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I liked the main couple, they looked good together (2 years later they made one more lakorn together). But the story is rather glum. Full of dark past. And shady family members. Also there's the creepy guy who slept with his aunt since childhood (seriously), and he kinda liked it and it kinda made him messed up. That's just for illustration what kind of characters you can expect here (I found it maybe a bit too much). Of course Thanwa sheds lots of tears, directors always make him do that, as he looks cute crying. I liked how he never told the nang'ek that he loved her, it was only implied. Then he told her when she didn't remember him:-) Though bits like this can't save this lakorn as whole, still I'll look forward seeing 2016 'Rissaya' with this same couple.

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Jin decides to declutter her house and turn the whole groundfloor (with the living quarters of other family members moved upstairs) into the minimalist, white space for her room and office. The result is shown at the beginning of the movie: the minimalism is okay, the white color (as the only color) isn't.

Jin is your opposite of hoarder: she wants to throw every single item she does not curretly use, away. Which is quite a liberating process, I have to admit. Though, you will really know for sure there is zero chance you could ever discover "things in the attic" that would unexpectedly become monetary valuable with time, forgotten fun, or weirdly useful. Jin is decided to leave the past behind, get more space for light and fresh air.

She even has a piano she wants to throw away (though she could just paint it white, then it would become invisible anyways). She is unstoppable, getting rid of things - often of sentimental, or "sentimental" value - mercillesly. She doesn't even donate or sell the things. She says: "If I throw it, it's gone TODAY." When her raiding the house stuff into black waste bags looks almost sociopatic, she halts herself and starts going through the things again. She can still make someone else happy with some of the stuff. Someone specific, with specific stuff. Gifting/returning specific item to the specific person then ironically revives the past she's decided to leave behind:) When facing again a certain person is too hard, she decides to mail the stuff.

Like the ex-boyfriend:) Who rejected the package:) She leaves the stuff on his doorstep. Ringing the bell first, though. He calls after her, so she like unwittingly turns her back, to face him. And he's Sunny Suwanmethanont!:) She then gives him items no longer of much benefit to him, and says some words of explanation for her past behavior, for which it could be said the same. I got the feeling that THIS was precisely the past she SHOULD mindlessly throw in the trash. First, he says nothing, which I thought a befitting response. But then he reacts in a way that only happens in movies:) How will she react when HE returns HER stuff? How will she feel watching him mirroring her actions?

Turns out, the old things - though being just worn, lifeless objects - can be quite emotional... Nevertheless, in this movie, though it has generous runtime, nothing much happens, and we're just left with Jin in the empty house, with empty heart and empty ending.

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I like the poster (at least something:)

Firstly, 'Buang Athithan' is a supernatural ghost story: NOT my favorite kind of lakorn. And if dealing with low-budget cgi ghosts forms the whole story and presents a majority of the screentime, I start skipping through such lakorn, no matter the cast. 'The Sixth Sense' became totally unwatchable despite having FIVE super beautiful girls + Louis Scott. Cast isn't everything. But when I'm mentioning it, you can see 2 of the 'Sixth Sense' girls here (One of them looks already a bit on the older side... Oops, that's the one who's 19. Perhaps there is a typo in her year of birth).

Secondly, this is 2-timelines show, which usually I do not like, either. I always stick only with one and ignore the other, or if it's 'Tae Pang Korn' (any version) I drop it entirely. For me, that's unwatchable. But here at 'Buang Athithan', I started watching the "historical" line, too. At least there is no ghost there, yet... and characters seemed to be interacting more in there. Now, as the romance has to be super-good to compell me into watching something this demented, the lead pair's chemistry is very important. But Patricia Tanchanok Good (good name, LOL) while being pretty and cute (the cheek dimple:) is still teenage. Her performance is adequate to not yet being mature actress. Don't take me wrong, I know the exceptions DO exist. Mark Naktakhe just finished another lakorn right before this one, where he was alongside then only 16 years old Benz Narinya, and she stole the whole show and has blown everyone away. Patricia is NOT such a rare exception though, to work smoothly in being paired with 7 years older Prin Suparat. Their dynamics IS uneven. I don't buy their "chemistry". Sometimes their skinship scenes made me shudder (and not with excitement), as he looks like molesting his kid sister. Sometimes she looks ridiculous trying to "tease" him.

So, the romance? I couldn't thoroughly enjoy it. In the period, the wedding scene looks georgeous, but Prin Suparat's fake long hair bothered me, it grew like right from his face in places where sideburns should rather be, like he was monkey (remember 'Planet of the Apes'?:) Patricia Tanchanok Good is probably GOOD pick from thousands of girls some casting agency had to choose from, but she is still a girl, not a woman. She still needed more girlish role. Also, they get married like in epi 4 out of 11 so the rest is no longer romance, just dragging side-story of them dealing with that side-character, who then becomes the ghost/is the ghost in the contemporary line. In the modern version they are not married yet, and he's got human hair, but they have way less exciting character dynamics. She just keeps taking pictures in his house and randomly waking up from dreaming about the period bits. He starts pursuing her rather early, saying he feels like she is someone he's been waiting for. It's the reference of their shared past life, of course, nevertheless it does not change the fact that there is no real spark. Also, soon the oldtime line takes up almost all the screentime.

AND it is soon as boring and annoying as the modern one. That side-character is practically major character here (at least in the modern times, she is just lurking there occasionally) and the side actress has nothing that would make viewers interested in watching so many scenes with ther. I started skipping, again.

Maybe Eye Kamolned & Mark Naktakhe's line could save this show from being a total letdown? I hoped. Sometimes the "second couple" practically becomes the first couple. And I definitely liked THEIR dynamics. They were funny since episode 1, where we see them squabble at the hotel reception. Then they appear in the historical line, too. He is the hot guy from 'Naree Rissaya' (actually 2 years her junior), looks funny with the long hair too, but their couple has more comedy anyways. They're both superior actors to the main couple ones. But soon they almost disappear from the story, there were at least 3 (hour and three-quarters long) episodes with barely any scenes of them together... When they re-appear, they're really cute. Pitty Mark Naktakhe never got any more roles. Seeing him in this stupid show with the fake ape-hair can't be how we are to remember him forever?

In conclusion... I wondered how to rate this. See, if we should cut out anything Butsakorn-related (name of that side-character) the whole lakorn would have about 50 minutes runtime. So I think just knowing this, it's up to everyone whether to watch, or skip.

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Frankly I was surprised how bad this was... I watched 'Fah Krajang Dao' first, and that had the conclusion for all three stories, so this pair was there too, only a couple of scenes, but cuute sort of happy ending!:) So I was looking forward to 'Maya Tawan', and got quite disappointed.

The opening song by Pijika is totally sweet and completely corresponds with sweet cute looks of Urassaya Sperbund, but what fails is the lakorn itself that follows it. To say it does not do the opening song justice would be an understatement. Atichart is just plain annoying in this... Whenever he starts yelling, his acting drops below average. It's painful to watch (and listen). He's really not cut out for these type of roles (in 'Jam Loey Rak'/'Borisut Bumbut Kaen', I've seen the worst of him so far).

Besides Atichart & Yaya having enough age gap themselves, the story is featuring another Romeo, 20-year older Sornram Theappitak (yeah, the one from the old 'Dung Duang Haruetai'!) wearing a huge quiff on his head that's supposed to distract the viewers from noticing his age, or smth. Apart from that there are some people living in the pra'ek house, most of them loud screamers, but one of them is nicknamed Parrot (Boon Arthur Benjakul) and he's actually cute, and nice character. Not enough to watch this for him, though. I was not interested in whatever happens to the Yaya's young reporter or Atichart's ex-actor hero... yawn.

When shall the thai lakorns give up on being crime themed? Every time they do that their quality goes LOWER not higher. Overall even 13 episodes felt like too many. I started skipping since early episodes (I lost my overall interest before I reached half of this lakorn) and almost dropped it entirely, in the end I just fastforwarded through the rest to quickly move on the still unwatched 'Mon Jun Tra'... Can't be worse than this.

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I was obviously curious to see this one because of Chakrit. And he is in this lakorn with one of his real life wives! So I wanted to see how much chemistry he would have with HER (Woonsen Virithipa). Unluckilly, he's not paired here with her but with Matt Peeranee, more than decade younger kid than him, so at first I was dissapointed with that, but seeing more of Woonsen (not just in this lakorn) I must admit that producers were right, as Woonsen is not a nang'ek material.

I found the lakorn long as I lost my interest in the story soon. The only fun was watching the lead guy believing that he's in love with his brother's wife (which she was not) who is pregnant (which she was not:) The rest was skippable: the usual load of side characters, two stupid evil nang'rai, etc... As for the second male, in the end I thought he might as well just married the girl his parents chosen for him.

So in the last 2-3 episodes, which are mainly about the aftermath when the truth is already revealed, I rooted for the main couple, couldn't care less for the second couple. Being called money-hungry fraud by the guy you fell in love with is devastating, so I felt for the nang'ek. He was always stern, she knew that, his character had a good introduction at the beginning of the lakorn (the way he treated his employees). On the other hand, her so called best-friend, who created the whole charade, didn't help much. But then it was really all weighing on whether the pra'ek loved enough to get over himself. Good. But the classic "action kidnapping" was not the ending I had in mind, LOL. Lakorn characters should be forbidden to use guns. That is, if we want the whole thing to not sink below average waters, at least:-p Therefore, rating this, I should ignore that part. To give still generous 5.0 (perfect average).

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SOTUS for a little while... BL all the way.

Okay, 1st watch, I was like really disappointed in the show mainly because of its title. I expected way more drama (more on that below) because after watching the first episode, my excitement was like 10 on a scale of 10 but then, after seeing the second, third episode... it dropped like to level 2. Now 3 years later, after watching all those 2Moons, GenYs, 2gethers, BadRomances, CutiePies, DarkBlueKisses, FishUponTheSkies, IAmYourKings, IToldSunsetAboutYous, KinnPorsches, LoveByChances, TharnTypes and Why R Us... AAND many other, semi-amateurish "series", I re-watched this. I think today, we all can agree this was actually quite watchable, LOL.

First episode really explored the SOTUS theme. It was thrilling despite the cast being questionable (while Singto rightfully gets your attention, Krist Perawat is not a great actor and - along with all the "seniors" - is kinda too sweetfaced for the role LOL, especially when he needs to yell the loud voice you can tell that it's a strain for him:) and after a looong time of boredom, I was excited to watch something. There was even trance music playing at the end of 1st epi (THAT never repeated;) But then, like I said, it dropped quite dramatically. When using the word "dramatically"... There I sadly touched the main problem. The series itself is actually NOT very dramatic. Which is what this show, this "drama", really needed to be.

When you watch the behind-the-scenes episode, one thing you can understand is that the reason for the leading couple's great chemistry is the actors were good friends already. The other is that whole crew was enjoying the shooting with much laughter in between the takes, and the scriptwriter kinda forgot to actually think of some DRAMA!! We then have some unrelated bits like someone doing laps in the rain, or someone running into the ocean but that's not enough. Perhaps the producers got scared of the controversional hazing theme (there is a written warning in the opening of each episode, a warning that, after a few episodes, is not even needed) because then we soon turn strictly into a boy love and SOTUS is NOT the story anymore.

Luck is the main couple here is this strong, because the story sure is weak. After this series, there was an explosion of more BL trying to be similar to this one, like '2 Moons' series, which subsequently did not bother to have ANY STORY AT ALL. After all, loving skinship is all the boy-love fans really want, right? Nope! I would loved to explore the SOTUS theme more here, there could be so much more drama around the two boys before they confessed one to another. But, you cannot dislike Kongpob for being early confesser:) I just love his character (though I like the other actor more) and I'm sure I am not alone. Though the main couple does not have strong story, at least they have cute story. The dynamics of them being superior/inferior, which is repeatedly clashed with the "inferior" boy being the one who does the "courtship" and often worries whether the "superior" boy is okay, is cute. As for the main theme, bottom line is despite all scary stories running in the "media" about juniors dying during hazing, it's shown in episode 8 that juniors could easily overthrown seniors, had they just laughed. In general. This particular case, all the 5 main hazing seniors LOOK gay. So it does help the BL aim of the drama surely. Not the SOTUS one...

By the way, there is even a sequel series, called SOTUS S (although there is NO HAZING in there, anymore) it explores the relationship, again. Not the SOTUS. Just so you know.

But the relationship is WORTH exploring. I'm not complaining about it, just the name of this series perhaps should be different. If this would be a full-blown SOTUS-related drama WITH the boy love incorporated to it, then it would become a legendary show. This way, it is just a BL. A good one, thanks to the main couple. But not a great one: I still hoped it to be a bit more tempestuous, might prefer the 1st kiss not to be this mellow... Like, in that bridge scene, where Arthit says things to Kongpob, also Kongpob could say a few things back. There might be a passionate hug instead of the kiss, which looks like Arthit wants to bite Kongpob because he got an order to lock lips with him at that point. Not to mention the timing when the kiss happened. They were both far from the SOTUS warzone already. In short, I'd prefer this BL with way more dramatical setting. But there I am repeating myself. In this series, Artit IS still a head hazer (and not sitting at desk-job like in the tedious sequel series) so I say one must enjoy it to the fullest, even if the story does not offer you much. As viewers do adore this couple and clearly can fantasize enough fanfiction on their own:) So in a way, doesn't really matter that the series did not fully deliver. 9 stars out of 10.

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I wish all thai lakorns remained in Thailand

Let's face it, it's the same with k-drama or j-drama, whenever they go to Europe or to America, I am suffering (like please, please, pleaaaase, don't try to speak english!:) Here, it's even worse. Kwan Usamanee is first attempting to sound as french (my ears hurt). THEN we have all the arabic setting. Neither Tui Thiraphat nor Nat Arnus Rapanich seem to understand that putting that thing on their head does NOT make them look like arabs. The whole romantic line did not work on me either, as I just don't find Kwan Usamanee as irresistibly beautiful as she would have to be for it to make the slightest sense. Even Stephan Santi got old and looks gross here:-( It dragged but I watched many other dramas in between so I managed to finish this somehow and now it's more or less blissfully forgotten.

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Strong story with weak cast

This was not an easy watch.

You cannot go with a story like this if it's not played well, and there were bits of it that were strong, even with this cast (Janie Tienphosuwan cannot measure up to Anne Thongprasom, though she DOES look slutty in that dress) but there were moments there when I kept thinking: when I'll see this with Ken Theeradeth, THEN it shall have the right impact on me! Because, the 2001 version is still on my watchlist. I'll definitely watch it, but coincidentally I watched this first. As some other review here states this story is not for the fainthearted, I can vouch that you don't need to worry that much: because it was Ken Phupoom Phongpanu, and not Ken Theeradeth, I managed to watch this rather unmoved. By the way, the existence of 2019 Raeng Ngao 2 is a mystery to me, it's completely unnecessary and unwatchable, I don't know who did get the bizarre idea to even make it. This 2012 version is not entirely bad, but this cast is not doing it for me. I'll need to see the 2001 version with Ken-Anne to really judge whether I appreciate this story or not...

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Isn't Athichart interesting? A chameleon pra'ek, able to change from physically appealing/repulsing. He was with Aff already in 'Namtan Mai', looking all georgeous. Then he was so hateful in 'Borisut Bumbut Kaen'. Sometimes I think all lakorns he's not clean-shaven should be recast as antagonist:D
Here, in this "island lakorn", sweating on-screen, he positively looks dirty and... smelly. It's like you can almost smell it from the screen, LOL

This lakorn was an average experience for me so I rate it such. Joy Rinlanee gets your attention way more than bland Aff, but did her character really get any punishment? I don't remember. Forgettable lakorn for me...

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The things I liked about this lakorn are exactly what other reviews here mention: less is more. Small, regular human problems touch my heart more than saving the world. So, when I began to watch the main heroine to set on path to just spend some time with her father (even without necessarily telling him she's his daughter) it was ENOUGH for me.

Unfortunatelly, Nadech annoyed the hell out of me! I would so prefer just a father-daughter story this time. The romance line was a surplus for me as I find the lead actor off-putting, but apart from my dislike of him I can't say anything bad, luckilly the romance line was not that prominent.

As I hate Tanya Tanyares, I skipped her scenes entirely. Who I appreciate is Au Tanakorn, perfect for the role of the father. The only problem is his concurrent pairing here with the pretty wooden doll Diana Flipo, visibly even younger than Mew Nittha playing his daughter. Though I'm not bigot to condemn an age-gap couples in general, it IS a disturbing element in here and if the producers wanted Au Tanakorn to do an age-gap romance (Au Tanakorn is still attractive and good enough actor, so why not), then perhaps they should save it for other than this particular lakorn.

All in al, as this was not a re-watch material, my rate is - as so often again - the perfect average.

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Another promising one that did not deliver

This one was actually a promising one.
I'm watching all the lakorns - as I'm a sucker for romance:) This had the great leading pair: the comedy-proficient Anne plus our Chakrit (pra'ek you love/hate:) Also good setting, she was a policewoman frisking him in the bathroom and not worried to get shot at.
I was prepared to enjoy this a lot no matter how silly it's gonna get, and at times it almost delivered, yet at the most crucial times it got only awkward. Bed/kiss/skinship scenes were a disaster. I accept Chakrit's acting skills can be questionable, but both him and Anne were veteran romance leads in their thirties. To have fake/stiff kiss scenes looking this awkward is either their shame or the director's. Apart from that, there were couple moments in the story that had great potential and all were left unfulfilled. Om Akkaphan Namart is there also as an unrequited whippersnapper (wow!:) and even that's laid off and he heads off to have a corny 'annoying-one-another-to-death' pursuit of some other girl.

Unfortunatelly, not a re-watch quality lakorn.

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This wasn't boring!

One of my early lakorns (as of 2023, I did watch more than 400 of them... many of them I dropped:) and looking back, I must say it was quite remarkable: because it was NOT boring!:)
I don't remember much detail of the story, or any of music, or the main guy - I had to look up it was Putt Putichai (not my type) but I remember this: I did laugh watching.
Vill Wannarot is in full bloom here (I didn't like her younger) but to be called 'Beauty' even if you are a beauty... Ugh. And that's only the start of it:D
The whole thing is madcap to the point you happily go with it (normally I hate ANY supernatural element in my lakorn) and just enjoy it. It's a bit over the top hearing the silly voiceovers of someone being a bird or watching the main guy lovingly snuggling in bed with an winged animal, but still I watched this to the end... Didn't particularly feel the need to watch again but I think I could survive it. Now after so many other lakorns watched, I still remember this did NOT bore me so kudos to that!:)

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Horrible yet Guilty Pleasure:)

This lakorn, english titled 'Bride For Money', was the 2nd lakorn I've ever watched:)

Though it can never measure up to the 1st one (which remains the number one not only due to watching order) I enjoyed this - guiltily, as it's absolute trash - mainly for the main guy (I liked him back then) and many real-kiss scenes (I then wished for even more of them, but later I watched hundreds of more lakorns and learned how raaare those were).

What I was astonished with - as this was my very early meeting with thai (popular) culture - was the number of violent fights (even among seemingly distinguished adults), the need to sit directly on the floor when you are subordinate, and the soundtrack. Which wasn't original soundtrack even, but some low quality excerpts from Bourne, I think (I don't know how the thai deal with copyrights) + 1 thai song. Over and over. I can't consider this "music" so I give lowest score. But let's not focus on that:D

Despite all its flaws and total trashiness the ROMANCE LINE was done well and had a good progress, climax and ending and the interactions between main couple were enjoyable from start to finish. There was enough chemistry and humour between the two I MUST rate this high: because it is what is most important in a lakorn. And I have learned later (after watching more than 400 of them), that sadly, even just this is not achieved by most of the other lakorns......

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