Welcome to my Saturday blog post, where I give thoughts on dramas I’m watching, whether at the beginning, middle, or end. Whatever I want, because I’m petty that way.
This week, I recapped episodes 27-28 of The Prisoner of Beauty. Whoever writes the angsty parts of this show is back, and they’ve brought more water metaphors.
I also started recapping The Proper Way to Write Love with episodes 1-2. I’m recapping it because I really liked these two weirdos, creepy plant POV, and the Funabashi H.C. Andersen Park.
What did I watch this week? It’s the holiday season, so I think both the drama world and I are slowing down. But we’re not stopping. Never stopping. So I’ve got one initial review today:
Head 2 Head – ไหนใครว่าพวกมันไม่ถูกกัน – 2025
Currently airing Thai school-racing-supernatural BL, I’m at 4 out of 12 episodes.
Things start to change for a pair of frenemies when one of them has visions of a future with the two of them in a very different kind of relationship.
We’ve got all the currently popular Thai BL ingredients here in one show with the supernatural, racing, and school. But the key ingredient for me is Sea and Keen, who I really enjoyed in Only Boo and “Hi” by my Luck.
Here, they’ve yet to escape the world of BL formulas, but I’m enjoying myself and don’t care.
It helps that the focus is mostly on the supernatural + character growth
So far, the school and the racing exist to force our frenemies closer together. They’ve been driving each other crazy over stupid things since childhood, their moms are friends, and they live across the street from each other.
But with both of them at fashion school together, they’re still forced together as legal adults. Then it gets worse when they defy their mothers to go racing, and one of them ends up with a busted arm. Punishment is cohabitation, with the uninjured one caring for the injured one.
The supernatural part is more important, and it’s the reason why our one guy gets hurt. He’s started having these weird dreams and visions. In them, the guy he loves to drive crazy has become the person he just loves. Confused and spacing out, he loses control of his car and crashes.
This isn’t The Boy Next World
Our poor guy with the visions is behaving exactly how I’d expect someone in our reality to behave under these circumstances. At first, he’s just confused. They’re strange dreams and nothing more. But then, parts of them come true. That wouldn’t be so bad if all the visions were good, but some of them are tragic.
As of episode four, our guy is still grappling with what everything means and how they are affecting his feelings. And his friends around him have noticed his strange behavior and the way he’s spacing out and not acting like himself.
I wouldn’t call this a slow burn, but the show isn’t racing through the emotional aspect of what’s happening, and I like that. The show is light-hearted, but it’s taking these emotional aspects seriously. And despite the trope-y nature of this show, I have no idea where they are going to take this supernatural subplot.
I’m also very curious about the backstory to their contentious relationship. So far, the blame seems to belong entirely on our guy with the visions. So why has he been such a jerk for so long?
There’s also a second couple, and I don’t want to spoil too much, but they are a nice counterpoint to our main couple. While our main couple has handled their feelings for each other one way, this pair has a similar problem that they’ve been handling in a very different way.
This is also a little different from Sea and Keen’s last two shows together
In both Only Boo and “Hi” by my Luck, Keen played our main point of view character. In Only Boo, it was his character wanting to be an idol and falling for Keen’s character that drove the story. In “Hi” by my Luck, it was his character wanting to win a math scholarship and study abroad that drove the relationship and story.
Here, it’s Sea’s character and his visions that are driving the story.
He’s also a very different character. In Only Boo and “Hi” by my Luck, he was the more serious, grumpy, emotionally reserved one. Here, he’s an obnoxious, childish brat who smiles a lot. It’s nice to see him be more animated.
I’ve been hurt enough, even by their other shows, that I’m worried none of my questions will get answered. Or that around episode 6 it’ll turn into a racing drama, or it’ll become all about a school project together. But for now, I’m excited.
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