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My First Ever Thai Drama!
Okay first, I don't know any actors from this "lakorn" nor have watched any Thai drama before this.Story- Thank goodness it's not your typical drama where the girl's stupid/naive/5 years old trapped in a full grown body of a woman and the guy's just a complete jerk without any reason, finally!!!! I like the pacing of the story as well as the development of ML and FL's relationship. Although the misunderstanding was dragged until almost the last episode but it's still bearable.
Acting/Cast: I don't know any of the actors here since this is the first lakorn that i've watched and I am not disappointed with the actors! They are all great, from the MC to supporting. You love the good ones and loathe the bad ones! Then when the bad turns to good, you begin to love them, that's how great the acting was! I think the villains did a very good job, so salute to them, bravo!
Music- I love the ost but because I am used to a lot of ost's going on in k and cdrama world, I am not used to listening to the same music playing from the start until the last eps, but maybe this is how thai drama works, so I won't judge. :)
Rewatched value- Will definitely rewatched this again but maybe skip the side love stories, I think they're great but I am really invested to the main couple, lol. Hard shipper here!
Overall- Because I love this drama so much, I will deinitely be checking other lakorns. I think I became an instant fan! yay!
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Promising... but average.
The definitive pros for this lakorn is the main couple cast: finally we see Urassaya Sperbund with someone other than Nadech Kugimiya (who's too korean-faced to my taste:)This drama proves that Mark Prin gets better, more attractive with age (I say he's your future choice for a pra'ek) and even Yaya reached full bloom here and looks really hot (see the opening scene:)
What I appreciate also is the harsh contrast of her character's stardom glamour with her family life (the horrendous mother). I was able to relate to such character.
Sadly this lakorn is only just promising - it has some bits with real potential - but firmly stays in the average waters. Or waves?:-p
The second couple's drama with Toey Jarinporn & Louis Scott fullfills in about the middle and then only re-plays itself.
In the end this is not a re-watch material.
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The Chemistry between the two leads, Mark Prin & Yaya wooww amazing. It was not like they were acting but they were living it. As I said above the actors were really great at passing the emotions to us. I loved how they fall in love and how their love developed.
To be honest I was always biased at Thai dramas, I thought they'd be like Indian dramas but not at all, I generally watch Korean, Chinese, and Taiwanese dramas so this was new for me although it was my 2nd.
First thing you notice on Thai dramas is the makeup, while it is really natural on K-C-TW dramas, the make on Thai dramas is like watching American - Brazilian daily soap operas.
Now I'm a great fan of Yaya and Mark Prin!!
We shouldn't forget about Jee's gay manager P'Suki, he's one of the most colourful characters in the drama. :D
The plot is very very similar to The Secret Korean Drama Ji Sung was leading. He ( Satit) was trying to take revenge on the woman ( Jee) who caused his fiance's death and eventually fell in love with her.
As I understood lakoms are famous for the rape. There's no rape in this drama I mean he did not force her to sleep with him, he only use the words and she go over him and with all the mixed emotions they have been having for each other it caused a blast and they spend the night together.
She falls pregnant but hides it from him, he learns it much later, he asks her to marry, she refuses, and she goes hides somewhere, he asks to her friends, they don't share it with him, her mother gives him a box she made pottery which was posted to her mother, in a way her mother told him indirectly, he finds her and does his best until she forgives him, those scenes were really cute.
It's not also the main couple which makes this drama lovely, it's the 2nd and 3rd leads story makes it also great.
Here are the additional couples
Piak: a insecure desperate housewife now producer of her father's company where her husband works as a director, she constantly suspects that her husband is sleeping with his female Jee.
Her cousin she calls him brother is Satit.( the main guy)
Chaiyan is the best friend of Jee, he's married to Piak
Dao: Jee's best friend with Jee and is in love with Jate
Jate: confused and playing both he thinks he loves Jee but actually he's in love with Dao
P'iak : Jee's gay manager
It has definately a rewatch value and I hope K-C-TW will make one too :D
There's Le Jun Kai a Chinese drama full of misunderstandings and cruelty but the finale is not as sweet as this one.
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First Thai Drama & First Review!!
So I watched this awhile back and only recently rewatched this.I have to say, this is what a real enemies to lovers story looks like. thats all im saying for this bc I don't wanna spoil anything. it was that good.
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the hatred the ML had for the FL like to the point of frustration bc he was so blinded by his hate to see how good the FL is. the devotion his character had towards his love for them was also part of the reason why it made me want to rewatch this. Just the way his character's feelings developed deserved an applause of its own.
The FL is also smth that was new to me bc she was just so STRONG. she rlly went against all those stereotypical, naive, silly, innocent FL. Instead she was headstrong all the way through and just knew her way around. This was also the drama that made me LOVE Yaya. her acting is just everything you could ask for in an actress. she made me cry whenever she cried (but then again im a crybaby when it comes to dramas).
The chemistry between the two was AMAZING. there's just no other way to explain it. I literally thought they were dating irl (they're not LOL)
the evil characters really made you hate them and there were also rlly good character developments. the soundtrack was pretty good, especially the theme song (it was so catchy for some reason). this drama was also the reason I got into Thai dramas but was also wary for warning reasons.
Overall: This is definitely smth I would recommend with trigger warnings tho.
****SPOILER ALERT (kinda)
Anyways, the only thing I had against this drama and probably any Thai drama ever are the attempted rape scenes and the step father obsessing over his stepdaughter. There was also a drugging scene in the beginning which really made my blood boil. I literally hated those scenes.
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Yaya's character is amazing and she's perfect for the role! This woman will no doubt bring you to tears, no matter how many times I rewatch the drama I will still cry along with her. Her character, Jee, is full of pain. Seriously I just wanted to hug the poor girl throughout the entire drama. Honestly I was frustrated with her character as well. Jee is too self sacrificing and she doesn't care to correct the misunderstandings surrounding her (I mean not that the people around her would even believe her but seriously all the rumors and assumptions surrounding her make me furious).
Mark's character is definitely someone your going to hate at first! OMG this boy is so ignorant. Seriously his character, Sathit, is too hardheaded for his own good. If he would just have a little more faith in Jee and her goodness which she's proved countless times to him, then life would be so much easier... and don't even get me started with Sathit's sister, that woman was beyond annoying.
Though honestly this drama would not be as good if it did not have all the drama that it did. Every episode will leave you asking for more. Definitely worth a watch!
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Worth watching for the female lead
This is not usually my type of series but I could NOT stop watching this until the end. I didn't think I would get hooked like that.This is my first time watching Yaya and I have to say she hard carried this show. This show is meant to for her and Yaya is meant to be for this show. Her portrayal of Jeerawat is impeccable. I was rooting her Jeerawat the entire show. I love the character too. Really strong-willed and not a pushover and damsel in distress. I love that no matter how hard life gets, she does not back down and stands up for herself and the people she loves. She pulled me in to this series and kept me watching til the end.
I also love her chemistry with Mark. They are just looking at each other like and the sparks fly! I actually didn't like Sathit because he is pretty nasty to G. I understand his feelings at the beginning because he lost a loved one. But towards the third quarter of the show and he's still a jerk. I still think he should've went through much more difficulty to get her but I guess it got pretty rushed up the end. This did not stop me from squealing everytime they are together on-screen though (well, after the initial i-hate-you stage).
I skipped the other couple, Chayan and Piak. That relationship is toxic af they should have not gotten back together at all. I don't understand how in the last two episodes we were supposed to forgive Piak just like that? That girl is a psycho she's just waiting to explode again. That couple had so much screentime screaming at each other that I decided to just skip their scenes all together.
I think all the actors did a good job despite such a dragging plot. I was invested in this show and it made me sad, cry, pissed, angry and happy in a way.
Would I re-watch it? Probably not. It's too emotionally draining and the 2-hr long episode is not really inviting. But I still think it was worth the watch. Being part of G's journey is worth all that sleep I lost watching this series.
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As a male lead Sathhit had firm reasons and prejudices against female lead Jeerawat .It is hard to forgive your girl friends killer. But when that killer was no killer but itself a victim ,then what?What if that killer repents and is ready to die but could not do so. Satthit is all torn between repenting beautiful killer and evidences and circumstances that are always against her. He wants from Jeerawat her officail confession rather then all those saviour attempts she did to atone herself from guilt .
Jeerawat on other hand did her best to redeem herself from the guilt of causing someone's death. She has that whole aura of 'Yes I am a bad. Don't mess with me'. Vulnerable only to her friend Dao and manager P'Suki. But then comes Satthit , the man hell bent to get her confession for the crime she accidently caused.Something she cannot do all thanks to her mother and people who earn from her fame. To me this was enough reason for that cat and mouse relation between leads.
Other pairs are okey. Sorry to say but I just skipped their scenes .
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I can't believe it's over. I want to watch mooore...
I actually wanted to write a review about Leh Nangfah some days ago. But then I started this drama and got so absorbed into the story that it pushed my feelings for the bird's story aside. And now I'm so obsessed with Kleun Cheewit that I would almost rewatch it right away.Of course I liked the story, otherwise I wouldn't have started it at all. Even though it's filled with clichés and over the top situations, nonsensical jealousy, tight-lipped yet provoking characters and unfounded assumptions.
But still. The time it took to tell the story and the path it went, plus the outstanding acting of the cast made this an extraordinary drama that knows how to convince. If I had to choose between the Korean "Secret" which follows a quite similar plot, and Kleun Cheewit, I'd choose the Thai one ten times over, even though I liked "Secret" alot as well.
The main leads were the driving force. There was harmony and balance, not one edgy moment. The back and forth, the unwanted situations they were put into, and the slow progress of their relationship with all the hardships that came along, was what glued me to the screen. Nothing felt forced by the writing, it always made sense within the borders of a lakorn.
Yaya's (Jee) crying skills were so authentic, it flooded my own emotions and made me cry along every single time! And it was not only her crying but the emotions she carried with it. I always knew whether she was angry or sad or happy. Mark (Thit) on the other hand had a very subtle way of showing the feelings of his character. He didn't cry as much and especially in the beginning till the middle the anger and hate ruled over Thit's actions. I also wasn't convinced of Mark right away, it only started later on. But I also felt that he grew with his character and got alot better with each episode, which is why I am quite happy with him as the male lead in the end. Yaya and Mark built two really strong characters who are filled with flaws but help each other heal.
The second leads were enjoyable as well. For real. Usually I get bored after some time with them, because their story doesn't capture my attention anymore. But these two, Chaiyan and Piak were an equally interesting couple, even though they brought along alot of drama for Jee, too. But I liked the friendship between Jee and Chaiyan and that they didn't waver because of Piak's jealousy. Of course, Piak was understandable, but at some point it reached a level that questioned the love they actually had for each other and turned it into a tightrope act. They could have saved alot of trouble and tears, if they had just TALKED to each other reasonably.
And that was an actually problem of the drama. Either people assumed things because of certain situations they "saw" and thought they knew what was going on. Or whenever a problem arose, they never, NEVER talked it out. There was either crying or slapping or cursing or fighting OR silently leaving (but oh well, we all know about those things from almost every drama, right). They never really said what needed to be said. Only a few situations occurred (after the volcano had already erupted, you could say), when misunderstandings were finally cleared. It made me happy again because it was overdue a long time ago, and made me forget all the complaints I had before. The reason why especially this drama heated my emotions so much is because all the characters felt so alive. I saw and felt their yearning for understanding.
Because of this I wanted to deducted half a point but... nope, I got too invested in the story and the characters and was never disappointed (unnerved sometimes, yes, but never once did I thought it was a waste of time). It deserves my 10 and a place on my precious drama list.
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