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Okay, the main couple here is supposed to be Hana Lewis and this... BigM? Who's surprising choice for a pra'ek, honestly. He's got the typical villain looks, or what they usually consider villain looks in thai drama, lol. I would expect him to be old for Hana Lewis, but lookie here this was 2022 and Hana Lewis reached 30 so I guess it's alright, lol.
Now. One thing is the cast, the other are the characters. Nang'ek has a family that is ready to drug her and sell her to nearest old & ugly rich guy, who's ready to assimilate the family debts by marrying her. And when she escapes, she meets her pra'ek, who wants to do the same, with the difference that he's young and handsome... or, looks like BigM, lol. He feels entitled to do this to her because he holds grudges against her for hurting him somehow in the past, but considering she doesn't even remember knowing him that's clearly a bull (or she should remember his voice). Same goes for the plot. Even if one accepts the dubious logic of a forced marriage, it makes no sense if it's supposed to be for 1 year only.
But! All that is only an outer shell. What matters is, shall the inside be sweet and enjoyable:)) First kiss is episode 2, it's not passionate kiss yet, but it's not fake, either;) If Hana Lewis, now 30, improved in this department (I watched her earlier work and she was way more convincing in her action scenes than kissing scenes in her 20's), then no matter the silly plot, this lakorn might still turn out to be an enjoyable watch. But then, we get to the wedding night, and of course then the writer doesn't know what to do, because they should sleep together, but they shouldn't sleep together. This storyline is always stupid. I seriously don't know why "forced marriage" is such a popular trope. There is nothing much exciting about it, either way they are married. Also, there's the revenge... It's the classic Misunderstanding kind of it. Also annoying.
Also, a psychopatic support character attempts to kill nang'ek after 5 episodes. Wow, the writer seriously held themself back, LOL. Five whole episodes, what a restraint. Okay, the level of stupidity has risen enough to quit questioning the "plot" whatsoever, so I won't bother to keep commenting on it. Whenever a ghost or alien should appear, I won't say a word. Like our nang'ek, trapped in forced marriage, who is willing to let 2 beautiful women move in the house with her & her husband. It's practically a comedy, seeing all 3 of them sitting at the same table. While 2 of them would love to pull each other's hair out, the third one is smiling. She can now just sit back and be rid of the guy she doesn't want, without much effort. No comment on that;-)
As for the side characters, Ploy Randapa is also engaging to watch, she is attractive but her role consists of being the desperate "bad girl" using cheap methods with guys or being used by "bad boys". But then her character has some ending, which should belong to other genre, but of course, not in the case of "classic" lakorn. Chingching Kharittha is cute but I didn't like the guy they paired her with. Who's actually funny to watch is Man Patthanapol, portraying something betwen a dandy spiv and a total crook. I almost laughed most of his scenes. Of course, up to the point it got too out of hand with his psychopatic mother... Since then, I had to completely skip him. Again, thai writers did not know the right measure. Apart from the "classic" over the top characters, the Misunderstanding which could be cleared by 5 minutes conversation was dragging my patience and bored me sooner than 1/2 of the series arrived. This is really something the writers should avoid by 2022. They were binging on it for enough decades.
It's annoying to watch Sa Anisa in her psycho role. I do understand the producers NEED to time-stretch every lakorn. They need to employ more cast and there should always be some kind of a rival characters. But it's so tiring and dated. Sa Anisa is a beautiful woman. And if she has to be on this show too, then she should have her own sensible story. Watching her as a desperate weirdo is not my kind of entertainment. At all.
Since episode 10, the producers do give up on the story of married couple who sleeps in the same bed but does nothing:) There are a few nice bed/scenes. BigM might not be typical pra'ek but he is sexy and Hana Lewis considerably improved (a few years back, she was not capable to shoot a simple kiss scene) and overall conveys herself way more attractive as a woman than when she was younger. If this show attains a slightly erotic tone then it MIGHT be an enjoyable watch...
Instead, mostly we watch some property plots about contracts being stolen during which Hana Lewis's nan'ek takes her husband's side, while she first said she only married him for money, now that she slept with him she says she loves him and would stay with him no matter what. So, the only couple drama waiting would probably be when she learns about his identity and that he only wanted revenge... Chingching Kharittha has an engaging line with her father, who is a bad guy. Still, even a bad guy loves his child. Will the love turn him a bit towards good?
I wanted the hidden identity revealed soon. Because I don't like it when that is dragged. My wish was fullfilled in episode 15/17. But the way it happened made zero sense. The only thing achieved was that both parties still believed they were deceived by the other. Probably so that they could drag this to the final. As traditional, despite the main couple being MARRIED and sharing 1 room and 1 bed, it is a random side-character who gets the chance to "explain" things to one of them first. After that, our pra'ek doesn't believe a single word his nang'ek says, and is hanging out getting drunk with the psychopatic murderer, instead. Because THAT is the interaction the viewers "wish" to watch, and waited so many episodes for... Somehow, I found it funny that just a "facial reconstructive replacement surgery on entire face" done in Korea could change the whole person and turn a GUY into Sa Anisa, whose wrist is 6 inches. Did they replace all the bones of his entire body? LOL. Not that I did care for this side-plot, but you understand my Story rating.
Then, only 1 last episode is left to conclude all the criminal investigations and murder attempts... Yeah, good old "romantic lakorn".
Now. One thing is the cast, the other are the characters. Nang'ek has a family that is ready to drug her and sell her to nearest old & ugly rich guy, who's ready to assimilate the family debts by marrying her. And when she escapes, she meets her pra'ek, who wants to do the same, with the difference that he's young and handsome... or, looks like BigM, lol. He feels entitled to do this to her because he holds grudges against her for hurting him somehow in the past, but considering she doesn't even remember knowing him that's clearly a bull (or she should remember his voice). Same goes for the plot. Even if one accepts the dubious logic of a forced marriage, it makes no sense if it's supposed to be for 1 year only.
But! All that is only an outer shell. What matters is, shall the inside be sweet and enjoyable:)) First kiss is episode 2, it's not passionate kiss yet, but it's not fake, either;) If Hana Lewis, now 30, improved in this department (I watched her earlier work and she was way more convincing in her action scenes than kissing scenes in her 20's), then no matter the silly plot, this lakorn might still turn out to be an enjoyable watch. But then, we get to the wedding night, and of course then the writer doesn't know what to do, because they should sleep together, but they shouldn't sleep together. This storyline is always stupid. I seriously don't know why "forced marriage" is such a popular trope. There is nothing much exciting about it, either way they are married. Also, there's the revenge... It's the classic Misunderstanding kind of it. Also annoying.
Also, a psychopatic support character attempts to kill nang'ek after 5 episodes. Wow, the writer seriously held themself back, LOL. Five whole episodes, what a restraint. Okay, the level of stupidity has risen enough to quit questioning the "plot" whatsoever, so I won't bother to keep commenting on it. Whenever a ghost or alien should appear, I won't say a word. Like our nang'ek, trapped in forced marriage, who is willing to let 2 beautiful women move in the house with her & her husband. It's practically a comedy, seeing all 3 of them sitting at the same table. While 2 of them would love to pull each other's hair out, the third one is smiling. She can now just sit back and be rid of the guy she doesn't want, without much effort. No comment on that;-)
As for the side characters, Ploy Randapa is also engaging to watch, she is attractive but her role consists of being the desperate "bad girl" using cheap methods with guys or being used by "bad boys". But then her character has some ending, which should belong to other genre, but of course, not in the case of "classic" lakorn. Chingching Kharittha is cute but I didn't like the guy they paired her with. Who's actually funny to watch is Man Patthanapol, portraying something betwen a dandy spiv and a total crook. I almost laughed most of his scenes. Of course, up to the point it got too out of hand with his psychopatic mother... Since then, I had to completely skip him. Again, thai writers did not know the right measure. Apart from the "classic" over the top characters, the Misunderstanding which could be cleared by 5 minutes conversation was dragging my patience and bored me sooner than 1/2 of the series arrived. This is really something the writers should avoid by 2022. They were binging on it for enough decades.
It's annoying to watch Sa Anisa in her psycho role. I do understand the producers NEED to time-stretch every lakorn. They need to employ more cast and there should always be some kind of a rival characters. But it's so tiring and dated. Sa Anisa is a beautiful woman. And if she has to be on this show too, then she should have her own sensible story. Watching her as a desperate weirdo is not my kind of entertainment. At all.
Since episode 10, the producers do give up on the story of married couple who sleeps in the same bed but does nothing:) There are a few nice bed/scenes. BigM might not be typical pra'ek but he is sexy and Hana Lewis considerably improved (a few years back, she was not capable to shoot a simple kiss scene) and overall conveys herself way more attractive as a woman than when she was younger. If this show attains a slightly erotic tone then it MIGHT be an enjoyable watch...
Instead, mostly we watch some property plots about contracts being stolen during which Hana Lewis's nan'ek takes her husband's side, while she first said she only married him for money, now that she slept with him she says she loves him and would stay with him no matter what. So, the only couple drama waiting would probably be when she learns about his identity and that he only wanted revenge... Chingching Kharittha has an engaging line with her father, who is a bad guy. Still, even a bad guy loves his child. Will the love turn him a bit towards good?
I wanted the hidden identity revealed soon. Because I don't like it when that is dragged. My wish was fullfilled in episode 15/17. But the way it happened made zero sense. The only thing achieved was that both parties still believed they were deceived by the other. Probably so that they could drag this to the final. As traditional, despite the main couple being MARRIED and sharing 1 room and 1 bed, it is a random side-character who gets the chance to "explain" things to one of them first. After that, our pra'ek doesn't believe a single word his nang'ek says, and is hanging out getting drunk with the psychopatic murderer, instead. Because THAT is the interaction the viewers "wish" to watch, and waited so many episodes for... Somehow, I found it funny that just a "facial reconstructive replacement surgery on entire face" done in Korea could change the whole person and turn a GUY into Sa Anisa, whose wrist is 6 inches. Did they replace all the bones of his entire body? LOL. Not that I did care for this side-plot, but you understand my Story rating.
Then, only 1 last episode is left to conclude all the criminal investigations and murder attempts... Yeah, good old "romantic lakorn".
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