When it comes to Thai writers, JittiRain is one of my favorites. As the creator of Vice Versa, 2gether, Theory of Love, and many others, she is a master storyteller with a gift for weaving in supernatural elements that feel natural around characters you can’t help but fall in love with. When it comes to Thai actors, Gawin Caskey is one of my favorites. From Dark Blue Kiss to Not Me, I have loved watching this tall, talented, and incredibly handsome man develop his craft. So, when I heard they were joining forces for the new GMMTV Friday night drama Be My Favorite – I was stoked! 

Botkawee (Krist Perawat, SOTUS) is a nerdy/anti-social college student with a crush on Phrae Mai (Aye Sarunchana, A Tale of Thousand Stars) – but he doesn’t know how to tell her. So, he is overjoyed when he finds out he is her secret buddy. He spends a week sending her little gifts and making gestures in secret that make her smile. Then he goes out to buy her a musical snow globe as the final act to show her how much he cares about her, but then, fate intervenes, the gift is broken, and by the time Kawee makes it to the meeting, Pisaeng (Caskey) claims to be her secret buddy, and tells her his final gift is a dinner date. 

Twelve years later, Kawee makes a living doing subtitles (in this episode, he subbed F4 Thailand: Boy’s Over Flowers when he gets the wedding announcement of Pisaeng and Phrae Mai. Upset, he finds the broken music box, deciding to finally get it fixed, so he can reveal the truth and hopefully fix the biggest mistake of his past. Things start to look up when a kind stranger offers to fix the present for him, but when he gets it back, he finds something different. The music box sends him back in time, but not everything goes as he expects. 

The supernatural aspect, like Vice Versa, is a simple but essential part of the story. It’s the impetus to every event, but not overly saturated – at least not in episode one. In fact, to start, Kawee believes he is merely dreaming – which allows him to act in ways he never would otherwise. 

While Perawat is not an actor I am very familiar with as (and this is a very unpopular opinion), I was not a vast SOTUS fan. However, in Be My Favorite, he’s much lighter, more interesting, and much more comedic. Caskey is as he always is, which is, in a word: perfection. 

In short: It was a brilliant first episode and I am very excited to see where this series goes.

More Be My Favorite soon so…

Stay Tuned!