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Do we need to employ 40-year od nang'eks to see their fake "kisses"?
Of course I knew Nune Woranuch already (I didn't like her even when she was young), but this is only my 2nd series with Joss Sangngern... And his character is a male prostitute in both cases, LOL. This time he's not to be paired with just a 2 years older girl, but way older. I could imagine sparks if they put him together with Pat Napapa... Instead, "Papa" got some side-woman role that is a kinda surplus... Er, wait. She's supposed to be his MOTHER? Forgive me, my imagination IS big but SHE doesn't look like his mother even if I consider teenage pregnancy. If someone does, then it's Woranuch. Who reached almost double his age, pitifully it's not yet shown in acting experience.
Still, they put Woranuch (her character is also supposed to be NURSE by occupation) in bed with Joss right in episode 3 and she acts like scared virgin, so there is not even a single proper kiss, and as I've watched Joss in his previous series, I know that HE doesn't have this problem. So I ask, WHO came up with this pairing? WHAT for? LOL.
Then, even when she initiates the kiss herself, all we can see is the awkward camera angle. She's far from blushing 20-year old. With young actress, limited acting skills, limited things she can do onscreen, those are understandable. Aged actress no longer looks the same but there is more stuff she can do. These cases, we either suffer one or the other. So I ask: do they need to employ a nang'ek who is 40 AND can't kiss?
I'm afraid this is far from "sexy late night show"they try to present on the posters. Reality is morelike 'Princess Hours 20 years later', LOL. Basically the "hot bed scene" looks like this: we watch their lips slowly coming closer... Whoosh! We're at the back of the room. Whoosh! We're quickly gone from there. How "sexy". Can't wait for numerous more episodes... Yes, next we got a "hot" kiss in the hotel where we can mostly watch Joss' crouched back. Wow.
One episode we can watch Nune Woranuch stuffing her whole mouth with noodles and munching. If she can film such scene with great detail, why not kissing? LOL.
Another fake kiss scene Nune & Joss, where we get to watch their moving ELBOWS. Plus everyone acts like a moron, middle-aged characters are the most immature. Ironically enough, the only quality I find here is Joss. This boy can act. Can portray both playful & vulnerable...
He is so good he can pretend "chemistry" even with the Wooden Woranuch (now, I do understand that after plastic surgeries, one needs to be cautious with their face), but that doesn't mean the producers did not make a major casting error here. Their awkward "shinship" scenes speak the best. Pat Napapa's sex goddess soon reduces to usual silly nang'rai, doing any desperate thing to get the WW's hubby, like he's some miraculous catch just because he's a middle-aged doctor (it's even mentioned that most money was brought into his marriage by the bride). Makes little sense. Accordingly, doctor soon wises up and tries to keep the wife, but she's got the "kid" (as she calls Joss' character) and his poison (aka bittersweet kisses) in her system by then.......
Such is the premise, yet the execution... Well, it's as you read above.
Still, again I must praise Joss, because normally I find it icky when they present us with stories of middle-aged women finding their greenhorn younger lover to please the fantasies of aging female audience, but he made me feel like I could understand what she sees in him. Kudos to Joss.
Then... when it's the most emotional, he goes to kiss her and... he can't. So there it goes, the most romantic scene ends up looking comical. Someone obviously thought this a minor "detail" so they dared to release the series as it was (instead of re-casting and re-shooting this before presenting it to the audience... any audience) following the way paved by 'Princess Hours'... to viewer's hell. And that's talking a kiss scene. We are then presented with a bed scene, where of course we're not allowed to see anything of our precious Woranuch. So, we watch the clothes falling on the floor. Please don't think I dwell too much on just 1 aspect of the series... This series theme is such that the bad skinship keeps jumping on the viewer and their attention no matter what. So it's not like it can be ignored.
Episode 13 was very frustrating for the romance sucker like me, I reached the stage I'd really wished for the lead girl (well, woman) to respond to Pong who was talking to her straight from the heart. So I wanted her to either tell him she loved him or kiss him or tell him the truth about their first meeting so much. She did nothing. At least she hugged him as that was obviously the only thing Woranuch has consented to so the writers thought of special meaning of hugs for Joss' character. Well, what else could they do. Then we had to watch Nune's character making big fuss about not/sharing bed with Joss and I just wished she'd quit that in her age.
She then moves in with him. So despite the age gap, with her settling in his surprisingly luxurious looking condo (for someone shown either in dungarees or waiter's apron) I wished the couple the best. Perhaps from the lack of other ideas, suddenly a big drama is made of something I thought all the while was already known. It makes zero sense but I guess we had to fill the rest of the episodes somehow... I just wished for Risa to show more fight for Pong, it was definitely her turn to be the one to show her feelings and it would be more romantically enjoyable. Never mind skinship, there was so many things she could say to him. Don't you always hate it when every secondary character has the chance to tell the main's ear off while their love interest is unable to finish 1 sentence?;-) Then, after all this, we're not spared of the idiotic "action finale" either, of course.
Either way, as it's impossible for an audience to not fall in love with Joss in this, naturally everyone wished for his happy ending and so the alternative ending was made (which I found quite stupid though, to be honest). In the end, the overall feeling was close to average.
Still, they put Woranuch (her character is also supposed to be NURSE by occupation) in bed with Joss right in episode 3 and she acts like scared virgin, so there is not even a single proper kiss, and as I've watched Joss in his previous series, I know that HE doesn't have this problem. So I ask, WHO came up with this pairing? WHAT for? LOL.
Then, even when she initiates the kiss herself, all we can see is the awkward camera angle. She's far from blushing 20-year old. With young actress, limited acting skills, limited things she can do onscreen, those are understandable. Aged actress no longer looks the same but there is more stuff she can do. These cases, we either suffer one or the other. So I ask: do they need to employ a nang'ek who is 40 AND can't kiss?
I'm afraid this is far from "sexy late night show"they try to present on the posters. Reality is morelike 'Princess Hours 20 years later', LOL. Basically the "hot bed scene" looks like this: we watch their lips slowly coming closer... Whoosh! We're at the back of the room. Whoosh! We're quickly gone from there. How "sexy". Can't wait for numerous more episodes... Yes, next we got a "hot" kiss in the hotel where we can mostly watch Joss' crouched back. Wow.
One episode we can watch Nune Woranuch stuffing her whole mouth with noodles and munching. If she can film such scene with great detail, why not kissing? LOL.
Another fake kiss scene Nune & Joss, where we get to watch their moving ELBOWS. Plus everyone acts like a moron, middle-aged characters are the most immature. Ironically enough, the only quality I find here is Joss. This boy can act. Can portray both playful & vulnerable...
He is so good he can pretend "chemistry" even with the Wooden Woranuch (now, I do understand that after plastic surgeries, one needs to be cautious with their face), but that doesn't mean the producers did not make a major casting error here. Their awkward "shinship" scenes speak the best. Pat Napapa's sex goddess soon reduces to usual silly nang'rai, doing any desperate thing to get the WW's hubby, like he's some miraculous catch just because he's a middle-aged doctor (it's even mentioned that most money was brought into his marriage by the bride). Makes little sense. Accordingly, doctor soon wises up and tries to keep the wife, but she's got the "kid" (as she calls Joss' character) and his poison (aka bittersweet kisses) in her system by then.......
Such is the premise, yet the execution... Well, it's as you read above.
Still, again I must praise Joss, because normally I find it icky when they present us with stories of middle-aged women finding their greenhorn younger lover to please the fantasies of aging female audience, but he made me feel like I could understand what she sees in him. Kudos to Joss.
Then... when it's the most emotional, he goes to kiss her and... he can't. So there it goes, the most romantic scene ends up looking comical. Someone obviously thought this a minor "detail" so they dared to release the series as it was (instead of re-casting and re-shooting this before presenting it to the audience... any audience) following the way paved by 'Princess Hours'... to viewer's hell. And that's talking a kiss scene. We are then presented with a bed scene, where of course we're not allowed to see anything of our precious Woranuch. So, we watch the clothes falling on the floor. Please don't think I dwell too much on just 1 aspect of the series... This series theme is such that the bad skinship keeps jumping on the viewer and their attention no matter what. So it's not like it can be ignored.
Episode 13 was very frustrating for the romance sucker like me, I reached the stage I'd really wished for the lead girl (well, woman) to respond to Pong who was talking to her straight from the heart. So I wanted her to either tell him she loved him or kiss him or tell him the truth about their first meeting so much. She did nothing. At least she hugged him as that was obviously the only thing Woranuch has consented to so the writers thought of special meaning of hugs for Joss' character. Well, what else could they do. Then we had to watch Nune's character making big fuss about not/sharing bed with Joss and I just wished she'd quit that in her age.
She then moves in with him. So despite the age gap, with her settling in his surprisingly luxurious looking condo (for someone shown either in dungarees or waiter's apron) I wished the couple the best. Perhaps from the lack of other ideas, suddenly a big drama is made of something I thought all the while was already known. It makes zero sense but I guess we had to fill the rest of the episodes somehow... I just wished for Risa to show more fight for Pong, it was definitely her turn to be the one to show her feelings and it would be more romantically enjoyable. Never mind skinship, there was so many things she could say to him. Don't you always hate it when every secondary character has the chance to tell the main's ear off while their love interest is unable to finish 1 sentence?;-) Then, after all this, we're not spared of the idiotic "action finale" either, of course.
Either way, as it's impossible for an audience to not fall in love with Joss in this, naturally everyone wished for his happy ending and so the alternative ending was made (which I found quite stupid though, to be honest). In the end, the overall feeling was close to average.
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