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What can I even say about Only Friends other than the fact that they absolutely do NOT live up to their title? If only they had stopped at being friends.

What kind of friend group even is this? Are you guys sure you’re friends?

ARGGHH, this drama is one continuous concentration of problems with absolutely NO BREAKS. At least we were spared the usual episode 11 trauma that stays with you for the rest of your life. Because honestly? The entire drama traumatized us instead.

I’m going to start with Mew and Top.

Their relationship actually had a pretty good foundation. I absolutely love the whole “I have a complicated past, but you’re the reason I want to leave it behind” trope. Mew, with his dearly missed little glasses and his adorable teasing, immediately won me over. And Top was just undeniably sexy.

The problem is that once the trust was broken, the way they found their way back to each other didn’t feel natural at all. Their relationship went from being something shared between two people to something much more selfish, where the only goal seemed to be hurting the other person as deeply as possible.

Can cheating be forgiven? This drama definitely gives us a pretty clear answer.

Ever since Mew started wearing those absolutely horrible shirts, his entire existence has revolved around revenge. Meanwhile, Top lives in guilt, and as a result, their dynamic becomes absolutely unbearable. Can you really spend your entire life trying to make up for your mistakes to someone who is no longer open to trusting you again? At some point, Top, have a little self-respect.

What annoys me the most is that until the very end, Mew never really apologizes for all the horrible things he did, even though they were very clearly just as bad, if not worse.

So ultimately, my conclusion is that once trust has been broken, sometimes the healthiest thing to do is simply let each other go. Because here, the only thing pushing these two people back toward each other is a deeply selfish desire to make things work.


Now obviously, I have to talk about Boston. Because for all the asshole behavior this man displayed, his character still has a surprising amount of depth.

Obviously, Boston is deeply selfish. But he’s also the only person in this friend group who gets blamed and rejected for mistakes that everyone else has already made. Cheating? Mew did it too. Exposing your friends publicly? Ray has done that. Being incapable of committing to a relationship? Please, don’t even get me started, I can name at least Mew and Ray.

And yet, Boston is the only one who truly ends up paying for his mistakes. Of course, Nick absolutely broke my heart. Poor baby, it was obvious that he loved Boston deeply. But as he said himself, he couldn’t force him to become someone he simply wasn’t.

Don’t get me wrong, Boston remains incredibly frustrating. But I think that through his character, the show is also trying to explore the impact of loneliness on a person, because at the end of the day, Boston is incredibly alone. He spends his time taking pictures of his hookups, almost as if keeping them at a distance through a camera allows him to preserve them on film while keeping them away from his heart.

And he’s also the only one who doesn’t really get a happy ending. He ends up without friends, in another country, and when he finally opens his heart by sharing that photograph, the timing is simply wrong.

So, in the end, isn’t Boston actually the most human and realistic character of them all? He throws himself into pleasure and distractions so he doesn’t have to think too much about his own existence.

And Nick, my sweet baby, also has a really interesting journey. Obviously, there couldn’t have been a better ending for their relationship. He learned that loving himself is far more important than giving everything he has just to be loved through someone else’s eyes.


And finally, I have to talk about my oxygen.My everything. The only reason I kept watching this show.

Ray and Sand.

Not only do they form a couple that completely takes my breath away, but their characters are incredibly interesting too. Sand introduces us to the theme of money and that endless race that can drown us in a world where everything is measured by what we own.
He also has no father and a very close relationship with his mother. Even though the whole storyline involving his father is somewhat pushed aside, Sand is, above all, a carer. And on top of that, he loves Arctic Monkeys. (PUT A RING ON HIS FINGER.)

As for Ray, even though he was significantly more unbearable, I actually found him to be the more interesting character. He doesn’t believe he deserves love. He has spent his entire life loving things that were always out of his reach, his mother, but also Mew.
He falls into alcoholism, which obviously has everything to do with his past, and spends his time convincing himself that he will eventually end up alone.

The whole storyline where Khao was kissing Book? Honestly, I took that as a personal betrayal.

But beyond all the problems constantly falling on them, this couple was the only reason I felt genuine excitement every time I watched this series. Ray and Sand are actually the complete opposite of selfish. Ray is incapable of moving on and is willing to accept a love that isn’t real. Sand, meanwhile, is incapable of truly opening up about what he feels. In reality, their entire relationship is built on countless misunderstandings.

But for those eye contacts? I would go through it all again as many times as necessary.

Thank you to FirstKhao for the acting and the chemistry because, honestly, they saved the show for me.


Finally, I want to talk about Cheum and April. Because yes. This couple exists. And I have a complaint. I’m tired of GL couples being introduced as extremely secondary relationships in BLs, only for them to contribute absolutely nothing and have storylines flatter than a pancake.
I’m sorry, but there was NO chemistry between this pairing. Even though I initially felt like Cheum had an important place in the story during the first episodes, she gradually faded into the background until she became almost completely unnecessary.


So, in conclusion: I recommend Only Friends if you enjoy problems. Because bon appétit. You will be served. Overall, this show disappointed me quite a lot because absolutely none of these characters were particularly healthy. In a way, it’s refreshing to see human characters with flaws and complicated pasts.
But here? It was too much.
Especially when Boeing suddenly appeared out of nowhere. At that point, I genuinely started wondering if this show ever planned on taking a break from creating problems.

I also don’t think this was ForceBook’s best performance. Or maybe their characters were simply too unbearable for me to care.

However, I did learn several things from this series, and I invite you all to apply them to your daily lives.
Thank you for the catharsis.

-> Forgiving cheating is probably a bad idea.

->You do NOT touch your friends’ exes or boyfriends. That's Illegal.

->A one-night stand has a relatively low chance of becoming the love of your life.

->Watch out for your friends, especially if those little demons are willing to publicly expose your mistakes.

->Get yourself a rich boyfriend. It can apparently get you out of poverty surprisingly quickly.

->If someone tells you that you are Only Friends, maybe don’t go looking for anything beyond the friendzone.

Thank you, SandRay. To everyone else, I appreciate your participation. But honestly? I could have done without it.