Khun Noo Ruen Lek (2018)

Note: There are spoilers, but they're not real spoilers.

Story:
The drama is about a woman named Daya and a man named Taywat. They met on a plane ride back from abroad and sat right next to each other. They meet again because Daya moved into a small house and Taywat went to visit her. They start falling in love and pretty early on too. They both see a ghost who helps them out and protects them.

The main plot is Daya came home from abroad because her dad suddenly died. Daya stepmom is trying to steal all of the inheritance and Taywat comes in and helps Daya out. Turns out there's a lot more going on behind the scenes and Taywat's dad is somehow involved.

The story doesn't stray that much in my opinion, the only side story was the ghost girl, but I liked her scenes. Another thing that is really good is that the series doesn't have that love-hate with the main leads. And even if there were misunderstandings because of other people, they quickly solved that within 2-3 episodes. The rest of the series was trying to find out who killed Daya's father and mother and Taywat finding who his real family is. I liked the storyline, but I can see where people might not like it. I think the storyline can be a bit dry or non-dramatic for people's liking.

Cast:
I think the cast had cute chemistry. I will say, the actresses that played Daya's step-family were very good at acting very dumb. I swear, Daya's step-cousin I think had something wrong with her because she wanted to kill Daya to feel inferior. And the step-mom was just greedy in general, so I didn't like her. I'm straying from the actual cast, but again, they did well enough where I was irritated at their characters.

Overall:
Like I always say in most of my reviews, I probably like this drama more than the next person. The drama itself isn't the most exciting or dramatic like how lakorns normally are, but it was written sensibly. If you are thinking about watching it, I'd say go for it, it is really good. Plus, I don't think there was any plot hole or confusion so I enjoyed it. Overall, I give it an 8/10.

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This lakorn, Thanwa got paired with then only 19-year old Pupe Kessarin. Despite that, they worked well together and overall I was satisfied with the performance of young Pupe. But 33-year old Andrew Cronin DID look a bit like creepo with her:) The show also features child actress as a ghost, but she is also good and likeable. Who is bordering on the line is the evil uncle. The whole murder plot and evil "stepmother" are surplus and not watchable, I tried to skip as much as possible. And if that was not enough of constant-yelling-bad-acting, to top it all there is yet another BEYOND SURPLUS character of the evil stepmother's "daughter", making it 2 stupid evil women in 1 house serving the same function in the drama, with actresses only 12 years apart in age. So overall count is 5 extras to a good romance. While every lakorn has some, 5 is a LOT.

While I enjoyed most of the main couple's interactions, I certainly did not enjoy most of the main story. The evil psychopatic "uncle" got way beyond the line. Even compared with the child ghost, lol. I think we CAN have a lovestory where the main couple is not surrounded by characters that mostly belong to prison/pillowed cell? Obviously, thai do not think so. Because this lakorn's story is actually pretty typical. Nevertheless I found the "crime line" quite unwatchable and mostly fastforwarded through it. The two main couples were cute, though. So was the good guardian spirit:) Still, most of the screentime we have to deal with crazy stuff centering around various antagonists, which sadly is a norm for a lakorn.

Extra points: 1) Kisses! Especially appreciated from such young nang'ek. I would excuse HER to fake, after watching 40-year old actresses STILL struggling with a small peck, lol. 2) Good song 'Ru Mai' by No One Else.

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