Century of Love (2024)

A Century of Waiting for Your Love!!

Love is a powerful thing. It is powerful enough to bridge generations, erase hate, and overcome prejudices. If we let it. Love is powerful enough to bring two people together so intimately that it’s hard to tell where one begins and the other ends.

Thus is the story that the Thai BL Century of Love tells.

Starring Daou Pittaya (San) and Offroad Kantapon (Vee), Century of Love follows a devoted man named San who spends a hundred years waiting for the woman he loves to reincarnate after she died to protect him only for her to return as a man named Vee. This begins an unforgettable love story that becomes much more about who we are and less about the bodies we’re born with.

While I’ll admit I initially had trouble becoming immersed in San and Vee’s story, I found that, with time, San’s love and his interactions with Vee aged well. Ironically, a story about a man who spends 100 years not aging and trying to rediscover his first love becomes a love story that ages slowly on screen before suddenly capturing the heart.

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https://the-bl-xpress.com/2024/08/13/century-of-love-series-review-ep-3-to-10/

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Review after waching until ep 10

after watching ep 1 my first impressions is this series really good. every ep they will give u cliffhanger 😭, until ep 10 damn i hate it but at the same time love it caused this wasnt made me bored. so the story overall is really interesting. for acting , daou offroad are really improve alot in their acting than before. especially daou , for offroad also made it, but still he should pactice in cry scene caused sometime a little bit awkward, i believe he can do it more. i will wait for his next project

for music overall oke but some part too dramatic hahahahah, but drama ost is best lahh , i think many people should notice this

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fantastically tight and entertaining lakorn bl

This is my first 10 star review on MDL and I really can't say enough good things about this show. Century of Love is the perfect example of working within your means to create a really solid, moving and memorable story. Between the charismatic cast, wonderfully witty script, and production that lived within it's means, this series is a definite hit. I almost wish it hadn't been on a twice-weekly release schedule so I would have gotten to enjoy it even longer. I'm new to both DaouOffroad and this production team, so I'm very happy to have a backlog to look and more to come in the future. Highly, highly recommend.

-The Full Review-
STORY:
I'm a certified lakorn enjoyer, so the I absolutely loved the tone of this show. Despite being highly entertaining and largely unserious, Century of Love always picked the perfect moments to ramp up the emotional connection to the story and provide a truly touching and beautiful scene. My favorite episode, episode 7, had me on the absolute edge of my seat and cycling through emotions the entire hour. It was very well balanced to provide joy and laughs without feeling empty or surface level.
In terms of the themes and execution of the reincarnation plot--I was so pleased. This is probably my favorite handling of this particular trope since Until We Meet Again. I've seen some anger at the primary concept (that the female love interest has reincarnated into a man, to the initial discomfort of her former lover) as well as some annoyance at the (in my opinon, minor) mysteries left unsolved at the end... but I don't think these criticisms hold much weight. The writers are careful to give weight to San's struggles and decisions, and his narrative arc is satisfying.
The true jewel in this show's storytelling is the connection to family. It's pretty rare, these days, for a BL to have such a strong ensemble cast (unless that ensemble is same-aged friends). San's and Vee's connections outside of their relationship really elevate the concept of a mature BL and cement their adulthood. It's a rare treat for this genre and one I very much would like to see more of in the future.

ACTING:
I don't have any prior experience with Daou or Offroad, but they both won me over almost immediately. It's a very fun genre for acting-- giving melodramatic, comedic scenes as well as much more realistic and emotional scenes. The balance here and the slide from one moment into the other was very well done.
For Daou, I really enjoyed his handling of the age of his character. While San is over 100 years old, his body and (in many cases) his mind have been static. The contrast between his graceful and wise stature when comforting Juu and his childish and petulant fights with Vee sold the premise well and were quite funny. There was a subtlety to his performance that shouldn't have paired as well with the lakorn styling of the show as it did, but it truly made him feel otherworldly when necessary.
Offroad has a more traditional lakorn acting style, but one that was very suited to his character. Young, passionate, and easily upset by the events of the story, his open-book expressions contrasted Daou's restrained performance perfectly. Their chemistry is quite obvious and exciting. While I sometimes felt like his acting was verging on the overly melodramatic, it never quite reached point. When the scenes truly did hit their most emotional, Offroad delivered a very sincere and affecting performance.
In the ensemble, there were no weak performances. In particular, I was delighted by Cookie and Xiang--both of whom added so much to the humor and heart of the show. I especially enjoyed the moments where Juu and San's age difference became very apparent. I also have to give props to young San who gives a positively hilarious performance. It's probably the most laughter a series has gotten out of me in a singular episode.

PRODUCTION:
I'm infinitely charmed lakorns god-awful SFX, so I found the production of this series to just fine. While the restrictions of the budget were definitely visible in the effects, I think they successfully leaned into a style that allowed the story to move past it. Beyond this, the production was really quite something.
I loved the locations chosen for this show, especially San's house and the Temple. Vibrant, visually interesting, and filled with set dressing that bridges the century gap quite well. Likewise, I thought the costuming was so fun. The cut of San's suits (and the style of clothing Vee began to dress in) was such a fun modernization of his original timeline. I loved the attention to detail there.

INTIMACY:
I really, really like this pair. The intimate scenes are not particularly spicy in this show, but I don't think that fits the tone most of the time anyway. What I found most effective was the way these characters orbited each other. Vee moving with and to San immediately, whenever he was injured was so well done. Likewise, both characters had such a natural way of slotting into one another--my personal favorite being how tightly Vee snuggles up to San after their first time. You could really feel the connection between these characters and their desire to simply be close. Really well done.

In all, I am so pleased with this show. I pick the best of the shows I watch and rewatch them with some friends, and Century of Love has LEAPED to the top of that list of possibilities. I'm so excited to rewatch already and hope this brings nothing but new opportunities to everyone involved. I can't wait to see them again.

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An Epic Lakorn Love Story

A show I found myself waiting in anticipation for each week. With a strong traditional start, an action packed middle and finishing off with a deeply emotional ending… this series is one of my highest ranking series ever. I only wish that the episodes were longer and more of.

The story is different to anything I have seen before, its both fresh and interesting. The pacing and directing of the story is very well done for a 10 episode show. It very much keeps to the traditional buildup of a Thai Lakorn just with two males leads, and I appreciate that.

The acting of all the actors are believable, emotional and translates through the screen. They’re managing the drama, the comdic relief parts and the action scenes amazingly. Offroad and Daou has great chemistry and their scenes together feels natural and warm.

I greatly recommend giving this series a chance and maybe you’ll find one of your favourite series of 2024 too.

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Refreshing take on the reincarnation romance

The two things I thought was interestingly explored was how the familial structure would work with one really long lived immortal relative actively living with his descendants and how the reincarnated soul is completely their own person or even persons separate from their former lives. The weaker elements was how sudden and arbitrary the abilities and the punishments of the miracle stone are. It can heal, which is broad enough that anyone could figure it out. But how did the savant guy suddenly know that he can feed half to San and it would give him exactly 100 years of immortality with him being stricken by pain every midnight, and transforming into a child every 15 days until he is able to find Wat's reincarnation for a blessing/curse breaking ceremony? Maybe a scene of him divining instructions from the goddess or having a instruction book from the ancestors would have tied things together better. Also the youngest generation of the savant guy is pretty much San's best friend, which is kind of odd since San would have been like his uncle, having been part of his family's life for generations and there is no sense of that from their interactions. Also the show doesn't deal with why San deserves the destruction of the healing stone for him? Especially when the story immediately follows into scenes with Vee's terminally ill grandmother, the type of people the stone could be used to help. The stone could be used to heal and help people, but now it's used up for a pretty random guy in the grand scheme of things.

I really liked that Vee and Wat have no memories or any personality quirks or similarities to their past life as 1920's Wat aside from Wat having the same face and that they were incarnations split from the same soul as confirmed by the stone reacting to both of them and they both needed to be present to lift the blessing/curse from San. Vee and San may have been drawn together supernaturally, but they fell for each other on their own terms. Though San didn't treat him very nicely for a lot of their meetings, so maybe Vee may have been more influenced that it seems. It's so fascinating and there isn't much media that I can remember that explores this aside from the mention of splitting souls, which was mostly from older Cantonese supernatural stories. But then the implication is that Wat is somehow exempt from San's promise to love and cherish her in this current life even though she's also the soul that was bound to the promise. The potential for a bisexual polyamorous thruple is just plain ignored. Wat was a rich girl and reborn as a regular guy and a girl that seem to both be in the lower income bracket and both get intwined with San. It would have been nice if the show explored why Wat's soul was split, like as a side effect of her soul being tethered to a rock and a man or something? Doctor Tri is also an interesting case who has also been reborn looking like his past self who was a violent jealous man, but his current self is an amazing friend who goes above and beyond. He didn't really get any karmic punishment that was evident in the storytelling except for falling for Vee in this life as well, but he's also deals with it with the utmost maturity which was really nice to see.

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Storyline

Just finished watching Century of Love. It's was ok
as series go but I have never watched a bl where
crying took over the speaking roles.. bit harsh I know.
I loved both the ML but I fell in love with the young doctor. Off-road when he went through the torturous
scenes with his body looked really convincing not easy to do but he mastered it. Him and Daou were the perfect pairing. As Vee and San.. San aloof..cold..scary
Vee.. Cute.. Sassy full of fun.. both different individuals
but as they say opposites attract. Apart from the bit over the top drama that ensued it was worth a watch.

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I just finished watching the last episode. It was an interesting series, somehow different to the typical high-school/college/university dramas BL dramas, of which especially the Thai industry has produced a ton. Overall the series is watchable, and rather enjoyable. The acting of both lead characters is really very good, with a very good chemistry between them. The secondary cast leaves some skill to be desired, but then again this might be due to director's demands, hard to say. having said this, keep in mind that the acting mainly revolves around whining of one's bad luck, saying how much people love each other, or how greedy people become greedier by the minute. The second kind of acting is simply bad here... I guess, what I'm trying to say, that although I liked it a lot, the versatility of acting skills is quite low, so yeah, very good but sort of boring.

The series kept my uninterrupted attention approximately up until the 7th episode, then it started becoming an emotional dragging, I kept watching out of curiosity what happens in the end. Probably the series would be much better if it was kept shorter (perhaps six episodes), it felt like endless scenes with people whining about their fate (well played, but sort of repeating over and over again), and (and least for my personal taste) too much continuous crying. Additionally there are several logical holes in the story (for example the origin of the descendants of someone who has not have been able to .... use his plumbing..., who is the true reincarnation of Wadfad, how did the bad ill guy come about, etc, etc.

As a whole, the series is not very bad, and can be watched. Nonetheless it does not particularly stand out. Chemistry between the lead characters is excellent, the second characters are caricatured and the plot needs polishing.

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Good Story. Good Acting.

Century of Love is a love story between a man who lived almost for 100 years just to find the reincarnation of his lover who died in his arms but things turned complicated when she turned out to be reincarnated as a man. Now, I am excited for this return of Daou and Offroad together because they are a really good couple and we have seen them really spark so much chemistry together from their first show and they were able to show us a much better range in this one. I am surprised with the acting that they were able to show here because I feel like this is a more mature storyline from what they had before and the writing is also much better than the previous one. This had a more serious tone to it but they were still able to put a lot of cute moments in between especially when the characters are enjoying. Daou’s character is San who lived a long life so he is a more traditional character. This is why him being hesitant to believe that his lover turned into a man is understandable. I don’t think that the character is being prejudice since he never said anything that is against being gay but his character is more concerned that things are more complicated than expected or what he is expecting is not what he received. I understand his hesitation with this and they were really able to handle that well. I like it when things like this make sense and that they are not forcing the chemistry of the characters. The way that this relationship progress is somehow instantaneous but there is a pretty much good reason to it as they were lovers and Offroad’s character who is Wee is dating both men and women. His character’s highlight is not even the relationship with San but his best moments are shared with the grandmother of his in the show. I love the moment when his grandmother is like saying his goodbyes to him and he is just there sobbing. It is such an emotional moment from the show and I feel like it is such an underrated moment as well. The story of this show is more of like weird is some places but it is also talking about their culture which I actually love since we are learning more about them. This is something that we do not get often but we should get more off because they were able to relate the BL storyline so well while comparing modern and traditional values without alienating one from the other. I like this concept that they did because it worked and the characters are all really fun to watch. They had sincerely funny moments and scenes that are just crazy how it happened but let’s be honest and admit that we have seen way worse than this and accepted it so I don’t really mind. I think they were able to use all of the elements well while highlighting so many good things about the story. The actors did an incredible job with their roles and I was not expecting them to be this good actors now. They did not force a long triangle here. It was actually funny and logical how they did it. At the end, I was a fan of Doctor Third and how nice he actually is that I want him to end up with someone. Seriously, this is a good show and they were able to handle the story really well without making it a bit too much. They just added the layers that it needed and nothing was unnecessary. I like it when they do this and it resulted to a really good show to watch.

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