Weir being talented ALSO as a singer unfortunatelly drowned in a lame genre mish-mash
We have 34-year old Weir paired with a generation younger Stephany Auernig... Their characters in here unfortunatelly seem to be the annoying kind. On their first meeting they yell at each other on a street like a pair of demented 15-year olds, he's loud (has a bullhorn, too), she's loud, trying to be "cool" by speaking english to him (they're both thai), and they end up almost physically fighting. I felt like closing the lakorn immediatelly. Not that I ever expected anything from Stephany Auernig besides being pretty, but after all his previous work I thought Weir finally could do better. This kind of "bickering couple beginning" deserved to be axed, and whoever written this to be sent back 15 years in time, when this was perhaps still in fashion. But, we have 17 episodes here. Shall the series gradually improve? It does have some nice reviews.
Yeah, next scene(s) Weir's character starts to act like a policeman, whom he also is supposed to be, in this role. Only it's incongruous with his childish annoying acting with the main girl just before. Pol Poonpat is a villain... once again. But, probably for 1 episode only, else I don't know why isn't his role listed here on MDL. Either way, he attempts to strangle nang'ek at one point. Ends up having his head cracked by a flower vase. And being called idiot. And then having his teeth drilled without anesthetics. It started to look like this would be the "crazy comedy" kind of a lakorn... Again, back to the word childish.
There is one more pretty face here, called "Boss" Chanakan. Besides being pretty, there's not much acting, which in case of a male is kinda worse. Then Stephany Auernig's nang'ek starts throwing food on pra'ek and he starts calling her names... She shouts: "Oh my god, you're so annoying!" which is ironic on many levels. What is SHE, then? Many years I continue to pray towards the whole asian community: Please, don't attempt to speak english. Just don't. PLEASE.
Then there's a song sequence featuring Weir. Thankfully, he's not singing in english so that's definitely a positive. I was thinking, perhaps they should be dancing & singing the WHOLE runtime. The show might actually be LESS annoying. Yeah, let's make the whole thing a musical. Episodes could be shorter and blissfully spare us any "crime" elements or "thai-glish" conversations. That could be done, right?
Sadly, they haven't done it. Soon, the song ends and we're back at watching various attempts of "acting" or "crazy humour acting" of the numerous cast. Not long after first 30 minutes of runtime, we hear the first gunshots (Remember the saying "Good romance doesn't need guns"?). Yeah, the disappointment comes quite soon. This won't be any better than any silly-screaming-and-fighting shows I watched before. Only difference would be, how often that would get interrupted by the musical sequences... As the 1st song was also the last one for the episode, answer is: not often enough.
"Boss" Chanakan's character ends up in a same situation with one secondary female (called 'Mo') in which females usually find themselves in. The gender roles got switched there, somehow it doesn't feel "refreshing".
Acting is not good enough for this to work as drama. It is too annoying to work as comedy. It's too little of the musical (which is a huge pitty, because watching the ending credits, I recognized Weir actually being quite tallented singer! The musical COULD be good. Seriously.) So...
Overall, the whole cocktail of MORE than hour and a half left me VERY tired.
So, maybe the show later improves a little, but I'm tired with it NOW.
Yeah, next scene(s) Weir's character starts to act like a policeman, whom he also is supposed to be, in this role. Only it's incongruous with his childish annoying acting with the main girl just before. Pol Poonpat is a villain... once again. But, probably for 1 episode only, else I don't know why isn't his role listed here on MDL. Either way, he attempts to strangle nang'ek at one point. Ends up having his head cracked by a flower vase. And being called idiot. And then having his teeth drilled without anesthetics. It started to look like this would be the "crazy comedy" kind of a lakorn... Again, back to the word childish.
There is one more pretty face here, called "Boss" Chanakan. Besides being pretty, there's not much acting, which in case of a male is kinda worse. Then Stephany Auernig's nang'ek starts throwing food on pra'ek and he starts calling her names... She shouts: "Oh my god, you're so annoying!" which is ironic on many levels. What is SHE, then? Many years I continue to pray towards the whole asian community: Please, don't attempt to speak english. Just don't. PLEASE.
Then there's a song sequence featuring Weir. Thankfully, he's not singing in english so that's definitely a positive. I was thinking, perhaps they should be dancing & singing the WHOLE runtime. The show might actually be LESS annoying. Yeah, let's make the whole thing a musical. Episodes could be shorter and blissfully spare us any "crime" elements or "thai-glish" conversations. That could be done, right?
Sadly, they haven't done it. Soon, the song ends and we're back at watching various attempts of "acting" or "crazy humour acting" of the numerous cast. Not long after first 30 minutes of runtime, we hear the first gunshots (Remember the saying "Good romance doesn't need guns"?). Yeah, the disappointment comes quite soon. This won't be any better than any silly-screaming-and-fighting shows I watched before. Only difference would be, how often that would get interrupted by the musical sequences... As the 1st song was also the last one for the episode, answer is: not often enough.
"Boss" Chanakan's character ends up in a same situation with one secondary female (called 'Mo') in which females usually find themselves in. The gender roles got switched there, somehow it doesn't feel "refreshing".
Acting is not good enough for this to work as drama. It is too annoying to work as comedy. It's too little of the musical (which is a huge pitty, because watching the ending credits, I recognized Weir actually being quite tallented singer! The musical COULD be good. Seriously.) So...
Overall, the whole cocktail of MORE than hour and a half left me VERY tired.
So, maybe the show later improves a little, but I'm tired with it NOW.
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