It’s a mix of grins and grimaces as staff struggle to handle traveler’s issues, immigration officers ask for smiles, and a man wearing lipstick professes his love for tourists in an exaggerated but hilarious slices of life at Suvarnabhumi Airport.
On Thursday BBC Three will air “Bangkok Airport,” a six-part series set deep inside the airport and which features the colorful personalities and melodramas that unfold within. Guess they decided “Suvarnabhumi” just didn’t roll off the tongue in the same way.
Watching the promo, we lost it when the man in the vest bitterly claims “You will never see me in Thailand ever again.” Come on. He knows he loves it here.
There will be six, 60-minute episodes in total. Some familiar experiences appear to be in the series, but it’s difficult how its producers managed to craft six compelling hours of television set in the airport.
It probably helped that its production happened at the height of anti-government protests and the “Bangkok Shutdown,” which likely fueled some airport angst as tourists sought to get the hell out of the country at the time.
The documentary will follow young Brits as they pass through to embark on adventures of a lifetime such as checking in and checking out, run-ins with the tourist police, as well as misadventures with immigration, customs and the on-site medical centre.
The action takes place inside and occasionally outside the airport at island trouble spots and the British Embassy in downtown Bangkok.
