Last Twilight

I'm four episodes into this series at the time of this review, and I'm really enjoying it. I'm also very much looking forward to the next episode.

This show just makes me smile. Sometimes I catch myself smiling with the characters, and at other times I'm smiling because of them. And I really like to smile. Which has given me a lot of appreciation for Last Twilight. It's just been really enjoyable so far, and well executed.

I'm hoping the story unfolds well because it's already set up to be something special. The romantic tension is top notch and keeps me craving more while also feeding me morsels aplenty. I'm using all my wishes that this story keeps giving me the delightful, happy feelings it's given me so far.

Edit: I enjoyed Last Twilight all the way through. Definitely worth the watch. I'm going to miss looking forward to a new episode each week. I'm sure I'll find myself rewatching this series time and again.

I need like the memory erasure tool from men in black to experience watching this series the first time again. Every episode tackles multiple social issues that challenges the society's expectation on people. Every detail on the series is my most favorite thing. The metaphorical usage of objects and certain analogies from every episode really hook you to wait and play the next episode. Each episode really taught me the popular statement; To be loved is to be known. Hats to the Actors and actresses involved for portraying their roles perfectly and satisfyingly. I'm very much picky about the shows I want to watch, but this, this one is filed under "series so good, you've searched each cast's whereabouts".

Recently out of jail, Mhok (Jimmy), a car mechanic, struggles to find a job. Also, he needs money to pay for his beloved car. Rather accidentally, he ends up in a job interview for being a caretaker for a young, blind man. Day (Sea) is blind ever since an accident. He is bitter, cynical and arrogant. When he is introduced to Mhok, he sees something in him, mainly because Mhok shows no pity towards him. Day (or rather: his mother) hires him. Neither of them has the slightest idea how much that will change both their lives.

Wait. Just wait a minute. Is that really the same Jimmy that was so horrible in "Vice Versa"? I am shooketh. Shooketh, I tell you! I have no idea what happened in between these series, but his acting is impeccable! Gone is the wooden acting, gone are the bad kisses and he is even good in crying scenes! Either this man took acting lessons, it is Sea's influence or he finally met the right director who gets out the best of him. It's probably the latter, because Aof Noppharnach also directed two of the best Thai BLs of all time: Bad Buddy and A Tale of Thousand Stars.

I was really positively surprised and entertained by Last Twilight. The pace is good, I never had to fast forward and Sea and Jimmy have wonderful chemistry. You really can see that they like each other in private, so their chemistry projects onto the silver screen.

Last Twilight is a beautiful summer romance with an equally as beautiful soundtrack. I laughed, I cried, I rooted for. I have absolutely nothing to criticize. It has become one of my all time favorite series and is definitely one of the best BLs I have seen so far.

These words may not come true to many people, in my opinion. I think the director deliberately wanted to override obligatory sad endings as observed in queer stories. As per the title, I expected 'Mhok' to donate his cornea to 'Day' as he continues to live with their memoirs. After a decade Sea could find Jim at a Centre for Assistance of Cephalic Impairments. Imagine 'Day' revealing in one of his post retirement interviews, "i owe my second life to someone....". Imagine 'Mhok' saying, "his mother asked me what could i offer him, here's my answer". In my opinion, the series could conclude ambiguously when blind 'Mhok' narrates his tale to 'Phojai's little son while playing on a swing and 'Day' watches from behind, gathering himself. Let 'Mhok's character grab the award for evoking emotions in the audience for his unconditional sacrifice. Mai dai o wa?

'Titanic' by James Cameron was impressive coz 'Jack' sacrificed so 'Rose' can live on. Frankly, the last three episodes diluted my Irish coffee. Yet Ep 9 caught me off guard, wrenching my heart. Actually rooftop kiss in ep 6 was expected to steal the show but..... As acknowledged by Force, these two are extremely sweet together, pacing through their rapport unhurried. Plot might have deviated from my expectation yet every encounter of the leads put a smile on my lips. In one of the reaction videos P'Jo said that 'Mhok' is a character that you don't notice from the beginning but eventually come to endear towards the end. I concur with his words. Sea, finger hearts for you. Watching L@N*EGE Let It Glow, i was wondering if they would be casted together and here we are. Namtan-Mark was difficult to assimilate. Probably William's 'Last Twilight' would nominate to awards this season.

That it's one of the best series, there's no question about it and that's where my rating comes from, I respect all those viewers who experienced it to the fullest (and that's what it's all about) and shed hectoliters of tears worldwide, because this series hit a large part of the world of BL viewers , but I'll take a few digs anyway, don't take me too seriously.

I had a lot of fun with the opposites in the first episode. The brawler and brawler, Mok, a stubborn debt-ridden slob, who has also been in prison, with a girlfriend and, as a contrast, Day, a stubborn adult child, perhaps spoiled by his mother and a little spoiled, and in the next episode, a very fast incomprehensible turn ... From a wolf, he became a lamb with a whip, from a greased up hetero mechanic to a patient nurse in love with a young man, and Day's character suddenly changed quite a bit as well. Here, I would have liked more time for mutual "learning", grinding the edges of the characters, instead of the fact that in the next episodes the time was increased with cotton wool such as walking, cooking, running and other more or less lengthening scenes, and the plot stood a lot except for the matter with August. Then everything will return to the first plan, counting on the assumption that the audience will be wistfully talking about how poor Day is blind over the slow-moving plot ... and they would go crazy with tons of snotty tissues and tears in their eyes even if it was filmed Day going to the bathroom to poop and unable to find toilet paper.

On the other hand, the blindness was played very nicely and convincingly by Day, and kudos to the creators for a very tasteful and sensitive portrayal of a blind person, I mean it quite seriously and now again a little lightly - so nice that after the first eye surgery, the instrumentalist nurses apparently blew through his bandage hair dryer and hair straightener. But for a long time, I didn't believe Daya actually had feelings for Moka. Mok, that's a chapter in itself, it's cuteness in itself. I liked the character of Phojai (but also some other characters in the series), no hysterical and heart-wrenching scenes like how her partner "turned gay" and doesn't love her anymore. In ep.11, I was turned off by the predictable "artificial" breakup, instead of Day proving to his mom, who has to ask when he can fart, while he is a disabled but grown-up guy, how much he loves Mok and that he could leave with him despite his mother's ban and Mok, his love, would be able to take care of him even without his mother's money. And with Mok banging against the wall, that was a scene where I couldn't believe Mok and laughed out loud with rage at how they artificially lengthened it to make the last episode even sweeter. What bothered me the most about this series, which caught the attention of so many viewers, including me (!), was the incredibly fast transformation of Moka in the second and third episodes, the somewhat long-winded and sentimental slowness of the first plan, and above all the separation for a few years, I really hate that in Asian projects, and also that a relationship based on falling in love has to be worked on in order to grow into lasting love, and that requires an agreement, mutual respect, sanding the edges and not immediately insisting on a breakup (in that case, the one who insists on a breakup cannot to love the other to the bottom of the soul and to seek a compromise), that's why I can't give the story a ten.