Poom Nitipoom Jumparnin

Poom’s first screen credit is Taosor, the second-billed lead of One Year.

What stayed with me is how much the role asks of a first-time screen actor. Taosor wakes each morning with no memory of the day before, so every scene with Kim has to start from a blank, and the performance has to show a person who is new to the room without playing him as a stranger to himself. That is a demanding brief for a debut, and it is what I would watch for first.

The weekly schedule sets up an interesting contrast with the character. Taosor forgets everything overnight, yet the eight episodes were spaced a full week apart, so viewers hold a longer memory of the story than the chef does. The title points to a year by the sea, while the broadcast run covers about seven weeks.

In my view the best way in is to start with the first episode and then follow the rest through Kim, who carries the whole history of the relationship while Taosor meets him again each morning. The Girls’ Love subplot with Now and Siu runs beside it, so there is a second, separate story to follow.

A practical suggestion: watch two episodes in a row rather than one. A story about forgetting works better when the gap between scenes is short, because you notice at once what Kim has to explain again and what Taosor has lost, and you see how Poom handles each reset.