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You've got the whole "lakorn to go" set in this one: possessive ML, secretes behind FL actions, plotting evil female, confused characters, mentor characters.. all well rounded up in a story that has enough energy to push you across the finish line. And we all end up cheering for our OTP (darn, I cheered for them from day 1, but it took them a sweet while)
WHY I LIKED IT?
I picked this one up because it had a good idea behind the story: while trying to help her friend get out of a forced wedding, our FL ends up messing it up so had, and they are now BOTH married. The good thing is: the marriage is only the beginning of the plot.
There is dramatic moment in every episode. That said, there are times the ML is a cold-blooded and vengeful guy, but the good thing is how he melts away in duration of a single episode. There are times FL is a scheming nuts (well, actually, that is her BEST feature) and she makes mistakes that aggravate not only ML, but it's cute how she warms up to every apology.
I liked it for the two of them.
And Mr. Writer knew how to give us the "fan service". Even when they were seemingly having fights, we were joyful, because that would lead to another cute/shy/*I'm rolling on my sofa laughing* kind of reconciliation.
Hats down for FL and her ability to do makeup: from re-creating fake bruises to drag-queen-gone-wrong, she did them all.
WHAT I DID NOT LIKE
As a matter of fact, I didn't like the rest of the cast. :)
I didn't mind the second leads story, because it had some value to it. It's about how bad it is to lie about your baby-daddy and make a whole world of mess for everyone. Then, we get to see the actual reasoning behind this, and as we peel more layers, we get to understand everyone's action in that *backstabbing!* family.
The family itself is on a high level on insane. I can forgive the intensity of their madness. However, I didn't get the answer on what in the world happened to Pink's mom?! Where's my "who's done it" moment?! nothing? Fine.. live us in the dark.. it's not like this is the only drama that left me stumbling for answers and making up my own stories just to tie it all up.
And: it got a bit too draggy on all "let's not tell anyone about our secret mission" thing. Sure, fine, keep FL crying for a good long while (just so you know: I'd slap your face so hard for that.. you'd fall over!)
THE MUSIC
Good.
It has followed the story.
The couple theme was appropriate.
But, let us give applause the special sounds producers added in conversations, emphasizing the intensity of some looks. That was a nice touch! I approve it :)
RE-WATCH VALUE
Some parts, some funny/adorable moments - yes
The entire Mad Family Plotting scenes - heck, no!
OVERALL
What would you do for your family? How far would you go?
If you want to know - give this one a go.
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This was downright entertaining, the fights and their coming closer together was very entertaining and very charming to see. I recommend this to comedy and romance lovers. I liked the siblings relationship, especially the flirting the FL and another character did, just for no other reason than to piss off the ML. I also liked the ML's family who were so nice and 100% accepting of the FL, very rare given the circumstances under which she entered their family. I like how the family, including the ML never mistrusted her or mistreated her. They let her character speak for itself and were open hearted towards her. The servant, especially Paan and Ongat were awesome to see, and I also liked Taiwan and Pink's friendship. This was a lovely, funny lakorn.
The only bad thing about it was the last three or four episodes. Like a typical lakorn the last few episodes with kind of downhill, but the villain got their just desserts which was not the typical in a thai lakorn.
What also was not typical what is that ML never ever cheated on FL not even emotionally. I recommend this drama.
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TL;DR - Standard rom-com with a yandere twist that I didn't appreciate. 2ndary storyline and supporting cast make it worth watching. If you have time and like rom-coms, go for it.If I could give this a 7.25, I would. I went through all kinds of emotions that I didn't expect to from this lakorn; I was confused, enamored, disappointed, bored and ultimately satisfied in the end. The beginning was confusing for me because the family relations were not explained properly, and it took about a quarter of the way in to figure out all the relationships. I would like to explain them briefly below in case you're interested (if not then just skip the next paragraph for my review).
The FL (Fah) has a bio sister named Dao and an adopted brother named Tawan/Nuk. Fah's parents took Nuk in when his parents passed away, although her parents also passed away at some point. Nuk's mom was estranged from her dad (Nuk's gpa) bc she married someone he didn't approve of. Nuk's gpa is a boss of a big jewelry conglomerate. Eventually when Nuk got older, he went to live with his gpa to learn the business. Nuk's gpa has 3 kids; one is Nuk's mom who died, his adopted gambler son (he has his wife and 2 kids who are the main antagonists) and his daughter born from when a housemaid drugged him (she has her own son). Nuk is forced to marry Pink, who is the daughter of the guy who gpa tried to set Nuk's mom with and niece to our ML (Neung). The drama starts with Nuk's wedding and Fah trying to stop it, only to somehow end up marrying Pink's uncle, Neung.
I found the beginning to be pretty cute and although this wasn't an addictive watch for me, and there were illogical holes here and there, I enjoyed what I was seeing up to ep 22; this was where the problems started for me. To start off, I have to talk about Neung. I liked Neung a lot, not only because he was handsome, but also he was a gentleman and treated Fah very well. I was pretty enamored of him until he got all yandere with Fah after he found out she was talking to Nuk behind his back (he thought Nuk was Fah's lover at this point). He took her phone away (I think he broke it), tied her up in the bathtub, gagged her and screamed at her while (I think) spraying water at her (I'm not too clear on the details bc I hated this scene and don't want to revisit it). Like I agree that what Fah did was wrong, and sure he did it to protect her, but this still felt incredibly extreme and I felt like he could've handled it differently. I was even more disappointed with what happened after, when Neung tried to make up with Fah. His apology was more or less like "I'm sorry for what I did...but if the person doing this to me was someone I loved, then they probably had a reason for doing this and I'd understand." Like wtf, how would she know that - you two are still keeping secrets from eo and that's not an apology. An apology is owning up what you did and that's that. I felt like the Neung I'd been watching all along would be better than this. This event ruined my view of Neung and I just couldn't love him as must as I used to.
When I stopped loving Neung, I subsequently stopped being invested in the romance, and the illogical things that I'd been ignoring or suspending my beliefs for came up to bother me. Some of these were:
-Neung insta-loving on Fah
-Gpa's actions making no sense. He hates his daughter for being lowborn even though she's the one who loves him the most, but gives chances to his adopted son who's clearly a waste of space and supports his family who are clearly incompetent
-The villains were a joke and made very dumb decisions-The storyline with Fah and Nuk's parents was messy
-Why did Pin (villain's daughter) still try to go after Neung even though he was clearly married?? They never interacted b4 that and her mom was encouraging it, even though she'd look like a homewrecker.
-Why couldn't Neung tell Fah that him liking Pin was a ruse??
These were some of the things that made me feel annoyed and I eventually FF-ed due to how predictable things got. I will say, this part of the lakorn was not a lost cause; the storyline between the 2nd leads was unique and carried the lakorn for me to the end. It's funny bc at first I didn't care for Pink or Nuk, but they came out as my fave characters out of the entire show. Pink's circumstances with her pregnancy were unfortunate, but she stayed strong and classy throughout the ordeal, and you could understand where she was coming from. Her relationship with Wut was loving, mature and full of understanding. I couldn't tell if Pink would stay with Nuk or be with Wut, and would've been fine with either. Nuk was amazing as a great older brother, competent worker and a good person overall. When he learned about Pink's circumstances, he helped her and Wut out. He was there for Fah and Dao and took care of them. He was someone who you'd want to have in your corner, and became my MVP for this lakorn.
The supporting cast was also great, especially the dynamic duo of Dao's manager and Chang. Grandma was also awesome. The storyline of this lakorn got better near the end when everything was revealed, and I got back to watching in normal speed. Everyone got what they deserved. Due to the goodwill I built with most of the characters (even Neung), I was pretty satisfied with the story and character progression, and was overall happy with the ending.
All in all, I'd say this is a typical Thai rom-com (except the yandere part) and everything from the story to the music was pretty standard. The 2nd and their story was the only thing worth watching. This is an easy watch, and if you wanna pass time, I'd give this a go. I do wanna say, the casting for this lakorn was spot on esp with Dao and Nuk, which is probably why I'm not scoring this lower. Otherwise, this is not something I'd re-watch and not my cup of tea.
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Light and Enjoyful Drama
This lakorn has all the “lakorn checklist”: fake/forced marriage, annoying + loud-screaming + evil-eye antagonists, rich+spoiled children, awesome+breathtaking castles (yeah I can’t call it “house” lol), too dramatic, etc. I usually can’t get along with such lakorn, but try this one bcoz of the leads, & surprisingly I could enjoy this one!Things I like:
- Chemistry of both leads are cuteeeee, love them, especially when ML teases FL & she smiles shyly, aww. And ML’s character is warm, mature, kinda family man.
- Love story of Pink & Wut is also interesting. At first I wondered why Pink insisted on marrying Nuk & stayed in that house, later I could guess the reason.
- The strong characters of the siblings. I usually can’t endure seeing the protagonist being bullied by the antagonist. But in here, I enjoy so much when both parties argue. Bcoz when the antagonists bully/threaten the protagonists, almost everytime the protagonists are able to talk back/challenge in elegant ways, & finally they can win. Hahaha. It just satisfies me.
- Enjoy the whole stories. Only some scenes I usually skip: scenes of that crazy evil family. I skimmed it just to understand the story.
Things I don’t really like:
- after what Khun Jee had done, the ending for her isn’t really satisfying. It’s just too easy for her.
- unfortunately, the ending is so so. wish I could see Pin knowing the truth that Neung just pranked her. Also wish the leads had more deep talks after the misunderstandings they had.
I’ll recommend this if you need light, cute, not too stressful dramas.
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An Utter Waste of Time
This drama started out on a good premise. There were several moments where I thought 'what the hell was the writer thinking', but it didn't distract too much from the plot. Then as the series went on, I realised that it wasn't going anywhere. The same thing kept repeating. The problems were popping up left right and centre, however, nothing was being done to solve anything.Yes, I get that they wanted to save the big reveal until the end, but it was very frustrating. Jao Sua's daughter and her family kept doing all these evil things and nothing was being solved, Basically, this show was an utter waste of my time. I kept watching hoping that something would happen, but to no avail. I would NOT recommend this series to anyone else and if I could see one day in the future, I would have skipped it all together.
I skipped through most of this series, where I probably watched about 15 minutes in total of each episode from episode 20. This series could have been split into two instead of the entire 30 episodes,
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Great story even better in fast forward
The storyline was great. It was like someone took all the usual tropes and mixed them into the plot (sadly that did include the common LGBT+ character reps as the comedy act).Where this lost points was the slow pace. I watched most at x1.25 the speed and things still dragged and I didn’t feel like I missed a thing.
Bonus points for the lack of abuse between leads. Also princess Grandma needs an honourable mention for showing noble character. Here is one character who had all the lakorn attributes to be vengeful to FL. Instead what we get is a loving, caring person showing truely noble character.
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However the last few episodes especially episode 29 was very annoying to su the least. When u watch you’ll know what I mean- I found my self FF through episodes 25-27 trying to understand why the police were making these deciosions...
The worst was Wut mother. Lord I mean be a filial child is something but what she went through was excoriating to watch.
One thing that Lanorns do is in the last episodes forgiveness is granted and mostly everyone gets off but finally one where the evil ones were 3 steps behind and got what they deserved.
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