A Young Alliance

A Young Alliance(Thai: พันธมิตรหนุ่ม Romanticised: Phạnṭhmitr h̄nùm) is a Thai-British-American Teen Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi series starring Zoe Tria, Aidan Harney, Raphael Lau, Thaiyo Kido, Yuto Yoshida and Ankit Mishera. The series is available in both Thai and English.

Format
A Young Alliance is a teen drama series mainly revolving around half foreign or fully foreign students studying in underdeveloped areas. The goal of the series is to teach children with limited access to foreign education English. Along with adults with limited access to English, mainly in provinces outside Bangkok. The main characters study in an English program where every subject(but social studies and history) is in English. The series in mainly inspired by another popular non-English series, Money Heist. The first half of Season 1 heavily relies on flashbacks from before the series started. Season 1 ran for 22 episodes with Raphael being absent in the first 11 episodes. Since schools in Thailand won't open until July, Season 1 is set outside the convent school the main characters attend.

Premise
Set in the aftermath of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in Thailand, Zoe Tria, a veteran Filipino student of Sacred Heart Convent School born in Bangkok to immigrant parents was working together with other foreign students in class. Their group consists of Aidan Harney, an Amerasian(Thai mother, American father) boy, Raphael Lau, a boy who immigrated with his family from Hong Kong to Thailand, Thaiyo Kido and Yuto Yoshida, both with Japanese fathers and Thai mothers and Ankit, a Thai-Indian boy. Together, they work together to solve mysteries in their school.

Cast and Characters
Though there are many characters who were uncredited, the only actors who were credited were the starring cast. They consist of:
 * Zoe Tria as Zoe Tria(AYA Character), a Thai-Filipino veteran student in Sacred Heart Convent School who had been studying there for 8 years and is currently in Grade 9(Mathayom 3). She is the only girl in her group and she is the smartest out of all of them. Her character is to portray as a child born to immigrant parents who is able to speak and read Thai, knows a lot about Thai culture, can do the perfect wai and is loved by Thai teachers. She is a protestant christian. She is the second youngest of the group.
 * Aidan Harney as Aidan Harney(AYA Character), an Amerasian(Thai mother American(Boston) father) Grade 9(Mathayom 3) student in Sacred Heart Convent School who had been studying there for 4 years. He is a roman catholic student. He is the only member of the group who exhibits Caucasian/European features. His character is to portray a foreign face who is bilingual, fluent in both Thai and English. He is the third youngest of the group.
 * Raphael Lau as Raphael Lau(AYA Character), a Grade 9(Mathayom 3) immigrant student from Hong Kong in Sacred Heart Convent who had been studying there for 4 years. He is non-religious. He was absent throughout the first half of Season 1 due to being in the hospital from diabetes. His character is to portray a Chinese immigrant student living in Thailand and knows about Thai culture. Unlike his peers who were all born in Bangkok, he was born in Hong Kong. He is trilingual which means he can speak English, Cantonese and Thai. He is the second oldest of the group.
 * Thaiyo Kido as Thaiyo Kido(AYA Character), a Thai-Japanese(Japanese father Thai mother) veteran student in Sacred Heart Convent School who had been studying there for 8 years and is currently in Grade 9(Mathayom 3). He is buddhist. His character is to portray a boy with an East Asian face who can speak both Thai and English but barely spoke Japanese. He can speak a bit of Mandarin Chinese. He is the youngest of the group.
 * Yuto Yoshida as Yuto Yoshida(AYA Character), a Thai-Japanese(Japanese father Thai mother) veteran student in Sacred Heart Convent School who had been studying there for 8 years and is currently in Grade 9(Mathayom 3). He is buddhist. His character is to portray a boy of Japanese descent who can speak both Thai and English but barely spoke Japanese. Unlike Thaiyo who exhibits an East Asian appearance, he exhibits a mixed Japanese and Thai face. He is the fourth youngest of the group.
 * Ankit Mishera as Ankit Mishera(AYA Character), a Thai-Indian veteran student in Sacred Heart Convent School who had been studying there for 8 years and is currently in Grade 9(Mathayom 3). He is hindu. His character is to portray a sporty Indian student who can speak Thai and English but not any Indian language(though English is the second most spoken language in India). Ankit exhibits a fully Indian appearance and has no signs of showing Thai appearances. He is the oldest of the group.
 * Sheryl Lau as Sheryl Lau(AYA Character), a Grade 11(Mathayom 5) immigrant student from Hong Kong in Sacred Heart Convent who had been studying there for 4 years. She is non-religious. She is Raphael's older sister. She was born in Hong Kong but not in Bangkok. She is trilingual which means she can speak English, Cantonese and Thai. She is one of the members of the Young Alliance Organisation. Sheryl has her official debut in Season 1 Episode 2.
 * Charlidon Matto-Smith as Charlie Matto-Smith(AYA Character), an Australasian(Thai mother Australian father) Grade 8(Mathayom 2) student in Sacred Heart Convent School who had been studying there for 2 years. He is a Buddhist student. He is the oldest student in his class and he is about the age of the Grade 9(Mathayom 3) students. He is bilingual, he can speak Thai and English. He had been tracking the main protagonists until making his official debut in Season 1 Episode 3.
 * Tanya Leong as Tanya Leong(AYA Character), a Thai-Malaysian(Thai mother Chinese-Malaysian father) Grade 7 veteran student in Sacred Heart Convent School who had been studying there for 8 years. She is a Buddhist student. She is one of the younger members of the group and the alliance. She is bilingual, she can speak Thai and English and a little bit of Chinese. She had been tracking the main protagonists until making her official debut in Season 1 Episode 3.
 * Jamie Frankland as Jamie Frankland(AYA Character), a Eurasian(Thai mother British father) Grade 7 student in Sacred Heart Convent School who had been studying there for 3 years. He is a Buddhist student. He is one of the younger members of the group and the alliance. He is bilingual, he can speak Thai and English. He had been tracking the main protagonists until making his official debut in Season 1 Episode 3.
 * Shion Tekase as Shion Tekase(AYA Character), a Thai-Japanese(Thai mother Japanese father) Grade 7 student in Sacred Heart Convent School who had been studying there for 2 years. She is a Buddhist student. She is one of the younger members of the group and the alliance. She is bilingual, she can speak Thai and English and can barely speak Japanese. She had been tracking the main protagonists until making her official debut in Season 1 Episode 3.

Production and Release
A Young Alliance is filmed in a convent school in the underdeveloped areas of Thailand. There are some other places in Bangkok where the series is filmed in like Siam Paragon, the EmQuartier, the BTS Skytrain and more. Season 5 is mainly shot in Singapore. It is released on the 1st of June in GMM in Thailand, NBC in the United States and the BBC in the United Kingdom. On the 30th of June, Season 1 is released on Netflix worldwide.

Trivia

 * A Young Alliance is the first Thai series Zoe Tria had created and directed since she has done many American, British and Australian series and films
 * The Thai school system is a lot different from other school systems
 * However, the main characters study in the English program in their convent school so it mainly follows the American/Australian school system
 * In Thailand, Prathom means Primary School(Grade 1-6) and Mathayom means Secondary School(Grade 7-12) and the ages for these grades are the following:
 * Grade 1/Prathom 1= 6-7 yr old
 * Grade 2/Prathom 2= 7-8 yr old
 * Grade 3/Prathom 3= 8-9 yr old
 * Grade 4/Prathom 4= 9-10 yr old
 * Grade 5/Prathom 5= 10-11 yr old
 * Grade 6/Prathom 6= 11-12 yr old
 * Grade 7/Mathayom 1= 12-13 yr old
 * Grade 8/Mathayom 2= 13-14 yr old
 * Grade 9/Mathayom 3= 14-15 yr old
 * Grade 10/Mathayom 4= 15-16 yr old
 * Grade 11/Mathayom 5= 16-17 yr old
 * Grade 12/Mathayom 6= 17-18 yr old
 * The Season 1 Episode 4 title, 'Mid-Day in the Park of Good and Evil' is a reference of a title of a non-fiction novel, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil