Kol Ruk Luang Jai (2011)

COULD'VE BEEN BETTER

I think there should have been fewer episodes for this storyline. It was dragging and quite repetitive. Their characters were not constant and they keep on changing, from good to irritating to cold to heartless then loving again. They keep on misunderstanding each other and it really bothered me how forgiveness was so hard to get.

it would've been a great story had it been more straight to the point or at least a more clear way of storytelling.

There was, however, a thought that I really liked, Bua (the n' ek) stood by her words that everyone is equal and is deserving of equal treatment.

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A funny lakorn filmed partially in Prague. Pra'ek with looks of Ken Theeradeth is still single and works at Royal Thai Embassy. His mother is unhappy with him still being unmarried in his thirties, to the point that she is now forcing him to enter an arranged marriage. So, he asks his friend for help, because he's got an idea that if he hired someone posing as his girlfriend, then she could block the arranged woman from getting to him. His friend then looks for a girl for him, whom he could hire and asks his local pimp for a paid girl. At the same time though, the friend's sister, who's got a longtime crush on pra'ek, hears about this and decides impulsively to get hired for the task herself. Therefore, for love, she pretends to be a hooker, LOL. It has to be noted that with looks of Janie Tienphosuwan, she is convincing as such. She arrives at Prague airport in red mini-dress, black sunglasses and black leather high boots. Her make-up screams from a mile off.

It's funny, because had she been a real call-girl she would not have the need to dress up like that in public for everyone to see, but because she only pretended to be one, she needed to, LOL. Either way, pra'ek obviously doesn't remember, or recognize his friend's kid sister. Hers is the unrequited crush, then. It's cute to watch her using the oportunity to be openly flirty with him now, as she is playing the prostitute role anyways. The more funny it is that his reactions to that are totally stuck-up: not interested in paid women any more than in arranged brides, he keeps being all bussiness. So, while in general I would prefer Ken to be paired with softer beauty than Janie, she did fit the requirements for this kind of a plot. I couldn't help but approve the way her character grabbed the chance to flirt her pra'ek. It was certainly getting her his attention at last, and it was hilarious.

But! The runtime of this lakorn is HUGE...

So, besides this, there is the second couple, who is even more raunchy than the first couple, formed by pra'ek's best friend, the one who's a regular at "massage parlors", portrayed by funny & sexy Not Vorarit (perfect cast) and the uptight, glasses-wearing "reporter", nevertheless portrayed by the bombshell Sara Legge. These two instantly "hit it off" right their first meeting, when he - what would you guess? - mistakenly takes her for a hooker, lol. These two are even more funny than the main ones, and didn't need to travel all the way to Prague for it, lol. Speaking of which, I indeed thought the Prague setting would suffice for the 1st epi, why the filming lingered there was a mystery to me. It was not needed at all for the plot. When I had to watch sequences like Janie wandering the Old Town at night wearing her "hooker clothes", encountering a young guy who was supposed to scare Janie by whistling at her (the volunteer "actor" almost choking at one point, not able to really whistle for the fourth time in a row:) and then almost getting raped near the Old Town Square, I really thought that enough was enough. Let's get back to romantic comedy, not parody, here. Only thing I liked was when Ken's pra'ek received a small buquet of a few gentle tulips from Janie as thank you. It was a cute & touching gesture and looked way better than the huge buquet Sara Legge received from the naughty second pra'ek back in Thailand;)

Then the third couple is introduced, which is nang'ek's friend, portrayed by Selina Pearce, and nang'ek's intended future husband, portrayed by Boy Chokchai, whose character is the guy nang'ek fled to Prague from, lol. He then starts to harrass her friend instead, resulting in very bad/not visible "kiss" (it looks more like he wants to choke her or strangle her) on the same annoying level as Boy Chokchai's low acting skills. Gee, the 3rd couple will be a pain.

Since epi 3, it starts getting boring (overly prolonged). Instead of returning to Thailand, yet more cast arrives in Prague, including praek's arranged marriage girl. Janie's nang'ek then moves into pra'ek's bedroom to play the girlfriend role, but does not sleep in a bed with him (despite her character is supposed to be a hooker) and rather sleeps on the floor. Second couple got separated, because praek's sister came to Prague, too. Third couple is annoying as before, only now without even the poor quality "kiss". Looks like many skippable filler episodes await...

I'm putting this on hold as I'm not very excited to see more.

Episode 4: Okay after I put ths show for 2 months on ice I attempted episode 4. I did not finish it. I am dropping this for the lack of futher interest.

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