Nakark Kaew (2018)

An exciting drama that had me toward the end like ... what???

This drama opening was amazing, and I loved the music. I thought to myself yes...I found me another gem after watching Love Destiny.

The plot was awesome and it was clear that Lookaew was a slut and DaDa was a go-getter. So, I was looking for a little rebellion from our female lead once the switch was made. Nope, she just apologized and followed whatever P'Ratt said like a lovesick puppy.

Also, I agree with everyone their chemistry was great when he thought that Dada was Lookaew. I just don't see how lying to her mother and boyfriend was for her good. Even if that was the case, attacking her real boyfriend while knowing the truth was messed up.

What really bothered me toward the end was that she just forgave him like that, with no further questions on why he hid the truth. I think I would have given it a 10 if it was more realistic. What woman wouldn't question or be angry that the man she was brainwashed into thinking she loved at first, lied to her and even kept her away from her mom and boyfriend because he was possessive? I mean he even went as far as to sleep with her more after finding out the truth to make her so attached to him that she wouldn't dare leave him once she remembers everything about herself.

So, overall this show has a good solid beginning and the ending was really nice where everyone gets what they deserve. .

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- on the first 15 episodes i really love how the story flows on how nada became leokaw. The twist of the story were simply amazing and i must say that i’ve been attached to it.
- din dan’s role was superb. As the boyfriend of nada who doesn’t stop looking for clues on where to find nada. It was just quite disappointing because his role was not given much of attention when it comes to his love from nada. He didn’t fight ratt regarding his stealing moments with his girl friend.
- kwan’s role was so sweet that she and din dan have a good chemistry on screen
-ratt’s role was not so manly because he was selfish on getting the love of nada
-nada’s role was superb also but she’s so nice that it became unrealistic. And just ignore her real boyfriend once her memory came back.
- leakow’s role was so cheater and really one of the most hated girls. I just want to know if he really loves ratt or its just for fun
- dr goson’s role was so stupid. He just do everything for love but at the end of the series i realize that he was just a loving and protective father to kwan. I love his role in the end.
-khun dee or namthip was so bad. I hate her.

Overall the lakorn was so good to watch and i will give it a high 5 ??????????

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One of the best thai drama..

This thai drama is one of the best without any doubt...i just stumble upon this drama and didn't have anything interesting to watch so i start watching this and thats how i discovered this gem........
Now talking about + of this drama...
Frst the story is very very interesting...at start story is not ordinary amd unique but soon u'll discover many secrets which made this drama worth a watch.
2ndly main cast is not dumb or easily manipulated..all the mains were very smart and solved the problems with brain
3rd and most importantly there were no stupis break ups or misunderstandings between both couples and they were very supportive of eachbother
.no character was useless..all the characters were very imp and related to one story...
No slapping forcing or rude male lead
.the cjemistry between leads was very good and their actibg was also very very good
.i gave this drama 9 and i'll surely come back to this drama

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Not the best but still recommended!

Not the best Thai lakorn I've watched but I still enjoyed it. The first 16 - 17 episodes hooked me in and I binged watch those episodes. The pacing was good and the chemistry between Ratt and Dada/fake Looklaew was good. I liked that the show made the characters realistically intelligent enough to realize that the fake Looklaew was actually Dada. At least, the audience was not expected to suspend disbelief most of the time, although I am sure that many would argue that it was unbelievable how blind Dr. Goson's love was for Rachawadee. I personally think that there is such a thing as blind love just as it is believable to me that one would sacrifice one's life for the person s/he loves.

Unfortunately, the show got draggy the next few episodes, focusing more on the villain. I did appreciate the plot twist towards the end but they could have wrapped it up by episode 21 when it was clear even to the audience what the plot twist was. Also, it would have been better for me if they made the romance component consistent and having the OTP continue having a good amount of screen time. Instead, they did not appear that much together towards the end and the show highlighted the secondary couple which I felt lacked chemistry in general and did not maintain my interest in their relationship. I did quite a bit of fast-forwarding through their scenes. Due to the lack of good romance during the ending episodes, it was somewhat less satisfying for me. That said, I did enjoy watching everyone getting what they deserved, good or bad!

Generally speaking, the acting was fine but no one really stood out for me except for Pock Mittiraroch as Rachawadee. She was awesome as the primary villain. While I really hated her character and was shocked by the extreme measures that she was willing to take to protect herself, that woman was fierce! It is worth mentioning that her outfits as well as Dada/Lookwaew's were amazing. It was due to Pock's acting and the character's delicious evilness that made me bumped up my rating to 8.

Aniporn Chalermburanawong as Lookkaew /Dada did ok transitioning between her two characters but did not display much range in her acting. Likewise with Film Thanapat Kawila where I think he could do better with his micro-expressions. At least as the OTP, they made a good-looking couple and I enjoyed seeing them at a superficial level. I was not that impressed with their characters though. The FL should be a lot stronger and more of a go-getter like Dada's character at the beginning of the show but instead she became this wuss that let everyone bossed her around even after realizing that she was Dada. That inconsistency bothered me especially when she was behaving like Dada in other areas. As for Ratt, he came across somewhat selfish and possessive to me, even though his actions were supposed to be protecting Dada. Ultimately, I gave Ratt the benefit of the doubt since aren't we all afraid of losing the ones we love and are willing to do a lot to keep them?

Norraphat Vilaiphan, another fine-looking man as Din did a good job in his role as Dada's boyfriend, searching for her and the truth. In a way, his acting was better than Film ; there was more intensity from him. Notable mention: handsome Dr. John. Someone should update Oliver Pupart's profile picture on MDL. I just watched Leh Nangfah and thought that he was hot in that show. I am also watching Leh Bunpakarn which has Tao Watitapun in it. She is gorgeous.

I am not into Thai music very much but the main song was quite pleasant. Rewatch value is not high for me especially after knowing the plot twist.

Overall, I would still recommend this show with the warning that the romance fizzles out towards the end. For episodes with english sub, dailymotion has most of them with the full version. Telegram THLakorn has all has all of them. I would not use watch the Dramacool version because the editing was simply terrible.

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An over-tangled fable that leaves no room for romance

'The Glass Mask' (this time I go with the english title, as it sounds way nicer) introduced me to a new lead couple, I haven't seen another lakorn with either of them, yet. The girl looks like a typical nang'rai, not nang'ek. I looked her up and she's a beauty contestant, a big one. It isn't as bad as with Pooklook Fonthip, she is able to show a cute side (they needed to equip her with a fake nose for that, though:) As for Film Thanapat, he looks cozy on his sharerice profile picture. But on MDL profile picture, or in this lakorn, with all the hairproduct, not so much.

The plot is weird, too. Girl not only looks like nang'rai, also acts like nang'rai, a bit. She has a guy on the side (another gel-styled head). Pra'ek is bitterly dissapointed to find out he's got a cheating girlfriend, so the only logical thing the writers could do is switch her with a nice one with the same face. Got it? Me neither.

I felt bad for the girl waking up at hospital in panic. She couldn't remember what her name was. She couldn't remember who her family was. They changed her face to confuse her even more (but did they do eye surgery simultaneously? she needed to wear glasses), and also all the other people (apart from the face, she also happened to have exactly the same body? I kept waiting on someone to notice she's got at least slightly different hands or something). As for her, she is supposed to have "full amnesia", meaning she can't even remember her childhood. WHICH would mean that mentally, she is still a child. It's then a bit pedophile for her to have ANY romance line in this. What were the scriptwriters thinking? If someone can remember how to use spoon and fork, they can remember their mother, too (and the mother is still searching for the disappeared girl). Yet this nang'ek can't, while she can remember how to apply fake eye lashes. Is she supposed to be some kind of supernatural phenomenon?

Then it's revealed that the cheating girlfriend played the piano, had a deceased father she talked a lot about, also actually knew the pra'ek since childhood (played together in sandbox and everything). She hardly was a "sexy party girl" to him, then. Theirs should be morelike brotherly-sisterly bond. If they dated and slept together it was a bit incesty, actually.

I sometimes wonder what the scriptwriters that do write ROMANCE do have in their heads.

How to tune in such story? Looking from ANY angle, it didn't make sense. Including that it was not actually romantic. What was the audience supposed to feel watching it? I won't stretch over the illogical amnesia thing as it's pointless, clearly it's just another stupid lakorn but when there's trouble understanding the characters, then the audience simply can't enjoy their whatever story. I sincerely wished the show had abandoned the main plot and concentrated on something else. Not likely to happen, huh? Then, I tried just to concentrate MYSELF on something else. There's definitely something attractive about Film Thanapat, I decided. But why couldn't they just cut the guy's short hair actually short, so there wouldn't be the need for that overly complicated thing on the top of his head? They even dyed his hair some ridiculous auburn shade. Geez, leave the MEN'S hair alone! So gay.

Okay... I'll stop:) I hoped watching the 2nd couple could save me, here. I found them both likeable and sharing good dynamics so I went from there.

Meanwhile... The main guy sleeps with his fake girlfriend. First, he makes a huge jealous scene to her and she reacts such way if all nang'eks reacted, there would be no more need for all that slap/kiss dragging for loong time, LOL. Then they sleep together and I thought as the girl with the wide nose and glasses hardly had any boyfriend, she had to be a virgin. So, prae'k finds out he's got some other girl, there. He says NOTHING to the girl or to her "mother" that presented her to him, but confides to his dad. It's a funny scene where he doesn't directly tell him why he "knows" it's not her. As I previously watched 'Sud Sai Pan (2013)' where the pra'ek did NOT notice he slept with a virgin (seriously), I was prepared to expect the same here. But no, in this lakorn we live in the world where they never cease to surprise us which basic rules of logic do apply, and which don't...

Pra'ek then finds more proof confirming her switched identity. Even when dealing with considerably grave misconduct he doesn't go through proper channels, just confides to his dad again. The two have another even more stupid debate about how could her "mother" do that, that he's really unsure she's the same person as his girlfriend (huh? I thought he GOT that sorted already) when she looks exactly the same: talking with same breath about the mother owning PLASTIC SURGERY clinic. It's like a comedy, the only thing missing is the bacground laughter like in sitcoms. Concurrently to that we have scenes with the girl clearly reacting on seeing her old home and her own photo and her own mother but no one chooses to pay much attention to THAT, lol. Shall the old gf wake up and save everyone from their misery? Probably not soon... Next episode pra'ek finally confirms the girl's identity through a fingerprint and pieces all things together. Still, this is 1/3 of the "story", only. But what is there left to connect to any of the character's emotion? Pra'ek doesn't seem to feel the need to tell what he has discovered to ANYONE (just his dad doesn't count). He shall just marry this girl?

For a good lakorn, there is actually no need for such complex plot. Just very simple emotions can be powerful for the audience if they're true, meaning if the audience is able to UNDERSTAND them. Here, I could understand the girl, she was just being herself under the strange shell, but I could NOT understand the guy. I suppose the authors of this weird script thought it "romantic" that the pra'ek liked the girl with his unfaithful exlover's body & kind stranger's soul so much he didn't care about the crime done, about her grieving family, about her (amnesiac, then brainwashed) herself? The only person whom he deemed worthy of treating as equal enough to talk straight was his dad, who was neither the causing nor the affected party. As the result, the dad was the only character this pra'ek had real relationship with. Therefore, the romance did not properly work and we were just forced to watch the endless double dealings of all the deceit involved characters. I'm sure it all was intended to be extremely smart. But unless they intended the pra'ek to be in fact worse villain than the "evil mother", it's only a proof of incompetent scriptwriting. Why do most lakorns exhaust so much effort on overtangled fables that are just silly instead of concentrating on the relationships and some real feelings?

While I tried to concentrate on the side-story (I actually found the second couple more attractive), of course majority of the screentime was devoted to the silly main plot. Here I can mention that watching scenes with Pock Piyathida was also quite a strain. She was cute 20 years ago, playing "nang'ek" alonsgide Andy Gregson, but her current "mature villain lady" roles are painful to watch. Mirroring eerily the class of acting of Oliver Pupart (as I say, there's good acting, there's mediocre acting, there's bad acting and then there's Oliver Pupart) who "stars" (or stares) in front of a camera with her, here.

When the old gf wakes, she acts psycho (I don't think she was this psycho before... suddenly she's like from a bad horror movie) but I kind of thought the pra'ek deserved his old gf back. He consulted his "brilliant" dad again, but that was the only thing he could do, again. The nice girl disappeared and was in danger and I couldn't help thinking it was praek's fault. He finally turned to police but it was too little too late. Mostly they kept "playing detectives" themselves and it continued being as dumb as ever. It reminded some kind of parody element.

When it all felt so long like my review here, still many episodes remained. It seemed like never-ending story, while "story" not quite being the right word. I didn't cheer for the nice girl to end up with the pra'ek this lakorn had... She had a nice boyfriend already. I thought she was better off returning to him, and pra'ek with his old gf actually suited each other. Maybe it was just me. But I found it all more stupid the more "smart" it tried to be and even if I accepted the game, I cared for the second leads and side characters - family members - way more. I pitied the second lead girl when she found out about her father. What a cruel discovery, and only because the scriptwriter got carried away on a crazy story. As everything in this series, this didn't make slightest sense (an intelligent doctor reckoned he owed being loyal to his evil lover, but it didn't occur to him what he owed as a parent?). Somehow, the devastating consequences on human relations always played the second fiddle to "amazing love" of the main leads.

When the main evil "mother" capable of murdering both her fake/real daughter stated that after all no real harm was done to the nice girl as she DID get to meet a rich guy she would else never had a chance to marry, I couldn't help but thinking the same about this lakorn's creators. All is well in the end, just as long as the nice girl keeps the rich lover boy and keeps being pretty after her surgery, right? I so wished her to turn massively ugly (without hope for any surgery) just because I had to listen so many times to the annoying pra'ek repeating how he loves her for her soul ONLY, lol. The scene where she regained ALL her memories back I would SO appreciated it (even if her "amnesia" never had much sense) had she told the pra'ek to get lost, but of course, no. Both her mom and her real boyfriend had to tiptoe out of the room when they were having their "reunion". Seeing it was like that, I really had enough and wished that at least was ending already (and couldn't fathom what should MORE episodes be about). This was very, VERY long even at nineteen or twenty - hour long - epis, but no.

I periodically thought there was just 1 last episode left and there was not, LOL. It felt so WAY over. STILL the characters needed to amateurishly investigate more and more stuff. I felt like I would take it even if the evil/fake mother was revealed as an alien, if it happened RIGHT NOW and not after suffering 3 MORE HOUR EPISODES, lol. If there was ever a show I wanted to drop mere few episodes before its ending, then it was this one. And I think THAT is even less flattering than dropping it after FIRST few. Just every time I was about to turn this "drama" off forever, there was a scene of the second couple. So cute, these two. But everyone and everything else was actually unwatchable from the beginning to the end, so I think I should mirror that in my rating.

I guess even the final episode of this "drama" is kind of symbolical, because after the police finally resolves things in the usual stupid "crime action" sequence, audience is still to watch long flashback of the secondary characters and their years old past. Says a lot about dramaturgy skills of the writer. The only good point were the few present time scenes that added closure to second lead girl and her father.

Next time, I would love to see good romance lakorn with no silly criminal stuff in it, which seems like 5 year old kid has written it, and which in my opinion has nothing to do with romance. Thank you.

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Long long story

After a few episodes, you'd get hooked on the story. There's not way too much of romance (of course this is up to individuals' tastes). FL acting is amazing, I must say. ML is a beauty to look at on-screen :D

Something I'd like to say firsthand - the ML actually respects women! Surprise! (Unlike usual thai lakorns) He takes care of the FL, both the evil one and the nice one. He genuinely tries to help the evil one even after she cheated on him!

The chemistry was cute too. They could have added a pinch of lesser drama, and more romance, I felt. The story just kept going on and on, after a few episodes you want to finish it faster to see what happens at the end. Too much hospitals + drug sedation + plastic surgery crap going on at times :D

But overall, an entertaining watch.

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Suspense até o final

Eu estou numa fase totalmente #FilmThanapat e tenho relacionado os trabalhos dele para ver até a estreia de um novo lakorn. Então, decidi começar por NK e acertei bem. Um plot vigoroso que em nenhum momento perde o suspense. Cada episódio tem seu ponto alto e o roteiro desenvolve bem o núcleo principal e o que gira nos dramas ao redor, Sobre os atores, destaco o próprio Film (Ratt), Pock Piyathida (Dee) e Captain Phutanate (Dr. Goson). Creio que a belíssima atriz Natt Aniporn, que faz duplo papel ainda estava se ajustando nas artes cênicas, mas nada que comprometa o trabalho. Música boa, locações interessantes, trama que nos deixa espertos em todo o andamento. Recomendo com convicção de que é um dos melhores daquele ano!

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