Sai Yom Si (2017)

Aww... We have the older girl x younger guy spark:) She's teasing him since day 1 (because SHE doesn't lose her cool anymore;) He is sooo cute:)) I was enjoying, though reading the synopsis I was preparing for the disappointment when he falls for somebody else (I prefer happy endings).

Tangmo Nida (whom I remember from 2009 'The Dark Tanned Lady') portrays a character who at first lives in perfect reverse-harem situation. Men are not scarse and she is smart in dealing with each of them. But, it sometimes happens that someone who is smart and wordly-wise after all their experience falls for someone completely innocent.

First, the cute and nice younger guy seems interested in her right back. But she considers herself smarter than really going for the greenhorn. So she accepts a marriage proposal from a guy I found suspicious suddenly proposing to her. So, apparently she was not that smart to realize maybe she shouldn't go for complete stranger. It instantly felt like she made wrong decision.

Tangmo Nida can't really cry onscreen so she somewhat squints her eyes couple a times when that chapter doesn't end victorious for her (both men she's most invested in are taken, and firmly - read financially - bound to someone else). The woman she portrays in this role is charming, witty and capable to defeat strong rivals; but money she doesn't have. She has her clock ticking and the chances of marrying rich are getting slimmer every day, at our times when even rich guys need to marry someone richer.

She comes back to the young guy when she needs cheering up and he welcomes her with open arms even after she tossed him away when things were still good for her. Meanwhile, her carefree lifestyle - read debts - also silently grow on consequence. With the younghorn hanging, she keeps spreading her wings elsewhere, but I no longer believed her to be smart.

Sometimes it's unclear - if this is a romance - whom she's got her romance WITH. Most heartbroken she is over one of the rich guys, the most sexual tension she has with the other rich guy who is married and her boss, and the most emotional and cute she is with the young guy. And that's still not complete list of all her guys. So it really seemed a reverse-harem story but somehow it was far from a carefree one: as I was afraid this heroine might end up with an unhappy ending.

She starts with picking the least perspective guy to hang with and active decision to lose the young guy (who might be true love). She actively invites her future rival into her house. She ditches one of the less glamorous guys who is nevertheless always ready to genuinely take care of her, in a hurtful way. She refuses to listen what the boss guy tries to tell her. Will all this come back to her in the end to bite her? Probably. If this is supposed to be some kind of cautionary tale.

As the already established guys are also already taken, she picks the aspiring guy and builds him up. Apparently she hopes that she'll still have him when he becomes big, but the guy is shown as promiscuous and self interested to the audience. His career relies on him charming women and on his looks, which are modern style (read: he looks gay) surrounded mostly with androgynous types of the modeling/acting "beauty industry". I'm not into "pretty boys" or the not/operated men-women so this was not my eye candy. Also I knew she bet on the wrong horse and I won't get to see the main heroine ending up well. So I wasn't enjoying anymore.

At 1/2 of the series, the young guy still says he loves the main girl - so it's not like in the synopsis, which simply states that he "didn’t love her back" - but, he already starts developing rapport with the young girl of "same age": the actress is 17.

I am quite tired with this because it's not much fun. I understand this probably attempts to be a life lesson story because the main girl will most likely pay for (some of) her mistakes. But I don't need to watch it unfold... One night, the main heroine comes home shattered and needs to receive a life advice from a 17-year old. I thought, now I've seen enough, LOL.

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