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Kiss thai drama review
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Kiss
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by 8392225
Jul 8, 2022
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 3.5
Story 3.0
Acting/Cast 5.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 1.0

Well, from the series called 'Kiss', I would expect maybe... A better kiss? LOL

Okay... We have 2 pretty girls and 2 hot guys here, they're all "friends". But make no mistake, there's only one possible pairing. Because the main cast includes both Thawornwong brother & sister. Obviously the producers weren't "cruel" to make the siblings portray a couple. Even though they might actually look less wooden than most onscreen couples, thanks to that:-p

First look: Girl with looks of Mild Lapassalan is supposed to be strictly buddy-like kind, whom no one wishes to treat as female. Younger looking girl with more dependent character is supposed to be her big sister. Pop Khamgasem, who was so sexy in 'Love Lie Hide Fake', acts like buffoon in this. There will be no shortage of WTF in this show, no doubt.

First episode is like cramped with nosy parkers who can't mind their own bussiness. It's positively annoying. I instantly recalled Mek Jirakit's previous role in 'Part-Time Lover', where his character didn't wish to have any friends for exactly this reason, lol.

After that, I waited many episodes for something romantically enjoyable. After 10 episodes filled with vague mixture of this and that, there is a first Mook & Tao kiss, which is fake so obviously that we as the audience are reminded the two of the cast have a problem. Maybe she would really be better off with her brother, lol. After all, we don't have to care about the private lives of the cast, just as long as we do get to see good result. By the way, the kiss didn't feel right even from the characters perspective. Like, he kisses her as her boss on a bussiness trip? Where she got drunk, heartbroken from her fresh break-up with somebody else?

I must say I probably expected something else from this series. Perhaps some lipstick company sponsored this and it's the reason for the name. The actual content? One "romantic couple" spends most of the time in office. He is her direct supervisor so I found the relationship very uncomfortable. The other "romantic couple" spends most of the time at school. It's all very group kind of thing with many meddlers. He is supposed to be her friend, but he slept with her at a party (which "happened" offscreen) and since that their whatever relationship is strained. She starts dating a complete stranger just to avoid him (or so it seems). It's someone who started hitting on her out of the blue. I don't know what was the purpose the writer aimed for, but the other guy gives the impression like he was just paid to court her. Or perhaps he made a bet with someone. Because of how much he insists that she dates him RIGHT NOW and as soon as she does, he brings her to meet his mother (another WTF scene).

Needless to say I didn't enjoy either of the two lines. There's large load of side characters (never a good sign) who try to add to it by being funny, which is more or less annoying. Or maybe if we just had the group-camaraderie and focus on their friendships which at least might be real rather than the artificial romance, it would be better? (There's a also weird psycho side-character who attempts to strangle the main girl at one point, but not much importance is given to THAT.) Tay Tawan looks hot in this, perhaps he should have a third line... Which he actually does. It soon turns out the "group of friends" actually consists of 2 bickering couples + 1 odd guy out. Hence the constant tension. Whatever it is, it's not enjoyable, though. I know there's also 'Kiss Me Again' and 'Dark Blue Kiss' as other related series attempts, but after watching 'Kiss', I am not excited...

As I haven't seen anything much exciting here. That part got skipped or perhaps happened off screen. Any kind of fun seemed to left town and I wasn't interested in solemn conversations about possible unexpected pregnancy, the only thing I kept thinking of during such scenes was, why the hell couldn't they cut Mek Jirakit's hair into SIMPLE, SHORT haircut? Would that be so hard to do? Did they HAVE TO let him look like a moron OR spend hours styling it? (With not much difference as a result, I might add.) I grew to hate what they do to male hair on tv. And I had enough time to dwell on it here because I was colossally bored. I was a HAIR close to dropping this series in episode 12 out of 16. Enuff said.

The office "romance" reaches its highest point of "drama" when some rumors spread across the office. It's the first time the girl starts acting more than just a wooden doll but she chooses the moment when for the first time I agreed with what was happening. She should quit that job. (And had she done that long time ago, she could have at least spared the audience.) So, she ends her lame internship in which even fotocopying was beyond her capability level but leaves carrying a big box like she did work there for years. Tao Sattaphong's character looks wistfully out of the window like she is ending their marriage or smth. I at least smirked about how this looked ridiculous, first time after long boredom. Not that the other couple was better...

Watching them sitting on a bench having a serious talk going nowhere (but accompanied by serious, classic piano music) because the girl would rather ponder this or that but couldn't simply lift her a** and go at doctor's. So far we haven't yet seen if this "pregnancy" was even confirmed. I don't know why, but somehow I doubted they even slept together. What if they remembered wrong? I mean, NOTHING in this show really convinces the audience there is (ever was) anything between these two. It all felt colder than the fridge to me.

The girl who is not capable to do a simple urine test, is nevertheless ready to quit school immediatelly & ruin her future in a flash. All the hysterical side-characters seem more invested in the main story than the main ones... The supposedly pregnant girl meets the psycho girl on the top of the stairs in very obvious scene just to end up in the hospital at last... Big, big drama scene occurs in the hospital, where everyone yells on the top of their lungs (even after a nurse came to ask them to be quiet) about the big secret, which after FOURTEEN episodes is about as exciting as a party in a nursery home. And the "big" sister who is unable to survive 1 day at work throws the main guy out and says dramatically that she'll take care about her sister and nephew by herself... One would laugh if not bored to death by then. It appears making a (functioning) simple romance drama was just beyond this series makers' skill. Now, did they leave the industry or made 2 more side-dramas? Then, who am I to complain things make no sense in drama world, if the don't in real one?

Last two episodes finally start focusing on the couples without all the bullsh*t, which could work if it was episode 2, not 2 from the end. Even so, these were just not very enjoyable. The first girl got a choice in between a complete stranger who, without ANY relationship development, relentlessly pursued her. And still he was (sadly) more likeable than the main guy, who acted like an a** the whole time (if you tell the girl that you don't care if she'd date someone else, then you do deserve that she'll date someone else, lol) and never really talked straight to anyone except of his roommate or colleague or who that person was (a minor support character that is not even listed here). As for the second girl, by the time her guy was finally ready to openly pursue her, she was too tired from all the cr*p she went through with the secondary guy. And the viewers with her. As this is a spoiler-free review, I won't reveal wether both the couples, in their last scene - where the guy grabs girl's hand, apologizes for his behavior during the whole series and asks her for one more chance - kiss, or not.

I have more romantic life than these characters. Which is about the most unflattering thing I can say about this LOL.
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