This is in my top ten favorite lakors. It's not for people new to the Lakorn genre. It's intense, emotional and…
Great idea that this tragedy makes both characters complete. But I could not disagree more about Narin's character. She is strong and firm before that. Even at first minutes she is so strong that is capable to defend older sister. Even more she is not naive and sees people true colors. Furthermore she predicts sisters behavior in just second episode. After rape and torture she became lifeless doormat and could not tell right from wrong. She is woman and you cannot blame her that she was not strong enough. She is so strong that she did not became mentally ill. That she behaves like annoying doormat because she is depressed and suicidal because of tragically experience I do not see anything wrong in that.
If in time after drama ends another dude will kidnap her again, torture and rape countless times, she will became doormat again for certain period of time. Torture does not make her stronger. It is like you are saying that surviving torture you will became so strong that another torture will do nothing to you. It is called torture because it changes you, if it does not change you it is not torture or you stopped being human. It is like repeated criminals no need to go into prison second time because it will do nothing to them.
Another thing she did not need revenge on anyone before that torture. Successful revenge in vacuum does not add anything to her character to make it complete.
Overall she did not gain anything from such experience just except unwanted baby. It is not "accidental baby" it is baby born from rape. Writers could make it accidental miscarriage or something.
Because most episodes are during torture and after maybe you forgot how she is depicted in first episodes. In other lakorns you could argue that female changes into better but in this one definitely not the case.
It is very good line in end of drama that Narin says: "When I close my eyes it's like nightmare that keeps haunting me over and over. Kawee's every deeds and every words I can't erase from the heart. I try to forget it, but I can't forget it."
After that line drama should end. Because what after that happens is simply impossible.
It was most reasonable written slap/kiss lakorn until that line. All characters were deep and behave in their frame through drama. It is amazing accomplishment comparing to other thai dramas. If you delete last 15 minutes I could say it is the best one and highest quality even comparing to dramas ten years later. Exceptional writing
In last episodes everything what Kawee does he is trying to prove his love. None of his actions shows how he will make her forget the horrible things he has done. Love does not make automatically forget horror. So writers created impossible situation and they could not resolve.
To avoid that writers in other slap/kiss dramas use several methods. In some they depict that couple was in love before these horrible things. In others they show that these horrible things prevented women from more horrible things - death (hero saves life from other evil dudes), web of lies (when relatives are lying to lead character and abusing her). In another dramas lead woman character lives disastrous lives (have greed, looks down on others with money, or just has no one to love and is orphan or etc.). That way they kinda justify these actions because in the end that torture makes heroines lives better.
Here is none of that scenario - before horrible things Narin lives really beautiful and almost perfect life - has loving and caring family and friends, has stable job and caring colleagues, none of family members puts her in financial risk, she is strong, joyful and have very bright future. Even more she is not eager for rich husband or big family. He literally destroys her life. He makes her depressed, paranoid and almost mentally ill. Anne portrays really good both sides, how she was before and after. As viewer you can see how her joyfulness, vitality and will power were taken away after horrible things. She does not smile, laugh or even just relax.
Here writers cannot explain how she suddenly/miraculously laugh again and drinks champagne. It would be great if writers showed how she is cured from depression because here ending seems impossible.
Guide to enjoy this drama - in the first half skip all scenes in Bankok about San, delete fact that So was raped (like it never happened in this drama), because it was not necessary for this drama, just included to be aired in national network for Thai cultural reasons. I guess if there is no rape nobody watches locally so therefore it is must have. So here is enough reason for hate without rape.
If you do that this becomes one of best written slap/kiss drama I've ever seen, because it has very good dialogues and great time between leads, and decent second half. Because usually second half (after rape) in slap/kiss dramas are usually unbearable to watch because they made it so illogically. Here everything is decent and not far from reason.
Most importantly there is no unreasonable jealousy there guy calls lead woman slut everytime she is near the man. Harit did call her bad words but felt it was not too much or out of context. Also crazy jealous girl was right in context here, it was not overboard. Usually this jealous girl is introduced after torture but here she was right in the middle. I liked it very much.
There is thriller scenes, but not too much. I liked this detail too.
There are no super complex lie schemes from evil sister.
Here I liked chemistry in first half because it feels that they are really strangers, makes whole atmosphere of kidnapping very realistically. In second half guy lacks emotions/actions, it is so unbelievable that girl fell in love with him, they could add a little bit more scenes of him wooing her. It is the first drama I could say guy feels sorry for that he did. So it is really worth it to wait for this moment because for me it was most anticipated moment after reading synopsis and it did not disappoint me.
Ending here is great because it feels that evil sister got her karma. And they did not made second guy stupid.
As I do not like slap/kiss and skip/ignore all rape scenes this drama for me is the best slap/kiss I've ever seen. Here characters grow and they are not sacrificed just to extend episodes, though i skipped second to last episode.
From very good drama to some BS. Totally did not understand Charles character. What his plan was by raping, abusing his love and flirting with her sister? Why did he chose that path? Most understandable lakorn way, if you want to revenge is to make her legal wife, make fall in love with you and after do some bad stuff. Or kidnap her and bring to island again. Why did he had to include her sister, but in first episode was that islanders way just to love only one. Including sister lost all romance aspects and do not sound of person wanting revenge. These series of actions were totally out of character, that was built up to that. Like the writer chose this path just to make more episodes. I totally lost in these episodes.
They made so many plot holes in just few episodes with no return. They close everything miraculously by turning sisters character, but non issues that were created were solved - they must forgive sister because of karma law in lakorns, but every viewer will feel angry for this ending, because she never lost anything, but only gained more money and more love.
That crap about marrying her sister can make it in two episodes, but they did in 10. Second half of lakorn have no content except jealous sister with repeated issues. Writers for second half were very sloppy.
They could remake this series using totally different second half with more believable story, because here to make it logical they scarified Charles character. It would understandable if it was secondary character.
The only good part is Nadech&Yaya chemistry, one of the best ever seen.
Slap/kiss here is crap - revenge plan was shitty, torturing/abusing part not only out of character but also non consistent (he wants to do bad things, then he doesn't and so on till viewer lost tract, even he does not control anything, because he is constantly manipulated), repent part from side characters urged to skip . Only good part were emotions of hatred and repent part of leads (kinda too short), just because they good actors, but not because of writing.
I expected he will feel sorry and guilty for kidnapping and torturing wrong person. The most funny thing - he did not and even felt angrier towards Pat, and he was proud, teased and verbally abused her even more because she could not report him to police. Totally different way from expectations after reading summary. Feels like there is no continuity for his character, very fake.
After that I dropped. I could not stand that this drama was built up quite unique way, but in second it lost all uniqueness in the most unreasonable way and became cheap slap/kiss drama. Here are no continuity in character emotions and feels that plot has too many holes. Dissapointing.
Feels here plot will be the same like in every drama after few episodes: hero tries to find fault in heorine and being jealous of every guy around her, she is being doormat, thinking that she is saint, tries to bicker with hero, eventually he rapes her, after that he tries to be good to her, but they breakup in the second to last episode, and in the last episode she forgives him, because everyone around pushes her to him, and miraculously all one sided evil characters dramatically change into good ones.
One of the best comedies. Total gem. At first episodes it is hard to identify who are lead pair, the first lakorn I saw there it is not easy to predict outcome of each episode. Script is amazing, for me the best one I saw. Chemistry is very great. But as usual in lakorns last 4 episodes are disappointing and boring.
Noi had weak health but she was not doormat in personality like other commentators suggest. Good drama about that period of time, culture of thai. Though did not feel any chemistry between leads.
Here most evil is mother of twins. She constantly abuses by favoring one of them, never loving them. Father is…
Watched rest and regret it. Worst revenge ever by woman. She just wore sexy dresses, seduced bad guy to make wife jealous until got raped by another jealous guy. Her revenge brought bad guy family together, bad guy became good guy and fell in love with his wife again. In the end Nin must marry her rapist as always. No one were sad minutes before her sisters funeral, like she was already forgotten.
I cannot believe such baseless and unreasonable script is based on old story.
The only good point Janie was here really pretty and seducing. Much better chemistry with bad guy. But cheating husband does not bring any romance. As expected this is depressing drama with repetitive script. But you expect at least some reactions then everyone realizes that Tha is dead and it was her twin sister whole time - but none of that happened. It is just regular rape drama with just few episodes different, because uniqueness of having twins is lost.
The most vomiting scene is then jealous lead after raping Nin realizes that she was his first therefore he is very happy. They even added to that and made a joke. As his friend asks "how did you realized that these are two different women?" and after he answered that he raped, his friend with smile asked more details about the rape and how it was pleasing for the guy. I am not lying, watch the series. Yeah it should be funny for viewer. This drama has worst rape aftermath ever.
Here most evil is mother of twins. She constantly abuses by favoring one of them, never loving them. Father is just too passive in family matters. Playboy husband and possessive wife did that they had to do. Nobody can protect girl from stupidity. She suicides because her family abuses her and she has no support in duress, not because guilt of affair or heartbroke. Even she starts affair just to escape from family. Here her sisters's revenge is unreasonable.
Moreover Nin cannot achieve anything by revenge. Husband and wife family already broken, husband constantly gets more in financial trouble. Their life seems worthless even at the beginning of drama. The only thing she can do is to make him lose the job and shame in the media. Seems it is just matter of time and does not depend whether Nin will take revenge or not. Most harm playboy husband and possessive wife would get only if she does not take revenge, but just revealing publicly her sisters suicide, hire reporters and openly investigate circumstances.
From first 2 episodes feels like very depressing drama, no happiness for every character in this drama. I am very doubting to continue this lakorn, because basis of the story is unreasonable.
Script and special effects are beyond terrible. 10 year old could write better drama. The only good thing both pairs had some chemistry. I liked how Sammy was into role of tough bodyguard in first episodes, but in last episodes was total nonsense. One of the best female fighter character I have ever seen as it was portrayed in first episodes.
Really great comedy, chemistry between leads amazing, one of best ever seen. But last episode is extremely disappointing. I felt so angry because such great comedy was literally destroyed by last episode. Worst ever ending for great drama. Maybe they hired inexperienced writer only for last episode.
Bad drama, cheating husband, his atrocious behavior. Everything changes just because lead girl found real biological parents, but not because bad husband understood how bad his behavior was. Here cheating is acceptable if girl is poor without background. One of the worst dramas ever.
Could not finish episode 2. Totally lost what about this drama is, and dialogues seems very unreasonable.
Why did mother married at all? After marriage she cannot buy out palace/debts neither protect her daughter. Mother says to daughter that she married because of benefits, but she gets nothing. Moreover mother's new family do more harm to daughter than help her, because stepson wants to make daughter additional lover and there are many inside politics.
Rarp is total jerk, does not care about his lost baby at all. Has another son. Just wants to get princess as a prize and abuses her verbally from the first second. Seems like he abuses every woman he met and looks down on them. Zero good side of him.
After car accident Ai simply wants hateful people get out her life and do not want their help, but everyone calls her arrogant/prideful. These same people in the back plot how to control her life. She just wants to protect herself. What it has to do with pride? Why writers should make simple problem into so complex? Absolutely lost in that scene, and it is not the problem of translations.
Seems this series will be about stupid mom who made her daughter marry jerk and daughter in the end fell in love with that jerk only because she was surrounded with more bad people. He will save her life several times and she will forgive him that he abused/molested her. If mother would be a little bit smarter, daughter would not be forced into this path and lead happy life...
Series premise is about pride, but actually should be "remake gone wrong because of bad writing"
I would like to disagree with your opinion. I think ending is written really well. Best endings are then it connects to the beginning and here connected really well because he crashed her "brother's" wedding, and she in the beginning crashed his sister's wedding. Another thing this is comedy. Usually lakorn writers forget that and end comedies with drama or romance or even thriller - this is very bad trend. Here everything is done correctly by the book - ended with comedic scenes and jokes. I cannot imagine better writing to end this.
As for forgiveness and gender equality I agree, that she could in earlier episodes relay some message that she is sorry. I think this is minor fix, not major as you described. Because as viewer we know that she was forced by his mother, she intended to quit these side jobs and tried to quit this one several times. Also as she talks with friend she knows that sincerely she loves him. This is not the case then girl is in revenge mode because of some misunderstanding, and then that misunderstanding is cleared she should beg for forgiveness for thing she done intentionally. Here she did not do any actual wrong things - no her actions were towards harming farm and no person physically was damaged or tortured. She only lied that she does not love him.
As for scene there they bump unexpectedly it was needed to make breakup believable. Every lakorn has this model - lead pair get together, instantly breakup and then reconcile in last episode. This scene was good because it helps viewer to feel pain and angry for the breakup. And it seems you felt angry as it was intended.
Overall this series was written and produced really well. What it was lacking - content and creativity in second half - scenes at the farm became draggy not funny anymore. At least they brought some unexpectedness in the end with Rut wedding and plane crash. If this team of cast, writers and producers would have better budget this would be one of the best ever lakorn, and I think they did really amazing job within given budget.
Great light comedy, no nonsense. So many lovable secondary characters. Main lead girl is strong. Ending produced very good with comedic aspects, compared to other lakorns it was really great
Popular but good story. Seen chinese or korean version (dont remember). In this version sadly there are no likeable characters. Male lead - always angry, arrogant but loser, mama boy, his brother - immature like 10 year old, female lead - easy woman, who can not say no to men, but still tries to maintain pride. Most of the bad things happened because she was afraid to lose the face, which is beyond stupidity. The only good characters are best friend Chom and lead's son.
Sa never had happy day in whole series. Every character did or tried harm her, except little boy and Pitt assistant. Never saw series there lead girl would be treated in such bad way till the last second. At the end felt disappointment, because after that she gone through you expect happy ending longer than 15 seconds. Or they could at least treat her like normal human being a little bit longer. Feels like in the end she ends up with love, money, everything is corrected, but she is sick with depression, not really happy.
Emotionally this drama is waste of time, because you cannot feel sadness for Sa, because in first episodes she is shown flirting with old dude ("I would like to visit your farm..", laughing from his not funny jokes, talks openly about emotions, etc.) and she does not even realize that she is flirting. She is portrayed as stupid and really bad persona for male lead. And what later things are happening she is kinda responsible and where are no misunderstandings, because she chose that way.
Overall thriller, story, acting is good, most of the time writing is also appropriate. Just they could made Sa character more likeable at first episodes.
If in time after drama ends another dude will kidnap her again, torture and rape countless times, she will became doormat again for certain period of time. Torture does not make her stronger. It is like you are saying that surviving torture you will became so strong that another torture will do nothing to you. It is called torture because it changes you, if it does not change you it is not torture or you stopped being human. It is like repeated criminals no need to go into prison second time because it will do nothing to them.
Another thing she did not need revenge on anyone before that torture. Successful revenge in vacuum does not add anything to her character to make it complete.
Overall she did not gain anything from such experience just except unwanted baby. It is not "accidental baby" it is baby born from rape. Writers could make it accidental miscarriage or something.
Because most episodes are during torture and after maybe you forgot how she is depicted in first episodes. In other lakorns you could argue that female changes into better but in this one definitely not the case.
After that line drama should end. Because what after that happens is simply impossible.
It was most reasonable written slap/kiss lakorn until that line. All characters were deep and behave in their frame through drama. It is amazing accomplishment comparing to other thai dramas. If you delete last 15 minutes I could say it is the best one and highest quality even comparing to dramas ten years later. Exceptional writing
In last episodes everything what Kawee does he is trying to prove his love. None of his actions shows how he will make her forget the horrible things he has done. Love does not make automatically forget horror. So writers created impossible situation and they could not resolve.
To avoid that writers in other slap/kiss dramas use several methods. In some they depict that couple was in love before these horrible things. In others they show that these horrible things prevented women from more horrible things - death (hero saves life from other evil dudes), web of lies (when relatives are lying to lead character and abusing her). In another dramas lead woman character lives disastrous lives (have greed, looks down on others with money, or just has no one to love and is orphan or etc.). That way they kinda justify these actions because in the end that torture makes heroines lives better.
Here is none of that scenario - before horrible things Narin lives really beautiful and almost perfect life - has loving and caring family and friends, has stable job and caring colleagues, none of family members puts her in financial risk, she is strong, joyful and have very bright future. Even more she is not eager for rich husband or big family. He literally destroys her life. He makes her depressed, paranoid and almost mentally ill. Anne portrays really good both sides, how she was before and after. As viewer you can see how her joyfulness, vitality and will power were taken away after horrible things. She does not smile, laugh or even just relax.
Here writers cannot explain how she suddenly/miraculously laugh again and drinks champagne. It would be great if writers showed how she is cured from depression because here ending seems impossible.
If you do that this becomes one of best written slap/kiss drama I've ever seen, because it has very good dialogues and great time between leads, and decent second half. Because usually second half (after rape) in slap/kiss dramas are usually unbearable to watch because they made it so illogically. Here everything is decent and not far from reason.
Most importantly there is no unreasonable jealousy there guy calls lead woman slut everytime she is near the man. Harit did call her bad words but felt it was not too much or out of context. Also crazy jealous girl was right in context here, it was not overboard. Usually this jealous girl is introduced after torture but here she was right in the middle. I liked it very much.
There is thriller scenes, but not too much. I liked this detail too.
There are no super complex lie schemes from evil sister.
Here I liked chemistry in first half because it feels that they are really strangers, makes whole atmosphere of kidnapping very realistically. In second half guy lacks emotions/actions, it is so unbelievable that girl fell in love with him, they could add a little bit more scenes of him wooing her. It is the first drama I could say guy feels sorry for that he did. So it is really worth it to wait for this moment because for me it was most anticipated moment after reading synopsis and it did not disappoint me.
Ending here is great because it feels that evil sister got her karma. And they did not made second guy stupid.
As I do not like slap/kiss and skip/ignore all rape scenes this drama for me is the best slap/kiss I've ever seen. Here characters grow and they are not sacrificed just to extend episodes, though i skipped second to last episode.
They made so many plot holes in just few episodes with no return. They close everything miraculously by turning sisters character, but non issues that were created were solved - they must forgive sister because of karma law in lakorns, but every viewer will feel angry for this ending, because she never lost anything, but only gained more money and more love.
That crap about marrying her sister can make it in two episodes, but they did in 10. Second half of lakorn have no content except jealous sister with repeated issues. Writers for second half were very sloppy.
They could remake this series using totally different second half with more believable story, because here to make it logical they scarified Charles character. It would understandable if it was secondary character.
The only good part is Nadech&Yaya chemistry, one of the best ever seen.
Slap/kiss here is crap - revenge plan was shitty, torturing/abusing part not only out of character but also non consistent (he wants to do bad things, then he doesn't and so on till viewer lost tract, even he does not control anything, because he is constantly manipulated), repent part from side characters urged to skip . Only good part were emotions of hatred and repent part of leads (kinda too short), just because they good actors, but not because of writing.
After that I dropped. I could not stand that this drama was built up quite unique way, but in second it lost all uniqueness in the most unreasonable way and became cheap slap/kiss drama. Here are no continuity in character emotions and feels that plot has too many holes. Dissapointing.
Feels here plot will be the same like in every drama after few episodes: hero tries to find fault in heorine and being jealous of every guy around her, she is being doormat, thinking that she is saint, tries to bicker with hero, eventually he rapes her, after that he tries to be good to her, but they breakup in the second to last episode, and in the last episode she forgives him, because everyone around pushes her to him, and miraculously all one sided evil characters dramatically change into good ones.
I cannot believe such baseless and unreasonable script is based on old story.
The only good point Janie was here really pretty and seducing. Much better chemistry with bad guy. But cheating husband does not bring any romance. As expected this is depressing drama with repetitive script. But you expect at least some reactions then everyone realizes that Tha is dead and it was her twin sister whole time - but none of that happened. It is just regular rape drama with just few episodes different, because uniqueness of having twins is lost.
The most vomiting scene is then jealous lead after raping Nin realizes that she was his first therefore he is very happy. They even added to that and made a joke. As his friend asks "how did you realized that these are two different women?" and after he answered that he raped, his friend with smile asked more details about the rape and how it was pleasing for the guy. I am not lying, watch the series. Yeah it should be funny for viewer. This drama has worst rape aftermath ever.
Moreover Nin cannot achieve anything by revenge. Husband and wife family already broken, husband constantly gets more in financial trouble. Their life seems worthless even at the beginning of drama. The only thing she can do is to make him lose the job and shame in the media. Seems it is just matter of time and does not depend whether Nin will take revenge or not. Most harm playboy husband and possessive wife would get only if she does not take revenge, but just revealing publicly her sisters suicide, hire reporters and openly investigate circumstances.
From first 2 episodes feels like very depressing drama, no happiness for every character in this drama. I am very doubting to continue this lakorn, because basis of the story is unreasonable.
Why did mother married at all? After marriage she cannot buy out palace/debts neither protect her daughter. Mother says to daughter that she married because of benefits, but she gets nothing. Moreover mother's new family do more harm to daughter than help her, because stepson wants to make daughter additional lover and there are many inside politics.
Rarp is total jerk, does not care about his lost baby at all. Has another son. Just wants to get princess as a prize and abuses her verbally from the first second. Seems like he abuses every woman he met and looks down on them. Zero good side of him.
After car accident Ai simply wants hateful people get out her life and do not want their help, but everyone calls her arrogant/prideful. These same people in the back plot how to control her life. She just wants to protect herself. What it has to do with pride? Why writers should make simple problem into so complex? Absolutely lost in that scene, and it is not the problem of translations.
Seems this series will be about stupid mom who made her daughter marry jerk and daughter in the end fell in love with that jerk only because she was surrounded with more bad people. He will save her life several times and she will forgive him that he abused/molested her. If mother would be a little bit smarter, daughter would not be forced into this path and lead happy life...
Series premise is about pride, but actually should be "remake gone wrong because of bad writing"
As for forgiveness and gender equality I agree, that she could in earlier episodes relay some message that she is sorry. I think this is minor fix, not major as you described. Because as viewer we know that she was forced by his mother, she intended to quit these side jobs and tried to quit this one several times. Also as she talks with friend she knows that sincerely she loves him. This is not the case then girl is in revenge mode because of some misunderstanding, and then that misunderstanding is cleared she should beg for forgiveness for thing she done intentionally. Here she did not do any actual wrong things - no her actions were towards harming farm and no person physically was damaged or tortured. She only lied that she does not love him.
As for scene there they bump unexpectedly it was needed to make breakup believable. Every lakorn has this model - lead pair get together, instantly breakup and then reconcile in last episode. This scene was good because it helps viewer to feel pain and angry for the breakup. And it seems you felt angry as it was intended.
Overall this series was written and produced really well. What it was lacking - content and creativity in second half - scenes at the farm became draggy not funny anymore. At least they brought some unexpectedness in the end with Rut wedding and plane crash. If this team of cast, writers and producers would have better budget this would be one of the best ever lakorn, and I think they did really amazing job within given budget.
Sa never had happy day in whole series. Every character did or tried harm her, except little boy and Pitt assistant. Never saw series there lead girl would be treated in such bad way till the last second. At the end felt disappointment, because after that she gone through you expect happy ending longer than 15 seconds. Or they could at least treat her like normal human being a little bit longer. Feels like in the end she ends up with love, money, everything is corrected, but she is sick with depression, not really happy.
Emotionally this drama is waste of time, because you cannot feel sadness for Sa, because in first episodes she is shown flirting with old dude ("I would like to visit your farm..", laughing from his not funny jokes, talks openly about emotions, etc.) and she does not even realize that she is flirting. She is portrayed as stupid and really bad persona for male lead. And what later things are happening she is kinda responsible and where are no misunderstandings, because she chose that way.
Overall thriller, story, acting is good, most of the time writing is also appropriate. Just they could made Sa character more likeable at first episodes.