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AthenaTheStorierX

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AthenaTheStorierX

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Love With Benefits thai drama review
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Love With Benefits
2 people found this review helpful
by AthenaTheStorierX
Dec 16, 2021
5 of 5 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.5
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 1.0

Good potential, great actors, disappointing execution.

The actors are very much responsible for carrying this series. The story had potential, but ultimately lacked in execution.

Pros:
- Characters with cute quirks and interesting personalities: Looking at basic descriptions, you would've thought Play would've been the grumpy character that was hard to get along with, when in fact he was very cute. The fact that he's restless and violent in his sleep unless he is cuddling his bear was a great touch that had me laughing. Meanwhile, First showed great ability to pay attention to small details. I think if the script had been better flushed out, these are characters that are easy to fall in love with. And the side characters showed just about equal promise.
- It could've been a great look-inside and critique to the BL film industry. And the forced proximity trope is often very well liked by the romance fandom.

Cons:
- The length of scenes didn't show much logic. In fact, the scenes around the product placements were often longer than the plot-relevant scenes. They should've either implemented the products into the plot better, or found a better balance.
- The relationship seemed to develop more through skinship than actual communication.
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