Love Sick 2: The Series (2015)

COULDN'T FINISH

Just to be clear, I liked the First Season. But this was so slow, so repetitive, so contrived. I got frustrated about 10 episodes into it, but watched another 10 before I just had to stop. Endless scenes of people forcing someone to eat when they don't want to. WHY? How does that propel a plot or reveal character or deepen a romance?

It felt like we took a step back on all fronts. First, the direction is not as good. The script is not as good. The acting is not as good. And the story seemed to start all over again, rather than progress. The same things happen over and over again, with the characters repeating themselves each time they do. While the first season felt like a real slice of life, this felt ridiculous. All the fantasy sequences (was that a Brokeback Mountain reference?) were totally unnecessary. The characters don't evolve, so the actors are stuck expressing the same things. This should have been called Groundhog Day, because it was like reliving the exact same scenes on an endless loop. Including a carnival, a christmas fair, a music competition just for the visuals, but where nothing really happens to move the story forward - was just a waste of time. These 39 episodes should have been cut down to 13. Then they would have been jam packed with story and character.

I got really confused around episode 4, when the 2 couple went away. Yu admits that they are not in a real relationship. Yet 16 episodes later, she's still his date for the christmas fair. Why are either of them continuing with something they both know is a sham? There is ZERO pressure on them to stay together.

Similarly, Phun and Aim are troubled, seem to break up, but stay together, even though she's sleeping with a BUNCH of other guys and always nags him about how inattentive he is. Then dump him. You obviously are not into him. He's not into you. You walk out of one man's bedroom, then ask to get back together with your boyfriend? This makes no sense.

While the first season included much more high school life, this became "how many BL couples can we create to maintain your interest- since we''re going to take 52 episodes to have our characters admit the thing they've been feeling since Episode 2." The only side character I really cared about was Earn, since we have known about his crush since last season and his heartache is palpable. At least Win's story dealt with some topical issues but other than that I didn't know enough about his character to truly care.

What's most frustrating is that I like the main couple and would like to see their evolution and hopefully a happy ending for them, but I can't take another 19 episodes to get there.

Sorry fans, I would not recommend this one AT ALL. Too frustrating.

Lire davantage

I really enjoyed the first season. It was one of the first BL dramas that I watched and that made me overlook a lot of things that I could not for the second season after watching some truly outstanding dramas. This is a good show. I enjoyed the first season better. The production imo did not get any better as compared to the first season and that was disappointing considering the huge fan base. Both the main actors have improved, especially Captain (I like him even more outside of this role, he's a hottie when he's not a skinhead) which helps to improve a plot that I felt was meh at best. Everything about the second season to me just seemed ok, nothing was glaringly terrible and nothing was amazing.

Look I, along with everyone else, have always been rooting for Phun/Noh, but it seemed really hypocritical of Phun to be upset with Aim after he has essentially been cheating on her for a year. I am in no way excusing Aim's behavior. I hated this storyline. I wish that Phun and Noh had been honest with their respective gfs and just avoided the entire thing. I was so frustrated! Every BL drama doesn't have to have loads of fan service, but it's annoying and honestly feels like a slap in the face that Captain and White don't actually kiss. I've seen some believable faked kisses in other lackhorns and I would have much preferred a cheekier allusion than the CLEARLY not kissing "kissing" scenes. The first season was glaringly better in this aspect.

I liked Om/Mick, but their storyline felt so clunky and underdeveloped. The rest of the secondary storylines are forgettable. Do watch this if your were a fan of the first season, but I advise curbing your expectations. I honestly have mixed feelings about season 3. My expectations have been slightly raised after watching ReminderS, but I'm still going in with them lowered.

Lire davantage

 
Really enjoyed the humor in this one especially the Brokeback Mountain cutaway and when Noh gets teased by his club mates about Phun, Ohm tells Noh to not get pregnant, and Noh goes 'of course not, I always remember my cycle' I was snorting! XD

So, that I think was the highlight of the series.  It's light and warm and you get involved in the characters lives and their struggles and failures make you grow as they make the characters grow. I just feel like there was no need to stretch it out for 36 full length episodes because then there was a lot of repetitive content and ok let's face it this is something made for guilty pleasure so definitely relies on clichés and tropes but that in itself isn't a bad thing.

The way they did it was pretty good. And I honestly started shipping Win and Per so much! Win did a great job portraying the sadness it broke my heart. And also shipped Ohm and Mic too. And I'm glad Earn came to his senses lol that bathroom scene was adorable.

 What I liked about this series is there's no completely hateful female characters or making them unrelatable villains and I like that the constantly tell you to love a person and not their gender. Anyway, Captain is very much my fave! Out of the 9x9 him and Thanapob! I think they're both solid actors and have amazing potential. I hope to see more of these characters and actors! Hopefully the upcoming season will be on the level of 2 Moons 2 and Love By Chance and Reminders.

Lire davantage

Unfortunately this was a let down after the 1st season. The good: Noh's club still has that group fun & charisma. We get to see a little deeper into some of the members lives. Noh & Phun are still together. The bad: the flashbacks were a MAJOR part in this season. After a certain point I changed the playback speed to 1.5 on youtube. It got so bad I started counting the # of flashbacks, but after 3 in 9 min of an episode I gave up & started fast forwarding the flashbacks. Also, I get product placement but there were some scenes where an advertisment was incorporated into the script. It was very obvious, clumsy and immediately reminded me this is fiction, with actors, trying to sell me on a drink they sell there in Thailand. I kinda regret wasting my time watching this second season :(

Lire davantage

which is the original version Love Sick S2

Well, it's October of 2021 and I am certainly years behind watching the series; just maybe someone out there will see this. I am watching this series on YouTube and am already quite confused? There are more than one versions, so which is correct? I stated with the one called "cut".......not so sure what that means?. it will run several episodes at a time....like 19 thru 32 and the filming is clear and bold and it reads release 2017?.....then i stumbled on the MCOT production....watched a few episodes and realized there were scenes that were not in the other series.....but the quality of the video is grainy and dated released 2020?.....so what company actually made this series?........sure could use some help........thank you, Richard, American Virgin Islands

Lire davantage

The first 6 episodes were rich and full of potential with incredible chemistry between all of its couples and a variety of plots that kept you always entertained.

And then all hell broke loose: with too much concentration around Noh and Phun, which dragged on forever. All of it at the cost of what could have been very fulfilling sidelines... mainly, Pang and Pop, Ohm and Mick, and Win, Per and Mark. These were left hanging never reaching an end.

You will enjoy the first half of the drama very much. After that, it drags on and leaving all sorts of loose ends reaching the most unsatisfactory final episode I have ever seen.

Acting is good. Music is better and rewatch value is an absolutely negative -1. XD.

Lire davantage