Laws of Attraction (2023)

Good for the dynamics!

I was looking forward to watch this drama since it features the same leads as "To Sir, With Love", which is another underrated gem (and actually includes a couple more actors from the same series). I might have waited a little to long to finally get to it, but it was definitely worth waiting for all the episodes to be released with English subtitles.

The premise is very interesting: when Tinn's nephew, Tonkhao, dies from being hit by a car, he immediately decides to speak up and fight to bring her justice and make sure that her murderer is punished, but he doesn't have the power nor the knowledge he needs to do so, and his opponent, Thatthep, is too powerful. On the other hand we have Charn, who is a charming lawyer who only works for rich and influential people, and doesn't shy away from shady means to get what he wants, and is also Thatthep's lawyer for this case. At the very beginning, Tinn and Charn are enemies in this matter, but when Charn is dismissed by Thatthep, he starts to suspect that the case might be bigger than it looks, and decides to use the situation to get his revenge.

When it comes to executing the plot in a satisfying way, I can't bring myself to say that it was done too well. I can say, at most, that it gets the job done: the search for clues starts smoothly, and it comes with multiple dramatic plot points that make the story more engaging. Unfortunately the murder mystery ended up being much more simple and unsurprising than I hoped, and even some moments during the investigations felt like they were brought by sheer luck, rather than the wits of any character.

What I believe made the series so interesting and worth watching was the character dynamics: they were impeccable. Charn and Tinn are very different in terms of personal values and sense of justice, so seeing them work together and arguing with each other was always great to watch - and I can't deny that those words also made me think about it over and over after the episode was over. It was also satisfying to see two main male characters who are both openly attracted to men, for once! It made their interactions more fun, especially as Charn was flirting with Tinn every now and then, and it also let the series focus more on other aspects of the characters without the whole "who am I, what do I like" introspective bit.
The series also left room to deepen the information about Tinn and Charn's respective pasts, and the relationships with the people around them. Even the villains were shown properly, rather than being put there as cartoonish bad guys, which led to a secondary couple to have their moments as well.

The production was good enough, although I had the feeling that the budget was a little low here and there. The series only had 8 episodes and I believe that this time was used well overall: there was no time when I thought that a certain part of the story was taking too long to unfold, nor did I ever feel like anything was rushed. My only complaint would be about the slow-motion effect, which was used way, WAY more than necessary.

If I had to compare it to other Thai BL series I've seen in the past, I'd put it in the same category as Manner of Death and Triage. It doesn't quite reach the same charm as those series, but I thought it was just as intriguing for its execution and themes. Worth watching at least once!

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An Angel and A Devil Fall In Love

Rated = 9 ~ 42/50 ~ 8.2
Scene // A Dark Elf and a Light Elf fall in love in Sky City and together they fight for Justice with a big rainbow sword.

Chaotic Good meets Lawful Good. This is one of my favourite pairings so from the first scene, I was in love with this show.
Charn was instantly a big hit for me and has gone on to my favourite character's list.
He's gorgeous, he's cunning, gloriously gay and just a little out of his mind, and I loved every minute he was on screen.

The whole premise didn't get as dramatic as I thought, as I found it quite predictable. It was however an incredibly fun watch as I loved not only Charn but his lesbian side character friends and even his ex. Vigilante justice served in a super grungy glamourous style and I was right in my element.

I have a rule that when children and animals are unnecessarily harmed, I immediately dropped the show. I found the death of the girl upsetting but it was the whole motivation of the plot. The dog, I was also very upset about and for a moment I did consider clicking off. However, I found that the dog is introduced in one scene, and found dead in the next. So I decided that it was more about driving home the mafia like power of the enemy, rather than unnecessary death.

ALthough the overall plot is about finding evidence of a hit and run, it ultimately doesnt take it's self too seriously. It is a little cartoonish and over the top at times but I personally didn't mind it. It helps when you love the characters, so that you can laugh with them, and I happen to love smart arsed characters.

Everyone gets what they deserve and most of the last episode is centered around the love between the ML's and providing a home for each other emotionally. It's also funny to know that even though Charn is slowly changing his methods, he becomes a little feared in the legal system, which gives him the power he always wanted, while keeping his original morals as well. I appreciated that small scene.

I also loved the side couples and it actually give me a small glimmer of what I had wanted in from KinnPorsche. Although it was small snippets, I did really feel for the bodyguard and if they had their own series, I would absolutely watch it.

I will definitely be rewatching this for Charn

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so attracted to this

A great dramaseries!
the chemistry between the two leads was amazing and i love me some well-executed slowburn. I think it's one of the better BL's out there with also a great side couple and hilarious sidecharacters (Charn's ex is still killing me).
The story had me hooked from the first episode and immediately showed us some action and laid the foundation of both characters: Charn is the opportunistic, corrupted and devilishly handsome (but also just devilish) lawyer whose heart only beats for money and Tinn is the protecting and caring uncle of an adorable little girl Tonkhao and who would die for the ones he loves.
i also think it's interesting to show how the justice system kind of works because oftentimes yes, those with money and power own the path of justice and use it for their own good...which is why we need to continue to fight and show them that we do not agree.
the pacing was just right in this series though i wished there were more episodes of just anything of these two characters because i just love them a lot.

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So incredibly underrated

I watch a lot of things, a fairly wide spectrum of genres, only a rare few of them get pegged as a masterpiece in my mind. This, however, made the list. Its actually not perfect, there are things I wish they would have done differently or parts you just kind of roll with, but there were few of those and most all of it was well thought out storyline with beautifully developed characters and actors/actresses that absolutely killed their roles.

If youre here for NSFW scenes and couldn't care less about story and characters, this series isn't it. Don't get me wrong, the chemistry between Tinn and Charn is enough to make your toes curl, and we get a tease or two of steamy scenes. Jam and Film are both gorgeous actors to start, but their chemistry is fire, Jam(Tinn) has eyes that let you see the depths of his soul, and Film(Charn) this man has got to be one of the most talented actors I've seen in Thai TV. Film played his role so well, I could sit here all day and go on about his expressions in this scene or that, such an incredible character portrayal.

The story was also very well done, it does have some small issues, but not enough to call them flaws. They meet by chance and are brought back together by tradgedy, and they can't help falling harder for eachother despite what seems like impossible differences. It's a murder mystery tangled up in love story, with all of the thrill ride to go with both.

This is no KinnPorsche, theres not a bunch of fanservice or hot scenes, but if youre here looking for more than smut and you like deep characters with fire chemistry, this absolutely worth the watch.

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Um dos melhores lakorns que já vi, não entendo pq está mal avaliado

Eu realmente não entendo porque essa série tem uma nota tão baixa (7.9 no momento que escrevi isso). É um dos melhores BL's que já vi. Nornalmente basta um BL não ser um completo horror e ele já consegue ao menos uma nota 8. Nesse a história é boa, original, o plot é redondinho, as atuações, ao menos do núcleo principal, são dignas e o maior diferencial dessa série: Charn.

Eu estou completamente obcecada pelo Charn. Não conhecia o trabalho do Film, mas pra mim ele é em absoluto a melhor coisa da série. O Charn é um personagem anti-herói, esse tipo de personagem normalmente é bem popular. Charn tem carisma, então é difícil não gostar. Agora o jeito que o Film interpreta esse personagem é brilhante. As risadas psicóticas, as cenas de drama bem feitas, sem overacting e, principalmente, as cenas onde ele tá todo "meloso" e carente perto do Tin. Ele faz um personagem tão realista, gay, com trejeitos bem discretos, que são perceptíveis, mas não são caricatos, é tão bem feito que eu estava até acreditando que ele era mesmo gay (não sei se é ou não). Além disso, é perceptível como ele está acima de todo o resto do elenco em questão de atuação, ele devora todo mundo em cena. Virei fã.

Já o Tin é um personagem típico "brutamontes super honesto" que seria interpretado por Malvino Salvador se fosse uma novela brasileira, o que não tira de forma alguma o mérito do personagem. Ele é bem feito, bem construído, gosto muito no final quando o Charn mente e ele em nenhum momento acredita. Tin é um personagem sensível e inteligente e foi muito bem interpretado pelo Jam, que é extremamente charmoso e incorporou esse charme no personagem.

Eu gosto de como a história se desenvolve e como vamos descobrindo as coisas, de como o Charn vai voltando às origens a medida que vai se envolvendo com o Tin. Pra mim é tudo muito bem feito e, em termos de séries de ação, entrega muito bem.

Também gosto muito da avó e das amigas do Charn, elas trouxeram um toquizinho muito legal pra série.

Minha única ressalva é sobre o núcleo do Tan. Pra mim o núcleo mais fraco. Cenas muito violentas e as atuações muito abaixo em relação ao núcleo principal. As cenas de drama envolvendo o See não me convenceram, nem me emocionaram. Não sei se ele é inexperiente, mas foi uma das atuações mais fracas, porém, não muda em nada a qualidade da série.

Enfim, esse foi não apenas um dos melhores Lakorns como um dos melhores BL's que já vi no geral, vale muito a pena e a única parte ruim é que são apenas 8 episódios agora não sei como vou suprir o vazio que Charn deixo no meu coração.

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Soapy Fun

Over the top camp played seriously, everyone knew their assignments and did it well. It's an old school soapy drama style coupled with the still relatively new school conceit of gay characters and gay couple at the heart of it. Film in particular is fantastic as Charn the cunning and seemingly soulless lawyer with the evil smile whose facade is broken down by the humble, hunk Tinn.

Charn's flashback of what happened to both his mother and him and the scene of him unable to lie to Tinn on the tarmac were the show's highlight's. Fantastic acting by Film. It's too unintentionally hilarious though that throughout the show he gets shot and he's never bleeding from the gunshot wounds, so when he got shot in the end I'm just thinking he's impervious to bullets even before he reveals the bulletproof vest. I love that there is time set aside in the finale for Charn and Tinn to get married and live their domestic bliss with Tinn accepting that Charn needs time to change fully. When Tinn proposes and Charn brings up that there is not law for gay marriage yet, I'm so happy in a meta way for them that they can be legally married less than a year after their marriage in the series which was September 2023.

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Hot Lawyer BL

**Brief Synopsis**
B (Lawyer): Charn
T (Owner): Tinn

- Beginning: B is an extremely successful lawyer known for only taking on rich clients. He is cold hearted and ruthless and would hesitate to use underhanded methods to get what he wants. T is the uncle of a little girl who has just gotten killed. B had been the lawyer of the opposition but was kicked off. Realizing that things isn't so simple, B goes to find T and propose to be his lawyer so they can take down the bastard behind this. T at the beginning is undertandably unwilling to work with B because of his reputation. But B doesn't give up, doing his best to intergrate himself in to T's family in hopes of convincing B to soften.

- Middle: Despite T's initial reservations, he starts softening and more accepting of B. That is because he starts learning about B and his past. B became this way because his naivity got his mother killed, making him believe that there are no good people in this world. As time went by, T realizes that B is actually a good person and B realizes that T is actually pretty versetile and has a heart of gold. As their relationship gets closer, the case gets more and more dangerous.

- End: In the end, it is revealed that the girl got killed because her toy rabit recorded recorded something that might get the senator in trouble. In order to put the senator in prison, T and B goes on the hunt for the toy. And when they got the recording, they realize it's not enough to put the senator in prison so B sacrifises his own safety to get the senator to confess on camera. He succeeds and gets saved afterwards. They were already in sort of a relationship before this. After this, T proposes. A ceremony takes place and the show ends showing that T has changed B's way and B was more willing to help out people.

**My Opinion**

WHAT I LIKED ABOUT IT:
- The writing is very nice. Although the plot isn't the best in the world, it made sense and the pace flowed well. The mystery had a small plot twist and it was captivating enough to keep me interested throughout. However, it should be noted that I found the pacing for the romance a little rushed but that is understandable because this is more of a mystery then a BL.
- The relationship between T and B was very nice as well. Their clash of point of view made them enemies in the beginning but as they started to learn more about each other, they start learning how to compromise. I really like the trope of enemies to lovers because each step of the way seems like an achievement, making me want to root them on and see their happy ending.
- I really like the ending. T learns to accept B for who he is and B starts learning how to be less cynical for T. They aren't perfect but they are two people who like each other and are willing to change themselves to make this relationship work.
- The actors do a great job in conveying the characters' state of mind to the audience. They are convincing in their roles.

WHAT I DIDN’T LIKE ABOUT IT:
- There are little intimate scenes. The ones they do have are very tame. The focus of this show is on the mystery and their relationship seems more like a byproduct of that. They aren't very intimate either but there are always little signs you can find to prove that they do care about each other in their own way.
- This show is a good mystery but not so much of a good BL because the focus is on the mystery rather then developing their relationship. One might feel their relationship lack sufficient build up.

**Conclusion**
Upon reflection, this is a high quality show but probably isn't made to be rewatched. This is because the intrigue part loses charm on the second viewing and the romance part is not intimate enough for a second viewing.

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Una serie accattivante che degenera poi nella glicemia

Questa è una serie che esordisce in modo accattivante. Schietta e senza filtri, mostra immagini violente anche di un certo impatto (vedi la bambina investita per strada). Una volta tanto le motivazioni alla base della trama hanno un certo spessore, senza ridicoli drammi inventati sostanzialmente sul nulla. Da una parte poi abbiamo Tin, onesto e affranto, dall'altra Charn, cinico, bramoso del potere e più che disposto a vendere l'anima al diavolo. Il suo sorriso mordace è quasi un ghigno, un elemento che stona spesso col contesto ma che in realtà sottolinea quanto poco si faccia scalfire da tutto ciò che sconvolge le persone perbene.
Certo, sotto la scorsa c'è un passato di sofferenza, ma la scorsa non è una maschera, è reale: non finge di essere cinico, la sua storia lo ha portato ad esserlo per davvero. Un pesce, che non è più un pesciolino, e che mira a diventare un pesce grosso. Ed è tanto ambizioso e pieno di sé da voler divorare uno squalo come il politico corrotto di turno. Il suo modo di muoversi è un machiavellico "il fine giustifica i mezzi", totalmente incomprensibile per una persona che vuole ostinatamente confidare nella giustizia come Tin. La prima parte della serie è incalzante, il rapporto tra i due mantiene un buon ritmo, tra la mancata fiducia di Tin e le uscite pungenti di Charn. Il clou con la serata nel locale frequentato dal giovane presunto colpevole, dove l'affiatamento tra i due protagonisti è al massimo. Poi, però, accade qualcosa. Finita la serata la tensione scema e quando i due si salutano andando ognuno a casa propria con tanto di "ciao ciao" con la mano e sorrisi...boh, ho avuto l'impressione che la storia avesse appena virato su un binario parallelo. Il problema, è che su questo binario parallelo ha continuato poi fino alla fine. Se la caccia al colpevole sostanzialmente continua fino a trovare il giusto epilogo, i due protagonisti perdono tutta la verve e si riducono a una serie di sdolcinati e banali cliché. L'interazione accattivante si dissolve e lascia posto a sorrisi glicemici, scenette ridicole, siparietti da sit com. Nulla di male in sé, peccato che questo drama nei primi episodi fosse tutt'altra cosa. Rispetto alla scene intime, non sono contraria né a quelle esplicite né a quelle non esplicite: semplicemente, ritengo debbano essere in linea con la tipologia di ogni singola serie. Questa serie, per il taglio dato all'inizio, doveva trovare un riscontro simile anche nelle scene tra i due protagonisti, che sono state invece molto più all'acqua di rose del dovuto. Niente di insormontabile, per carità, ma quasi a ribadire che la seconda parte del drama cambia completamente angolazione. Merita la visione? Sì...mettendo in conto che all'iniziale entusiasmo probabilmente seguirà una piccola delusione.

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Well done

Great series with some plotholes(?)/frustrations but really short, so overall enjoyable.

A little dissapointed with Tin's fighting skills given he's a karate instructor...but maybe that was just a touch of realism on karate being the least effec- lemme stop there.

Parts of the editing were really choppy and tonal shifts being scenes were jarring sometimes, but this was somewhat understandable since there was a lot to cram in 8 episodes.

Plot wise, I loved the way everything was handled at the end and I felt satisfied with the villain's outcome and our leads' happy ending. Episode 7 was my favorite episode in the drama. We got to watch some great acting, especially from Charn's actor, but both leads were really amazing. I was pleasantly surprised with the 2nd couple too, up to Ep 4 or 5 I was begrudginly stating my disinterest in anything concerning Thaenthai, but ended up rooting for his adorable love story with his handsome bodyguard. As for our main leads, their dynamic was wonderful. Charn being an insane, somewhat unhinged, tsundere, but pouty and naturally aegyo filled man and Tinn being the pure hearted, morally upright, sensitive, golden retriever, sunflower of a man was such a great dynamic. I loved how Tinn, while lacking dating experience, could give as much as he could take in the flirting department. It was also funny and very definition of man of him whenever he was curious about how he sized up against Charn's exes. Overall, I really liked the pairing and thought the chemistry was great. I wish we saw more physical intimacy between them, but the sexual tension, loving stares, and flirty dialogues between the two was also great!

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Me sorprendió

No esperaba que fuera así de fuerte y que tocara los tópicos en los que se fue la serie. En general me gustó harto, a pesar de que me cuesta ver violencia en situaciones de poder tan explícita: la muerte de la sobrina y el maltrato al hijo del senador fue siempre impactante de ver, pero bien, era necesario mostrar lo horrible que son estas personas y cómo el poder siempre corrompe. Me gustó la historia de Charn, quizá podría haberse desarrollado más desde el inicio para ir absorbiendo mejor los detalles, no de golpe como pasó. Tinn, me gustó que siempre fuera sensato y que su motor principal fuera la justicia por su sobrina. Me faltó sí que le hiciera más luto; en el epílogo podría haber estado un poco más la tristeza o algo que lo indicara, después de que le bajara el modo venganza de los episodios anteriores. Amo que haya una pareja lésbica buena y que se mostraran estos tipos distintos de familias.

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Reseña sencilla

Me gusto mas de lo que esperaba, tiene una buena trama que nunca la sentí predecible pero si siento que si podías darte una idea de lo que estaba pasando, siento que refleja muy bien estos "temas" de cuando los políticos abusan de su poder en todos los sentidos pq cometen crímenes y lo 1ro mandar a alguien equis a que se entregue, darle dinero a la familia afectada para que no hable, crear noticias falsas para hacer creer que nada es su culpa, entre otras cosas claro, me gusto además como Charn va cambiando poco a poco su personalidad (que la vd sea lo que sea si es bien perrito) y vuelve a ser como era en un primer momento (su yo del pasado), Tinn a veces si sentía que las cosas que le decir Charn eran de alguna forma verdad y que siempre tienen que tener tus contactos, el como se va desarrollando su relación es muy bonita y la vd que ese final me encanto siento que es de los mejorcitos finales en series.
"SPOILERS"
Thanatthep vas y chingas a tu cola cada que respires neta la escena donde atropella a Tonkhao me dejo congelado, qpd con lo mal que debía de estar como para recurrir a eso, la vd que desde un principio como que mi mente descarto que Thanthai fuera el culpable de atropellar a Tonkhao y alch tuve razón y desde un principio de veia que Methee estaba enamorado de el y que bonito que fue su final maybe me hubiera gustado ver una escena de ellos pidiéndole perdón a Tinn pero lo bueno que ambos fueron felices la vd que no me esperaba que nos dieran esa pareja, tiene buenos plot-twist y los personajes secundarios (la abuela, Rose, Maya) son personajes icónicos y que cumplen bastante, a tmb Nawin el ex de Charn me cayo muy bien:)

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