If only there really was a legal system where the whole nation could judge in a trial. Imagine if a big cartoon hammer could clonk a terrible politician on the head, if the whole nation voted they were a buffoon. I'd pay more taxes if I could get that.
Keeping the intensity of the original version, while also updating for modern sensibilities is a big challenge for lakorn writers. Wimarn Sai will not be an exception. So far, several remakes of classic lakorns have been disappointments for me. Writers will probably change the rape in the original version to coercion or consent, but then they'll have to amp the intensity elsewhere. I haven't seen Esther do melodrama or intensity yet (romantic comedy seems to be more her thing), but we'll see.
My goodness, the episodes are short. All the episodes together add up to a movie's length, only with more bother because you have to load the next episode.
I may give season 2 a shot, if I finish season 1. (I bailed on show with 4 episodes to go.) The issue I have with it is that I strongly disliked all the characters, and couldn't work up the energy to care about what happened to any of them. It's just a bunch of weak people who do hurtful things to others for fairly dull reasons.
My absolute favorite example of FL losing agency is "Secret Garden", where FL rides a bicycle to chase down eleventeen purse snatchers who are escaping in a van, catches them, and single handedly beats the crap out of them. Two episodes later, the soft and weak ML snags the FL in a wrist grab, which the FL can't break out of. Suuuuuuper nonsense.
The leads' chemistry is really, really good. It's natural and unforced, and they sell the trust and affection these characters have between them wonderfully. The best chemistry in the show is between the FL and her little brother. He's hilarious. Off screen, I think he must truly love the FL.
This show is also the extremely familiar trope of genius ML and stupid FL. Even when the drama is as charming as this one, these characterizations are pretty tiresome.
This is typical light and fluffy romantic youth drama, but quite good.
"The Heirs" is the drama where I learned I stan Kim Woo Bin.
It's also the drama where I nailed down my dislike of Lee Min Ho, even if he's lost the bad perm from "Boys Over Flowers". Park Shin Hye, also dislike. All of her early dramas where her on screen kissing style is fish-eyed plank are bad.
If you write "Frustrating Dramas, pt. 2" I'm here for it.
I've probably watched Secret 8 times. More, most likely. (I hope not, though.) Secret is the drama I watch when I have a particular--I don't know, craving? mood.
I liked this show a lot. I had no idea people were waiting for it, or looking forward to it for whatever reasons. I just happened on it because someone recommended it.
All the leads were charming, although the FL was characterized as too immature, considering her character's age, as well as the character's being a successful, famous singer. (This is not an industry where innocence survives for long, and that's true globally.) The ML's character is at least 4 years younger than she, but he still gets to be the one who is mature. That was sort of laughable. (That's a Cdrama for you. Why China's female audience keeps putting up with these ridiculously sexist tropes, I have no idea.)
The 2FL is miserable and sad for 42 of the show's 31 episodes, apparently because her college boyfriend was a jerk. The entire story line was an unnecessary drag on the drama, and still would have been even if we got an explanation for why she's so sad and miserable, which we didn't.
The 3ML is stops about a centimeter short of being utterly creepy in his unrequited love for the FL. He doesn't bring anything to the story, either.
The gaming scenes were really good, but I wish they'd shown what the characters looked like from the game's point of view--at least once.
The romance between the FL and ML is lovely, though.
Steamy first episode. (Not tear the door of its hinges and then chew the nails steamy, but . . . ) On the other hand, there's a lot of slapping, slippery and vague alliances, shadowy bad guys and except for everyone really, really hating each other, no discernible plot yet. Typical Lakorn nonsense, but fun so far.
But the FL is such a drippy, whispery, dour character. What a sad rabbit of a FL.
This show is also the extremely familiar trope of genius ML and stupid FL. Even when the drama is as charming as this one, these characterizations are pretty tiresome.
This is typical light and fluffy romantic youth drama, but quite good.
It's also the drama where I nailed down my dislike of Lee Min Ho, even if he's lost the bad perm from "Boys Over Flowers". Park Shin Hye, also dislike. All of her early dramas where her on screen kissing style is fish-eyed plank are bad.
If you write "Frustrating Dramas, pt. 2" I'm here for it.
All the leads were charming, although the FL was characterized as too immature, considering her character's age, as well as the character's being a successful, famous singer. (This is not an industry where innocence survives for long, and that's true globally.) The ML's character is at least 4 years younger than she, but he still gets to be the one who is mature. That was sort of laughable. (That's a Cdrama for you. Why China's female audience keeps putting up with these ridiculously sexist tropes, I have no idea.)
The 2FL is miserable and sad for 42 of the show's 31 episodes, apparently because her college boyfriend was a jerk. The entire story line was an unnecessary drag on the drama, and still would have been even if we got an explanation for why she's so sad and miserable, which we didn't.
The 3ML is stops about a centimeter short of being utterly creepy in his unrequited love for the FL. He doesn't bring anything to the story, either.
The gaming scenes were really good, but I wish they'd shown what the characters looked like from the game's point of view--at least once.
The romance between the FL and ML is lovely, though.