#pete looked cute this episode too. i like his civvies and his hair was extra-shiny!

[travelingneuritis]

kinn porsche ep. 9: Double In Paradise

-i liked tawan better as a ghost. “They want to kill me.” “Right now so do i :)” that said, i do not wholly disbelieve tawan’s story; the breakdown b/w him & kinn might have involved several moving parts, one of which could have been blackmail or some other vaguely valid justification. i personally find the whole show more interesting if tawan was once a totally normal guy tainted by his proximity to the theerapanyakul empire: what would that say for porsche’s chances, or kinn’s? i still wanna smack him, but that’s just because he’s a whiny little encumbrance with all the personal charm of a mosquito. 

-wardrobe note! tawan’s been wearing this same white t-shirt for 2 episodes; he spent a night in a cell in this shirt before throwing up in it. yet it remains crisp, glowing, and utterly free of grime or pit stains. i am assuming the actual reason for this is because the costume dept got him a really nice shirt, then steamed or replaced it between takes. but if i wanted to read too far into it, i would interpret tawan’s glowing white shirt as a symbol of his deceit. He claims to be at the end of his rope but he’s ensured he looks spotless, stainless, perfect (and, i’m sure he hopes, perfectly fuckable). esp. coming after the lost-in-the-woods episode where an unshowered kinn gleefully splashed in a muddy creek with porsche, this really highlights both tawan’s duplicitousness and his failure to understand the person kinn is now. (which, ugh, just makes the love triangle that much more tedious.)

-my first watch through, i assumed big was pushing for tawan’s dismissal because he knew tawan had dirt on him; now i feel bad i ever doubted him. it was very brave & handsome of big to offer unasked advice to the 3 jumpiest members of the main family.

-it’s fucked up kinn made porsche be the one to babysit tawan. also, like.... kinda dumb? porsche is new at this shit, and he doesn’t seem to be very good at ignoring a prisoner. which makes him a really, really easy target for tawan’s manipulation. they should’ve made big the babysitter instead!

-arm: “aw poor porsche, he must be feeling threatened, since he’s kinn’s boyfriend now.” pete, wide-eyed: “nooo. reeeally?? gosh,,” 

-thank GOD yok talked porsche out of trying to make kinn jealous by flirting with someone else. much less boring and much more effective to seduce him directly. (even if porsche is only dubiously competent at any seduction attempt that doesn’t involve just like. grabbing kinn’s dick) 

-pete has many fine qualities but subterfuge ain’t one of them. still, vegas now regards him as enough of a problem that he’s graduated to more sophisticated forms of fuckery: pretending at virtue, touching pete’s back, and hoping they’ll meet again in their next lives while haunted-house music plays in the bg. 

that or he took a bunch of edibles before coming to this temple.

-i don’t get why kinn is allowing tawan to negotiate so hard. tawan keeps setting conditions then moving the goalpost, and everyone’s just, like... ok with that? kim would NEVER let this happen, is all i’m saying

-boy, vegas is just a stack of neuroses in a trenchcoat, huh. i think there’s a germ of sincerity in what he says to porsche at the pool: “the main family expects the minor family to be the ones to get our hands dirty, then they suspect us because we have dirty hands.” “if kinn orders you to kill me, at least don’t make me suffer.” ouch, dude.

porsche is calm and non-reactive throughout the scene, his body language reserved but not tense: he’s not holding a grudge, but he’s unlikely to trust or open up to vegas anytime soon. still, vegas isn’t giving up on the lifeline porsche represents just yet. Plan A: Intoxication & Seduction was a flop, but he’s figured out that porsche is a decent enough person that he might respond to other types of appeal.

-blah blah porsche gets caught wiretapping and following kinn around, of course; and tawan accuses him of being the mole among the bodyguards, OF COURSE. god i hate love triangles. luckily, this one’s almost over.

when kinn subsequently orders him locked up, porsche naturally believes this means kinn has lost faith in him. but the look on kinn’s face is not one of betrayal or grim vindication: he looks almost soft as he’s telling porsche he trusts no one. after all of tawan’s theatrics and sultry looks and crotch-sniffing, all it takes from porsche is a single, devastated “kinn” to tell kinn everything he needs to know.

if only porsche knew it too.

#chay was really cute in this episode. he's so happy when he finally gets to hug the life out of kim! #kim's face journey as chay's rather...youthful response to the kiss is also funny. amused yet indulgent #pete looked cute this episode too. i like his civvies and his hair was extra-shiny! #kinnporsche #kinn theerapanyakul #porsche pachara kittisawasd #pete saengtham #vegas theerapanyakul #kinnporsche episode analysis #spoilers