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The Eclipse (คาธ)

The Eclipse (คาธ, Khat) is a 2022 Thai boys' love television series produced by GMMTV, set at a strict all-boys school where a curse said to punish rule-breakers becomes the backdrop for a romance between the head prefect and a mysterious transfer student. It aired on GMM25 from 12 August to 28 October 2022 in twelve episodes, with catch-up streaming on Viu¹^•².

Key fact	Detail
Original title	คาธ (Khat), also marketed as คาธ The Eclipse¹
Broadcast	GMM25, Fridays 20:30, 12 August to 28 October 2022; 12 episodes plus specials¹^•³
Source	Novel คาธ by Prapt (Chairat Pipitpattanaprap), Deep Publishing, 2021, 504 pages⁴
Lead cast	First Kanaphan Puitrakul as Akk; Khaotung Thanawat Rattanakitpaisan as Ayan⁵
Director	Tanwarin Sukkhapisit (Golf)¹
Producer	Noppharnach Chaiyahwimhon (Aof)¹
Award	Thailand Digital Awards, Best Y Series Award, 2022⁶
Rating	13+¹

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Premise

The story takes place at Suppalo School, presented as Thailand's leading private all-boys secondary school with highly strict discipline. A rumor holds that students who break school regulations will be cursed, and that the curse grows more severe as a solar eclipse approaches⁷. Akk, the student head prefect and the school's ideal pupil, enforces the rules alongside fellow prefects Kanlong and Wasuwat. A group of students calling themselves "The World Remembers" protests against the school's obsolete regulations, and a new student, Ayan, regularly challenges school norms while carrying secrets of his own⁷.

Ayan has enrolled to find out why his uncle Dika died by suicide; his uncle's old journal, which claims someone at the school was responsible, is his only evidence. Akk is instructed by the headmaster Chadok to watch Ayan, and the two grow close as Akk develops feelings he initially denies⁷. As the protests intensify, the students begin to doubt the curse and investigate who is manufacturing the chaos used to frighten them into obedience⁷. In the final episode Akk receives his punishment from Suppalo for his involvement in the "curse", and Ayan joins him on his return home, where Akk comes out to his parents⁷.

Production and origin

GMMTV announced the series on 1 December 2021 as part of its GMMTV 2022: Borderless lineup, describing it as a story of love, friendship, and mystery led by First, Khaotung, Neo, Louis, AJ, Pawin, and Ployphach, directed by Golf (Tanwarin Sukkhapisit)⁸^•⁵. The screenwriters credited are Apirak Chaipanha, Minta Bhanaparin, and Chot-anan Kasemwonghong, with Noppharnach Chaiyahwimhon as producer¹.

The series adapts the novel คาธ by the writer Prapt, real name Chairat Pipitpattanaprap, published in 2021 (Buddhist Era 2564) by Deep Publishing, an imprint of Sataporn Books specializing in boys' love titles; the novel runs 504 pages⁴. In a later interview Prapt explained that GMMTV wanted a BL work that could expand to three seasons, about high-school boys in a private all-boys school, with characters moving up one grade per season; the concept of coming out, with Love, Simon as a reference, was part of the brief. He also noted that a large movement against the dictatorial government arose in Thailand around 2020 while the plot was being developed, which shaped the story's direction⁹.

Cast

First Kanaphan Puitrakul plays Akk and Khaotung Thanawat Rattanakitpaisan plays Ayan (also called Aye)⁵. The supporting cast includes Trai Nimtawat (Neo) as Khanlong, Thanawin Teeraphosukarn (Louis) as Thuaphu, the school's top student, Chayapol Jutamas (AJ) as Wasuwat, Pawin Kulkaranyawich as Namo, Phatchatorn Thanawat (Ployphach) as the teacher Sani, and Watcharakiat Boonphakdee (Yai) as the teacher Jataka⁵^•¹. Sine Inthira Charoenpura plays teacher Waree⁵.

Broadcast and reception

Episodes ran about 45 minutes each, with the finale at roughly 53 minutes, airing Fridays at 20:30 on GMM25 and becoming available on Viu at 22:30 the same evening³^•². A pre-episode special, เรื่องที่ (คาธ) ไม่ถึง, aired on 5 August 2022 before the series proper³^•¹⁰. In Japan the series began streaming on TELASA on 26 August 2022¹¹.

The series won the Thailand Digital Awards' Best Y Series Award for 2022 and was nominated for Best BL Scene of the Year at the CBLO Awards for its underwater kiss scene⁶. Episode 6 received a theatrical screening at the Lido cinema in Bangkok on a "Friday of Khat" event, where Thai critics highlighted how the episode deepened Akk's character, showing the economic background and need for social acceptance behind his role as prefect¹².

Themes and interpretation

The series is widely read as an allegory of authority and protest. A 2023 independent study at Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University analyzed The Eclipse as a Y-series reflecting Thai society and politics through two main characters with different ideologies in a high school, whose conflict dramatizes clashes of ideology and power drawn from Thailand's political conflict of 2020–2021¹³. Reviewers and viewers have connected the school's uniform rules and protest storyline to the Thai political context in which it was made⁹.

The Eclipse belongs to the wave of Thai boys' love dramas that gained international reach in the early 2020s; the genre's commercial growth has drawn both praise for increasing queer visibility and criticism for presenting a soft-focus picture of gay life¹⁴.

Follow-up

The GMMTV anthology Our Skyy 2 devoted two episodes to The Eclipse, broadcast on 3 and 4 May 2023, providing an epilogue to the story³^•¹¹.

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) › Premiered 2008 to 2024

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 21, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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