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Amazing.. but it's complicated
Last Twilight is one of those series you start preparing for the worst, only to be pleasantly surprised, then get whacked in the face with emotional turmoil, and finally finish it and lean back into your seat feeling like you're disgustingly single (even more than when you started).
What can I say, it's just that good. The acting is honestly out of this world, and don't take that lightly. I especially took note of Mhok's actor, I've seen him in Bad Buddy but he didn't shine as much back then. Here, his eyes are so expressive and he sells his part SO WELL. The rest of the cast is also great ofc, the woman who plays the mom was giving it her all with the crying scenes omg.
The story is tender yet bold, taking on the challenge of following a disabled character. Since Moonlight Chicken, I'd been wishing GMMTV would release another series with a similar protagonist, just to broaden the spectrum of experiences that they portray. Day is immensely charismatic, he demands your affection but not your pity, and he grows so much throughout the series by learning to live with his blindness and crafting his life around it. I liked the book concept, how they follow Me's story to reflect on Day's situation in a poetic manner. The twilight metaphor is beautiful once you come to understand it as the audience.
Mhok and Day's relationship develops naturally and with an incredible amount of chemistry. They are so so good together. I cannot stress this enough. And the supporting cast does an amazing job at adding depth to the plot with their respective stories. This is one of the few series where I've rated episodes a 5/5.
There were multiple things I was not a fan of. Frustratingly, Last Twilight loses me towards the end -in the last three or two episodes. A series that has championed natural and grounded relationships suddenly loses its grip and starts throwing tropes at you -the 'going abroad' trope, the 'breaking up in the second to last episode' trope, the misunderstanding and miscommunication. It was disappointing. And, in the last episode, things go by so fast and characters change their minds so quickly that it gives me whiplash (I'm looking at you, Day).
The thing is this: last episode, and they haven't seen each other for THREE YEARS. That's a looong ahh time to not see a person. But they somehow reconnect as if nothing happened. The problem they had three years prior is still there, even if you still like each other! Mhok is still overprotective and too worried that he'll lose Day. And, honestly, it feels like they ran out of time to develop their relationship at that point and had to shove their reconciliation in a very short timeframe, making it feel rushed. Realistically, there would be tension. Realistically, they would have to talk things out -Mhok's fear of losing his loved ones, his approach to Day's disability, etcetera. But they didn't do any of that.
And finally: the end. I'll just be clear and say that I'm not visually impaired, and therefore don't know shit about the matter. But, as an audience member who grew attached to Day and his struggles, who watched him grow and accept and evolve, the ending felt completely out of the blue and, honestly, disrespectful to people who *are* blind for life, without a cure. Why did I just sit through -probably more than- twelve hours of content, following Day and his complicated relationship with blindness, only for it to just *go away* magically at the end, and "solve all his problems"? He literally says in the end that he now has a "normal" life, that his story has ended differently than Me's, who "fades away" in the book. How is that supposed to be satisfying as a viewer? All that growth and in the end is just like, "nevermind, here, you can be normal again," and it's all undermined??? I just think that if I were blind and heard that there's a new series with a blind protagonist and started watching, only for him to be "cured", I would be disappointed. It's like making a movie about a weelchair-bound person and have them walk by the end, after they've already come to terms with their situation and embraced it.
I'm not saying that blind people should stay blind if given the chance to better their sight. But, in this case, they had the chance to write a beautiful story about a *permanently* blind person, and show that you can live with it and find love and not be miserable. Live a "normal life".
I realize this last part was a rant lol. But yeah, good series overall. One of the best from GMMTV.
What can I say, it's just that good. The acting is honestly out of this world, and don't take that lightly. I especially took note of Mhok's actor, I've seen him in Bad Buddy but he didn't shine as much back then. Here, his eyes are so expressive and he sells his part SO WELL. The rest of the cast is also great ofc, the woman who plays the mom was giving it her all with the crying scenes omg.
The story is tender yet bold, taking on the challenge of following a disabled character. Since Moonlight Chicken, I'd been wishing GMMTV would release another series with a similar protagonist, just to broaden the spectrum of experiences that they portray. Day is immensely charismatic, he demands your affection but not your pity, and he grows so much throughout the series by learning to live with his blindness and crafting his life around it. I liked the book concept, how they follow Me's story to reflect on Day's situation in a poetic manner. The twilight metaphor is beautiful once you come to understand it as the audience.
Mhok and Day's relationship develops naturally and with an incredible amount of chemistry. They are so so good together. I cannot stress this enough. And the supporting cast does an amazing job at adding depth to the plot with their respective stories. This is one of the few series where I've rated episodes a 5/5.
There were multiple things I was not a fan of. Frustratingly, Last Twilight loses me towards the end -in the last three or two episodes. A series that has championed natural and grounded relationships suddenly loses its grip and starts throwing tropes at you -the 'going abroad' trope, the 'breaking up in the second to last episode' trope, the misunderstanding and miscommunication. It was disappointing. And, in the last episode, things go by so fast and characters change their minds so quickly that it gives me whiplash (I'm looking at you, Day).
The thing is this: last episode, and they haven't seen each other for THREE YEARS. That's a looong ahh time to not see a person. But they somehow reconnect as if nothing happened. The problem they had three years prior is still there, even if you still like each other! Mhok is still overprotective and too worried that he'll lose Day. And, honestly, it feels like they ran out of time to develop their relationship at that point and had to shove their reconciliation in a very short timeframe, making it feel rushed. Realistically, there would be tension. Realistically, they would have to talk things out -Mhok's fear of losing his loved ones, his approach to Day's disability, etcetera. But they didn't do any of that.
And finally: the end. I'll just be clear and say that I'm not visually impaired, and therefore don't know shit about the matter. But, as an audience member who grew attached to Day and his struggles, who watched him grow and accept and evolve, the ending felt completely out of the blue and, honestly, disrespectful to people who *are* blind for life, without a cure. Why did I just sit through -probably more than- twelve hours of content, following Day and his complicated relationship with blindness, only for it to just *go away* magically at the end, and "solve all his problems"? He literally says in the end that he now has a "normal" life, that his story has ended differently than Me's, who "fades away" in the book. How is that supposed to be satisfying as a viewer? All that growth and in the end is just like, "nevermind, here, you can be normal again," and it's all undermined??? I just think that if I were blind and heard that there's a new series with a blind protagonist and started watching, only for him to be "cured", I would be disappointed. It's like making a movie about a weelchair-bound person and have them walk by the end, after they've already come to terms with their situation and embraced it.
I'm not saying that blind people should stay blind if given the chance to better their sight. But, in this case, they had the chance to write a beautiful story about a *permanently* blind person, and show that you can live with it and find love and not be miserable. Live a "normal life".
I realize this last part was a rant lol. But yeah, good series overall. One of the best from GMMTV.
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