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No, the main roles are completely different level. Both the main couple boys sadly cannot measure up to the "flashback couple" we see right in the beginning of the series. The two end up tragically in a blatant stupid scene, when they shoot their brains out while both their fathers are only helplessly watching, but then the unexplicably good cast (one of fathers is portrayed by Nirut Sirijanya! where did Wabi Sabi get Nirut Sirijanya?) is gone and for the rest of the series we are supposed to watch someone... well, else. The only big role for a female is a loud, chubby and annoying girl, to remind us we are to firmly concentrate on boys, here. Mean Phiravich is in insignificant, small side-role. Considering that is how they used the most attractive guy they had on the whole cast... Most viewers praised the second couple. Shall they save this?
So far, I keep watching to give this a chance. There are still scenes with the "old couple", which I skip by now, though. I can watch either one version or the other. And if I am to give chance to the "new couple", I have to quit watching the old one. And I honestly want to see how much there is to this couple if we don't count the past life destiny thing.
Also, there should be the 'WinTeam' couple to watch, and I am all for it, if they should be free of any "reincarnated lovers" cr*p. But, as the secondary couple, they have less screentime: so I'll have to wait for it...
Episode 4, Mean Phiravich's character expresses his interest in one of the boys. Whoops! Tricky. I'm sure I am now not alone who'd just ride on this wave and watch another 'Love By Chance 2' here. Who cares about the other boy, now? He can't beat Mean Phiravich.
Epi 6: Scenes with the previous life couple KEEP coming. Why?? The cast is SO much better. It's more interesting because they live in late 80's when being gay is not so much in fashion. But, as their scenes are only random flashbacks, this show's creators did not have to do the whole "period" drama properly. Instead, these scenes help the contemporary lame duo - threatened by the presence of Mean Phiravich - to have at least some chemistry, thanks to the audience already knowing their tragic love past story and therefore feeling for the characters even before they earned it. See, on both accounts, this show's creators made their job easier for themselves. So, my guess is we'll watch this half-and-half for the rest of the series...
Also this episode, for the first time I noticed WinTeam interacting a bit. There is also Plan Rathavit in his little guest role and it's SO cute you wish to keep him & the main cast to p**s off:) But they stay there, virtually haunted by the CONSTANT flashbacks. I smirked thinking whether people would be able to actually live their normal life, if everyone was able to remember their past lives so readily.
Epi 7, the boys said to each other that they remember one another from the past life and that they found each other now. The way I see it, it could be the end of this story... I feel no need to weep about it for 10 more episodes. Perhaps next role of Mean Phiravich will finally be in something good?
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Girl Next Room: Motorbike Baby
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This one has wacky intro with rapping Neo Trai:D
This one has wacky intro with rapping Neo Trai... And it's a pitty HE couldn't be the main love interest:)That might at least be funny and Toy Pathompong could stay in support role for all I care.
I lost my overall interest soon, furthermore I disliked both the main girl & guy & alcoholic mother & second guy (...) that I left watching during episode 3.
The only interesting thing about 'Girl Next Room' is that each next room girl has her own personality weakness. And we can watch them how they overcome it with love, lol. However, while it's cute in some cases ('Midnight Fantasy') or at least watchable in others ('Richy Rich'), this time I'll skip right into the last story, and I should hope that Kao Jirayu would be bit less unbearable...
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Another bizarre way how to get to "romance" nowadays
'Switch On' is funny in many respects. Just the phrase "switch on" which is supposed to activate the game is something thai are not able to actually pronounce, lol. It's supposed to be an online game using virtual reality head set which provides experience so vivid, that main heroine is actually questioning whether it's all real, lol. Someone keeps hacking the game, resulting in changing the game's events. Everyone is mostly concerned with this, while the fact that the heroine "returns" from the game (the phrase "switch off" is just as difficult to correctly pronounce for her, plus it's not very discreet to leave the game only by saying it out loud, lol) with her clothes stained with REAL blood is laid aside, lol. Also, 1 hour of real time equals 1 day in the game. The main heroine spends 2 months in the game, meaning 2,5 real days, without as much as getting tiny bit dehydrated, lol. But perhaps her meals she had within the game somehow magically counted. Like the blood, lol.Episode 4 finally adresses this, and the FL's friend asks her if, when she kissed in the game, her lips felt wet and whether it was a real feeling, lol. Then he explains to her more and more rules further and further, but it's all so contradicting that after a while I completely ceased to understand, lol. Obviously any logic needs to be thrown out of the window if one is to continue watching. Let's just try to enjoy this weird... romance? Next, FL surprises ML taking shower. She gets to see his "naughty bits" as censored. Eh... lol? He then kisses her again but it's not a good kiss, and Gee Sutthirak needs to crouch gracelessly towards short Aom. They visit her childhood home, which looks like her real childhood house as it has her childhood drawings she did draw on walls when she was a kid, though many of them are placed so high on the wall it's a wonder how a child reached there. Oops, forgot to turn off any logic thoughts again.
End of episode 5/24, FL even tells ML that all his world is only a game and switches off right in front of him. So he starts searching whether he and everyone around him is real person and what kind of reality he lives in. For him, it all kinda turns into some kind of metapsychical experience, which means the "gaming" fun is kinda out. For her, episode 6 she already finds her father for whom she entered the game in the first place, which means that ceases to be long-time plot and passes briefly instead of being "emotional reunion" near the final. The actor portraying the father is great, though. Someone needs to add him on MDL.
So, what now? Episode 7, we let the game guy physically materialize in the real world. But no, let him chat with the mainframe for almost whole episode first, lol. Then right after he appears in real world, let the episode end:-) I'm sure many people opened episode 8 right away after such "cliffhanger", but I NEVER binge, just so you know what kind of a viewer I am... I require SERIES to actually work IN episodes. I smirked about how the guy having a conversation with zeroes and ones looked rather stupid. When I returned for episode 8, I found out the guy thinks his game-world is actually a parallel world, equal to ours. Despite being clearly shown that all it takes is to put a virus into the game and PEOPLE around him start disappearing, even memories about them erased. LOL. Then he decides to sacrifice himself. That too happens as soon as episode 9/24, far from the final. Radical conclusions coming this quick, I wondered what was this show's aim, then? When even a game character entering the real word was soon discarded and nothing much came of it?
Well, episode 10, instead of disappearing, Akin starts acting like a conceited wacko, having pompose speeches and new stupid nickname. Actually, he gained personality the game developer wanted for the game to become more "action". Too bad for the FL, though. Her guy just lost his character. We then keep watching the game programmers and the girl's father trying to make the guy act this way or that way... And I must say I was getting tired of these scenes. At 1/2 of the series, the whatever excitement about entering the game from the real world or entering the real world from the game rather dropped, and it didn't matter to me that much whatever the characters were to do next.
There is a game developer bad guy or whatever and it's supposed to be all top secret machinations, while at the same time anyone can watch everything that happens in the game online, LOL. The smart people controlling the game seemed to be getting dumber by the minute... I got bored watching them solving the game problems. The whole show probably took a wrong turn since early eps. Perhaps had they just let the FL "enjoy herself" in the game, without it necessarily having an impact on the real world, it may have stayed fun.
Even after the old personality "game pra'ek" returns, and 1st thing he does is he whines he's been "treated like it's a game", it's funny and... annoying. He complains so much that he's been created for her amusement. While the girl looks at him apologetically. I don't know whether all the gamers were supposed to watch this scene too, but NOW I really don't get this show's aim. Imagine you DO create a perfect partner for yourself, and then that partner starts nagging you just like typical one from the real world, lol. I just wished we could return to episode 5. Why the hell did the girl tell the guy it was just a game? She should have never.
Now, I do understand that next 12 episodes probably will be about dealing with all the adversaries and obstacles and fight for some kind of sappy happy end for the couple, but I can't say I really care for it. The fun is gone.
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And, Weir is SO funny as a singer onstage, lol. His character here is portrayed as someone who sings so sweetly he makes even people who dislike him or fighting criminals to cease and listen to him at awe lol. So, comedy definitely works.
On the romance line, I have a bit problem because I already watched this kind of double romance before and both the guys liked the girl, and both the guys were likeable, so the girl kept wobbleing between them. Perhaps the girl should also have a twin. I knew I would pitty the one of the guys who'd end up the odd guy out:)
First, the navy guy is very cute with his girlfriend and they decide to get engaged. I liked the two together. But, because of the characters switch, she ends up swooning over the singer who just happily lies about his identity and doesn't care whatever danger the real fiancee might be in, or who mourns his real self back home.
So, that's a bit disturbing along with the fact nang'ek's "new" fiancee seems to be way more flamboyant, there's a couple gay references, even. So, what did the scriptwriters intented, here? We watch a lot of singer's antics, while everyone keeps calling him "captain" and we don't yet know whether the other guy even survived. Then we watch him getting better with his soldier training, actually acting brave for the first time, acting like a man who loves his fiancee. It's nice but it all comes to him very easy, and he still doesn't have the decency to tell anyone that their real friend/boyfriend/son-in-law went missing and might be dead. Especially if he's got a girl waiting for him back home...
But no, she's no longer waiting, because she got kidnapped in some human-trafficking subplot which is something I grew to be allergic to in thai lakorns. They always deal with idiotic naivety with such grave a theme. This case, they add the same silly crazy comedy to it like to the line with singer whose song can hypnotize people. But even romantic-wise, this girl from singer's past is yet one more character whom the script screwed over (she's more beautiful than Thisa and can sing, too).
Either way, the singer is directly confronted by her and asked who he is and he lies. He says He's Nakrob (the soldier's name), a man who loves dr. Chon (Thisa). I didn't like it and I thought he should have said he is Yodrak (singer's name) AND he loves Chon. It would have been honest, he should be able to fight for Chon's love AS HIMSELF, the missing guy would have at least chance to be searched for, Chon should respect that more and the other girl was going to be disappointed either way. But he didn't find the courage to clear the confused situation. I was getting afraid the original navy guy shall never return. The singer was funny but to be honest, I didn't really cheer for him to be with Chon using such methods and I wasn't sure I liked this kind of "love story". What did Chon actually like about her guy? In her eyes, he changed his personality several times. I was confused about her feelings, too.
All this spoiled the perfect Weir-Thisa dynamics I so praised before.
As the series progressed, and more and more "adventures" unfolded, my overall interest in this kinda dropped. If I liked something, then it was Big Nathaschai & Jayda, not Weir & Thisa anymore. But then, Weir always features in yet another crazy dance scene that entices EVERYBODY. It's kind of a bizarre fun that is hard to turn off (yes, I considered dropping this lakorn), just like you cannot avert your eyes seeing a car crash:)
It's more weird with the plot too, when by epi 6 it is revealed to several characters that there are actually 2 guys looking the same, still the situation doesn't get cleared. There are now even 2 extra women interested in the main guy, who again claims he loves dr. Chon only. The guy both sings, both acts like skilled soldier. Plus he kisses Thisa and it's an awkward, bad kiss, while I already watched Weir&Thisa lakorn where they had NO skinship problem and we could see them like bite each other's ear!! So, you tell me what kind of incompetent director made this. They obviously exhausted themselves with the double role for Weir and so many surplus characters. In all the mess and surrounding antics, in the end I actually cheered for no one. I would have axed half the main characters and ALL the human trafficking badguys if only there was a single couple here I could actually enjoy watching!!
But, should I get angry over this? Of course not, lol. It's like always. The words: "Less Is More" should be tattooed on all the scriptwriters foreheads. They'll just never learn. When writing a show, they have to put in everything at once, in fear it would not be enough, lol. So, it actually doesn't matter which of the identical looking guys Weir is currently portraying. Why should I vex myself over morality of the one character who was there, when even the other one who disappeared would have immediatelly returned if only the writer wished so. Obviously they weren't capable to write this better. Then, I shouldn't waste my energy and just take it as is. After all, this is not a k-drama, lol.
Episode 7/14, we learn that the soldier guy is dead. The guy remaining is the singer without a doubt. Thanks to his amazing progress with the training, he keeps pretending to be the soldier. He also keeps pursuing his singing career at the same time, as weird as that is. He keeps lying to everyone. He keeps showing slightly gay treats... Am I supposed to cheeer for him? To be with the girl? I no longer even like Thisa in this. And that's just 2 characters of the huge bundle. I really don't care for any of the stupid "action plot" which is here to fill the time INSTEAD of developing the characters or relationships so it would make slightest sense.
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Paragit Ruk Series: Ratchanawee Tee Ruk
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I think I criticized the stupidity of the "military plot" enough in the past reviews.
This of course features human trafficking and underaged girls being sold to brothels across the border which looks like something that occurs every day in today's Thailand, as it is in EVERY thai ACTION-romance series. Of course it's then solved with such a naivety I sometimes wonder if the real mafia secretly ordered so many blatantly stupid tv shows made on this topic. Or if somebody is just taking a p*ss:)
Second epi kiss is not that bad but it's not much, either. We get to listen to the title song (some kind of annoying soldier "hymn") every episode again... I admire who took the tedious job to subtitle this. It's exhausting to even watch in full and I kept skipping through it. Each episode runs for an HOUR AND a half and that IS a strain. Of course it's in the script that the main girl needs to act like a ninny. When she thinks she'll help somebody lost in the forest, she of course needs to be rescued herself. She spends the night in the forest with her guy and still does manage to make quite complicated hairstyle in the morning which doesn't even flatter her. I occasionally smiled at things like these else I was bored. But when I mention hairstyles, the guy is supposed to be in the army, so it should mean short hair. Instead, he's got the front part so long it needs to be lifted and curled away from his forehead, while he's got it shaved practically to bald on the sides. I'll never understand the asian hairstylists who insist on deliberately making the simple, short guy's haircut into something complicated and unflattering.
Ugh... Dropped after episode 5. The show is filled with fillers. I didn't CARE for any of the plot or numerous side-cast. I didn't care for the main couple. Enough said.
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Well, all the GMMTV synopsis is citing...
...such as: "A journey full of excitement. Learning new cultures, overcoming obstacles. Romance and excitement in WOLF" is morelike listing exactly what this series is lacking.Now, if WOLF contacted me, I would definitely Accept. How relaxing to have my life handled by somebody else. All I would need to do is to do as you are told. Then collect 10 million:) Of course it's a fantasy, as nobody would bother to mingle into your private affairs (while being miraculously able to monitor you in every situation) only to sponsor everything for you and then give you prize of yet more money just because you behave this way or that way. I mean, if WOLF existed, it would be like a modern fairy tale: in classic fairy tales they mostly grant you wishes and you make your own bed. While with this you have zero responsibility, you can just obey and be totally zen about life PLUS you get paid, LOL. I wouldn't be keen on broadcasting what I do to "spectators", but else it's perfect.
It all takes place outside the regular lives of the participants though, as it's happening abroad, during constant traveling. Therefore most of the people they need to deal with are foreigners and strangers they'll probably never meet again. The thai cast is speaking english often and I didn't enjoy listening. There is some cast speaking other languages, too. Some with subtitles, some without. I would prefer if the show stayed in Thailand.
Though on some of the posters it may look like we'll watch a group kind of thing, mostly we go on character's separate lines (each filling their own "missions"). We keep switching in between them sharply, and the sudden change is not always pleasant: as it usually starts with the computerized voice spurring the new mission's specifications on the unprepared viewer. It kinda disturbs the flow and each actor kinda runs their own show, which are not all on the same level. So it feels almost like constant switching among several series. Also the episode runtime is not enough for all of them, so each episode has one character that is omitted.
In contrast with the dramatical setting and insanely high monetary reward, the actual tasks given are pretty basic (sometimes bordering on boring/annoying) so it kinda drags since early episodes. I kept wondering who would sponsor all this and what for. I don't buy it that this "WOLF" would start something so costly and involving so many "innocent bystanders" just to give the selected few a "character lesson". And why of all the people in the world, or in Thailand, it should be this "Don, Por, Mo, Plan and Ryo". I mean I might be able to imagine people with more interesting character flaws:-) Either way, the contestants not only seem to be under constant surveillance, also the constant advice. Nothing much can go wrong, they always receive alert in time. Anyways I didn't find the presented missions very "thrilling" to begin with...
It does't matter that much how you act on your holiday, or with someone whom you'll never know.
First 6 episodes (dropped during episode 7), the characters succeeded in mission after mission, were glad and satisfied. On the other hand, as a viewer, I didn't find any "drama" I could consistently enjoy. All I saw were thai actors abroad, interacting with the same person for 2-3 episodes tops, speaking to each other in bad english.
And because nobody really went beyond the rules of the game, I was like: Okay, can they all now return home, speak thai, and live their lives? Why watch people who want nothing more than to win the prize money? If I was into that, I would be watching reality shows, not dramas.
This series makes even Toni Rakkaen seem not attractive, New Thitipoom not cute, and Off Jumpol not funny. "Congratulations" to that achievement. By the way, viewers who were looking forward seeing their favorite cast together in 1 drama would be also disappointed. The main cast has scenes with support only, never together. It doesn't look there'll be a single scene of as much as 2 of them together, except Off & Punpun in early flashback, or final I didn't care to watch. Because honestly I was not even curious about the whatever conclusion involving these people.
Either way, the cast is wasted here. They should have hired people with no professional experience (maybe First Kanaphan could stay) to portray the "characters" in here and to sing the title song and to operate the camera. For this show to LOOK what it actually is.
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Even Japan has bad, shallow shows about "high schoolers"
The cast is an eye candy. Kumi is pretty, Kanna even more, and the same can be said about the boys. Hyo is handsome, Tatsuki even more, only poor Chihaya is ugly.Else, this is really bland and absolutely incomparable to any of the shows listed here in "Recommendations". Perhaps except 'Hana ni Keda Mono Season 2'.
Might be the combination of weird "acting", unfitting music and too short a runtime, but you don't get to really tune into any of the "lovestories" presented in this one... What's more, you don't really get to find out what's the story supposed to be about, even after you watched it. It's pretty unclear, the characters unfathomable. If this is an adaptation of a manga, it must be either poor adaptation or poor manga, possibly both.
Can one enjoy this one at least in a shallow way? The two mains have such a ridiculous looking onscreen kisses. 1st one would be exciting if it actually happened. It's delayed and happens when it's dark, in weird angle. The height gap makes it even more awkward. Another time, when the guy wants to plant an exciting surprise kiss, it's like he needs to do a super quick limbo dance move first, LOL. She looks like a startled fish. Goodness me.
Last episode kiss looks pitiful and it's preceded by a shot of Hyo looking like he's going to fall on the ground asleep, lol. After it, the camera offers a detail of the girl's clenched hand.
The whole final has 25 minutes, meaning it has about 2 minutes on each element presented in there: main couple's relationships problems also get solved in 2 minutes.
Weird to see Japan also has shallow & bad shows about "high schoolers"... LOL.
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When a show tries to be dark, then light, then melo... And THEN yet something else
This show opens with such opening credits that show you they tried to make this look DARK (and actually overdid it a bit, lol), but then the "molested student" in question looks like he's about to hit his thirties soon. And you can see it since minute 1. THAT early and you can ask yourself: what's going to be believable about such drama? In contrast to the opening, following episodes insist on cutesy, lighthearted atmosphere and we watch a montage with someone going around the school with a camera and casually interviewing students on what are their thoughts of teacher-student romance. Like it's something the evolving society is learning to accept, similarly to gay love, for example. Everyone on the show answers lightheartedly and it's not made clear that this is NOT the same and it SHOULD be condemned. Same like with the early bullying sequences: they were brushed off so lightly like they intended to signal to the audience that vievers are to watch a guilty-pleasure show here, not a DRAMA...As for the main couple, we have contrast again. One look at Edward Chen says his character has to be really stupid to repeat at least 10 times to still be a "high schooler". He looks like rogue even in the cute school uniform. He is too old for the role. Not a very good actor either, BUT not afraid of skinship scenes:) The main actress is completely different. She's the kind of heroine I want to watch in romance drama. Way more than any student girl, to be honest. No problem to believe the boy should be smitten: Tiffany Hsu is absolutely charming, even now in more subtle, quiet form. She was always strikingly attractive, now she's like delicately withered... Does she look good with Edward Chen? Hell, yes.
As soon as episode 3 we can see (a dreamy) bed scene. Woow... I'm afraid that got me hooked on this show, lol. But WHEN will drama makers understand that high schoolers are like 15-18 yrs old, not 25-32? LOL. So, I enjoyed, because I watched guilt-free, knowing the age of the actors. But being her student, and in high-school at that, was a bit too much, and morally disturbing (also quite corny). While there seemingly was no reason why would the hell of a woman be interested in a schoolboy, there WAS something between them: they had understanding, kindness, humour... Else I would not - despite wondering why the woman was so careless - liked them together...
Then, at 1/2 of the drama, it is revealed, why the main heroine, the teacher, should have a motive to get into an affair with her student. It is like something from hispanic telenovela. Also it is a major disappointment in the main character. Because what I did like about the woman was that she was COOL, level headed. She was not supposed to be all livid because of some kitchy family feud. The romance line got spoiled, the boy's mother, nicknamed "Devil", also ceased to be impressing, after we watched her hispanic telenovela background story in detail. Sometimes less is more. My fun was gone, suddenly I was watching a family drama. And I'm not interested in family dramas...
The writer then played with a possibility of the two lovers actually being half-siblings: but even with such a desperate card, I ceased to pay attention, and since episode 6-7, I just watched the pretty pictures (the bedscene does not disappoint) and quit caring about the "drama", which in my opinion was worse and more incompetent than had they just let this be "shallow" guilty-pleasure show. Lesson in love? This was not.
With the "family secret" being now the only plot, after 10 episodes I wouldn't mind if the "drama" ended, it was annoying and going in circles, the hot scenes were over and for the angst Edward Chen was not good enough actor. I just smirked at his reaction when his "teacher" dumped him, and scenes like him running after her car were so ridiculous that I openly laughed. Thank goodness they got back together soon. I really didn't need anything but a nice couple of couple scenes from them;-)
Any attempts for something "deeper" didn't strike it with me. I couldn't care less for the boy's mother, or his classmates, or for the fellow teacher/director who knew her situation best, and was such a good friend to her, yet suddenly insisted on being her suitor. Just the fact she still did teach in the same school where everyone knew she had an affair with her student made the whole thing ridiculous. Like watching Edward Chen in that uniform. They should do more scenes when he's NOT wearing it. Yeah, I mean it that way, lol:)
Final episode keeps solving "problems" I didn't care rat's a** about, but I liked the scene where father & son went together for a drink. And then the following scene of both the main boy's parents. Yeah, weirdly enough, after I've already given up on the mother, my interest was brought back in last episode by the side-character of the father. Well, at least the father's actor was decent. Unlike Edward Chen, who was practically constantly making faces, which presented the majority of his "acting". Still, kind of symbolical of this erratic show. Yes, erratic: good, SIMPLE scene is followed by a scene where I had to smirk, when reporters appeared with so many microphones, like they were to inquire about a state-level incident, lol.
But, what was NOT out of proportion in this series? What was not the writer's failure? Why was I glad for the couple that saved their marriage, who were not exactly the characters I was supposed to care the most? Why the most levelheaded character ended up to be the one I was afraid will rape the main heroine or something? I'm not even mentioning the last 25 minutes of the runtime had yet another Genre change. This was SO all over the place. But, to find that out, just watching 1st episode should be sufficient... Decide for yourself, whether a few skinship scenes would be worth the time for you;-)
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This has 45 episodes and I was tired after 5, as I seriously care about the whole historical/reincarnation/mythology plot approx. number 2 on a scale of 100. I liked the main couple's dynamics. Their shared scenes were the only ones I enjoyed (there are also many scenes with the ex-girlfriend, then there's yet one more woman who has history with the main guy... there's a lot). So, it was like a fraction of the huuge screentime.
I didn't like watching the historical fantasy line, either. Somehow the costumes and hairstyles didn't flatter the people. Art Pasut looked like an antagonist. Fluke Jira looked like he's about to change sex. Pinky looked like 10 years older. Not to mention I found it stupid. So, after like 10 episodes I affirmed I can watch only Art & Pinky scenes, present timeline. Even there, we have 4 insanely powerful historical artefacts called "Naga Head" that look ridiculous like a child's toy (you can see it's really light like it's made of styrofoam, not heavy) and completely different than when it becomes "alive" by obvious computer imaginery. One might laugh about it, but not 45 times.
Art & Pinky scenes in the monstrose 45 episodes were very scarse, but also very cute. Apart from this, I don't want to watch this kind of genre at all anymore. When the idiotic ghost fighting started in episode 27, I had to skip even Art & Pinky scene. Aon Sarawut, entering middle age, was ridiculous mostly as "Frank" (mostly everyone pronounced it "Fang", of course), he overplayed in every scene. Another thing to skip. This was really a skipping fest. Definitely my last lakorn of such genre.
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After he even forced her to move in with him, I honestly cheered for the girl to date his younger brother - who came to also live in the house - instead. The brother was cute, which cannot be said about Sung Hoon. Also, he was kind of on the same boat with her, they both were harrassed by the older brother, whose only good suit was that he had money, which he used and abused every day. He also had a funny male secretary, who understood the soft core under the hard crusting and tried to help his boss to find true love, which was exactly what good romcom should have. Still, I didn't cheer for the main guy.
So, this was the only thing that prevented me from giving this 10 stars. Kim Jae Kyung did a great job, though.
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Watching this themed movies/series you got to concentrate hard, because every time the boy is speaking it's actually the girl speaking, and every time the girl is speaking, or doing something, it's actually the boy saying and doing this. It's like you should imagine the girl while the boy speaks and vice versa. You need to constantly remind yourself of this which is not something you are naturally used to as audience. Plus these characters are such that the girl's is agressive and the boy's sensitive, lol.
Any romance progress the main girl & boy can make during the body swap also is with each other only, because with any other people it would mean those people are either the wrong sex, or wrong orientation, after the mains swap back, lol. But, having something on with each other would be probably difficult, too. Cannot imagine a romantic kiss where you would have to kiss YOURSELF? Gee, I kinda wished they'd just switch back soon.
I gotta admit that at one point by the end of this movie, I seriously expected the boy to swap bodies with the gay boy, desperate to finally somehow be with the girl. (Because she decided to stay in the male body as it suited her for playing soccer and it also happened to be the body her crush was attracted to.) I also debated whether the boy has fallen for Eve. Because during this movie, so much runtime was dedicated to each of them developing something with someone else, a basic writer's mistake. But I guess it's never easy to write this kind of stories.
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Cotton In Silk
Okay, first couple (the people who are standing on the poster pic... though they are not touching each other and both are touching other people, lol) meets at the airport. Not that they necessarily travel abroad. Being thai, they often fly to Chiang Mai as by train it might take 15 hours, lol. Anyways, it's always pitty when people play somebody else as they could actually be given what they want had they played straight. Like this couple, both girl & guy lie to the other side as to who they are and therefore they don't learn they are actually on the same boat. Meaning they're not rich heir(ess), they're just their from orphanage adopted "sibling", in reality their servant.They're both 'Cotton In Silk', which is the english title of this series and it's brilliant. I'll be definitely using it and not "Fai Gam Prae".
The guy is New Chaiyapol Pupart, and I can't be impressed with him as I've already watched lakorns with him since 13 years back, so he's old for me, he's 30 here, lol. The girl is new to me though she's 28: I just didn't happen to watch anything she was in. She's pretty (not nang'ek level, though), she's got a freckle right on a tip of her nose, she's mostly seen smirking (in this role), she married Toni Rakkaen which is about the most interesting thing about her.
Second couple is another thirty guy, whom I don't remember from anywhere plus Marina Sadanun, whom I don't remember from anywhere... Though, with HER I know I watched lakorns she was in and I know she's Margie Rasri's sister, but: a) she doesn't resemble her AT ALL b) she is forgettable and THAT'S WHY I can't remember her, lol. Actually, the second couple isn't a couple, as...
The "first couple" gets together very early and after unconvincing bed scene with blatant fake kiss they decide to switch and date the people who are those sitting on the poster pic. Well, mostly because they discover they're BOTH poor and they need to trick somebody else into marriage. Subsequently they each go for the heir/ess of the family the other one got adopted into (they're both same sex as their superior "sibling"), as they can provide each other information how to seduce their target, and also they both find it satisfactory. From their point of view, the people who treat their adopted "family members" like slaves deserve to be deceived anyways.
This drama - despite "unconventional" leads who are far from docile, super nice types and do try to get even with the "filthy rich" - overflows nevertheless with blatant product placement for luxury shoes, bags, clothes, cars, ridiculously overpriced D&G wallets, etc... Same conflict lies within its characters.
The orphans are supposed to be smarter than the spoiled rich brats, yet they spend all money they earn on appearances instead of savings or smart investments into their future. Or at least the freedom to buy themselves out. After years (decades) of being chained in rich households, seeing the solution in marrying themselves without love into rich households doesn't seem the right fit for these characters. If they both are capable people who excel at work it would be way more understandable had they desired to make themselves independent on ANYONE, which is something marriage (happy or unhappy) is NOT. But then this story probably could not progress to the plot it was aiming for. Meaning each brat marrying one orphan.
Music does sound updated. From the old "generic bacground music", to... some kind of new generic background music, lol. "Congratulations" to that achievement in 2020. Nevertheless, the familiar random, circulating usage of it soon gets very repetitive, just as something from 20 years ago.
When a rich girl falls in love with a poor boy in this drama, her mother is actually right about him being after her money. Nobody loves her just for being cute and innocent (she's big fan of tv series, of course). Guys plain say she's dumb. (And smirk at her "taste" in clothes.) The mother does scold and humilate the poor girl like in oldschool lakorns, but also does see that she is more capable to work in her firm than her own daughter. And apparently wishes her own kid to be at least bit smart like her. You could say it's another cliche that rich brats should be all stupid, but in this show one can understand they are just lazy to work hard as they never have to. It's funny how everyone just plainly thinks about money. The parents are annoyed when their kid chooses someone without money, the poor go on dates with the rich for money, the only one acting upon emotion is the shallow rich girl with empty head in the clouds. Seems we do not have anyone who is just a pitiful victim, here...
The 2 girls who grew up together shall both marry: one of them rising thus in her status, while the other... Let's say the orphan girl now really has a good reason to smirk at the arrogant mother. The mother realizes she should have gotten rid of her but too late. It actually doesn't make much sense she should adopt her from orphanage if she just wanted a servant. Only brainwashing organizations need to do that, lol. Same with the orphan boy, the only thing the family actually did was that they raised someone wanting to get even. Besides the plot being silly, skinship among the cast (who is far from unexperienced) is nonexistent.
As this seems to be one of the coldest "passionate lakorns" I watched, we at least concentrate on the lessons for the characters. Yeah, it's not so easy to come and take over someone's wealth by marrying them, today. Generations have developed measures to protect their rich kids against exactly that. So, both the orphans stand against well prepared parents. Neither of the orphans therefore actually accomplishes this, nevertheless they do exchange houses to live in, now. There is a scene where they each secretly visit the (now abandoned) room of the other. But then they have to both sleep with their rich spouse, without having enjoyed it much and without getting much in return. Just posh new roof over their head... Which is not their own, again. I'm afraid the orphans haven't actually gained much, except the kind of life that they once suffered through already. As I originally pointed out.
The orphans watch each other with someone else and end up having a heated argument. Orphan girl is "concerned" about rich girl, which is unexplicable, because she certainly doesn't owe her any friendship. It's a jealousy scene with a "violently passionate" kiss which the actors are unable to portray. So it's not only a stupid scene, also it looks like he's trying to choke her or strangle her. Seemed like the production team needed to regroup and assess whether they were shooting a drama, or a comedy, or a parody. Nevertheless, the same girl appears in the same situation with her new rich husband the next scene. I say that when the girl looks equally unwilling to kiss THE guy and the other guy, then the lakorn has a problem.
Obviously rich girl is about to learn her lesson about common life the first second she's to live without any servant. We watch her being unable as much as to pack her own things. What I did NOT get was why the orphan girl - beside that she kept assisting the rich girl's mother (btw. Dee Chanana is the only one of the cast who bothered to actually deliver acting performance) - came to play the unpaid maid for the rich girl, at this stage. SHE didn't owe that to her and spoiled my only fun.
When I reached 3/4 of the series, I really ceased to understand all the characters. Orphan girl not only isn't legally wedded wife, her rich guy says in public that she's only an acquaintance. On the top of that, he starts to beat her? Rich girl comes to rich party in low status dress and with a low status guy and her rich "friends" partly mock her, but still talk to her. Perhaps Carissa Springett's call girl is the only one with a clear motive.
Truth is this was nonsensical all along, only now it involves violence the more it stands out. When the orphan girl is kept prisoner in the rich house literally and not just figuratively, it's all kinda more stupid. While orphan boy keeps living just as poor life as before, only now burdened with dependent airhead "wifey" he doesn't even want. Scenes with him having to raise from the bed while injured because she won't be moved to learning how to boil water are bordering on black comedy. It's funny how he cannot control her because in the end of the day she's just too thick(/skinned) like the rich boy.
Rich girl experiences being hungry for the first time in her life, nevertheless still that doesn't cause her to think (also for the first time in her life:) Instead, she gets together with her rich-circle friends, surrounding herself with yet more airheads. Being completely empty headed and just waiting who puts their whatever ideas for whatever reason in, rich girl "decides" to have a baby and become a parent. Before as much as growing up herself, first.
Orphan girl & orphan boy's plans are failing. They get together mainly because they have no one else. It begins to look like this is their warped love story, given a modern twist where they are trying to forget each other and marry rich, but they are not even successful in THAT. Instead of novel-like life, they encounter people who are all bussiness, or all stupid.
When things are at stage where orphan girl would be better off if she simply skipped town (she's not really married anyways), she doesn't and gets raped by her "husband" which in reality isn't that different from when she slept with him before for money only and maybe she finally begins to realize. Also orphan boy, while more or less considering to really have a baby with the rich girl and thus finally get into rich house, is definitely realizing that such life would be only continuation of what he already lived before.
Rich boy acts like evil now, but one wonders why he even bothers. If he's rich he can have hundred pretty girls. Even if he likes to punch them in the face. Orphan girl, who used to be so energetic, acts bewildered. In that state, she only seems to be anxious whether she did hurt the trust of the rich girl, who comes at her only because she got programmed to play the possessive wifey, now. (As if we didn't have enough stupid main characters, we deal with the rich girl's moron friends more and more.)
There's a funny scene where orphan girl ends up in the condo she wanted so very much. She sheds a tear in the scene, nevertheless we never saw any kind of real relationship between her and rich boy so it can't be a moving scene. Orphan boy is also getting what he wanted and is about as "happy" about it as orphan girl is. Funny how this is actually a good cautionary tale about why it's important that you love the person you choose to live with. How love helps you to get over the mundane struggle and give it some meaning. Orphan boy doesn't have that, so he's now left only with the same pretense he invested in the relationship, to give him comfort back. Poetic justice.
On rare occasion we get to watch something fun, I have to again mention the character of the call girl. She actually does the same and is the same as the orphan girl, only in more nakedness (pun intended:) It used to be important to orphan girl to feel superior to "simple" call girl, unfortunatelly, she acted less smart than her, and ended up with less dignity than a call girl. Also a lesson.
There is an absurd scene in which rich boy starts beating up orphan girl with rich girl's mother watching. That scene is so weird for several reasons. Rich girl's mother herself treated orphan girl like dirt in the past, yet even she looks concerned for her now. She also wished the rich boy to become her son in law in the past. But her daughter prefered orphan boy to him which caused the mother and daughter to separate. Now orphan girl is the only one by rich mother's side. It's all so twisted it's funny. Rich boy now abuses orphan girl in public no matter who is watching. Still, it doesn't feel really dramatic. I feel the rich boy's character makes no sense from any angle. Just why he should be so obsessed to own each minute of orphan girl's time - after he almost/had quite lukewarm relationship with her to begin with - is beyond me. Perhaps a better looker and better actor was needed for this role to work, than this Iang Sittha. Perhaps not.
The whole thingy with him abusing her with the public watching and recording it on their little phones seemed yet one more pitiful attempt of this show's writer to create "big drama" effect out of nothing... The characters and their relationships were unconvincing since episode ONE, not since the beating. Forgive me to find it really ridiculous for rich boy to LOCK UP orphan girl in his rich house. Where would she go? She didn't have a single baht. She always wanted to get INTO rich house, not out... And even if she now wanted out, when orphan boy offered her to run away with him, she didn't and chose to play a martyr (just like she chose to stay employed by rich girl's mother, or to continue playing well wishing helper to rich girl).
The comedy continues after it's revealed it was orphan boy who called police into the house owned by rich boy's father, who of course got rid of them with a smile. I'm sorry but I was not surprised and I was just an audience. Just what did orphan boy expect, knowing the man his whole life? Then next morning orphan boy goes to work: at rich boy's father's office.
What I liked about the last episode was, that finally we were done with all the orphan girl's plans. She didn't succeed, she wasn't a good person kind of nang'ek, but I didn't mind it. She said to orphan boy that looking at him was like looking at her own reflection, that was a good line. No matter the injustice, orphan girl was finally ready to move on and start her own life, like I honestly wanted her to from the beginning. There is a scene where she goes to say goodbye to rich girl's mother. Truth is, also her mother. A cruel kind of mother, but still. I felt the goodbye was in place. Again, Dee Chanana was absolutely great.
After that, orphan girl & orphan boy randomly meet at a hotel bar and both the empty headed rich girl & rich boy (I almost forgot about them by then) get hysterical when hearing about it. I must say THAT I didn't like, that I was tired of. Like AT LAST, give it a rest, lol. When rich boy takes a gun out of his drawer (seriously) I wanted to turn the series off prematurely. Why watch another 30 minutes if it's getting THIS dumb? Better let it end.
At the bar, orphan boy is getting tipsy and says wistfully to orphan girl: If only we didn't lie to each other the first day we met, what could we be now? Which was funny because in fact had he said to her he was poor just like her she would not slept with him, lol. So, let the past be. They both learned their lesson they needed. Then, rich girls comes to have her "dramatic" confrontation with orphan girl (so tired of that by now) complaining how could she still hang out with orphan boy after all she did for her? This being final episode, I guessed orphan girl would be able to say something back, like what about everything SHE did for her? How she was her slave and how she sacrificed the guy she liked. But no, she just begs at rich girl's feet. Rich girl doesn't believe her and leaves. Maybe if orphan girl got angry, that would open rich girl's eyes. Either way I just didn't care about the empty character, in fact I wouldn't mind if rich boy/girl were not present in final episode. This wasn't their story.
Still, after the girls confrontation, we then have the boys, too... I felt like skipping that scene before it started. Nevertheless, in the same bar these two have fought once already, orphan boy says again, that he met orphan girl first, that he was with her first... Yeah, we already watched that some episodes back. Seriously, where the scriptwriter went, the one that was supposed to write FINAL episode of this? I was afraid that this would never end, now. Rich boy acted exactly the same, like he was stuck in the time loop. Was he real? Somebody turn his hologram off, lol. Obviously no one heard me so the boys have a fight like last time, people are recording them on their phones. Like last time. Oh, now we have this "perfected" by rich boy drawing a GUN. Just perfect. If anything about this series STILL was not kitchy and corny enough.
But at least the final scene with rich boy & his father was funny. Comical how rich boy got livid even over a paid girl. Clearly confirmed it was ALWAYS about ownership with any girl. Also funny because all his paid girls were paid by his father's money, he never made a cent. So if he wanted to look at things that way, they were more his father's than his. Still, being completely empty headed, he forgets from whom he kept receiving the whole time, who bothered to help him stay out of jail, and assaults his father. It kept piling up: the overwhelming stupidity of rich boy's character had no end. Thank heavens this lakorn had.
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An over-tangled fable that leaves no room for romance
'The Glass Mask' (this time I go with the english title, as it sounds way nicer) introduced me to a new lead couple, I haven't seen another lakorn with either of them, yet. The girl looks like a typical nang'rai, not nang'ek. I looked her up and she's a beauty contestant, a big one. It isn't as bad as with Pooklook Fonthip, she is able to show a cute side (they needed to equip her with a fake nose for that, though:) As for Film Thanapat, he looks cozy on his sharerice profile picture. But on MDL profile picture, or in this lakorn, with all the hairproduct, not so much.The plot is weird, too. Girl not only looks like nang'rai, also acts like nang'rai, a bit. She has a guy on the side (another gel-styled head). Pra'ek is bitterly dissapointed to find out he's got a cheating girlfriend, so the only logical thing the writers could do is switch her with a nice one with the same face. Got it? Me neither.
I felt bad for the girl waking up at hospital in panic. She couldn't remember what her name was. She couldn't remember who her family was. They changed her face to confuse her even more (but did they do eye surgery simultaneously? she needed to wear glasses), and also all the other people (apart from the face, she also happened to have exactly the same body? I kept waiting on someone to notice she's got at least slightly different hands or something). As for her, she is supposed to have "full amnesia", meaning she can't even remember her childhood. WHICH would mean that mentally, she is still a child. It's then a bit pedophile for her to have ANY romance line in this. What were the scriptwriters thinking? If someone can remember how to use spoon and fork, they can remember their mother, too (and the mother is still searching for the disappeared girl). Yet this nang'ek can't, while she can remember how to apply fake eye lashes. Is she supposed to be some kind of supernatural phenomenon?
Then it's revealed that the cheating girlfriend played the piano, had a deceased father she talked a lot about, also actually knew the pra'ek since childhood (played together in sandbox and everything). She hardly was a "sexy party girl" to him, then. Theirs should be morelike brotherly-sisterly bond. If they dated and slept together it was a bit incesty, actually.
I sometimes wonder what the scriptwriters that do write ROMANCE do have in their heads.
How to tune in such story? Looking from ANY angle, it didn't make sense. Including that it was not actually romantic. What was the audience supposed to feel watching it? I won't stretch over the illogical amnesia thing as it's pointless, clearly it's just another stupid lakorn but when there's trouble understanding the characters, then the audience simply can't enjoy their whatever story. I sincerely wished the show had abandoned the main plot and concentrated on something else. Not likely to happen, huh? Then, I tried just to concentrate MYSELF on something else. There's definitely something attractive about Film Thanapat, I decided. But why couldn't they just cut the guy's short hair actually short, so there wouldn't be the need for that overly complicated thing on the top of his head? They even dyed his hair some ridiculous auburn shade. Geez, leave the MEN'S hair alone! So gay.
Okay... I'll stop:) I hoped watching the 2nd couple could save me, here. I found them both likeable and sharing good dynamics so I went from there.
Meanwhile... The main guy sleeps with his fake girlfriend. First, he makes a huge jealous scene to her and she reacts such way if all nang'eks reacted, there would be no more need for all that slap/kiss dragging for loong time, LOL. Then they sleep together and I thought as the girl with the wide nose and glasses hardly had any boyfriend, she had to be a virgin. So, prae'k finds out he's got some other girl, there. He says NOTHING to the girl or to her "mother" that presented her to him, but confides to his dad. It's a funny scene where he doesn't directly tell him why he "knows" it's not her. As I previously watched 'Sud Sai Pan (2013)' where the pra'ek did NOT notice he slept with a virgin (seriously), I was prepared to expect the same here. But no, in this lakorn we live in the world where they never cease to surprise us which basic rules of logic do apply, and which don't...
Pra'ek then finds more proof confirming her switched identity. Even when dealing with considerably grave misconduct he doesn't go through proper channels, just confides to his dad again. The two have another even more stupid debate about how could her "mother" do that, that he's really unsure she's the same person as his girlfriend (huh? I thought he GOT that sorted already) when she looks exactly the same: talking with same breath about the mother owning PLASTIC SURGERY clinic. It's like a comedy, the only thing missing is the bacground laughter like in sitcoms. Concurrently to that we have scenes with the girl clearly reacting on seeing her old home and her own photo and her own mother but no one chooses to pay much attention to THAT, lol. Shall the old gf wake up and save everyone from their misery? Probably not soon... Next episode pra'ek finally confirms the girl's identity through a fingerprint and pieces all things together. Still, this is 1/3 of the "story", only. But what is there left to connect to any of the character's emotion? Pra'ek doesn't seem to feel the need to tell what he has discovered to ANYONE (just his dad doesn't count). He shall just marry this girl?
For a good lakorn, there is actually no need for such complex plot. Just very simple emotions can be powerful for the audience if they're true, meaning if the audience is able to UNDERSTAND them. Here, I could understand the girl, she was just being herself under the strange shell, but I could NOT understand the guy. I suppose the authors of this weird script thought it "romantic" that the pra'ek liked the girl with his unfaithful exlover's body & kind stranger's soul so much he didn't care about the crime done, about her grieving family, about her (amnesiac, then brainwashed) herself? The only person whom he deemed worthy of treating as equal enough to talk straight was his dad, who was neither the causing nor the affected party. As the result, the dad was the only character this pra'ek had real relationship with. Therefore, the romance did not properly work and we were just forced to watch the endless double dealings of all the deceit involved characters. I'm sure it all was intended to be extremely smart. But unless they intended the pra'ek to be in fact worse villain than the "evil mother", it's only a proof of incompetent scriptwriting. Why do most lakorns exhaust so much effort on overtangled fables that are just silly instead of concentrating on the relationships and some real feelings?
While I tried to concentrate on the side-story (I actually found the second couple more attractive), of course majority of the screentime was devoted to the silly main plot. Here I can mention that watching scenes with Pock Piyathida was also quite a strain. She was cute 20 years ago, playing "nang'ek" alonsgide Andy Gregson, but her current "mature villain lady" roles are painful to watch. Mirroring eerily the class of acting of Oliver Pupart (as I say, there's good acting, there's mediocre acting, there's bad acting and then there's Oliver Pupart) who "stars" (or stares) in front of a camera with her, here.
When the old gf wakes, she acts psycho (I don't think she was this psycho before... suddenly she's like from a bad horror movie) but I kind of thought the pra'ek deserved his old gf back. He consulted his "brilliant" dad again, but that was the only thing he could do, again. The nice girl disappeared and was in danger and I couldn't help thinking it was praek's fault. He finally turned to police but it was too little too late. Mostly they kept "playing detectives" themselves and it continued being as dumb as ever. It reminded some kind of parody element.
When it all felt so long like my review here, still many episodes remained. It seemed like never-ending story, while "story" not quite being the right word. I didn't cheer for the nice girl to end up with the pra'ek this lakorn had... She had a nice boyfriend already. I thought she was better off returning to him, and pra'ek with his old gf actually suited each other. Maybe it was just me. But I found it all more stupid the more "smart" it tried to be and even if I accepted the game, I cared for the second leads and side characters - family members - way more. I pitied the second lead girl when she found out about her father. What a cruel discovery, and only because the scriptwriter got carried away on a crazy story. As everything in this series, this didn't make slightest sense (an intelligent doctor reckoned he owed being loyal to his evil lover, but it didn't occur to him what he owed as a parent?). Somehow, the devastating consequences on human relations always played the second fiddle to "amazing love" of the main leads.
When the main evil "mother" capable of murdering both her fake/real daughter stated that after all no real harm was done to the nice girl as she DID get to meet a rich guy she would else never had a chance to marry, I couldn't help but thinking the same about this lakorn's creators. All is well in the end, just as long as the nice girl keeps the rich lover boy and keeps being pretty after her surgery, right? I so wished her to turn massively ugly (without hope for any surgery) just because I had to listen so many times to the annoying pra'ek repeating how he loves her for her soul ONLY, lol. The scene where she regained ALL her memories back I would SO appreciated it (even if her "amnesia" never had much sense) had she told the pra'ek to get lost, but of course, no. Both her mom and her real boyfriend had to tiptoe out of the room when they were having their "reunion". Seeing it was like that, I really had enough and wished that at least was ending already (and couldn't fathom what should MORE episodes be about). This was very, VERY long even at nineteen or twenty - hour long - epis, but no.
I periodically thought there was just 1 last episode left and there was not, LOL. It felt so WAY over. STILL the characters needed to amateurishly investigate more and more stuff. I felt like I would take it even if the evil/fake mother was revealed as an alien, if it happened RIGHT NOW and not after suffering 3 MORE HOUR EPISODES, lol. If there was ever a show I wanted to drop mere few episodes before its ending, then it was this one. And I think THAT is even less flattering than dropping it after FIRST few. Just every time I was about to turn this "drama" off forever, there was a scene of the second couple. So cute, these two. But everyone and everything else was actually unwatchable from the beginning to the end, so I think I should mirror that in my rating.
I guess even the final episode of this "drama" is kind of symbolical, because after the police finally resolves things in the usual stupid "crime action" sequence, audience is still to watch long flashback of the secondary characters and their years old past. Says a lot about dramaturgy skills of the writer. The only good point were the few present time scenes that added closure to second lead girl and her father.
Next time, I would love to see good romance lakorn with no silly criminal stuff in it, which seems like 5 year old kid has written it, and which in my opinion has nothing to do with romance. Thank you.
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