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The Gifted (2018)

Summary

Ritdha Wittayakom High School, a school with a "Gifted Program" that holds a special class for a handful of "special" students that were chosen by the school administrator. Incredibly, Pang, a 10th-grade student from the lowest ranking class surprisingly passed the Gifted Program placement test for unknown reasons. His entrance to the Gifted Program was filled with much confusion. He and his new friends started to feel that there is something strange about their special class. Eventually, they figured out that the Gifted Program was designed to awaken their "potentials" that pertains to some kind of special powers. As their potentials are discovered, their lives changed as their special powers come with troubles as well. Not long, their special gifts revealed a secret that the school official was trying to hide.

Review

My Rating: 9/10

I love this show so much that I don’t even know where to start. (This is going to be a long one.)

I’ll have to say that The Gifted is one of my favorite Thai series that I’ve seen so far, and whenever I’m recommending something new to watch to my friends The Gifted is on top of that list. I only watched it a couple of months ago (binging series during quarantine did me good in finding gems) while the show is now 2 years old and they have just started airing the second season: The Gifted Graduation and I’ve been so excited since the announcement.

One of the main reasons I like The Gifted, is probably because the story-line falls in the genre of stories I like, mixing some supernatural elements with making new friendships and teamwork to an extent that I would want to be part of the group and not let go of these characters. It was also due to the fact that I knew a bunch of the characters on the show from other series. (The twins, Gun (Punn), Puimek (Mon), Fiat (Korn), Sing (Ohm), Victor (Teacher Pom), …) I always enjoy seeing familiar faces.

The Intro: I have to talk about the intro because it’s iconic. I don’t think there is anyone who ever skipped the intro of this series. I sometimes listen to it on repeat, and I’m even considering making it my ringtone, that’s how good it is.

Let’s talk about the story:

In my opinion, it’s very unique in some ways. The whole students wanting justice and to change the system is nothing new, but it’s the supernatural aspect, aka their Potentials that makes this show unique of its kind. The way their potentials work doesn’t seem too far-fetched, and most of them work on the mind. Pang can control people’s minds, Clare can see their emotions, Mon’s potential is physical strength but her sweat and other substances can stimulate other people’s minds, Namtan can see the past and history of certain objects, Punn can copy other personalities and skills, the twins can feel each other’s pain, and so on. So it’s not like they can transform into something else or fly or anything like that but their potentials are more realistic (?) if that makes sense.

I love the trope of that one guy trying to figure out what he’s doing in his life and why everyone around him has everything figured out but he doesn’t, but I always worry about the main character turning a bit too annoying at some point, luckily that didn’t happen with Pang, he was a great character instead.  All the characters were great in their own way.

The Pang – Wave dynamic was just top notch, like; can we talk about the exam episode?  (Ep8) This episode was probably my favorite because of how everyone was completing each other’s answers on their talkie walkie and then Pang and Wave were completing each other’s sentences each from one side of the building. I loved this part so much since we also could see all the other characters at the same time in one episode.

The story-line itself is great; it kept me wanting to watch more every single time one episode would end; I’d have to say that I actually binged the show in two to three sitting just because I had to take online courses and do assignments in between since I was still attending University at the time.

The Characters:

Pang: As previously said, Pang was a great main character, he didn’t annoy me at all when I actually went in thinking: “ Oh here we go again another character that wants to be the leader and superior out of the bunch.” That wasn’t the case, he was actually pretty well balanced and helped his friends and cared about making things right. His potential is – obviously - the most important one between all the gifted students, and also a very interesting one.

Wave: He’s great, let’s just put it out there. For instance his potential is so powerful it makes my brain hurt. His character is also so complex, and his personality and attitude all make sense once we know more about his past and his reasons, which makes this character so good, added to how smart he also is. He and Pang complement each other’s personalities so well.

Ohm: Oh boy was his character very lovable, I think Ohm represents us in his episode, how we can be impulsive sometimes and burst out maybe even do or say something we might regret later. His character was not just funny but also important; the boy can make things disappear and reappear for the love of god. (Mr. Pom is still looking for his wallet.)

Namtan: Not only is her potential so powerful, but she’s such a goal driven person, and once she has her mind set on something, you can’t stop her, I mean if not even her health could stop her, then how could a person do so?

Claire: I think her potential is actually really cool, and her character is actually pretty realistic, I mean her ego is quite something and she’s quite confident – love that. But she doesn’t take people’s crap or lies. She is a good person, and doesn’t lead people on, she also is there for people when they need her. Her and Punn really do complement each other.

Punn: Such an important and needed character, not only is his potential so great, but the fact that he is also dealing with mental illness also makes his character so great and important. He is in some way, representation for many people who might be dealing with any sort of mental illness and that’s a great thing to see. Let’s also talk about Gun’s acting, in his episode (Ep5) it was at that one scene in the cafeteria, at that moment that everyone realized what was going on and pieced everything together. (Maimee is iconic too so-)

Mon: Superhuman strength? Don’t mind if I do. I’d love to have her potential not gonna lie, but just like her, I’d do without the side effects of it. She’s such a good person and she has to deal with people hating her because she’s … good? Let’s just say that this is realistic and happens a lot.

Korn: Some might say that Korn’s potential isn’t that great, but think about it, some people are scared to go to sleep by fear of not waking up, some feel like if they had more time in the day then they would be able to achieve so much more, maybe it wasn’t for him and he got duped but with him we learned quite a few things.

Jack and Joe (The Twins): There really isn’t much to say about them, or even their potential, I believe that there could have been much more done with them, I hope they take this opportunity this season.

Favorite Character: Punn

As someone who deals with some mental health problems, representation pulls me and makes me love a series a lot more. His character was beautiful and Gun portrayed him so well.

(I think this will be the longest review I’ll ever write because I spoke about each and every character and there is 10 mains, instead of going by couples or most important.)