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Together With Me (Thai Series)

Like most Tai BL series, this one also takes its own sweet time to come to the point. You see te characters going back and fort constantly and there never seems to be an agreement or a solution and then a lot happens in the last 2 episodes. Korn and Knock form the core couple of this series but you cannot ignore 2 other couples here: Farm & Bright and Kavitra & Phu.

One day at Amphawa, Knock, a young engineering student wakes up to a shock, he is naked next to his childhood best friend, Korn, due to drunkenness and hormones. After fighting and arguing, Korn and Knock agree to keep this as a secret since Knock has been dating a girl Pleng. Korn, is gay and totally smitten by Knock and wants him in his life but Knock can't make up is mind. e wants Korn next to him, occasionally sex also but just doesn't have the balls to tell Pleng. Korn's best friend Yihwa decides to take matters in her own hand to bring the couple together. It turns out Plern has been all along playing around with Knock and is also seeing another guy. She just wants to bring Korn down. Korn and Knock have a good friend circle. We also have the shy boy Farm, who suddenly develops feelings for Dr Bright when he visits him. Bright happens to be a player and lets Farm know about it. Still Farm decides to continue with bright because he really loves him. Their ending is not too pleasant. And finally we have Phu, a band singer who is pursuing their female lecturer who happens to be Korn's sister. Of course because of the age gap and student-teacher relationship they are met wit eyeballs. Back to Korn & Knock, once after many episodes have passed, Yihwa succeeds in exposing Plern's true intentions and her true face. As you can expect, after a lot of fights and cute moments together, the 2 boys confess their love eventually.

The series is a total of 13 episodes with an average span of 50 minutes each, so you can imagine it takes up a long time to sit through it. Thankfully its not bad at all. Yes, the story is a bit cliche of a gay man falling for his straight best mate. Oddly, Knock cannot just seem to make up is mind. Initially he doesn't want to lose his best friend, then he doesn't want to upset his girlfriend, then he is 2 timing bot of them. You don't even know if he is really in love wit anyone at all. Or just wants to go on because the other person wants to. Korn tries his best to show Knock his point of view, but that man is literally dumb. he just doesn't know what he wants. He wants best of both worlds. Having said that, both the boys are beautiful and have ripped bodies to die for. Yum!! Yihwa is the only sorted person wit some iota of brain in er. She is the only one who asks right questions, makes them both think of love and logic and she is the one instrumental is unmasking Pleng. Otherwise the boys had just given up. Talking of Pleng, my god, what an evil character. Things and lengths she will go to get her boyfriend. I understand you want to fight for your love but she breaks all rules that were ever there. I couldn't care less for Kavitra & Phu's story line. That totally kept breaking down the flow of story in my opinion. We can totally get away from all their scenes altogether and the series will be even more charming and not lose its essence. Farm and Brighht made an interesting couple. But what I dont understand why they were with each other. Bright sleeps around with just about anyone, so why does he want Farm. I understand Farm is naive and sees something charming in Bright. Their is a bit sad, when totally jaded in love ends up becoming a sex player like Bright. Most of the secondary characters have all been given interesting character graphs, that helps. By the way, whats up with all of them hanging out in their college uniform all the time. So annoying after a while. The group dynamics was good, but I am getting tired of every character giving their reaction a second too late time after time.

In the end, I feel they tried to fit too much in and unfortunately sacrificed Bright and Farm’s story-line as a result. It would have been much better to have done two separate series. This gets added to the list of decent shows in Thai BL category. I wish someone just makes an edited version of it, because I have already forgotten the number of time Knock keeps shuttling between wanting to be wit Korn or not. (6.5/10)

Comments

Season 2 was much better in my opinion. +1 for Korn and Knock although the second one needs more acting lessons. If not for the cute face and body, there's room for improvement and the script did not help at all. Pretty decent show when you can fast forward the boring parts. Once again, if the characters grew enough in you, give season 2 a shot. Deeper connection, slightly better acting, more focus on Pharm and Bright, Cho and yihma (not sure of the spelling here-his girlfriend), the confrontation between korn and his dad, all of that makes the show enjoyable despite major flaws and thin plot / poor writing sometimes. Korn has a genuinely good heart and this alone would make me stay till the end.
Golu said…
Its on my list to watch (Season 2). So anything's to see and so little time :(
Sailor Maan said…
Pretty decent show but something is missing to make it very good for me: the romance! Couldn't connect with the love story at all. As you said, you don't know if Knock is actually in love with either Korn of Pleng... Looks like he finally went with Korn not because he loves him but because he discovered Phleng was a bad person, so Korn was the only one left?! His dumbness and hesitations were boring. I loved Phleng as an evil character btw, I really thought she was a good person at first, totally got me!
They could have cut the show in half, as in the first half nothing happens. And the editing was so bad at times: you have a pseudo romantic scene with romantic music, it switches to a villain with heavy music and hop you switch back to the romantic scene. Talk about a mood killer... Farm story was touching though, ready to endure anything for Dr Bright, until it breaks him. Yihwa was the mood saver. And then you have the other show saver: Korn and Knock hot bodies... OMG. I want their body. In every possible meaning, thank you. It will be the only reason I'll ever watch season 2. And go back to the gym when it reopens lol.
Golu said…
yes they do have real hot bodies and they show lot more of it in season 2 ;)

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