Talay Luang (2021)

What a very enjoyable lakorn!

This might be the most enjoyable lakorn I've watched yet. There were a few clichés, but they didn't really ruin my enjoyment of the story. I liked that the drama let you make your own mind about the characters. There are no side characters describing the main character and telling you, the viewer, what to think from the get go. Instead you get to watch them act and make your mind. Now I'll go into more details:
-The story: The story is nothing new under the sun. Amnesia plot with a helping of kind hearted island people. There's a lot of action, many murder attempts, and of course secrets, sex and money. But it's all really well done, especially for a thai lakorn. Usually thai dramas have really bad pacing, with a big chunk of filler episodes and then a rushed ending, this drama was the exception. Here things kept happening with sometimes a bit of repetition (especially if you binge watch like me), but nothing too bad. Also the bad guys really are the strong suit of this drama. I always like when a villain is scary smart and compelling. The villains here are all that and more. The comic relief is also extremely well written.
-The acting was overall VERY good. Mik is not my favorite actor but he did okay, same for Sammy. The side characters were on point, except the FL's best friend who's a newbie,and even then she was good overall. The two big villains were extremely well played. But for me the scene stealer was Prapas. What a great, well acted character!
-I forced myself to pay attention to the music, and yeah it was actually very good.
-The rewatch value is very subjective. Once I've had closure, the only reason I would have to revisit a drama would be the sweet scenes. There were not many of these here. The drama is really good, but not enough kiss for me to revisit haha.

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A Lakorn worth a place in your watchlist

This Lakorn started of well with typical Lakorn characters..sweet heroine , greedy villains , bitchy ladies etc ..but it draws your attention & keeps u engaged . Usually I feel in Lakorns female lead has max screen time but here everything revolves around male lead ( esp a smart one for once ) & MIK did a great job ..I like how he could portray variations in his character . Chemistry btw leads is very good but it left me wanting more ..the last 2 episodes were a quite draggy or else I would have rated this much high .
Overall I would definitely recommend this ..Watch it for intelligent male lead ..and a very pretty heroine .

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