strawgal

We managed to watch this over a week, because its a mind f!ck and you really need space to think.
The performances are amazing, not one bad one, and it tackled so many themes, but not in an obvious way.
I have been wanting to watch this for at least two years, its now on Tubi, and it was worth watching the ads for it.

Which part.

Not everyone will like this because its unsettling. I watched The Frog after this, and I think this and Strangers from Hell were perhaps ahead of their time for kdrama. If like something dark that is a bit of a puzzle, it will be your thing.

Someone once tried to freeze me out at work and made me work on my own. Result, I got more time to plot revenge in peace, which worked. If someone had given me a huge office with great view I would have moved the desk, enjoyed the space, and spent a lot of time making sure I found some way to screw them over. Have they never heard of social media?

Who ever directed it has no idea how to get a good comedic performance out of actors, and why do yet again to the FL's end up wearing white mask makeup and end up appearing like brainless idiots.
People in there 30's acting with the maturity of teenagers.

Enjoyably bonkers plot. In reality it makes no sense but its so well done you get carried along.

They say misery loves company, and here is the proof. Oh woe is me.
Its well acted, the production values are excellent, its just the shame that the way the story is written its hard to find a light spot, even the child actor sounds like he talking like a middle aged man.
An ending doesn't have to be happy for me, but there should be some joy in it somewhere, I do not mean the comedy couple, but some light relief.
If the writers wanted to highlight health issues it was poorly done.

Sorry I meant in Western as in cowboy and Indians, where the women were just there to be pretty, like Grace Kelly, unless you lMarlene Dietrich, when you can be smart and funny. Even the modern Western has been undated, in Yellowstone the FL is a main protagonist and has more guts than most of the men and is a main driver of the plot.
Talking of this drama you have a mother who is a bit like Lady Macbeth , but the children seem to totally unaffected by their parents obsession with acquiring power, apart from making them passive.

I reminds me of old western shows/movies, where you had to have a female character as a potential love interest who added nothing to the plot but was just there to look pretty, and cry a bit. Now if she was like her mother that would be perhaps interesting. All the women are literally supporting roles, bystanders.

OK its more holes in the plot than an old moth eaten woolly jumper, but its well acted and the production values and direction are great. FL as a character is just pointless, would anyone do what she did? The acting and story give no clear motive for her actions, apart from my parents made me do it, which is a cop out.

There is a show called The Unforgotten, its now on Netflix,which is about cold case murders. It often has multiple story lines, very centred on relationships, where you think how the hell with this work out. The acting is very realistic and underplayed which is perhaps not to everyone taste, no car chases.
I will your suggestion a look.

I am a great lover of the over decorated Christmas tree, not colour coordinated, no theme and full o f mismatching tat. I am not sure I would want a drama to cover any story that way. I think that is a lot of the problem with modern drama. In an effort to fix something they throw everything at it, trying to cover every theme, trope and what ever else is in fashion, when the script and the story should be good enough to stand on its own merits, with actors who can act not just say the words.
The decoration, costumes, and what the actors look like unless its a plot point shouldn't matter, but then that’s not about making a drama but selling merch.

Love the table analogy. There are really only so many drama/novel story lines, the main materials of the construction, and what then does it fore fill its purpose, and achieve its aims.

I often wonder if its as a whole, depending on the culture, its because there is more choice. In previous generations you life was also mapped out for you from birth, and breaking out was the exception, now everyone seems to have to chose. You are classed as boring if you are not different or trying to be something as adult, where as being a teenager was a stage where you tried things out before you went in to a responsible life, with a job that paid the bills.
Bua's story is a bit like the teen version of the Black Mirror episode, but more realistic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)

I think this is the first drama that I have seen that represents young adults life as any choice seeming like a huge drama, from choosing your nail colour, to being ignored by a friend/boy friend. At that that age you just coping with your own emotions is tiring. making want to sob.
This is why when I see adults in drama being portrayed as immature, which most of them, hard, because most of us have been through that stage in our teens, its part of normal development

I think that scene is so clever because they are fixed and unable to hide their emotions. In real life they would have looked at their phones and looked away, but the camera literally holds them to transfixed.

I all for alternate reality, because in theory its possible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_time_dimensions I listened to a talk about multiverse that I almost understood,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008z744 ,
but when its just tossed in to the pot like an add on, like how did the two versions of the same person exist at the same time, its just a waste of an idea. I used to read a lot of sifi as a teenager, some of the ideas used are now proven, so I am not against the use of these ideas, but that would need some understanding of the theory.
As a writer a personality disorder is a lot easier to research and understand.

I didn't dislike the show, but looking at the writers other works Love Sea, they are unable to write fully rounded female characters, its repetitive making someone nasty with the reason only being to seen that they a female. Its like some old fashioned C drama, but in 2025 I think we all should have moved on from this. How is the father not culpable, never mind the fact the men that attempt a murder? Whoops we've hit the wrong one, no police involved in a RTA where someone ends up in hospital and could have died?
Most drama is some sort of fantasy of reality, that we enjoy , its escapism but when the fantasy is set in a version of real life it becomes a lot harder to over look huge holes in plots and character.

Such a shame the plot writing fell off the cliff, again. I was sort of hoping the personalities were a symptom of Dissociative identity disorder, which would have a least made some sense. The age of majority in Thailand is 20 unless married, so that whole plot line had a lot of holes. Too many startled looks in the last ep and script padding, the actors doing their best with what they were given.
My other huge gripe was why do the main female characters have to be bordering on psychotic. Just lazy writing.
Great production values and good OST, just not really going to be one I think about much.

I loved it because it was sweet, but managed to mix in some serious issues, toxic 'fans' who think they own an artists private life, and how management manipulate artists careers. With MSM they can just phone or text and trash someone’s life. The OST was good, well it should be, and it was very well acted. I think it managed to over deliver on expectations.

I have been lucky to work in a hospital that treats people with severe medical problems including brain injury, I have worked in neuro intensive care, and yes medical science is amazing but it has its limitations. I admit that watching a medical drama is hard for me because I see all the mistakes, but what really annoys me is when they take a theory and represent it as fact. When you have a revelative in front of you and have to explain what is really possible and they are disappointed because they have heard of some unproven treatment that will let the person they love return to how they were before, its a tough thing to do.
If you know someone who has a mental illness, and I do not mean 'just' the normal range of depression, the treatments have side effects, and the effects often not consistent from month to month. Perhaps in the future there will be body feedback delivery systems for drugs, as used with insulin delivery pumps but you need a person to accept this, and they often have multiple problems including self medicating.