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Started off as one of the best dramas of 2021, but reduced to another of Channel 3's mess of a lakorn during 2021. Praomook starring the popular couple Pon and Bua was expected to become the biggest hit of everyone's 2021 with lakorn land is reduced to a lakorn where the male lead (pra ek) and female lead (nang ek) have a tom and jerry relationship for 14 episodes. Now that's fine, I think most of us loved Tom and Jerry during our childhood but this lakorn doesn't even have the base of Tom and Jerry's relationship, only the bickering part. Now don't get me wrong I love a good bickering between a couple, but watching two people argue and misunderstand each other for 15 episodes x 2 hour episodes, is not FUN.
Bua and Pon have amazing chemistry, I love them together. I hope they date in real life but, I just cannot tolerate this lakorn I'm continuing only for their amazing chemistry.
Which is sad considering that I can see ALL of the cast put in such a effort in this lakorn only to be awarded by a horrible script and toxic relationships.
This lakorn is enmity of how a couple should and should not be, especially one that's still in the "courting stages". The male lead throws the female lead like she is a piece of trash for the second female lead and continue's to mistrust her now I've had my fair share of dramas in the past 6 years and I can understand if I was a newbie drama watcher but this seems like a version of the Korean Full House all over again and that's where the terrible script comes into place and I cannot continue to take this piece of lakorn seriously, it is boring. Repeat after me, BORING. I'm giving it a high score because of Pon and Bua. Plus for Krating's face and acting. Honestly every cast member did great, all of them have good chemistry with each other but even the chemistry cannot make me ship any character here. Even Petch who was the annoying sister did good here for her debut she had to make a sister that was annoying and petty and dislikable at the start and she did that without coming as cringy and is very believable at 23 years old, I would have never been able to do it if I was asked to act like a petty child but the actress did it well, and no matter what whoever says I did see character development not that much but a subtle change that needed to have more and more change but still a turning point. I could have seen the Rut and Petch relationship work out since the actors themselves have chemistry for me but I don't see character chemistry, the desicion to make Petch 17 years old and Rut into her sister turned their whole relationship from a cute secondary couple to a "ugh, why are they even paired together anymore? Could I have her with Poom? and can Rut just be with Mook?". After all of that, again I need to give a hands off clapping for the actors Bua and Pon who managed with this script despite it being one of the most shitty romantic drama scripts so far.
The character's and plot is what turned me off. Yes, contract marriages are common and honestly I've gotten used to them I'm fine with this troupe, but the script mixed in with this plot again really took things for a turn of worse. At the start, I was like "Oohh a cute contract marriage and with the pretending to be gay troupe! I wanna watch and Bua and Pon! oh mah gosh what more can I ask for", so as you can see this plot had so much more potential despite being cliche but there's no chance to save the plot because the godly writers who I just want to get their address (for thankful purposes jk I'm not a stalker and I am not violent), but the godly writers who decided to write Praomook, they did their job so well making me pissed off for all of the lakorn's duration, that they should be fired for such a great job they did at ruining the script. Wait? That wasn't their job? Then what was? To make the script good? Oh no no no no, the writers never did that they ruined it, isn't that their job though?. Before I go off into a rant all over again, I'll end the rant here.
Why did the script such so much?
I won't give much but having the male lead treat the female lead like a side piece, being all horny, imaging his ex girlfriend who is the cunning second female lead (nang rai) in here, isn't everyone's treat.
The female lead might not be everyone's treat either because she thinks of family last and treats seducing Lan as her main game, while being in love with him 24/7, she hasn't moved on from the male lead and is fine with getting treated as a trash bag as she comes back to him every time and that's what I got from this lakorn.
The first few episodes are not bad, but when it reaches episode 7 you can see this lakorn is well being dragged out and its fine if the lakorn were 22 episodes but Channel 3 decided to be stingy and reduce this lakorn to 15 episodes so everything is dragged out and unresolved, they have 25 things to fit into the last episode and I'll probably update my review if I get the time. There aren't much sweet scenes from the leads we came to watch as every sweet scene gets interrupted by the secondary cast so there's not a option of that, all you can do is FF and FF over and over again hoping to get one look from the male lead but then you get tired and go to sleep.
After my harsh review, over the negative points. You probably know what my resolution on this but you can see the FIN scenes on Channel 3 to decide on your own, who knows maybe you'll like Praomook? and it's perfect for you. I liked the music, although repetitive I am grateful Pon decided to sing the male track version of one of the song's ใจเอ๋ย , and it was an normal soundtrack nothing bad but nothing like Eternal Love's OST and who knows I may put these into my Spotify playlist so the music was not bad LOL. If you decide to watch Praomook, Good Luck! and please remember to take ibuprofen before starting some episodes.
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one thing I kinda not like this drama is because the jealousy of the siblings, hate the fact that there’s always that one sibling that gets jealous, otherwise it’s a good drama. The acting and cast were amazing I love all the cast, especially Pon/Lun.
The castings I love about them:
Pon/Lun love his facial expressions when he’s mad with the mean look, he just can’t get any more handsome. He is a little immature and rude but he have his own reasons to be the way he is, because his life is most likely not be control but live the life his parents want. But even so his words were quite harsh, towards Mook, as much as he wants to love Mook he can’t allow his heart to do it because then his parents will get what they want.
Bua/Mook I’ve never seen this side of her she’s feisty, and such a teaser she play such a strong character. She definitely something in this drama, kinda hate the fact that she keep clinging to Lun as much as she want to protect and love him I feel like she’s to desperate for love from him. Wether it’s revenge, or protecting him I feel like there’s no need for her to be so clingy, especially when she tells Lun she doesn’t love him no more.
Krating/Marut he’s such a caring and amazing friend to the people he’s surrounded. Love the bromance between him and Lun, the acting between them kinda make me forget about the FL because they play there relationship so well lol. Poor boy is lost between who he really have feelings for:( Marut is the lead where most people would have second lead syndrome.
Meen/Poom he is such a cutie, he is the reason why I laugh so much in this drama. Love watching him, every scene of him makes my day he’s always the cheerful and funny guy that will make you laugh.
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Wow Trash
OK so I was very excited for this drama, I was looking forward to it because I really like the male lead and somewhat like the female lead. I was just very happy until that is I watched the freaking first few episodes and wow I just couldn’t finish watching it, no more after like episode five or six. Male lead is utterly trash and he disgusts me but female lead is still head over heels for him which makes no sense for me. I watched the ending and they ended up together which I was like bitch are you dumb or what, your going to be with a guy like this OK. I heard he starts being like nicer to her towards the ending which is why female lead was OK with being with him because she was in love with him but none of that redeems his disgusting attitude since he was young until like now. I would never put myself through something like that or fall love with someone like that ever. I would have gave this drama a 0 ratings if I could. Don’t recommend. Anyways Thanks For Dropping By. 😉Was this review helpful to you?
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Alright.
I was so excited for this one because of the main couple and their previous drama that i loved, but i was so disappointed in the end.The Female Lead has got to be my favorite one ever, her fighting back and her comebacks was hilarious.
Couldn't stand the Male Lead and his behaviour towards her during the whole drama... whenever these two made a step forward on their relationship was on good terms, they suddenly went three steps back and i hated that when i was at the 10th episode and i couldn't see any improvement and that really frustrated me. So i had to skip 3 episodes and went straight to the last episode. Sad to see i didn't miss anything.
Also this lakorn has a watch time of 15 to 16 hours and yet they gave us a rushed happy ending. I did not give me justice.
You could really feel the 7 episodes that are missing.
I must admit there were some scenes that gave me tingles and butterflies because DAMN these two leads have chemistry, but when she really needed him, we wouldn't get a hug just some lazy ass comforting that wasn't satisfying at all.
And the way he even hugged his EX, even tho she wanted to see him dead??? I don't know what the writers were thinking.
I wouldn't rewatch this anytime soon, even tho i love revenge dramas so much but this whole drama all in all just frustrated me.
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Watch Praomook if you like hate-to-love drama
Info:The overall tv rating is 2.65, online views on last episode was 229k.
Praomook is no 1 on Viu Thailand and Viu Malaysia. Also ranked 1st for Thai Drama on Viu Indonesia. Hashtag Praomook also has 450M views on Tiktok.
((as on 8 July 2021))
This is my honest opinion as I am hate to love lakorn lover and also ponbua fans. Everyone has their own opinions. If you are the person who do not interested in hate to love drama, you may skip because you may feel stress watching this kind of drama.
I love praomook but yes this is not the best lakorn.
The story is a bit messy and rush at the ending and I know that many scenes got cut ((i hate this)). But overall, i love it. I love the 'tom and jerry' scenes of mook and lan, that scenes made praomook looks different from any other lakorns. I also love everytime the male lead worried about the female lead, his eyes show everything.
At first, i have no idea how praomook can be a romcom lakorn as the actors said in the interview haha but they really prove it! I love their funny scenes haha
Mook is such a strong lady, and this lakorn show us that no matter how strong a person is, he/she will be sad and weak once their hearts are broken. Bua played this role successfully. I love when she is crying, she made the audiences feel the sadness. It's hard to be the eldest child in the family, need to put all the burden on her shoulders.
Yes lan is so stupid lol hahaha but sometimes i understand him. He is a child who is not able to do what he loves so that's why he rebels. He wants to do something that are opposite from what his parents asked him. I also understand when he feels upset on how his sister looks like doesn't love him. But that's not mean i'm agree with everything that he done to mook! And also i hate everytime lan and nuch on the screen arghhhh
The other roles are also good. Rut, petch, poom, oak, mook and lan's parents, p'ting, rawin, danai, lak. Btw lan's parents are my favourites hahaha they are the sunshine of this drama. As expected, lan's dad has his own reason why he didn't want lak to be the vice president.
I love all the ost so much. Thanks for youtube channel who did the translation for the songs! The songs, especially oh my heart both male and female version make me feel so sad after know the meaning of the lyrics. I suggest you guys to find the translation first so that everytime the songs appear in this story, you can feel the sadness.
What i dislike the most is when we know that lan already loves mook but why the storyline still show that lan has interest on nuch????? I'm so mad about that! I also hate when the gay scenes got draggy a lot. I mean everyone already know that lan and rut are not gay even after the marriage except for petch, but they actually can made it end earlier. The culprit storyline but also quite too late to solve it. And yes we want lan to suffer more before he get mook....
Yes i would rewatch this drama for some my favourite scenes but of course i will skip the villain parts! I actually already rewatch many times when i'm waiting for another episodes to air.
Lastly, congratulations to Praomook team. You have done your best. I'm glad to see many people who rarely watch lakorn but interested in this lakorn. Just quite disappointed with the ending ((the hot air balloon scenes save my mood because they are so beautiful and sweet)) but i was not put high expectations on the ending actually. I wish pon and bua will have another lakorn together. Their chemistry are soooooooo good, their eye contact made us feel the sweetness. Krating and Mint also should have another lakorn as main leads because their chemistry are also good.
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worried
gosh! I started watching this because of the funny scenes from YT and the weird scenario where they have to act like gay hehehe.but too many bad reviews
is this really that bad??
though agree with someone I really hate the FL sister,, soooooo immature and selfish for me... 17 years old is already old enough for me. the ML is also immature and close minded, he only wants to see what he wants to see and listen to what he wants to listen always blames the FL but hoping he would improve at the later episodes as I am still at episode 4
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