Sed Thee Teen Plao (2020)

If you were expecting a country romance lakorn then this might not be for you. What we have is a FAMILY drama with a bit of romance by the main leads to tie it all together set against the backdrop of a local drug lord trying to buy all the land. I'll be upfront and say I usually don't watch family drama's but by the time I realised what I was watching, I was 6 episodes in. So I was invested and hoped it would turn around. Unfortunately it became a chore to finish and but I persisted and my hope was that there would be enough sweetness by the Main Leads to offset the other stuff. I hoped in vain.

STORY

This was a messy story with so many story threads, it took time away from the main storyline of the nang'ek and p'ek. Most of the story threads were unnecessary and served no useful purpose, if this was a lakorn of 50+ episodes maybe everything could have been evenly developed but the script tried to cram too many things in the 31 episodes. Let me go through the list of story threads

P'ek and Nang'ek shared the "main" storyline.

P'ek sister,brother,mother and the gold chaser of the p'ek each had they own storylines.

Then we have the two brother in the nang'ek side who both have minor romance storylines.

Also the estranged brother of the nang'ek has his own storyline shared with his wife

We have the villain family in the farm who have 2 different storylines, one being the main crime backdrop and the other being comic relief.

Trying to give all these storyline threads some screentime just made the lakorn into a jumbled mess.

ACTING/CAST

Ben was not a very convincing lead for me but at least his character wasn't a total cuck and simp. He was very upfront with his feelings and chased after what he wanted. I did feel like his character portrayal lacked the toughness that I expect in strong leads as his character came across as too soft spoken. Chingching pulled a great performance with what the script allowed her to do, but she didn't have as much screentime as I expected due to the messiness of the story.

Everyone else did an acceptable role but the standouts were the Somyai parents who played their roles pretty well. The actress who played Keawta (one of nang'ek brothers love interest) was very pretty and would have been great as maybe a second lead.


MUSIC

I loved the music and selection in certain scenes, the opening theme and closing theme were quite good. I recently started listening to Luk Thung and the song choices were spot-on.

REWATCH

Nope

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