My Hero Series: Lines of Trickery Love (2018)

This show features the f**ked-up family lives. Pra'ek comes from tragedy family situation, chooses to live as a social worker to fight justice (which is not always met by aproval of his superiors). It looks like he could use a therapy as he quite loses control when seeing similar things he witnessed as a child. He meets two girls. One is living the hell of the poor. The other is living the hell of the rich. Both are actually treated quite similar by their "close ones", so much that it's funny.

The rich girl lives in the house right across of his, he actually brings up a telescope to watch her, LOL. He's more on point to asses her situation than with the poor girl (there he keeps some misunderstandings). While the poor girl still keeps her fighting spirit and also has her best friend, the rich girl clings to pra'ek as her only help, else she is just helplessly forced to smile in public. While the poor girl has to withstand hardship and mistreat at work to earn a little money only to get those wasted by her relatives, the rich girl is a prisoner of them who her family ows big money to.

If the poor girl & rich girl have one thing common, it's they have that kind of a mother they'd be better off without. I felt they both should have just leave home (be it the poor or rich house) and never look back.

What I didn't like was while there were 2 slimy evil guys, there was only 1 pra'ek. Therefore, in order to get rid of the competition, one of the girls - the rich one - slowly starts to act more like a nang'rai. Which was a pitty, because in the beginning, I would have preferred if pra'ek was going for the rich girl. She was the one who the big bad guy wanted, also she wasn't acting as silly so their couple interactions didn't remind of bickering of two ten-year-olds. But it's the poor girl on the poster, and pra'ek seems to go for her. Then the rich girl shows sincere remorse and shares good feelings with pra'ek, too. I really started zoning out. If the show itself didn't know which couple to cheer on, then how was I supposed to? One episode before last the two girls were still arm-pulling the guy in between themselves. Literally.

Similar to other multi-series called 'The Cupids', even here we deal with such a grave theme as human trafficking. AND similar to 'The Cupids', such theme is in great discordance with the character's silly antics. If human trafficking is really such a common occurence in Thailand, making such stupid tv shows about it is probably helping the real mafia even more.

The big evil guy's night club of course has a "cool" english name and I snickered every time it was shown. The club is called 'Booze' (what a classy name for a club, LOL). When thai are using english in any way, it is funny every time. But it's scary when a tender aged girl starts working in that nightclub as a "gentlemen's companion" and soon disappears (eerily underlined by the fact the barely 20 yr actress was dead before this aired). The guy himself (and his right hand man) looks rather lame with bland, plain looks and badly un/shaven beard.

I wasn't enjoying this much in any way, not as romance, not as drama... After all I was glad this was 8 episodes only. It felt long already.

Right before final of course there is even more action, kidnapping and gunfight, during which the "big boss" does the smuggling of girls across the border in person along with his henchmen who never seem to run out of bullets even if they unexpectedly leave the car and run off into a forest with a single gun. I was tired of hearing constant gunshots. Anyone knows some good romance series? Apparently not to be found much among thai lakorns. Those seem to compete in being as "crime sharp" as possible.

When I got to the final I was totally zoning out, I didn't care who got arrested, who got killed or who got mad. Everyone acted stupid to the EXTREME. Episode runtime was double than it should be.

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