Fantastic Cast, Awful Story
I love this cast. They're all great, but the standouts are Progress as Noh and Kit as Earn, who is criminally underused. NJ is quite charismatic as Ohm, and Almond does a great job playing someone with anemia and low blood-sugar.
Progress has huge anime-eyes and knows how to use them - I can feel everything he's feeling, and Earn is just a natural talent - he can pull off cute, sexy, heart-breakingly sad, all with an authenticity that's really quite something. There's a scene where he cries that is guaranteed to move you unless you're a bad person.
The writing is terrible. The first four or so episodes are strong, and then it just marches around in circles with nothing whatsoever to drive the story than jealousy, jealousy, more jealousy, and then some additional jealousy heaped on. It's mind-numbingly boring and a huge waste of time that could have been spent on secondary couples, or they could have made Earn-Noh-Phun a real love triangle - but I suppose that wouldn't have worked because it's hard to imagine why anyone would pick cute, kind, stable and hot-bodied Earn over Captain Low-Energy who shuffles around the story as if he were in a Noh play or a classical Chinese opera - how slowly can a teenager move? I swear they must have been putting sedatives in his refreshing tea drinks or something.
Anyway, I kept waiting for something to happen, and it never did. Most of the secondary couples didn't get much in the way of resolution, and the total lack of physical love was ridiculous and homophobic. The main pair end the series kissing through a glass door. A shut glass door. How romantic. I hope Phun didn't swallow too many squished bugs.
We're going 100 kph backwards at this point - high school character in the original series had sex and it was integrated into the plot - here a kiss on the cheek is a step above a marriage proposal. That's not to say we needed sex - I don't think that would have added anything to the story, but in My School President there wasn't even kissing but you could see that the boys were into each other by the way they always touched each other or leaned into each other when sitting.
It's a pity because in the rare cuddling scenes, the actors were clearly willing to show m/m intimacy.
The music is quite good. There's a forelorn love theme that's perfect for young love and at times is a character in itself. It's well-filmed, and the production quality is high.
I would only recommend it because almost none of the actors have been in anything else and this is the only place to see them, and they're worth it. Hopefully they'll get better roles in the future, especially Krit, who is absolutely leading-man material nad needs his own series.
Progress has huge anime-eyes and knows how to use them - I can feel everything he's feeling, and Earn is just a natural talent - he can pull off cute, sexy, heart-breakingly sad, all with an authenticity that's really quite something. There's a scene where he cries that is guaranteed to move you unless you're a bad person.
The writing is terrible. The first four or so episodes are strong, and then it just marches around in circles with nothing whatsoever to drive the story than jealousy, jealousy, more jealousy, and then some additional jealousy heaped on. It's mind-numbingly boring and a huge waste of time that could have been spent on secondary couples, or they could have made Earn-Noh-Phun a real love triangle - but I suppose that wouldn't have worked because it's hard to imagine why anyone would pick cute, kind, stable and hot-bodied Earn over Captain Low-Energy who shuffles around the story as if he were in a Noh play or a classical Chinese opera - how slowly can a teenager move? I swear they must have been putting sedatives in his refreshing tea drinks or something.
Anyway, I kept waiting for something to happen, and it never did. Most of the secondary couples didn't get much in the way of resolution, and the total lack of physical love was ridiculous and homophobic. The main pair end the series kissing through a glass door. A shut glass door. How romantic. I hope Phun didn't swallow too many squished bugs.
We're going 100 kph backwards at this point - high school character in the original series had sex and it was integrated into the plot - here a kiss on the cheek is a step above a marriage proposal. That's not to say we needed sex - I don't think that would have added anything to the story, but in My School President there wasn't even kissing but you could see that the boys were into each other by the way they always touched each other or leaned into each other when sitting.
It's a pity because in the rare cuddling scenes, the actors were clearly willing to show m/m intimacy.
The music is quite good. There's a forelorn love theme that's perfect for young love and at times is a character in itself. It's well-filmed, and the production quality is high.
I would only recommend it because almost none of the actors have been in anything else and this is the only place to see them, and they're worth it. Hopefully they'll get better roles in the future, especially Krit, who is absolutely leading-man material nad needs his own series.
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