It turned out it's on iQiyi, too! BUT SHUT UP!!! I can't read your reviews now, too emotional. Need a drink, two…
Pete gets hit by the Yao energy in the old guy’s room and crumples, and who reaches down to lift him up?? NIRAN. Then later Niran goes down and PETE is the one offering the hand. Hello?? The mirroring?? I’m not okay 🥹
To catch the premiere of WU, I jumped through the whole VPN routine. Bit of a hassle, but the second the credits rolled on episode one, the headache was worth every click.
What got me first was Sea’s possession scene. Practical makeup and digital effects twist his usually clean, handsome face into something stuck between human and monster. The textures, the sense of being eaten away from the inside, skin tugged in directions it really shouldn’t go, are eerily convincing. This isn’t horror makeup for cheap jump scares. You can almost feel it on your own skin, terrifying and weirdly seductive at the same time. By the time the scene ended, I already knew this show means business visually.
Sky’s Niran reads cool on the surface with something restless humming underneath. His eyes are always working, keeping you at arm’s length. The chanting sequence is what really stuck with me. A few Chinese words drift up out of the incantation, and yeah, the accent is there, but it doesn’t crack the mood one bit. He’s got that boyish face too, the look of a kid carrying way more than he should have to. Honestly, perfect casting.
Then there’s Pete, played by Nani. The moment the gunshot shatters the gourd is basically the moment he steps straight into his fate. He holds the gun like he means it, the line from shoulder to muzzle falling beautifully into place. Sharp enough for action, but with that flicker of reckless kid energy that just works. Pete is the one haunted by fragments of a demon’s soul, the unlucky guy who can sense Yao energy when it turns destructive, and Nani’s presence lands exactly where it needs to. He sells the contradiction of someone tied to fate who keeps walking toward danger anyway.
From episode one alone, the casting is a win. Almost every actor carries both their role and their personality at once. On the editing side, somewhere around the middle of the first half there’s a quick flashback, dense with information but maybe a beat too short. You get yanked out just as you’re starting to sink in. Still, that slightly choppy rhythm feeds the show’s trailer-like urgency, and it leaves me even more curious about how they’re going to unspool the timeline.
As for Yao, if I’m reading it right, it’s some kind of anomalous energy or spirit that eats life force and slips quietly into the mind. From a Chinese-speaking perspective, it’s almost impossible not to connect it to the whole 妖 family: 妖氣, 妖怪, 妖仙. Seductive and dangerous, brushing close to human life without ever fully belonging to it. There’s another layer too. 人妖 in Chinese maps onto the Thai katoey, a word that’s folded into the broader queer gender spectrum in contemporary use. The Yao here isn’t pointing at gender directly, at least not yet, but it still calls up that idea of in-between beings. Human and not quite human, normal and not quite normal, all mixed up at once. Which, honestly, fits the vibe of the show itself: dark, ambiguous, full of blurred lines.
after hearing in 1st ep last week that the successful perfume from the company was extracted from human fragrance…
Haha I actually brought up Perfume in my post last week! But honestly I don’t think a Thai BL would go that dark. Would be wild if they did though 👀
Okay, I’m just going to say it. The real star of this episode was Tawan, and I spent way too much time staring at his muscles like that was somehow a normal, productive use of my morning.
No regrets, honestly.
That said, this episode also made one thing painfully clear: men will lie straight to your face and act like they’re doing you a favor.
Scent, I see you. You are way too slick for your own good, and I already know this is going to end in a complete disaster for you. The kind where you think you’re in control right up until everything blows up in your face.
This episode was pretty packed. We got more of the story behind how Gaysorn’s mom was tricked into going down the mountain, and it’s looking more and more like Sun already knows exactly what’s going on with the Mudan tribe. The preview makes him look like he could be some kind of researcher, or at least someone who knows a lot more than he’s saying.
What I really want to know is how they were extracting the Mudan tribe’s scent 20 years ago.
Because that is the part that feels genuinely shady.
Episode 8 is pretty light on plot. It mostly exists to push Solar toward finally looking for the father who abandoned him. But that’s not what stayed with me. It’s the way the episode quietly places Solar’s condition next to Pobmek finally cracking.
I’ve never had to take care of someone with dementia or a long-term illness. Still, when Pobmek broke down, I cried with him. The line that got me was, “I’m so tired… but the moment I say it out loud, I feel even more guilty.”
That kind of exhaustion isn’t just physical. You love someone enough to want to keep going no matter what, but at the same time you’re worn down in ways you don’t even know how to admit. And the moment you do admit it, the guilt hits. You start questioning yourself. If I really loved you, shouldn’t I be able to do this without complaining?
That’s why the scene where Sodchuen and Jee comfort Pobmek stayed with me. They don’t try to fix anything. They just sit with him and let him feel what he’s feeling. In their own quiet way, they tell him he didn’t do anything wrong.
A lot of BL dramas focus on how love begins. Even when they move past that stage, it’s usually through a third person, like in I Told Sunset About You Part 2. But this episode goes somewhere else. What if the problem isn’t another person? What if it’s illness? What if the person you love slowly becomes someone you have to take care of?
There’s no real answer here. The episode just lets Pobmek sit with that, and lets us sit there with him.
Then there’s Solar. Santa really surprised me in this episode. He plays Solar as someone trying very hard to seem okay, and you can feel that control slipping little by little before the panic attack even happens. It’s not loud. It feels tight, almost suffocating.
The scene where Sun takes everyone to the beach is the one that stayed with me the most. The longer it goes on, the heavier it feels. It made me think about how much loneliness Solar has been carrying, how much of his life he’s had to face on his own. On the surface, the scene feels warm. But underneath, it’s not really about the beach. It feels more like Sun creating a small, temporary space where Solar can exist in something lighter than his reality.
Perth’s portrayal of Pobmek is deeply moving, but this time it was Santa who left the stronger impression on me. He holds so much back, and that’s what makes it feel real. I think he’s going to go far.
After seven relatively steady episodes, I wasn’t expecting something this heavy. It caught me off guard.
Boston and Nick’s reunion is the emotional gut-punch of the episode. But the punches that actually had me yelling “HELL YEAH” at my screen like a maniac? Those came from Rome.
“If it’s going to fall apart, let it fall apart by itself. Don’t drag others down with you.”
POW. POW. Rome calling Jack out felt SO good. Someone hand this man a microphone and a medal.
In EP.3, Nakhun visits a temple with Phop and Lady Prayong. A commotion breaks out around a fortune teller, and Nakhun gets excited and tries to push his way toward her because he can sense she knows something about his situation. In the chaos, as she runs off, she drops a stone.
“If there really is a next life, I wish you would be the one to like me first… and when that time comes, I won’t even glance at you… not even a little.”
Half wish, half threat, ALL heartbreak.
Net as Phop is UNFAIR. The wet scenes, sure, but it’s the stares and the nursing moments that got me. That quiet, careful tenderness when he thinks no one’s watching.
And he’s such a GENTLEMAN. Covering him before wiping him down? Period BL hits different. The manners, the restraint, the careful hands.
Also, that stone from EP.3 is BACK. I knew it wasn’t a throwaway. Past life clue? Reincarnation tether? Something is cooking.
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What got me first was Sea’s possession scene. Practical makeup and digital effects twist his usually clean, handsome face into something stuck between human and monster. The textures, the sense of being eaten away from the inside, skin tugged in directions it really shouldn’t go, are eerily convincing. This isn’t horror makeup for cheap jump scares. You can almost feel it on your own skin, terrifying and weirdly seductive at the same time. By the time the scene ended, I already knew this show means business visually.
Sky’s Niran reads cool on the surface with something restless humming underneath. His eyes are always working, keeping you at arm’s length. The chanting sequence is what really stuck with me. A few Chinese words drift up out of the incantation, and yeah, the accent is there, but it doesn’t crack the mood one bit. He’s got that boyish face too, the look of a kid carrying way more than he should have to. Honestly, perfect casting.
Then there’s Pete, played by Nani. The moment the gunshot shatters the gourd is basically the moment he steps straight into his fate. He holds the gun like he means it, the line from shoulder to muzzle falling beautifully into place. Sharp enough for action, but with that flicker of reckless kid energy that just works. Pete is the one haunted by fragments of a demon’s soul, the unlucky guy who can sense Yao energy when it turns destructive, and Nani’s presence lands exactly where it needs to. He sells the contradiction of someone tied to fate who keeps walking toward danger anyway.
From episode one alone, the casting is a win. Almost every actor carries both their role and their personality at once. On the editing side, somewhere around the middle of the first half there’s a quick flashback, dense with information but maybe a beat too short. You get yanked out just as you’re starting to sink in. Still, that slightly choppy rhythm feeds the show’s trailer-like urgency, and it leaves me even more curious about how they’re going to unspool the timeline.
As for Yao, if I’m reading it right, it’s some kind of anomalous energy or spirit that eats life force and slips quietly into the mind. From a Chinese-speaking perspective, it’s almost impossible not to connect it to the whole 妖 family: 妖氣, 妖怪, 妖仙. Seductive and dangerous, brushing close to human life without ever fully belonging to it. There’s another layer too. 人妖 in Chinese maps onto the Thai katoey, a word that’s folded into the broader queer gender spectrum in contemporary use. The Yao here isn’t pointing at gender directly, at least not yet, but it still calls up that idea of in-between beings. Human and not quite human, normal and not quite normal, all mixed up at once. Which, honestly, fits the vibe of the show itself: dark, ambiguous, full of blurred lines.
No regrets, honestly.
That said, this episode also made one thing painfully clear: men will lie straight to your face and act like they’re doing you a favor.
Scent, I see you. You are way too slick for your own good, and I already know this is going to end in a complete disaster for you. The kind where you think you’re in control right up until everything blows up in your face.
This episode was pretty packed. We got more of the story behind how Gaysorn’s mom was tricked into going down the mountain, and it’s looking more and more like Sun already knows exactly what’s going on with the Mudan tribe. The preview makes him look like he could be some kind of researcher, or at least someone who knows a lot more than he’s saying.
What I really want to know is how they were extracting the Mudan tribe’s scent 20 years ago.
Because that is the part that feels genuinely shady.
I’ve never had to take care of someone with dementia or a long-term illness. Still, when Pobmek broke down, I cried with him. The line that got me was, “I’m so tired… but the moment I say it out loud, I feel even more guilty.”
That kind of exhaustion isn’t just physical. You love someone enough to want to keep going no matter what, but at the same time you’re worn down in ways you don’t even know how to admit. And the moment you do admit it, the guilt hits. You start questioning yourself. If I really loved you, shouldn’t I be able to do this without complaining?
That’s why the scene where Sodchuen and Jee comfort Pobmek stayed with me. They don’t try to fix anything. They just sit with him and let him feel what he’s feeling. In their own quiet way, they tell him he didn’t do anything wrong.
A lot of BL dramas focus on how love begins. Even when they move past that stage, it’s usually through a third person, like in I Told Sunset About You Part 2. But this episode goes somewhere else. What if the problem isn’t another person? What if it’s illness? What if the person you love slowly becomes someone you have to take care of?
There’s no real answer here. The episode just lets Pobmek sit with that, and lets us sit there with him.
Then there’s Solar. Santa really surprised me in this episode. He plays Solar as someone trying very hard to seem okay, and you can feel that control slipping little by little before the panic attack even happens. It’s not loud. It feels tight, almost suffocating.
The scene where Sun takes everyone to the beach is the one that stayed with me the most. The longer it goes on, the heavier it feels. It made me think about how much loneliness Solar has been carrying, how much of his life he’s had to face on his own. On the surface, the scene feels warm. But underneath, it’s not really about the beach. It feels more like Sun creating a small, temporary space where Solar can exist in something lighter than his reality.
Perth’s portrayal of Pobmek is deeply moving, but this time it was Santa who left the stronger impression on me. He holds so much back, and that’s what makes it feel real. I think he’s going to go far.
After seven relatively steady episodes, I wasn’t expecting something this heavy. It caught me off guard.
And Singto calling him dad?? Actual heart attack. That storyline is sneaking up on me in the most heartfelt way.
“If it’s going to fall apart, let it fall apart by itself. Don’t drag others down with you.”
POW. POW. Rome calling Jack out felt SO good. Someone hand this man a microphone and a medal.
“P’Jom, I only have you… only you.”
In the same episode as this:
“If there really is a next life, I wish you would be the one to like me first… and when that time comes, I won’t even glance at you… not even a little.”
Half wish, half threat, ALL heartbreak.
Net as Phop is UNFAIR. The wet scenes, sure, but it’s the stares and the nursing moments that got me. That quiet, careful tenderness when he thinks no one’s watching.
And he’s such a GENTLEMAN. Covering him before wiping him down? Period BL hits different. The manners, the restraint, the careful hands.
Also, that stone from EP.3 is BACK. I knew it wasn’t a throwaway. Past life clue? Reincarnation tether? Something is cooking.
Onto Ep.7. Please be gentle. 🥺