Peixe no Céu (2021)

It was good but it could have been amazing

Typical review format.
Lets first talk about what I liked about the drama.

1. The story.
It was cute and understandable. It didnt drag and it made it fun to follow along.
It did have some drama but nothing was super dragged out.

2. PI
I just loved his character and how the actor portrayed him. His acting was funny but also touched my heart many many times.
Perfect casting.

3. The writing style
The dialogues were short and mostly witty. Again it didnt drag for too long and no scene seemed like it was unnecessary.
Also I had to lough out loud a couple of times.

4. The side couple
I loved it and the way it was done. Super cute and adorable. With this couple I have like 0 complaints.

5. Adressing of real problems like the pressure social media gives, the invasion of privacy, peer pressure etc.

6. Nam
Really love the actor and I really liked everything he had to say :) I wish he would get his own story told and maybe with get another show with his officer :)

Alright lets get to the negative points.

1. The way the invasion of privacy was handled.
Now let me first say, towards the middle of the show, I would have added this to the positive side, HOWEVER the last couple episodes changed my mind.
Pi calls out the two who made ship page about him on stalking and invading his privacy ! Rightfully so !
Even after being called out, these two dont stop, they just shift their target to Mork and Bam ( The girl friend of mork )
I thought that they would face some sort of consequence for their behavior but nope nothing of the sort.
Pi even gets told that this is just something he needs to accept when he with Mork, because Mork is just so well liked.
Being well liked and being harassed, having his privacy invaded don't necessarily go together.
However in the end Pi just accepts the stalking and even smiles watching a presentation of photos that he did NOT consent to being taking or shared!!!
Mork also never calls out these two or any other people that keep taking their photos and also makes it seem like it just a problem with Pis low confidence !
While I do think Pi has low confidence, that shouldn't be an excuse on why has to accept being stalked!
This series missed a serious opportunity to speak up against the harassment that people receive but instead they even seemed to support it and pushed all the fault of feeling uncomfortable on Pi just being too insecure about himself !

2. MORK
It pains me to write this but Mork isnt really the kind respectful guy that he his portrayed to be.
a) He doesn't really take anything Pi says seriously and thinks he knows him better than Pi knows himself.
While it might have been true in the show, if a guy constantly told me : I know that you like me, even if I have refused multiple times.... it would creep me out.
b) He never speaks out against the online harassment and even encourages it by giving the two shippers a live interview.
In the last few episodesI started to feel a bit uncomfortable with the character.
Even though Mork continues to say that it is all Pis choice whether to be open about their relationship or not, he continues to put Pi in situations where Pi feels uncomfortable and pressured.
Then he pretends like the only solution to the problem is to be open about their relationship.
The whole ship with Bam was entirely on Mork ! He knew Pi didnt like people talking about him on social media but Mork purposefully let people think he was dating Bam.
Did he not realize how people would react if it came out that he was actually dating Pi!
Why did he again try to use social media to pressure Pi!
Why did he never call out the shippers and told them to stay out of his relationships !
Even after his BEST FRIEND publishes pictures of PI which made him incredibly sad and made him the target of everyone, he is just like OK that fine I guess....
Also the friend clearly Tries to exclude Pi in some scenes and Mork doesnt even notice.
Now that wouldn't have been a problem but the way his character was portrayed in the first half of the show was incredible perceptive.
So happened in the end ? He even sniff kissed her ( again in front of the shippers ) and then pretended in the bathroom like he only stayed silent for Pi!

Btw I love him in the first few episodes, but I do think his character is wrong in some instances ( especially in the last few episodes ) and the show fails to highlight that behavior and instead pushes all the fault to PI.
Almost all the situations in which Pi felt uncomfortable were created by Mork behavior !
Mork behaves in a way ( creating, encouraging the ship with the girl; giving interviews to the shippers; sniff kissing PI in public; Sneaking in his room etc. ) , creates an uncomfortable situation for Pi and then gives Pi exactly one OUT and that is to be public with their relationship.
And whenever he puts effort in to make PI more comfy ( choosing a location far away, taking along his friend etc) its the first thing he points out to Pi as if Pi is supposed to be super grateful and also feel guilty.
Mork says its 100 % Pis choice but he is pretending thats the only choice they have.
He also does nothing about Pis actual problem with the social media and instead again blames PI because he just pays too much attention to it. And the show rewards him for it and agrees with him !

Ah and the ending scene was so cute but also so not befit for Pis character. A public confession surrounded by people, some of which have harassed Pi online. Also of course a photo gets straight up posted.
The shippers even complain that now the ship is real, they have nothing to do anymore.
Why couldn't have Mork confessed and asked IN PRIVATE and let it actually be Pis choice whether to tell people or not.
Realistically speaking this situation would have ended with a panic attack on Pis part!
Btw I do love them as a couple i just really dont like what the show did with them in the last few episodes.


3. The moral of the story
What was the moral ? If you are insecure, dont be ! Get over it!
Because people will always trash talk you!
Bam literally says to be : People are always gone trash talk ( or something similar ). Its like just accept that you get online hate and that you get harassed and your privacy invaded, thats just part of being with Mork.
And stop being insecure even though you have been severely bullied online and offline.
Because the problem lies with you and you need to change your behavior.
The online/offline bullies aren't wrong, you are !
Just endure it !

I loved the morale of the second couple :
Be honest, dont force your partner ever, accept your partner for who he is !

Conclusion :

Its a good show and its fun to watch.
However its a huge missed opportunity for a great show and a real morale.

Leia Mais

Your typical Uni-based thai series

for me, in comparison to other GMM25 series , it was actually not what i was expecting.
The plot was not bad but the story-line was easy to predict and no offence, i got a lot of second-hand embarrassments from the main couple. the side couple was much better.
I got pretty excited in the first episode, I thought they are actually gonna put medical parts in the story-line to make it different and use it for developing the relationship between the main characters ( since both of the characters are majoring in medicine) but it was just a single part and the rest of the series went like many other series which are UNI-based series that you've watched. One guy persuading the other and story goes on till the other one accept the guy without any kind of valid reason or connection.
The chatting idea was pretty brilliant but got boring halfway like they could put much more interesting ideas in that section.


The acting
despite being pretty young and rookie, their acting skills was remarkable. specially Sutthaya.

I liked the color-grading of the series, the OST was also enjoyable.
But the advertising was a tad obvious lol. in 2gether, advertising was done much subtle and better.

in overall, if you are looking for a series to just kill time with cliche story-line, i recommend it to you but if you actually want something new, better leave it for later :D

Leia Mais

Complete and utter bullshit!

I hate the fact that through out this series Pi treated mork poorly, they made him look like an idiot with no self regard. He had to take stupid shit cause pi didn’t want others to know about them, had to treet him badly just for Mork to keep following him like a whole fool and constantly put him down while they made mork take it in the name of love but it was plain emotional abuse.

At first I put up with it but at episode 10 I dropped it cause it was just stupid and annoying, I know a lot of bl the other might not be ready to come out but pi case was just worst especially cause he was acting like he was doing mork a favor when it was the other way round. It’s really a waste of data and time and annoying in general no wonder it’s not popularly known and I wish I didn’t try it at all.

Complete WASTE OF TIME!

Leia Mais

HAD TO DROP THIS AFTER EP 4. HELLO, CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!

It might not be my place to write a review for a series I’ve dropped but the elephant in the room has to be addressed which is CULTURAL APPROPRIATION. Sorry I’ve nothing against the rest of the show but this very scene about those guys disguised as Sikhs doesn’t sit right with me. There is a fine line between okay comedy and inappropriate comedy and that scene really didn’t handle that well. Something is funny ONLY till a smile sustains on the face and when that smile goes away and starts developing into more of a frown then we should know that there is something not right here.

This series is packed with ridiculous comedy and is really not meant to be taken seriously which is okay. But even if we keep that in mind, I still cannot see how that scene is okay. The outfit represents the Sikh community which is a really respected community in India who are hailed for their bravery, morality and spirituality. And to use the same outfits in a scene like that made me feel uneasy. I don’t even know if the people involved in this knew what those outfit stood for and what were they going for with this but here it is. COMIC RELIEF AND IGNORANCE CANNOT JUSTIFY CULTURAL APPROPRIATION. It is too great of an issue. There has been several cases in the past where people have gotten in serious trouble for such depictions of various cultural. If a show or a film has to add some form of an element of a particular culture they should be extra careful with it. And with comedy, the carefulness becomes two fold because using an element of a culture for comedic purposes can be received as mockery and insensitivity. The people involved in the comedy should know better about that particular community /religion/culture and do their research and then should deliver it respectfully. Many comedians around the world know how much guts it takes to joke about religion and a particular community or culture and very few venture into these territories and come out as winners.

It is one thing to have a sense of humour and joke about yourself or your own religion or community or culture because you’re a part of it(however here too one has to be careful) and another for people belonging to other communities/religion/cultures to joke about another community/religion/culture. I shouldn’t have gone this far with it but it needed to be addressed. And so many people who are Indian are appreciating this inclusion which i can see to a degree why but their reason still doesn’t justify this form of cultural appropriation. I’m saying this in hopes of preventing any such depictions in the future as much as possible. Thank you for hearing me out:)

Leia Mais

Cracky but lost in the trope

FUTS in a nutshell:
"You like me"
"No I don't."
"You don't know it but you like me"
"Not really, I like-"
"Not only you like me but you really really like me"
"Actually, I like someone-"
"EVERYBODY, HE LOVES ME!"
"The hell-"
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"Stranger, thanks for hearing me rant every night. I'm fed up with this guy at school."
"Yeah... you love him"
"What the-"
**DEAD**
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Initial episodes were interesting, but the series kind of dragged a bit in the middle episodes. Mork was sweet and kind but felt a bit annoying for being too tenacious...? Like, you've already done your job...back off now buddy! If Pi likes you, he'll figure out on his own.

This series started off as a crack and should have stayed the overly ridiculous drama in all the episodes instead of only first few.

Leia Mais

ONE OF THE BEST BL OF 2021

FIRST OF ALL, AMAZING CAST, AMAZING CHEMISTRY, AND AMAZING PRODUCTION. The only reason that I wanted to watch this in the first place is when I saw Pond as the main character. I was so amazed by his visuals, it is so refreshing to watch him act. Even though everything about this series is amazing, I don't think rewatching it will be great because to get to the point where they finally are a couple and accepted each other is literally in the last episode. Where the series might have some sweet scenes in the middle of the series, the whole is series is more of a process. Some acting are exaggerated like Duean, no hate tho. This series is also incredibly funny. ISTG IF YOU GUYS STILL DON'T WANT TO WATCH THIS, YOU'RE GONNA REGRET IT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!

Leia Mais

It didn't feel like fishing in the sky to me

Fish upon sky is not a bad series in fact it is quite entertaining, but it has some elements that do not work at all and it is what I would like to explore today.

To begin with, the relationship between Pi and Mork seems problematic to me, I understand that the concept is to fight for love that seems almost impossible, but I don't know, at times it seemed to me that Mork was too insistent and yes know that in the end Pi did fall in love with him , but even so he had to go through too many things to reach acceptance, in the same way Pi was not a "good" person with Mork, most of the time he despised his feelings and the vast majority of the series had rather a complicated relationship . Actually my biggest complaint with this point is not that they stay together or not at the end, but the length of time that they were not, Mork and Pi do not meet until the penultimate chapter and break up in the next one only to return a few scenes later, I think that if the rhythm of the series had been different, I wouldn't have so much problem with their interactions before “falling in love”, it's just that you have 10 chapters where you don't feel any progress and 2 where too much happens, in that It's hard for me to feel his love as something so magical.

Now I would like to talk about two characters Mueang Nan and Mork, both of them to a greater or lesser extent could fit into the dream boy trope, they are both handsome, popular, rich, good students, blah blah blah, all that, the problem is that both lack development, we know a little more about Mork, for example that despite being so popular he does not feel that anyone sees him for what he is, that's fine, but beyond that, they are only as a vehicle to boost the history of Pi, he also have no development, Mork is great from the beginning and continues to be that way towards the end of the series, Nan for his part begins as a character that seems to be relevant but little by little the series is forgetting its existence and no longer It even appears in key moments, which seems strange to me because the initial problem of the series is the friendship that these two shared, but from a certain chapter it seems that there is no more; it seems to me an easy resource to eliminate a problem from your story, I think it would have been more game if Pi had to continue see to Nan and Mork and gradually realize that the former only likes him superficially or as a friend, regardless of that, Nan is a character that we do not know anything about and that does not change in the least at all throughout the story, in part, I understand that Nan has no development, it is true that Pi's feelings towards him do not a great impact on his life, but with Mork I cannot justify it, he is a protagonist.

Many times the's series sin in this type of situation, they present you the love between two characters, one who is all clumsiness and insecurities and the other who is practically an ideal god with some type of emotional lack, then during the development of the story we see how one character changes to the extreme (generally even in his appearance) while the other only falls in love and with that fills that void he had but is still as ideal as always, the problem is that these types of stories are boring and unfair for your characters, development is the best thing that can happen to a story and in that sense let's talk about Pi.

Pi, from the beginning it is clear that he has many problems to socialize, he is clumsy and cares too much what others think of him, his infatuation with Nan leads him to want to transform and like Ugly Betty, after a change of look he begins to get noticed at the University, the thing is that his problems are treated superficially, after his change Pi is still lonely, beyond Mork and the gang we do not see him interact with anyone and when he realizes the attention he is receiving in networks, it fills with anxiety, and let's talk about this, I do not know if it is because of the culture shock but I cannot connect with this, it seems that Pi needs to accept at all costs that his relationship with Mork is public because only so their feelings are genuine and I don't believe in that position people have the right to maintain their private-private life if it is what they want without having to explain themselves to anyone.

And the moment he publicly confesses his relationship he is so forced to do so and the truth is that no, your insecurities are not going to go away overnight, it is a serious issue treated as something minor and having so many people so involved in what he does can be more than harmful for such a person, he himself says "I am fragile, I can not stand these situations" and although apparently Mork supports him, in the metanarrative if he forces him to be public.

I think I will touch on a controversial point here: Duean and Meen, because I recently discovered that this seems to be one of the favorite couple, well, the first, nothing has to do with whether or not I like it as a couple, we'll get to that, it's the tone of this couple, for me it feels totally out of the series, as if they belong to another series with another format and they were stuck here almost with a shoehorn, and by this I do not mean that "cinematographically" they used other resources, if not all the elements that surround them, at a certain point I think they tried to make the story of Pi and Mork have more dramatic weight and all the "comedy" was delegated to the character of Duean and at least for me it does not work, his interactions with the rest of the characters are so overworked and irritating that it seems like they are not part of the same narrative universe.

As a couple Duean and Meen I do not like, to begin with, they have almost no screen time so their development is poor, their interactions are ugly, Duean treats Meen very badly from the beginning to the end and Meen I do not know if the intention is that he is naive or stupid, as I said this is a personal assessment, but I do not like couples with submissive elements. Duean doesn't even care about meeting Meen and I don't know maybe with more time I could have grown attached to them, but what I saw was not enough to agree with them and their feelings.

The brother of Pi and Duean is also one of those issues that the series left hanging, in the end he never had a conclusion with his parents, at least not an "explicit" one and it is something that is only there to say: "Pi you go, your parents have no problem ”, when really at the beginning of his infatuation with Nan it was not something that Pi seemed to worry about or even have considered before, besides that at the beginning it is also seen that many of insecurities he has them because his brother older is “cool” and they didn't take advantage of their interaction to give the character some peace or at least a moving talk.

All the drama with Bam, is so unnecessary, more because it happens in the last episode, there was literally no time to include it and even so they decided to do it and it clashes with everything we saw of the character before and it is also annoying that it usually has to being a female character who unleashes chaos, as if the only girl who goes out, was unable to deal with her emotions on her own and could not have reacted in another way, how I do not know how to talk to who apparently has been he her friend for so long time, it seems to me that it is something very subtly sexist, but above all censer, we were able to save all that and give more time on the screen to the relationship of Mork and Pi who were only together for about 15min.

The performances, both Phuwin and Pond did a great job, the last one being a great revelation for me, their moments together were really beautiful and if they had given us more of this it would be perfect, they both manage to convey their emotions and if you see them youthful spark of University love which is very nice, the rest of the cast was fine, but I think none of them really had much to demonstrate their abilities, they all have small and insignificant interactions with the protagonists; beyond Neo that if he is very overreacted, but in part I think that is the direction they gave to his character. But if I am going to highlight Mix, even though he has a very minimal participation, he is a great actor and he transmits a lot to you with his expressions.

Regarding the production, the series is quite good, it is the quality to which GMMTV has accustomed us despite the limitations of recording in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, photography, assembly, ost and direction , all its elements fit together in a very organic way, except at times is its scripts, they are still uncomfortable, although only in some scenes.

As I said at the beginning, I genuinely enjoyed Fish upon sky, it was a light series that I get a smile or two, but I can't help but acknowledge many of the problems it has, it is still not a bad series, which I do think is GMMTV is in a very comfortable position, they are a giant in the creation of BL series and although they have wonders like 1000Stars, they have dozens of other series that are too similar to each other and that contribute rather little, with the resources and talent they have they could explore making stories a little more transgressive, without having to leave the genre of comedy if that is what they want.

Lastly, I just want to say that I fell deeply in love with Pond and almost went into cardiac arrest, when they put him in glasses, thanks for that.

Leia Mais

An important message Conveyed Beautifully and Hilariously

I liked this series. It tells about the negative effects Society can have on someone and how they are being traumatized. Pi was scared thanks to his surroundings not treating him properly. Mork helps him get better and makes him feel better about himself.
For Duean and Mean's story. It proves how Kindness can prevail and you yourself can change even if your past isn't clean. And of course who can forget the Iconic "Dueannnn" And Duean's wild imagination in Ep 11.
Over all I think this series has made clear that Whatever a person maybe, never push them away, cause your actions affect them very much without you being aware. And the storyline has made it clear that sometimes being selfish in Love is the best.

Leia Mais

I loved the actors who made this story feel like more real like a couple and I'm really amazed by the direction production and writing and the name itself is so unique I would love to see the actors together again in a new series coz it made me fall for them and I'm thankful to all for making this series in this pandemic and all their hard work has paid off I wish them good luck for future ?I have been really so much in love with the characters actually actors who made the characters look alive it is worth watching it's the most beautiful series I have ever seen the kisses were really sweet that it made my heart flutter the actors being so good at their point it's just how the series should be a comedy a romance a good climax that's all we need and it had everything that was really an amazing experience for us.

Leia Mais