I was recommended this series because it's about foreigner adventures in Thailand.
It was not what I expected.
It's actually a series about mental health. All three main characters suffer from some quite severe mental health problems and Thailand is just a convenient backdrop to their mania.
Among the many problems with this series are:
1. There are three entirely separate story lines that do not interlink at all. Not locations, not leading characters, not supporting roles. They happen to be set in Thailand, apparently Phuket, but that is the only linking theme.
2. They must take place in wildly different timelines. The old couple and the fat guy are on a package tours, presumably for two weeks, but the family in this time buys a resort, renovates it and next door a Thai guy builds a resort from scratch.
3. All three story lines feature lead Swedes who have severe mental health problems. The mother, who is recovering from a stroke, is detestable in her behaviour and should be sectioned. The old woman becomes a dive master in no time at all and stores her head husband (it was an accident) in the resort room with a towel over his head while he decomposes in the heat. Fat guy plays an absurd innocent who is fleeced rotten by the Thais in what is the only slightly credible storyline.
4. How does an autopsy conclude that a dead body that had been decomposing in the hot air for days on end actually dies by drowning when there could be no water in his decomposing lungs.
5. Money for all three main characters swings between being unlimited and being all spent yet still they manage to live in Thailand throughout the series. Old woman is reduced to eating leftovers off plates in restaurants. Fat guy tells his ladyboy that all the money has gone yet still manages to build her a house. Certifiable mother has no money for bail yet can rebuild her resort once she's out of jail. Nonsense.
6. If Swedes are all like the ones in this series then their largest industry must not be Abba, Ikea or Volvos but therapy.
It was not what I expected.
It's actually a series about mental health. All three main characters suffer from some quite severe mental health problems and Thailand is just a convenient backdrop to their mania.
Among the many problems with this series are:
1. There are three entirely separate story lines that do not interlink at all. Not locations, not leading characters, not supporting roles. They happen to be set in Thailand, apparently Phuket, but that is the only linking theme.
2. They must take place in wildly different timelines. The old couple and the fat guy are on a package tours, presumably for two weeks, but the family in this time buys a resort, renovates it and next door a Thai guy builds a resort from scratch.
3. All three story lines feature lead Swedes who have severe mental health problems. The mother, who is recovering from a stroke, is detestable in her behaviour and should be sectioned. The old woman becomes a dive master in no time at all and stores her head husband (it was an accident) in the resort room with a towel over his head while he decomposes in the heat. Fat guy plays an absurd innocent who is fleeced rotten by the Thais in what is the only slightly credible storyline.
4. How does an autopsy conclude that a dead body that had been decomposing in the hot air for days on end actually dies by drowning when there could be no water in his decomposing lungs.
5. Money for all three main characters swings between being unlimited and being all spent yet still they manage to live in Thailand throughout the series. Old woman is reduced to eating leftovers off plates in restaurants. Fat guy tells his ladyboy that all the money has gone yet still manages to build her a house. Certifiable mother has no money for bail yet can rebuild her resort once she's out of jail. Nonsense.
6. If Swedes are all like the ones in this series then their largest industry must not be Abba, Ikea or Volvos but therapy.