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Bad Buddy

★ 8.7 9K votes 2021–2022 1 season · 12 episodes Ended GMM 25
Queer storiesLGBTQ+ lives and relationships at the center.This show: 10/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 10/10Romantic yearningThe will-they-won't-they ache as the main draw.This show: 9/10Slow burnDeliberate pacing where the payoffs are earned over long stretches.This show: 8/10Coming of ageGrowing up as the central arc.This show: 8/10Tight writingNo wasted scenes, just disciplined storytelling.This show: 7/10School & campusSchools and universities as the primary world.This show: 7/10Witty banterRapid-fire verbal sparring.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Nanon Korapat KirdpanOhm Pawat ChittsawangdeeLove Pattranite LimpatiyakornJitaraphol PotiwihokDrake Sattabut LaedekeThakorn Promsatitkul
Starring
Nanon Korapat KirdpanOhm Pawat ChittsawangdeeLove Pattranite LimpatiyakornJitaraphol PotiwihokDrake Sattabut LaedekeThakorn Promsatitkul
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
02505007501k

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S18.88.48.58.89.09.38.98.99.08.79.08.88.9

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About

"Rivalry curdling into tenderness, one glance at a time"

Two engineering students, Pat and Pran, grow up as rivals because their fathers despise each other, forced by family pride into constant competition. What starts as petty one-upmanship slowly curdles into something warmer, messier, and harder to deny. The show unfolds slowly and naturalistically, favoring quiet glances and drawn-out tension over grand declarations. It is less about plot twists than about the accumulation of small, believable moments between two people who keep finding excuses to stay close. Patient, tender, occasionally very funny, it rewards viewers who enjoy a slow-burn built on chemistry rather than melodrama.

Watch it for

the unhurried, believable chemistry between two leads who make small gestures feel enormous.

Maybe skip if

you want fast plotting or big dramatic swings rather than a patient slow burn.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12021
8.89K1211h 1m
At university, two young men raised to hate each other find music and love instead, forcing them to question family legacies and choose their own path.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Episode #1.18.4
99848 min
▶2Episode #1.28.5
86445 min
▶3Episode #1.38.8
79353 min
▶4Episode #1.49.0
80555 min
▶5Episode #1.59.3
85953 min
▶6Episode #1.68.9
81850 min
▶7Episode #1.78.9
76555 min
▶8Episode #1.89.0
79556 min
▶9Episode #1.98.7
66858 min
▶10Episode #1.109.0
63269 min
▶11Episode #1.118.8
62862 min
▶12Episode #1.128.9
66157 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Nanon Korapat Kirdpan Pran
Ohm Pawat Chittsawangdee Pat
Love Pattranite Limpatiyakorn Pa
Jitaraphol Potiwihok Wai
Drake Sattabut Laedeke Korn
Thakorn Promsatitkul Safe
Marc Natarit Worakornlertsith Louis
Prom Teepakron Kwanboon Mo
Mark Pakin Kuna-anuwit Chang
Milk Pansa Vosbein Ink

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