The Gifted Graduation (2020) – Thai Drama Review

Pawaret “Pang” Sermrittirong

Portrayed by: Korapat Kirdpan (Nanon)

Pang’s character showed a lack of development which disappointed me but this might have been intentional. In terms of his gifted powers, Pang did not show much improvement. One reason for Pang’s powers to remain the same is that unlike Director Supot, Pang disliked manipulating other people to do his will. Only till the very end, Pang managed to use his powers against Director Supot 🥳 as a showcase of his “improved” ability. However, there was no follow up scene of what happened to Director Supot thereafter. A special scene of e.g. 3 years later would have been nice and would have brought a better closure to the series. 

As a leader, Pang tended to be overcome with emotions and his inability to make hard decisions quickly caused the Gifted class to fall apart, which was heartbreaking 😭. I nearly cried when Ohm was left alone to wish Narmtaan happy birthday. That was one of the saddest scenes in the entire series 😭😭. 

Thanakorn “Korn” Gorbgoon

Portrayed by: Pattadon Janngeon (Fiat)

Korn had always despised his power, which is the ability to go without sleep. As sleeping is my favorite activity 😴😏, I sympathize strongly with Korn. God forbid someone taking away my favorite afternoon naps!!! 🤬 Korn’s power evolved to include healing, so he did not die after his suicide attempt.

Actor Pattadon Janngeon (Fiat) did a perfect job portraying Korn’s messed up feelings 🙌 when Pang confronted Korn on his betrayal. I wished the viewers got to see Korn’s messed up emotions from Claire’s eyes – purple/fear for consequences of his actions; blue/sadness betraying his friends; orange/happiness for bringing down the gifted program; a mix of colours for confusion since he was after all, a manipulated chess piece in Director’s Supot’s evil schemes 😥.

Director Supot Chueamanee

Portrayed by: Wanchana Sawatdee (Bird)

Director Supot’s character was very well explored in this sequel. The backstory of his manipulation of the real “Yuth” really blew my mind of the limitless power of his manipulation abilities and the evilness of his character 🤯. This is a typical case of showing how dangerous it is for great power to fall into the wrong hands. However, I would have liked to see a story of how Director Supot discovered his powers and how he, “Yuth” and “Nate” knew each other/got closer and how they built their lair for conducting experiments.

It would have been nice to see Director Supot’s downfall and showing him make atonements for his crimes – such as undoing all the manipulation he did over the years and freeing all people he used to have control over. An ending scene in jail would have been nice too 5555555 😅😂🤣

Wasuthorn “Wave” Worachotmethee

Portrayed by: Wachirawit Ruangwiwat (Chimon)

Wave’s powers improved such that he is able to control electronic devices that have been damaged beyond repair 🤖. This might not seem to be a “wow” improvement, but bear in mind that Wave was powerful from the start.

Wave’s character growth was amazing. From a sour lone wolf, Wave grew to love his friends 🥰. Wave was fearful when it was exposed that Korn betrayed the group, but he feared because he didn’t want to lose his friends. Wave also chose to inject himself with NYX88 rather than betray Pang, showing his great love for his friend.

Punn Taweesilp

Portrayed by: Atthaphan Phunsawat (Gun)

Punn’s powers improved such that he is able to copy a person’s skill without having the reference in front of him, but copying the skills by immersing himself into that person’s behaviour and emotions 😲.

The way Punn was able to even copy Pang’s powers of manipulation stunned me and I felt that the limitless ability of this power was not explored properly. For example, if Punn could have the same powers as Pang, he could prevent Director Supot from manipulating him to inject himself with Nyx88 and Punn could search for Pang in peace, instead of having Wave to search for Pang and then injecting himself with Nyx88. However, Punn might not be able to constantly copy other people’s abilities because it will worsen his split personality disorder. So I’ll choose to forgive the plot hole here 🤭. 

Wichai “Ohm” Sai-Ngern

Portrayed by: Harit Cheewagaroon (Sing)

Ohm ability evolved to make many things invisible, useful for hiding the meeting place of the gang. Ohm’s character also evolved to take the lead in opposing Director Supot at the end of the series 🤩.

Ohm seemed to be a bit of a coward at the start of the Gifted series 1 so being able to stand up against Director Supot in front of a large audience showed immense courage on Ohm’s part 💪.

Natnicha “Grace” Wongwattana

Portrayed by: Chanikarn Tangabodi (Prim)

Grace started off as an indifferent student willing to bend rules to get what she wants. It is later revealed that Grace has a powerful ability to time travel and talk to her past/future self. That ability reels Director Supot and throws all his grand plans in disarray 😎.

However, this ability takes a toll on Grace who feels that her current self was being manipulated by her future self 🥺. Like Korn, she chose to remove the ability at the end.

Tharm “Time” Thamrongsawat

Portrayed by: Nattawat Finkler (Patrick)

Time is an earnest student determined to bring back the Gifted program 🤓 after it got canceled for bringing chaos to the school. Time’s ability is to pinpoint the physical location of people/objects from a map.

It’s a bit crazy how he can locate Korn out of the whole map of Thailand but oh well, all gifts are rather crazy. No? 🤪

Thammarong “Third” Decharat

Portrayed by: Phuwin Tangsakyuen

Third used to be an abusive student inspector. He has the power of hacking into someone’s mind. Third turned into a nicer person throughout the series and proved himself useful for discovering the real identity of Nate. 😘