Dhevaprom: Poncheewan (2024)

watch poncheewan if you want hypertension.

all i can say is... just read the novel & 6/10 because of kao and pp's chemistry because it was sizzling!

but, if you want a quick review on the drama, here i come!

i am always sour on how things played out because they had so so much potential to be a light and fun show because the angst part is gone. BUT NO, it was messier than a toddler's drawing

so the plot is just simply: saruj discovering his feelings for cheewan -> cheewan rejecting him or being in denial -> saruj always getting involved with his ex with no boundaries -> saruj: "oh lets travel together w ex bcs she is in trouble" -> cheewan realizing her feeling -> cheewan starts taking action -> ex being a bitch and tearing things -> last minute together with no proper explanation.

tbh, when i was watching the trailer, i knew it was a mess when suraj was hugging not just one but two women that was not cheewan. and i was right. but i still watched it weekly because i didn't trust myself and i was into dhevaprom.

the only thing worthy of watching is the cameos of juthathep and dhevaprom. other than that, maybe no-

the writer favor poncheewa yet not making her story any better and making her a male-hopper(?). what do you mean you got back with your baby's father and he died, then you immediately realized your feelings for childhood friend, i assume cause dhevaprom and juthathep were not linked then. (so badly done)

to me, i feel like you can watch up to ep 9, maybe the first 30 minutes of ep 15 and last 15 minutes of 16, if you want to smoother ride and reduce your blood pressure.

+ i was so mad when saruj had no line and going overseas with your ex with no explanation? and not even trying to reach out is a huge new level of red flag & after that, i rooted cheewan to be alone and not to be with that red flag (fyi, i read tweets mentioning that in the novel, saruj had a fine line that only cheewan could cross and he did not like physical touch!)

and the ending- what do you mean we could have a wedding of both of them + a photoshoot with all of the juthathep x dhevaprom couples like the ending of the gentleman juthathep series where we could have gotten more content of all 10 of them as a whole??? or like all of them looking at the next generation?

other than the goddamn plot, others was ok. kao and pp fits their character well, creamy and saint's chemistry is a little awkward but what makes them special! but i won't rewatch it.

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Wasted Potential… Nice OSTs though!

I dropped this lakorn on episode 6… I just can’t get through the succeeding episodes anymore. I just watched clips of the lakorn through Twitter and honestly was just tuning in for the Jutathep cousins’ cameos and the ChatKwan wedding everybody’s been waiting since the beginning of the series.

Truth to be told, this was the next Dhevaprom installment I was anticipating for because I thought this would have a feel-good and fun kind of vibes after the drama-filled and angst-filled drama that is Dujupsorn. Like I expected this would be a light watch because it’s the final installment of the series. I even thought that theur conflict would lie around the fact that Cheewan thinks she’s inferior to Saruj and that she’ll be trying to get on terms with the fact that she is not inferior and their statuses do not matter at all. But alas… what I’ve gotten wasn’t what I expected.

I heard that the screenwriter of Poncheewan has a bias towards Poncheewa, which was why they focused more on her story. And it’s not like Cheewan and Saruj’s story were the next focus after Poncheewa because it’s literally Muslin, her husband, and a supposed nobleman (Saruj) that sticks his nose in her business.

I also don’t like how they wrote the characters in this installment. Like you’re telling me the Khun Phum we have seen in the previous lakorns, most especially in Dujupsorn is the same one in Poncheewan? Absolutely not ? even the characters of the 5 monkeys were ruined by one single scene (when they supported Saruj’s plan on literally eloping with Muslin ?).

I also was so confused by the fact that anybody can just go in and out of the Jutathep Palace? Like what is going on? ?

On the other hand, I enjoyed the cameos of the other Dhevaprom girls, especially during that banquet scene! All so pretty. And that scene where all the Dhevaprom girls paid their respect to Grandma Orn… it got me giggling.

Now this may seem an unpopular opinion but I did wish they did ChatKwan’s wedding in their own lakorn or they should’ve just implied they got married in the show just like what they did with Laorchan and Phu’s wedding in Dujupsorn. I guess something about it being promoted more and more by the PH and the channel itself was odd cause like why are they promoted more than the main leads themselves? ? well anyway, that wedding scene was cute so it is what it is. I wouldn’t have minded it if the main leads were main leading in their own story, but they weren’t so…

To add, I also love the OST in this drama. I heard that that was supposed to be the OST of the entire series, and I see it honestly. It perfectly captures the essence of the next generation of Dhevaproms and Jutatheps.

The OST, KaoPP’s chemistry, the 5 Monkeys’ cameos, and the Dhevaprom ladies’ cameos are genuinely the only saving grace of this lakorn. #JusticeForKaoPP #JusticeForPoncheewan

Do I recommend this lakorn? Honestly, no :(

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