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My Ride thai drama review
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My Ride
8 people found this review helpful
by tristram
Jun 26, 2022
10 of 10 episodes seen
Completed 2
Overall 5.0
Story 6.5
Acting/Cast 5.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
This review may contain spoilers

Wish they had sent the script back for a rewrite and gotten better actors

What I liked:

- A healthy, consensual main relationship between two nice, adult leads.
- Gay uncles that one of the MLs could go to for advice!
- A working-class lead, with classism addressed.
- A doctor whose schedule felt realistic, with the impact that would have on him and his relationships considered.
- Gay/straight friendship solidarity.
- Very little homophobia - these characters could be openly gay in public, and everyone was either supportive or neutral.

What I didn't like:

- The actors playing the leads couldn't really act, especially the one playing Tawan. They also appeared to be uncomfortable kissing each other. They're both supposed to be mature adults who've been in relationships before, but they barely touched lips.
- The show spent the majority of its time keeping Tawan in a relationship with his cheating boyfriend. Wish that had wrapped up quickly, so we could focus on the friends-to-lovers plot.
- Mork kept having the same epiphany that he was in love with a guy for the first time, over and over again, and every time he acted like he'd forgotten all the other times he'd realized before lol. Combining this with the last point, the show felt like it was just spinning its wheels.
- Transphobia/misgendering. We've got a version of queer utopia here where no one really cares if anyone is gay - why couldn't that have extended to the trans characters? This is a very side issue, since there were no speaking trans characters, but the double standard for trans acceptance was disappointing. (A side character has a meltdown after realizing the girl he likes is trans. He constantly misgenders her after finding out her legal gender and is told that true love doesn't care about gender. He eventually decides to continue pursuing her while still thinking of her as the wrong gender. I hated the way this was handled. Straight men like women, some of whom are trans! It doesn't make a straight man gay or bi if he likes a trans woman. In an LGBTQ+ show, especially based on material written by a gay author, I expect this to be handled better.)
- The second gay couple could have been cute, but the harassment crossed a line from "teasing the boy I like" into just being a jerk.
- The straight couple was boring, and I'm saying that as one of the people who DON'T fast-forward through the straight couples in BL. Also, the woman was kind of classist and rude to the guy.
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