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Jack & Joker: U Steal My Heart! (Uncut Ver.) thai drama review
Ongoing 8/12
Jack & Joker: U Steal My Heart! (Uncut Ver.)
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by BL Compilations
17 days ago
8 of 12 episodes seen
Ongoing
Overall 8.0
Story 7.5
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.5
Rewatch Value 7.5

kind of a comedy caper

Overall: the tone swings between comedy vs some serious moments, which is jarring. 12 episodes about 1 hour each. Airing on iQIYI https://www.iq.com/play/jack-joker-u-steal-my-heart-episode-1-l2dlqwi91c?lang=en_us (I am watching the uncut version which originally was the only MDL listing)

Content Warnings: past suicide, theft, violence/beaten up, blood, bullying, attempted kidnapping, coercion, manipulation, punch, kidnapping, blood

Watch Suggestions starting at ep 5 (to take out nonsense plot and focus on the leads, I might go back thru earlier episodes for suggested timings later)
- episode 5 watch 5:30-9:30 and 16-50:50 if you want to see a caper, otherwise watch 9:30-12:40 and 50:50-56:55 for 2 hurt care scenes
- episode 6 watch the beginning to 9:10, 16-21:40, 24:45-29:30 and 38-1hr2m30s
- skip episode 7
- episode 8 watch 1hr10m45s to the end

What I Liked
- unique premise
- sweet/flirty/caring moments
- fight/action sequences
- grey protagonists
- how Jack called out his coach
- coach apologized and got his karma
- best grandma ever

Room For Improvement
- the romance has taken a backseat to the nonsense plot
- characters are stupid
- because 2 characters relished in violence at the beginning of episode 5, it made me uninterested in any romantic pairings with them involved
- ep 1 started with a flash forward
- I don't laugh at most of the jokes
- the food poisoning/farting
- there are a ton of nonsense things like when you think about it, it doesn't make any sense why a character was so angry at another character when the result would have been exactly the same
- failed redemption arcs
- the character acting like someone with less money and then having fake dirt on him was in bad taste and the knock off Squid Game video game thing was completely uninteresting
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