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Until We Meet Again thai drama review
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Until We Meet Again
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by Aii
Nov 24, 2023
17 of 17 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 10.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
This review may contain spoilers

I definitely understand now, why UMWA is so polarizing.

What I liked:
+ I'm a sucker for deep stories around mental health, trauma, reincarnation, soulmates etc., so the tragedy got me instantly interested.
+ The couples are adorable!
+ Manaow! She's so funny. Del and Don are also hilarious and entertaining! The whole friend group is just so enjoyable, supportive and refreshing.
+ Seeing the general support they get from different people.
+ Dean and Win admiring Pharm and Team together. I love when the best friends admiring their boyfriends together. u.u (sideeye to Boss and Pai c.c)
+ I feel like the screentime between Korn x Intouch and Dean x Pharm was well balanced. We see enough from Korn x Intouch to understand their story, but not too much to get bored.
+ The OST. The OST is everything!!!
+ The loud noise trigger were well done, because they are also a surprise for the watching person.
+ Win. His hair - especially when it's not tied together (tied up? Open? Idk, lmao. English isn't my first language so I don't know how to say it right :'D). His tattoos. His piercings. His attitude. His personality. I always say I need support characters like him in a lead role, because I just loooove guys like him. This flirty, cheeky behavior is so hot. T_T his facial expressions are so... entertaining. :D it's refreshing to see someone using his face, because Dean is more often Mr. Stoneface and Pharm looks overwhelmed most of the time. :'D and Boun really transports a lot of emotions and thoughts through his face!
+ How the flashbacks formed Pharm and Dean. You can see exactly why they behave in a certain way. Pharm is traumatized by all those sad flashbacks, because Intouch lost Korn right in front of his eyes. Dean gets all the sweet and lovely flashbackmoments, because he wasn't forced to see how the love of his life shot himself. Pharm is way more cautious. He needs to protect himself, because he's scared to feel the pain of losing his love again. ("Again", because he feels Intouchs emotions. Someone mentioned they wouldn't say UWMA is about reincarnation, because Dean and Pharm state multiple times that they are not Korn and Intouch. Just to be clear here.) While Dean is determined to pursue and protect Pharm. Something Korn couldn't do for Intouch.
+ P'Deaaaaan. Yes. I actually enjoyed this.
+ The crying. When I first read about the crying I expected something absolutely different than what I finally saw. They shed some tears after the flashbacks. They all have a reason to cry. No one is crying like a wholing Wulf all the time. So I definitely expected worse and was surprised, how beautiful Flukes crying is. x) Although Ohm's acting lacks a bit in this area. - And for the people who are saying that Korn's reason to shot himself is non-existent -> Duh?! Did you even pay attention? He has the pressure from his dad, who threatened him to hurt Intouch (he literally said Intouch is in trouble if Korn doesn't break up), the pressure from Intouch's Dad, the responsibility for his siblings, because he doesn't want them to get involved with the illegal business and on top he thinks he isn't good enough for Intouch and the reason In lost his smile plus pretty sure depressions because of all this. In...what age? 21? Yeah, bro, no, don't tell me Korn didn't have a reason for his actions.
+ The sweet little moments between Pharm and Dean. You can clearly see how much Dean loves and admires Pharm. Sometimes you can see this from Pharm too. Surprisingly a lot of kisses in the show. They are all more or less sweet and good. Imho there was no bad kiss, given that Pharm is always shy, overwhelmed and laughing, because he's embarrassed. I just realized in episode 15 that Dean uses his sweet, soft, calm voice to talk to Pharm. :')

What I didn't like:
- At first I enjoyed the slow pacing. The pining, the admiration, the glances for each other, siiigh. It was so cute. But I recognized that my concentration dropped after episode 6 and it was hard to go through the episodes, because I got easily distracted. But this could be, because I knew about the plot already, so maybe I wasn't determined to watch it, because I already knew what would happen. I think, that's my own fault, so I can't really blame it on the drama though.
- Pharm and this stereotypically "the bottom isn't allowed to want intimacy"-trope from 1837. I am really glad that there are more and more BL dramas nowadays which break out from this sh*t, because it's so outdated. I love top/bottom dynamics, but I don't like it, when the smaller/softer character is portrayed as if he doesn't want intimacy at all and it's often uncomfortable and so so child-like. It's not as bad as it may sounds, but you can clearly see that Pharm isn't really comfortable sometimes and I think it doesn't fit here, because there is almost no progress, he's so uneasy all the time.. I'm totally okay with characters, who needs time to get comfortable, but seeing almost no progress is frustrating. And that Dean alone decides when they have sex for the first time is just a nother thing about this trope that I doesn't like.(Here is a Tumblr post I found really interesting to this topic: https://www.tumblr.com/absolutebl/644962898104467456/hey-i-have-a-question-for-your-dean-and-pharm )
- I don't know if Between Us was already settled when they made UWMA, but Win x Team doesn't make a lot of sense here, because we see absolutely no development of the story. We just see the result, kinda. There aren't on screen and than after episode 10 (I don't remember which one exactly, maybe 12?) they suddenly appear and you just ask yourself "What? Why? How did this happen?" :'D but yeah, since there is Between Us, I don't know if this is really a big deal. But knowing that BU came out 3 years later... People who watched the show in real time must feel like someone was kidding them, lmao. Because I can't remember seeing a side couple getting such a weak storyline.
- Little flaws in the production/editing. The sound was sometimes soo crispy. And little mistakes like food, that looks different in the next cut, Wins hair which changes all the time between black roots and no roots etc. etc. :'))
- The product placement was just..too much and too bad placed. x)
- Del ending up with Alex is just weird and nonsense and Manaow & Pruek are also just rushed. Felt like everyone needs fast a relationship at the and. Buuut they are cute, I have to admit. :')

Overall I can agree with a lot of things other people stated already. It definitely has it flaws. The pacing, the acting sometimes, Pharm being overly shy all the time and just laughs it off.. I don't want to repeat so much. ^^' But I enjoyed a lot of this show and I love all the little details and conclusions.

I would recommend to everyone to give it a try by yourself, if you're interested. The first few episodes stole my heart. The OST just supported this fact - The first episode, first scene, first song, I knew I lost my heart to this show. I recognized myself laughing out loud so many times. I sat in front of my tablet with a smile from ear to ear, because the story was so heartwarming. And I am absolutely not into slow pace usually. ^^' so if you think about watching it, just try it. Fortunately we all can drop shows if we don't enjoy it.

I would rate it with an 8 out of 10, because I don't like this stereotypically bottom-doesnt-want-intimacy-most-of-the-time writing and because the pacing was sometimes just too slow. I think I like slow pacing to a certain amount, but UWMA just pushed it a bit too far.
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