2gether: A Série (2020)

Enjoyable watch : The typical Youthful Love set in the university but in a music club

The series started of with Tine's perspective on how he'll meet 'the one' in his life due to the failed relationships he had with his exes. The series also mostly focuses on Tine's perspective on how he develops as well as realizes his true feelings for Sarawat.

I've watched a lot of university setting dramas and I'm definitely glad that this one starts off with the music club in which "music" will be the theme on how Tine and Sarawat will develop their relationship instead of another engineer themed relationship. Although the setting is the common university theme, props to the director or producer for giving it a bit of a twist.

What I like about the series is how Tine and Sarawat had the time to got to know more of each other that's why I love how we got to see the progress of their relationship (their cute, sweet and funny moments) rather than making them have a fast paced relationship in which they kiss and have steamy scenes etc. While I don't have anything against hot and steamy relationships, it's actually refreshing to see slow burn relationships. 2gether the series kind off gives me the vibes or atmosphere of Dark blue kiss and Sotus in which the main couple don't have to rely on hot and steamy moments just to catch the attention of the viewers / audience because their chemistry and adorable moments are just enough.

Another thing that I like about the series are the Soundtracks.. It fits the series and I love how we get to listen to different songs from the indie Thai band, Scrubb. After listening to some of the OST, I fell in love with the band, Scrubb. Furthermore, The songs used had meaningful lyrics which are really relatable if you have the time to read the English translations of the songs and it also expresses how the characters in the series portray what they were feeling. I actually never expected myself to love Thai indie songs. Trust me, if you listen to some of the Sountracks used in the series, you'll love it if you're a fan of that genre in music... :)

As for the acting and the production, there are Pros and Cons that I've noticed. For the acting, it's actually mediocre for me. There were times where you can see the siffness or awkwardness of the scenes. I cannot really praise the acting 100 percent because of this. Although, we can see the chemistry of Bright and Win, the acting is a little bit lacking. Especially, their facial expressions and bodily expressions. There were times in which it was monotonous or just simply plain. However, props for the actors for still doing a good job in portraying their characters. As for the production, it's also average for me because there times where I felt like the transitions, editing and camera angles did not fit some of the scenes in the series.

For the plot and character development, the pacing of the story is good as well as for the character development of Tine and Sarawat. What bothered me though are the inconsitency of some of the characters and some of the scenes. In addition to that, the last episodes didn't really give much justification for the beginning of the series. The ending will may or may not give you a dry or disappointing feeling (it entirely depends on the viewers peprspective) but yeah.. It was a bit boring or uninteresting for me. Although, the characters have a happy ending. The last episodes were just Mehhhhh...

Lastly, I don't really get why Thai BL dramas are fond of multiple couples in a single show. I'd prefer if they actually cut back on those like there is only one couple (For example : A tale of thousand stars) so that our attention are only focused on them and the plot revolves around that single couple. If not a single couple in the story, two couples would be enough. The disadvantage with multiple couples in a series is that the side couples don't really get to have much screen time and development which will give the series scattered side plots... Sometimes, we need a series that don't rely on sidecouples or multiple couples just to sustain or catch the attention of the viewers or the audience. Though it can be advantageous to some series, sometimes it's not and it can be repetetive if this theme is overly used.

In conlusion, if you're looking for a light, funny and sweet BL thai series with just a bit of angst plus the usual or typical university themed show, you might as well try watching this series. It's average and there are scenes you may or may not like depending on your perspective... Other than that, Enjoy watching.. :)

P.S. I get that some are hating on this series but please don't.. if you're not interested, just don't watch it and stop spreading hate for this series.. :)

Leia Mais

This series is a very typical BL project made in Thailand. It doesn't reach the heights, but it can be followed with a little willpower, especially from the beginning. The acting, the music, and the processing are not zero here. Yes, it can be annoying "faculty students again" and their fates, but apparently Thais (and especially Thai women) like it that way. The central pair consists of two very handsome actors, unfortunately they have to play as the characters, especially Tina, are written. We see several actors here that we can also see in other similar series (eg Fong and the Mang-Type duo in the better series for me, Tonhon Chonlatee, etc.).

An ordinary uninformed viewer may think after watching the series that colleges in Thailand are full of gays (when the relationships between friends are gradually revealed, even their brothers are into boys, leaders of groups, etc.) and they are further divided into two groups: "twisted " and friends "who don't know it yet" (ha ha) and these groups are abundantly sung and beaten by hordes of ugly Thai college girls of Lilliputian height with braces and often glasses, which would playfully trump our seventh and eighth graders of three elementary schools (about two exceptions beautiful Thai women would be found in the series, however, I suspect the creators if this is not directly the intention). Even in the last episode, the story didn't really convince me, when Tine is wondering if she should still trust Sarawat, while Sarawat hasn't really done anything. That's why the series can't get more than 5 points from me for the story...


Tento seriál je velmi typickým BL projektem made in Thailand. Nesahá sice do výšin, ale sledovat se to s trochou vůle hlavně zezačátku dá. Nulové zde totiž nejsou ani herecké výkony, hudba, ani zpracování. Ano, může to být už třeba otravné "zase studenti fakult" a jejich osudy, ale zřejmě to tak Thajci (a hlavně Thajky) mají rádi. Ústřední dvojici tvoří dva velmi pohlední herci, bohužel musí hrát tak, jak jsou postavy, především Tina, napsány. Vidíme zde několik herců, které můžeme zhlédnout i v jiných podobných seriálech (např. Fong a duo Mang-Type v pro mě lepším seriálu Tonhon Chonlatee atd.).

Běžný neinformovaný divák si může po zhlédnutí seriálu myslet, že vysoké školy v Thajsku jsou plné gayů (kdy se postupně odkrývají vztahy mezi kamarády, dokonce i jejich bráchové jsou na kluky, vedoucí skupiny atd.) a ještě se rozdělují na dvě skupiny: "vykroucené" a kamarády, "kteří to ještě neví" (ha ha) a tyto skupiny jsou hojně opěvovány a odbivovány houfy nepěkných thajských vysokoškolaček liliputího vzrůstu s rovnátky a mnohdy brýlemi, které by hravě trumfly naše žákyně sedmých a osmých třích základních škol (asi dvě výjimky krásných Thajek by se v seriálu našly, nicméně tvůrce podezřívám, zda to není přímo záměr). Ani v posledním dílu mě příběh moc nepřesvědčil, kdy Tine se rozmýšlí, jestli má stále věřit Sarawatovi, přičemž Sarawat vlastně ani nic neprovedl. Seriál proto ode mě nemůže získat za příběh proto více jak 5 bodů ...

Leia Mais

overall good but issues with ending

Nonspoilers:
I want to start off by saying in general I did like the show because to me it was a light, casual watch that both relaxed me and made me laugh from time to time. It was easy to immerse myself in and I was genuinely intrigued to see what all the twists would be and where certain character arcs would go. I wasn't particularly emotionally attached to the main couple, but I mostly rooted for them throughout the show, and there were some nice emotional scenes. However, I am relieved to see others agreeing that there is a somewhat "lack" of something deeper in their connection? I don't mean the complaints of lack of intimacy or sexual attraction, a couple is way more than that, but I mean as time goes on you can tell these two are not on the same page. I know a lot of dramas obviously have the characters run into the same problems but with this one it felt kinda useless because Sarawat tries his damned hardest to be a good boyfriend (and he is) but Tine's personal issues of jealousy gets in the way. Also, the side couples... geez. I do not support.

I do not mean to be too harsh on this show because it's still enjoyable and I mean I'm here for the ride and experience but it’s all the stuff at the end that makes it fall short. The ending felt rushed and unsatisfying.

Character specific spoilers, you can still read because I don't talk about plot things but if you don't want to know about the side characters' deal yet, I wouldn't read:

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Phukong and Man need to chase different people, they deserve so much better. Mil flip flops who he is interested in and he just doesn't make sense. He has potential to be a decent person but he does NOT have his priorities straight. And I straight up hate Type. Worst boy. Such an ass to Man and Sarawat.
We stan Fong for being the smartest one here.

Leia Mais

Cute serie, but more of a platonic looking couple.

Positive:
I found this serie very adorable, I enjoyed watching it and will continue watching Still 2gether and 2gether the movie ♡

I found the story enjoyable and would always be excited to watch the next episode, to me their relationship is adorable. The whole build up to the start of their relationship was quite a rollercoaster, but even though rollercoasters can be scary they are so much fun. Haha what I'm trying to say is that even with all the drama and craziness going on, it was worth the start of their love. Straight up had me giggling in bed...I would definitely rewatch this!

Negative:
Even though their relationship is adorable to me, like others say it's kind of more on the brotherly side, there were scenes indicating their romantic relationship but most of the scenes give off a more platonic type of relationship, lack of cuddles, verbal compliments to one another, etc. The usual relationshipy kind of stuff. Other than that I personally think it was a great series.

As for the side couples they were a bit eh, I didn't really know what to feel about them...Especially Mil and Phukong, I didn't really enjoy their couple, they didn't have that click that others may have. Man and Type were okay. I mostly just dismissed their couple though.

Leia Mais

I liked it but ..

so I've mixed opinions about this. I watched it while it was still airing & this was technically my first ever "bl". I remember how I binged the first 6 episodes in one sitting & the whole genre was a whole new experience for me which I enjoyed a lot. It did make the early quarantine days a bit bearable for me. I also remember thinking that I made a mistake by watching it too soon before the whole series was over cos I didn't wanna suffer every week for new episodes... yeah that's how much I loved it. But then once I started watching it every week my excitement for the series kept going down too. This series suffer from a very bad case of second half. The first half was so good which raised my expectations but it went a bit downhill as the show progressed imo. I still enjoyed the series as a whole but I admit that it did got a bit messy in the second half.
My overall rating for the series is 7 now but it used to be 8 a year ago. At that time I rated it on the basis of how much I enjoyed the first half but now that I look back I realise the second half did ruin the series for me . There's no doubt it's a fun series & I'm sure majority will have a good time watching it but I still feel the second half could've been so much better

Leia Mais

Super recomendada.

Cuando hablamos del mejor bl estamos hablando de 2gether, definitivamente la serie que le dio la fama a los talentosos Bright y Win. Si estás viendo las reseñas para pensar si verla, te la recomiendo de corazón. La musica, la historia, los actores 100/100. Espectacular, las vibras de BrightWin (Sarawat y Tine) son unicas y la quimica que tienen como pareja es lo mejor. Actualmente 2gether se lanzó al aire hace 3 años y los protagonistas siguen juntos. Tampoco nos olvidemos de las parejas secundarias Man y Type, son un amor y dan su toque al drama, seguido de Phukong y Mil con una relación un tanto peculiar pero bastante tierna.

Espero les guste.

Leia Mais

They do belong together!

Watched when debuted in 2020. Finally getting my review in as I've re-watched this five times now!

This is a good one. Romantic Comedy genre
I believe as I was smiling a lot with the cheese factor and predictability.
There isn't any real conflict, drama, or exes busting in.

I was happy to see so many recognizable faces in this cast! To me it was star studded.
Bright (Sarawat) and Win (Tine) are handsome and talented.
Gun (Green) and Guy (Dim) made me laugh a lot!
Gunsmile (Boss) and Mike (Man) always add such comedy and sweetness to shows.
I can go on and on...I mean Khaotung, TopTap, Drake, Frank, JJ, etc..

Yes it is a trope filled of things that has been used many times before but this was refreshing. The music is great. I have Scrubb all over my playlists on Spotify.

Leia Mais

It's really suitable for audience for the first time watching bl drama

For everyone who want to see a BL drama, you could start with this drama. The scene has focus on their relationship and don't have much skinship like another drama. No bed scene :)

I kindly really loved this simply thing in this drama. BUT, simple doesn't mean it don't have any powerful scene. It's to simply! Too much guitar lesson part or something like that (about music ofc). Sometimes the cute scenes being bear or seem unfinished. I love the cliche idea love at the first time, Sarawat fell in love at Tine from Scrubb concert, but I don't get the sense how Sarawat struggle with his introvert side to confess his feeling or act he want to know that he had crush with Tine. Tine is really straighforward so I guess he will get weird act of Sarawat to show his feeling to him more reliable rather than story in this drama. Sarawat's personality really suit with Bright but at some scene I think Bright doesn't good there. On the other side, I love Metawin acting here! He could plays Tine really great!!

Leia Mais

A lot of defaults, quite entertaining in its first half then fizzling out

This BL thai story is quite a classical one: university background, two students part of the music club and falling in love with a fake relationship trope. On one side, we have Mr. Airheaded and on the other side we have Mr. Grumpy. One of the male lead is kind of dumb but in a somewhat endearing way while the other has kind of a creepy look and seem always upset.

It is somewhat stereotypical but it is also quite funny and I enjoyed the first half of the series more that the second half which felt a bit like a let down once the relationship settles. Of course, it is really not deep and you cannot take anything seriously. At least from my perspective, it was enjoyable for what it was but the stakes of the scenario were really never high enough for me to feel invested and really care.

Acting-wise, it was really not good. I might be biased, but Khaotung was the saving grace of the show...It is regrettable he just had a very minor role in the series. Sadly, the two main male leads were not that convincing together. They shared some cute and overall very platonic scenes but for me it was more akin to a bromance than a romance. Still, the main couple was the one I preferred with some of the jealousy as well as bromance aspects. Unfortunately, I did not care at all for the two secondary couples: chemistry was lacking as well as storytelling.

Production-wise, I am pretty disappointed by the musical side of the drama. It has been done much better in other more recent BL Thai drama (such as in Cutie Pie or in My School President ) and I was not subjugated by the singing of Bright (contrarly to what Nunew or even Fourth have shown in their respective series). Bright's character did not feel at all like the "genius" musician/singer he was labelled as during the full duration of the show. In addition to these issues, the editing between episodes and also even sometimes between scenes is quite jaring and the soundtrack is often misplaced, breaking the flow of the scenes.

I would not recommend this to people as I feel there are much better BL stories out there ,featuring more convincing musical sequences as well as better chemistry/acting. Despite its numerous defaults, I cannot say that it was not entertaining so you might want to give it a shot if you are looking for something very light and fluffy and do not mind some editing issue as well as some poor acting and storylines.

Leia Mais

Why so hyped?

Okay!!! I finally watched it and will write my honest review on this series. Me as an amateur Thai BL series watcher, I don't understand the hype about this drama. Maybe because I watched other BLs series such as "I told sunset about you", "Kinn Porsche", " Bad buddy" "The Untamed" or"A tale of 1000 stars" before I watched this series and therefore it has set high standards for me.

The worst thing for me about this series was the story and the chemistry between leads. I mean okay there was shortage of romantic chemistry between the leads here but even though if it was aiming to establish itself as a partial BL and bromance series, It failed terribly. I am not saying that there needs to be more intimate scene ,to make a series better. I always look for the narration and the acting. I mean let's take an example of the chinese series " The Untamed" or "Advance bravely" . These shows made me feel all the sizzling chemistry of the characters in every scenes that have left an imprint in my mind forever.

Also, the idea of the story seems to be intresting and would have been great if done with good execution and acting. They could have been given a better development of the story for the side couple. I also felt a bit of the plot to be slightly homophobic in the story at its initial episodes when Green was portrayed as an annoying character and Tine avoided him. Also the double standards of Tine being annoyed by Green pursuing him , by constantly following him and trying out different tricks and Tine doing the same thing with Sarawat. I mean even though it was supposed to be fake ... I have left no words to say. Just why???

Talking about the leads Both Bright and Win are good actors (considering the other projects) but the visuals and acting here did not aid to make the audience feel the emotions and compassion. Their chemistry was on and off with some awkward moments. I believe this is because the makers of the series did not invest time in workshops and thought the visuals are enough to make people's heart flutter(which seems to be true ,considering the hype).

Overall, it's a okay series and you can watch it for the Mesmerizing visuals of both Bright and Win ( Like come on !! I am really not complaining, they are beautiful)
But other than that , shouldn't expect more.

Leia Mais

Oh dear. I really shouldn't have bothered.

I'm going to be honest - I read too much about this series before I watched it to give an unbiased review. I read a lot of comments on the MDL page, I read comments on the YouTube videos and I read a lot of speculation about why this series went off the rails the way it apparently did.

After watching, I'm halfway convinced there was no other way it could go.

The whole premise of the plot was overturned in the first half of the series, leaving it nowhere to go. The story started as a fairly standard one in BL - Young man A (Tine) is being pursued by Young Man B (Green). Young Man A has no interest in B because he's interested in girls, not boys.

Which he declares multiple times an episode whilst also making a point to ogle girls he considers pretty and try to date them. Because he's not interested in boys. No sirree. Not at all.

Young Man C (Sarawat) just might be the exception. He's the traditionally masculine, very handsome and talented young man that A recruits to fake flirt with to drive B away. Young Man B, as is the case with most Thai BL's, has a high pitched voice and feminine mannerisms and is, well, a raging stereotype.

Kudos to this series, though, for avoiding the colourism usually present in Thai BL - B is as light skinned as the rest of them. Now if only one of the leads was darker skinned, it would've completely subverted the trope which would have been even better. Baby steps, I guess.

Then it turns out, as we find out about halfway through the series, that Green hasn't really been pursuing Tine seriously. He had recently broken up with his boyfriend Dim (the president of the university music club that Sarawat and Tine belong to) and was using Tine to make Dim jealous.

Now, if this had happened later in the series, it might have worked out better, but it happened so early that the series had about six episodes to try and fill in and the writers couldn't seem to figure out exactly what they wanted to do. They could have given a bit more time to the side couples, instead of wasting the acting talents of Frank and Drake by having them appear for five minutes every episode.

No, instead we get this mess that just irritated me.

Here's the thing: when Sarawat agrees to fake flirt with Tine to chase off Green, he declares he's going to actually flirt with Tine. And then he says he's not. And then he says he is. And then he says he was joking.

And it continues on like this for most of the episodes. Poor Tine, who you can see is beginning to develop feelings for Sarawat (even if he has Wei Wuxian levels of obliviousness about it), doesn't know whether he's coming or going because Sarawat is....well, tbh, I'm not sure what Sarawat is doing.

It *looks* like he's playing shitty mind games with Tine, but I suppose it could just be his insecurity over actually getting the chance to be with Tine.

Then we get to episode 12 and everything goes to hell-lite because Sarawat forgot himself and Tine's, for some reason, lost all his confidence. Has anyone seen that, by the way? It was around for about six or seven episodes and then slowly slunk away somewhere. If you do see it, send it back would you?

Tine catches Sarawat in an embrace (a very clearly one-sided one) with his "friend" Pam and jumps to conclusions and gets very upset and runs away and cries, and then runs outside (where it is now somehow night even though it was daylight five minutes ago) where he runs into Mil and collapses.

Sarawat comes along whilst Mil is bundling Tine into his car to take him to hospital and he forgets himself completely and doesn't just get into the car (which he would've done two episodes ago.) He doesn't visit Tine in hospital, (presumably because he's still forgetting himself) and ambushes Tine outside of it and *still* doesn't just get in the car before Mil drives Tine away.

The ending consists of Sarawat singing a song for Tine and asking him, in front of all the extras they could hire for this mess, if Tine trusts him again. It's the perfect setup for a kiss. No, really,. Since the end of episode 2, Sarawat has been the one doing all the flirting (and then denying that he's flirting but, you know, you have to have something to deny doing in the first place, so it *counts*) and Tine's been acting all shy and coy.

This would have been the perfect moment for Tine to initiate something. To take charge. To lean in and kiss Sarawat and then say his line. And does he do that? No. They re-unite, happy endings all round, and do they kiss after that? No. Sarawat has been obsessed with grabbing Tine's 'boobs' for the last 11 episodes so maybe he sneakily does that? Yeah, no.

These are the two most chaste young men I've ever seen on a drama series. "If you keep looking at me like that, I'll kiss you til you drop."

Yeah, right, Sarawat. You kissed him a grand total of: once.

And he didn't drop.

I guess double high-fives are the new kissing?

In summation (because this got really long and rant-y but I'm not sorry because this had the potential to be so bloody good and it was ruined) - don't bother. Bright and Win 's acting isn't bad, though they are outshone by Frank, Drake, Toptap and Mike, and the soundtrack is great, but this show got lost in adaptation and whoever wrote this should just stick to original material and not ruin any more books.

If I sound like a bitter old person, about this it's because I am.

Bah! Humbug!

Leia Mais