the short-lived loss of contact at the end don't count because Kaye and Phat weren't seriously distraught for a significant chunk of time.