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It’s been so long, so I barely remember the version with Kim and James Ma, but I do remember being very frustrated with the Anusaniya character there because though she was apparently smart, she made some questionable decisions and was just overall annoying, to the point that I didn’t understand why the male lead had fallen in love with her (though James Ma’s Wat had been pretty annoying too from what I recall). So, what I liked here was that Kwan’s version of Anusaniya was actually smart and wasn’t annoying at all. Even in the second half, though she was harsh at times, her actions were completely justified. She didn’t just let her emotions rule her to act recklessly (besides hanging out with Uncle Chaya again), and I appreciated that the writers didn’t undermine her intelligence by having her do dumb things for the sake of an ‘interesting’ plot.

They did a really good job on the romance here, and it’s one of the strongest things about the lakorn. I really liked Nus and Wat together in the beginning, and their romance had been very sweet. But once the secret is revealed, their relationship isn’t handled as well. Their relationship takes a turning point that needs to go from sweet to passionate, but we couldn’t get too much passion with those obvious fake kisses that ruined the scenes. Though I really liked Kwan here, sometimes I wish actresses with no kiss rules would avoid lakorns that require passionate scenes. It was so hard to take some of their scenes seriously in the second half because they kept angling their heads in such awkward, unconvincing directions. But I won’t blame it on her because I don’t think those scenes were particularly directed well. I’ve seen scenes that lack kisses have way more passion than the scenes here. A better director would have been able to showcase that. Overall, something just feels really lackluster about their relationship in the second half that really made me miss how their relationship had been handled in the first half.

Speaking of direction though, the action in the last episode was so poorly choreographed. It genuinely looked like a practice scene and everyone’s movements were stiff and unrealistic. Also, the heavy gradient filter when Nus and Wat reunited together was ridiculous and jarring and took away from their performances. But despite some of my complaints, this was pretty good and overall better than the previous version. Mai and Kwan were both really good in their roles here, and their characters’ relationship is the selling point.

Wait a minute. So, you're telling me it was a scandal for her to kiss her boyfriend on the CHEEK? She really lost her career because of something like that?

Hopefully, this becomes one of the projects one31 subs on their YouTube account.

Read that Mike will be playing twins, but I still don't know too much about the plot. I'm very excited to see Mike and Thisa pair up though.

I just started watching Bad Romeo, which is entertaining despite some annoying characters. Mario and Yaya have good chemistry. And I plan on watching Innocent Lies too. Hopefully, it's good because I didn't like So Wayree that much. It was really hard for me to get past the set-up of the plot.

I totally agree. I don't understand why this wasn't one of those lakorns where the nang rai was the lead, and it makes me think that the writer didn't even notice how much she centered the story on Meena. I'm pretty sure if James and Gina had known, they probably wouldn't have done this project. They had some cute scenes together, but I still felt like I was robbed of the romance that they marketed with the trailers. So many of their scenes had been cut, and that annoys me even more because I could have watched Ohm taking care of Jay after Meena's arrest, but instead, I had to watch turtles hatching. At that point, I knew for sure the writer and director didn't care about the romance at all, especially when Ohm saw Jay get cracked upside the head, and he went down to talk to Meena instead. Once Meena was in the authorities' hands, he should have been racing up that hill to make sure Jay was okay, but instead, he was comforting Meena.

I really like Gina a lot too, and she did a great job in this. Luckily, her next projects with Gulf and Pon look better than this. This was really the first lakorn I've ever seen go this far with giving a second lead too much screen time. Hopefully, they'll take feedback from this and not do it again.

I don’t even know where to start. Honestly, I could write a ten-page essay about everything wrong with this lakorn, but I’ll try not to ramble too long. This lakorn started off promising in the first few episodes because that was the only time it seemed to know who the leads actually were, but from there, it quickly spiraled into the Meena show. And the Meena show was awful and wasn’t fun to watch at all. Even worse, when we’re forced into the Meena show, we never escape it, even down to the very last episode. I’ve never seen a second female lead get as much screen time as Meena. But honestly, it makes sense, considering that the story revolves around her, which is just perplexing in itself, because why??? Why am I supposed to care about Meena? I’m still trying to figure out what made the writer so fixated on this plotline that she thought it was more interesting than the two leads. Every episode, Meena’s screen time increased until the point that Ohm only had 4-5 scenes in an episode that was an hour and thirty minutes long. How is that even possible? How is a lead character getting the same amount of screen time as the supporting cast?

Why did the writer think the viewers would be so interested in the ‘is Mink Meena storyline’ to the point that there were four episodes focused on that? Then we spend the next four episodes of Ohm being obsessed with rekindling his relationship with Meena, despite this being marketed as a romance between Ohm and Jay. Then we spend the next six episodes focusing on Meena’s schemes against Suchart while Ohm and Jay are pushed down to secondary characters in their own story. None of these episodes focus on the development of Ohm and Jay’s relationship. Instead, we have to watch episodes that are 70 percent Meena scenes, and the other 30 percent aren’t even Ohm and Jay scenes. They are scenes shared between Ohm, Jay, and other characters.

There are plenty of lakorns that utilize the second leads to add drama, and that’s perfectly fine. But this lakorn chooses to center its story around Meena, to the point that there are quite literally episodes where not a scene goes by without Meena being in it, and if she isn’t in it, the characters are talking about her. It’s like the writer completely lost the plot and decided to turn what should be a secondary plotline into the main one. I wish I were being dramatic, but this becomes even more apparent in the last few episodes where James is barely in it. Gina doesn’t have it as bad as him, but she barely has screen time either.

Ohm and Jay’s relationship wasn’t even properly developed, and at times, barely made sense. The clear story beats that usually happen in romantic stories to indicate changes and progress in a romantic relationship aren’t even there. They had very few scenes together, and in the latter half, many of them were cut short to showcase Meena’s jealousy instead. For a brief second, I almost thought we had finally managed to escape Meena Island when they went to the resort, but of course, we could never stray too far from our secondary character to let the leads develop their relationship.

Also, it was hard to tell how Ohm felt about Jay, and I blame that on the writing, directing, and editing. To be honest, I don’t even know why Ohm liked Jay. He never seemed to like her nearly as much as he loved Meena. It seemed like love on Jay’s part, but it definitely didn’t seem that way for Ohm. It just felt like, by default, he had to give up on Meena because she chose Suchart, so he decided to move on to Jay rather than him moving on because he loved Jay more. There were so many interesting ways to write about Ohm and Jay’s complex relationship, but, instead, the writer was hellbent on writing about a lackluster mystery that had been obvious from the beginning. We didn’t even have a scene of Ohm finding out that Mark wasn’t his son and that Meena had been cheating on him all along. Though we can assume in the two-month time jump that Jay told him, why wouldn’t you have a scene like that, considering that Ohm went to jail for three years over a lie? We spent so much time seeing Ohm connect with Mark, and we didn’t even get a scene of Ohm learning the truth.

By the way, who’s idea was it to hire a kid that looks five when a big part of the mystery is whether Mark is Ohm’s child or not? It just doesn’t make sense.

The only good thing about this was James and Gina. Whenever the lakorn decided to give us crumbs, they were actually good together, but unfortunately, their chemistry was wasted on this. The rest of the cast was good too. Unfortunately, these are the only good things I can say about this. The script needed at least twenty more revisions before going into production. They were lucky that James took on this role because if it weren’t for him, the ratings wouldn’t have remained as high as they did. Ultimately, this is a lakorn that pretends to be a romance when it’s really about a crazy nang rai.

Though I wasn’t a fan of Wan and didn’t empathize with her as much as other people did, I do think they took things too far with the gang rape scene that seemed like an unnecessary grotesque punishment.

I was surprised by how much I loved the setup of this. When we were first introduced to their characters entering the company along with their mottos, I was sucked in. I was even more engaged when Beam and Nick challenged each other on their first case. But it didn’t take long for the law storyline to be shifted into the background, and for the writers to mostly focus on the battle between Wan and Beam, which at times had been very entertaining, but I wished this had been about a group of young adults trying to best each other with interesting legal cases that test their friendship and romantic relationships, rather than it being about the typical emotionally troubled nang rai, who destroys everything in her path.

With that being said, though I think that some of the story choices were questionable and very risky, I had a good time with this. If the writer’s sole intention was to entertain, she did exactly that. I was extremely surprised when the wedding actually happened between Beam and Chatthong, and I was even more surprised when she was pregnant with his child. Honestly, I’m still baffled that the writer even did that. Most of the time, they won’t let a pairing that isn’t endgame get that far. For the shock factor, it works. But for the romance, it doesn’t quite hit its landing. Though we quickly learn that Nick is in love with Beam, there is not enough time of Beam being in love with Nick. Of course, we can assume that maybe there had been feelings there that Beam didn’t realize because it’s clear that her feelings for Chatthong weren’t strong, but still, we as an audience don’t get enough time seeing her in love with him. So, if you’re watching this for the romance between Beam and Nick and you like your romance pure, you’re definitely not going to be a fan of their ending.

Because I wasn’t invested in the relationship between Beam and Nick, it didn’t bother me that much. To me, it made more sense for her to be with Nick than it did with her being with Chattong or Wayu. Also, for me, the chemistry between Pat and Pon and Mo and Pon were the same and very average. Neither of the pairings’ chemistry really stood out to me.

Ultimately, this had a lot of potential but most of it is wasted. None of the romances are particularly good nor are the cases. Also, I wasn’t crazy about how everything was wrapped up. But I was entertained at times.

I agree that I’ve never seen a male lead have the female lead beat up, but that’s because their violence has always been different, but never less than. Their violence is usually them forcing the female leads onto remote islands and villages without their consent, sexually assaulting them (forced kisses, rape), being extremely physically aggressive with them (yanking them, dragging them, picking them up by force), forcing them to do labor for them (sometimes unpaid), and usually they work behind the scenes by messing with their families or their job opportunities to force proximity between them (tricking family members into debt, forcing them out of companies or in different positions). Even now with them toning down on extreme sexual violence like rape (only with main female leads), they still do everything else. Jae is nowhere near as bad as other leads who take revenge.

I’m not saying that Jae was right in taking Ohm’s job opportunities or having her guards beat him up (which by the way, the guards only did that after Ohm aggressively had Jae caged against the car, shaking her). She was totally wrong, and she shouldn’t be taking justice into her own hands, especially after Ohm paid the price and didn’t flee like what happens with most victims hit by cars. But her actions aren’t nonsensical or incoherent when there’s a reason behind everything that she does, even when she’s wrong. She wasn’t thinking about the possibility of seeing Ohm naked when all she cared about was that the man who killed her fiancé was wearing his items. Any person would be upset and disturbed. Her reasons for loving Pat might not seem strong, but I haven’t been given the impression yet that Jae is only hurt because things aren’t going according to her will and choice. This is the second person that she has loved or deeply cared for who has died because of a car accident. And though they were hiding things from each other, Jae doesn’t know that Pat was hiding something from her.

I’m pretty sure that Jae will realize that her actions were wrong, and since the writers brought up mental health in this, I do hope to see her get real help. I think because she witnessed her mother’s death with her own eyes, she’s been traumatized by it, and that’s why her sister and father are fine, but she isn’t.

Also, though there are scenes implying that Pat was hiding secrets from Jae, showcasing that their relationship wasn’t perfect, she doesn’t know that. All she knows is that the man that she loved died because of a drunk driver. I won’t disagree with Jae and Pat not seeming that in love because we haven’t seen their relationship in the way we’ve seen Ohm and Mink, who were together much longer. But for someone like Jae who struggles with receiving affection from her father, to meet Pat, who gave her attention and was willing to accept her despite her flaws, it’s no wonder that she fell in love with him and would be deeply gutted losing him. It seemed like Pat was her anchor, and this was her second time losing a loved one to a drunk driver. But still, I understand your criticism because I’ve had that problem in other shows before too. It’s hard to accept something just because it’s told to you when it hasn’t been shown in a way that’s believable. Hopefully, they'll display more flashbacks, showing why Jae was in love with Pat.

I wouldn’t say that the female lead is written terribly when her characterization is intended. She might not be likable, but she has been consistent since the very first scene. We see that when Jae’s upset, she lashes out and gets physically violent. Even her own father points out that she doesn’t have control of her emotions. So, though she is trying to win her father’s approval, it isn’t strange at all for her to drop all of her work to run after Ohm. She hates him, and someone as obsessive as her, who continuously visited Ohm during his sentencing to antagonize him, wouldn’t take him getting out of jail early lightly. We even see that her venom for drunk drivers started long ago with her mom, and she was deeply affected by it. For her who lost her mom, and then lost her fiancé, her anger is reasonable and justified (of course, not her physically assaulting people), especially since she saw Ohm driving intoxicated before.

As for Jae running hot and cold with Ohm, it was the circumstance. She never cuddled up to Ohm out of some romantic gesture. She had a nightmare about her fiancé and unknowingly cuddled up with Ohm in the middle of the night while she was asleep. Out of embarrassment and fear of getting caught, she pretended to be asleep. The same thing with the snake, and the same thing with the cliff. She has been consistent in her hatred towards Ohm and only fled with him because she had dangerous people attempting to kill her. Though Jae should be appreciative that Ohm helped her, she’s still angry about her fiancé, and someone like her isn’t going to forgive him easily.

It’s easy to be frustrated with Jae, but she doesn’t know what we know. We know the hardship that Ohm has faced. We know everything that he has lost, and that he didn’t kill Pat. But Jae doesn’t know. For her, she feels that Ohm is getting away unscathed, not even finishing his entire sentence when her fiancé died. Couple that up with the guilt she feels because she blames herself for Pat’s death, along with the reoccurring nightmares of her fiancé, and the depression and her volatile emotions, I think the writers have given her more justifiable reasons than I’ve ever seen with any male lead in a revenge lakorn before. She is deeply flawed, but that’s the point. Her issues (angry, obsessive, unforgiving, childish, vengeful, etc.) pile onto her hatred for Ohm’s involvement with Pat’s death, causing her to do what most normal individuals wouldn’t do, taking justice into their own hands.

You're right that this was probably closure for Tai to move on and completely rid himself of his hatred. And of course a part of the whole 'forgiveness no matter what' theme that happens in lakorns (which I hate by the way). But the story presents it as if Tai's father were innocent in this situation because he didn't know that Koong was in a relationship with his son, which would have been fine, except after witnessing his son attempt suicide, he continues to have a relationship with Koong. Any good father would have immediately ended the relationship, but Tai's father continues on his merry way.

I've never been a fan of the 'your parents treated you horribly, but you still must forgive them' trope.

I think this lakorn was at its best when we were with Tai instead of Trai. I literally cheered when Tai came back. I just liked the dynamic more between Tai and Pla versus Trai and Pla. Trai was kind of cute, but I liked Tai more because though he was angry, he was very soft on the inside, especially with Pla. His anger never lasted long with her. I also liked that when he got his memories back, he didn’t hesitate on reconciling with her. It just showed how much he wanted her and his family together, rather than being hellbent on revenge, though in this case, he probably would have been justified.

Even knowing what I know now about who really killed Tai’s father didn’t change my opinion of Tai’s actions. First, I don’t think Tai was wrong at all to suspect Koong, considering how conniving she was and her being there that night. Koong killing Tai’s father wasn’t a farfetched idea (though, to be honest, Pla’s friend killing the father and being there that exact night felt very farfetched). Second, considering the money Pla and Koong stole, they both should have faced jail time for that at least. I don’t really care if Pla never saw a cent of it. It was wrong. I hated the fact that Pla would always call Tai out on his wrongdoings, but she would never call her sister out, even though she knew her sister was wrong.

Also, I thought Koong telling Tai that his father didn’t know that she was his girlfriend was pointless. In the earlier episodes, when we got a full flashback, it was pretty obvious that his father didn’t know that Koong was dating Tai. But the simple fact that he continued to date Koong after his son attempted to commit suicide in front of him was terrible. It should have been enough for him to know that Koong had something with his son to cut it off then, but he chose not to. I didn’t feel bad for Tai’s father at all.

Surprisingly, the character that irritated me the most wasn’t Koong but Pla. She is probably one of the most annoying female leads I’ve come across. She reminds me of the female lead from Fai Luang, constantly criticizing the actions of the male lead, but never having one word to say about their sister. She made so many questionable choices that were just annoying. In the beginning, I loved the fact that she knew how to fight and defend herself against the male lead, and for a second, I was fooled into thinking that we were getting a strong female lead, but to be honest, she’s pretty weak mentally and foolish.

Overall, despite there being many annoying characters and issues with the plot, I had a fun time with this. Peun and Chippy were cute together, and they had good chemistry. Surprisingly, this lakorn has a lot of skinship, and I almost thought I was watching a Channel 7 lakorn. It definitely was a frustrating watch at times though.

I'm sad that it seems that he'll be a second male lead, but I'm really glad he's returning back. He's always been one of my favorites!

Considering that this was announced three years ago, I wonder if this is even coming out anymore. Pooklook doesn't seem to be with PPTV anymore.

The fitting photos just keep getting better! I need this now! They're marketing this with the word family, so I wonder if they're all adopted or a part of an orphanage.

It's like the writer came up with the idea of having the male lead fall for his young step-grandmother and said, “how can I make this boring in every possible way?” It’s actually quite baffling how boring and average this lakorn is. First, Pol is one of the most boring male leads I’ve ever come across. His only personality trait is loyalty. Nothing else. I would blame it on Weir if it weren’t for the fact that I’ve seen a handful of his lakorns where he’s great in it. This character is just so lackluster that it’s not much to do with him. Praow is just as dry too. She’s nice and pretty, but it’s boring! There wasn’t much to her character, and she was annoying most of the time. Then there’s the fact that there’s no chemistry between the characters or Weir and Prapye. The writers didn’t do much with their relationship either, which was strange, considering that their relationship has an interesting forbidden romance set-up, yet there were no good romance scenes that actually capitalized on that. Though to be honest, their relationship never really felt forbidden to me in the first place because it was so obvious that there was going to be some twist about Praow, and we would find out that she never had a romantic relationship with Pol’s grandfather.

The story itself just wasn’t interesting. I couldn’t connect to the characters, so it made it hard for me to care for their goals, therefore I didn’t care about the plot at all. Also, they dragged those last few episodes out. It was ridiculous watching the uncle escape not once, but TWICE. And for what? By then everything had practically been resolved. The animosity that the uncle and cousin had with Pol had disappeared into thin air, and they felt like different characters by the end of it. This didn't need to be 17 episodes. I just wish the writers would have added more layers and characteristics to these characters, so they could finally come to life, and I could actually start caring about their storylines, but I just couldn’t.

I’m praying that Weir will pick a better lakorn next time.

I don't think this is happening anymore. As far as I know, Toey has two upcoming projects. She's currently shooting one with James Ji right now, and then right after that, she'll start shooting another with Ter. There has been no mention of this lakorn on Toey's schedule in years. They did the fitting photos back in 2017, but they never got around to actually shooting the lakorn.

The fitting photo is so cute! This looks like it's going to be a lot of fun. James just played a college student, and now he'll be playing a high school student. Even at twenty-eight, he can still manage to pull this off because of his babyface.