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I neither believed nor wished the main pairing
This drama is full of people trying to get into high class. Funny how high class & low class still exist in Thailand, nevertheless even more funny are the ways the low class people try to get into high class using the internet. Like, the rich house has a maid who has a daughter. Now, the maid's daughter has a smartphone connected to social media, with which she if able to film videos and post them online, mostly hanging around rich house and other luxurious settings. Soon she self-calls herself a celebrity and pretends to be the rich house's owner's niece at parties. The family, instead of simply firing the maid - by which even her daughter would lose ANY connection to the rich house - keeps her on, because after all we need to fill 14 movie-length episodes with a "drama". Even James Jirayu portrays a person the rich family somehow adopted and let him work in the family's company, which results in him being now interested in the rich family's daughter, who regrettably did not learn to be as good at work as him, so they need him. And who, despite having a perfect learning example in her own dad, who recently divorced her mother for a younger model (another aspiring low class aiming to become high class) gives him too much attention. She decides to play him (hence the lakorn name) and win over him while he does know and accept this, because even if she intends to play him only, it still means she showers him with attention and so he doesn't mind it, as long as he has her attention (and he's right, as she'd probably win had she just not cared). This way, they are to cross their swords in a game where she tries to win over him while he tries to win her over. In case you're anxious how this will turn out, the lakorn opens with her giving birth to his baby, so there's really no suspense about whether he wins her over, LOL. Despite that, it takes A WHILE to finish the mega-long episodes. So, it's up to you whether you are up for that...As for me, I kept reminding myself it's a ROMANTIC lakorn and Nai & Nok are the endgame nevertheless it was not how it FELT like. I just didn't believe that Lakkhanai would be pining 10 years for the FL who was stupid and there were equally pretty girls all around (for example Pear Pitchapa looks VERY similar to Taew in this drama... that happens when the cast shares the same stylist:) on the other hand, he certainly had more than one reason to get back at her. The whole time, I thought he was just faking. That's how it LOOKED like, given the ML's acting "skills". So I really didn't believe his angelic, forgiving nature when looking at the face of James Jirayu with slimy hair. Who got the idea to pair Jirayu & Taew, I don't know, but I didn't believe the couple even as a fiction. The 1 hr. 50 min. really dragged for me every time, and during the 7th attempt I just gave up.
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Club Friday The Series Season 11: Ruk Kohok
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No stupid fake-kissing, still icky watching 2 beauty queens fighting over 40y New Wongsakorn
...well, he's 39 here, still he's hardly "new" anymore:)One of the "reality" stories featuring 2 femmes fighting over 1 male (opposite to fictional 2 guys fighting over 1 girl). Of course the fictional model is more satisfying for female audience, as in real world the population statistics always play against women. We all like to rest our eyes on the fantasy where males need to fight for the female like knights. Here, no. It's one of the "real" stories...
...meaning opposite of the romance ones. Still it's a female audience thingy (mostly married female audience), not far away from reading gossip magazines. It's just 4 episodes so it's bearable. But I don't get my romance-sugar fix, here. As I previously mentioned somewhere else, New Wongsakorn is not exactly my type:) So, basically I started zoning out since episode 2. So I dropped this as I didn't care whatever happens anyways.
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Khun Samee Karmalor Tee Rak
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Senior Secret Love: My Lil Boy 2
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Well, after 1st episode, it looks like he'll kiss her but the anticipation is so long it gets awkward (aw, the s01's theme is back:) so much I no longer wished to see it (was Nanon Korapat in legal age for onscreen kissing, even? lol) and then it got interrupted. Meanwhile, we can watch Nara Thepnupha's line with Chimon Wachirawit which is more engaging a watch anyways.
Thanaerng Kanyawee's main girl is in college already, and even her wearing a different uniform somehow makes her more distant from Nanon Korapat's high school boy. It's like the gap between them grew even wider. She's in new exciting surroundings, and there's super cute Toptap Jirakit pursuing her (a mistake from the producers! I can't disregard Toptap Jirakit:) Why should she be reminiscent about her past failures with a boy too young to properly like her back? All her history with Es was filled with awkwardness. And while he now tries to let her know he'd like to pursue her, he did openly reject her. She hangs out with Kapook Phatchara's classmate mostly, when she gets together with her old s01 friends, who still cheer for her getting together with Es, it looks somehow out of place.
Episode 3, there is a mirror scene where the rejected party shouts after the other who is leaving: I am still not going to give up on you!:) Then it's said, first she got rejected, then he got rejected, now they're even. But is that the point? Episode 4, Es is shown crying after his rejection. I must say I kinda already lost my interest in the main couple. Maybe some side-story shall save this?
Then they all go on a beach trip. That is so weird. They go together with Kapook Phatchara's pretty girl (way prettier than the main one, by the way) and Toptap Jirakit's rival. When they arrive, the girls go into one room and the boys stay in the other room. Basically Es sleeps on the same bed with the older boy pursuing his girl. It's so weird that people who hate each other sleep on the same bed, lol. Also, there should be jealousy stirred in Belle using another girl hanging around Es. It's all good in theory, but then we watch the flirty college girl who ignores the more attractive boy with big car and is interested in the 16 year old, instead? The whole situation is so unbelievable. All the people look unconvincing in it, just because some writer thought of this. Funny this show had writer & director in one person. Did he not SEE how incredible it all looks?
Episode 5, I realized I didn't care AT ALL how this will end.
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I started watching... Decided to stick around at least till the grown-up nang'ek shows up. Before that, Porche Saran Sirilak shows up wearing the historical clothes, looking rather comical in those.
It takes 4 (movie-long) episodes to happen. It's always kinda risky to prolong having the child actress on, for she might actually be more likeable than the grown-up one, and the audience shall miss her:) It also happens quite often that the same character who as a child is very smart, turns into very stupid adult. As I did really fall in love with the kid nang'ek, by that time I no longer wished Nao Tisanart to appear... Nevertheless, she portrays a girl who's got praek's tender protectiveness since many years:)
Also, there is a guy who often gets drunk and tries to rape any pretty girl living near him (Off Chanapol is shirtless large amount of his screentime, and it turns out that's something wiewers could have been spared of). His own sister is married to that monkey but he's got no respect for his brother-in-law (besides being a drunkard, he's also a coward who flees from the battlefield). Then the sister dies and the more dangerous he gets...
Porche's character is a soldier destined to leave his home often with his army. Plenty of time he can't be there for his nang'ek. Her childhood nanny/friend is therefore more important character than usual, as pra'ek is often absent. When they ARE together their scenes are cute, though the style of hair-combing Porche was wearing (actually almost all the males in this drama were wearing it... I'm sure for a reason) made him look funny at all times. He marries nang'ek very early after meeting her again. Mostly because he's concenred about her safety, as she is unprotected and he therefore wishes to give her status of his wife to shield her even when he is not around.
Their wedding night is interrupted, though... Because he needs to leave for battlefield immediatelly:) There is a funny scene where he gets to see her naked upper body to have at least something to take with him on his journey, lol. Nevertheless, this way at least the girl isn't fated to get pregnant so soon in her tender years. She passes her time with her beloved grandma, who is withering away, trying to pass as much knowledge on as she still can...
I think it a success I haven't dropped the series early, as this really isn't my cup of coffee. Nevertheless I arrived to that point by episode 10. The runtime is LONG, mostly Porche is absent but when he's not it's not better, it's worse. I don't see any good actor in this, more importantly any character I would care about.
The battle of Bang Rajan (or Bang Rachan) might be a great historical event but that's not what we watch here. It's a typical cheap tv production that looks like it was made on someone's backyard and if someone would absent-mindedly take a cell phone out of their pocket I would not be least surprised, lol. But mostly I find it all boring or mildly annoying. I finished 10th episode with great self discipline but now I'm moving to something else to watch.
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A catalogue to illustrate all the wrong reasons for having BL just for the sake of it?
Okay, 1st episode introduces a trio of main guys, who then walk in front of the camera in slow motion. And I don't like any of the 3? This never happened to me before while watching HIStory!:)I didn't like 'Make Our Days Count', but it was GREAT in compare to this. This is really bad... There are two guys who should be friends, there's no real spark between them, only a lots of stupid "humour", then we have two guys who should be family, one of them acts super meek though he should be the confident type as shown in his work life, one of them acts like a psycho stalker. There's stupid fujoshi girl who's all giddy to see boy on boy couples forming, not caring if they're clowns & creeps.
At episode 6, it gets even depressing... I felt so sorry for one of the guys. He was such a good big brother and he had to find out that in that respect, he was nursing a viper. The kid step-brother makes a move on him when he is drunk, just because his attraction to him is "love" in his warped mind, not caring that he actually broke his heart. Had he really loved him, he would not do that to him. I will not argue here whether brotherly love is more than lovers love, apparently to please the BL audience the lovers love took priority so that we could watch that bedscene.
Looks like this show was made with the purpose to serve as a catalogue to illustrate all the wrong reasons for having BL just for the sake of it.
If this is the way HIStory has progressed, then perhaps it would be better if it ended. Oh, wait. Next time (HIStory5), it's Sci-Fi, even? Great. That won't get Dropped by me. That's straight to Not Interested.
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Cheewit Puer Kah Huajai Puer Tur
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Other cast includes: Ak Akarat, who works well with Mo Monchanok and I wouldn't mind seeing this oncreen couple again with better ending than in 'Tawun Thud Burapah'. No such luck, he's not to be paired with her in this one. Willie McIntosh, who is ridiculous in his role. Then again, he was ridiculous in all his roles since he reached middle age. Woonsen Virithipa, as Jes Jespipat's fangirl. A 36 year old fangirl. She appears onstage as a bar singer with seduction and sophistication. Then she acts like Jes' 25 year old brat with messy hair is her dream man. What can I say, Convincing & Credible really seems to be the theme of this series. The assassin boss looks like some gay side-character, while the authoritative looking guy just goes around mopping floors (if HE'd been secretly the real boss, then it could be appreciated, this way it is just another wrong typecast).
The script goes for actions these kind of characters can't afford to take. Soon as ending of episode 2, the secret assassin takes main girl he just rescued from multiple attackers - instead of leaving her at public place where her father would easily collect her - to his place, letting her know where he lives. Which alerts her dangerous father as to where his daughter went and with whom. All scenes are over the top and Jes obviously had to hit the gym before shooting the drama portraying him an almost invincible fighter. But with Mo Monchanok, who more or less has a body of a middle schooler, he can carry her under one arm if needed. The idealized assassin is in love, growing even less interested in the money to be made in his job, which doesn't go unnoticed by his boss. Even he gets alerted: a subordinate uninterested in money won't be easily controlled by it.
Romance has a fast progress. The girl becomes friendly with the guy and after several events, which should make her curious, she tells him that she loves him at 1/3 of the series and he says it, too. It was weird because at that point I was expecting a different kind of conversation. She literally knew NOTHING about the guy. How do you love someone you don't even know?
After he gets involved with her he has to tell her SOMETHING, so he gives her some information about himself which is pretty cryptic. Girl has no idea she just started dating a hitman. While her best friend/suitor is a policeman. Her father is a mafia. Now DO you understand why is it my opinion that romantic lakorns are stupid enough as they are even WITHOUT any crime theme added? If romance is stupid, then it's still somewhat okay it's ROMANCE, lol.
He tells her the truth exactly at 1/2 of the series. But, it's not such a huge news considering she's got way worse criminal at home as her father. Eh, did I mention that drama writers NEVER know that less is more? Anyways. Main guy wants to start a new life with his girl, he swears that he won't kill again. Only his girl's father is determined to kill HIM. Solution presents itself in both the girl and the guy leaving abroad. First, girl says to her father that the guy disappointed her and asks his permission to go abroad and forget. Then the guy can quietly join her there later... Over there, he'll just be a nobody. Her father won't have a reason to deal with him (he's currently dealing with a drug related turf war to keep him busy anyways). But, who cares. This lakorn's writer just wants to continue their whatever story, here... So, let's see. Yes, next we have some heroin momma adopting the bar singer as her protegee/lesbian interest/employee/whoknows.
Yeah, you guess right I had enough of this after 10 episodes, yet it runs for 18.
Still I watched episode 11, and after it I realized I didn't care whether the main couple stays together or breaks up. I didn't care whoever of the supporting characters wins the drug war/gets arrested. So. As I genuinely don't care who'll get the happy ending and who'll die in this drama... Hop on, on my Dropped pile:)
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Romance is nevertheless enjoyable thanks to Pong Nawat, he was at his prime around time he shooted this (Ngao Asoke, Proong Nee Gor Ruk Ter...), though I couldn't help but cheering the other guy more (it's Anuchit Sapunpohng! he was never a SECOND lead to ME:) I liked how nang'ek was calm and patiently explained things to pra'ek, though he acted like aggresive weirdo and was crazy jealous since day 1. What I liked a bit less were plentiful scenes with Ice Apitsada PLUS her friend who were also both interested in pra'ek, and did share equal screentime with nang'ek to say the least. While nang'ek of this is not the loud & screaming type (which I appreciated) it cannot be said about the other girls.
The story of a fake marriage first looks like it will come to an end too quickly, as it's all solved by episode 8/20 but then a new element is introduced. A child. Pra'ek blatantly uses the child to keep nang'ek with him and to keep postponing the pre-negotiated divorce. He even lies to her that the child is his, not caring that it makes him look like irresponsible player. Just anything to make her stay. Result being, this lakorn originally had just the nang'rai who was annoying. Now even an annoying kid is added to it. I'd say adding real child was not needed when we had already enough people (like the nang'rai, nang'rai's friend, or pra'ek) with childish behavior. Result being, at half the series, I already wanted it to end. As if they wanted to appease me, they put romantic scene in... The kiss is a camera angle, then there is a hinted bedscene (off screen), but nang'ek is still in position where pra'ek's elder doesn't accept her. She still keeps thinking, pra'ek first didn't see nang'ek worthy of his brother, now he wants her for herself?
Episode 12... The side characters keep plotting to separate the main couple. Which is tiring enough. The other thing is I don't even care whether the main couple stays together. Perhaps if Pong got paired with Pitchaya... Alas, no.
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In 'Bonded Hearts', they got him paired with Taew. Though he was not 30 yet, still obviously he was way older than her. They didn't look like they "grew up together" as written in the synopsis. I'm a sucker for romance, yet since their idyllic early stages, I wasn't buying the chemistry of this couple.
Atichart's character is shown to be "poor fish seller" at first, but then his foreigner father arrives and makes him open a 5 star hotel on a private beach (luckilly the "poor fish seller family" had 25 acres of land by the sea:) so he rises up (while Taew's character releases an album abroad). Atichart looks weird in the role as the father treats him as a way younger kid than he looks like. Also during his beginnings (he starts with opening a simple restaurant) he gets treated with scorn from "high society" people but Atichart's face in some moments has such a mean expression it's hard to imagine him as humble guy being bullied.
It continues with him this way further throughout. It's yet one more general problem of Atichart's pra'ek roles: many of his facial expression kinda make him LOOK like a bad guy, LOL. It of course connects to his level of acting skills, if even in a good-guy roles he's not able to avoid those. Just to mention.
As for the story: Despite all the people wishing otherwise, pra'ek & nang'ek marry in half the series. Considering they met again just briefly after long years separation, it seemed really fast. Yet it's done, and since then, basically the 2 main characters got already together, while we mostly watch the large variety of side-characters (every single ONE of them would be enough of an antagonist sufficient for ONE series), still plotting something. Which is not the kind of romance story I'd particularly enjoy...
This lakorn overflows with more than plentiful number of side-characters and large families on both sides of the couple who keep supplying endless string of troubles with their bussiness/politics. I was just truly bored with it, as I was honestly interested in none of them. Even the main couple didn't interest me enough because when I imagined something bad happening to them I didn't really care. So then I knew I can drop watching.
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Er... What??
Huh? I just never managed to really tune into this one... Watching this, I kept zoning out, pretty much unable to concentrate on it for ONE minute... I don't know, I mean I just returned from watching 'We Best Love', else I would definitely asked myself, if all BL are so artificial? It's like they were all there for the sake of it... The school uniforms vaguely reminded me of 'Hotel Stars', another "show" I failed to conceive (I dropped it after 4 episodes)... Else, I don't know. Somebody ordered this to be BL so there are boy on boy couples forming out of nothing.Saint Suppapong briefly appears in this. And HE is the best actor far and wide. Now, THAT is scary. First thing that can be said about this "Secret Crush", that it was everything except secret. One boy has huge obsession with one other boy and his whole group of friends knows, not to mention he acts like some creepy fan, so much it could be understandable only if the other guy was a movie star. He is just a regular guy, though: he is very white skinned, which it's "sensational" for Thailand but that's it. The main "story" here seems to be having the two boys in as many cringey scenes as possible. Just think of every single thing in the world that could make you embarassed and you'll find it here. As I tend to skip such moments, this show I was skipping so much I got further lost in the "story"... After five full episodes, I still had no idea whatever the deal was. And nobody on this show piqued even a slightest interest in me, honestly.
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I did not have the patience for this
Well, the nang'ek cast is immature girl (whenever she needs to be dramatic/seductive/sulky/other she just looks... ridiculous, awkward) who cannot act yet, which would not be so uncommon. Bigger problem is she has no womanly charisma yet, either. She simply cannot work with Mai Warit, or anyone else 7 years older than herself.The story's kinda unlikeable premise of a pra'ek being cruel enough to let the main heroine believe for years that he DIED is only the start of it. You don't grow fonder of this couple. As for the side characters, there's too many (too many children, too) featuring 1 of the 'Sixth Sense' girls, who does not look as fresh anymore, so I looked up her age. As she looked approximately 25 in 'Sixth Sense', and that was 5 years ago, she's now nearing 30, right? Some girls change in 30. But 1997 means she's 20? Weird... She didn't look twenty even then... Was she 15 in 'Sixth Sense'? Really? Perhaps they converted her birth year from the thai calendar wrong:)
I'm straying from the topic. In short, as I'm not really interested in the whole over-complicated plot, neither patient enough to watch all the family scenes, I'm dropping this early (I suppose I won't miss much).
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My Hero Series: Lom Phrai Pook Ruk
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Nychaa again with older guy. Again in 7-episode group-lakorn thing... How is it this time?
First thing, I always said every lakorn should have dancing. There is a group dance number here. It's at a wedding, because this lovestory is shortened: they are married in 2nd episode already. So far, Nychaa was not much for skinship scenes, being still quite young. Did she manage to mature enough for it in time for this role? The answer to this comes quite soon. Because episode 2 is the wedding AND the wedding night.Now, her partner sure is mature. You can tell he's been around the block couple times already, while she still looks like a student. During their "bed scene", we don't get to see their kiss clearly but I didn't mind it, because I found them kinda uncomfortable a match.
The small number of episodes has their (unsufferably long) screentime from majority filled with the husband's work cases and numerous side characters. While the wife is mostly annoyed that he's never home.
I got tired with this after mere 2-3 episodes and reached 0 interest in watching 1 more minute of it by episode 4. Despite the (separately) attractive cast. Maybe next time?
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By episode 8, I didn't like the progress. The new guy proves to be extremely likeable (absolutely everything a girl could wish in a boyfriend) while the "dream guy", after hearing the main girl's love confession repeatedly, doesn't reciprocate yet keeps her from starting something with the new guy. Also he accepts another female classmate "courting" him. This has TWENTY THREE episodes and I could see already the screentime would most likely be stretched endlessly by the "dream guy" going a step forward and step back, again. He'll keep being "aloof and enigmatic"... At times doing something to get closer to the main girl, at times doing something to reject her again. I knew the scriptwriter needed to fill a very long screentime. But I didn't find it a proper drama, really. I felt bad for the "new" guy (he actually settles in the group so well as if he was always there).
It proved a mistake to bring the other guy into the mix. Because after 9 episodes, I definitely liked him more than the main guy and even found him more attractive, lol. Then, I wasn't able to further enjoy the main girl's pursuit of the dream guy. I just wanted her to turn back on him and start dating the other guy. Let the dream guy have his lesson (he DID start showing he was jealous) that he can't play the ice queen for too long, lol. But, no. The main girl still acts like a desperate fangirl with the first boy and avoids the boy who made sincere confession to her... Or, she thought he made a confession (when she says she doesn't reciprocate, he takes it back). What a letdown. With the rejected guy all trying to pretend he wants to be just friends, I no longer enjoyed her line with either of the boys.
Perhaps we should really focus on the friendship here, as romance proves so annoying... It's been ages since I've seen a good one in dramas, btw. I'm starting to get tired.
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Rak Nee Hua Jai Rao Jong
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Boy Pidsanu is well watchable in his bad boy role. Still I had the feeling that in epi 11 I've watched all the drama involved, I didn't have to see the progress to the very end. It felt like I've already watched it anyways.
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So, we have likeable girl. Problem is with the boy. Not that I'd really have a problem with him, that way I would not watch at all. But, Michael Pattaradet is not a dream guy for me and his character soon establishes some sort of bickering/annoying/well meaning brother rapport with nang'ek, though he "secretly" likes her and tries to keep her from the other guy.
Watching on, I got further lost in the story, it didn't make much sense, but it's fair to say I didn't pay it much attention, to be honest. I think there was a family who owned a vineyard, there were 3 siblings or something. One of them was a girl. The girl liked one of the workers, which was frowned upon by her elders, I don't know what was his deal if he was secretly rich but I didn't really care because I don't like Euro. Then there were 2 guys, younger one potrayed by Michael Pattaradet and older one by Kelly. Each of them liked different girl so for once they weren't rivals but the elders kept pushing each of them to date the girl the other one liked, and vice versa. For a reason I didn't comprehend. Michael Pattaradet's guy spends a drunken night with the girl he likes but doesn't do anything with her but lets her believe he did the next morning. For a reason I didn't understand, he doesn't let her clear her misunderstanding, despite seeing that she is devastated. They then cleared it later gradually but each episode I cared less and less about what was going on, also I wasn't really into any of the 3 guys.
Dropped halfway episode 9, because I was already skipping scenes and then I noticed I didn't mind to skip practically all of them.
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