‘609 Bedtime Story’ Review – Bland Confused Mess
Fluke Natouch Siripongthon is such a talented actor, it’s unfortunate how he ends up starring in terribly written scripts, his last series ‘Oh! My Sunshine Night’ was uninteresting enough, but ‘609 Bedtime Story’ manages to be even more bland.
Director Golf Tanwarin Sukkhapisit had previously helmed ‘The Eclipse’, a pretty interesting high-school themed mystery/romance, so my hopes were a little high with ‘609 Bedtime Story’ which stars Ohm Thitiwat Ritprasert opposite Fluke. The plot follows Mum (Ohm), a popular singer at a local club who he dreams of spending the night with a young man called Dew who gets murdered by an unknown assailant in front of his eyes. Turns out it wasn’t a dream but an alternate universe and Mum decides to solve the murder mystery and hopefully prevent it altogether.
How do you save someone that’s already dead? That’s where the complicated time-travel and alternate universe comes in. Mum starts to wake up every night in Dew’s world but the days work in reverse. For example, if Mum meets Dew for the first time on 14th Feb Tuesday night, the next night when he wakes up in Dew’s world the day is 13th Feb Monday. So even though Dew remembers Mum less and less with every meet, it buys Mum more time to figure out who the killer is. Unfortunately, the murder mystery angle is the dumbest thing about this show. And there is a useless romantic sub-plot involving Mum’s sister Mint (Amy Thasorn Klinnium) – she is hopelessly in love with Dew in both universes and keeps asking him out after multiple rejections. Her persistence to chase Dew are outright creepy, troubling, but made to seem sweet only because it’s the girl who is after a guy. Mum doesn’t even know the same Dew exists in his world too.
Look, if what I am writing is confusing you, imagine how idiotic the show actually is. For example, the moment everybody finds out Mint is mad about a boy, they are excited to see who he is, but despite being quite close to his clingy sister, Mum has no idea what her best-friend/crush looks like. L-O-L. Towards the end, the creators pretty much forget about half the characters, they even forget the damn murder mystery and give viewers a ridiculous happy ending. Fluke needs to be cast in a better series and must fight for a better hair stylist.
It’s a 3/10 from me.
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