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I agree with what most people said about this drama. But dont make the same mistake I made. I put off watching this because of the comments, which, dont get me wrong, were completely correct, but a long time after I first came across it and after I barely remembered the 1st one, I felt like giving it a try. And guess what, I did not hate it. In fact I quite liked it. But for the right reasons. Because of the cast, because of the chemistry between the main leads, because of some characters that managed to stir away from the clichés, even if the drama was full of them. The beautiful scenery also helped. It is winter right now, but if it was summer I would so want to swim on those beautiful waters.

If you want to know if you personally would enjoy this drama, then read the spoiler below. I will not spoil it too much, like revealing names and stuff.

I believe so, that the directing is a huge influence. And like I said, I am not particularly blaming the actress. I just personally have a hard time watching her on screen because she does not feel human. I was not joking when I said she would be really good in the role of a robot. She would nail the role. But as playing a human with emotions, crying, laughing, and so on, I cant feel her emotions on screen. If the problem is with the people directing, then she needs to be more selective with her roles, because the ones I have seen have not done anything for her as an actress. Of course that is my personal opinion. I am not hating on her or anything.

I was going to watch this but could not even get past episode 1. They picked someone almost as old as my mother to play the female lead...and its not like you cant tell she is that old. And then one of the main leads that is part of the love triangle thing is 15 years younger than her. 15 YEARS, not 5, not 10. He could literally be her son. How am I going to be able to watch any romantic scenes between them? I won’t. So, sadly, I will have to drop this one.

https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x4kj8z#video=x4hykcd
And if you prefer downloading it, it should be available in a website called jasminlakorn.

I liked the trust and respect between the main leads but I felt the story needed something more to keep it interesting. Good thing they kept it short with 12 episodes. Any longer and it would have been hard to keep watching.

If you still havent found it yet, it has been uploaded on lakorngalaxy.

You can find this drama in lakorngalaxy. The website, not fb page/group.

In case you havent found it yet, lakorngalaxy added it on their website. I just finished watching.

I find my ways. Dailymotion videos can be easily watched by adding /embed after the word videos in the link. No ads, no distractions.
But she has not really been uploading to dailymotion nowadays. The server she uses the most now is almost impossible for me to watch while streaming because it is slow, has a bunch of ads and stops working out of nowhere. But since I am a stubborn person I found a way to download the episodes and watch them on my pc. I dont share that way with people because I know some might use it to upload Nekos projects to other websites like kissasian and dramanice.

I have never watched Rivers Flows To You so I cant comment on her acting there. I get that actresses want to look good and might not want to make some expressions, but being expressionless actually has the opposite effect. For me the most important things in a drama are plot and acting. So I am not one of those people that get "distracted by the handsome hunks", but I do agree I did not really like that much any of the dramas I watched where she was the main lead and it was not only her fault, it was because the plot itself was not that good. But I still cannot get over the fact that it feels like I am watching a robot. She would actually do really good in a drama where the female lead is a robot. So I guess she has to pick better dramas to star in and worry less about the way she looks on screen cause having no expression on her face makes her look worse than if she was doing some weird expression. I have watched hundreds of chinese dramas and the other actresses seem to have no problem with doing silly faces and crying like babies. It is acting, you’re supposed to worry about how your expressions and emotions come out, not if you look pretty. It is acting, not modeling.

I watched the first 5 eps a few months ago and havent gone back to it. The story and characters are not making me stick to it. It’s like the writers thought oh we have a nice idea for a plot. Now, how about trolling the viewers and not following that idea at all? How about making the main leads have zero chemistry? Really, I havent dropped it yet in case some day I have literally nothing to watch and get back to this one...but that has yet to happen.

Yeah, I have watched almost all of the dramas subbed by Neko and have been following her for about a year and have never seen this drama there so I was confused.

I am surprised this is still not subbed. The main actors are well known and the plot seems interesting. Most historical thai dramas with romance between a slave and a "noble" person, have the woman as the slave and the man as the one with a higher position in society. So it would be interesting to see it the other way around. But over 5 years later and this keeps going unnoticed.

This has some really serious plot issues. The first 10 episodes feel just like the beginning of the drama, introducing the characters, hinting at possible romantic relationships between some of them and then bam, the last 2 episodes come and that’s it. It was not that the ending was rushed, it did not feel like an ending at all. It was as if originally this was supposed to have a lot more episodes and then out of nowhere they were informed they had to cut it short and they just tried to wrap up a story that had barely started. There was a lot of potential wasted here. I don’t know exactly what caused it to be like this, but in the drama world this one fails to even meet the standards.

I have no idea when this will be fully subbed but they just finished subbing their 2nd drama and had a voting for the next project to focus on and barb rak was the most voted.

I think the biggest issue with bitter kiss aside from real life delaying things, is the fact that they would pick project after project without focusing on any of them so you would get 3 or 4 episodes subbed of several dramas but they would all be left incomplete. But now it seems they will start focusing on a drama at a time so even if it is not fast, it shouldnt take as long as usual.

I was only able to finish it today because I put it on hold before I even reached halfway. It started interesting but I found myself losing interest as the romance was slowly developing, the mystery was not enough as they made it too easy to guess who the dead woman was early on and the female lead’s personality was all over the place. Which I get, in real life people can be like that too. The only interesting thing for me at the time was to find out who the killer was, and I already had a very strong suspect in my mind that fit the info we were given but mostly the cliché pick for a serial killer in most dramas I have watched the past few years. Although it turned out to be the person who I suspected, they were more or less able to keep me second guessing. Yesterday I picked it back up and for most part I was asking myself why I put it on hold in the first place. It was not actually that bad. There were some nice lessons and interesting characters. I especially loved the mother-son relationship and how Dong Baek and Yong Shik were each others safe port. Although the romance was not the main focus of the story, their relationship and the way they treated each other was something I wish happened more often in kdramas.

At the end of the day, although far from being my favorite drama, I did enjoy it to some extent. I probably put it on hold because at the time there was nothing making me stick with it. The mystery seemed too predictable (and it kinda was), the romance had yet to take a step further and the annoying characters were just that - annoying, as I was yet to be shown their stories and motivations. Thankfully I gave it a second chance and just put it on hold instead of dropping it.

The first 2 episodes were ok, kind of cliché but interesting enough. Episodes 3 and 4 felt draggy to try and create more suspense around a specific moment that happens only in the last few seconds of the 4th episode. Really, these 2 episodes were painfully boring to watch. I hope they step up the pace cause this is only 16 eps and so far not much has happened and if the next episodes keep the pace of the previous 2, this will be just another sageuk.

Yeah. I have actually decided to put it on hold and wait for the second season, if it does come out. Then I will watch both. I am still waiting for a second season for Princess Agents, and wish I knew the way it ended before I watched. There might never be a second season tho since it has not been announced nor has the filming started. :(

Yeah, that seems to be a frequent thing with people on the internet. They think that they are entitled to everything and dont need to be thankful as they would have to be in a real life situation. In real life when someone does something for us we say thank you. But behind the screen, instead of thank you we see a lot of, why is it taking so long, sub this one, sub that one. Sigh

There were news saying that who she would end up with was yet to be decided while it was still airing. They would only have to shoot a few scenes to show who she picked and could have filmed everything else prior to that or even have her shoot those scenes with both actors and then air the ones with the male lead that the public rooted for. This is actually very common. I have seen plenty of dramas and series where they used this strategy to give viewers what they wanted and get better ratings.