Sroi Sabunnga (2022)

Repetitive, but a powerful lakorn … one of my favorites!

Why haven’t I written a review for this yet? It has been two years. 😅 A Tale of Ylang Ylang is one of my favorites, so this deserves a review. I am coming back on to write this review since hearing the news of Nine and Baifern’s breakup. 😔

To start off, A Tale of Ylang Ylang is such a great lakorn and I personally enjoyed it. I really like these family conflict type of lakorns. It was an interesting story seeing Ngam’s journey in taking back what was rightfully her family’s. The rags to riches / riches to rags troupe was interesting to follow as well. And let’s not forget the friends to lovers love story. Baifern and Nine were so powerful in this!

What I liked:
. There was so much chemistry between Nine and Baifern. I don’t know if I like this or Friend Zone more because they’re both so good!
. It’s an interesting storyline. It kept me on the edge of my seat. I looked forward to every episode.
. Baifern was amazing in this!!

What I disliked:
. I wished Nine’s role was less boring
. Of course, it got really repetitive. It was like Ngam was at the palace, left, and came back again, it was indeed annoying to watch.
. I would say DO NOT watch this if you think repetitiveness is annoying or you don’t like slow-ish lakorns.
. Story progression could’ve been better as well. Sometimes it felt like the story was going nowhere.
. I also did not appreciate Prince Chang’s character.

Overall, I rated this an 8.5. And in my book, an 8.5 means this is really good. This is really good and I would consider it one of my favorites. I mainly liked this because I enjoyed seeing Ngam take back what was rightfully her family’s and her journey towards doing that. + the love story blossom between Tian and Ngam. I loved that it was kind of like a friends to lovers type of love. It’s just one of those dramas that makes you feel good when watching and it gives a sympathetic feel to it. You sympathize with the characters so much and I love to feel that way when watching lakorns. After two years, I’ve also found myself rewatching this a bunch!!

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