Paint with Love (2021)

PROCESS BY PROCESS ROMANCE

The story doesn't kick off with the most intense romance but you can be certain you wont be disappointed.

Watching the trailer I was very much in love with the two main leads especially Singto and now with the progressing moments the lead couple's love story starts to gain momentum.

You can feel the sincerity of the actor's emotions and slowly by slowly you find the couple loveable much as some of the intimate moments to me feel shallow I am still expecting that things would get better slowly and perhaps the characters might mature in the later episodes.

The series is full of funny moments and much as the story tends to wander far away from the original employer employee affair, you slowly get captivated in the tiny moments in a whole the series is less romantic and more funnier.

Definitely the series to get you through a heartbreak because primarily it's love is one which transcends all boundaries.

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I LOVEDDDDD IT

Gonna be honest, I had this for so long in my to watch list that I was't going to watch it anymore but I'm glad I did it because it was damn worth it.
Tae has doing an amazing job as an actor, this show and triage were both amazing.
I don't really need to mention Singto, he's such a great actor, the way he cries is a bless ahahaha
It was amazing to see Maengmum in another project I really missed her chaotic characters.
I really enjoyed this show, the story was amazing, I think the only thing that I didn't liked was the way that Phab was always waiting for Mazze with open arms even when Mazze was the guilty one.
I loved the fact that they didn't focus only on their gay romance but also in another "taboos" like how hard is to be famous, s*xual harassment and love between people of the same family... they also talked a lot about ART and I loved that.
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They did an amazing job making this BL, it really was worth it to watch.

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The main BL couple's story is the weakest link

Paint with Love started off with a funny first episode that sets things up for an enemies-to-lovers story. This worked for me though it may not work for everyone. Unfortunately, what makes it less likely to work for many is the inconsistency in tone for much of the rest of the series. The comedy isn't maintained, and there is something lacking in the BL story.

There is something inadequate about how the main couple became attracted to each other, and when they have sex for the first time, I was left wondering if it would simply turn out to be a one-sided fantasy or a dream: I wasn't sure if Maze was even sufficiently attracted to Phap at that point. Oddly enough, the story of the main couple is developed quite decently until the beach scene when Maze is drunk, and, after that, becomes rather messy.

I prefer the side couple, Tharn and Nueng. I think this is really thanks Yacht, who has portrayed the character of Tharn sensitively. Yoon, who plays Nueng, however, seems to be placed in the series solely for star appeal. Most of the time, he just seems to be going around looking good. This isn't really the actor's fault for there isn't much depth to the characterization of Nueng.

He does seem to be a genuinely nice person most of the time, especially in his interactions with Tharn. What I find perplexing is why he would sometimes go out of his way to irritate Phap, almost as though there is a dark side to Nueng that is waiting to be revealed. Another thing that isn't convincingly portrayed is the relationship between Nueng and Maze. They are more like brothers though Maze has done something in the past to cause a rift between them. Why, though, does Nueng behaves nonchalantly, neither speaking with Maze on particularly friendly terms nor acting in a particularly cold way. It doesn't seem to make sense given the close relationship that they have had.

Eventually, the tension between Maze and Nueng seems to have been written into the story just to give the other characters (and the audience) the impression that Maze and Nueng have been lovers in the past and to have a revelatory twist that shows otherwise. Even then, it is baffling is why Phap gets jealous of Nueng even though he has already found out that Maze and Nueng have a brotherly relationship. The turns in the BL plot for the main couple ultimately seem rather forced.

In fact, I find the other relationships in the series more interesting to watch. This includes the straight couple in the company run by Maze as well as the friendship between Maze, Tharn and Nae. Maybe less is more in this series--it tends to be the characters and relationships with less screen time that are more likable. Even for the Maze/Phap story, a different cut with scenes that serve hardly any purpose would have made it better even though the series would be a few episodes shorter.

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CEO Singto

I'll get directly to the points.
Things I liked about this series:
• CEO, hot headed, grumpy, sometimes blushy and shy Singto. Man my boy looked drop dead gorgeous.
• The plot is different from every BL now and then. There was no typical engineer and architecture college student thingy
• Yacht, the actor who played Than got a different role from playboy, playful p*rn addict college student what he always plays. He has got a lot of potential. They need to use him well. He can nail a couple role as well.
• The friendship between Maze, Than and Tae ( I think her name was not exactly Tae. Please excuse my forgetful mind. The female friend of them). Usually the female characters are portrait as immature delusional shippers but she was childish yet mature at the same time.
• The details they put regarding art.
• The bucket thing in the rain.
• The relationship between Maze and the rooster.

Things I didn't like:
• They dragged the jealousy thing more than it should have.
• Them not talking things among themselves like the adults they are.
• The relationship between Maze and Neung. It wasn't not that deep to begin with and shouldn't have dragged this much.
• The actors who played as a couple ending up as a couple irl might encourage the BL fangirls think that their ship is real.


Overall it was a good watch. I'd probably watch Singto being grumpy over and over again.

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Good story, but a few baffling things later in the series.

Overall this was easy to watch, and not too serious nor too silly. I liked it, but it wasn't as good as other recent series like Tale of a Thousand Stars, Bad Buddy, or 55:15. It was closer to Golden Blood or Call it What You Want, and much better than What the Duck2 or Ghost Runner. The first few episodes are terrific, but later it is just good, not great. I think it is worth watching.

The good:

No engineers or college students, nobody dies (no truck of death), and there aren't many of the usual tropes. The acting is great in general. Yacht does a good job and this is opposite most (all?) his previous roles. Tae's facial expressions are everything, and not something I am used to seeing in Thai dramas. And when did Tae get to be so hot? Or maybe I just wasn't paying attention to him in his other roles? The supporting cast was great, I liked seeing Gun Korawit, C'game, Mild and Bruce. Gun played a role quite different than in his (annoying but cute) 2gether role of Green.

The bad:

The story was great for the first 3/4 or more. And then the episode 9-10 curse hit. There was a misunderstanding about Nueng that ballooned out of control, and caused hurt feelings for both couples. And it is baffling because they established way back in an early episode that Nueng was Maze's stepbrother. Maybe I am assuming something here as I don't speak Thai, but maybe the way they use brother with ('P or Nong) with different meanings (sibling vs polite title for others your age) caused this confusion? In any case, this drug on for way too long, and took away from other content that could have been more positive and fluffy.

In a related item, why couldn't Nueng come clean with his feelings for Tharn instead of waiting for Tharn to confess first? Obviously Tharn wasn't ready to instigate, and Nueng didn't seem to be shy in general. That whole thing was a bit bizarre.

The neutral:

I have mixed feelings about Singto in this role. He is a great actor, and I love almost everything he has been in. I just am not sure he was the angry executive type. I could believe him to be fastidious or to be very rigid in his daily routines, maybe they should have played that aspect up more. But when he starts ordering people around and being nasty, it isn't quite as believable. Singto seems to do better with emotional roles, or more shy roles, and that is because it is probably closer to his real life personality. The pairing with Tae is good, I think Singto needs a strong personality to counteract his softer, quieter one which Tae provides.

They could have spent more time in the last couple episodes about the couple's relationships instead of some of the side plots and other filler material. Not sure if that is an editing decision, or just a shortcoming of the story?

The side plot of Kuea and Elle relationship was mostly filler in my opinion. It didn't add or detract from the story, and maybe that is the problem. Why have that romance if they didn't add anything to the outcome? The actors did a good job, but it didn't help advance the main plot much if at all.

They also could have left out or changed the Pookky getting beat up storyline. If they would have rewritten that to expose her greed and evil in a different way, I think it would have come across better. Like have all her clients fire her, and show how she was extorting everyone. Or let her "dig her own grave" so to speak, let karma take hold where she accidentally shows everyone how bad she really is.

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Had Potential

Overall, this was a disappointment, given its initial promise. It had many things going for it, but in the end the writing, or lack thereof, reduces this to a mediocrity.

Tae's Phap was a really original and different character, and he and Singto were a good odd couple. This doesn't follow the standard seme-uke formula - their personalities are what are opposites, not their appearances and sexual positions. Their appearances are of course opposites, but that's a reflection of their personalities, not the masculine-feminine polarity we usually get.

The story is actually funny at first, with a fairly clever cockroach cam in the first episode, but the humor is unforunately dumped later on for the usual unnecessary implausible miscommunication-based melodrama.

it feels like this was a 10-episode story that was dragged out to 12, forcing Maze to cease his development in Ep 9 and backtrack, which just made him seem like an asshole and ruined the audience's desire to see them together. At the beginning, Maze has real reason to be furious with Phap and frustrated with him. When he returns to that state in Ep 9, it's just depressing and made me not care anymore.

Even the ending, when Phap returns, there's apparently a plan, but what it was I have no idea - have Phap act like Maze for no apparent reason?

Phap isn't really given much backstory, which I suppose isn't critical as he's a care-free artist - but Maze really needed one. We do get his central motivation and the reason why in the very last part of the last episode, but as there was no build up to it, it was too late to have any meaning.

Also, the central conflict for both couples is the relationship between Maze an Nueng which is confusing. Maybe there's a subtitle problem, but their relationship seems pretty clear and it's incomprehensible how Phap and Tharn can misunderstand it - especially Phap, who had it explained to him.

One thing I will say - it's more or less revolutionary that all the characters are jealous over other men instead of the usual women thrown in for no apparent reason other than to add some unwelcome heteronormativity.

The time wasted on incomprehensible drama could have been invested in the secondary couple, which were so unfleshed-out that it was difficult to care about them, other than Yacht being so adorable. They are never really integrated into the story - they're more or less just nailed to it. And with no context, they're just two guys who show up and won't tell each other how they feel but like each other for reasons that aren't ever discussed.

It's not all bad - it tries a lot of new things, the characters are original and interesting (at least at first), and the first half of the series is very engaging and charming. Tae is the real standout, playing an impish and odd artist - we've really never seen anything like this before and it was very refreshing. It's a pity they derailed his character in Ep 9.

It's worth watching just for Tae, but I wouldn't go in with any great expectations.

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Paint With a Jerk

Overall: We have the enemies to lovers trope along with the fastidious/uptight guy and the messy/carefree guy. I watched the first 6 episodes and then reactions to the rest

Content Warnings: sexual harassment, non con touching/posing, a punch, throwing an item at another person

What I Liked:
- I did laugh out loud at a few parts, mainly Phab who is #bestboy
- fun flirting and also burns in return
- I thought the actors did a good job with a bad script
- overall production value was pretty good except a couple of camera shots that I didn't like

Room For Improvement:
- the main issue is that I can't empathize with a jerk character who is a jerk and the reason is not shown, there is slow or no character growth until right at the end and then they are happily ever after with their former tormentor. Episode 6 and the preview for episode 7 made me drop this for now. Calling someone "stupid" and saying "you f*cking suck" and then throwing and hitting them with an object, nope (and before that, wth were those alarms/dumb schedule)
- the relationship between Maze and Nueng was so bizarre, when there was a perfectly reasonable explanation (and they should have been clear at the beginning to show why Maze has closed himself off so much)
- the cliche 'I don't remember anything last night although I totally remember what happened'
- that hotel manager plot was bizarre and not needed, also he didn't really have any consequences
- the basically blackmailing him, totally not realistic contract, someone can't just say they are your manager and take 40%
- was not feeling the side couple, wish Green had played Nueng
- I think I was not really understanding some of the plot at the beginning, what exactly Maze was doing
- that firefighter carry inside the art studio was odd
- the punch was also odd, I think they could have choreographed it right before but then one of them messed up the choreo. I would have liked that reason more than the reason they gave.
- taking pictures and posting to social media without approval, nope
- I'm not into the stereotypical/cliche scheming trans woman character

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Não é perfeita, mas diverte

Eu gostei muito da série e fiquei surpresa quando vi como a nota tá baixa e o tanto de comentários negativos, pq no geral, eu gostei muito e me entreteve bastante. Vi uns comentários falando que o relacionamento era abusivo, mas eu achei bem ok pro nível BL (qualquer série da mame comete 37 crimes e infringe 40 direitos humanos e mesmo assim elas são super populares), sem falar que o Phap é um dos semes mais de boas que ja vi em lakorn, não comete abuso, não tem estupro, nem consentimento duplo, é sempre tudo 100% consentido e ele é super cadelinha do Maze e eu gosto disso. Já o maze não achei abusivo como falam, só um pouco tsundere, não gostei várias vezes de coisas que ele fez, mas nada que me fizesse gostar menos da série.

Eu concordo com os comentários que dizem que algumas coisas não fazem sentido, principalmente em relação a forçação do Maze com o Nueng... pq cara, se duas pessoas são irmãos (mesmo que não sejam de sangue) quem ia achar que tem algo entre eles???? E na cena lá do presente de aniversário não entendi pq o Nueng agiu daquela forma, não tem nada que me convença de que aquilo foi plausível. Enfim, é real que a série tem diversos furos e alguns problemas de continuidade, mas meu ponto é que ela me entreteve até o fim. Eu sou fã de BL há muito anos e recentemente vem saindo uns tão entediantes que eu nem consigo terminar de ver. Paint with love, mesmo com seus defeitos, foi legal e divertida de assistir.

Outros pontos que gostei foram os dois protagonistas de pele mais escura, coisa rara em lakorn, o casal secundário tbm é bem fofo (já tava na hora de alguém fazer um bl sobre atores de bl que se apaixonam), tbm gostei muito da Nae, fiquei o tempo todo achando ela a cara da Yihwa de Bad Romance e no fim era mesmo ela kkkk (estou destinada a amar as patricinhas que ela faz). Além disso, ter o Singto pesa no meu julgamento porque eu adoro ele e a trilha sonora também é muito legalzinha.

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Gets more hate than it deserves

I read a few reviews, and a friend even told me not to watch this, but I love Singto so I tried it anyway. Overall, I enjoyed it. I've enjoyed shows with less depth than this one, and the actors really drew me in. Obviously Singto is great, but Yacht is also precious, and Tae is pretty good too (It's my first time seeing him). There is a scene where Maze gives over control to Phap for one surprisingly sensual moment and when I tell you my heart went doki doki and I had to pause to breathe after....

tl;dr at the bottom.

One of the main things I've seen people say is that Maze (Singto) isn't likeable, that he doesn't grow, and that he's an asshole. They also say they know nothing about him and he's one-dimensional. Let me add my 2 cents.

Maze is a no-nonsense businessman. He puts his company first and tries to do what is best for his business and friends. Besides that, however, Maze is easily flustered (although he tries to hide it) and gets nervous about physical touch. He's a workaholic who needs to be coerced into having fun sometimes and also he needs hugs. He's afraid of failure and being told he's not good enough. He's afraid of opening his heart because he thinks people will leave him eventually after he lost 3 parents and thought he lost his brother. And yes, he's a petty, jealous little sass master sometimes, and I love him. Some say he was mean until the end, but Maze was just too proud and too scared to admit that he liked Phap out loud. Singto gave him a lot of nuance and heart. Also the costume department needs a raise for all of his accessories and fancy clothes. At least once an episode, I sent my sister a message saying "God Bless the costume department."

Phap is awkward and makes me annoyed when he fails to be professional and follow directions. But he loves Maze a lot. I felt a lot less nuance from his character, but he was a good guy and he did do his best as an employee for Maze.

Where the show fell flat for me was the side couple. Yacht brings a lot of emotion to his role and cannot be faulted, but I cannot say the same for Yoon. Yoon was stereotypical and I felt no chemistry from him for anyone. Yacht was in love with no reciprocation, except apparently there was? Yeah, I didn't buy it. Also, Tharn's manager, Pookie, is a bitch and a scandal waiting to happen. While I didn't approve of them saying Pookie deserved to be beaten up, I doubt anyone would have jumped in to stop it in real life either. And then Pookie tried to throw Tharn under the bus for it as though he struck her, even though he helped her up and stayed with her after the fight.

A minor issue for me was the continuing misunderstanding that Maze was in love with Nueng. Sure, I also though he was at first, but as soon as we found out the real reason for the awkwardness, it would have been nice if everyone else in the show could have stopped acting like Maze wanted to sleep with his step-brother.

Another reviewer said Maze made up the video that took down Pookie, but that wasn't what I heard. Maze "wrote the script", but the story was real as far as I understood. They had to bribe the other actor to come out and admit he was nearly assaulted, but as far as I can tell, the whole story was true. We know Pookie is a liar and a drama magnet, so I'm not sure why other viewers are assuming Maze made that up. "Writing the script" is what Maze does. He knows how to present facts and persuade people.

tl;dr?
Basically, I think the show is getting a lot of hate for small things or misunderstandings. Sure I don't know the backstory of every character and all of their idiosyncrasies, but I don't get that from most shows. I enjoyed this show for what it was (and for Singto. Definitely for Singto. Singto is flawless).

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