twiz aka unagibento

1) 40% of the time: The ML tossing the FL onto beds and threatening (or attempting) to take advantage of her;
2) The FL slapping the living crap out of the ML more times than I can count in return. I gotta hand it to her. Also this is Channel 8, and they add that extra bass to every slap so it sounds like a Tyson right hook. Bravo, lol
3) The very not-bright and insanely jealous but clueless ML listening to the rumors and hot takes of every harpy in range and acting out his insecurity on the FL
4) The ML stringing along his existing girlfriend/future fiance (I submitted the infidelity tag) even while getting caught trying to make several moves on the FL
5) The FL being the purest martyr and nearly accepting 100% of bullying in the ML's household. This includes a lot of weeping.
6) One of the FL's rivals getting the worst of all treatment in predictable lakorn fashion (sexual assault, etc) with a few other attempts on other characters.

You'll get a respite from the silliness in the second half if you stick around, though not much. But, in for a penny, in for a pound, so just enjoy the cannon fodder

Just echoing some sentiments in other comments: this is one of the most slap-kissiest, gloriously trashy, brain-cell burning mashups of romance novel tropes written by a pubescent teen I've ever watched. It's entertaining, but if you want it to stay entertaining, you gotta let go and embrace the stupid to a certain point. The Cinderella FL is pure to a fault, and her lack of backbone in her own step family (awful stepmom/sister evil caricatures) make the first few episodes a bit hard to get through. Though I loved how the ML fell in love at first sight, he's not the brightest bulb, and spends most the show being the most insecure incel turd you'll ever see. He doesn't need love, he needs an exorcism. Here's a summary of the first half of this:

FWIW I found it by searching for the user "Kiitkat" on Pastebin, who has links to the original sub team's videos (from Viki?) hosted on a video upload server. The most annoying thing is that it's one of those old school upload sites that only lets you download one file for free about once an hour. I bypassed that by rotating the IP on my VPN. But if all that sounds like too much effort or a bit sketch, hopefully there's a better link to this series somewhere.

Yeahhh I wanted to rate this higher, but this film just wouldn't let me. It does a great job with both the supporting characters and the setting (a hotel). Hotel settings can be really fun with infinite possibilities. It's really the development of the two leads that is most neglected, here. The later plot twists, while not bad, rob the potential romance of its sincerity. The last lines of the film before the credits feel... incomplete. Like the writers just couldn't think of a better place to end it. I really liked both the lead actors, though and I'll look for more of their work.

Definitely underrated. I've seen some other films try to pull off this dark humor/dark romance with quirky characters ("Thirst" comes to mind) but this one succeeds. This reminds me a lot of a US film called "Kill Me Later" and it definitely has that same vibe as far as a romance + interrupted suicide. The comedy was perfect - understated and never over the top, cynical but not moralizing. And that genuinely surprised line, "Not liver cancer?" just took me out, lol.

Actually I lied I just reached that from behind/laptop kiss again and it's MAGIC. I think my heart burst. Ahhh

Yeah the bar kiss was !!! But there's really not a bad kiss in here anywhere. Now that I'm rewatching I have a dozen little tease moments between them that I love. But Tharn's shocked face when Type propositioned him while they were eating breakfast and Tharn dropped his spoon was LOL.

Hah I even tried speeding it up and slowing to down to see if that will work. It is distracting, but also not a lot happens in this special so ah well!

For anyone wondering about the Lhong special, it's really only about 2 minutes of new material in its total 18 minutes, and a lot of flashbacks, mostly of scenes already included in other episodes. Also no preview for what's next. It's kind of a mini "sympathy for the devil" episode, and doesn't go into how Lhong carried out any past actions. Just a few words exchanged with Tharn after Type leaves.

Are the subtitles for the 11.5 Lhong special ep out of sync for anyone else? I tried on 2 different browsers. It'll probably be fixed later.

https://tv.line.me/embed/11538596 is the link btw

After this I'm going back to Episode 1 so I can enjoy all the vibes from the beginning again. I rarely watch dramas over again so soon (and usually never while still airing) but I'm making an exception...

The last episode almost soured this for me, with the whole hide-the-FL-and-baby routine. This could have been a perfect ending if she'd expressed those insecurities right after he gave her the flowers he grew, or in the hospital after the birth. The whole thing felt like an insecurity tantrum. It's one thing to deny Kawee the baby if she still felt he wasn't fit to be a father: he did a lot of crap and that's a lot to forgive. But it's another thing to do it because she was insecure that he might not love her as much as the baby. You can choose not to be with someone without toying with your child's right to see their other parent. And before that, the FL putting her health on the line to earn 1000 baht a day when she had a mother and friends back home wanting to help her was also silly. It wasn't a good look for the FL, and in a drama where the FL has so many awful things happening to her, the plot shouldn't really twist to make her such an unlikeable person near the end.

I watched this after seeing Ken in Ra Rerng Fai. That drama made me respect him, but this one made me love him. His portrayal is very, very good. On the flip side, this may be the one time I truly couldn't stand the 2nd ML. He was so thirsty. Like, give her some space! I also feel if all the long sequences of people sitting around in self-pity were cut, as well as the flashbacks and Kawee's many binges, it would probably shave a couple episodes off the total. I love Kawee's sad love theme though by Aof.

Wow the ending theme is even more incredible now that I've heard the full song from start to finish. Official YT lyric video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbFpMFVKUgc

Ahh I needed this song in my collection!

I'm rating this highly regardless because of ALL THESE REAL KISSES in a lakorn, so rare... NO REGRETS! Bravo for showing the most natural intimacy I've seen in a drama to date. Props to Fluke as an actor for kissing - he has a way of slowing every kiss down to make it tender and wedding-perfect. I bet you the FL is still thinking about those kisses years later. :-P

This is like... revenge lakorn lite. It's hard to take the antagonists seriously if you've ever watched real revenge lakorns. I will warn though that it begins with an (unnecessarily) graphic suicide, and suicide continues to be one of the themes throughout for a supporting character. But the episodes are fairly short (~45 mins) and it's such a quick watch. It's an emotional break for me while still being edgy enough for my dark taste. :-P

Ah okay that makes more sense about Tum. And yeah, when Lhong dropped that glass that's when I knew for sure he was behind it, but I didn't pick up on any clues at all that Type had caught onto him!

Sooo I guess I was the only one watching this who didn't figure out that Type suspected Lhong? Like, I just didn't see it so I guess I need to go back and watch Type's reactions to Lhong again. Is it implied that this is a fake breakup? Also, bravo on the very, very subtle portrayal of a villain here. He doesn't do the usual caricature evil guy. He tosses in so much "I support you guys" advice that it's so difficult to just outright pin it on him, and by doing that he's taking a risk that his own evil plan will backfire, too.

So LBC comes after this (I've seen it) and based on Tum's hatred of Tharn in that, it seems like Tum still believes Tharn was behind Tar's attack? So I went into this expecting that this would not be resolved because this is a prequel and Tum still seemed pretty ticked at Tharn in LBC? Are they going to expose Lhong and then Tum doesn't find out the culprit until way later?

They've got me in love with that ending song! So many beautiful reprisals, I don't think I've seen an OST used so effectively before. Ep. 11 was raw!! I love the flaws Type portrays in this episode. Whew, that full 0-100% possessive rant at the beginning with Tharn, I couldn't look away. 0-60% may or may not have been my kink but hah anyway I'll add my (BOOK SPOILER) questions below because apparently I was one of those clueless watchers

Wow. Just finished and the writers were definitely operating on some classical Greek-level cynicism. No one's truly evil but no one is really good either, just a parade of people acting out their worst impulses and catching all hell for it. It's hard to cheer for anyone because they all take turns being terrible. Rita should definitely take a bow because she gave the performance of her life.

"You're not the woman of my dreams, but..." Um hi you should never tell any woman this, ever, even if you're following it up with a compliment. And this guy has managed to say this twice already?! I honestly don't like either ML,they lack any charisma, but maybe we're not supposed to. They both take turns being clueless with their mouth hanging open so much I'm surprised nothing has flown in.

Commenting my way through this trainwreck. "I don't love you. I'm marrying you because I hate you. I want to see you suffer in hell." Holy crap give it up for line of the decade. Both of these characters are awful but I had to rewind that one because..!