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Love sick thai1/20/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() The absolute worst offender is the plot relating to Jeed, a new girl at the convent who soon morphs into a psychopathic horror of a human being. These all fail - uniformly and abysmally - to add anything to the series except irritation. The writers also make an atrocious choice to create sub plots around some of the other girls at the convent. Only the central group of characters around Noh and Phun are given some personality: Aim and Yuri first and foremost, followed by Noh's friend-turned-suitor Earn, and then the some of other students in the music club. They operate mainly as functions of the plot or padding, but contribute very little else. It's incredible that such a long series dedicates zero time to giving its characters any depth, even when we are introduced to nearly all of them (there must be at least 40 of them with speaking parts, it's ridiculous). It creates another very serious problem that nearly renders the show unwatchable: almost none of the characters gets any development. But the choice of creating an enormous number of characters around the boys scatters all that focus and chops up the narrative beyond recovery. You'd think it would have a focus to justify the length, and it ostensibly does by following the flowering relationship of Noh and Phun. Love Sick is a very, very long series - even longer than 2 Moons and (what seemed like an eternity) Advance Bravely. They consider how best to live their honest affections and at the same time not hurt their girlfriends. Noh and Phun soon find themselves unexpectedly attracted to each other. Noh agrees to the plan once Phun offers to get him quick funds from the student council for his music club, but Noh immediately regrets his decision when the charade starts to get out of hand. Desperate, Phun comes up with a plan to deceive his BL-loving sister Pang into believing he and Noh are boyfriends, in the hope that she will dissuade their father from his awful plan. Phun's father tells his son that he must get rid of Aim and date a friend's daughter for political benefit. Both boys have girlfriends who attend an obviously expensive girls' convent school - the beautiful elegant Aim is Phun's long-term girlfriend, and cute Yuri is trying as hard as she can to be Noh's official girlfriend. Quiet and intelligent Phun is very popular and handsome, and one of the leaders of the student council. Noh, blithe and sarcastic, is the president of the music club. Summary: Noh and Phun attend a prestigious Thai boys high school, oddly nicknamed Friday. It's also THE benchmark for Thai BL, and has had an enormous influence on all BL ever since it first screened. This show ran for two seasons over 20 and remains immensely popular. Time to take a look at the Thai BL drama, Love Sick: The Series. ![]()
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