Reviews

another endless chinese drama

I came to watch this just for the ML, who was sooo breath-taking in "Advance Bravely"... He is still OK in this, and i also discovered the excellent FL, but the whole picture sucks! It's sooo long and boring and it takes ages for something to happen. Also a lot of secondary unnecessary actions and characters keep popping up, so i decided to give up after trying my best (with skip button put to hard work).
The director totally ignored the ML's acting skills and sense of humour... He is just walking around looking (average) good.
My time is worth more than watching this slowest-paced drama.

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By ep4 there are many things I don’t like
The past, either the romance or the revenge and everything related to the 2 villains, skiiippp

The villagers are dumb, and now I’m realizing annoying mask girl is an older woman? And his wife? Or are there 2? Still I hate useless plot moves like that, like who the heck would wear a mask 24/7, it literally dries in 10mins?
So basically this is one big drag on something that should’ve been a movie
If those are his kids that’s even worse
The mom is just evil yelling at someone who doesn’t remember it worse is mentally 6

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7 songs, 7 stories, 7 feelings.

The series is announced as ‘7 songs, 7 stories, 7 feelings’ - romance series, where the episodes I saw mede my heart skip a beat. Until now I’ve watched episodes 1, 2, 4 and 6. The music played no important role in my opinion, except in episode 1. It did not stand out. The story’s are short (1 hour). My validation is based on the episodes I watched.
I’ve watched it on Youtube.

Ep. 1 Would you be my love
Earth Katsamonnat Namwirote as Ozone and Santa Pongsapak Oudompoch as Sun.
A story about bullying and harassment on a boarding high school. Don’t watch these episode when you have experienced these themes (in)directly. About that you need a friend in a situation like this. And that there is lonelyness if you don’t. As often in the blue shorts series I wonder why there is no counterweight from the rest of the school, the teachers and other school staff. And no support from parents. I love the role that the title song plays. I love the scene around Ozone’s name. Great acting from the ML’s. I did’nt like the bullies, I liked the acting of the main bully (O Puwanai Sangwan?).

Ep. 2 Rhythm's Heart
With Sood Yacht Patsit Permpoonsavat as the friendly and shy Rhythm and Maya Chanitcha Pimthong as Pimdao. Special attention for the goofy and happy Note (Tae Weerapat Toemmaneerat). Yacht not in his standard rol. This suits him, want to see this more. A one-sided GL and a OSL is what this episode builds on. Loneliness and social anxiety disorder play a role. A slow and simple story.

Episode 4: Once upon a time.
Boun Noppanut Guntachai (Mek) and Prem Warut Chawalitrujiwong (Balloon) are paired together in the BL dramas Until We Meet Again and Between Us. I’ve been anticipating seeing them coupled on-screen again in a different setting. Don’t aspect the same feeling and acting here. The feeling that I mostly had in this episode was of sadness and a broken heart. The story really touched my heart. The weight that’s on an oldest son is hight. Social pressure it is, by not accepting your child is gay and not giving room vor your child’s own choices. Not being able to understand each other as a couple because of different back grounds. Making a sad choice because of love.
Don’t stop watching this episode until after the credits. There’s and extra scene! Check out where that scene is with help of the photo on the wall. Only then you know wether the ending is sad or happy.

I first watched episode 6: VS Love
Peak Panichtamrong Peemapol (Tonnam) and Boom Udompanich Krittapak (Phupha) A high school story about friendship, family, romance & mostly injustice. You may know this couple from Make it right (2016) Here they are better. I think an hour is to short to tell the real story about their love. It’s long enough to solve the main problem. I liked the ML acting, chemistry and the as he called himself: ‘the third wheel’. ;) A powerful drama that tackles cheating in school and social status: the unfair advantage people with power and connections sometimes have.

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Gee, Atichart is out for revenge, yet again. Haven't we seen enough of that? Apparently not (SSKF review looks like it was first thai revenge lakorn ever watched:) He's 35 here, again with that unsightly facial hair (and I won't forgive him being a jerk if he is also ugly:-p) But the nang'ek is new. I don't know her, at first sight I don't like her, but that's okay. If the lakorn's enjoyable, I eventually I accept any cast. But will this be enjoyable?

Seeing first episode, I can tell Atichart's acting has NOT improved. He MUST portray the quiet gentle type (Namtan Mai) any other case was a disaster (Jam Loey Rak, Badarn Jai, Botan Gleep Sudtai, Borisut Bumbut Kaen, Maya Tawan, Fai Nai Wayu... Plerng Chimplee) as god forbid, a role that requires him as much as raise his voice is not what he can handle (with grace). First episode did NOT look good. Atichart's in yet another "psycho" role. I AM used to that in thai revenge lakorn, but producers need to finally understand they can't cast this actor in this type. Now, what else this show has to offer?

Deaw Suriyon in cop uniform. Hmmm... Aom Sushar, 28 years old, in a side-role. Peach Pachara from 'Hormones'! My, who's HE got paired with? Not Aom? Why didn't they switch HER in the nang'ek role? At least Atichart would be less creepy with someone closer his age. I really can't understand people who decide casting for lakorns. Lately I've seen some weird pairings.

Since episode one, more than one thing in this lakorn was giving me the creeps. First, Atichart, obviously. Not only he again portrays character who is mentally ill, he even has a psycho hairstyle. Whenever he gets closer to nang'ek he's giving me the creeps. Chippy Sirin isn't exactly a beauty. Her face is a bit like a boy's. She is very active in fighting the psycho pra'ek. I'm not sure that's a plus. Aom Sushar's "old maid" character gets pestered by Peach Pachara's annoying whippersnapper. Let's just say that when he was portraying a teenager in 'Hormones', he seemed more mature. That painfully underlines their couple's age gap. It's not cute, it's creepy again.

I hate when lakorn's atmosphere gets too dark, luckilly that's prevented by the kid, and several employees on the farm.

The way Atichart's character is acting in front of the kid can't be described as smart. It only scares the kid away from him and gives more cards in nang'ek's hands. But then she acts even more stupid. I guess it must be some "brilliant" writer's work. Else the two would NOT have to spend this much time in each other's company:)

Pra'ek keeps acting like in his life, since he was in kindergarten, he's never sorted out basics of human behavior. Keeps having violent outbursts, his ex-girlfriend (whom he keeps stalking) avoids him in fear. Then he cries. Basically he's acting like an angry toddler with man's strength. Lashes out on nang'ek, too. Keeps asking her why is she afraid of him? LOL. As he's attacking her while crying, she attacks back (smashes his head with a flower vase:) but then she comes back with first aid kit:) Seriously, it's not her responsibility to tend to a man grown up to this age (Atichart IS 35 here, I don't know what age are we supposed to believe his character is, but well he doesn't look fifteen) who first needs a psychologist to help where mommy failed to teach the basics of self control. She doesn't need to become his nurse/punchbag THERAPIST. But obviously that's what she'll need to become, for this lakorn's main relationship to progress. She'll need to care about him tremendously to bother (as he won't be a nice patient) and the two characters are not in that kind of situation. I understand the writers intention to show how great the nang'ek love is in this lakorn, yet it simply doesn't look very admirable Atichart having to receive help from girl in her twenties.

However silly this "couple"'s antics, it all travels a different level if a child has to witness it. Unlike the pra'ek, the boy IS still of age where he's got the right to act out, especially seeing some abusive behavior towards his aunt. Yet often he acts more sensible. I wonder how come the writers failed to realize this. Or at least they should have some kind of a line to not cross when they involve small children. They often show us flashbacks of a pra'ek as a little boy, to make the audience understand where he is coming from. Only it's grossly inconsistent with how they deal with the child they have in the present timeline.

Then, young girl arrives on the scene saying she's Pu's girlfriend (sorry, I refuse to call him Poo, like they do in "fansubs"). It is shown that his attachment to her is only a pitty. Well, at least we know the pra'ek is capable to pitty someone. Else her character is obviously only here to annoy nang'ek & pra'ek both. Which subsequently means to annoy the viewer.

Now, on the top of all the annoyance the viewer shall find out all the kisses here are fake? Maybe production should care less about the personal life of the actors (from my point of view, I don't care whether they're single, dating someone else, dating each other, happily married with ten kids, divorced, gay or celibate... they are there to provide me with the romance, else they don't deserve to get paid) and finally realize shooting yet another "rape" or "abusive" lakorn when filming a simple kiss is a problem might be pointless, as most people won't bother watching.

Episode 4 shows the first "molesting attempt" scene, and it looks more ridiculous than anything else. Combined with Atichart's level of "acting" for this type of role, I am at verge of dropping this... At 4/14.

Episode 5... I'm afraid I won't finish it, let alone the whole lakorn. Pra'ek is 35-year old acting like annoying 5-year old, portrayed by a gross looking guy who cannot act. Girl isn't even pretty. Real 5-year old cries all the time. Rest of the time is filled with yet more unsufferable yelling and "sexual assaults" of two people who cannot kiss. Does all this sounds like enjoyable watch, or a punishment you'd make watch your enemy? You be the judge, LOL. I'm quitting... I take it as my pride I did not finish this:)

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I would like but I haven't seen all because they aren't updated in English yet. The rest of this was deleted later.
I can make a better review when the episodes are updated.
The behind the scenes filming are really cool I wish they was to English subtitles.
The plot in the story does not getting boring because of the tension in the story and it gets even more interesting when you reach the final so I hope for a update with English subtitles.
Es würde sehr hilfreich sein wenn das ganze auf deutsch oder englisch auf YouTube oder anderen Webseiten hochgeladen werden würde.
Von der Storyline ist der Aufbau weiter hin sehr interessant gestaltet und das Ende der Episoden auch. Die Szenen hinter den Kulissen gefallen mir auch sehr gut.

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triedd

so thai bl acting has this thing yk where it's not good so this doesn't deviate. I got into bl almost 2 years now? and i think its really the only tv genre where people exuse i'm not sure for what. I watch ep 1 which wasn't bad this is defiently a mystry which I was intriguied about, I started ep 2 and understanding the dire of a sitution these boys were in I can't possibly exucse their acting if I love tv dramas as much as I do. Yes most bls have iffy acting sometimes it's noticable when cringy but you move on cause it doesn't hurt the plot. This was the opposite, I wanted to continue to see barcode cause I believe everyone when they say he steals the show but a show cannot be good with one good actor. I don't speak thai but i can't help but feel like i am being pissed on when people praise the show will i see shit on my screen. Also i felt they were dragging things and it's more admirable if a write can stretch a mystery but you don't have to be bored

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Rich CEO mindf**ks with flirty journalist

Headline says it all and it was cringey. The series will remind one of those online novels and old M&B pocket books with typical tropes involving domineering males and flirty females.

The high rating given by others is probably only because of who the main leads are and they just want to simp all over their favourite actors. Otherwise the series has felt draggy to me. Episodes focusing too much on office deals and what not which gave no value to the progression of the plot.

The title is "only for love" but it seems the Romance is kick-started because the FL wanted to seduce the ML for more juicy info related to her work. This should be retitled "work related seduction"

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WOWWW BRILLIANT STORY AND ACTING

Personally I didn't expect the drama to be this good since it is a special episode (note that the drama have 6 episodes with 30-40 minutes runtime for each episode). BUT WOWW JUST WOWW. This drama is beyond my expectation. The acting delivered by main characters is brilliant although there might be lacking for the side characters. But the storyline is soo good, that makes you want to bingewatch all the series because of the suspense that faced by the female lead. And for the story, you know what they always say, never believe everything you see until you see what underneath them. Well, I won't spoil anything so this is it. Please watch and recommend it to others. You will not regret watching this drama and one more, LEE JIHOON IS SOO HANDSOMEEE♡♡

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You're better off pretending it doesn't exist

I'm just baffled by how bad it is. I mean I was willing to put up with it at the start. Like it was cute how campy it was but there was SO much filler. Like could they not have been more concise about setting up Ace of Cakes' situation regarding it's position in the market? Did it really have to be that long, with pointless chatter? Did we really need AN ENTIRE scene where the maid serves food to the dogs? Do we need that blatant ad placements? At least with Thai media it wasn't as bad. For the love of god, at least have some focus in your writing. If this was an ADHD allegory, it would be a masterpiece.

At pucha naman, who wrote the episode where Chukchuk went missing? You'd at least expect that since the "main character" (whomever that may be since there is SO MUCH disconnect with what's happening that it becomes loose) would work hard, maybe even pray that Chukchuk would come back so that he wouldn't get fired. Maybe if they set it up properly, about how important the job is (which they did, but Sky just ends up neglecting it anyway, despite having a hard-working background - the antithesis to Ace, who was born into a rich family), and how important it is to satisfy Ace, he could have been portrayed as being more invested in finding him. And then, when the sun starts to set, and the gang starts to lose hope, Sky makes a last desperate attempt at searching for Chukchuk, maybe with some internal monologue or whatever about how his life is over, but he keeps going. No luck. He breaks down on the ground and closes his eyes. He might even start to cry. Suddenly, Chukchuk appears right in front of him. HE'S the one that finds him. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED INSTEAD? SOME RANDOS FIND HIM, JUST SO THEY CAN ADVERTISE ANG PUTANG INANG G-CASH SPONSORSHIP NILA. GAGO.
But back to my re-imagined scene, Sky comes back to the house by himself to return Chukchuk. He admits he messed up, and tells Ace that he understands if he wants to fire him. Ace notices how dirty Sky's uniform has become from searching all day. He shows his good side, and allows him to continue working for him, albeit in a stern, kind of tsundere way. But he's just glad that his dog is back, because he's like family to him (if they had set that up in the first place), and he's impressed that Sky cared that much about his dog, even though he, and the maid were the only ones that do.

And oh god don't get me started with the camera-work. They made it looks so fantastical in the trailer but it ended up being shallow as hell. It's like when I learned fancy tricks on photoshop but had NO idea how to execute them right. I'd just apply it to every situation even if it didn't really fit, just because I couldn't think of anything else. It's amateur. At least naman with the lower budget series, they don't need cheap tricks. They know what they're doing. I'm not even going to blame any of the talent because I'm almost 100% sure it's the director's call almost all the time, and they were probably told to do all that. It was just managed so poorly. Which sucks because really the only thing we're missing in pinoy gay dramas is the typical rich-and-spoiled/poor-and-hardworking trope that's centred around businesses and adulthood. Yes we've had rich/poor couples like Vlad x Karl, Barry x Mando, and Rocky x Judah, but not in the same way I'm talking about because that part of their identity isn't really considered to that extent.

Lastly, for the love of god, how many times do we have to hear that the main characters are gwapo? YES. WE GET IT. WE CAN SEE IT. I know that's part of Filipino culture to value good looks but MY GOD WE DON'T BRING IT UP THAT MUCH.

AND LASTLY AGAIN FOR LAST, MY BIGGEST PET PEEVE. Why, oh, why, are queer characters always just there for comedic relief? Why are they always ugly? Pretty much every bakla I've met, besides me (but I'm already handsome no matter what I do so :3 jokes), cares about their looks. Why is Jelai and Sky's brother not allowed to look good? (Seriously though Sky's brother isn't even ugly but they're making him as ugly as possible for some reason by making his hair and wardrobe choices weird). It pisses me off because it's such an old fashioned trope that only made it okay for other people to make fun of gays in public, because that's what they're portrayed as. As clowns. We're not clowns, okay? We all have our own stories to tell. So don't just fill up your characters/cast with them just to compensate for the fact that you've made a trainwreck of a show.

That's all I'll say. Just don't even bother giving it a chance.

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boun and perm supermacy

who ever waited 3 years for this series like me , they just know how much we needed boun and perm as win team .... absolutely amazing they fr did not disappoint even a little bit . as expected the story line is exactly the side story of uwma and i am sooo happy to see the whole cast back ???. first of all the acting ? it's just cheff's kiss ? only 2 eps and everything was tooo good , portrayed beautifully, the way win is such a green Flag, plus team is legit a baby i wanna protect him from every little thing . second the ost ??? i cried I'm first ep when luckiest boy started playing.. i am just simply in loveeeeeeee . the trafic gang is back and it makes me soo happy tooo see even mnaow's story , the couple is tooo cute and our KWEEN Sammy potray's it in the right way .
nothing more to say just waiting for more eps ? ik the angst is gonna come we r gonna cry rivers but it would be soooo worth it ????

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Not Worth It

So I saw the rating is 8.0 and the synopsis was not bad. You can find the eng subs in youtube tho.

But here’s the thing. I love this type of story - costume, strong ML, smart FL and happy ending.

I admit I drop at episode despite the amazing acting by the Male Lead. He definitely deserve more Main Role in the future. The way he potray his character is amazing. Being the pirate leader, he is so calm, smart and very affectionate - which really make me stay until the episode 4.

They should choose a better FL. If even her character supposed to be annoying, smart and full of tricks, she should potray it better. The annoying screaming the whole episode, the forced acting she put, it is too much. I am not sure why she debuted straight as FL and keep getting Main role. She should improved in her acting - it is too made up. She tried to be very expressive but she overdoing it too much. I wish they choose better actress, maybe Dilraba or Mary Ma or Xu Mu Chan from Lost Love in Times, they’ll potray this character way better than the current.

The plot is okay so far, and I didn’t finished it so Ill said up to episode 4, there was ridiculous hiccup here and there but it can be better.

I would love to see Yuan Hao in more drama as Main Lead

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Love Syndrome conquers the audience

After a pilot which didn't catch my attention, the second episode started and felt to me this was most of the same, but slightly, the plot becomes intersting enough to capture our focus. The relation between Itt and Day is marked by abusive requests and demands by Itt, who has caused his accident. But now, Itt has a amnesia's boyfriend to take care of and this dynamic changes, as Day doesn't remember him and treats him like garbage, since Itt is now a strange to him. For me, karma is what we can call this table turn. Now, Itt has to make Day fall in love with him again, and the dynamic of the couple improved a lot with the plot inserction. Love Syndrome finally became intersting and nice to watch.

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