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The Thai series “Night Dream” has finally made me understand with glaring clarity what Gen Z means by “situationships,” a term I learned in 2023. Let me write down the plot, and you’ll spot the situationship by yourself – Night and Dream (yes, those are the names of the leads) used to be best friends in high school, slowly developing more than platonic feelings for each other. But Dream moves away, ghosting Night after spotting him kiss Namwan, another friend. About four years later, the two meet again at a cafe run by Dream, and Namwan also shows up minutes later, making Dream assume she is still Night’s girlfriend. Namwan had kissed Night all those years ago after asking him out, but he said he isn’t sure if he wants to date her. So four years later, Namwan and Night are still hanging out, holding hands (but apparently nothing more than that) and are still in the ‘not sure’ phase. For four years? WTF? Which is confusing as hell for everybody around, especially Dream.
Directed by Ball Kanathorn Tabvilai, “Night Dream” is based on a novel by the same and stars Ohm Thanakrit Chiamchunya as aspiring author Night, while Toosafe Krittawat Suwanich is the sensitive Dream, who runs a cafe specializing in mini pancake rolls. Jina Thanchanok Sanguansitthikul is their third-wheel, Namwan, who is either too dumb to understand what is going on, or just manipulative and selfish. (Psst… it’s the latter). Night isn’t just bad at his dating life but might fail his final year of literature – his professor refuses to give him a passing grade until he revises his romance novel, which supposedly reflects zero knowledge of love (obviously). Maybe meeting Dream again will finally teach Night a thing or two about love.
Spread over six episodes, the plot of this series is harebrained, but if there’s something I’d give full points to the creators for, it’s the cinematography. “Night Dream” looks like a soft, dreamy, spring themed romance in almost all its frames. It helps that leads Ohm Thanakrit Chiamchunya and Toosafe Krittawat Suwanich look great together as Night and Dream, in-fact, even Night and Namwan make a cute pair visually. And there’s a third love rival introduced in the fourth episode called Day, portrayed by Jeff Nathadej Pititranun, who frankly has more chemistry with Dream. So it’s #DayDream versus #NightDream in this tale, sort of. I mean, Nanwan never had a chance. Not if in the very first episode we know she had been holding hands with her crush for four years. LOL. She gets points for perseverance though and does have some positive character development towards the end.
Anyway, “Night Dream” the series is a cute-ish, silly love story, with the fourth episode ‘love rival’ twist making no sense. The soft-pastel shaded palette and the pretty leads make it just about watchable.
Rating: 5 on 10.
You can watch “Night Dream” on YouTube or on the YouKu APP.
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