BLISS RATING: ★+
“There is no greater glory than love, nor greater punishment than jealousy.” – Brainy Quote
Ashamedly, I had nearly completely forgotten that I had watched this series. I was going through my notes and realized that I had not yet written a review on this series. As easily as I had watched this, is as easily as I had forgotten it. I had to literally flash forward through some of the episodes to recall the details. It certainly was not very memorable and that is sad; and a bit emblematic of the state of BLs, especially Thai ones of late. There are so many of them with many so forgettable.
Nonetheless, this is a meandering story that certainly had potential but simply did not trust either its story or its actors to pull it off. It began uniquely by having its protagonists become an ‘item’ almost instantly – almost like a dare. That was cute and somewhat unique. Ana (BigBoom Sahguansin) is a dental student who works at his father’s dental clinic and in walks an engineering student named Fuse (Boom Chanchaisombat) with whom he has had a crush on for a long time. With some rather tongue-in-cheek dialogue and humor, they begin to develop a relationship.
Very soon afterwards, this relationship splinters and teeters on the edge. We see how this relationship ebbs and flows like this for some time with a lot of whining and pretend crying and making up. Their friends are seemingly more there as an excuse to drink. All of it seemed a bit silly to me and a bit pointless. I am not sure the actors knew where the story was going either.
Who really S.T.O.L.E. this series? This series never takes itself seriously enough for someone to shine in. It was more like prose reading for a high school play. Not necessarily the fault of the actors, but the direction and the screenplay as it looks like something was just thrown together. BigBom and Boom did make efforts but seemed to have been given little direction on where the story was going.
It started out well and interesting, and the last scene with the parents watching them kiss was quite amusing, but everything in between was pretty much forgettable. A word of advice here: when you mess up the basics, then you know you know you are in trouble. If a scene calls for someone to cry and no tears are evident and are merely faking it, that is a sure sign of inattentive direction and or lazy production. Push your performers to do better. Not only for themselves but for the series itself.
The only spark to this drab series is when the two sets of parents get together and realize that their sons are who they are, and they are going to be together no matter how much the parents might want to huff and puff their way out of this.
From a production standpoint, this series falls completely flat. Much of the dialogue is just plain amateurish and came across as if it was not even rehearsed. The sound in several parts was uneven and faded in and out. For the most part, the performers were unchallenged, and it seemed like the performers were told to act drunk even if they were not drunk or drinking.
I am sure they wanted to forget making this series as much as those of us who watched it forgot it.
Now what was I saying?
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