SOTUS: The Series

SOTUS: The Series is set inside an engineering faculty, where first-year students must go through the faculty’s SOTUS hazing system, run by a team of seniors. The senior at the head of that team is Arthit Rojnapat, played by Perawat Sangpotirat, known as Krist. The freshman who does not fall in line is Kongphop Suttilak, nicknamed Kong, played by Prachaya Ruangroj, known as Singto.

The story starts from that confrontation. Kongphop challenges Arthit in the early episodes, and the ongoing tension between a senior who enforces the system and a freshman who resists it is what the series builds on. Around them is a large faculty cast: Thitipoom Techaapaikhun plays a first-year student, Neen Suwanamas plays May, Chanagun Arpornsutinan plays Prem, a third-year, and Teerapat Lohanan plays Wad.

SOTUS: The Series was produced by GMMTV together with Felloww and was written and directed by Lit Samajarn, from the novel SOTUS by BitterSweet. It premiered on 20 August 2016 on One31 and LINE TV, with fifteen episodes in its main run, and it carries the subtitle The Evil Senior and Mr. Freshman in the original Thai title.

The series produced two later works. SOTUS S premiered on 9 December 2017 with both leads returning, and the spin-off Our Skyy came in 2018.

Because the story is adapted from a novel by BitterSweet, the structure of the faculty and its seniors comes from the page, and the series keeps the engineering faculty as its single setting. That focus is why the title is a good entry point for anyone who prefers a story with one clear location and one clear conflict over a story that moves between settings.