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609 Bedtime Story thai drama review
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609 Bedtime Story
2 people found this review helpful
by Pebee
Aug 10, 2023
11 of 11 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.5
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 6.5
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 5.5
This review may contain spoilers

It's Hard To Root For The Main Couple

The characters meet when one of them falls asleep and soon figure out they are stuck in a time loop, they met before but only one of them remembers it, while one is in the past, the other is in the present and one of them is about to die.

The first episode was underwhelming, if I was based on it, I wouldn’t stick around, but things do get better after the second one, unfortunately the show loses itself again at the end but at this point it does not make sense not to finish it. On a positive note, I have to say I loved the opening, from the music to the way it was edited, solid work there and in my humble opinion one of the best BL openings ever made. Another thing that I think deserves to be mentioned is the photography, it was so good, the scenes looked very clean and were pleasant to the eyes.

I am not a particular fan of this couple, nothing against Fluke or Ohm as actors, I just didn’t like their other works, but in this they did grow on me a little, they do show a good level of intimacy but it still feels like there is something missing, I just can’t tell exactly what.

I liked the characters Games and Vee individually, but didn’t care much for their romance or how they handled the toxic ex arc even with the shoehorned marriage equality message, it did not deliver. I liked the glimpses of Mint and Dew’s friendship,of course, from Mum’s world, which was sadly little. I thought the actors played well off each other, but I would rather prefer if they had kept it platonic from both sides, making Dew’s Mint a paranoiac jealous girlfriend would have worked better if they had developed more that dynamic, which they didn’t. The cheating didn’t reflect well on Dew’s character, while cheating can work in a story, in this case it just made Dew look very selfish and weak.

Aun’s character was a waste of time and space, but Joey deserves the award of the most patient and supportive friend a self-absorbed guy could have.

I confess I was a bit lost with the two different timelines because it is basically two different stories being told at the same time and if that wasn’t confusing enough the characters meetings were not chronological, I appreciated they trying to explain the logic of their universe even if it just made everything sound more confusing, I understood more near the end.

Unfortunately, the end is very anti-climatic, Dew from the alternative universe met his fate as nothing more than a footnote, it was like they couldn’t bother with it anymore, they needed to sprint to conclude the story, to keep up with the parallel universe theme they ended up with two different endings, one supposed to be like a fairytale where everything works out with no obstacles feeling very out of place and the other more depressing where characters make questionable life choices and everybody cries but seemed to actually connect with the story being told, both sadly a let down for what it could have been.

Watch it at your own risk, I can’t say it wasn’t fun.
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