Mia Archeep (2020)

An interesting plot + Thai Lakorn logic = Average Drama

Yes the plot of Mia Archeep was kinda interesting. Honestly I thought this was gonna be more like The Cupid Series, because of the synopsis but it wasn't.
The ML ,Dit, gets an offer by a business associate, Robert, who apart from his cosmetics company also runs a matchmaking project called the Plan. What Robert actually does is that he takes desperate girls like the FL, Dao, and makes them sign contracts so that they are forced to participate in the Plan. He falsifies their backgrounds and makes them marry these rich CEOs and later blackmails them into spying for him on their husbands (basically corporate espionage) to make money. Dit gets catfished by Dao (on Robert's orders) and joins the Plan. He later falls for her but doesn't know whether she really loves him or not.
The drama started off pretty good with the leads being wary but flirty with each other (The leads had pretty good chemistry, so did Phupha and Kot). But the later episodes started to drag quite a lot. There were a lot of scenes which could have been cut to give more time to resolve all the issues and misunderstanding. Apart from this there were 2 things that really bugged me-
1) Most of the female characters in this drama were either pretty bad or greatly flawed. Dao regardless of her situation was deceitful, Jarunee was greedy and scheming, Walai wasn't particularly bad but she wasn't likable either, Ann was downright obsessive and annoying, Kot was haughty and unnecessarily insulting and Maeta was a bootlicker, rude and disloyal. I don't know what's with Thai Lakorns but they will either show the female characters as naive and innocent who get manhandled or as complete b*tches who are jealous, greedy or vengeful. Fortunately most male characters were pretty good and the ML, although a bit obsessive/possessive, was not full of toxic masculinity.
2) I got a serious case of second male-lead syndrome. The second lead, Nam, was an exceptionally great guy till the end and the writers of the show did him dirty. I guess many fans are saying that he deserved the FL more than the ML. I disagree. In my opinion the FL did not deserve a great guy like him (she kept stringing him along and gave him false hope) and they should have totally gotten a great female character in the show just for him. I wish for the producers to make a spin-off with him as the ML (Nam deserves his own lakorn).
Overall, Mia Archeep, although a bit draggy (and I kind of might have fast forwarded certain scenes), is a pretty good show to watch in your downtime.

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Good chemistry.

The story on it's own is wild, you have a girl that is doing a job because she really has no other choice and this rich CEO of course that happen to fall together by "fate" and they fall in love but it's never that easy because you can't build a foundation off of lies. You basically have this innocent girl that's trying to do what she needs to do so she can survive, so her family can survive and etc. She's strong, a great worker, all in all, a bad betch. The male lead isn't terrible, minus being so possessive, that part is kind of aggravating but he's a workaholic, all around good guy and he really just falls in love and he falls hard, for good reasoning and you have 2 people that are in love but nobody wants to see them together and again, you just don't know what you're really getting into. But the truth always prevails and unfortunately, everything is your average thai lakorn lol you got bad guys, bad family members, people getting shot, hired hit people trying to come at them and that's what honestly makes it average. lol.

The chemistry the main leads have was outrageous, I loved it, they had great cute moments, I felt bad for the SL, like major SLS but also, he should've known better so it kind of annoyed me and also the girl that was in love with the ML. They all played major and perfect parts but I wish they would've connected the SML and SFL and let them fall in love instead of them RUINING EVERYONE ELSES LIFE. Lol.

The music was fantastic, I loved it.

I wouldn't rewatch it, I kind of struggled watching it tbh but I don't regret watching it at all.

Overall, it was a good show. I liked that the male lead actually wasn't terrible and too toxic. I liked that the female lead was strong and did her best. I liked the SML because he was sweet. The families were pretty okay minus the bad ones lol but I liked that even though it was built off lies, they were trying their best to be honest and true. I liked that both of them wanted a positive outlook, especially the FL and that's kind of what makes the difference. Like she really wasn't trying to be bad, the ML wasn't trying to be mad and etc. It was overall, not a bad show at all.

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