Ron Does Stuff

I can’t believe I’m actually going to finish watching a scripted series! This is it, the last episode!

In the penultimate episode, we saw Mudmee and Half commit to a long-distance relationship, while Kongthap and Atom are hoping that they can still be together in Bangkok.

The Homosexuals™ are doing all they can to stick together, even going to a Japanese shrine in Thailand to make a wish. But Atom is so pessimistic that he feels like all signs are pointing to him and Kongthap having to be in a long-distance relationship. Kongthap isn’t having it, though, and lifts Atom up from his negative thoughts.

And just to spice things up a little further, Kongthap tells him that he’s looked into dormitories for two people that are near the university. They can have anal all they want now! Atom goes to the entrance exams in a good mood…but that doesn’t mean he’s going to pass.

It doesn’t help that when he meets up with the rest of the gang, everyone seems pretty confident about their chances except for him. But it looks like Atom wants to take on all of the possible challenges in his life today as he tells Kongthap that he wants the two of them to be open to their families as well. Babe, pass the entrance exams first!

Kongthap asks Atom to tell his mother first, but Atom doesn’t think his mother is as nice as Kongthap’s, so Kongthap the Top takes the initiative and asks Atom to have dinner with him and his mom.

Over at the heterosexual side of the world, Mudmee’s two friends who gave her bad advice the last time continue the tradition and give her bad advice again. They’re virgins who can’t drive, Mudmee, why are you even listening to them!

The virgins think that Half is cheating on Mudmee and wouldn’t you know it they just run into Half talking to another girl. Which turns out to be his driving instructor so he can drive on over to Mudmee’s university later on. He is literally not going to be a virgin who can’t drive once he goes to university.

Over at Kongthap’s house they’re feeding his pussy as they muster up the courage to come out to Kongthap’s mom. Once dinner starts, it looks like Kongthap’s mom is cool with the gays but maybe she isn’t? Essentially she says Kongthap’s a doormat who can’t say no to people and that Atom probably turned him or something. But she says it in that passive-aggressive way moms do!

Atom still can’t admit that he’s going out with Kongthap and instead asks Kongthap’s mom instead who she wants her son to go out with. She says she wants someone competent and smart, which immediately rules Atom out. I’m kidding.

And I know they’ve hinted at disapproving parents since the wishing mountain episode but I can’t help but feel like this is a tagged on conflict? Did they have to fill an episode number requirement? I know I wanted the Japanese original to just have a couple of episode more just to see Aoki and Ida being happy and domestic but this Thai version makes me wish it had less episodes.

It’s just that this conflict is so…tired. Unless you go full on camp with it. But all it feels like is a rehashed Love of Siam without any of the depth. I am not exactly a fan of it. The way Atom reacts to the possibility of Kongthap’s mother not liking him literally makes me hate him and I never really felt that for Aoki.

At the graduation, there’s a whole hullabaloo when Atom finally confesses and says he’s going to become the right man for Kongthap and I honestly was skipping parts of it. I’ve tuned out. This is so unnecessary. I guess the only pro is that Kongthap’s mom doesn’t disapprove of the homosexuality.

Then we get the heterosexuals and what I assume is a car product placement? I don’t fucking know. Then we get them checking out if they got accepted into their chosen universities and they do. Big whoop.

And you know that this show has lost me when a scene I’d normally find moving — Atom’s mom being grateful that he finally came out to her because she wants to be the kind of parent that her children trusts — makes me want to skip forward instead.

There’s a whole scene where they leave mementos for their future selves to visit and I’m just over it.