O Smoking (2022)

Com exceção do roteiro, tudo é bom

Essa série foi muito esperada. Eu estive muito ansiosa para ver Chap e Green como casal, e a química entre eles não me decepcionou, mas o roteiro sim.

A história em si é interessante, um rapaz herdeiro de uma fortuna, arrogante e com uma grave fobia social, vive sozinho em sua mansão e alguns acontecimentos o levam a conhecer Aioon, que é dono de uma alfaiataria e noivo de uma moça, porém os dois se apaixonam.

A série parece não ter muito investimento, pois são poucos atores e locações. Apesar disso, tem qualidade fotográfica e uma belíssima ost na voz de Jeff Satur, os poucos atores atuam bem.

Sobre Nawee: Não fica claro o que acontece no relacionamento entre ele e sua família, que parece ser bem tenso, isso pra mim é um furo enorme, pq fora do relacionamento dele e Aioon, que por sinal teve um desenvolvimento estranho (num minuto eles se odiavam e do nada já estavam se amando, não foi acontecendo de forma gradual, não teve muita lógica pela rapidez), as outras histórias todas ficaram mal explicadas, nesse caso seria melhor se nem tivessem falado nelas. Por exemplo, qual a situação entre os pais dos protagonistas? E quem diabos fica louco alucinado por um terno dessa forma? Meio forçado... E como ficou a situação entre ele e o pai?

Sobre Aioon: Um personagem interessante, com personalidade forte e determinado. Não ficou muito claro se ele rico ou não (geralmente isso fica claro). Também não foi explicada a natureza de seu noivado, tudo foi dito por cima. O primeiro beijo entre os protagonistas foi bem clichê, pq diabos Nawee estava preparando uma banheira com pétalas, e como eles acabaram caindo nela e beijando?

No geral a série é boa, são poucos e curtos os episódios e se pode maratonar em um fim de semana. Existe um certo alívio cômico no personagem Sichol, que quebra um pouco o drama pesado. Depois de tudo ainda tem um episódio especial curtinho, que me rendeu a maior vergonha alheia por causa da dancinha, mas que foi bem fofo. Se vc gosta da pegação, o casal tem cena de tirar o folêgo, eles tem muita química juntos.

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FICO DIVIDIDA COM ESSA SÉRIE

Essa série me deixa muito confusa porque é um caso gostar e ter muitos problemas ao mesmo tempo. Então vamos fazer uma lista de prós e contras.

PRÓS
- A proposta é muito interessante com um herdeiro traumatizado e um alfaiate que se recusa a trabalhar pra ele
- A forma que o Nawee se desenvolve durante a trama é interessante
- Os atores tem química e por conta disso o beijo e sua cena de sexo são excelentes
- Gosto que seja curto pois a história é simples

CONTRAS
- O assistente do Nawee é extremamente insuportável, meu deus que personagem chato, toda vez que ele estava em cena eu revirava os olhos
- O desenvolvimento da trama é frio e superficial
- Em alguns momentos eu sinto que o Aiaoon não ama o Nawee (através de suas ações, porque química eles tem)

É uma série curta e apesar de não ser perfeita tem o seu charme.

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Raso

A história em si tem potencial, porém as subtramas parecem que estão lá apenas de enfeite. Gostaria que tivesse mais episódios para que as subtramas fossem desenvolvidas, isso daria mais dimensões aos personagens. O romance entre os protagonistas vai de 0 a 100 muito rápido considerando a trama de fundo que foi criada para eles, em algum momento pensei que tivesse perdido uma parte importante do plot.
O desenvolvimento não é um dos melhores, você vai ficar com uma sensação de ter pulado alguns capítulos, porém não é um dos piores, acredite, já vi coisas que fariam Tuxedo uma obra prima.
Gostei da fotografia e da trilha sonora, a atuação dos atores principais são boas.

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Me arrependi de demorar tanto para assistir...uma boa direção, com cenas bem feitas, um visual muito bonito, gente bonita, uma OST linda...enfim, se fosse para apontar defeitos seriam bem poucos, tipo algumas pequenas falhas na continuidade. Uma plot simples mas poderosa, com alguns dramas familiares, mas sem grandes polêmicas envolvendo o universo LGBTQIA+ ( não é o foco da série). O bom é que os episódios são dinâmicos e rápidos, não deixam espaço para se tornar cansativo. Cenas hot be feitas, com leveza e delicadeza. Eu, que já sou fanática pelo gênero, amei!

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4 Cs in a suit - Cringe Confusing Cute Casual

Almost dropped it because I thought it was another series taking toxicity too easily, but I was wrong. It´s just a bit cringe. :D

Glad I gave the dropping a second thought because even though there might be better LGBTQI+ Series out there, The Tuxedo still deserves some acknowledgement with the budget and behind the scenes work considered.

Production / Music 7.0 >> 6.5
This series has some awesome shots and moments, which, like the music, fit the overall mood and vibes of Tuxedo - that already makes me feel like it´s worth watching because they kind of make the rather casual plot more exciting. The music (+BGM) was well chosen and composed but still had a rather low impact on me/ was not that memorable.

Plot / Story 7.5 >> 6.5 >> 6.0
This is where it gets tricky and where the opinions divide the most. I agree that the story is kind of predictable and has a low pull-in effect on the viewer, however, the cliché overload and all the cringe scenes are still cute to me. Normally I´d heavily judge those stories if they were JUST based on certain clichés and I don´t think that this is the case here.

Acting/ Cast 8.5 >> 7.5
This is something that truly surprised me, Chap´s (Nawee) acting got so much better towards the end! His eyes started to become in charge of the mood-setting and even though he is not a perfect S tier actor, he still nailed the improvement, and I am here to acknowledge it, giving them the highest rating on this one. Green´s (Aiaoon) acting stayed solid and so did the rest of the cast.

Rewatch Value 6.0 >> 5.5 >> 4.5
I am glad for the effort of this series, but I am still a picky "rewatcher". HOWEVER, I´d still recommend it for a comfy series marathon during which you can cringe a lot. ((:

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This series is awful and pointless

Boy, the other reviewers are very kind.

The only positives to this are that both leads are very attractive and they are both very comfortable with kissing scenes.

The acting is not good, which is surprising, because Green is a fantastic actor - one of the best in BL - and Chap is... well, he looks extraordinarily good with his shirt off. The side actors are generally unmemorable - not terrible, but noticably acting.

The story is so stupid it's not really worth spending time on. It's not so much a plot as it is a string of cliched tropes. There's nothing so stupid that they can't do it twice. There are two accidental kisses, and two times someone falls into a body of water. In fact, in what seems to be an attempt for the Stupidest Series of All Time award, they even combine these - an accidental kiss caused by both characters falling into a bathtub. Accidentally. Somehow. The second immersion has a character fall into a pool - there are about 50 people there, and nobody does anything about it whatsoever except stand around and wait for the main character to notice, except this takes him more than 15 seconds and this is a BL, so the guy drowns. But is revived and is fine. I don't think he even really coughs - just spits out a mouthful of water and then carries on with his day.

It's a typical enemies-to-lovers scenario, except they go so overboard with how awful Satee is that you hope he dies alone, and then the transition to love is so abrupt it feels like someone flipped a light switch.

One of the leads is an angry agoraphobe who needs to get to the tailor's shop. Besides his fear of leaving the house, he also hates the tailor, so the author has written herself into a corner. But she comes up with the ingenious solution of having the assistant lightly tap him on the back with a small hollow glass scupture, which knocks him out and they somehow drag his body to the Tailor. Problem solved.

I normally wouldn't nitpick the wardrobe choices, but the theme of this series is about a picky guy finding the best tailor for the best suit, so I would expect the clothing to reflect that. Everyone spends the entire series wearing dark, wool three-piece suits, which is more or less insane in Thailand. Nobody expires due to heat exhaustion - only being tapped on the back with a hollow glass scupture or being immersed in water for 15 seconds can do someone in.

But the clothing is all really poorly tailored! The trousers are too long, the jackets don't fit well, and the styling is terrible and unflattring. Also, the suit in question is not even a tuxedo, it's a boring ill-fitting blue business suit. The tailor does wear a tux to the main event - it is so horrible that it looks like something a guy might wear to a prom who waited till the last minute to rent his tux and so ended up with... whatever that was. The waistcoat was so over-sized that I wasn't sure if he was going to a party or volunteering for the defense of Mariupol.

The theme song is by Jeff Satur, and even that doesn't help. I'm surprised they paid an actual artist for something (or kidnapped his family and forced him to do this), but he only had to write two bars, which they play over an over again. It's a particularly blaring love ballad which becomes unintentionally funny because thy fire it up at a moment's notice whever something happens that is supposed to be romantic.

I'm shallow and I like attractive well-built men with their shirts off, but I have to say that Chap's body is so beautiful that it will catch you by surprise - and he knows how to use it - the way he stands and moves... That's why I gave the series a relatively high rewatch value. I have already watched his first shirtless scene several times and will be returning to it.

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a jerk and an idiot with good chemistry

Overall: We managed to get not just 1 but then a 2nd jerk main leads (well Aioon was maybe more of an idiot). They had good chemistry, but things just didn't make sense. Watched on Gagaoolala.

Content Warnings: physical violence, fight scene, threatening violence to employees, manipulation, mental health issue, bullying

What I Liked
- Aioon and Nawee had good chemistry (they looked comfortable in intimate scenes, I would like to see these actors together in another series)
- Jeff Satur is singing the OST
- pretty good production value (I liked that mirror reflection shot in the last episode)

Room For Improvement
- I really didn't like Nawee's behavior/character. Past trauma doesn't give you an excuse to be a total a**hole - if they had shown his dad/step brother being abusive in the past and then Nawee had character growth, I would have been better with that
- the cliche wannabe wife/girlfriend plot*
- *this just made me dislike Aioon for stringing her along for who knows how many years, so Aioon is a jerk too
- I don't understand why Aioon had such a sudden change of heart. Nawee treated him terribly and then one finger suck and he's in love???
- Aioon is also an idiot, who tries to cure anxiety/phobia like that? If it were that easy, then people wouldn't have anxiety/phobia.
- cliche drama at the end and then a rushed ending with a flashback montage
- that dad's character didn't make sense. Why would he have Nawee run the company only to then later switch it to his step brother? If the dad hates Nawee that much he would never have let him run it in the first place.
- I think they should have cut the adopted brother character and made Nawee's assistant and Aioon's brother be romantic or used that time to develop the Nawee/Aioon plot more
- the mullet (I didn't take points off for this, but I dislike mullets)

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cute, short, sharp

There is a lot of good things that can be said about getting to the point quickly, and not wasting the audience's time with details that distract the attention from the real story. This is an excellent example of a TV series that gets to point, makes the point, and does it in an elegantly and tastefully. In just 8 short episodes, viewers get to see a love story free of side shows and other distractions. And, if you don't catch everything the first time around, you can binge watch it again and still finish it in a short time.

The story is good enough and solid enough that - if the producers wish - they can do a sequel.

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If I have you...I fear nothing..

I first want to say that I was waiting for this drama to come out cause of Green and Chap's chemistry outside of the show. I love how they are with eachother and in turn that made me feel the chemistry between them in the show. Was it the best drama ever? No but it also wasn't awful like other things i've seen that have full hour length episodes. Honestly with longer episodes they really could've fleshed out the story better and we could've gotten more about Nawee and his family. I think if they had scraped the whole turtle thing with the brothers and used that time to develop Aioun and Nawee's story it would've been better. I actually thought that if there was going to be a side story, that it would've been with Oab and Sichol, who turned out to be my fave characters. Either way, it was a nice watch about an isolated man conquering his fear with the help of someone unexpected and it was sweet to watch. I hope Chap and Green get another chance at a series. Another thing I liked about the drama is the Ost, Jeff's voice never disappoints, I sat through the intro everytime.

Would I rewatch this drama again? Sure, if I miss GreenChap and want something light to watch i'd concider it.

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Ended too soon

The episodes are too short, the series is too short, the ending feels even shorter. Overall, The Tuxedo is a promising new type of BL story that branches away from the usual university type, bit it was unfortunately ruined by the poor budget.

It's really a shame that there's a lot about the background that could have been explored, but left untackled. We didn't get to see much about Aioun's supposed issue with Nawee's father. The ending really felt short. It literally ended with flashbacks and it was dissapointing having to wait an entire week just for it.

On the brighter side, ChapGreen chemistry won me over. Nawee's background is really interesting, and I wish we could have seen him get better and start moving on from his traumatic past at the end.

Chanjao, despite only appearing at the last twi episodes, is probably one of the best ex-girlfriend seen in a BL story. So refreshing.

Overall, I wish it was longer and more elaborate.

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It was HOT

First of all, the kissing scenes are HOT (except for the first two). Watch episode 7 and you won't regret it?

Second, if you think Nawee is a jerk, just keep in mind that he could be the bottom...

Indeed, the characters were flat, and the series was too short to convey any meaningful changes in the characters' development. The plot was cringy. The cuts were barely coherent. The director told things fact by fact, so there was zero room for our own discovery and imagination. Yes, it's bad. It's stupid. However, I really like how the two male leads are both musculine. The story could have been more dramatic if better explored, and the characters could have been logical and rational in making decisions if given more explanations and foreshadowing. Unfortunately, the execution was bad. On the other hand, I feel like the acting was not as bad as other people said. The acting was decent.

Overall, I gave 8/10 for the hot actors and I am not ashamed.

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