Save Me

A man in a pink shirt pouts at the camera while a merman with a shimmering blue tail pokes his cheek. That is the first look at Save Me (ช่วยด้วยผมรักเงือก), and the Thai title says the rest out loud: help, I am in love with a merman. Somebody on that beach is in trouble, and it is the happy kind.

The series comes from T-Rux Production, the Thai studio that already puts Stamp Pornwasin Rueangnukul and Yuya Matsuzaki on screen together. Yuya plays Warich and Stamp plays Phat, with Sirasit Chumjit as Matcha. On the poster, Yuya is the one with the tail, perched on a rock at the water's edge in a knotted net top, while Stamp sits on the sand beside him looking very much like a land creature.

The setting on the key art is pure summer: turquoise sea, palm leaves, seagulls and a sun so bright it flares across the corner. A beach romance with a fantasy twist is the promise, and the title makes it clear that falling for someone from the sea is going to cause problems. Can a man and a merman share one shore?

The studio has kept every other plot detail under wraps so far, so the poster and the title are the whole map for now. My tip: read the title as a confession, because that is exactly how it sounds in Thai.