What a view | Netflix Thai show Remember You adds Hannibal Lecter vibe to remake of K-drama Hello Monster, while Acapulco on Apple TV+ takes you back to the ’80s
- Remember You, a Thai remake of Korean thriller Hello Monster, flits back and forth in time as it follows the life of a police consultant suspected of murder
- Travel to Acapulco this winter on Apple TV+ with the charmingly comic coming-of-age story of a pool boy working at the Las Colinas resort in ’80s Mexico
As an antidote to all that New Year good cheer, why not immerse yourself in some particularly nasty criminal psychology courtesy of Remember You?
If this Thai remake of Korean police thriller Hello Monster on Netflix slipped under your radar and you like mind games with your mysteries, Patarapon To-oun, starring as Pathomkarn the serial killer, could be your next poster boy.
Probable killer, that is.
Pathomkarn is a graduate of the Hannibal Lecter school of messing with law-enforcement officers’ heads, so he delights in laying the sorts of false trail that could conceivably convince them, say, that JFK and Elvis were abducted by aliens. Flummoxed and humiliated, they then administer a sound beating in response.
While dexterous, the psychological contortions the deviant puts everyone else through, as he contemplates his moral duty to inflict pain on other people, mean a painfully slow set-up. But by episode two (of the 16 hour-or-so-long instalments), sinister has superseded sluggish: the young Tanwa, son of the police officer in charge of giving Pathomkarn a hard time, flirts with the dark side and falls under the slippery suspect’s spell. Life lessons from a presumed mass murderer can’t be ideal.