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Azet
5 people found this review helpful
Nov 2, 2018
15 of 15 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 9.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 10
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 7.5
"Ab Ruk Online" are a very enjoyable lakhorn starring four great actors,Anne,Peter,Mark and Kimberly.This one are my first lakhorn were i got to see Anne co-starr with another actor than Ken,and this is my third lakhorn starring both Mark and Kimberly together,and i mostly watched this,cuz i wanted to watch their love-story.Kim and Mark really have a great chemistry."Ab Ruk Online" are Anne´s third production,and i have to say that she is a very great producer,i have almost watched all her produced lakhorns and i have to say i love her work.This drama has a great cast,the similar cast to "Punya Chon Kon Krua" and "When a Man Loves a Woman",wonderful plot,amazing characters and lovely romance.

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Completed
Sidhika Trisha
3 people found this review helpful
Jun 22, 2021
15 of 15 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 8.0
Story 8.5
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 7.0

Trust me this show is Amazing

●HOW I CAME TO IT
This drama was suggested by my MDL friend SHINO,, and indeed this was a very refreshing and quality work which has excellent rom com presentation.

●STORY
The series is drawn with four major characters, Lipda has a stock broking company and likes Awwasaya, who has been by her side since he started his company. Awwasaya is a hard working woman but is in love with her junior office worker Pranon, and to court him she starts a secret chat without revealing her name. The whole office gets curious as to who is the secret lover of pranon and everybody tries to find out. However pranon gets confused and thinks his coworker Pripprou is texting him. This whole lot of confusion creates new twists and lies which is so interesting.

●PLOT VIEW
The online love, admiring someone without revealing who you are, its quite catchy and interesting. It happened when the phones were newly launched and I have seen many successful stories of online love but its also risky that the other person may be a bad one.
This series was clear concepted that you fall for the face, not for the words and warmth received online. I had lot of questions regarding pranon affection as he definitely did not sort out whom he actually liked and goes with the wave rather than getting the truth only to have regret later.
i was rooting for Awwasaya from the start and wanted her happy ending. but the way this series took a 360 degree turn kept me thinking, but still i admired the maturity she showed in every aspect. she had a caring side but she wants t be strong and thats nothing wrong. she dealt with her heartbreak very maturely which made me like her even more.
I hated the working environment as the coworkers were too much nosy, they were like paparazzi who want uncover the secret lover. It was too much and I literally skipped through these corny group meetings.

●ACTING/CAST
Anne Thong as Awwasaya, just stood as powerful pack of surprise. I am highly impressed by her character portrayal. one strong woman who didn’t rely her life on man and can do anything. I just added her to my fav thai actress list. I cant believe she is such a senior actress, but looks young, no wonder her acting is flawless.
Peter corp As Lipda was fun and loyal being. His selfless love towards saya is impressive. He is the type of boss one could ask for. His expression and laugh were totally killer.
Ekkachai As Run a homosexual person was flawless. He is the friend I truly want, supportive every time through thick and thin. he entertained though out the drama and is very cute to watch. his dialogue delivery and body language were flawless.
Mark prin as Pranon was really a confused person who didn’t realize whom he likes. He needed to sort out his feeling first than to question out his partner feelings. He was good but not impressive, his face seemed as if he is depressed most of the time
Kimberly Kim as Pripprou was the most annoying among the four leads. Instead of questioning other love, she should have been truthful about herself. her stupid actions not only hurt her but majority of the people. If she had not been in the series it would have a simple story. The only good thing was she had continuous character growth.


●MUSIC
Music was fine but not catchy except for the closing track. I thought that this is sung by Peter corp and later checked it to know my guess is correct. he also has a scene singing and truly he got a mesmerizing voice.

●REWATCH
I liked the series and only thing I will rewatch would be Awwasaya scene, she is the perfect example of strong independent woman, very inspiring.

●APPRECIATION
The importance of family and friends was depicted nicely. Human need to be kind and honest to each other. Because we all know if we lie once, we need to lie again to cover up the previous lie, hence creating a mountain of lie. We need to be upfront about our feeling.
The food for thought written by Awwasaya on her blog were not just excellent for the series it were also helpful to ordinary person who can connect to her deep thoughts. these thought gives a clear and different aspect to look at the world and face problems.

●CRITICISM
The work environment felt suffocating. there should have been some rules regarding the workplace.
The return of Ex was like a typical lakron only to torture the leads.

●FAV SCENE
When Lipda gives Awwasaya the task of switching on the TV, Changing the clothes and cook food with the hands tied. This was a really fun game and I would really try it someday.

●RECEMMENDATION
This was not a typical lakron, so am highly satisfies after watching this. it was lacking in thing but is enjoyable to heart content making you sob.

●AFTERTHOUGHT
I don’t agree with the thought that woman should pretend to be helpless just to lure a man, she should be independent. Why men cant be sure of their feeling, going around flirting with girls. if they are so sure about their feeling why wait just pursue the girl and try your hardest to win her.

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Oct 20, 2022
15 of 15 episodes seen
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Overall 3.5
Story 2.0
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
On one hand, this has distinctive Aew Ampaiporn trade mark of thai romance lakorn at its best: fleshy characters, lively conversations and the right amount of fluff. On the other hand, I found the whole "secret pen-friend" plot VERY dragged and after TEN (movie-long episodes) I would be HONESTLY happy to wrap it up even if the guy went on a date with the wrong girl! SO tired of the thing. If the guy was ready to date WHOEVER it was that wrote messages to him, no matter how she looked like, who she was, so be it. Just FINALLY be done with it, PLEASE. I found Anne Thongprasom still very pretty in this, but still old for Prin Suparat. Her character was shown to be a sensible woman, there's no way she should actually think their couple would work in real, which might be the reason she just wrote to him anonymously, that I could understand. Then she could gradually cease it (instead of pursuing it). But no, this dragged for most of the series, supported by the circle of, eh... supporting characters, the office gossipers who just were completely uncapable to mind their own bussiness. Make no mistake, the gay best friend was GREAT (if HE was the only one discussing her private life). But the rest of the office assembly was obviously paid for nothing. I would have them all fired lol. Ironically enough, Tuck Boriboon & Gubgib Sumonthip were the hottest & sexiest people in this lakorn, lol. Just one of many things that drowned totally in the whole experience of watching 5+ people having nothing else in their lives than to meddle in life of somebody else. The series consists of FIFTEEN episodes, so I waited WHEN we shall finally move PAST this and see the development of the end-game couples (since the beginning, the insert & credits inform us who's to end up with whom:) After like, EIGHTEEN HOURS of runtime, you can imagine how prolonged it felt, lol. (And that was only 10/15). Anne Thongprasom's character acted more and more silly and ridiculous for her age. After such a long time, instead of her gradually discovering that behind the immature playboy behavior and stupid tatoos there was the right man for her all along, and instead of calling him "boss" despite being far from office (or english-speaking country), she allowed her early encounter which should have remained a cute little thing (appreciation for his knightly behavior in episode 1) develop into heavy, pathetic drag. Or, the scriptwriter did, for more than 2/3 of the drama. The episode runtime was KILLING me. Because this was seriously threatening to tire me to death. Even after we finally got to at least some development in later episodes, still screentime was spent with watching the characters WRITING something, rather than watching them in action lol. Episode 13 I had to smirk. You can watch beautiful Kimberley Anne Woltemas, dressed in super-sexy black dress, getting rebuked by the main guy that she was not able to log in into the e-mail account from which he got such a lovely messages from. It obviously did not matter to him how much the beautiful woman in front of him cried and wanted to talk to him about REAL feelings. No, the messages were the most important and romantic lol. Truth is anyone can send you loads of supportive wisdom and motivation quotes from the internet anonymously. It's who is there for you in real world that counts... Prin Suparat's main guy then goes on a date with the right person from the messaging, portrayed by Anne Thongprasom, who's ill-matched by age but agrees with starting fresh and the date reminds you of watching someone who's child got exchanged at birth and after a long time of raising the other child he can now hug his own but the hug feels strange. Nevertheless, upon seeing this, her "boss" gives up his hope. Kimberley's "bad girl" does something brave and good underneath her new villain mask. That I appreciated. Also, about their real feelings, almost everyone of the main foursome finally realizes the truth. Well, high time, only 1 last episode to go. Only 1 episode left after this show FINALLY stopped to drag, lol. We then have the final episode, and 2 of the main 4 characters are STILL sorting out their feelings. Perhaps another 15-episode series would be needed to describe their love stories after they finally know who's actually having romance with whom? But I don't think I could manage another 15x110 minutes lol. This was LONG more than anything else, to be honest. So, one more HOUR, in which the characters began the courtship finally between the right people, was enough, especially when they did it... mostly through MESSAGES. (I had to lower my rating yet further when even during the final I had to read many messages across the screeen.)

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