The Gifted: Graduation is a 2020 Thai television series which serves as a sequel to The Gifted (2018). The series stars an ensemble cast featuring Korapat Kirdpan (Nanon), Wachirawit Ruangwiwat (Chimon), Harit Cheewagaroon (Sing), Methika Jiranorraphat (Jane), Atthaphan Phunsawat (Gun), Pattadon Janngeon (Fiat), and Napasorn Weerayuttvilai (Puimek) reprising their roles, joined by Nattawat Finkler (Patrick), Chanikarn Tangkabodee (Prim), and Phuwin Tangsakyuen. It chronicles the events two years after The Gifted, wherein the Gifted Class, students with superpowers, join hands in bringing down the powerful school director and his oppressive system.
Directed by The Gifted co-director Waasuthep Ketpetch and collaboratively produced by GMMTV and Parbdee Taweesuk, The Gifted: Graduation was one of the twelve television series for 2020 showcased by GMMTV during their "New & Next" event on 15 October 2019. It premiered on GMM 25 and LINE TV on 6 September 2020, airing on Sundays at 20:30 ICT and 22:30 ICT, respectively. The series concluded on 29 November 2020.
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Synopsis
Set two years after the events of The Gifted (2018), The Gifted: Graduation chronicles the struggles of Ritdha High School's Gifted Class, students with superpowers, as they join hands in bringing down the powerful school director (Wanchana Sawasdee) and his oppressive system, a mission started by the class' leading students—the mind-controller Pang (Korapat Kirdpan) and technopath Wave (Wachirawit Ruangwiwat). This sequel also showed how the fight is beyond what happens in Ritdha High School, expanding into a full blown power struggle between Director Supot and the Ministry of Education.
Cast and characters
Main
Korapat Kirdpan (Nanon) as Pawaret Sermrittirong (Pang)
a student of Ritdha High School and member of the Gifted Program Class 15; the very first Gifted student from Class VIII, the school's most inferior class. Pang has the power of mind control, in which he can compel someone to do whatever he wishes through physical contact with the subject and feeling their heartbeat. However, Pang's powers evolved such that he can command multiple people to do his bidding without physical contact.
Wachirawit Ruangwiwat (Chimon) as Wasuthorn Worachotmethee (Wave)
a student of Class I from Ritdha High School and member of the Gifted Program Class 15. Wave has the power of technopathy, the ability to control and manipulate electronic machines through contact. Wave's powers have improved such that he can also work on electronic machines that are damaged beyond repair.
Pattadon Janngeon (Fiat) as Thanakorn Gorbgoon (Korn)
a student of Class I from Ritdha High School and member of the Gifted Program Class 15; leader of the Anti-Gifted (although it is revealed that he was being controlled by Director Supot). Korn has the ability to remain awake for days without getting sleepy or fatigued. After becoming disgruntled due to his misfortunes and deteriorating trust with his potential and his classmates in Class 15, his mental health spirals down and he becomes the leader of the Anti-Gifted, a covert group of Ritdha students who resort to violence in fighting against the Director and the Gifted Program. His potential develops to include regeneration, which gives his body the capacity to heal itself within 24 hours.
Methika Jiranorraphat (Jane) as Irin Jaratpun (Claire)
a student of Class I from Ritdha High School and member of the Gifted Program Class 15. Claire is a synesthete who can see a person's aura and associate the color of the aura with a certain kind of emotion. Her potential develops to being able to interpret the cause or details of someone's current emotion.
Guest role
Poramaporn Jangkamol (June) as Nayanate "Nate" Jiraarpa, a.k.a. Kanokpan Rattanadecha (Ep. 11)
Tipnaree Weerawatnodom (Namtan) (Eps. 1, 8, 10 and 11) as young Nate
the girlfriend of the fake Supot Chueamanee; a doctor by profession. Thirty years ago, Nate volunteered as the first human subject in Yuth/real Supot and fake Supot's experimentation of the potential activation sound wave despite having a fever and sustained an severe brain damage consequently. It is revealed that her illness is caused by an unforeseen enterovirus which infected her brain and has mutated (due to the potential activation sound wave) to cause severe illness to activated Gifted people. The virus in her brain was synthesized by Division of Special Personnel Development into the Nyx-88 bioweapon. She was then sneaked out of the Ministry by Supot who faked her death and treated her from the infection using an anti-Nyx-88 machine he invented. She was also compelled by Supot to live under her new name Kanokpan Rattanadecha and to work as a provincial school teacher to keep her away from Ministry.
Thanat Lowkhunsombat (Lee) (Eps. 1, 8 and 10) as fake Supot Chueamanee
Mr. Supot's friend and research partner 30 years ago; Nate's boyfriend. He was brainwashed by Supot into believing he is "Supot" and he has the potential of mind control. Unbeknownst to him, he is being used by Supot in establishing the Gifted Program and achieving the latter's greed for power with less interference from the Ministry. He is later brainwashed by Supot into killing himself after Supot reveals to him all of his schemes and intentions.
Apichaya Thongkham (Lilly) as Chayanit "Namtaan" Prachkarit (Eps. 11 and 13)
a former student of Ritdha High School in the Gifted Program Class 15. Namtaan has the power of psychometry, the ability to see or hear associated events on an object or person through contact. A year before the events of The Gifted: Graduation, she was nearly killed in a bombing incident in Ritdha that was intended by the Anti-Gifted for Mr. Supot (the incident is then blamed against the Gifted Class 15 and pushed the Ministry to terminate the Gifted Program). Her mother brought her out of Thailand, consequently, for her treatment and recovery. While abroad, she keeps in touch with Ohm whom she is close with since 2018. It is later revealed that Director Supot brainwashed Namtaan's mother to take her away as he has a shady past which he cannot risk being exposed by Namtaan's powers.