Analog Squad follows a middle-aged man who hires three people to pretend to be his family to reunite with his ailing father.
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Plot summary
Pond, a middle-aged man, hires Lily, Keg, and Bung to pretend to be his family, and together they all travel to Phang Nga where Pond reunites with his ailing father after twenty years.
Their gig goes through a rough patch when they realize that Grandfather Kew is breathing his last. Soon, though, a surprising story elongates their stay at Phang Nga. Bung has to return home immediately when she learns that her father is in a car accident.
Soon, she learns that he has had another family for over ten years, and also has a teen boy from this secret marriage. She is shattered and Keg, who has a thing for her, lends her emotional support through this tough time.
Having been done with their gig, the pretend family has to keep playing their parts when Grandma Sodsai decides to surprise them at their supposed home in Bangkok. Bung visits Grandpa Kew just as Grandma Sodsai goes to Bangkok.
Sodsai is happy to have spent time and bonded with Mon(Keg) and Mam (Lily), as she passes away peacefully. Keg and Bung head off to find Pond and bring him back to Phang Nga.
The family reunites as Pond confronts his past, with his daughter finally visiting him, as do his lenders who trash his father’s shop. Grandpa Kew and Pond reconcile, and the latter eventually reunites with his daughter Mag as well.
The pretend family goes their separate ways but their bonds remain strong. Bung begins to mend some broken ties with her father, while Keg learns a shocking truth about his best friend and colleague, before heading off to America to start anew.
Lily goes through surgery and the whole family is there to support her. Meanwhile, Mag gets married and everyone attends it, as Analog Squad rolls the credits.
Analog Squad ending explained in detail:
Why does Pond leave his home?
As a teenager, Pond was celebrating the Apollo mission launch with his best friend Mek at the warehouse. One rogue firework ended up setting the warehouse on fire and Mek ended up dying trying to douse it out.
Pond ran back home and told the truth to his parents. He insisted that they don’t tell the police about it and lie to them because they will not believe his account of what happened, given the lack of evidence. However, his father believes he must tell the truth.
He later meets the cops who come knocking and doesn’t lie to them about his kid’s whereabouts, which breaks Pond’s heart and he runs away. He remains a fugitive for ten years and returns with his two kids, Mag and Mon.
His father again arranges for his son to tell the truth to the authorities but his mother later helps him escape the police with his children. Pond’s father always believed his son but he didn’t believe in hiding the truth.
However, Pond always had a hard time seeing that and even well after the statute of limitations was over, he remained resentful of his father.
In the Analog Squad finale, his father helps him against his lender’s violent goons, paying off all of Pond’s debts with his money and resources. He also forgives him as well as Bung, Keg, and Lily.
Do Keg and Bung get together?
Keg develops feelings for Bung pretty early on in Analog Squad. Their cute banter evolves into a great bond between them.
Bung is also shown to feel some tension when he’s around and she finds his sweet little gestures and kindness endearing.
She is in a relationship with a girl and later tells Keg that she’s not into men. The show still shows her being all giddy when Keg confesses that he likes her and that he can wait while she gives him a shot, hoping that she could be into men as well.
However, after the kiss that they share at the end of Analog Squad, Bung feels nothing and confidently reveals it to Keg, asking him to go to America without any hopes or distraction.
Even though she doesn’t feel romantic feelings for him, the two are still really good friends with a powerful familial bond.
Who is Keg’s father?
Keg’s father left him and his mother before he was even born. His mother, nude model by profession, raised him all by herself and he’s always loved her dearly.
Because of that love, he’s always lied to her about feeling comfortable with her profession, while actually being uncomfortable because her work has served as masturbatory material for many of his friends throughout the years.
After graduation, he gets a job in the call center and there, he meets Ruk, a middle-aged colleague who becomes his best friend at work and also a mentor. It turns out that Ruk is Keg’s biological father.
He left Pupae when they were young, because of her work, even though he loved her very much. She fell pregnant soon and gave birth to Keg, but never told him.
Over the years, he kept trying to return to her life and ultimately did. She forgave him and the two began seeing each other secretly. Ruk and Pupae reveal the truth to Keg at the New Year’s Eve party.
Keg comforts her mother and tells her to follow her passion and continue her modeling job because she loves it and is good at it, and because he loves her and she shouldn’t quit it because of him.
He shortly leaves for America, telling his mother that what he has to sort with Ruk is something he’ll get around to eventually. Ruk and Pupae help in the document process and Keg finally arrives in America, as Analog Squad rolls the credits.
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