#gotta hurry to get to work
So about the NOT ME finale…
without any spoilers, it wasn’t bad. It was a sweet ending. Emotionally, all relevant characters found some sort of satisfying scene to end their respective lose threads in the storyline.
All in all, the story itself doesn’t feel finished though.
(spoilers under the cut)
There was A LOT left open and it felt a liiiiiittle bit unsatisfying to me, although, for a very realistic series, open-endedness IS a realistic ending, let’s be honest.
But, like… we don’t know what’s going to happen with the whole Tawi situation, He seems to be convinced that the protests will die down again. Ultimately, they’re just protests. The thing is, if there is no actual proof that he committed any crimes, he’s probably right.
There are a lot of lose ends too, which kind of makes me want some more episodes to have all of it dealt with, or at least some form of epilogue or something:
1) The drug deals don’t ever get revealed. What happens to the abandoned truck with the drugs? Who finds it and what is done with it? As far as we know, Tawi STILLdoesn’t face any repercussions for making illegal money on the back of his employees.
2) Todd is in a coma, which only delayshaving to deal with him. What will he do with Black, White and the rest of the gang once he wakes up? He knows they’re there, he knows how to get to them, he has the money to do whatever he pleases basically. Also, he most likely won’t stop going down the Tawi route either. So, in terms of “bad guys” and what they can do, nothing has really changed since the beginning of the series.
(Not to mention, putting somebody in a coma by beating them up… I mean, it happens, yes, accidentally. But it’s not something you can precisely do on purpose. If you beat somebody up so severely, he could just as well die, or have irreparable damages done to his brain as well as the rest of the body. Black waking up without any damages was lucky. Todd being alive but in a coma JUST LIKE Black is super unlikely. And it’s even less likely that he will wake from it unscathed. I get the aspect of Karma and Todd being put into exactly the same spot that he himself put Black in, but it’s just not very believable for a series that otherwise scores very high on realism)
3) White’s face is stillon that security camera’s footage at Tawi’s factory. And Tawi is aware of Sean being in the picture as well. So, none of them are safe from Tawi, really.
4) As soon as Yok was brought to the hospital and treated there, they must have given some sort of personal information to the hospital staff, like some address, names etc. - so Yok, and through his connections also the entire gang, isn’t safe from the police.
5) Dan says he quit his job. But how could he actually just quit without repercussions? He literally turned against and physically hurt a policeman in order to save the gang. In legal terms, he committed a crime and the police know who he is. Realistically, this won’t be let go. So Dan isn’t safe either.
So, I’m not sure about it…
I wish there had been some sort of positive outlook on the whole issue of injustice. Like, for example,… I would have liked some news crew discover the drug van, figuring out that it came from Tawi and making that information public. I would have liked Tawi having to face legal repercussions of his actions. I would have liked the corruption in the police force being uncovered and revealed to the public in an undeniable way, so they also would have to face repercussions. So there would be real incentive for the system to change. But none of that happened.
And, yeah, I get that, again, in many ways this is realism. Or, it could be that a storyline like this couldn’t be broadcast like that in Thailand with the current situation of police corruption and inequality between rich and poor.
But yeah. It feels unfinished to me, which is a shame.
BUT, it IS a great series, a lot lot lot lot LOT better than any other Thai series that I have watched in these past couple years. So i’m glad we got it. And the acting was superb.
