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Overall is bad. Still watch it because of the male & female leads.
(1) Character
The weakest point of this story is the characters, and it isn't just one problematic point in that issue.
1. The design of the female characters that are on the bad side is irrational beyond imagination. They're the kind of plain black in a very unrealistic way.
- The mother of the male lead is the sickest. The foundation of her hatred toward the female lead isn't on the same par with the extreme degree of it. The origin is not solid at all. It's like she's angry with the female lead out of the blue just for the sake of hating. A softer word would be prejudice. And because she's the kind of irrational person who wouldn't be able to snap out of the nonsense by reasoning, her character's built up to be an unforgivable person. So at the end when she starts to talk sense and nicely to the female lead, it's not convincing. No way a person would change in literally 2 days from the way she has always been for years.
- The classmate who is jealous for the male lead always comes into the scene just to scream. Very exaggerated and unrealistic.
- The young servant at the male lead's house that always bullies the female lead just disappears into thin air during the latter part of the drama. She just disappears without a cause, like the director/writer don't know what to do with her anymore so they intentionally forget about her. Considering her characteristic, there should be more chaotic events at some crucial scenes in the story and the mother wouldn't treat the female lead nicely this easy at the end of it.
2. The character development of the female lead is awful and unrealistic. She turns from being a strong teenager who never let anyone bully her one-sidedly into a person who is very submissive in letting other people unfairly taking advantage of her without voicing or protecting herself. It's out of her character. Even if the story wants to show that she's more mature, this isn't maturity. She can be mature without letting other people bully her unnecessarily as it can be avoided. This isn't called character development. This is the 180-degree shifting in character. Like it's a total replacement of a person. Her character is something like starting from being wise to being dumb.
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(2) Music
The background music is terrible on both the aspects of music choice (maybe starts from the composition) and music editing (when music is edited into the scene or when two pieces of music are placed continuously - those who did this didn't know how to do it at all). The musical style is archaic - no different from those in the Thai dramas from a decade ago. The music here also usually steals the show as most of the pieces don't go along with the mood/atmosphere of the scenes. The sound of music (composition, volume, music transition) is basically bad and unskilled that it obtrudes my perception instead of going naturally as one with the story content. It's like they add each piece of music into the frame just because they want to kill the silence. Their work simply shows that they don't know how music can help portraying the story.
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(3) Acting
The acting skills of many key actors in this drama are very questionable. Their actings are exaggerated and/or unnatural, including the female lead (she always blinks and bulges the eyes to the point that at times it's obviously pretentious, esp. when looking at her background that she's been a sensibly strong person since young age, it'd be hard to believe that she'd be easily surprised or confused out of naivete incessantly) and the male lead's friends apart from the mother, classmate and servants. The acting of the male lead seems to be the most natural though his character design is also very weird. He is another character that hasn't developed. He's shifted from being a considerate, wholeheartedly caring person, who voluntarily waits in front of the female lead's school out of kindness (he hasn't loved the female lead then, just being a good brother to her) to make sure she doesn't skip the class into a callous, insensitive sadist who throws his fist into other people's face without a proper reason in different occasions as he's jealous over the female lead.
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(4) Dialogue
The dialogue is pretty much cringey. I mean it's very goosebumply cringey. At least, it's less cringing than My Husband in Law that the male lead also played in earlier this year.
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In conclusion, the character design and development in this drama are under the bottom and this brings the drama down the hill. The background music is terrible. The acting of many main characters is disappointing. The major plotline is acceptable but can't say it's impressive. To confess, I watch this drama till the end just because the female lead looks cute and the male lead looks good, quite a superficial reason I admit. I watch it with 2x speed and press forward a lot, though.
The weakest point of this story is the characters, and it isn't just one problematic point in that issue.
1. The design of the female characters that are on the bad side is irrational beyond imagination. They're the kind of plain black in a very unrealistic way.
- The mother of the male lead is the sickest. The foundation of her hatred toward the female lead isn't on the same par with the extreme degree of it. The origin is not solid at all. It's like she's angry with the female lead out of the blue just for the sake of hating. A softer word would be prejudice. And because she's the kind of irrational person who wouldn't be able to snap out of the nonsense by reasoning, her character's built up to be an unforgivable person. So at the end when she starts to talk sense and nicely to the female lead, it's not convincing. No way a person would change in literally 2 days from the way she has always been for years.
- The classmate who is jealous for the male lead always comes into the scene just to scream. Very exaggerated and unrealistic.
- The young servant at the male lead's house that always bullies the female lead just disappears into thin air during the latter part of the drama. She just disappears without a cause, like the director/writer don't know what to do with her anymore so they intentionally forget about her. Considering her characteristic, there should be more chaotic events at some crucial scenes in the story and the mother wouldn't treat the female lead nicely this easy at the end of it.
2. The character development of the female lead is awful and unrealistic. She turns from being a strong teenager who never let anyone bully her one-sidedly into a person who is very submissive in letting other people unfairly taking advantage of her without voicing or protecting herself. It's out of her character. Even if the story wants to show that she's more mature, this isn't maturity. She can be mature without letting other people bully her unnecessarily as it can be avoided. This isn't called character development. This is the 180-degree shifting in character. Like it's a total replacement of a person. Her character is something like starting from being wise to being dumb.
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(2) Music
The background music is terrible on both the aspects of music choice (maybe starts from the composition) and music editing (when music is edited into the scene or when two pieces of music are placed continuously - those who did this didn't know how to do it at all). The musical style is archaic - no different from those in the Thai dramas from a decade ago. The music here also usually steals the show as most of the pieces don't go along with the mood/atmosphere of the scenes. The sound of music (composition, volume, music transition) is basically bad and unskilled that it obtrudes my perception instead of going naturally as one with the story content. It's like they add each piece of music into the frame just because they want to kill the silence. Their work simply shows that they don't know how music can help portraying the story.
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(3) Acting
The acting skills of many key actors in this drama are very questionable. Their actings are exaggerated and/or unnatural, including the female lead (she always blinks and bulges the eyes to the point that at times it's obviously pretentious, esp. when looking at her background that she's been a sensibly strong person since young age, it'd be hard to believe that she'd be easily surprised or confused out of naivete incessantly) and the male lead's friends apart from the mother, classmate and servants. The acting of the male lead seems to be the most natural though his character design is also very weird. He is another character that hasn't developed. He's shifted from being a considerate, wholeheartedly caring person, who voluntarily waits in front of the female lead's school out of kindness (he hasn't loved the female lead then, just being a good brother to her) to make sure she doesn't skip the class into a callous, insensitive sadist who throws his fist into other people's face without a proper reason in different occasions as he's jealous over the female lead.
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(4) Dialogue
The dialogue is pretty much cringey. I mean it's very goosebumply cringey. At least, it's less cringing than My Husband in Law that the male lead also played in earlier this year.
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In conclusion, the character design and development in this drama are under the bottom and this brings the drama down the hill. The background music is terrible. The acting of many main characters is disappointing. The major plotline is acceptable but can't say it's impressive. To confess, I watch this drama till the end just because the female lead looks cute and the male lead looks good, quite a superficial reason I admit. I watch it with 2x speed and press forward a lot, though.
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