Still 2gether (2020)

Une suite agréable

Après avoir fini "2gether", je me suis très vite lancée dans le visionnage de ce drama spécial afin de retrouver Tine & Sarawat <3.

Si j'ai apprécié retrouver les différents personnages, j'ai nettement moins apprécié les conflits incessant entre Dim & Green qui n'apportent pas grand chose à l'histoire. (Je vous dis pas le nombre de fois ou j'ai rêvé de les étrangler jusqu'à ce que mort s'en suive…)

Cette saison s'axe plus sur la vie des différents couples même s'il faut l'avouer, on est plus centré sur Tine & Wat. (Mais qu'est-ce qu'ils sont mignon ensemble...)

Quelque part, je suis un peu triste de laisser partir les héros... Mais je me dis que je pourrais revoir les acteurs dans d'autres séries. :D

Leia Mais

A bigger budget than its predecessor but at the cost of little-to-no story or personality

2gether was the first BL series that I ever watched. It has a very special place in my heart and even while objectively better BLs have since aired (Bad Buddy, for example), I still consider 2gether as one of my favorites. Despite its jarring editing, and sometimes evidently low production value, it's my comfort show. I've rewatched it more times than I can count. Unfortunately, I don't share the same amount of love with this collection of special episodes.

While I do appreciate the special episodes for showing us how much healthier Sarawat and Tine's relationship grew to be, it isn't enough to justify its existence. For one, there's barely a plot. The conflict between the music club and the cheerleading team is miniscule. It's much more fitting as a storyline for a single episode rather than an entire arc.

But honestly, my biggest gripe with the special episodes is that Tine loses his entire personality from the series. In 2gether, his head is always in the clouds. He spends so much time daydreaming that he could barely process his own emotions without talking them through with his friends. He overthinks everything and is honestly kind of dumb, but in a very adorable way that's not overt. In Still 2gether, his entire personality is just being Sarawat's cute (and sometimes whiny) boyfriend. It's clear that the writers wanted everyone to squeal over how cute they think Sarawat is as a boyfriend, therefore, Tine's entire personality is sacrificed. His purpose in Still 2gether is just to tease his handsome boyfriend so that cute moments can come out of it. So many of their interactions don't feel right to me because Tine is a completely different character.

That said, I thought that the subplots with the side couples were just as enjoyable in these special episodes as they were in the series. And the final scene does manage to hit me right in my feels on the rare occasion that I do rewatch.

Leia Mais

Cute, But A One Time Thing.

For me Still 2gether was such a cute addition to 2gether, I see others dislike this serie due to the "bromance," in my opinion, I feel as if they may be focused on simply the fact that there is no sex. I understand there are some things they could work on but personally I loved watching Still 2gether and 2gether, I could see the emotional love and care between them without it being physical. 2gether is a show I would rewatch. But on the honest side I would not rewatch this, not because it's bad but because I feel like it's a one time thing. Cute side stories with not much importance, but still nice to watch. Still 2gether isn't bad, but I wouldn't say it's an obligation to watch it after finishing 2gether. (I also loved the cast and side ships!)

Leia Mais

you can't get in a bad mood when watching this

For the first season I wasn't really buying the relationship. Then this season came out and my god. I loved everything the two leads two had to offer. This show isn't spectacular, but it's lighthearted and fun, it isn't emotionally draining. Sarawat and Tine really do love each other and are wholesome with all the gestures they make to reach out to one another. Compared to the first season the relationship progressed perfectly. Their love isn't fet*shized, it's honestly adorable. It was a slice of life and not too gripping, I'm not complaining though because I didn't expect that.

This show is short and an easy watch that's worth your time. It isn't confusing and the relationship between the two leads is healthy and something I want to see more of. I would call this show more of a romcom than a BL, GMM is really doing good these day with their boys love shows in representing healthy and realistic relationships between two people regardless of s*x. Sarawate and his little Tine are OTP, they get my stamp of approval and I'm sad to think that we won't see more of them. What content we got was so wholesome and enjoyable, if you watch this you won't regret it.

Leia Mais

Simply a better series

Because it was obviously made with the criticism the first series got in mind, Still 2gether is a better show in every way. We catch up with Tine and Wat one the next year (as previewed in the last episode on the first series). That’s a smart move because it gives the show some leeway for making changes without jumping too far ahead.
That small jump specially benefits Mil and Phukong. I was not the biggest fan of their story progression in 2gether because it seemed to forced in the end. Jumping a few months ahead we can see them more comfortable without it being too unreadable for them to not have labeled their relationship or maybe have kissed (?) yet. On the other hand, Type and Man moved, literally, pretty fast. It was nice to finally see them being together and happy. I was surprised with the amount of Green and Dim we got, but I actually made me appreciate both of them a bit more.

Now, on Wat and Tine. I’m glad we got to see them having a nice and normal relationship. I was worried that we show would force conflict and fights when the clubs were are odds. But they managed to keep things separate between work and home life. I also think that Bright and Win are better as Wat and Tine, which made me believe more on the romance between their characters. But I still don’t really feel romantic chemistry. The last scene, between just the two of them, was the only real truly full on BL romantic scene we got from them.

The fact that a group of students managed to skip 2 whole weeks of classes proves that no one goes to that university to study.

Mike and Gunsmile together are the best scene partners in the show.

Leia Mais

Slightly better, but not by much

This was fairly obviously an attempt by the production team to fix the problems that caused the barrage of complaints about 2gether. It was a good try, but it still didn't fix everything.

I don't believe these two are a couple. I know they love each other, miss each other and are happy with each other, and they definitely communicate with each other better than some couples in BL I've seen, but they are still two of the most chaste young men I've ever seen on screen.

Someone tell Sarawat that "I'll kiss you til you moan" implies actually kissing. This series, like the last, has exactly one kiss between Tine and Sarawat and, whilst it's better than the one from the first series, it's still not exactly filled with passion.

I know this, and 2gether, were made at an awkward time. The pandemic has f*ck%d everything, but I've seen other BL made during the same time period that manage to have more than just one awkward kiss. And some were made in Thailand, even.

I really, really wish that production companies would stop hiring actors who won't commit to the roles, and that actors wouldn't take roles they know they aren't going to be able to fully commit to and aren't comfortable in.

Because it's clear that's what's happened here. Bright clearly doesn't want to be kissing Win. Win seems a little more comfortable with it, and I suspect he'd probably be better if he wasn't acting with Bright but that's what he's got to work with.

I did like this better than 2gether, and I enjoyed seeing more of Phukong and Mil and them having an actual relationship. Green and Dim were very funny and sweet together, even when they were arguing and Type and Man made a lot of strides in their relationship and had several mature and honest talks which impressed me.

This has slightly more rewatch value than the first series and it's worth a watch if you haven't yet.

All in all, not a bad series.

Leia Mais

I am less impressed with Still 2gether than I was with the original series. Season 2 feels a really forced many times, and we are supposed to believe a couple who never once says “I love you” is so madly in love they both are depressed when they are apart for two weeks. I’m ok with an innocent relationship that is still trying to figure itself out, but that’s not exactly what the script implies. There is the “let’s shower together” and the infamous “kiss you till you drop” with no actual intimacy until the very last after credit scene. The other couples in the series had more contact than our lead couple which was just odd and confusing to me. At least Bright and Win are both attractive so they are still fun to watch, but the storyline definitely didn’t wrap things up as neatly as they were obviously going for. And I’m still really confused as to why their characters weren’t reversed. We finally really get to hear Win sing and play guitar at the end of the series, and he’s REALLY good. Like, way better than Bright (not knocking Bright, just being real). Would I re-watch this one? Probably not, but that’s just me.

Leia Mais

Worth for the Secondary Pairings

I’ve made my peace with the fact that I’ll never understand nor join the Br@ghtWin/S@rawaTine hype and that it’s okay, to each their own. Luckily, the secondary pairings saved this drama for me: ManType, DimGreen, MilPhukong and even BossPear.

I think my favorite pairing was ManType because Man turned out to be the bestest boyfriend who ever lived and I loved that. He was so happy for and supportive of Type when Type got his promotion even though it meant for Type to move way way away. He was all, “It’s okay, do your thing, once I’m done with school, I’ll follow you.” And for that he deserved an award!

My favorite moment was when Sarawat found out that Mil was dating Phukong. That was absolutely, positively, belly-achingly hilarious. His reaction to it - and to the fact that both Boss and Man knew! I laughed so hard!

I loved that the secondary pairings were each so different and their stories so interesting. Even Boss & Pear’s and that’s saying something because hetero ships in BL stories are hit-n-miss for me. Thumbs up!

Leia Mais

DON'T WATCH THIS IF YOU'RE A BL FAN

Where do I start......? Season 1 was better then this because we were clueless to what was going on. As I said the cast are hot I won't deny that. Once the innocence is shed off you know what to expect this is most definitely a disappointment. This said from a person who watched 2Moons the series and What the Duck series? @moon was even better than this and that came out 2017.If this series air in 2002 it might have suited then. But we're in 2020 this is not China where they have BL censorship. For Pete's sake this is Thailand the powerhouse of BL drama's and what the f**k is this!!
I hated What the Duck series for it WTF ending but this.... this just takes the cake for total disappointment. If you are a BL fan for as long as I have been you total understand my frustration. This series was a low key frustration because last year it aired together with other BL series. We had Why are You? My Engineer so I was watching 3 BL series at the same time so I didn't notice how wierd the series was then I saw P'Jeaenie supporting this series in her show then I was like it's gotta be ok.....right.... WRONG!! Then I saw that she is in Sn2. Ohh damn this is gonna be a clusterfuck. Still mad at her btw.
This series didn't have any storyline apart from playing mediocre guitar and bad singing.
I am being very critical maybe even to much but in comparison to some of the other BL series this one just doesn't cut it at all because it lacks the undeniable chemistry, passion and love between the Sarawat and Tine. They looked more like distant relative acting nice in public.
Last we complained about the freaking high5 now that it ended with a head pat and an awkward side hug what are we gonna say now??
One sentence.
They should never make a series like this again... Like never ever.
One more thing the hype of the series was way bigger then the reality of it.

Leia Mais

Take it as a better way to end Season 1

This is rather hard to review. If I see Still 2gether as a separate season, it has little to offer. The plot in Season 1 wasn't strikingly original, but there was a rather fine story. The plot is much thinner in Season 2. Depending on how much of a cynic you are, you can either say that it is to reward fans of 2gether or it is to milk fans. Whatever you think it is, Still 2gether is largely for fans of Season 1 and is unlikely to win over more fans or the rather harsh haters of Season 1.

However, I can't say I'm disappointed. Season 2 actually makes up for some of the missteps in Season 1, with the first Episode filling in some gaps and clarifying the plot in Season 1 (such as by revealing that Sarawat actually stayed by Tine's side in the hospital, but Tine wasn't aware of it). Having watched on 4 episodes out of 5 so far, I believe it also ends the 2gether story more solidly than Season 1. What this means for me is that Season 1 and 2 should actually be taken as one season. (Ok, I know I'm the one who keeps calling them Season 1 and 2 in the first place, but I suspect it's what people may be expecting.) In fact, if Season 1 had continued and ended with Episode 4 of Season 2, it would have been a great ending compared to the original ending of Season 1.

[Edit: In fact, after watching Episode 5 of Season 2, which is the final episode, I still find Episode 4 a better ending. Episode 5 is really more for the other couples and for the Sarawat/Tine kiss right at the end, something which some viewers seem to see as really important. I kind of guessed that the kiss has been deliberately left to the very end thanks to all the teasing, but it didn't do wonders for me. I like the way Episode 4 ends more. Also, somehow, whereas Episode 4 is brimming with sweetness without giving a sense of finality, Episode 5 gives such a proper ending that it seems to be telling me, "That's all. There won't be any more seasons." This saddens me because there's actually more potential for the story to be developed.]

Still 2gether is a nice addition that tries tor improve on (or salvage, some might say) 2gether, and it kind of succeeds in that regard. But this also means that Still 2gether perhaps does not need to have 5 episodes, perhaps not even 4. (I'm not complaining though. Sarawat and Tine are amongst my favorite BL couples and I don't mind just watching them being loving. lol)

Because of the rather weak story, the way Sarawat and Tine miss each other borders on absurdity despite being sweet. It would have been more convincing if one of them had to go overseas for a semester due to an exchange program or something, but Sarawat merely goes away (somewhere in Thailand that' maybe an hour's trip away) for a few days, and Tine is crying.

I love Sarawat and Tine, and I want a real Season 2 (call it Season 3 if you want). Still 2gether is like a nice cake to wrap up the main course of 2gether--the cake is sweet enough even though it could have done away with some excess cream. If I had to choose between the dessert and waiting a longer time before another satisfying meal, I would choose the latter. (Though if I could have both, why not? Just don't tell me that the cake is actually my next meal, please.)

Leia Mais

Still 2gether is filler and boring

I watch 2gether the series during lockdown. I excited to watch it because of the actors are cute. It quite a good story at the beginning.

I was totally yawn watching the still 2gether bonus track. I unable to finish all the 5 episodes. Because it was too boring. Not interesting. Sarawat expression is so lame and unemotional.

They only sell their handsome face, that's why the series got so many viewers on youtube.

I would not recommend this series for those who did not yet watch this. There alot new bl series worth to watch than this.

I recommend you to watch I told the sunset about you, Dark blue kiss. etc.

Leia Mais