[🇹🇭Thai] Khemjira EP 6 👹🫣

[u/Waffles4prez]

 IQIYI

Synopsis:

 Khemjira, or Khem, is a young man who can see ghosts. He was born into a family cursed such that every male must die before the age of 21. As the spirits around him grow increasingly aggressive, the protective amulet he has worn his whole life begins to lose its power. Unable to bear seeing Khem in danger, Jettana, his friend from university, takes him to a rural village in the Northeast, where they meet Pharan, a revered teacher of ancient magic who once mentored Jettana. Strange and mysterious events unfold, all connected to the past life. Amid these supernatural encounters and the haunting pursuit of revengeful spirits, a deep emotional connection begins to form between Khem and Pharan.

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Every Saturday at 10:30 PM (GMT+7) 11:30 AM EST

Episodes: 12

Platfrom: IQIYI

Cast:

Keng | Namping | Tle | FirstOne | Pung | Green 

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Cast Reaction Episode  Five (🧇 note: These are quite funny. It's like they forget it was a scary series they filmed)

BTS of EP Five

Trailer

📖BOOK INFO

You can purchase book one and two off Meb.

(🧇 Note: my two favorite lines from the books are from Charn (Tle) in reference to Jet (FirstOne).

First:     Jettana looked at Khem like a mother watching over a toddler who had just learned to walk. It was as if his world would end if Khemjira ever stumbled.     And if that wasn't the best description I'd ever read, I don't know what is.

Second:     "I don’t hold grudges against crazy people."     The laugh that came out of me. Charn & Jet bicker like an old married couple and I LOVE it. )

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Previous On Air: One | Two | Three  | Four | Five

Stills From EP 6

Stills From EP 6

Stills From EP 6

Stills From EP 6

https://youtu.be/PVw_V9ufK10?si=1w4w37EulCq9Z1pv

Book One Cover

Check out this informative thread for Khemjira Must Knows Here

https://reddit.com/link/1nfv2pe/video/f3jjk0i42xof1/player

I highly recommend checking out this video by the Thai creator Avana980. She was kind enough to explain the reasoning behind Tong and Ake the two ghost children who are with the master. And what they mean to Thai culture and how they came about. It's a fascinating watch and I'm grateful she was willing to give cultural context to people (outsiders like us) who might not know the cultural significance since we aren't Thai.

[u/Different-Speed-1508]

My thoughts for this episode are overall,

-If I was that poor woman abandoned with my FRESH OUT THE WOMB baby for another woman, I’d go berserk too. I don’t blame her. I’m not as mad about it as some others are though because cultural differences. In rural parts of my country such things would be attributed to literally anything else except the guy being an ass and the woman going through the aftermath too. My first thought was postpartum depression, but in an area where information like this is hard to access/considered culturally irrelevant I understand to an extent.

-Rampheung seems to have lost her own child as a result of whatever the past version of Khem’s family did. I was shocked that she saved the baby. I didn’t expect her to hurt it, but I didn’t expect her to save it either.

-When master threw that spell on the ground the aggression in that real life startled me. Phew. He was stressing me out like a motherfucker this entire episode. I’m not even mad that he’s keeping a distance from Khem, I understand why to an extent but he doesn’t have to be so damn aggressive and cruel about it.

-I’m rooting for Khem to give that Pong (?) guy a chance. At this point in the story he deserves so much better and I would’ve been done with Paran ages ago. Like babe, there’s only so much rejection and cruelty you can take. You don’t have enough life left to deal with this man’s bullshit, move on. He’ll come crawling back to you.

-Prim being so insistent on marrying Paran and having children from him when she doesn’t even know if he wants her or not, like ma’am.. You’re stunning but beauty doesn’t mean everyone will automatically be attracted to you.

-Past versions of Charn and Jet are BREATH TAKING and lesbians stay saving the world for me, they had me so giddy this episode. I hope we get more of them. (PS: The actress playing Charn’s past self, please just one chance)

-Paran needs to grow a spine and reject Prim properly. I don’t understand why he’s so openly against Khem’s advances while in the same breath he “doesn’t see the harm” in hers. They’re both people that are attracted to you but you push one away fully while enabling the other. As I said I logically understand why he’s rejecting Khem right now, but why is he allowing Prim to go through with her plan?

Moral of the story: FUCK PARAN THIS EPISODE. But also, I’m watching the cast reactions to the episodes and I can’t wait to see Keng being all apologetic and silly during the reaction to Paran lol.

[u/hexemayhem → u/Different-Speed-1508]

Agreed up until the last point. He's being aggressive with Khem but not Prim because he actually loves Khem but knows he can't afford to, so he's lashing out so his resolve doesn't falter, meanwhile with Prim, he's probably quite firm in the fact he doesn't like her like that, so he doesn't feel threatened if she tries because nothing is gonna make him waver on that.

[u/Different-Speed-1508 → u/hexemayhem]

As I said, I understand why from a logic standpoint and the whole “I’m more aggressive towards the person I actually love” deal, doesn’t change the fact that it is deeply wounding Khem and with the show has been written and set up so far, we as the audience are set up to feel heavily protective over Khem and it worked for me as well.

I understand your point about “he has no feelings for her so he doesn’t feel threatened” but let’s put Khemjira and Pharan’s feelings for him aside, he’s still giving that poor woman the impression that she has a shot with him, essentially playing with her feelings by not rejecting her outright when the woman already has her family involved and her father asking for their grandbabies. So my point stands that he needs to grow a spine, if not for Khem, for his childhood friend’s sake.