I binge watched this over a four days so obviously I enjoyed it enough to keep going despite some of my misgivings as it progressed.

I loved the early nod to SOTUS (and it gave me hope) and later realised that it’s the same director. Unfortunately this series was no SOTUS.

Let’s start with Bohn and Duen. I liked them both as separate entities but together they were flat. Bohn goes from a womaniser to being madly in love with Duen based on a couple of conversations and zero chemistry. I could ship Bohn with literally any other cast member and it would work better... Bohn/Frong, Bohn/First, Bohn/King, Bohn/Ram, Bohn/Duen’s father - see what I mean? The actor is very nice to look at though so that did help ;-)

As for Duen, well he was a sweet character but totally wet. What was all the fuss about his little sister getting a kiss off the little boy? Seriously? My 7 year old ‘lost’ his first kiss aged about one, I’m totally over it!

Maybe the relationship would’ve been more believable if they’d kissed AT ALL. Sleeping in the same bed, Bohn asking Duen to move in with him and they hadn’t even kissed? So unrealistic and really annoying and frustrating to watch. Again, I could ship Duen with others quite easily... Duen/Frong, Duen/First, Duen/the gear statue...

Next up is Ram and King. These two stole the show. They are the reason I’m anticipating at second series. Great chemistry, a real build up of UST and friendship between the two.

Let’s not forget Mek and Boss. These two were quite sweet but I don’t feel they added anything to the show. Boring and a bit annoying in parts, particularly Boss.

Then there is Frong and Thara. This is obviously leading into the second series. I just hope the give Thara a personality this time. I like Frong, I hope he gets a happy ending.

The story was nothing new. This is why I liked King and Ram so much, their story was a bright spot amongst all of Bohn and Duen’s non-kisses, jealous moments and tenuous misunderstandings.

A couple of things amused me in the casting though. Bohn’s ‘blond’ nephew. Yeah, if that kid is blond and has spent any time living in the UK then I’m famous Korean actress. Then Ram’s mother - first of all they keep calling him mixed race and fine, the actor clearly is (Australian apparently) then they point out his foreign mother... then when we see the mother she is clearly NOT a native English speaker, the way she pronounced ‘clothes’ makes that especially apparent - then when Ram talks to her in English his accent is Australian but where did the character get that accent when his mother talks like that?!

Another thing - what the hell was going on with Mek? I watch with English subtitles so it took me a little while to notice that Mek was dubbed as I was reading text not looking at his lips. Once I noticed I thought I was losing my mind! If they needed to dub the actor (apparently he was Chinese who spoke poor Thai-why did they even cast him?) they could at least make the voice sound like it came from that person. Sounded like a 40-year old man coming out of a pretty 18-year old kid. So weird!

Lastly - how much of a let down was the waterfall - I was expecting something grand not a teeny trickle like that. Obviously the location budget was tiny!

Overall this was good enough but if I was to rewatch it will be a YouTube compilation of Ram/King. I will watch a second series no question.