SummaryThe limited series focuses on the 12 boys from a Thai youth football (soccer) team, their coach and the efforts to rescued them in 2018 from the flooded Tham Luang caves.
SummaryThe limited series focuses on the 12 boys from a Thai youth football (soccer) team, their coach and the efforts to rescued them in 2018 from the flooded Tham Luang caves.
The intimacy with these characters naturally makes the series more affecting, even if some of the performances are a bit stilted and raw. The earlier episodes are pretty rough, especially when the writers desperately seek levity in a story that doesn’t often leave such breathing room. ... There’s more confidence in later episodes.
The Thai-language series has a hefty seriousness of purpose and hits easily legible emotional beats hard. However, it sometimes overreaches in making the case that this incident was tense, scary, and upsetting — making a story that lends itself very easily to drama into a strained melodrama.