Entre Nosotros (2022)

Don’t compare it to it’s prequel Until we meet again.

No action, no mystery - like in the prequel. Watch this first and then UWMA is my advice. I must say that I like this also novel based series a lot more.
Several couples, where the main story between Win/Team gets more attention than the other. Great acting and chemistry between the 2 main leads, Boun and Prem. The need a bit of a free hand in the script/acting to give their combined acting potential a super boost - like in episode 11. This was I think not the case in another of their series: Even sun - I didn’t end watching this series.
The depth in this series lies in emotional problems/characters and development in this area. There is attention for thoughts about the heavy consequences of being famous for a private live through the story of Prince/Bee. There’s als attention for starting to know each other online and making the step to a real relation (Wan/Tul). I like it that there was room for a non-BL couple (Manow ❤️/Pruek). The acting from all actors was good. Special attention from me for the 3 fiends A, Bee and Sea. Always worth a good laugh.
Great OST from Boy Sompob.

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Not bad at all but plenty of room for improvement

I have seen UWMA and that’s how I came across Hemp Rope. Expectations were built from 3 year wait for this series.
For new artists, the two lead obviously improved in their acting from UWMA. Facial expressions and the pauses in speaking need to improve for all casts. Find it common with Thai series the weird pauses before speaking like they are waiting for a cue to speak and this is during emotionally driven scenes. Awkward to look at. Team being a cutesy, whiny character seems not fitting - it is a college setting. The whining could have been toned down.
The story is good - relating to mental issues and it’s effect on people around us and our own life.
I became a shipper for the WinTeam because of the excellent fan-service these two provide. They are being r their real selves while honestly providing fanservice.
The production for this is great. The hard work is obvious. I believe wardrobe is alright. I just wish they were dressed appropriately for some of the scenes. This is supposed to be college scenario but in some scenes wardrobe is more for teenagers.
Tattoo art is a great addition in character.

Scene when Win was over Teams place and it’s really out there that Team is introducing Win to his parents when they are already about to eat.🤷🏼‍♀️

Overall, I enjoyed this series. Don’t expect anything exemplary. Just enjoy it for what it is - a light story BL series.

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The Most Anticipated becomes The Most Dissapointing

The first 9 episodes were honestly so confusing, the plot was going nowhere. Just when they start to address the problem in their relationship, the next episode they act like nothing happened and completely ignoring it. Win is confused whether his feelings toward Team is platonic like caring for a brother or is romantic, he also doesn't want to love anyone. Team likes Win but is afraid to communicate his feelings. Just when they have realized that the plot reset back to the start, like nothing happened, and then they back to realizing then back to nothing happened. They start addressing their situation on episode 10 and 11, that is where things start to get better and clearer.

Second, too many side couple and situation , while we should be focusing on the main couple and their progress in their relationship. I'm going to say the same thing about the back story of Team's nightmare, I think that's it's good to give a back story but it has gotten a bit complicated, kind of bothering the plot bcs they put this story in the middle of everything and just left it hanging. I think they really should be focusing on clearing their issues and defining their relationship status.

Third, the acting. Boun Prem's chemistry is good but I can't really feel it in this series. Prem's acting is really good, Boun still has a bit to go, because they are the main character and the story needs their acting to be deep and touching. But it's okay.

For me this series is lacking a lot because they make this series about WinTeam being the main character, not just some side stories like they were in UWMA. I'm absolutely disappointed with series, especially the confusing plot and the additional side couple, we have waited years for this to come out but this is what we get.

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Not amongst the best BL series in 2022-2023

If this had been released together with Until We Meet Again back in 2019 or in 2020, it would have been more highly rated. Unfortunately, the series feels a little dated because BL series have largely moved on. I am certainly not saying that a series has to keep up with whatever is fashionable. However, the series does not seem to be able to avoid some of the weaknesses of BL scripts a few years ago.

The use of multiple couples without a proper focus on the side couples is one thing that could have been avoided. Despite the presence of Win and Team as a couple in 2019's Until We Meet Again, it managed to focus on Dean and Pharm and the storyline was strong. However, the Win/Team storyline in Between US is not only weaker but also diluted by unnecessary digressions to side couples.

I find myself more intrigued by the story of one of the side couples (Tul and Wan) more than the main couple even though the duo have not even become a couple as of Episode 11. Sometimes, I even find myself enjoying the scenes of friendship (Team, Pharm and Manow) and brotherly love (Win, Wan and Wiew) more than the scenes with Win and Team.

To be fair, the story of Win and Team has potential to be more moving than it is. Win is one of three brothers who never feels like anything is really meant to be his and avoids commitment because of his fear of losing someone he treasures. However, he cannot stop himself from falling deeply in love with Team. On the other hand, Team has been living with guilt ever since a friend of his drowned while they were swimming together as children. A more compelling script could have been created with these ideas. There are some fairly good scenes, such as when Win saves Team from drowning, revealing how important Team is to him as he reprimands Team for swimming by himself. Yet, trajectory of the plot isn't very clear and instead of actual development, we often just see each half of the couple vacillate between realizing that he loves the other person and being in some sort of denial. We don't quite see how their attraction to each other intensifies over time or how each increasingly needs the presence of the other. The story simply goes like: they have a fling, somehow each is very much in love with the other, but oh . . . neither dares to show it because of the fear that the other person just wants a friend with benefits.

Without a strong plot, one might rather just rewatch 2021's Between Us (not an actual series but a few short episodes of random scenes with Win and Team). At least that didn't feel too draggy and there's a focus on Win and Team.

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Great Continuation of previous BL drama

This story highlights the love story between Win and Team. Unbeknownst to myself, they were the side characters in a previous series called "Until We Meet Again" (UWMA) where the main characters were P'Dean and Pharm. In Between us, I was slightly confused as to how Dean and Pharm knew eachother and the flashbacks didn't help much. It was only until I watched UWMA that I completely understood. If you're going to watch this series, I highly suggest that you first watch UWMA. Overall, this series has been a 10/10 for me this far. I'm looking forward to the forthcoming episodes. <(^•^)>

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Made me wish the show never got released

UWMA was one of my first BLs and the side couple were my favourite part of the show, so I was very excited to find out they were going to be leads in their own show. I held strong with the production delays, watched compilations of their moments and the short that was released. All this only for the acting to be cringy at best and atrocious at worst. The pacing was off and the forced "cute" acting just came off as juvenile and immature, making it a hard watch. 10/10 wouldn't rewatch. The poor acting of a majority of Thai BLs needs to be addressed fr, because I'm baffled by the high rating of not only this BL but several others.

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La construction d'une relation

J'ai aimé Between Us, beaucoup. Si la série n'est pas exempte de reproches, la douceur qui se dégage de la relation Win/Team est ce qui m'a bloquée devant mon écran et fait fondre.
Dérivée de Until We Meet Again, elle se rapproche de la série d'origine par l'utilisation du traumatisme en tant que ligne directrice de l'évolution des personnages, et c'est à peu près tout. Il ne faut pas s'attendre à retrouver l'ambiance de UWMA, et il ne faut pas s'attendre à retrouver les WinTeam de UWMA, qui avaient un rôle plus humoristique. Il y a néanmoins une belle combinaison de drame et de comédie qui rend le tout fort agréable à suivre.

Win et Team se sont trouvés alors qu'ils ne se cherchaient pas, et sont ainsi obligés de faire face à ce qui pourrait empêcher leur relation d'avancer, en l'occurrence le traumatisme de Team et la peur d'être abandonné de Win. Leur relation avance doucement, tranquillement, la réalisation prenant le temps de s'attarder sur les aléas de la vie de tous les jours et sur ce qui fait qu'une relation à court terme devient une relation à long terme. Abandonner ses peurs, ses doutes, accepter de laisser l'Autre entrer, et d'ailleurs la scène du "je t'aime" est absolument parfaite si on se positionne de ce point de vue là. Je comprends les critiques disant que c'est trop lent, qu'il n'y a pas d'histoire, mais je n'y adhère pas car ce sont bien les petits détails qui m'ont infiniment plu dans cette histoire, Team qui monte dormir avec Win, le regard de Win quand Team vainc son angoisse de concourir, finalement ce sont tous ces petits moments qui m'ont donné un plaisir fou.
Les acteurs principaux sont par ailleurs un bonheur, l'alchimie BounPrem fonctionnant à merveille.

Quelques critiques tout de même : le nombre de couples annexes. Je sais que beaucoup de personnes les ont aimés, ce qui n'est pas mon cas, je ne les ai tout simplement pas trouvés intéressants, et le passage d'un couple à l'autre coupe le tempo de l'histoire principale ce que j'ai trouvé assez désagréable. Excepté le couple DeanPharm (mais comptent-ils vraiment comme un couple annexe ?). Deuxième chose, que j'ai par ailleurs déjà mentionnée, j'avais adoré WinTeam dans UWMA et je m'attendais à revoir ces personnages et cette relation, ce qui n'est pas du tout le cas dans Between Us. La transition est ainsi un peu compliquée entre les deux séries. Enfin, il y a tellement d'approximations et de stéréotypes BL que trop c'est trop (les "nageurs" du club de natation ne nagent pas très bien, apparemment on n'éteint jamais la lumière en Thaïlande même quand on dort, il y a un nombre de flashbacks excessif, évidemment quand on fait un cauchemar on parle dans son sommeil, la fameuse fièvre et le lavage du corps au lit qui s'ensuit etc.).
Mais finalement tout ça n'est qu'accessoire.

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What happened???

This series got off to a strong start. Just started.
I loved the characters - Win (the best green flag ever), Tul (ahh, my fav); the couples - WinTeam, TulWaan (#1fav), BeePrince (#2fav), the friendship between Team, Pham and Manon.
But, the story, man, was boring. I'm sorry for the people how liked this series, but I got bored after the first few episodes.
The chemistry between Team and Win was there. I'm so sorry they didn't get a better story.
As much I loved the couple - TulWaan - their reconciliation scene might not exist. It felt so forced. A simple kiss was fine there.

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So bad. Sadly. :-

I can not recommend the series!

2/10 dropped, disappointed.

Negative:

1. Too few kisses
2. There was just 1 Lovescene and that was boring. I wanted so badly to see one or two Lovescenes where it comes off a bit.
This has nothing to do with 18+ - Rather 15+. Im very disappointed.
3. That team was constantly crying.
4. That Win was no longer Badass after Episode 2.
5. Story
6. The Character > Team became more boring and a crybaby from episode to episode....and made poor Win a crybaby too. I
thought that was a real shame...
7. I dont liked that Team has suffered a trauma.


Positive:

1. In Episode 1-2 i loved that Win was like a Badass Character.
2. I loved the Acting and Look of Win. Very stylish and cool.

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Flop

I waited two years for the most mid plot and homophobic acting help ……

The writing and script work was awful? I had to put the episodes in 2x speed and I still was frustrated with the pacing. The actors had no chemistry, every couple felt like they secretly hated each other (not sure if this is on the actors or directors)… none of the couples they tried to force down your throat for over 12 hours had me feeling any kind of way.. I’m actually quite sad I really enjoyed WinTeam in UWMA so this was a real let down.

I think in comparison with a lot of story heavy BLs with amazing acting and chemistry making themselves more well known, shows like this just feel very average and truly nothing special.

Would recommend this series for fans of WinTeam but not if you’re looking for a show with a good plot and well developed characters.

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