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21 Days Theory (Thai Mini-Series)

This 4 part mini series of about 40 minutes each was was nice lovely romantic drama, where the two main protagonists have the simplest names that I have veer heard of : X and Q. How I wish that these long shows that I see here, someone actually created a fan-version where all the fluff is deleted and we could get to focus only on the main story. Well. I can certainly wish for things, even though I know they may not come true.

Q, is a decent student who tries to do his best but somehow always misses by a whisker and ends up second. His mother runs a bakery business and wants Q to talk to his senior Mook, a social media influencer, for promotion. But Q is scared and he sees that she always hangs out with her friend X. X challenges Q on his loser status and says that if he can get Mook to invite Q to the big school event in 21 days, he will accept defeat. Q, along with his 2 friends try to come up with a strategy to get Mook's attention, but in the process one day by mistake X gets into an accident. Q feels guilty and he starts taking care of X and the both soon start getting close. Meanwhile, Q's friend is doing many things to get Mook's attention, and attention she gives, but in the process its Q's friend who starts getting feelings for her. Slowly Q and X start to have more than feelings for one another and one day they end up confessing. Q's mother suspects of her son's sexuality but since her brother is also gay, who makes her understand how important it is to have understanding parents, she also comes around. Eventually even though Q doesn't win the bet, but all individuals find pure love in their own way. 

There is a lot that happens in these 4 episodes and I actually liked isa lot. Sure, at places it felt rushed, but I personally thought its a good thing because never even for once it digressed form the core focus of the story. Having said that, I think the scenes of Q with his 2 friends were a lot more interesting and goofy in someways compared to his scenes with X, where romance and drama sometimes crept in. The story is almost predictable where you can guess that it will be Q's friend who will eventually win over Mook. The biggest surprise was the other nerdy friend and you think he has a crush on his tutor but turns out so different and so refreshing actually. The makers also do a good education and balance of internal homophobia with the mother and uncle episode. The storyline is nothing new. Its basic but somehow a refreshing treatment keeps it engaging. Acting overall by everyone is quite alright. No one person stands out, but thats ok. Most characters have been shown positive and thankfully the girls here were not made villains for no reason. Everyone is capable of distinguishing between what's important and what's not. There is a little bit drama that gets added towards the end when Q thinks that X has some elaborate plan to play with his emotions and thats when the show tells us why and how communication in every relationship is important. Overall this show may not stick in your memories for long, but while watching, it had me engaged and kept ay attention and for a change I found myself enjoying the teenage romantic drama, only because it was so focused on what it wanted to say. (7/10)

Comments

Sailor Maan said…
Thnak you Golu, I was about to skip this one (thai highschool always makes me unconfrotable, I know they are 17 or 18 but with their mini shorts I often feel they are 12 and I'm watching something inappropriate...) and I really liked it. It was short and direct, almost shocking (and welcome) in thai BL world. And it was really funny too (that scene where they imagine the false accident had me laugh out loud and will stay with me for a long time!). The surprise relation from Franck and the more realistic talk with the mother and uncle were really nice additions too. I just wished their was one more episode, the ending was so rushed, it deserved more imo. A real nice short little series
Golu said…
"with their mini shorts I often feel they are 12 and I'm watching something inappropriate" LOL. you are crazy but guess what, I feel exactly the same seeing them in their tiny school shorts.
Mother and uncle conversations were actually really nice and like you said, very unlike what we are used to seeing in Thai BL. Although I do have to say that the uncle was annoying in an odd sense of way. I can't out my fingers exactly

This was definitely a pleasant little surprise.
Sailor Maan said…
I have the same feling about the uncle and I don't know why! I wonder if we simply hadn't seen him in another series where he had a horrible role...

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