I want to watch this series because of Bright, is his screentime enough or is it not worth watching?
A bit late: if you only want to watch for Bright you may be disappointed - he has some screen time....more in the later episodes....but it is not that much.
This was on the Thai watch challenge list category actors and as I had to complete 5 lakorns / movies with Push I could not drop it...but my oh my did I want to drop it! This lakorn is full of cheating and emotional blackmail from start to finish - so not my cup of tea if the leads end up together and the woman (not really, she still is a girl) is a total "pushover doormat crazy in love" type of FL. You see, I can enjoy messed up lakorns, I can enjoy watching antiheroes and I do not mind cheating, attempted rape, emotional blackmail and abuse, as long as those traumatic scenarios push the FL to character development, away from the abuser AND as long, as those scenarios are appropriate for the age group. This lakorn is clearly made for the younger audience, who is still influenceable - so how can those manipulative tactics be touted as love? How can they normalize everyone pushing the FL towards the guy, who cheated on her (repeatedly), who tried to rape her and who used abuse and emotional blackmail to keep her by his side? Well.....
A really good watch! After having watched countless lakorns and having completed three Thai watch challenges I learned to appreciate if the SFL (normally the psycho) gets retribution in the form of going to jail - I have only seen two. Normally they are just forgiven when they apologize and kneel down. Is it the same here? Yes and no. I will get back to that further down. This lakorn is a perfect example of a mentally deranged person and her enablers. The SFL has serious mental health issues but instead of helping her, the people around her enable her and push her further into her derangement again and again. The so called uncle (SML, husband of FL) takes her to warm his bed, the FL just divorces and leaves, her mother protects her over and over again. This leads the SFL to attempt murder on various people without being stopped once. Even when she pushed the FL mother down the stairs the FL did not report her to the police. Typical lakorn so far. What kept me going was the chemistry between the leads and their story, which was really sweet, funny and well done. Now back to the retribution. Some commented, that they did not understand why the SFL got a happy end. Did she really? Yes, she did not end up in jail (they almost never do, even after a real murder) but what she got was not a "happy end" IMO. She lost the person, who would have always been there for her (FL), she lost her reputation, she lost her career, she caused the death of her mother, she lost her baby, she is chained to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. Yes, she got the SML, the one, who she had wanted from the very beginning, the one, who she tried to kill for....what a catch.....she got a man, who cheated on his wife and refused to get a divorce, a man, who refused to marry her. A man, who follows his ZIPPER and gives his "heart" to willing women. She knows, that he was willing to cheat on his wife with her. She knows, that he was willing to marry her, because he felt sorry for her. She knows, that he will let the next willing maid warm his bed. She knows, that she is paralyzed from the waist down and that she has a man by her side, who will cheat on her and who will get tired of her. And worst of all, she knows, that the FL will be very happy with a man, who truely loves her! And the SML.....he got that woman, who slept with every available rich man, who got pregnant from another man (no way was the baby his but the father was this young boy) and who can offer him nothing in the form of benefits for his career - and myyyyy, how badly he wanted those benefits! Ahhh so satisfying to watch the last episode! I really recommend this. If you get past the first few episodes and the cheating you can relax and let karma take over.
Trigger warning: you should take the tags above seriously. There is a lot of on screen violence including: multiple rape, assault, beatings, imprisonment, chaining and so on. Watch some short clips on youtube and if you see the woman chained up black and blue and this triggers you, stay away. I like messed up dramas, I like good antiheroes so I thought, that I would like this - but no. This lakorn had no clear direction, no "endgame", the characters are very 2Dish. The only actor, who stood out was PPI.
So it may have to be a spoiler for me, but is the ML mean to the FL, and why do they break up, like as in divorce??…
Really late reply, but maybe others want to know that, too....they do not really break up. ML is interrupted when he first attempted to cheat on the FL - she just gets a bit irritated. Then she finds him in bed with her sister - but she forgets about that 5 seconds later, so again no break up. They do not get divorced.
I really, really, really do NOT like weak, wimpy, stupid men and this lakorn is full of them! Let´s start with FL father who is dumb enough to be set up by some woman and looses his family. Let´s go on to the reason for this "revenge" thing: Prasin. That guy was engaged, cheated on his pregnant fiancee and because his feelings were trashed by the mistress he jumped off a building and killed himself. Then the FL boyfriend who happened to find himself in bed with FL sister - eyeroll. And let´s not forget the ML, who had nothing better to do than to get into bed with FL sister, too. Well, at least that woman got into a lot of beds in this lakorn..... Now to the reason, why the ML married the FL: revenge. Why? Because his psycho sister was the finacee of that spineless wimp Prasin and she ordered her brother to hurt the FL (FL and Prasin were friends and instead of researching, WHO was her fiancees mistress she just assumed, that it was the FL). So the ML married the FL (you know, little sister ordered him, so he had to obey), fell in love with her but continued to think, that she was a bad woman (his words, not mine). So instead of locking his sister up in a mental hospital and really getting her the desperately needed treatment for her severe mental derangement, he enabled her to do more and more evil and prolonged her suffering. But the deranged sister of the ML and the ML are not the only ones, who repeatedly harm or try to harm the FL. There is also FL "sister", her fathers mistress, her ex boyfriend and so on. Typical lakorn. I wanted to drop this so badly, but I really wanted to see the FL grow a spine, slap the psycho, the sister, the mistress, her father, the ML, leave them all behind and start a new life somewhere far away from all those stupid people but well, I did not get what I wanted. Yes, the FL speaks up for herself....wow.....but remains an angel till the end, not loosing her temper even once - not even, when she catches her husband kissing her sister and later, when she catches them in bed....nope, THIS was NOT even worth mentioning, she just forgot....I assume her saintly brain could not hold a thought for more than 5 minutes. Argh. The acting was mediocre at best. The script was laughable. Waste of time.
After having watched countless lakorns and having completed three Thai watch challenges I learned to appreciate if the SFL (normally the psycho) gets retribution in the form of going to jail - I have only seen two. Normally they are just forgiven when they apologize and kneel down. Is it the same here? Yes and no. I will get back to that further down.
This lakorn is a perfect example of a mentally deranged person and her enablers. The SFL has serious mental health issues but instead of helping her, the people around her enable her and push her further into her derangement again and again. The so called uncle (SML, husband of FL) takes her to warm his bed, the FL just divorces and leaves, her mother protects her over and over again. This leads the SFL to attempt murder on various people without being stopped once. Even when she pushed the FL mother down the stairs the FL did not report her to the police. Typical lakorn so far.
What kept me going was the chemistry between the leads and their story, which was really sweet, funny and well done.
Now back to the retribution. Some commented, that they did not understand why the SFL got a happy end. Did she really? Yes, she did not end up in jail (they almost never do, even after a real murder) but what she got was not a "happy end" IMO. She lost the person, who would have always been there for her (FL), she lost her reputation, she lost her career, she caused the death of her mother, she lost her baby, she is chained to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. Yes, she got the SML, the one, who she had wanted from the very beginning, the one, who she tried to kill for....what a catch.....she got a man, who cheated on his wife and refused to get a divorce, a man, who refused to marry her. A man, who follows his ZIPPER and gives his "heart" to willing women. She knows, that he was willing to cheat on his wife with her. She knows, that he was willing to marry her, because he felt sorry for her. She knows, that he will let the next willing maid warm his bed. She knows, that she is paralyzed from the waist down and that she has a man by her side, who will cheat on her and who will get tired of her. And worst of all, she knows, that the FL will be very happy with a man, who truely loves her! And the SML.....he got that woman, who slept with every available rich man, who got pregnant from another man (no way was the baby his but the father was this young boy) and who can offer him nothing in the form of benefits for his career - and myyyyy, how badly he wanted those benefits! Ahhh so satisfying to watch the last episode! I really recommend this. If you get past the first few episodes and the cheating you can relax and let karma take over.
I like messed up dramas, I like good antiheroes so I thought, that I would like this - but no. This lakorn had no clear direction, no "endgame", the characters are very 2Dish. The only actor, who stood out was PPI.
Now to the reason, why the ML married the FL: revenge. Why? Because his psycho sister was the finacee of that spineless wimp Prasin and she ordered her brother to hurt the FL (FL and Prasin were friends and instead of researching, WHO was her fiancees mistress she just assumed, that it was the FL). So the ML married the FL (you know, little sister ordered him, so he had to obey), fell in love with her but continued to think, that she was a bad woman (his words, not mine). So instead of locking his sister up in a mental hospital and really getting her the desperately needed treatment for her severe mental derangement, he enabled her to do more and more evil and prolonged her suffering.
But the deranged sister of the ML and the ML are not the only ones, who repeatedly harm or try to harm the FL. There is also FL "sister", her fathers mistress, her ex boyfriend and so on. Typical lakorn. I wanted to drop this so badly, but I really wanted to see the FL grow a spine, slap the psycho, the sister, the mistress, her father, the ML, leave them all behind and start a new life somewhere far away from all those stupid people but well, I did not get what I wanted. Yes, the FL speaks up for herself....wow.....but remains an angel till the end, not loosing her temper even once - not even, when she catches her husband kissing her sister and later, when she catches them in bed....nope, THIS was NOT even worth mentioning, she just forgot....I assume her saintly brain could not hold a thought for more than 5 minutes. Argh. The acting was mediocre at best. The script was laughable. Waste of time.