Redwillow

I ended this show feeling so disconcerted. The storyline was typical. Nothing special there. I'm fine with that. What was most disconcerting was the casting choice. How do you have a show were the entire cast is better than the two leads? The actor playing Fah could not get his acting off the two dimensional page. To say he was as stiff as cardboard would be saying the least. Jumping over to Teerak - while the actor playing that character was better than cardboard, the issue that truly tripped me up was how they wrote this character so "innocent" that he seemed more like a ten year old ... Until the NC scenes. I NEVER fast forward NC scenes but I had to skip forward on these. Not because it was done badly, but because I couldn't make the leap from childlike Teerak to grown man having sex Teerak. They just didn't mature this character enough, imo, to make those sense flow well into the story.
Additionally, the couples were disconcerting. First off, EVERYBODY's relationship seemed equally yoked in terms of maturity level. Nobody else, outside the MLs, seemed to act like children. But what struck me the most was how, almost, inverted the coupled were. Lee and Ghlai (3rd couple) got the least amount of screen time and yet we're arguably the most intriguing and adorable couple. I must also make a note here, that the actor playing Lee was soooo good. Such screen presence and natural. He really outshone most of the cast. I'd love to see him as a ML in a well funded, good production. Anyway, couple #2 - Real and Hia - had great sexual chemistry and I really enjoyed their storyline. I could have watched an entire series with them. The actors, most importantly, felt natural. Just a far cry from the disjointed acting and sexual chemistry if the main couple.
I felt the series is a solid 7 because of the side characters. Left up to just the mains, I would have given it a 5 probably.