2gether The Series (2020)

Overhyped

Some people might hate me for this but I do not think it deserves its hype. I watched every episode religiously on GMMTV hoping that by some episode I would think "Wow this is amazing", but alas that day did not come. What killed it for me is that the storyline is overused and bland. A drama set in a university setting? Already have seen this 15 million other times. Next! A drama about a straight guy turned gay in the span of what? Like a few months(I don't remember)?. Ok you mean like every other bl drama in existence. Next! But I guess GMMTV is smart because I keep crawling back to watch this type of drama despite bashing it 24/7. I like Bright and Win but the acting did not do anything for me. Despite this, I give them the benefit of the doubt for the fact that they haven't been acting in these type of shows for the longest. All in all it was another cookie cutter drama that will unfortunately won't stick in my head for any other reason than Bright and Win's handsome faces.

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I've been an avid watcher and reader of BL stories, my first Thai bl series was 2gether the series, I've heard the series and it was really hyped up, so I went to watch it, at the first episodes you really feel the spark but when the episodes goes by, it slowly loses it's spark, I was really disappointed when in the last episodes they squeezed the conflict and ending, which made it looked rushed and not appealing, I didn't like that even though Sarawat knew that his boyfriend is uncomfortable with his ex-gf he still continued to talk to her etc. They did not do justice with the side couples, they literally threw them aside, ManType and FrankDrake deserved better, they should've developed more and have more screen time, because in the end they looked forced and really rushed. I also hoped that the friends of the leads should also been emphasized more to show more connection between the main leads. Overall, I think that 2gether the series is overhyped to the point that it covers the noticeable flaws that can be seen throughout the series, it's not the best bl series, there are so many bl that are overlooked. If you want to watch thai bl or a beginner , you should start from Sotus, Theory of love, Dark Blue Kiss, etc. They are definitely worth watching and the hype!

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2gether The Series

It started to be a promising light college romance between two handsome students, built up their relationship, but ended flat after episode 10. The two other side couples have more chemistry than the main.

Acting wise, Bright needs to attend more acting workshop. Some scenes look like he didn't like to do the project at all. Sounds like a recipe for Christmas Party (hamon).

It should've ended on Episode 10 on a high note or extend boyfriend moments, not create unnecessary drama. Nevertheless this is a story writing problem and can't blame the actors for it.

It's more of a straight bromance series in the end than a BL. Thanks to the good looking main leads that make the series so popular.

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you have to consider to watch this series

first, in early episode i really love this series. the story when tine and sarawat become a fake couple is really good, but after episode 6, the stories become bland and meh... imo sarawat and tine become so awkward when doing intimate scenes eventhough they've been a couple not fake couple anymore.
if i have to be honest, The Untamed who has supposed to be Bromance drama is more romance than this series. even when the untamed is'nt have a kiss , i could see and sense the romantic feeling with wei ying and lan zhan. but with 2gether even when they kiss or just pat a head or even they've declared that they are couple, i can't sense anything related a romance.

Overall : i dissapointed with this series progress
definitely won't rewatch again

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started off well, ended poorly

Im ashamed to call myself a bright(win) stan when I haven't finished this series, but I just couldn't watch any further because I was scared that I would only get (more) disappointed. You may be wondering how I know this ends badly when I stopped at episode 9, 4 eps before the end, but trust me I know how this story ends. I'm just not keen on seeing it play out.

This series was the standard case of the leads having more chemistry and couple-like scenes when they were flirting/not 2gether, than when they were finally "dating". I call it "dating" because it just seemed more like an awkward "no-homo-bro...but—" bromance, instead of two guys, who acknowledge that they're gay/attracted to each other, dating each other officially.

It was just cringe.

This show on its own is cringe, but not so much that it's hard to swallow down. It helps that the leads are hot, and that they mostly are really trying. But, bro, this show was lowkey a mess (in terms of both plot, and chemistry).

Now the plot could be shit for all I care, what I stick around for is the chemistry (most of the times.....TharnType I'm looking at you....) but this show fell flat in terms of chemistry so much.

Sure, both the lead actors are straight but I never asked them that? Harsh but true. Don't let me know bro. Then I feel sorta awkward/bad bearing witness to Win's uncomfortable smile while they're hugging or something. Win is cute because msot of the times his face shows exactly what he's feeling, but then- it also shows EXACTLY what he's feeling, and in most scenes **quiet discomfort**. Bruh, I dont wanna be watching a show where the leads have the same energy both off and on camera. It's Win being uncomfy most times (whenever its about like more romantic stuff) and Bright either seeming not to mind, or seeming to because it's making Win go "ęughghdh....."

But anyways, this show is cute. It's something to watch if you wanna see an attempt at making a BL with the best aesthetics, but pretty bad execution. Many scenes are AWKWARD ASF, but I feel like these actors genuinely tried their best, and for Win's first series, and Bright's first BL, it wasn't HORRIBLE. Many of the side characters were great (Green's actor, Gun, love you <3 So hilarious XD You could tell he was genuinely getting a kick outta that role lmao. Also, Tine's friend group all shares half a brain cell and I was living for it. This show is great, when it DOESN'T try to be a BL. Yikes). The crew must have worked hard, and I can only hope the next BLs we get can top this. At least there's gonna be a sequel!

But, if S2 isn't 10x better and more natural I'm suing for damages. Peace out.

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Sarawat and Tine are perfect together. They are both cute. The story is awesome and I want more!!!!!!

This is my first Thai BL story I watched, at first, I thought this is just a so-so series where that main characters do clumsy and act cute for the viewers. But man, I'm wrong. I got invested to it. I love how the characters are unapologetically in love with each other. I love how it was not overly sexualised like most of the gay films I watched. And less dramatic. They are just simply cute and lovin' it. No wonder this series trend and have so many fans. Bright and Win are so cute and act awesomely together.

I would really recommend this for everyone.

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A Fallen Star

Things I appreciated:

1/ GMM always has a great budget behind their projects lately, and they also have good directors and staff in their company. As such, the drama's production value was good. The cinematography was very good, the background music was nicely placed and didn't feel overbearing, the editing of the scenes that were shown was done well as well.

2/ Win Metawin is a wonderful actor. His ability to act out emotional scenes was really impressive.

3/ Apart from him, most of the other actors such as Toptap, Gun (Gus), Mike, Khaotung, etc — also did a very good job at playing their roles.

Things I didn't like:

1/ Yes, Bright may be a very handsome individual and just watching him on the screen with the light just falling on his brown hair giving off a halo might just take everyone's breath away — but I can still not ignore the fact that he didn't do as well of a convincing job playing a man in love with Tine.

I think that Bright can do dark or grey roles very well. But playing a cute romantic role is still not something he has mastered, and then add his pair being a man.

He just couldn't do it well for me. He seemed like the weak link and had a choice of 2-3 expressions in his face all the time.

2/ Sarawat and Tine seemed more bromance than Chinese pairs in actual dramas tagged bromance like "Advance Bravely" and "The Untamed" — even though they smacked lips twice. Chemistry? Nowhere to be found if looked with open eyes. Level 100 delulu required.

Moreover, in the end, Wat made the mistake, then wrote a song that portrayed him as the victim, sang it in front of a large audience — again, making himself the victim — then pretended to act as if he was the hurt one and Tine was the heartless one. Sis. That was not fair.

3/ Man and Type were the only couple that was the highlight of this show. Even though they didn't even kiss once, their love and affections were more convincing than Sarawat and Tine whose chemistry was almost nonexistent.

4/ Mil and Kong should not have ended up together. Kong was just a second choice for Mil, and no one should be an option. Once again GMM has done FrankDrake major dirty.

5/ The drama seemed to deserve the hype for the first 1/3 of the drama. Then it just dropped down in quality (plot-wise and chemistry wise) and stared to feel underwhelming and overhyped.

6/ Also, while I enjoy some of Scrubb songs. I got tired of listening to Scrubbs entire discography by the end of this show.


That is all. If you enjoyed it, I am happy for you. For me, though, this is average. And overhyped.

I gave it a 7/10 even though the review thing suggests I give it a 7.5 for ManType.

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If only the series was good as the lead’s faces! Such a let down.
I would suggest watching this series for these reasons :
1. Misery loves company, so watch n join my pain and disappointment.
2. The first few episodes were so good and almost made you believe that there was no COVID in this worldand gave you hope to live.
3. The lead actors are so good looking with beautiful hair.
4. Scrubb songs that you will be introduced to.
5. Last but not the least and the best reason - so you can understand and then read the reviews here and their comments, it’s hilarious. I wish one of these reviewers were the script writers.

2020 really is ruining everything, I don’t think we can blame the director or scriptwriters.

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I went in to this thinking "just another BL, nothing special" but already after Episode 1 [2/4] I knew this was something I'd look forward to every week. It's so wholesome, cute, beautiful and some comedy on top. I have to admit that I was a bit unsure after the first part of episode 1 but that feeling quickly left me and now I wake up every day, counting down the days until the next episode comes out. There's no toxic behaviour from any of the characters (so far, and I would be surprised if it didn't stay that way) and the way everything is played out is just beautiful. The way Tine (played by Win Metawin) isn't weird about same sex couples and himself is not shutting down possibilites is refreshing as many BL series doesn't have that.

The cast is really good but I have to talk about Bright Vachirawit (as Sarawat), Win Metawin (as Tine) and Gunsmile Chanagun (as Boss). The way Bright portrays the emotions of Sarawat is gold. You can clearly see how he's feeling the deeper into the show and plot we're going. For it being Win's first series, he's really professional and he's really delivering the overly energized Tine. As well as Bright, the deeper into the plot we're going, you can clearly see in his eyes what he's actually feeling despite him saying otherwise/nothing. As for Gunsmile, he never fails to bring up the mood. Hilarious guy and in all comedy roles I've seen him in, he's always delivering. He's playing Munggorn in Sotus and what's there not to love about the dude?

The OSTs are lovely. I haven't skipped the intro once, just so I get to hear one of the OSTs. All OSTs are on my spotify playlists and I actually said this to my friend today, "I love ALL the music so much, even these music "breaks" during some scenes. I just love it!". Not much to say about them more than that they're really great.

Will I ever rewatch it? Already have, twice. It's so wholesome and a really nice break from what's going on around in the world right now. 2gether had brought me nothing but genuine happiness (my mouth literally hurts from smiling!!) and I couldn't wish for anything else right now. With everything on the news, this weird situation where I'm doing online classes and my parents work from home every now and again, it's a really nice escape. Now that we're all pretty much stuck at home and can't really go out to meet friends every day, I recommend giving this show a shot. There's really nothing to lose.

Honestly, I'm off go rewatch it now. If I had to rate this out of all thai series I've ever watched, it's safe to say that it makes top 2. (Until We Meet Again still has my heart + it's different to compare 2gether and UWMA as they're so different)

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I don't know where to start with this series. Novel of this series had so much detailed and very intense love scenes but in series it is way far from romance its just brotherly love and at star you will like their (bight and win) cute attraction to one another but after they are a couple you will just observe a brotherly love I mean me and my friends were discussing and every one agreed that at least there could have been an intensive kiss and small details like touching neck or checks and all that and the BIG MISTAKE was in LAST EPISODE I think it was filmed before even most of the episode when they had no chemistry thats why Last Episode had ZERO Chemistry. They ruined a greater story-line with good actors

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This was the first BL I watched, so I held it in pretty high regard the first time that I watched it. This show has gotten a lot of hate since it's release, some of it is understandable.

Firstly, some of the actors get a lot of hate for this show but I don't think the acting is the problem. The characters in the show are pretty 2-Dimensional, we don't really know anything about them outside of what is happening in that moment. We do get some backstory with Sarawat, but it's just to show that he's been in love with Tine all this time. I love the cast so much, I think they did the best they could given their roles.

There's a lot of talk that this is more of a bromance than a BL, and I had a hard time understanding why until recently. But, I don't think it's for the reasons that many people think. First, sometimes I think people use the bromance criticism whenever there's not a lot of skinship in a drama. That's not the only reason some people call this a bromance drama, but it is part of it and in my opinion skinship doesn't make or break a drama. I think Bright gets a lot of hate for this role because he's "too straight to play a gay man" (which is ironic, because Bright isn't straight). Bright was not the one I had a hard time believing, sometimes it seems like Win doesn't feel comfortable playing a gay man. And not in a homophobic way, just in that this was his first big role and he had a hard time playing the part of a gay man. I will say, they definitely looked more comfortable playing a couple in Still 2gether. That isn't to say Win's acting is bad in 2gether, I actually think he did a great job. I just, personally, had a harder time believing Tine liked Sarawat compared to the other way around.

The unfortunate thing with this drama, was that it had a promising start and the writers added unnecessary drama in the end which ruined the drama for a lot of people. I was watching this when it was coming out, I remember watching fans' opinions change in real time because of the last two episodes. From my understanding, Pam wasn't even meant to be a villain from the books. They just made Tine jump to conclusions for no reason. I personally felt like Man and Type had a more satisfying ending than the main leads. I think the writers even recognized that, because they spent the first 20 or so minutes of Still 2gether explaining/justifying the end of 2gether.

Overall, I don't think it's the best BL ever, but it's a cute watch. It's kind of my baseline BL, simply because it was my first. It's not my favorite, but it's comforting to rewatch (as long as I pretend that it ends on episode 11).

Also, please understand that this review is based in my personal opinion.

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