Review of Bad Buddy

Bad Buddy (2021–2022)
10/10
Just Before the Final Episode
20 January 2022
Warning: Spoilers
As of 20 January 2022, this series is about to conclude. Waiting to see which of apparently three suggested endings is employed, a viewer is tasked with evaluating preceding episodes objectively, not knowing how it will end. My own view is it's already a winner, hands down.

First, it succeeds as a talented technical production, directed and edited much better than most coming out of Thailand. The musical score is superb, worth listening to on its own. The storyline, which starts out like some take-off on Romeo and Juliet, quickly morphs into a far more complex love story, wherein the two lovers opt not to die for each other but to mature in stages from one to another. Friendship moves logically into more than mere friendship. Consummation does not occur until the penultimate episode.

I read that 4,300,000 have watched this so far on you tube or in some other way. One critic went so far as to say a scene in Episode 5 "broke the internet." I assume it has been shown on commercial Thai TV as well.

It remains to be seen what the future holds for these two main stars and their imaginative director. I think at this point the sky's the limit.
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