When last we left the cop and the witness, the bad guys had kidnapped half our characters.
Aisoon/Atikun calls on Seven Guardian Mothers while Bom hangs corpses
It’s only Wednesday, but our bad guys are rushing out of desperation.
Thup wakes, chained to the ground. He tries to tackle his new brother and flings a Mae Sue doll at Aisoon/Atikun. This only gets him kicked. King’s attempt to grab and strangle Bom gets him stabbed in the back.
But the next sacrifice is Darin, who Bom starts strangling. Thup warns Aisoon/Atikun that this can’t go on forever, and he’ll become the sacrifice.
Sing, Sey, and Mek are tracking Thup with the earpieces
Aisoon/Atikun sends Chaba after them. She makes Mek crash his car, then faces down the other two. Sing prays to Thao Wessuwan, causing Chaba to burn away. He gives Thup full credit.
Back at the sacrifice tree, Aisoon/Atikun is going to stab an angry, defiant Thub, when Ghost Mother stops him.
Unphased, Aisoon/Atikun says he’s going to wipe out her curse. Before he murdered her, she cursed him that everything he does will come back on him, and he will die in agony.
That’s why he’s been forced to repeat the ritual every 5 years.
Aisoon/Atikun disappears Ghost Mother using his blood
Horrified, Thup knocks him over, but Aisoon/Atikun still has a knife. Thankfully, Sing has a gun. He shoots both bad guys.
Sey goes to Darin, Sing goes to Thup, and King bleeds on the ground. Darin directs Sey to help King, but everyone is still chained. Sey leaves to get a crowbar.
Sing loses it on Aisoon/Atikun, attacking him, but Thup stops him from shooting him. He doesn’t want Sing stuck with Aisoon/Atikun’s karma. Bom takes this opportunity to attack Sing. Sing puts up a good fight, but Chaba comes back, and it’s 3 against 1. They get one of the nooses around his neck and strangle him.
Thup desperately grabs Aisoon/Atikun’s knife and chants, stabbing the ground. All the victims’ spirits are freed and go after Aisoon/Atikun, including Chaba.
But Sing isn’t breathing. Sey arrives and starts CPR as Thup sobs.
Suddenly, King is fine and giving Sey credit as he updates the press
Darin is also fine, and discusses the future with Sey.
Sing is not fine. He’s in a coma. Thup visits Sing’s mom, feeling guilty. She tells him to do the soul-calling ritual to bring Sing back. He needs to do it because Sing’s home is with Thup, so he’s the one who can call him back.
When Thup does this, Sing doesn’t wake.
But we see Sing on the dock with his sister. She’s there to say goodbye and tell him he did nothing wrong. He needs to go back to the person waiting for him. They’ll meet again. Aww, sibling hugs.
That done, Sing drags out the coma until arrives to watch Thup cry and beg him to return. Then, a finger twitch! Sing lives!
He thought Thup said he’d leave him for someone else. He didn’t, but BL jealousy can cure a coma.
Bom has lost any grip he had on reality
And King gained his back. He’s transferring back to get space from Sing and move on.
Our couples visit Sing’s Mom. He asks her to bless Thup because it’s his birthday tomorrow. She does, then hugs Thup and calls him her child. Then she eyes both pairs and offers to consult with the monks for auspicious days for happy events.
Thup makes merit for his mom and sees her one last time. He’s grateful that he had a mother who sacrificed everything to protect him. She appears, hugs him, loses the horrible red thread, and vanishes. Sing finds him and hugs him. So many good hugs.
Fluff time! Sing humors Thup by taking him to an amusement park for his birthday. Thup is grateful that thanks to Sing, he can go out and do things, ghost-free.
But, he’s lost his couple’s ring.
Sing fixes this, giving Thup a new one as they camp under the stars. Then we get more kissssssing.
I wanted plenty of horror, I got it, plus fluff, and I’m happy
That climactic ending confrontation was orchestrated really well. Aisoon/Atikun and Bom were running out of time, and their desperation made them dangerous. Sey and Sing didn’t have handcuffs or backup. Darin and King were injured. The bad guys weren’t armed with guns, and no one expected Chaba to reappear.
I got genuinely tense, maybe because I, like Thup, Darin, and King, couldn’t do anything but watch.
Aisoon/Atikun got the perfect ending.
I wish I knew more about the Seven Mother Guardians Aisoon/Atikun called on. The English Internet had nothing. But with Chaba, Sing’s Mom, and Thup’s Mom, this show was full of Mother Guardians. I loved that.
At first, I had trouble caring about the second couple’s vague problems. By the end, it became clearer why their relationship failed in the past and how they were working on it now. I want those cute kids to get an auspicious date from Sing’s Mom.
It’s funny to me that, given that ghosts obviously exist in this reality, Sey maintains his rational disbelief. But I agree with Thup. It’s good for people to think differently. So you do you, Sey.
I would have liked more Mek.
King was awful 90% of the time, but he wasn’t a serial killer. I accept his ending.
My feelings about Thup and Sing should be clear, but just in case: I think young puppy-top Thup and older, tough-bottom Sing were adorable. I love that dynamic, we rarely see it in dramas, and they did it very well. There was just enough romantic push-pull between them to be satisfying, but not so much that it became overwhelming with everything else going on.
This is the best action/thriller/horror + BL that I’ve seen
It’s not flawless, nothing is, but I enjoyed every episode, and it felt like it got better as it went on. There was a mystery I could follow, genuinely horrifying moments, creepy bad guys, and enough romance to keep me happy.
I will definitely be rewatching it in the future.
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