The Thai thriller "Girl From Nowhere" returns to our screens after a couple of years with a fresh start. Don't worry, if you've never heard of this series or seen it, it's okay; you can still enjoy this new version on your own. The series tells the story of young students who suffer violent bullying and receive help from a girl named Nanno. It's called "Girl From Nowhere" because no one knows who Nanno is, where she comes from, or anything else about her existence. We only know that she's there to help those who suffer, but she's not a moral police officer.
For her, it's all about revenge, and at the end of this episode, you'll see what that means. Ultimately, in this episode, we see a positive effect from Nanno's work. But will it always be like this? Also, the kinds of things we see in this series are quite gruesome and terrifying. I sincerely hope no one ever has to go through those experiences. The central thesis of the series is that violence is a never-ending cycle; those who suffer pass that pain on to others.
Stars: Becky Armstrong, Jane Methika Jiranorraphat, Veerinsara Tangkitsuvanich
In Jompol's case, his father is a politician disappointed in his son, a failure, and takes it out on him by physically abusing him and using fear to control him. He passes this abuse on to the most vulnerable and isolated boy in the class, Sky. Even worse, he gets one of Sky's friends to defect and join him, forcing him to participate in the bullying. He does this by using fear again, bending him to his will by granting him immunity from bullying as long as he does exactly as he's told.
But Sky refuses to give in, so he constantly tries to fight back with small things, like giving Jom the wrong answers on tests to get him in trouble when he tries to cheat, which only increases the bullying. The biggest problem arises when Jom asks Sky to write a report for him, and he ends up writing a dirty message insulting the teacher on the cover, getting Jom into trouble. The teacher ends up calling Jom's father, and when it's time to punish him, his father offers him the choice of which hand he wants to receive the punishment on. When Jom offers his left hand, his father switches and hits him on the right anyway, to the point that the next day, when he shows up at school, his hand has to be bandaged.
When it's time for Jom to "get his revenge," he gives Sky two options, mimicking his father. Either he uses a metal ball to injure an innocent dog that happens to be nearby, or he gets beaten up by Jom. When Sky works up the courage to attack Jom directly, Jom pins him to the ground and finishes by hitting his right hand with the ball, mimicking what his father did to him. After all, he's just passing on the pain he's felt to someone weaker than himself, but he doesn't stop there. He has his henchmen drag Sky somewhere and tie him up, then orders them to pull down his shorts and burn him with a lighter. Here he is grappling with the pain of his own fears. Being abusive like his father makes him feel less like a loser, more like a hero. Although it's quite the opposite.
At this point, Sky is desperate. He's spent over a week investigating how to get Nanno to show up. All the urban legends and stories he's heard about how she protects the bullied and marginalized have given him the closest thing to hope he's felt in a long time. He learns that he can't find her; she has to want to come to him. He thinks that confronting Jom should be enough to make her notice him, but that only results in Sky hurting his hand and burning his private parts. This is the last straw, and he ends up writing a goodbye note to his parents and trying to hang himself, but it's right at that moment that Nanno decides to appear, and she jokingly asks him if he'd prefer she come back later. She tosses him a knife and watches anxiously as he cuts the rope, after which he runs to her and hugs her.
When Sky asks her how she's going to help him get revenge on Jom, Nanno says that what she fears most is that no one will fear her. When Jom arrives at class the next day, he finds everyone laughing at him, and it takes him a while to get to his desk to find out why. Someone has replaced his chair with a toilet, and no matter how hard he tries, it's too heavy to move. He sees Sky grinning at him from a corner of the classroom, but before he can reach him and hit him, the teacher appears and forces him back into his seat. Yes, the toilet. Also, it's then that the new student, Nanno, arrives and is introduced to the class. At this point, Jom starts to get a little scared, since Sky's friend had told him that the boy had been looking for Nanno earlier.
He and his friends try to find Nanno, but a clown doll scares them when it sees them in the storage room. They then notice that Jom's injured hand is oozing some kind of brown liquid, and the boy heads to the nurse's office, where they clean the wound and change the bandage. After taking a nap in the nurse's office, he wakes up and discovers that his right hand has been replaced by the toy hammer that the clown doll was carrying earlier. When he tries to remove it, he feels excruciating pain, but then he sees a sticky note telling him to go see Nanno in the storage room. On the way, the whole school sees the toy hammer on his arm and laughs at him. At the storage room, the clown is gone, but Nanno is there.
At the end of episode 1, when Jom runs toward her and tries to hit her with the hammer, she simply laughs at him when it squeaks. Even though Jom had his friends record the beating to humiliate her, they laughed too. That's when Nanno started using his ghost tricks, disappearing and reappearing at will, making Jom look like a fool on camera. Finally, Sky appeared, and Nanno imagined him killing Jom with the steel ball from before and urinating on him as revenge for Jom doing the same thing. But instead, he just offered his hand, and the bully started crying and laughing at the same time.
Later, on a rooftop, Nanno said he hadn't expected things to end like that, and when he asked Sky if she wanted anything else, he almost felt like he was going to kiss her a second before simply taking a selfie with her. Nanno was known for expecting men to be, well, men, so he probably expected her to ask him for a favor, but in reality, Sky just wanted friends, and I think by offering Jom his hand, he made some new ones. He also asks Nanno if he can stay with her forever, but by the time the question forms in his mind, she's gone. Suddenly, she's disappeared, and she says she'll never find her again. She's gone to help someone else. This season's trailer seems pretty intense, but it's definitely for Generation Z.
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