strawgal

I have tried to watch some very expensive formula films recently and theses beats most of them by a mile. Good script, keeps moving, characters that if you live in a an area you will find, dry observational humour. A pretty good twist towards the and end and the bonus no romance or stupid second plot shoe horned in, complete with a bucket of pathos.
I can only think the low rating is there is no romance and most of the seasoned actors are over 50 and behave like normal people.

If this was a book I would have thrown it across the room in disgust, I quite like spoilers because I hate wasting my time.
What I fail to understand is why adult men were being so manipulated by the FL, because being older I know men move on, no matter how much they seem to care in a moment. She didn't appear to have any attractive qualities, just the ability to manipulate them. The ML attitude is perhaps realistic, because men are just like that sometimes, unfortunately.
The way the FL was played it was obvious that she was not telling the truth, and really most of the mess was caused by her, I wouldn't believe a word she said.
I think the girl friend had a lucky escape, because she knew he wasn't committed to her, and if he had stayed with her she would have been in limbo.
If he thinks the choice will lead to a happy ever after I think in real life he would get a rude awakening, teenagers are serious work at times. If it is him or her son she will chose her son.

I did not believe a word the female lead said, not sure if it was how the actress was told to play it.
The detective needs his head testing, there is a reason she is an ex, and the reason the whole mess happened, as an adult.
If he was so infatuated with the idea of her, he wasn't worth keeping, so at least she gets a reason opt out and run away, I would have binned him sooner.

This started out well, I liked the Stand By Me shooting style of youth, and the idea of how your past affects your attitude to life.
The but is, all the men were depicted as if they has no rational thoughts of their own, they seemed to accept everything the FL said and never questioned her motives. A policeman would have been really incompetent not to notice that at the least she was disingenuous. How the hell was he still involved with the case?
It did have some good twists but the last episode was just lame, and such a disappointment. The admission of guilt almost comic.

I had my reservations about the plot, knowing people who have been deceived by their partners and see the harm it causes it's not comedy its a tragedy. I am not sure how you could make that even remotely funny, but somehow Ohm and Poon managed to pull their bit off IMO. I have never seen Ohm look this human.
The time and calculation that Juniors character uses to scam multiple people never mind Pai, I am not sure having an abusive parent cuts it as an excuse.
I have just decided to suspend my disbelief as far as will go, the actors are doing their best with a flawed dubious script.

Ohm I have always found the parts he played that his whole role was to look good and not say much, in this he is allowed to be the befuddled comic straight man and he looks far more relaxed.

My husband enjoyed more than me, I found it a bit flat in the depiction of the story, but the fight sequences are very good.
Its a bit like a Jason Statham movie, you know exactly what you are getting.

You are going to need something to give you strength for TOL season 2, somehow it manages to be worse, but with less charm, not that it had much of that. Its like they set out to make something very bad just for clicks.

Once there was an idea, and it was lost in poor writing and direction. I find neither characters appealing in any way, and what ever connexion they have really is just a performance, they could be stripping wallpaper off wall and it would be more interesting and engaging. I would rather have some stupid hot mess, than something this cold and unappealing.
I flick through it, not as bad as Tide of Love, but close. Both seem to be made by people who do not have a clue what they are doing.

The director of this, Kla" Nathawat Piyanonpong has just managed to something that is very rare, make seduction not look like smut, and comes organically out of the script and not something that fills time.
In a lot of drama, it just so badly done, because its treated as just a plot point, a time filler and no gives sign of the emotions that lead to it, so it loses any dramatic weight.
In this it also manages to be subtly funny, and tells you even more about the characters,

Can someone put this out of its misery?

Like almost everyone has said the first 4-5 eps are the hook, and then it goes somewhere else.
It could be a very compelling discussion as when is a fake not a fake, especially, when multinational companies source part products in bulk from overseas them assemble them in the brands home country and pass them off in made in that country, with obviously a huge brand mark up.
You could say that most brand or people in the public eye are fake, their image carefully curated with the use of bots so you only see information to that enhances a 'good' image.
I think where is lost it's power is by making every character a detached outside watcher where the consequences of the fakery where hidden, and the none liner story telling didn't help the viewer connect.
Of course Shin Haesun was outstanding as usual, I just she was given more normal people to play, it is like she has cornered the market dysfunctional characters.

How about Kelvin gets a brain injury when Vier tries to escape, and wakes up with a completely personality, they get married and Vier gets all his money?
All that blood, they over did the blood, on the floor is more indicative of a scalp injury, injuries to the brain tend to bleed through the nose and ears, so unless he has a depressed skull fracture the man is still alive. To have that much blood pumped out the heart has to working.

Yep. I can not wait to see how the writer solves what seems a plot that only seems to have one inevitable conclusion.

Well this has been a find, if you like your drama raw and real.

Well, I do not know how any one is goin g to come out of this tangled mess in one piece.
It reminds me a bit of the John Fowles book The Collector

After the 2nd attempt I have had to drop this, its so sweet, has so little plot and relies too much on the actors make up for my taste.

Good script, great acting, and direction.
The use of side characters that actually add the the depth to the script makes it stand out.

I like this season more because it shows some of their personalties. Like in all relationships you eventually stop trying to be perfect, but at the same time the 'real' you may be not what the other person wanted, or expected.

I think what this show explains well is weight and perhaps dread, when you have waited so long for something, had a mental picture of how it could be but are afraid of the reality being being failure.
As kids you get over things quickly, as adults there is so much more to lose and the threat of memories becoming tainted. They have both had a vision in their mind of how it would be, its making those expectations fit together.
Its just managed to capture something heartfelt in a very unshowy way.