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Kisses!!!

P' Tawan come and help me here! P' Nabnueng looks terrible! Look at him. P' Nabnueng looks like death warmed over.

Look no further! Let me tell you about the masterpiece that is DFF (Dead friends forever) and why you should absolutely watch it.

If you haven't watched DFF, congratulations, your mental health is intact!

But if you want a show that ✨️handles structural layout like a toxic high school group chat, blends a gritty slasher with the absolute worst of human nature, and features a plot so beautifully, devastatingly toxic it will rot your brain cells,✨️ you need to watch this immediately!!

The following will be written in an analytical fashion, explaining the plot, characters and their relationships, and of course, why you should watch the series.

Enjoy!✨️✨️

🥀 The plot

The setup is deceptively simple! Eight college guys head out to a gorgeous, completely isolated mountain cabin with zero cell service (✨️classic slasher rules✨️) to throw a farewell party for Jin, who is moving to America.

They decide it would be so fun to film a little horror movie while they're there.

Nice, right? Wrong.

Because the minute the camera starts rolling, things go completely ✨️feral.✨️

A masked killer appears, blocks their escape, cuts the landline, and ✨️traps them.✨️

But here's the twist, this isn't a supernatural curse.

The group is being systematically targeted because of a dark, horrific secret from their high school days involving a quiet classmate named Non, who vanished at this exact cabin years ago.

To make matters worse, the killer ✨️drugs the entire house✨️ with heavy psychedelics.

The show quickly devolves from a standard, WHO DONE THIS?!?!?!, into a ✨️literal hallucinatory circus✨️ where you cannot trust what is real, who is stabbing who, and whether the person crying next to you is your boyfriend or a manifestation of your immense, suffocating guilt.

🥀 The characters (or as I like to call it, choose your fighter!)

✨️The newcomers!✨️

​Non (played by Barcode Tinnasit)

A quiet, incredibly talented scriptwriter who just wanted a friend and a chance to see his movie get made.

Instead, he became the universes punching bag. He is the heartbreaking, morally grey center of the entire tragedy.

Twist: Was secretly dating Phee (wholesome!), got manipulated by Tee (unfortunate!), and was fundamentally broken by Jin (tragic!).

Tan / New (played by Mio Athens)

Nons long lost older brother who has entered the chat and chosen ✨️absolute violence.✨️

He is ridden with sibling guilt and has decided that the only reasonable response to his brother's disappearance is to construct an elaborate Jigsaw style trap.

Twist: Co-conspirator with Phee. He doesn't just want answers, he wants blood, tears, and a high body count. (Honesty, good for him.)

Phee ( played by Ta Nannakun)

The ultimate puppet master masquerading as a level headed film director.

He spent two entire years infiltrating this friend group (Talk about dedication!) to find out what happened to his dead ex.

He's hot, he's calculating, and he is deeply traumatized.

Twist: Nons former secret boyfriend in high school, but currently dating Jin in the present.

Yes, he is sleeping with the guy who ruined his ex's life.The layers of psychological damage are truly immaculate!

✨️The high school gang!✨️

Jin ( played by Cooper Phuriwat)

The ultimate wolves in sheep's clothing archetype.

He presents himself as the sweet, well meaning ✨️nice guy✨️ who was actually kind to Non. In reality? He's a cowardly, jealous monster.

Twist: Had a massive, repressed crush on Non.

When he found out Non was sleeping with someone else, he filmed an intimate video of them and leaked it to the entire internet, triggering Non's final downward spiral. Currently dating Phee, unaware Phee is a sleeper agent.

Tee ( played by JJay Patiphan)

The loud, aggressive, textbook narcissistic bully.

He didn't just shove Non into lockers, nonoooo, he literally manipulated Non into a fraudulent financial scam that put Non in debt to a literal mob boss.

Twist: He is the catalyst for Non's ruin.

In the present, he's dating White and trying to act like a ✨️reformed boyfriend✨️, but honey, karma is a bitch.

Por ( played by Us Nititorn)

The arrogant, rich ringleader who stole Non’s script, claimed it as his own, and treated Non like literal property.

​Twist: He valued his expensive camera more than Non's life, which makes his eventual interaction with a tree branch in the woods highly satisfying.

Fluke ( played by Bump Pawat)

The ✨️innocent bystander.✨️ He didn't actively beat Non up, but he sat there, eyes wide open, watching every single act of horrific abuse and chose silence just to protect his future career as a doctor.

​Twist: The ultimate parasite of the group dynamic.

The ✨️wrong place, wrong time of it all ✨️

White ( played by Fuaiz Thanawat)

A literal angel who has never done anything wrong in his entire life!!

He is an outsider who was dragged to this cabin purely because he is Tees new boyfriend.

Twist: He is the ultimate tragic collateral damage of this entire show. He's just there to act in a silly student film and ends up in a ✨️literal slaughterhouse✨️ because of his boyfriends high school evil.

🥀 Why it is a masterpiece in Only Friends clothing!

✨️It explodes the 'Bystander Effect'✨️

The real horror of DFF isn't the masked killer running around with an axe.

It's the sickening realization of how easily a group of 'normal' teenagers can systematically destroy a persons life through peer pressure, greed, and silence.

The show actively argues that Fluke (who just watched) and Jin (who acted out of cowardly jealousy) are just as deadly as the overt bullies.

✨️The acid-trip cinematography✨️

​When the psychedelics ✨️kick in✨️, the directing goes absolutely off the rails in the best way possible.

The camera angles tilt, the color grading shifts into ✨️neon paranoia✨️, and the editing cuts so sharply you genuinely feel like you are losing your mind right alongside the characters!

It is visually stunning and incredibly disorienting.

✨️The moral decay is top tier!✨️

​Nobody gets a clean, happy, redemptive arc wrapped in a 🎀bow.🎀

It is messy, ugly, and tragic.

By the time the final episode hits, you aren't rooting for anyone to escape, you're just watching the slow motion train wreck of human consequences.

​Conclusion!✨️✨️

If you are tired of the same three romantic tropes repackaged every season, do yourself a favor. Go watch Dead Friend Forever.

It is dark, it is bloody, it is DEEPLY gay, and it will leave you staring at a ✨️blank wall for three hours✨️ after the finale trying to figure out if anyone actually left that house alive.

10/10! No notes, all vibes!

(as written to the best of our knowledge by @blu-eyed-demon and myself. Disclaimer: The dates and events are to the best of our recollection and memory. If they are not 100% accurate or in exact chronological order, please forgive us as the bulk of this was written until the wee hours one night on a whim and stuff started to run together.)

When things first started happening, I hadn't been dragged into this, but @blu-eyed-demon is a big BOC fan, so they were paying some attention.

Ta, Us, and 2J start attending events as a trio throughout Summer 2024

August 31st, 2024: BOC announces that Us' contract has expired, 2J's (his KP partner) would be ending Oct 31st, 2024.

Fall 2024, exact date unknown: Copper (Ta's partner from DFF), departs for the UK for school (unofficially splitting their pairing).

Fans start assuming that when 2J's contact ended, he and Us would maybe sign somewhere else as a pair - but practically the second 2J's contract ends, he joined the cast of Lover Merman and immediately started sailing his new ship.

(this is around when I came into the picture, @blu-eyed-demon messaged me and was like, "Ta and Us are doing things, it feels weird, you know more about BL branded pair marketing than I do, is this weird? YES, IT WAS WEIRD.)

Ta and Us' social media started to feature each other a lot at this point (road trips - they went to the Heart Burger restaurant!, photoshoots, and even meals in Us' car at Us' families coffee shop).

ChalarmJames posted a clip of a workshop, where James was lying his head on Chalarm's lap and then the camera pans over and the joke was that he was mocking Us, who had his head in Ta's lap! (still no idea WHY these four were workshopping together)

In another workshop around the same time, TaUs posted IG pics/clip of them drawing on each other's hands and feet (FEET!)

The BOC Halloween party had a drunken revelation about two of the actors confirming they were a couple - two pairs were speculated: PongTong or TaUs (it ended up being PongTong and we all saw how that went, yikes).

During this period there was a noticeable uptick in their skinship, closeness, and even sniff kisses.

More surprising IG stories followed: Ta and Us did a week long training with a real class of recruits at a police academy (STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS IS FOR EITHER AND IT'S DRIVING ME INSANE).

Love is Like a Bike press conference was announced in early November 2024, Ta and Us are confirmed to be attending the press conference.

The press conference to officially announce the cast was held on November 24th, 2024 and Ta was slated to play one half of a secondary pairing in the show… BUT NOT WITH US. While Us was in the show, Ta was actually paired with another actor named Nanon (I'm going to be so real, I do not remember this guy's name)

(At this point, I told @blu-eyed-demon I had no idea what the fuck TaUs were doing. If they had been paired for the Bike BL, then I would have said "oh, they were soft launching, makes sense". BUT THEY WEREN'T. So my other thought was "well, fuck me, maybe they're dating, idek?")

Heading into December 2024, Toey (Ta's sibling, who just made a movie with Fourth from GMMtv), started attending events with TaUs.

There was an awards show (I can't even begin to remember which one ooops), where the cast of the Bike BL attended. Ta took ONE pic with Nanon and spent the rest of the time with Us and Toey.

(This is the second and last time we saw Ta and Nanon interact publicly, EVER)

BOC's NYE countdown party brought more fun: Ta took one pic with Copper (who was home for the holidays) and spent the entire night with Us, WHO WASN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE THERE, HE CAME AS TA'S +1). They were caught sharing drinks, holding hands, hugging, and at least one sniff kiss.

They did a joint Chinese New Year photoshoot, where Ta was sitting on a throne and Us was perched on the arm next to him (it read very, very couple-y, imo).

Also for Chinese NY, they visited 9 temples together as part of Buddhist practices (accompanied by Toey).

On Valentine's Day 2025, they released a tiktok where they danced together to "How Deep is Your Love"

Us brought Ta a cake at Ta's birthday event in February 2025 (and Ta gave him a special cupcake of his own).

One of the road trips they had taken was filmed for Tong's (former KP castmate) you tube channel and dropped in March 2025. There was a "hickey" discussion back when it was filmed because pics of Ta had some questionable marks. Ta said it was from "playing airsoft." (Sure, Jan)

March 1st, 2025: Ta's contract ended with BOC. Ta, Us, and Toey all confirmed they were under the same management, Bright Venture Artists.

Either in March or April 2025, TaUs did their first joint interview. It was poorly subbed, but we were able to glean that they considered themselves a pair (unclear in what capacity) and they had future upcoming plans. They also promised that they would have a Big Announcement ‘sometime soon’ but couldn’t even give hints.

Other things learned during this interview: since DFF, Us does Ta's make up. He doesn't have a make up artist. Also, they use Guu/Mueng pronouns for themselves/each other (both of which are considered vulgar and offensive unless you are extremely close).

After Songkran, things went quiet. Love is Like a Bike had released schedules for workshopping, costume fitting, script read throughs but according to social media, nothing seemed to be happening. Everything was suddenly very hush-hush for no apparent reason. 

TaUs attended the KP reunion (via Jeff) together

May 14th, 2025: the Bike BL IG makes a huge casting announcement. Nanon was no longer with the show and his character would now be played by Us.

And that is the timeline of how TaUs became a branded pair in the most ass backwards way possible (and the six months of insanity, frustration, and cage rattling that @blu-eyed-demon and myself suffered during that time period.)

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