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Not much of a role for Mik Thongraya, again
Eh... Maybe if they at least cast Toon Pimpawee in the lead role? But this Miss Thailand... Universe... I don't like her. LOL.
Even the main guy... Nothing against Mik Thongraya, but he was not old enough here to portray "30 year-old businessman", and I would prefer Bom Phongsakon, or Guy Ratchanont.
Anyways, Mik Thongraya's deserted groom kinda acts bit too cheerful when he meets the abandoned bride and spends a night with her, while he should actually be brokenhearted, too. We get to see (real) kiss scenes and a bed scene right in episode 1 with these two strangers. I couldn't help but think about how I never got to see such scenes with couples I liked and/or at point where I cared about them. Mik Thongraya is someone we haven't yet seen with compatible onscreen partner (I don't care whom he dated in real life). Pooklook is certainly no exception. Also Mik is not very well suited for a... suit. I mean he does well for blue collar roles or soldier roles but being "a suit", gives him kind of an awkward feel, something in his body language, perhaps his height and body built.
Main couple marries after 2 episodes for blatantly stupid reason and I couldn't help but think the girl would be better off without the guy. The guy was weird. I wondered who would liked him if he was not portrayed by the handsome Mik Thongraya. But, safe to say the character portrayed by Guy Ratchanont was even more sleazy.
What is interesting about this is that nang'ek isn't the usual type of poor cinderella: in fact she is someone whom her former fiancee deserted for such a cinderella. And in contrary to what we see in most similar stories (where rich boy & poor girl are opposed by everyone and "can't" be together) here we actually can watch how the rich guy absolutely cannot leave the poor girl because she always desperately needs him to take care of her destitute situation, of her baby, etc... It's actually the poor family members who are able to put pressure on the guy, not the rich family's, like we see in all the other dramas: it actually makes sense. And therefore, this nang'ek can ironically only envy the "poor" poor girl. She in fact does have some property, her hotel isn't successfull, still it's an asset various men are after and they all turn to her with various methods. At the end of the day, even her fiancee is actually a nice guy, who does only wish to live peacefully minding his own bussiness which can be small only enough to provide for his new family. There's nothing wrong about it, only it's kinda wrong of him to ask his former girlfriend to help. Just because she isn't poor, it doesn't even occur to him that it might hurt her feelings.
Episode 5 I still experienced disengaged feeling while watching. We still watch the former fiancee situation, his secondary character is going through some struggle that still fills the runtime even though he's practically out of the main story, while the main heroine is now married to a guy who started saying that he loves her, and acting like it, overnight. She also started to show some signs (like being upset that he might have someone else) and we watch scenes of them flirting/bickering back and forth, he also interacts with her family situation, takes care of her more than her father does but it all looks so weird, he is a complete stranger. I am afraid this reminds me of Mik's previous role in 'Mon Garn Bandan Ruk' where he also became nang'ek's husband overnight, literally. I didn't care to watch more than 3 episodes of that. And I'm not enjoying this, either. Mik seriously needs a proper role, where he can portray a character whose romance line with the girl would be properly developed.
There are many "drama" props added to this, like other suitors and jealous girls, old family enemies, gossip affairs, someone attacks nang'ek on the street, sometimes all this happening at once. It seems the writer just keeps writing - what they consider - drama on and on, instead of development of the relationship, which would be needed to make it at least mildly believable. So that I would at least mildly care about any of this. But I don't. So, I can just quit watching.
Even the main guy... Nothing against Mik Thongraya, but he was not old enough here to portray "30 year-old businessman", and I would prefer Bom Phongsakon, or Guy Ratchanont.
Anyways, Mik Thongraya's deserted groom kinda acts bit too cheerful when he meets the abandoned bride and spends a night with her, while he should actually be brokenhearted, too. We get to see (real) kiss scenes and a bed scene right in episode 1 with these two strangers. I couldn't help but think about how I never got to see such scenes with couples I liked and/or at point where I cared about them. Mik Thongraya is someone we haven't yet seen with compatible onscreen partner (I don't care whom he dated in real life). Pooklook is certainly no exception. Also Mik is not very well suited for a... suit. I mean he does well for blue collar roles or soldier roles but being "a suit", gives him kind of an awkward feel, something in his body language, perhaps his height and body built.
Main couple marries after 2 episodes for blatantly stupid reason and I couldn't help but think the girl would be better off without the guy. The guy was weird. I wondered who would liked him if he was not portrayed by the handsome Mik Thongraya. But, safe to say the character portrayed by Guy Ratchanont was even more sleazy.
What is interesting about this is that nang'ek isn't the usual type of poor cinderella: in fact she is someone whom her former fiancee deserted for such a cinderella. And in contrary to what we see in most similar stories (where rich boy & poor girl are opposed by everyone and "can't" be together) here we actually can watch how the rich guy absolutely cannot leave the poor girl because she always desperately needs him to take care of her destitute situation, of her baby, etc... It's actually the poor family members who are able to put pressure on the guy, not the rich family's, like we see in all the other dramas: it actually makes sense. And therefore, this nang'ek can ironically only envy the "poor" poor girl. She in fact does have some property, her hotel isn't successfull, still it's an asset various men are after and they all turn to her with various methods. At the end of the day, even her fiancee is actually a nice guy, who does only wish to live peacefully minding his own bussiness which can be small only enough to provide for his new family. There's nothing wrong about it, only it's kinda wrong of him to ask his former girlfriend to help. Just because she isn't poor, it doesn't even occur to him that it might hurt her feelings.
Episode 5 I still experienced disengaged feeling while watching. We still watch the former fiancee situation, his secondary character is going through some struggle that still fills the runtime even though he's practically out of the main story, while the main heroine is now married to a guy who started saying that he loves her, and acting like it, overnight. She also started to show some signs (like being upset that he might have someone else) and we watch scenes of them flirting/bickering back and forth, he also interacts with her family situation, takes care of her more than her father does but it all looks so weird, he is a complete stranger. I am afraid this reminds me of Mik's previous role in 'Mon Garn Bandan Ruk' where he also became nang'ek's husband overnight, literally. I didn't care to watch more than 3 episodes of that. And I'm not enjoying this, either. Mik seriously needs a proper role, where he can portray a character whose romance line with the girl would be properly developed.
There are many "drama" props added to this, like other suitors and jealous girls, old family enemies, gossip affairs, someone attacks nang'ek on the street, sometimes all this happening at once. It seems the writer just keeps writing - what they consider - drama on and on, instead of development of the relationship, which would be needed to make it at least mildly believable. So that I would at least mildly care about any of this. But I don't. So, I can just quit watching.
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