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Midnight Series

Midnight Series is a Thai television anthology of three short drama series about people who work and live at night, produced by GMMTV and presented as three self-contained segments: Midnight Motel (แอปลับ โรงแรมรัก), Dirty Laundry (ซักอบร้ายนายสะอาด), and Moonlight Chicken (พระจันทร์มันไก่)¹. The project was announced at the GMMTV 2022: BORDERLESS event on 1 December 2021 as a set of three short series about nightlife, and it aired from 28 December 2022 to 2 March 2023, streaming first on Disney+ Hotstar with reruns on the GMM 25 channel a few days later¹.

Key fact	Detail
Format	Anthology of three short series, 20 episodes total: 6 (Midnight Motel), 6 (Dirty Laundry), 8 (Moonlight Chicken)¹
Run	28 December 2022 to 2 March 2023, one segment after another¹
Directors	Momo Athip Vichuchaianan, Jojo Tichakorn Phukhaotong, and Aof Noppharnach Chaiyahwimhon, one per segment¹
Production	GMMTV, with Wakeup Rabbit Studio for Midnight Motel and Hard Feeling Film for Dirty Laundry; producer Sataporn Panichraksapong¹
First release	Disney+ Hotstar, exclusive streaming in Thailand; new episodes Wednesdays and Thursdays at 18:00²
Shared theme	The lives of people of the night, told in three different moods³

Spoilers

The three segments

Midnight Motel. The first segment follows Mot (โมทย์), played by Off Jumpol Adulkittiporn, a young gambler deep in debt who works at a relative's hotel, and Kat (แคท), played by Jan Ployshompoo Supasap, a sex worker who is also trapped by debt to Sun (ซัน), the head of a VIP sideline group played by Mond Tanutchai Wijitvongtong³. To pay off what they owe, the two start a secret app for sex workers, coded by Mot's close friend Doy (ดอย), played by Louis Thanawin Teeraphosukarn³. The business draws them into the mysterious death of a young businessman who becomes Kat's client². The six episodes aired from 28 December 2022 to 12 January 2023¹.

Dirty Laundry. The second segment is a comedy-mystery set at a 24-hour laundry and pressing shop that becomes a gathering point for strange customers with suspicious behavior, leading to a hunt for the thief in a missing million-baht wallet². It stars Nanon Korapat Kirdkiri and Film Rachanun, with supporting players including Pond Naravit, Fey Pathom, and Jenny Panan². In the story, Neon, a lonely late-shift laundromat attendant, meets Night, a murder mystery novelist who does his laundry there while writing and who saves her from other customers' rampages⁵. It aired from 18 January to 2 February 2023¹.

Moonlight Chicken. The final and longest segment, eight episodes from 8 February to 2 March 2023, is a romance directed by Aof Noppharnach¹. Jim (จิม), played by Earth Pirapat Watthanasetsiri, runs a Hainanese chicken rice diner that stays open late; one night Wen (เวน), played by Mix Sahaphap Wongratch, stays past closing drunk, and the night they spend together leaves feelings neither can put aside⁶. The supporting cast includes First Kanaphan Puitrakul as Alan, Khaotung Thanawat Rattanakitpaisan as Gaipa, Fourth Nattawat Jirochtikul as Li Ming, and Gemini Norawit Titicharoenrak as Heart⁶. Earth and Mix had previously played the lead couple in A Tale of Thousand Stars (2021) and Cupid's Last Wish (2022), and director Aof cast them as leads again⁷.

Concept and production

GMMTV, a Thai content provider, framed Midnight Series as a special project of "3 styles, 3 moods" telling stories of nightlife². Each segment had its own director and its own production partner: Midnight Motel was directed by Momo Athip Vichuchaianan and made with Wakeup Rabbit Studio, Dirty Laundry by Jojo Tichakorn Phukhaotong with Hard Feeling Film, and Moonlight Chicken by Aof Noppharnach Chaiyahwimhon¹. The three stories are standalone, connected loosely by the idea of what people do at night rather than by a shared plot⁴.

The project was announced in December 2021, and a teaser released on 14 December 2022 presented the three titles together ahead of the first premiere⁴.

Broadcast and distribution

All three segments premiered on Disney+ Hotstar in Thailand, with new episodes on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 18:00, and were rerun on the free channel GMM 25 a few days after streaming¹^•⁸. The series later reached other markets: Japan's CS channel LaLa TV broadcast the trilogy over three months from July 2023, with Midnight Motel in July, Dirty Laundry in August, and Moonlight Chicken in September⁹, and Moonlight Chicken began streaming on Japan's TELASA on 15 March 2023¹⁰. In Indonesia, Vidio carried Midnight Motel and Dirty Laundry with Indonesian subtitles, releasing Midnight Motel on 25 March 2024¹¹. GMMTV also released the series on its YouTube channel with English subtitles for international viewers¹².

Reception

Viewer ratings collected by episode-tracking sites put Midnight Motel on a rising curve: its first episode scored 7.0 and its finale, "All or nothing" (12 January 2023), 8.5, the highest of its six episodes¹³. Moonlight Chicken holds an 8.0/10 rating on the Cinnamon database, which classifies it as a tender, slow-burn slice-of-life romance rather than a thriller⁶. On the Japanese review site Filmarks, Moonlight Chicken averages 4.3 out of 5 across 168 user reviews, while Dirty Laundry sits lower at 3.3, with reviewers describing it as broad slapstick comedy¹⁴^•¹⁵.

What distinguished the project

The anthology let one studio cover very different registers under a single banner: a crime story about debt and the sex industry, a comedic heist mystery, and a quiet gay romance². Reviewers noted the production values as a step up for GMMTV, with Dirty Laundry shot in a neon, cyberpunk-flavored style and Moonlight Chicken in a calm, earthy register suited to its Thai-Chinese restaurant setting¹⁶. The project also functioned as a showcase for the studio's roster, pairing established leads such as Off Jumpol and the Earth-Mix couple with younger actors, including Gemini and Fourth, who played the deaf teenager Heart and his tutor Li Ming in Moonlight Chicken².

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › International serial drama and telenovelas › Turkish, Middle Eastern, and African serials › Thai serial dramas (lakorn)

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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