#playboyy ep5

[whatever-letmebe]

Don't mind us, we're just two shirtless guys standing around in a car garage.

[hurlumerlu]

As usual, badly put together thoughts on Playboyy episode 5 under the cut :

My main thought on this episode is how heavy on melancholy it was. It was a lot less funny and dramatic and a lot more, idk. contemplative ? or at least that's how it felt to me. Also a lot more unsettling, we are definitely not playing anymore. Funnily enough, this gravitas is pretty close to what I hoped for when I started Playboyy, but now that I actually have it I feel wrongfooted and unsure. Which is great ! I've always enjoyed shows where I didn't know what I was in for before starting an episode (perhaps a little too much) and I appreciate the unease.

Related to the above : I like that the Nuth & Phop scenes are packed with tender moments (the piggyback, the very begining of the shaving scene, "haha i'm halucinating him :D/i'm right there", waking up in each other's arms) amidst the constant current of dread. It helps lay out the reasons Phop comes back (drugs aside) on an emotional level, and it also makes the peaks in tension that much stronger because you keep waiting for the other shoe to drop and because it could be sweet ! it could. it's good suspense.

Honnestly the fact that Nuth has been so strongly established as suspect n°1 when we're only in episode 5 makes me really doubt that he is, for lack of a better term, our Big Bad. Which does not mean I think of him as an innocent little sweetheart (don't pay people in drugs is imo a pretty low bar and he couldn't even clear that) and he absolutely had something to do with Nant's troubles, but I feel like there is something else at play. Could be way off though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Unpopular opinion probably but I worry for him too. He does not seem well ! He also doesn't seem to have much of a support system ! If this all ends badly - if it already has, for Nant, because of him - I don't think I'll be able to shake off the feeling that it all could have been avoided.

Please don't kill Phop please don't kill Phop please don't kill Phop

Other characters I would like to not see die are Nont (very much so), Soong, and Jump. (and Puen because I play favourites) the others are fair game for me not because I don't like them but because I can see multiple narrative payoffs for their death. It all depend on how it's done. (honnestly I can also imagine narrative payoffs for Nont's death, and worse endings for him than death, but. uh. I'll be gutted for sure)

Since I mentioned Soong - I told myself I would not gripe about this but I am absolutely going to gripe about this : how did Nont convince him to drink/take drugs with him ? Did he think this was Nant ? it was all very weird and I did not get how we got for point a to point c. You could argue it doesn't matter but it's the kind of things that matters to me ! Anyway, moving on :

Soong keeps having a bad time. And I'm sure many would say he deserved it, but as I'm not generally interested in characters getting their just deserts (unless it's funny) I'm still mostly feeling kinda sad for the guy, in an awkward sort of way

I'm sorry I said Nont was not good at threatening people. turns out he's just not good at threatening people with sharp objects. He's disturbingly into it when it comes to fire though ! (but also Nont baby you're gonna burn your thumb)

Zouey & Teena were very cute. So where Zouey & First trying to investigate Soong.

You know who isn't cute ? Porche. I want to sit that boy down and have a loooong talk with him. It probably wouldn't help but someone has to try.

Anyway we knew that already but the fact that none of these rich little fuckers where willing to help Nant out when they could easily have pooled their money... with friends like these, honnestly.

This may have been a wake up call for Captain ? wait and see I guess.

Captain and Puen being on good enough terms that Captain told him everything about the fake sex tape is interesting. I'm still really interested in their dynamic !

Look. Puen was so charming (and charmed) all episode and Aob was so prickly, it's hard for me not to get into the relationship that is dangled in front of us (and I didn't try). However everytime I watch this series I think of Love Conquers All (2006) and its ironic-ass title, so I look at every single relationships promised by this show with doubt and mistrust

SPEAKING OF WHICH : lmao @Prom and his little evil smile. control your face, sir.

But I still believe he didn't know why Nant was missing, so I wonder what he was smiling evily for. Plenty of options to chose from though ! Maybe he just wants to get back at the ex-playboyys for asserting their independence, which would be bad enough, but I doubt that's all. Oh well, we'll see !

Last thought : I could have sworn I saw the bottom of a brazilian flag in one of Nuth and Poph scene but I can't find it again :(

[gillyweedgrl]

I’m so sorry but all I could think during my first watch of this scene was “someone please put some baby powder on that fake tatt” 🤣

That and the fact that, by this point, I was starting to note the episodes by the colour/style of Soong’s hair.

it should be impossible to look this good while being threatened

[scarefox]

plot twist

[singto-prachaya]

Playboyy EP5 gifs

[autisticbokutoenthusiast]

playboyy ep5 stray thoughts:

- there’s something striking about the music that plays during zouey and teena’s scenes but i haven’t figured out why yet

- captain continues to have that dog in him

- ok so if puen(?) was able to figure out it was zouey in the video couldn’t anyone else on the team or do they just run in entirely different circles, also when did he and captain become close or are they bonded by trauma

- finally porsche and jump i nearly forgot about them. still don’t know what’s happening with them

- first in his lil pearl necklace ooo my boy

- oh no workplace beef between aob and puen…

- ok does prom or does prom not wear glasses too im losing my mind

- prom is really fascinating to me because i can’t read him…

- ok for the aob and puen scene, the scene is interesting but more so the music. like it feels suspenseful but also like calming- like it’s not quite sad but veering a bit towards cautious- HOLD ON THE SONG SWITCH

IF ANYONE READING THIS HAS ANY META POSTS ABOUT THE MUSOC PLS SEND THEM MY WAY

- puen lowkey about to become my second baby boy

- the porn to be wild sign lol

- soong kinda want me yall im sorry but… yeah

- THE SET UP EITH NONT IN FRONT OD THE ANGEL WINGS i’m a sucker for this shit

- “ i’ll let you choose if you want to be cooked medium rare or well done” NONT?!?!?!? like what happened to him that he rolls up ready to impersonate fuck and arson his way to the truth?!?!?! i’m obsessed with him

- oh nuth kinda shady ain’t he…

- i like the music that plays for nuth and phop, idk why yet but it feels like all encompassing? like it makes the scene feel very full

- this scene is one of my favs so far like the music switching to this very eerie string the close ups on the shaving blade the way the camera switches between their faces THE SHOT OF THE FUCKING N NEVKLACE ON THE FLOOR really well done imo

- “and in order to find my missing brother we shoul-” “ did no one hear about how my man broke my heart 🥺🥺 im sad by the way 🥺🥺 cause my heart is broken🥺🥺” first my baby boy i luv u

- obsessed with the framing of zouey, first, and captain all messing around and being friendly and off to the side nont is starting to understand their bond but beside him is porsche who looks like an outsider too…

-is the scene with puen and aob like actually happening or is it meant to be theatrical… i interpret it to be theatrical recreation

- the music is really hitting for me this episode also the shots and their sequencing as well. also i love this shows use of projectors, even when i can’t understand what it’s showing it adds a nice texture to the visuals

- so it is nants necklace…

[scarefox]

Nuth: actually it stands for

duuh

[mygwenchan]

I'm still wondering if First and Prom hooked up with each other...

If they did , we were totally robbed of that scene 😭

[whatever-letmebe]

Here's what is revealed about Nant in episode 5

I'm here, once again, to summarize the Nant mystery plot for you all.

Timestamps: 00:55 - 06:47; 24:32 - 29:44; 49:10 - 51:33; 51:34 - the end

The episode starts with Nont and the boys sitting down to talk about what exactly happened prior to Nant's disappearance: Porsche introduced Nant to the website thaiboyslive (the one Phop also uses) and Nant met up with Nuth for sex. Some time later Nant asked his friends if he could borrow 100.000 baht (allegedly) because his mom was very sick. None of the boys were willing to lend him that much money, which is why Nant turned to Prom. Prom paid Nant for sex until Prosche found out about it and told Nant to stop or else Nant would be kicked out of the house. Nant went to First for help, asking him to talk to Porsche but First didn't want to get involved. Since Nant still needed money, he started taking videos of himself having sex (with strangers?) and selling them to Captain. TL,DR: These boys were just the absolute worst friends!

Nont says that the last time he talked to his brother he offered Nant to come live with him for a while. Nant texted Nont that he was catching a flight but he never arrived. Nont also tells the boys about Teena's, Soong's and Jump's connection to Nant and the Playboyy Lounge. He wants the boys to help him find out what happened to Nant and they agree (or at least we don't see them disagree).

We already knew that Nant had to take care of his sick mother. Now we learn that the mother had attempted suicide several times.

Nont goes full angel of vengeance on Soong. He gets Soong drunk (and drugs him, I think), ties him up and then threatens him with torture if Soong doesn't tell him about Nant.

Remember how Teena told Nont that Soong found Nant wasted one night and took him back to his apartment (which he shared with Jump and Teena)? Yeah, well what Teena left out was that Soong had sex with Nant and then got pissed at him the next morning because Nant had used all of Soong's drugs. Soong demanded that Nant pay him back. We see Nant visibly distressed and scared. (That's probably what Soong remembered during that fight with First in episode 3 or 4). Soong tells Nont that he had sex with Nant a couple of times and that Nant gave him the money for the drugs he used a few days later. Soong also says that after that, Nant was the one who provided the guys with drugs, which he probably got from Nuth, whom he was hooking up with at the time. According to Soong, Nant was already addicted to drugs when he first met the Playboyy guys.

Phop finds a necklace in Nuth's apartment that used to belong to Nant.

The episode ends with Nont and Prom in bed after sex. Prom suggests to Nont that he should just get all the suspects in Nant's disappearance together and find out the truth. The last shot of the episode shows Prom smiling ominously.

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I love a dramatic revengeful bitch 😂

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