Give that Dog an Oscar

I want to try to be kind. But it's nearly impossible. As a victim of cutie pie the series the year before, I have to say that I knew better and blame myself fully for watching this. I take full accountability for my bad decisions. I'd read both novels so I had a general idea of the plot and back story of each. And yes. The novel of naughty babe is just as bad as this. In fact I'd reckon the series is better in some aspects.

Story
There is none. They had good comedic timing in the beginning but while watching i came to the realization that i was using what I'd read in the books to fill gaps and explain away my confusion. Or maybe my brain is foggy from my old age. I still feel like I'm missing hours of my time from watching this. The cast was very attractive. The filter was a bit brighter. The product placements were a thing of beauty. Tell me a word for shameless in your language. Bills must be paid.

Acting/Cast
We need to retire this ship. Come for me, disagree if you want but since the whyru days of maxnat. I have always had a problem with an underage boy being paired with a twenty nine year old adult. I never liked it but seeing them in cutie pie I learned to stomach it. At least in my mind, nat was old enough to consensually do...those things he did. But let's be honest. NAT IS A TERRIBLE ACTOR. He has two default modes of expression; opening his mouth and widening his eyes. His enunciation sucks. He can't cry. He looks juvenile when being sexy. It's been almost five years and he's still this bad? At least Kuea Keerati gave us range. Max was okay. He looks mean naturally so he didn't have to work too hard. zeenunew were zeenunewing as usual with the cringe.
The Dog was the real star. He was obedient, he was cute, he looked great in his outfits. I mean...he was a better actor than the main leads. Carried the show on those four spindly legs.

Rewatch Value
If you want to lose your mind. Go right ahead.

Edit: Finale
It was definitely a ride. Even with all the complaints it had a lot of good moments. Dont take it too seriously and you'll be fine. Well done khun diao and hia yi. Enjoy your success

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Everybody is a BIG fool!!! and I love it

Don't judge me for my bad taste
Everytime I watch this show I'm always screaming "you're a fool" at someone over being foolish, stupid and dumb (usually the three at the same time). The fact that a lot of people decided to take this show so personally and be so offended at its existence and were upset that people actually liked it is what sends me.

Personal thoughts
The show is literally called "bad guy my boss" so it is to be assumed we already should've expected what we're getting into and people were still coming back every week to complain? What exactly was you expecting? Academy award winning performances? a dramatic plot? Hollywood studio producers? a blockbuster? or euphoria typa aesthetics? Let's be serious please. This show is exactly what it said it is, often times trashy, wattpad level of cringe and a dumpster fire of pure mess.

Story
Now. I won't ignore that the show was written very badly. It definitely was, but that's its defining charm because the writers and producers seemed not to take themselves too seriously, to create a story that was lighthearted, and very sweet from a very popular genre as old as time ....."sexy boss man wants to fuc ....err penetrate naive secretary" but oh wait naive secretary is in fact in love with sexy boss man and is an undercover freak in bed. YES, YES, YES this is one of those secret guilty pleasures I should enjoy in peace. This is right up there with mafia king kidnaps innocent civilian and falls in love (365 days type shii), billionaire playboy marries poor orphan, most popular guy falls for ugly duckling plain jane or Alpha mates with luna or bonds with omega. I watched pitbabe too btw and i loved it and it was just as bad as this. So sue me.

The point i'm trying to make genres like this exists for people like me who just loves consuming them, because you honestly dont need to think hard very hard, its usually funny, there's always a happy ending, and it proves that out there, there's really someone for everybody and you too will find love, because love is beautiful and it doesn't judge you. It comes exactly when you need it.

And that's why i adore this show and why i kept tuning in. The happiness on Pat's face whenever Elyes loved on him. That glow. I mean the penis must have been phenomenal too but dang they was in love. And i loved it regardless of the misunderstandings; even with kim (damn kim. Aww you'll get yours too king), teeranai, thiti, the ex girlfriend, feilong with the; clunky loafers, one outfit and white ankles and Run. Btw Run is gorgeous. Big s/o to the casting team. Everyone is a snack. Run, Thiti, Kimhan. TOPTIER
...….......Even with all those misunderstandings they worked it out and now he got the happy ending he was so afraid to hope for because he thought he didn't deserve it. Many a times I wanted to slap Khun Elyes for being a dog bastard but as the great draya michele once said "your hoeness can be deleted". So as far as Pat's concerned Elyes is as pure as driven snow. But Pat's a better person than me cos I would have dragged kim's ass for kissing my man. I don't play like that. Fool was up there crying.
And the exposition was crazy. A character would narrate a whole backstory without drawing breath randomly to explain a situation they could have just woven into the scenes. And the flashbacks were even worse.

Overacting
Well they tried they best. A lot of times James was a bit forceful and did look like he wanted to burst out laughing but Kad was able to compensate for that and at times the cast were stiff with each other but they carried they roles well. A lot of them were first timers as actors and i gave them grace I did read the book and i think they sold this buswreck as best as they could. But i busted out laughing a lot whenever teeranai was in his villian era.

Music
Yeah. The soundtrack was a mix of early 2000s telenovela osts and 80's porno bgm. Especially in the beginning but you'd eventually get used to it. The music was at most times used to set the mood of scenes of smoke filled tension, rose tinted lust, jealousy, anger, teeranai...etcetera. I swear the music is so random and loud

Disappointment
In the book they had a character in a wheelchair. Jz i believe whom had a partner. That would have been nice to see on screen bring some diversity to thai shows esp for PLWDs community. But i guess the budget went as far as it could. Hmm

Conclusion
I looked forward to this show everyweek. I'd make tea lay om my bed and have a grand ole time. The show is honestly not that bad. I understand why a lot of people were impatient with it. I also have complained about shows like this. But this particular one had a certain charm. It must have been that first scene of Pat having flashbacks of Elyes' flash bang...anyways I loved it and i suggest that before starting it you'd realise that this show should be taken at face value and If you dont like it that's perfectly fine. But complain once and leave us to our trashy show lol

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I like Grandma

Story
There are glaringly 3 main problems I've encountered watching this. The first one being ;

1. The story's writing. The plot centers around the protagonist jack being bamboozled (big word for scammed) by Joker and forced to work as an enforcer for a criminal as restitution. Joker coming out from prison to help jack pay off his debt as penance for destroying his life and ruining his future. The both of them growing as people and falling in love while taking down the big bad boss.

This is a very good plot that would have worked efficiently with better writing. I noticed that the deficiencies in the story lied with several branching arcs of different characters and storylines that were mostly forgotten and firmly rushed at the end of the series The pacing of the show was either too fast or too slow a lot of times with scenes being jumbled up with poor continuity as it moved from an episode to the next, with the same characters doing several sidequests and repeating the patterns of previous episodes.

2. Character development
Unfortunately there were a lot of the characters storylines, that might have improved the overall quality of the storywere in fact neglected . Everyone else that wasn't jack or joker barely had any backstories to explain some of their actions or to predict what they'd do next. The whys weren't explained enough so we didn't care about the hows. I never felt anyone was really or danger or going to die. Maybe if they had exposited a bit more, it might raised the stakes and heightened the tension. I never really felt

As for our two leads...Jack was the same naive fool that had been tricked 4 times in the span of 10 episodes while his love interest, a reckless bull headed idiot (that thought he was a genius) that escalated situations for the worse. Joker still often times resulted to being a thief to solve problems and Jack ran headfirst into problems because of this. And that's why the story fell in a loop as they always ended up in the same issues again and again.

3. Love story
McSexy Feat. McHottie
That's my nickname for yinwar. They make a very cohesive and attractive pairing. Both being very good-looking with striking constrasts. If not for anything they'll continue to be successful because people genuinely enjoy watching them on screen. Good chemistry and palpable sexual tension.
The reasons why i praised yinwar for their ship earlier, is because they're damn good ship. Better than most I've seen this year because, you actually can see them in your head sneaking off somewhere being in love or just being friends. They sell it. And they sold it. Even with the plotholes , we were rewarded with a cute scene or two per episode of them just being them. I wanted the satisfaction of just seeing them lock eyes and say the "i love yous" and kisses of deep passion. I always looked forward to their scenes.

The buildup to their characters falling in love was quite rushed. There was no real resolution of the past that would justify jack forgiving joker for fucking with him, and then later falling in love with him, after hating his guts for so long.

Then there's hope and save. Just throw those two away. Wasting precious screentime that should have gone into arranging this story.

Acting
It had some good solid moments. A lot of heartmelting scenes that reminded me of human resilience in the face of poverty. Corruption nd systemic oppression.

Zorzo is gorgeous as always. I enjoyed scenes with her. A lot of the side characters were criminally unutilized except as brief comedic relief or plot vehicles. Applause to the older actors (boss man made me despise him fr) for doing great jobs. Nice to see Mark Siwat in a new role as well.

Grandma was a treat.


Conclusion
I felt the most relief watching the boss and that psycho sidekick of his get defeated. So satisfying. But I'd say that the ending was a bit silly in how it escalated as them cosplaying the squid games.

I think all in all with its mistakes it still rounded out to be a fairly good show that made you root for the underdog. I see the excitement for yinwar and they carried it as best as they could.

P.s are we ignoring that people were stuffing crystals into teddies?

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I was praying for her downfall

A semi- rant

For the past 15 years the whole world has been trying to navigate this social media world with no sort of modicum of dignity and a little bit of sanity. Sadly the reality of today clearly shows that the power of online personalities and their pull on the minds of consumers. These influencers are deem powerful with their ability to sell you a life you don't need but you've been convinced you can somehow afford.
Watching the celebrity didn't teach me anything profound that i didn't already know fr. People living fake lives, because it seems that's the only way they can earn a living while the rest of us judge them from the comfort of our phones. Proclaiming how we're all better than that, smarter than that but still encouraging them by watching their videos, liking their feeds, buying their products and using their promocodes.

Seo Ah ri is a self-righteous hypocrite. Her disdain for the other influencers showed that she did in fact have a superiority complex. From oh I don't have social media, to oh I just fell into it cos I have a short bob and cute style? to, oh I'm too good to be an influencer for money, to oh I can do whatever I want and not expect any consequences, to oh the consequences came but I'm too good of a person. How? ! just how am I suffering this?

Her character felt like some sort of caricature. She is supposed to represent what being a true internet celebrity is about all noble, witty and pure. She's supposed to be different. Then she wears people's clothes and goes into drug dens and threaten people about their private lives and somehow we're supposed to think she's the good guy? She' did exactly what the others were doing except she always lectured us about it after the fact. No successful celebrity got to the top without stepping on heads. I don't care how wholesome they seem. That's the unfortunate way the world is. People will use, manipulate and destroy you for money and fame.
So who is seo ah ri, to think that by herself? That She could bring down all of these people? If she was that great from the beginning,she wouldn't have to do those things. So how come she's the only one that gets a happy ending? When the others also had to be ruthless to stay on top. They did all that to protect themselves.

Her relationship with han jun kyuong wasn't needed. His character didn't have any bearing on the story, he really felt corny. She achieved most of everything without him anyway. That trope of princess maker is outdated (gu jun pyo called and he says it's not 2009) and come on, the harassment at the beginning was getting on my nerves. Will his parents agree to him marrying an influencer? Probably not.

Her bestie. Poor thing i even forgot her name. But she was the realest character. Her sacrifice for her so called friend and the jealousy and anger where ari started being low-key bitchy. You're judging her? You treated her like a personal assistant and is surprised she'd stab you in the back?

I wish they never revealed who _bbbfamous was. Or made her so crazy. She wanted revenge for being treated like crap? or being made to feel like crap? her character represents majority of people that despise celebrities for the life they live but most of these hate sites are never caught. Most live in the shadows and It was laughable how she jumped out the window. Why didn't they call the police? Why did ah ri and that lady confront her like that. She made you who you are but you're butthurt cos she stabbed you in the back?

The story would have had more impact if it was more realistic. It didn't need a love triangle. I would have appreciated if they had showed a more organic rise to fame. Maybe by her promoting those cosmetics that she sold in the beginning and then her defending what she worked for honestly. That would have been more reasonable.

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