With Thai TV series, we noticed that they love making stories about contract marriages. We have watched a few but the very first one that we fell in love with was the one shown in OneHD entitled Leh Ratree.
The Main Leads
We didn’t know who the actors were at the time but they were pretty much visually appealing. And the longer we watched the show, we fell in love with the characters and became fans of the main leads, the charming Esther Supreeleela and the dashing Sean Jindachot.
Quite an Interesting Plot of the Story
We were very much drawn to the plot of the story. It was our first time hearing about it and thought it was quite interesting. In English, this Thai Lakorn was entitled A Woman’s Trickery or Love’s Trickery. The guy, Saken, played by Sean, was an only son, although he had a younger sister, and he was the President of their family business. But he was next in line as the heir of the company. He was married but his mom was displeased with his wife who just kept on postponing her pregnancy. His mom wanted them to have a child to ensure the future heir of their lineage. But she later discovered that his son’s wife was no longer capable of bearing a child. The wife kept it from all of them. Sake loved her so much, but he resented her after knowing the truth.
The girl, Kate, was an eldest among her 2 other siblings. She was yet to finish schooling and was pretty much in love with her childhood friend. She had the perfect family. But her dad was hiding something from them. He got addicted to gambling and was losing a lot of money. Her dad was working at Sake’s company. He fell into a huge debt to the point that he began stealing money from Sake’s company. Sake and his family would find out and would come after him. The casino where he owed a lot of money was also running after him. He was later caught and the family was determined to put him in jail.
Kate’s family was in shock. But her father negotiated with Sake’s family. Apparently, he knew that their family was looking to bear for an heir and Sake’s wife was unable to do so. He offered her daughter, Kate, which I thought was ridiculous! And Sake thought so too! He was even more furious, but his mother was confused. She knew it was absurd, but she wanted an heir.Sake’s mother agreed despite his disapproval. And even if it was hard for Kate’s mom, she could not do anything as well. They were being pushed at the edge of the cliff, nowhere to go. If they agreed, Kate’s dad’s case would be cleared and Sake’s family would also pay for his debt at the casino.
Kate had no idea what was ahead of her. She was already planning her future with her beloved childhood friend, but she was yet to marry a man she barely knew, and worse, bear his child. And Sake didn’t like her though he didn’t know how great of a girl she really was. He thought she was part of his dad’s absurd plan. Their contract marriage was mostly based on her bearing a child. Sake’s family would take care of her, and after giving birth, she’d be free to do whatever she wanted.
Our Thoughts
We had high praises for this contract marriage Lakorn. Every episode kept me wanting for more. I wanted to know what would happen next. Sake and Kate started off the wrong foot. Both hated each other. We just loved how they built that tension between them that it was almost impossible how to bring those two together. We applaud Esther and Sean’s chemistry as well. They were a legit koo Jin! Their onscreen chemistry was so natural. You would actually think they were a couple in real life, but they weren’t. And don’t even try to Google about it. You’ve been warned! Hahahah! I was such a big SeanEst fan.
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The dialogues and scenes are no nonsense, unlike other lakorn that lacks logic.
Their acting is superb. I enjoyed every scene of the drama. Honestly i started watching this drama because i read from one of the review that there's no evil bitch second lead.
The only thing that really bothered me is the sudden change of character of the second Female lead's mother. I just cant believe a person can change 180 degrees in just a short time.
Overall, this drama is worth your time. I will rewatch this when i will have spare time.
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Good Looking Thai
This is my first Thai drama after exhausting myself watching K-Drama and C-Drama. I was looking forward to this new experience. Everything needed some slight adjustment as I was watching new sceneries, surrounding and also listening to a new language. God bless all those who are translating the sub-titles.Thankfully, it was only 12 episodes and unfortunately the production, storyline and acting did not really work on me. The only thing that strike me interesting was how good looking Thai people are. All the men and women have really nice features and that kind of helped me with the process of completing the whole drama. The only person that did a good job was Gypsy Keerati Mahapreukpong who acted as the main lead actor's sister Pa. I felt all her emotions, her fiestiness, her kindness and her mature way to love a man. In fact, for me, the second leads in this drama truly stole the show.
I am going to watch another Thai drama next, to see if I may have mis-understood my perception of this one.
Cheers!
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I saw that it had high rating while airing but for me somewhere it didnt work, maybe because I felt too much of age gap between the leads.
●Story- synopsis was bit bizarre for me but still I hoped that it would turn out good as drama always serve the unthinkable, and there it was a filled with crazy and parasitic wife. A adult female lead who looked extreamly childish and saves the whole family from misery by sacrificing herself. A cool sister who was intelligent and made the drama more watchable.
●Acting- I thoroughly enjoyed the vicious wife and sister character.
Pitchaya as itsala was annoying but the way she portrayed her character was amazing. I really liked her acting chops. Gypsy as pa was fantastic, her reasonable personality was wow factor. Esther as kate and sean as sake were also fine. I didn’t find anything superb in their role, rather it was annoying for when they behaved juvenile.
●Music- its was ok
●Rewatch- maybe not as I didn’t really like the leads chemistry. And the story has nothing which makes me want to watch it again.
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Lakorn culte
Dans mon TOP 10 des lakorns.Le père de la FL addict au jeu, a escroqué la Sté et endetté toute la famille. 1 FL va cohabiter avec le ML, comme mère porteuse car la famille riche, veut 1 héritier.
Comme dans tous les lakorns, on retrouve l'ami d'enfance amoureux, l'ex-femme revancharde qui refuse d'abandonner, le rival baignant dans les sales coups et la corruption, et la police qui ne sert pas à grand chose.
MAIS
Les acteurs sont bons, les interactions dans le CL sont très cute, le rythme est rapide, la musique OK et supportable et l'histoire bien écrite et cohérente.
Bref, on passe un excellent moment en binge watchant cette série.
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