MidnightReader

I'm not the biggest fan of Thai comedy, but this series had me rolling from episode one. As soon as I SAW Pond, I started laughing. Pond's delivery and everyone's reactions were gold; I honestly don't know how they made it through some of these scenes without losing it. I would hate to say how many retakes they had to do. Maybe they are used to Pond acting this way since many times Phuwin and others have said that he wasn't acting; that's just how Pond is. Filming this series had to be a lot of fun. This is also the kind of script that I would normally hate, but it works well because it fits Pond's character.

How much this series made me laugh was pretty much my sole enjoyment of the series. If it weren't for the fact that it made me laugh so much, the OST was really good, it had a large budget, and it had great acting, I would have rated this show lower.

The show lost my interest at many points, so much so that I stopped watching to play games on my phone. I wasn't interested in the plot at all, and the pacing started well, but felt very rushed toward the end. For example, the proposal and wedding at the end. Both of these things felt like they happened because it's written in the book, not like it was a natural progression of the relationship. Maybe if we knew how long Thee and Peach had been dating to that point, it would have made it more believable. Or if they had gone through some kind of hardship together. Things just felt like they happened way too fast, and then there were important things that we just didn't get to see, like Thee going through the adoption process & planning the wedding (no matter how small).

While I'm on that, the emotional moment when Peach learns that Thee adopted Mork & Morn fell flat because they hugged instead of kissed. That wasn't a hugging moment. It was a kissing one. Pond & Phuwin have never had the best or most emotional kisses, & honestly, they look uncomfortable. I don't know what they can do to fix that, but it would make their series a lot better if they would, because the more emotional scenes just fall flat or become uninteresting.

The only other thing that I didn't like that actually affected my enjoyment of the show was that we are given 2 side couples & neither of them gets enough screen time for me to care about them. I'm going to assume we get a lot more of Rome & Mok in the sequel Peach & Me, but I feel like I should have at least been made interested in them in this series. I simply didn't care about them even though I love William and Est.

At least Rome not being a big part of the story can be explained, but there was no excuse to not show us more of Tawan and Aran's relationship. We don't get enough of them together for me to care. We get one sweet flashback, a little chemistry, & a moment when Tawan hits rock bottom & Aran takes him back. Some moments that we could have gotten are just cut off completely, like in episode 1 where Aran tells Tawan they will talk; we never get to see it. Aran tore up his contract after Tawan disappeared. Why? For what reason? Why didn't we get to see that? Tawan is also friends with a Japanese mafia boss's illegitimate child & this would have been interesting if they had felt like friends and less like they were using each other. I forgot a few times because they act like exes, but Tawan & Aran have never dated. They were in the talking stage, and at the end they are in the roommate stage, so actually can we even consider them a couple?

I know the main focus of the show is Thee & Peach's relationship, but don't introduce side couples and then do nothing with them.