WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: Nothing whatsoever to do with US politics, this is a delightful show (plus second series (SOTUS S) and another spin-off (Our Skyy) about two guys falling in love at university in Thailand. Do you like enemies-to-friends-to-lovers? Do you like slow burn and yearning? Do you like brash guys being bad at feelings and secretly sweet? Do you like pure trolls who top from the bottom but secretly have feeeeeels? This may be for you.
Kongpob is one of a new class of freshman at a large university. He and his classmates are due to go through 'hazing' by the class two years ahead, where he runs into head hazer Arthit, who is kind of shouty and a bit of a dick. Kongpob decides the best way to get through this is to become flirty as all hell, which confuses Arthit nicely. Except, actually, as Kongpob learns more about the hazing and the reasons why it's undertaken, he starts to see that maybe Arthit is someone he really wants to get to know better...
Things I enjoy about this show include: the fact that the romance is situated in a wider social circle of interesting characters (including a queer girl! yay!), the plotline about the role of 'hazing' (which is way less than US fraternity models but also intense and physical at times) and how compulsory group bonding can be both good and bad, and the way that the younger guy is also the pursuer and far and away the more confident of the two. It's also nice to know that the actors are very good friends in real life and have their own travelogue show.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): Netflix carries season 1 (SOTUS the series), and the makers GMMTV have put up the whole thing, plus the sequel seasons, onto Youtube. They are in 15 minute chunks with baked-in product placement but a few minutes of car and phone adverts is worth it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWRpfNqQHHg)
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WHAT MAKES IT GREAT:
Nothing whatsoever to do with US politics, this is a delightful show (plus second series (SOTUS S) and another spin-off (Our Skyy) about two guys falling in love at university in Thailand. Do you like enemies-to-friends-to-lovers? Do you like slow burn and yearning? Do you like brash guys being bad at feelings and secretly sweet? Do you like pure trolls who top from the bottom but secretly have feeeeeels? This may be for you.
Kongpob is one of a new class of freshman at a large university. He and his classmates are due to go through 'hazing' by the class two years ahead, where he runs into head hazer Arthit, who is kind of shouty and a bit of a dick. Kongpob decides the best way to get through this is to become flirty as all hell, which confuses Arthit nicely. Except, actually, as Kongpob learns more about the hazing and the reasons why it's undertaken, he starts to see that maybe Arthit is someone he really wants to get to know better...
Things I enjoy about this show include: the fact that the romance is situated in a wider social circle of interesting characters (including a queer girl! yay!), the plotline about the role of 'hazing' (which is way less than US fraternity models but also intense and physical at times) and how compulsory group bonding can be both good and bad, and the way that the younger guy is also the pursuer and far and away the more confident of the two. It's also nice to know that the actors are very good friends in real life and have their own travelogue show.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): Netflix carries season 1 (SOTUS the series), and the makers GMMTV have put up the whole thing, plus the sequel seasons, onto Youtube. They are in 15 minute chunks with baked-in product placement but a few minutes of car and phone adverts is worth it. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWRpfNqQHHg)