Larkorns

Aka -  My secret bride 

Ghost seeing FL ends up in fake marriage to ML cop. There’s a bit of a who”s spying on who element in this one. 

Thai version of Fox’s Summer. I preferred this version.

Loved having the tropes gender flipped. 

high rewatch value. 

Aka - Confusedly in love

Transgender turns sis girl. Slow-burn work romance set in a zoo. Love all the characters and their development. Last 5 episodes I did have an urge to slap ML, SML, FL, SFL and point out who loves who.

Beauty and the Beast meets forbidden love story done Thai style. Repeatable and I wish there was a season 2.

Aka - once upon a time in my heart

One woman becomes part of a love triangle between 2 leaders of rival mafia gangs. One of my repeatables.

aka - Panthakan’s Live.

Uses the age long trope of haters to lovers and co-habitation. Love the character development of ML. The only thing that breaks the mould is the step-mum: serene, caring , and fair.  Worth a repeat.

This is the best version of the Boys Over Flowers stories. More realistic when it comes to dealing with the issue of bullying. The FL is badass and has a lot more spine than others versions.

Totally binge worthy. A lot of fun as our psychic FL slowly gains the respect of an undercover cop.

Loved this version more than the original chinese. There are some similarities but this one is not a carbon copy. Worth a repeat

Also known as ‘You are me’. 

Romance, mystery, co-habitation, swapped identities and a murder mystery. Unlike most shows I really  wasn’t certain who was the real murderer. 

As part of a superstitious marriage to ward off bad luck, teenagers Praomook and Chalantorn are temporarily married to help Chalantorn's luck. Chalantorn has always thought of Praomook as an ugly duckling and a nuisance, while she has always been in love with him.
Years later, they meet again by chance in South Korea, where Chalantorn gets shot. Believing that the misfortune is back again, his parents ask Praomook to marry him to dispel it. In exchange, they offer to buy back her father's house, which they lost due to his debt and was a burden on her. Praomook agrees to marry him, vowing to make him fall in love with her to get back at him, while Chalantorn believes she is manipulative and selfish. To get rid of her, Chalantorn pretends to be in a gay relationship with his best friend, Rut, who is attracted to Praomook and wants to win her over.
While looking for the person who is trying to murder Chalantorn and spending their days trying to challenge each other, Praomook and Chalantorn fall into a love-hate relationship.

Aka - the mechanic bride

Forced marriage to the object of the FL’s affection to save ML. This one starts off with the ML being abusive and controlling and the FL submissively taking it on. Didn’t like how the MIL encourages her to accept ML’s behaviour.  What allows this show to make it on this particular list is the character development of the leads.

Cons - The story was very predictable and the soundtrack horrible. Was some extraneous subplots that didn’t need to be there.  Virtually no skinship.

Pros - the characters.  The ML. He is a unicorn - caring, trusting, supportive, smart, without emotional baggage and good looking. Would have liked to see the 2M and 2F more.  They were great.

Overall I enjoyed the show.  Stress level low-medium. HEA.

FL is annoying with how she threatens divorce almost every episode. ML character is great.

Otherwise known as 2 souls love. It’s a nice story as long as you don’t think too much.. Replayed moments were overused.

First few episodes aren’t great but it improves. A good Valium drama when you’re desperate for a no stress show.

Perfect example of the well used trope of enemies to lovers. FL starts off as the most horrible cruel  character when having an unwanted and unexpected step-mum dumped into her life. Her behaviour would shame a two year old.  Thankfully her as the show progresses her normal sweet self is revealed.

Aka - The evil plan ends with love.

Great story which pulls out and uses all the troops. However i watched most at it at x1.5 because the pace is so slow.

A powerful businessman uses a ship to deliver drugs. A young officer and a female spy have to work undercover in order to find evidence and arrest the businessman. They dislike each other at first but their relationship changes while they're working on the mission.

In order to get news, Nit follows Pawee and his father to a psych ward, where she finds out that Pawee's mother is still alive and not dead like his father had announced to the media. Nit's mother, who is a nun, goes to the psych ward to see Pawee's mother often to talk to her, there Pawee's mother, who went crazy from Pawee's playboy father, begins to form a bond with Nit. Pawee is upset from the news about his mother still being alive (because it was supposed to be a secret) and begins to have a lot of misunderstandings with Nit, while his girlfriend Pen (who was really happy she wouldn't have a mother-in-law) is very upset at this secret.
Ni, who is Nit's sister, is a mistress to Pen's father. Nit does not agree with her sister's actions and refuses to acknowledge this older man, but she cannot stand to leave her sister, who has a weak personality. After some time, Pawee's father is able to comfort Pawee's mother to go home. Pawee's mother hates Pen at first sight and forces Pawee to marry Nit. Will Pawee and Nit fall in love after being tied down together? How will their relationship be after all the twists and turns?

Fun rom com. Pure fairy floss. Fairly short series with 12 x 40 min shows (if you take out the previously on, intro and credits). Only con is the age gap between leads. ML truly deserves Nickn‘Old Man’ from the FL.

Aka Will you marry me.

"Single is the best" is the slogan of the free-spirited single lady Waenpetch, who's an editor for the Lovely Family magazine, and the gentle flower shop owner Laising. They both don't believe in marriage. One day, they meet at a wedding when they accidentally catch the bouquet at the same time. They become friends since they share the same views about love and marriage, but what's going to happen when they start to have feelings for each other?

Chanika returns home from abroad because her father is in the hospital.  Upon returning home, she learns that her father is in huge debt and they need money to cover the medical expenses.  Her college roommate introduces her to a high paying job out in the suburbs.  Chinapat is the owner a rubber tree plantation and hires Chanika as a favor to his cousin.  They don't get along because Chinapat has anger management issues and there are rumors about him.  In order to avoid being engaged to his mom's friend's daughter, Chinapat asks Chinika to marry him for a large sum of money.  Will they ever learn to get along?

Mookmanee is an assistant editor of  Women on Top who loves having control over everything in her life. Little does she know how little control she'll have after she attends the wedding of Kletdao, her model friend, and Touch. There she meets Chinnakrit, a lawyer who she gets into an argument with the first time they meet. Thinking they'll never have to see each other again they're shocked to wake up the following morning in bed together. To add to that Mookmanee is being sued by Sophita, and so Chinnakrit and Mookmanee must reunite because he'll be her lawyer, but can these two ever get along long enough for love to grow?

Nubdao is the host of a home shopping program, 'Wish You Were Home.' She's always been a strong person and a hard worker, but she still feels she doesn't have her life together. She's facing sexual harassment at work and she's not making enough money.

By chance, Nubdao reencounters Kimhan, her junior from university. It's instant recognition for Kim, but Nubdao shows no sign of remembering him, much less their promise on the "night of counting stars." They begin to get closer as Kimhan starts working on the marketing for her show.

Tankhun is Nubdao's friend and the producer of her show.  He harbours secret feelings for her. As Minjun—Nubdao's toxic boss and cohost—continues his tyrannical harassment, Tankhun struggles to support and protect Nubdao.

Kimhan is a man of many names, an anonymous artist using the alias "Klang Mesa". When his friend Pete claims the identity of Klang Mesa, Nubdao's friend Nammon falls for the fraud.

A police officer goes undercover in a drag bar to help solve a complex case where a local star's life is threatened.

Poom, a beautiful girl with no parents, meets Neung at a party. Neung is a handsome son of a former renowned diplomat that just came back from studying in France. Every girl wants to get to know him. But after the first glance, Neung falls in love with Poom straightaway. He has forgotten that he knew her before. On the other hand, Poom deeply remembers that Neung used to bully her when they were young. He always bullied her for being chubby and having a feisty attitude toward him. He also looked down on her for not having any parents and being someone of lower status. So she really doesn't like him. But when they have to dance together at the party, Poom rejects him and runs away. She declares that although he's desired by many women, she will be the first one to turn her back and reject him. As someone with status and charisma to get any girl he wanted, this makes Neung angry and embarrassed. After figuring out her true identity that she was the same Poom he used to bully, this only encourages him to tease her even more because he wants to win against her for rejecting him. He wants to make her submit to him and fall for him, all the while unaware that he's already fallen deeply for her.

The story about Paeng, a girl with a tragic life. After losing her father, she has to go live at Artit's house. The only way for her to be able to stay at this house is to be with him. But no one expected that her approaching Artit nearly costs him his life. He ends up hating her to the bones and she is exiled far from home for six years until the day they come across each other again. One might think that time will lessen hate, but not for Artit. Not only he still hates her, but he also hates her even more than before. But in order to keep her final promise to Artit's father, she must endure it!

Porfai is a young girl from the country side, who dreams to open a farm stay.
When a friend of her aunt asks her to pretend to be her daughter and work as a cook in her employee's house, even though the only food she is skilled at making is chicken stir-fried with basil, she says yes to help her aunt's friend and make some money to open her farm stay.
Porfai and Anawat meet under bad circumstances, and when Anawat finds out that Porfai is working in his parents house, he becomes suspicious of her intentions.
Necessity leads both of them to be closer and work together, creating chaos. Over time, they fall in love  without even realizing it... Will Anawat’s family accept their love?

This is a fairly soothing show. The slow pace worked for this show.