Apartamento 6/9

As this Thai drama begins the manager at an insurance company is telling employees that due to economic problems twelve of them are being made redundant. One of those let go is a woman named Toom, she returns home to apartment 6. The number is relevant as the number on her door has become loose and often drops down and appears to be '9'. Elsewhere a Muay Thai competition is taking place and one of the bouts is thrown. Obviously money is changing hands and a bag containing one million baht is to be sent to apartment 9. It is accidentally left outside Toom's flat. Her life is about to get very complicated as inevitably the crooks want it back.

I thought this series was a lot of fun, and not at all what I was expecting. The drama is enjoyable and provides plenty of dark comedy as the body count rises. The characters are a lot of fun; the villains have a pantomime quality so even when they do some fairly unpleasant things it doesn't get too disturbing. There is also a good level of comedy; including fairly surreal scenes as the recently deceased arrive to be processed in the afterlife. I didn't expect any sex or nudity but there is quite a bit of both and it is a bit gratuitous. The cast is solid, especially Davika Hoorne who is great as protagonist Toom. Overall I'd recommend this to people looking for something a little different.

These comments are based on watching the series in Thai with English subtitles.

The title of the review pretty much suggests how subpar and uninteresting it was to watch this series, especially because the trailer and plotline had grabbed my interest quite a bit.

Thriller-mystery genre is easy to nail because of the fast pace of story, easy and attention grabbing plotline; and the nail-biting, heart escalating curiosity to conclude and reach climax. But unfortunately the story did not have a single quality as mentioned. It will be an understatement to say the least, that I felt like giving up straight after the first episode because the pace was slow, storyline felt weak from get go and failed to hook our attention and create the need to root for any character. You can literally skip majority of the scene (maybe even episodes, considering there there are only 6) and have no effect to the flow or continuity of the story. That is exactly how much the script lacks.

Despite of this issue I continued though the suffering in hope that it will pick up the speed.

Neither I got to know about the motivation of characters behind any action, nor could the storyline build any connection with any character that we should be invested in. The mystery component remained predictable and pointless to the highest extent. The adult and gore content that was shown barely had anything to do with the plotline. So much so that as a viewer it is impossible to decide where to label this series in terms of genre. There was a supernatural element attached to the story which also seemed pointless. The only redeeming quality was probably the camera work and to some extent the acting of the main lead. Over all it was a snooze fest and felt like a task to reach the end rather than entertainment

Overall the series could do better as a 20 minute short movie with the amount of plotline it was able to show over the course of 6 episodes.

This is so brilliant it simply oozes cool from every single pore

The way the story unfolds the way actors move the scenes in heaven all of it is sheer brilliance I am now watching the 1999 film Ruang talok 69 (1999)it was based on

that too is pretty much the same but they updated it and wrote into it all the current dissent between the establishment and the youth very cunningly as almost any protest in Thailand is seen as a crime by mentioning by showing TV footage of the Hong Kong situation between the Chinese state and the students there.

So hardly any mention of the current chasm between the 20-year-olds and the geriatrics and Royal Court with its antiquated rules whereby criticising the king on Facebook can land you in prison for life and other ludicrous legislation which belongs to the Middle Ages.

The main actress Davika Hoorne here is absolutely excellent most of the other main players are also extremely good some of the scenes you're seeing there are so original to Western viewers That they will make your head spin.

• I've become instantly a fan.

Highly highly recommended. This is dark Humour at its best with the accent on humour.

PS and the soundtrack and use of incidental scores is corking all the way through.

Just came out of netflix today out of the blue and i just watch the first 30 minutes if its any good and boy this Series from thailand is just crazy. I will binge watch it because it only has 6 episodes. Just like in the description of the series that her life goes upside down when she receives a package in her front door after getting laid off from her job. Every episode so far im like how is she gonna get out of this mess. Whoever wrote this script and directed should be applauded for the story, plot, great acting and something new to offer. This is the first film from thailand that i really really like. Usually movies from Thailand that comes out are ghost, romantic type stuff but this series blows my mind away. Im the first one to review this series and i havent even finished yet and i think the last 2 episodes will be a cliff hanger.

The Thais did it again. The description for this is accurate. It's a comedy, action and crime all rolled into one. A lady gets laid off from the company she works for and then opens her door to find a box with money in it. First 2 people that tried to retrieve it wound up dead and then the conga line of dead people continues as they not only try to get the money back but kill her also and they all fail. The ending wound up with a complete bloodbath. If there is a 2nd season to this series please release it quickly. I am still waiting for season 3 of girl from nowhere another Thai hit. I hope that either that was the ending or if they are going to continue not to wait to long. The lead actress is cute also. I am will be waiting to see what they do with this.