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Do we need to employ 40-year od nang'eks to see their fake "kisses"?
Of course I knew Nune Woranuch already (I didn't like her even when she was young), but this is only my 2nd series with Joss Sangngern... And his character is a male prostitute in both cases, LOL. This time he's not to be paired with just a 2 years older girl, but way older. I could imagine sparks if they put him together with Pat Napapa... Instead, "Papa" got some side-woman role that is a kinda surplus... Er, wait. She's supposed to be his MOTHER? Forgive me, my imagination IS big but SHE doesn't look like his mother even if I consider teenage pregnancy. If someone does, then it's Woranuch. Who reached almost double his age, pitifully it's not yet shown in acting experience.Still, they put Woranuch in bed with Joss right in episode 3 and she acts like scared virgin (her character is also supposed to be NURSE by occupation), so there is not even a single proper kiss, and as I've watched Joss in his previous series, I know that HE doesn't have this problem. So I ask, WHO came up with this pairing? WHAT for? LOL.
Then, even when she initiates the kiss herself, all we can see is the awkward camera angle. She's far from blushing 20-year old. With young actress, limited acting skills, limited things she can do onscreen, those are understandable. Aged actress no longer looks the same but there is more stuff she can do. These cases, we either suffer one or the other. So I ask: do they need to employ a nang'ek who is 40 AND can't kiss?
I'm afraid this is far from "sexy late night show"they try to present on the posters. Reality is morelike 'Princess Hours 20 Years Later'. Basically the "hot bed scene" looks like this: we watch their lips slowly coming closer... Whoosh! We're at the back of the room. Whoosh! We're quickly gone from there. How "sexy"... Can't wait for numerous more episodes! Yes, next we got a "hot" kiss in the hotel where we can mostly watch Joss' crouched back. Wow.
One episode we can watch Nune Woranuch stuffing her whole mouth with noodles and munching. If she can film such scene with great detail, why not kissing? LOL.
Another fake kiss scene Nune & Joss, where we get to watch their moving ELBOWS. Plus everyone acts like a moron, middle-aged characters are the most immature. Ironically enough, the only quality I find here is Joss. This boy can act. Can portray both playful & vulnerable...
He is so good he can pretend "chemistry" even with the Wooden Woranuch (I do understand that after plastic surgeries, one needs to be cautious with their face), but that doesn't mean the producers did not make a major casting error here. Their awkward "shinship" scenes speak the best. Pat Napapa's sex goddess soon reduces to usual silly nang'rai, doing any desperate thing to get the WW's hubby, like he's some miraculous catch just because he's a middle-aged doctor (it's even mentioned that most money was brought into his marriage by the bride). Makes little sense. Accordingly, doctor soon wises up and tries to keep the wife, but she's got the "kid" (as she calls Joss' character) and his poison (aka bittersweet kisses) in her system by then.......
Such is the premise, yet the execution... Well, it's as you read above.
Still, again I must praise Joss, because normally I find it icky when they present us with stories of middle-aged women finding their greenhorn younger lover to please the fantasies of aging female audience, but he made me feel like I could understand what she sees in him. Kudos to Joss.
Then... when it's the most emotional, he goes to kiss her and... he can't. So there it goes, the most romantic scene ends up looking comical. Someone obviously thought this a minor "detail" so they dared to release the series as it was (instead of re-casting and re-shooting this before presenting it to the audience... any audience) following the way paved by 'Princess Hours'... to viewer's hell. And that's talking a kiss scene. We are then presented with a bed scene, where of course we're not allowed to see anything of our precious Woranuch. So, we watch the clothes falling on the floor. Please don't think I dwell too much on just 1 aspect of the series... This series theme is such that the bad skinship keeps jumping on the viewer and their attention no matter what. So it's not like it can be ignored.
Episode 13 was very frustrating for the romance sucker like me, I reached the stage I'd really wished for the lead girl (well, woman) to respond to Pong who was talking to her straight from the heart. So I wanted her to either tell him she loved him or kiss him or tell him the truth about their first meeting so much. She did nothing. At least she hugged him as that was obviously the only thing Woranuch has consented to so the writers thought of special meaning of hugs for Joss' character. Well, what else could they do. Then we had to watch Nune's character making big fuss about not/sharing bed with Joss and I just wished she'd quit that in her age.
She then moves in with him. So despite the age gap, with her settling in his surprisingly luxurious looking condo (for someone shown either in dungarees or waiter's apron) I wished the couple the best. Perhaps from the lack of other ideas, suddenly a big drama is made of something I thought all the while was already known. It makes zero sense but I guess we had to fill the rest of the episodes somehow... I just wished for Risa to show more fight for Pong, it was definitely her turn to be the one to show her feelings and it would be more romantically enjoyable. Never mind skinship, there was so many things she could say to him. Don't you always hate it when every secondary character has the chance to tell the main's ear off while their love interest is unable to finish 1 sentence?;-) Then, after all this, we're not spared of the idiotic "action finale" either, of course.
Either way, as it's impossible for an audience to not fall in love with Joss in this, naturally everyone wished for his happy ending and so the alternative ending was made (which I found quite stupid though, to be honest). In the end, the overall feeling was close to average.
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The first episode is like Hormones s2e3, but this "Girl from Nowhere" goes step further. She purposedly comes to new school to mess up with the local villain. Mess up with him good. She doesn't have to be concerned for the consequences for herself, as she always changes school. She can do anything. And she doesn't care if she hurts innocent people in the process... Even cause worse than the villain's doing. She just laughs hysterically.The second episode takes things even more steps further... It was not cheerful to watch what were "regular kids" capable of (there were even five of them), the more so as it looked quite realistic (the apologizing, too). What was NOT realistic was what the "Girl from Nowhere" was capable to withstand. But were she not, she could hardly make her point, LOL. The girl playing Nanno looks the part but her laugh is too forced. Had she really have a strong laugh, she would really be able give the villains good scare in this one.
Since episode 3, Nanno starts to iniciate the bad doings. She nags and bugs the selected person with ideas of what they should do. Then she makes sure they get exposed.
In the episode 4 titled 'What can money buy?', I kinda pitied Nanno's target for the first time (boy who pretended to be rich in front of his friends) and wished that Nanno would lay off a little... But he really had stupid friends. In the end, everyone acted kinda unbelievable in compare to other stories. Then Nanno roared in something that was probably supposed to be laugh, but seriously, someone give that girl acting lesson. I was relieved the parents lived and I didn't condemn that they took the money (Nanno rather should have given them the whole million something amount), whom I didn't understand was the son. I would prefer to be friendless.
Watching episode 5 reminded me how I'm grateful I'm old enough I was able to grow up WITHOUT social media. Else, I didn't care about the story of this one...
Epi 6 & 7: Power is given to the weak. AND stupid.
(Despite that, these are the two strongest episodes.)
Epi 8: First time Nanno is friends with someone. But she can't stay with her friend, still 4 more stories to come.
9: Annoying episode with group of annoying people in hiding, who kept clamoring instead of just being quiet (in their hiding). All they needed to do was stay put. Yeah, but then we wouldn't be blessed with yet another "shocking twist" episode and yawping of Nanno (I wanted HER to die just to shut up, seriously).
10: A chilling episode, though NOT for the "shocking" conclusion and ending. In fact the first half an hour, I found it an interesting a theme (for the first time) about a person bottleing their stress. Having unhappy personal life is one thing, being unescapeably, constantly reminded of it (even while working) is another. There is a school full of annoying kids, of course (they didn't even need to add Nanno with her silly smirk in this one) contributing to it, too. It might be truth that today's "social" kids don't even understand the CONCEPT of privacy. The teacher in question is also repeatedly told she should relax. How CAN a person relax if in today's world it seems there doesn't exist a single person who is just minding their own bussiness? ... But instead, we do not occupy ourselves with these questions, because of course we need to watch the main character emerging as yet another psycho. Pitty...
Okay, last three episodes are also behind me... I'm not staying for season 2, but good luck with improving the laughter of Chicha Amatayakul:)
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I even caught myself humming the title song (as for the season one's title song, I didn't even remember it:-)
As I skipped most of the 1st Puppy Honey for being overfilled with animals, costume animals, and Kang Korn Sirisorn, I enjoyed watching this better.
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Poonphat Attapanyapol is here with short hair (except of the quiff, of course... just like in any asian drama not only thai, he's got that stupid "haircut" with the sides almost skinhead shaven, and the front part overly long). Pu Montree's daddy was annoying. If one of his sons obviously liked the mechanic girl, why was he hell-bent on marrying her to the other? Both sons were similar age. It didn't matter which one would take on management of the family firm. I seriously doubted things should get solved by a marriage for 2 years only. Then again, which lakorn does NOT have a silly plot?
Nang'ek's character was great. She wasn't the loud and screaming type, also not the silent angelic one. She was nice, gutsy and direct. How refreshing. I wished a better pra'ek for her (but she's got 3 suitors in this lakorn, so at least she's enjoying the reverse-harem situation:) Acting of the 22-year old Chingching was decent, definitely better than Chap Varakorn's.
After 10 episodes I settled in the lakorn and started to cheer for the main couple. But the "kiss" in epi 11 was a little almost/fake thingy hardly worth mentioning... Yet, she got all worked up, dramatically slapped him and pushed him into pool. I didn't buy it, I think when we get to see only the slap part of the slap/kiss, it doesn't work. There was still plenty more episodes coming, but I was afraid the quality of this won't improve. It's always like that with 'Channel 7'. They're all talk, lol.
Episode 14 has another embarassing not really kiss. Even though he was pressing his cheek right next to hers like crazy, lol. As usual for 'Channel 7', a large number of side-characters is then engaged with their clamoring and disturbing to create a diversion. Pitifully it also involves small child. I started to wish for nang'ek to get out of her "marriage", which was after all contract only.
Meanwhile, Great Sapol's character mostly hangs out with one of the girls who originally wanted the other brother. They see each other on the pretext they conspire to break up the main couple, in reality they practically date. Then this girl disappears. A new girl appears in town, says the previous girl left town (offscreen) because she was brokenhearted about the other brother. New girl is supposed to know both her and Great Sapol's character from childhood or smth. So she immediatelly says she'll help to conspire in her stead. This happens during episode 16. So, Great Sapol's character not only fails to be with the main girl at first, but then even his succedaneous partner is changed exactly in half the series. The main couple is sent away (by the "wise" daddy figure) on an improvised honeymoon, where they are supposed to reconcile BEFORE the child situation is resolved.
But first, a dose of "action kidnapping", attempted suicide and gunfight provide us with overwhelming stupidity. So that we'd stop being too greedy for a good romance. After that, it's good enough the demented "crime" element ceases. Yeah, I get that strategy.
Unfortunatelly, main couple has not much chemistry even playing in a water. There's a scene where each of them are supposed first accidentally, then purposefully pull the other into water. It results in the other person rather jumping there themselves, as obviously the cast did not want to fully engage in pulling the other's body to fall into the water. I think little thing like that tells you a lot. I liked the couple, but they did seem like they were just posing for the camera. Big drama was made about them already having slept together, while they didn't look they were past holding hands stage.
Then there's the second couple with Great Sapol with the new girl who suddenly appears and suddenly sleeps with him that really felt second rate. The mother is also born on different planet, she faints after her adult son tells her he slept with a girl (and intends to marry her) also keeps being obstinate about accepting the main girl, whom her other son already married. She just keeps repeating she's a mechanic, she's a mechanic, despite her already living in the household long enough for her to know she's also a nice, decent girl. When one of pra'ek's ex-girlfriends shows up with ton of make-up and her mafia father and her child she blatantly uses as leverage and her crass behavior, we don't see the mother realizing how much worse draughter-in-law she COULD have. Obviously I would wish the producers to give up on plentiful side-characters and concentrate on improving the main ones. But I do understand that their interest is to prolong the whole thing for the longest possible time to show more washing powder commercials instead of more concise watch for the audience.
Last several episodes I felt it was kinda still running just because somebody ordered it to have 30 episodes. But obviously we've already seen the best both the romances could offer and I was no longer interested in watching either their nonexistent skinship or the situation in the company. Let alone MORE stupid "crime" scenes like shooting/kidnapping etc...
I quit after 24 episodes, which honestly is 20 more than I was even mildly interested in. To give at least this "high" a rating. Because if I had to watch even more, it would probably go even lower.
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It is extremely easy for a girl with looks of Prang Kannarun to perform her task (I think she has a hospitalized loved one she needs the money for), the guy is interested in her right away. He ostentatiously fights over her (not a fistfight, of course) with Ball Jitpanu's character but, as I don't like Mai Warit, I rather felt mischievously pleased whenever Ball Jitpanu's character was winning. Not that I like Ball Jitpanu that much better, but Mai Warit was the girl's boss at the same time so I found it uncomfortable that he was after her. But, like I mentioned, the girl had her own agenda. Maybe there was some comfort in that:)
Yes, it's definitely refreshing that this nang'ek doesn't act like a saint. She is not the loud and screaming type, either. The actress is almost 30 so it's good that the role fits her (I was tired of watching 28-29 year old actresses potraying nang'eks who were NEVER kissed, lol).
The main guy I find so little attractive that I would prefer even Ball Jitpanu to him also runs a SUCCESSFUL company, despite the company being named 'Way Ex'. The way thai "understand" english is always funny, so one should not get distracted by that, lol.
I must say that watching the main girl working as a secretary while her boss, her colleague, her boss' mother and her boss' girl/friend all pestered her was a strain. These 4 people say such things to her that if I heard just one of them said to me in a workplace it would make me leave immediatelly without notice, even forfeiting my money. Of course the reason the girl put up with that was she was obliged to her real boss, who hired her to get close to the guy. Still I thought that could be achieved by many other ways than working in his office. This irritated me as I am quite sensitive to "work dramas";)
Anyways, after such workday, when her boss was all trying to date her in the evening, I just found it rather creepy. Meanwhile, there is yet another desperate rival girl who is after the main guy AFTER he repeatedly rejected her for no reason at all (she's got similar looks to Prang Kannarun, and is available without any hassle). She, also for no reason at all, acts like he's the only guy in the world and of course she must be fighting against the main girl nonstop, which is just silly and tiring. Plus she drags along her gay friend, who of course is supposed to be funny (and isn't, much). Perhaps I sound bored but it's 2020 (2021 for me, even) and obviously writers STILL didn't update the scriptwriting style.
The two leads are seen jogging together and having breakfast, for us to understand they are getting closer. Then during dinner, he asks her to be his gf. I just didn't see how it fits together with them playing total master & servant in his posh office during daytime, but never mind, the plot was about her hidden agenda, here. Then tragedy strikes and she needs a million baht (lol) IMMEDIATELLY to save her gravely ill father, so there's no more time for playing. The beloved daddy is everything to our nang'ek, she states she would make an agreement with a devil himself if she had to. So, there comes the "devil" played by David Asavanond... LOL.
Then the hidden agenda stays no longer secret, as nang'ek is offered for a price to pra'ek. To be fair, it's possible that nang'ek's dad's illness was caused by chemicals used by pra'ek's company, but still this is a blow to him. He gets drunk, looks like he's lost his hope in her but then he hears Ball Jitpanu's character is lining up to buy the girl, too. So he buys her first. Even sets a clause in the contract that she must live with him and that he can sleep with her even without wedding, lol. The competition with the other guy seems very important to pra'ek.
But then, we're at episode 5 out of 19. After paying MILLIONS for the girl to BELONG to him, she still attends the office, talks to the other guy portrayed by Ball Jitpanu, that stays on. Pra'ek first looks like he'd drag nang'ek into his bed immediatelly then says he was kidding and decides to take things slow, that stays on. The runnings with the jealous other girl stay on... It felt so dramatic at the end of the 4th episode when pra'ek first learned the truth about under which status the girl actually approached him, but somehow all that mellowed down to a dragging usual thing with each side-actor keeping their recurring appearance in prolonging the screentime, the main couple navigating in between them in usual "step forth - step back" bickering courtship stretched to as many episodes as possible.
That's what's obviously awaiting us: when by the end of episode 5, nang'ek is buying groceries saying she would COOK for pra'ek, but that's IT. Later she'll get a proper job and pay the money back. LOL. Somehow the carefree atmospehere settling in did not correspond much with the fact that pra'ek just paid a sum of money she was not going to earn back in her lifetime, or 2 lifetimes. That if he hadn't, someone she loves would die. That she should not as much as LOOK at other guys now. No, she laughs with her friend, shrugs her shoulders and gets him a frozen takeaway meal. Why should she bother cooking?
If there is a "drama" to be had, then it would come from loud screaming females. It's either praek's aunty or his other girl. Engaging in many loud screaming scenes with our nang'ek. Why did they bother with this lakorn having more interesting plot than usual, when we practically don't work with it and just watch the usual henhouse? Probably the runtime stretch. I guess we might get to the plot back later in some episodes nearing the final.
So. Next episodes follow this pattern. I do understand they need to fill the screentime and employ all the side actors. It doesn't make sense for nang'ek who was BOUGHT by pra'ek to keep "working" at his office, but we need to see the other secretary (with nang'ek onboard, pra'ek has double secretaries) to employ the side-actress. We also employ Ball Jitpanu so he actually shares some scenes nang'ek should normally have with pra'ek, to still be a part of her story (and he is just as likeable a guy as pra'ek is... also double). We employ the rival girl and her gay friend... We employ the hysterical aunty role. Nobody cares if it makes sense.
Then SLAP/KISS begins. It's not a good kiss. It's a bad slap. Nang'ek says to pra'ek that he doesn't own her. Except he DOES. I'm sorry, but it's stupid. This world is full of even more beautiful girls than she is and she got paid millions just for nothing. Then she acts all offended. It's ridiculous. She either needs to experience more hardship besides the silly scenes with her home-invading loan shark, or she should keep those in mind. Nevertheless, Prang Kannarun cried half that episode. Her eyes were not red but there was impressive amount of water coming out of them. I wonder which technique did the make-up use.
Episode 8 she finally visits her dad, who says such heartbreaking things like he'd like to hug her every day, like when she was little. Prang Kannarun then cries a lot of her onscreen tears again, but I wondered if this finally should put the character she portrays in more perspective. The person to witness this visit is of course not pra'ek, but the second lead. I say this double-script involving surplus characters shall prove double-edged sword later. Pra'ek cannot develop that much connection with nang'ek if he has to share with one other person. After all, the leading couple should be the people who get close the most.
Besides that, nang'ek tries to investigate if praek's company really harmed her dad, and she thinks she'll find the company's compromising documents in pra'ek's bedroom. I'd think if someone really knows about this it would be praek's dad, morelike. Moreover, I think putting stupid plots like this in romantic lakorns is rather a disservice. I wished they'd put more energy in building the relationship. If they wanted to add something they should find a really hot guy to be the pra'ek and not Mai Warit. As for Prang Kannarun, she's really cute, even more without heavy make-up on. That's true beauty. Pitty the nang'ek she portrays is "smart" enough to use her mobile phone to sneak some pictures from pra'ek's company folders, but apparently not enough to realize she should tell him the truth about couple of things, now that he already tells her that he loves her.
Episode 10 out of 19 he even proposes to her. Then I thought she definitely had to talk to him, to clear with him before entering marriage else I could not approve. Of course things are more complicated as she's got the deal with David Asavanond's match-guy with millions at stake. But she is lucky to have rich suitor enough to pay it. She even has 2 to choose from: might as well have picked the other pra'ek portrayed by Ball Jitpanu.
Episode 11: I'm seriously bored. I don't care for any of the side-characters, like both the annoying aunties...
And I don't care for the main couple either, I'm not into Mai Warit. I don't feel the need to see all 19 episodes.
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We saw in 'Puppy Honey' that it wasn't right.
Episode 1: Ugh, they paired Off Jumpol with Gun Atthaphan, again. We saw in 'Puppy Honey' that it wasn't right.About the story: Two boys are best friends, while one of them is "secretly" (the other guy is blatantly using him, so he has to know on some level) in love with the other. The other seems straight, changes girlfriends every other day, nevertheless he has a rule to not date friends, which is interesting as he only has male friends. Why should he need this rule?
The main problem with "theory" of this love is that I don't even cheer for the Gun Atthaphan's character to be with Off Jumpol's.
And to drag this for 12 episodes is a strain.
I mean Off Jumpol is super mega cute but for ONCE I would love to watch him with someone he's got real spark with (and that's not Gun Atthaphan even in the weirdest of dreams). Then there is Sara Legge, who DOES look 35, doesn't really fit among all the students around (perhaps if she was naughty teacher?) yet they try to put her together with someone almost 10 years younger... That's another thing that might work in THEORY, perhaps. Watching it is a strain, despite Mike Chinnarat's Bon being the only likeable character far and wide.
Despite its name, or the "epic" opening credits, or the opening song, the actual series is small, low budget thing shot mostly in 2-3 locations indoors, in which nothing major actually happens. It's mostly a conversational drama (well, maybe not really drama) about characters that don't have much chemistry together, relying heavily on inner voiceovers (usually a good sign of a weak script) without which it might possibly not even hold together. There's quite interesting music, but it doesn't really have anything to do with the quality of the material shown with it playing. Often the kind of music does not match the kind of content.
Now, looking back at 'Puppy Honey' (which was a pretty average show), Off & Gun couple line in there was moderately enjoyable and the only thing missing was a real kiss. Fans were told: "If you wish to see them kiss, you have to watch 'Theory Of Love'". But, after watching a few first episodes of 'Theory Of Love', I no longer even wish to see that kiss! Enough said...
I cheered for Neen Suwanamas & White Nawat's couple and wished for more screentime for them, as it was a completely different level to watch White Nawat. With them, I didn't get that uncomfortable icky feeling like while watching Off being cute on Gun. AND we didn't need to hear some inner voice to break it all down to basics for us.
Around episode 5, I've generally had enough of the main "plot" and just wished the two guys go on their separate lines. I'd even take it if Off Jumpol's character (as we WERE stuck with Gun Atthaphan's as the main one, narrating us the whole thing) went abroad or something, for the rest of the series. And if not, then at least shift the main focus elsewhere. These two could have a happy ending or a sad ending, I just didn't really feel the need to watch it.
Episode 6 shows Sara Legge is really their teacher. I watched student-teacher romances before. Looks like I am to watch another one now. The "surprised look" on Bon's face was NOT the best one I've seen, lol. BUT! As soon as we switched to our "main couple", I got reminded that at least, we didn't have to listen to his "inner voice" informing us that he is indeed surprised in that moment.
But then we're back with the main "couple". I'm afraid I reached the point where I find these two unwatchable. I probably won't be able to re-watch even 'Puppy Honey', now. I've noticed producers decided to put Gun & Off together in TWO MORE DRAMAS. You forgive me, but I really DON'T want to see them. Not only I am dropping this IN 6th episode, I drop both 'I'm Tee, Me Too' and 'Not Me' BEFORE 1st episode. THAT much I don't want to watch these two.
I think my action suggests that this "show" could not be saved even if the title song was done by Coldplay...
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Now. Ha Seok Jin is hot. I noticed him well in 'D-Day'. It's a bit different now that instead of a serious doctor he's a spoiled bussinessman, but... If this beats the old version in the kiss department, then it's not in vain;-)) His partner Jeon So Min can be called many things, "hot" sadly not being one of them. Best example are her eyes. Those eyes remind you of old woman. So, while I appreciate casting Ha Seok Jin in a romance with kiss scenes, his partner I had to kind of tolerate/ignore.
Okay, 1st kiss is far from passionate, LOL. But it comes as early as in episode 4, so there can only be progress. It's cute, how completely unrealistic story this is. In reality, the woman would have ZERO chances with a guy so attractive like Ha Seok Jin. And that's not counting the whole money plot. Epi 5 there's the 2nd kiss, and it's also the little peck kind. The 30 years old woman certainly had no reason to get flustered (I think the original version girl wasn't this old, by the way). The plot is still the same old like 13 years ago. If the woman had no interest in the money or in the guy, she had no reason to fake/date him for 1 single day. Not really.
Main guy first takes main woman on boring dates like classic music concerts or art galleries. Then he has a conversation with his friend about what people should do on dates, and the friend insists on things like going into amusement park, watching a movie together, holding hands, calling each other on a phone at night, or buying flowers. Like any of that is original and less boring, lol.
Best example is when the woman attempts to show up in "sexy" dress. The dress is still quite conservative, it's of kinda beige, unobtrusive colour which underlines the actress' own pallor, yet one guy whistles after seeing her and the main guy tells her that she can't "go around half naked". It's like they don't suppose viewers have eyes. There's nothing much to see on the woman while she's wearing her regular clothes. When she tries to wear "attractive" dress that show more of her, we can see that there's really nothing. That's all. Perhaps that's why they put so many cartoons into the gallery for this drama, lol.
Nevertheless, main guy almost blushes looking at some pictures of her, which looks kind of ridiculous given that Ha Seok Jin is like 34 in this. If he was in his twenties, like the 2003 version guy was, perhaps it would look more understandable. When he misses their date because of a bomb thread in his hotel, she's all sulky, which I would also understand if she was 20, not 30 years old, AND living in today's times when security threads are not looked upon lightly. They have a moody argument like two youngsters would, while it's late at night and both of them have the looks of professionals tired from work. She's supposed to be special person who changes the main guy. After 6 episodes, she doesn't look like it.
Episode 7, there's a hug scene. In a way, it's better than the 2 previous kisses, which looked similar to how he'd kiss a small child. Then they have another date, in a park. Main guy comes dressed in a suit of such style and colour that only the attractiveness of Ha Seok Jin saves it (I'm not even commenting on HER clothes). Seriously, I would "love" to see the costume designer for this drama. Instead of trying to drive attention away from this flaw, the drama flaunts it by the main girl's best friend being a clothing store manager or owner or smth. The people in this drama should better sh*t up about clothes. All that all the characters wear is horrendous. Also main girl repeatedly treats main guy like one of the children in her care (she works in a middle school). It's funny one time, kinda awkward repeated times. She then makes him celebrate his birthday the corny style, and he tells her it's also anniversary of his brother's death. Speaking of awkward. Things get hot for one moment and he plain asks her to kiss him. She doesn't, then when they're parting she gives him a shy peck. It's now 3rd one in a row.
Watching episode 8... It's like watching a story which was supposed to have a different cast. Because these two really don't fit it. The guy is very attractive, but clearly different age than the role. The main girl... well, woman... also looks absurd answering questions of her super worried mother, who is all concerned her daughter is seeing a wealthy guy for a contract. Like she might lose her virginity to some vile rich guy, lol. He appears all moody on her doorstep, feeling neglected (because she didn't answer his text), demanding she at least takes a walk with him... Perhaps this is all adapted from the earlier version where the guy was a youngster (I don't remember it to the detail, it's been a while since I watched the old show). She goes with him, wearing something that looks like a hospital gown... It's all so weird to watch. Not that I'd wish to re-watch the previous version where a simple kiss was a problem, but at least, there one could understand the flaws: that show is DATED. What was going on HERE is beyond me.
And kisses? Episode 8 finally delivers, it happens on the children's playground. The two of them look like they are fighting some early middle-age crisis there though, lol.
Episode 9... I know I should be enjoying myself, but I'm not. I'm bored. I'm not even swooning over Ha Seok Jin anymore. He looks like a thirties daddy already. Perhaps he should be cast in some family comedy, now.
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Tangmo Nida (whom I remember from 2009 'Dark Tanned Lady') portrays a character who at first lives in perfect reverse-harem situation. Attractive men circling around her are not scarse and she is smart in dealing with each of them. But, it sometimes happens that someone who is smart and wordly-wise after all their experience falls for someone completely innocent.
First, the cute and nice younger guy seems interested in her right back. But she considers herself smarter than really going for the greenhorn. So she accepts a marriage proposal from a guy I found suspicious suddenly proposing to her. So, apparently she was not that smart to realize maybe she shouldn't go for complete stranger. It instantly felt like she made wrong decision.
Tangmo Nida can't really cry onscreen so she somewhat squints her eyes couple a times when that chapter doesn't end victorious for her (both men she's most invested in are taken, and firmly - read financially - bound to someone else). The woman she portrays in this role is charming, witty and capable to defeat strong rivals; but money she doesn't have. She has her clock ticking and the chances of marrying rich are getting slimmer every day, at our times when even rich guys need to marry someone richer.
She comes back to the young guy when she needs cheering up and he welcomes her with open arms even after she tossed him away when things were still good for her. Meanwhile, her carefree lifestyle - read debts - also silently grow on consequence. With the younghorn hanging, she keeps spreading her wings elsewhere, but I no longer believed her to be smart.
Sometimes it's unclear - if this is a romance - whom she's got her romance WITH. Most heartbroken she is over one of the rich guys, the most sexual tension she has with the other rich guy who is married and her boss, and the most emotional and cute she is with the young guy. And that's still not complete list of all her guys. So it really seemed a reverse-harem story but somehow it was far from a carefree one: as I was afraid this heroine might end up with an unhappy ending.
She starts with picking the least perspective guy to hang with and active decision to lose the young guy (who might be true love). She actively invites her future rival into her house. She ditches one of the less glamorous guys who is nevertheless always ready to genuinely take care of her, in a hurtful way. She refuses to listen what the boss guy tries to tell her. Will all this come back to her in the end to bite her? Probably. If this is supposed to be some kind of cautionary tale.
As the already established guys are also already taken, she picks the aspiring guy and builds him up. Apparently she hopes that she'll still have him when he becomes big, but the guy is shown as promiscuous and self interested to viewers. His career relies on him charming women and on his looks, which are modern style (read: he looks gay) surrounded mostly with androgynous types of the modeling/acting "beauty industry". I'm not into "pretty boys" or the not/operated men-women so this was not my eye candy. Also I knew she bet on the wrong horse and I won't get to see the main heroine ending up well. So I wasn't enjoying anymore.
At 1/2 of the series, the young guy still says he loves the main girl - so it's not like in the synopsis, which simply states that he "didn’t love her back" - but, he already starts developing rapport with the young girl of "same age": the actress is 17.
I am quite tired with this because it's not much fun. I understand this probably attempts to be a life lesson story because the main girl will most likely pay for (some of) her mistakes. But I don't need to watch it unfold... One night, the main heroine comes home shattered and needs to receive a life advice from a 17-year old. I thought, now I've seen enough, LOL.
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Here, we don't get to watch that. Here, the husband leaves for the day, and we stay with the housewife. Yeah, it's THAT kind of lakorn. Pitty, for I prefer the part BEFORE the girl starts spending majority of her time with his MOTHER, lol.
After mere 3 episodes I got tired of this and afterwards practically only skimmed through it...
Dropped by episode 7.
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Casting is nothing special, still the best thing about this lakorn. Chingching is cute & not boring:-) Unfortunatelly, I liked the original guy more than the one who replaced him. He really LOOKS gay. But, at least it was put in a good use in the comedy parts.
Problem with Channel 7 shows is the number of episodes. I really don't have the patience for them that long.
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But if I'm something as a drama viewer it's this: I am open. If the portraying characters and their drama and their romance shall be likeable, I am capable to get past the unlikeable cast. So I gave this lakorn the same chance as to any other.
The beginning was funny. The stupid rich girl was nailed by Kimmy. She made me laugh in her very 1st scene, while getting angry she called the guy named Pittaya "You... Pittbull!" LOL. I might not physically like Nadech but at least he's got his acting right. The tension between him and the rich girl was priceless. So far good, then.
Then there's a scene of Nadech smacking Kimmy's backside like a little kid's and then answering his phone saying: "I'm not done with work yet." LOL. Actually the characters know each other since childhood so it's kinda sweet. And that's all episode 1. Needless to say this was NOT the case where I would be skipping through the first episode listlessly, looking for something to at least remotely catch my interest (I am the WORST audience, when it comes to 1st episodes;) Oh no. This got my attention from the start:) So, I accepted the cast and continued watching.
What I didn't enjoy was there was a third party involved (yeah, this is a triangle story:-( Anyways, Kimmy's character of a spoiled girl is so clearly jealous it's obvious what feelings are the source of all her attacks. For her, there was nobody else since childhood, but that is not the case with him. As Min Natwara portrays a girl dangerously beautiful and poised, especially in compare with our naughty nang'ek. Opposite her we have Alex Rendell's super-annoying "playboy" (read: man whore) who's 2 years her junior and can't even remotely match her in sophistication.
Now, Phit wants to quit working for the rich girl's family. Instead, he is told he has to train her as he is the only one who can handle her, lol. This starts in episode 4. I hoped for her that with time she'll get better at work: there is nothing cool about being stupid.
Episode 6 (or, as I'm watching the "double number - half the runtime" version, approx. episode 3), Kimmy's naughty nang'ek encounters Alex's play boyo. Now, they would be a pair I'd enjoy watching;) Could Nadech just leave? LOL. Unfortunatelly, Alex is stuck in his silly side-role where he like ostentatiously grabs Kimmy's ass just because he has the fleeting opportunity to feel her up. He offers her a kind of joined-enemies collaboration (on splitting the Phit & Ravee couple up). She doesn't deem him worthy of even that and just leaves. I agreed, the girl portrayed by Min Natwara was clearly out of his league.
Meanwhile Thae, the spoiled rich girl grows more emotionally mature in her love for Pittaya. The only problem I had connecting to his lovely story was that he looked like Nadech Kugimiya. Sigh. If he looked at least like Alex Rendell. But like it was said, Alex can be either Kimmy's "sleazy side-guy", or upcoming love interest of... Min Natwara? According to the poster, they should become second couple. I still cannot imagine their two characters happily together. Plus Natwara is older than Alex.
I must say that the way Thae redeemed herself with Phit & Ravee couple, and even more the way she then handled Alex's play boyo, really impressed me and since then I cheered for her and was all Team Thae:) Rarely I do see in lakorns a nang'ek who behaves the way I like. Pitty she didn't stop just after the newspaper post.
Kimmy's nang'ek then scores even more sympathy points with the audience... Her story with pra'ek since childhood through her being ostentatiously scornful of his lower status up to her quest to actually reveal his birthright which then backfires, and brings even more despair to her is more engaging than usual stories of nang'eks in lakorns. Kimmy portrayed it very well, pitty she wasn't there with some other guy... So, during the annoying triangle with Min Natwara's side girl recurring again and again to claim him, I felt like saying: "Yes, just take him if you want him so much and please could you send any guy that doesn't looks so gay in his stead, thank you." LOL. I just wanted her "drama" to end, or could she head off to have her own side-romance line?
But it's still impossible to imagine Natwara & Alex's characters as a second couple, with her still so desperate for Nadech's pra'ek and him practically acting a villain. Kimmy's nang'ek first handled him in very smart way, then sadly ended up acting very stupid (in order to get rescued by pra'ek, of course:) When Alex's character almost commits crime and is about to indirectly cause death of a person, I found it a bit too much. He's hardly to be viewed as a romance character after causing such tragedy?
Luckilly, it doesn't quite come to that. But obviously there's still long way to go. Kimmy's nang'ek is suffering alone, Nadech's pra'ek just takes high moral ground and she's the one left ridden by all doubts. He still has his other love interest to deal with... Overall I still liked the acting performance of both the leads. And the oldchool romance story. I started enjoying it after I settled in it, and I thought this definitely was one of the better ones both Nadech & Kimmy starred in.
After the wedding (in half the series) there's plenty pra'ek-nang'ek scenes to enjoy but I just cannot ship a couple that has Nadech in it. I just wanted the second couple's story to start.
Be careful what you wish for. The second couple's "story" starts with rape. That really is what Alex's character is in here. So, this lakorn might be one of the better ones for Nadech & Kimmy, but definitely not for Natwara & Alex. She gets warned that he is a rapist, so she goes and visits him alone in his apartment. It's like bad parody. Thus, Natwara's character WON'T have her separate story and shall keep meddling into the main couple. I don't like such stories. By 1/2 of the series, I catched myself zoning out. I considered dropping this.
Seriously, Kimberley Anne Woltemas was too good for this. Apart from her, there was nothing much watchable. I just honestly wanted it to end, as I was neither able to enjoy the line with Nadech, who physically repulsed me, nor with Alex, who was repulsive character.
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In lakorn, when we have a girl we can like and a guy we can like and we like them together, and we DO know they'll end up together, the 1 thing creators need to do is to make them end up together in some kind of way that is exciting. Or entertaining to watch. But if the reality is lakorn producers have many things to do, like fill the time slots and sell the commercials and create jobs for all the supporting cast and crew, the 1 simple thing often gets left behind.
In this lakorn, typically there's 6 extra people we don't care about in 1 scene. There's still good tension in between the main two but for something to happen, the pra'ek must drag the nang'ek out of the room. Then we can count on the fingers how long it's gonna take for at least one of those 6 people to come and interrupt YET AGAIN. Looks like they REALLY needed to employ numerous cast here... So, when this lakorns at least TRIES to dedicate some time to the character's gradual discovering of their feelings, it's commendable.
Else it really is ridiculous for them not being able to talk the basic things through, while all the time living in 1 room. Again, we're talking about dragging obstacling instead of real script writing. Another thing is the first kiss comes after 16 episodes of waiting... and it's fake. Thank you very much.
But now the pra'ek confessed his love. She has not confessed yet, but she doesn't have somebody else, and she does live in same room with him:) Now we finally have some scenes with them together, talking to each other straight. Which is good. That should be from the beginning. But now he confessed already and there's still half of the episodes ahead of us.
It's filled withs stupid jealous-games, more and more screentime for all the side-cast, the main girl finally shows reciprocation to the pra'ek but it gets drowned in all the couple's antagonist's antics and I honestly didn't find any of the side-people watchable, they're like c-grade actors just showing off their untanned skin and freaky colored-contacts (we are in Thailand, so everyone on TV tries to look as light-skinned and light-color-eyed as in/humanly possible:) I admit I found this watch really loong and if its only purpose was being a filler in-between the tv commercials, then for the rest they could just show the commercials uninterrupted and it couldn't be much worse than this. I think I've watched long enough, so before finishing 21th episode I am dropping this, simply as of ZERO interest in seeing any more.
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But I tried the newer version to which I paid my attention fully and it was not much better. So much for the story, then.
Here, I didn't even notice how beautiful Bua Chompoo Ford is (if you like her, and Andy, I highly recommend watching 'Sadut Ruk', instead) or anything about the music... For me, it was just plain boredom. Sorry.
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Aww... The totally cutest guy gets killed in 1st episode!
Well, this is a series where lead characters are actually less likeable than the hired killers after them (I'm not talking about the mangirl that survived) that itself should kinda advise you whether you wish to watch it or not.The main guy is portrayed by Joss Way-ar Sangngern and his character swings not both ways, but any way (girls, boys, married women, friends...), Mild is tolerable, perhaps Tay Tawan's Shin is the only likeable one. We are shown in the blashbacks that in the past, Neo did everything a guy possibly can do to make Shin fall in love with him, he even kissed Shin. In the present line, Neo gets together with Miu (Mild) with Shin hopelessly watching. The trio is on a lam together. They try to hide from the local mobster, who is Shin's dad. I would point out how absurd that is, but what is NOT in this series?
Then they get stoned and everyone kisses everyone. Maybe that's why they cast Joss Sangngern as the lead. He can well handle real-kiss scenes with both sexes, LOL. Pitty we never see kissing like this in some series or lakorn where it would really be exciting (there we usually wait 20 episodes for nothing... here it comes at epi 6 out of 10). Did I already mention "absurd"?
Absurd is also the way general story keeps continuing. If there would be an UFO landing in the middle of it, or a zombie attack, it would hardly disturb it. Since epi 7, I started zoning out. All the "excitement" getting me kinda bored, LOL. There's yet another "mafia boss", and even more stupid than the first one... And then they set off to kill even the second hired killer I liked more than the leading characters? (Again, not talking about the mangirl that survived.) As I didn't really care how this will end, I skipped the rest.
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I neither believed nor wished the main pairing
This drama is full of people trying to get into high class. Funny how high class & low class still exist in Thailand, nevertheless even more funny are the ways the low class people try to get into high class using the internet. Like, the rich house has a maid who has a daughter. Now, the maid's daughter has a smartphone connected to social media, with which she if able to film videos and post them online, mostly hanging around in rich house and other luxurious settings. Soon she self-calls herself a celebrity and pretends to be the rich house's owner's niece at parties. The family, instead of simply firing the maid - by which even her daughter would lose ANY connection to the rich house - keeps her on, because after all we need to fill 14 movie-length episodes with a "drama". Even James Jirayu portrays a person the rich family somehow adopted and let him work in the family's company, which results in him being now interested in the rich family's daughter, who regrettably did not learn to be as good at work as him, so they need him. And who, despite having a perfect learning example in her own dad, who recently divorced her mother for a younger model (another aspiring low class aiming to become high class) gives him too much attention. She decides to play him (hence the lakorn name) and win over him while he does know and accept this, because even if she intends to play him only, it still means she showers him with attention and so he doesn't mind it, as long as he has her attention (and he's right, as she'd probably win had she just not cared). This way, they are to cross their swords in a game where she tries to win over him while he tries to win her over. In case you're anxious how this will turn out, the lakorn opens with her giving birth to his baby, so there's really no suspense about whether he wins her over, LOL. Despite that, it takes A WHILE to finish the mega-long episodes. So, it's up to you whether you are up for that...As for me, I kept reminding myself it's a ROMANTIC lakorn and Nai & Nok are the endgame nevertheless it was not how it FELT like. I just didn't believe that Lakkhanai would be pining 10 years for the FL who was stupid and there were equally pretty girls all around (for example Pear Pitchapa looks VERY similar to Taew in this drama... that happens when the cast shares the same stylist:) on the other hand, he certainly had more than one reason to get back at her. The whole time, I thought he was just faking. That's how it LOOKED like, given the ML's acting "skills". So I really didn't believe his angelic, forgiving nature when looking at the face of James Jirayu with slimy hair. Who got the idea to pair Jirayu & Taew, I don't know, but I didn't believe the couple even as a fiction. The 1 hr. 50 min. really dragged for me every time, and during the 7th attempt I just gave up.
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