Song Naree (2019)

Surprisingly enjoyable! I started watching this out of boredom and ended up finishing within a few days. For me, it has just the right amount of makjang to make me wanna keep watching without it being absolutely crazy. I didn't have any expectations going in, but I felt pretty impressed/satisfied by the end.

Like a lot of other commenters have said, there isn't a ton of romance in this show. I would say the family melodrama has a bigger/more prominent role than the romantic bits.

STORY:
This lakorn has a bit of a slow start, as all the pieces of the story fall into place. Once the twins meet, which I think is about halfway through, things definitely get spicier. Most of the characters (except Pa, Neung's stepdad) are rather sympathetic. I appreciated that (most) of the 'evil' characters had some dimension, they weren't just raeng for no reason.
I liked the way they dealt with Neung's character. She does a lot of deplorable things, but she also very clearly has a mental problem and a conscience. I think they did a nice job of making her a sympathetic character, even as she spirals out of control. Song isn't as compelling, since she's already a good, nice person, her character doesn't have a whole lot of room to grow. However, she's still likeable and she's one of those rare nice-girl characters who isn't super weak. Her relationship with Ard is quite cute, I wish we got to see more of them together.

Also, Ying Yuot is an absolute saint. Seriously.

ACTING/CAST:
Everyone did a pretty good job here, I think! Min especially impressed me; she did a really great job differentiating Song and Neung. I think she did an especially good job with Neung's unhinged moments. Oftentimes, I feel like those scenes can get kinda cringey, but I think Min sold them pretty well.

MUSIC:
Just your normal lakorn music here, I think. Nothing special, but nothing bad.

REWATCH:
Honestly, this show doesn't have a lot of twists. It's pretty straight-forward, so I think it should be easy to rewatch it without losing too much enjoyment.

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I’m not sure what to make of this lakorn, as we’ve seen similar plots before. I personally watched it in fast-forward mode. Firstly, there’s no romance in it. We have San, who was dating Yai (another lunatic female character in the lakorn). He suddenly has a change of heart and decides to pursue Song, and he goes on to marry or start living with Neung.

We have our police officer, At, who falls in love with Song, even when he believes Song is the bad girl. He doesn’t know she has a twin sister who’s the actual bad one, and he always watches over and protects Song.

We have Neung, who grew up with her mother and turned out to be a bad girl in every way. She’s addicted to sex and sleeps around. Even after getting married to Ying, she doesn’t stop. She sleeps with one of his workers and even participates in a groupie.

Not only that, but she also sleeps with her stepdad (though we learn the reason at the end).

At’s colleague, Wichai, falls in love with Song’s other cousin, Noi.

I understand that the twins are separated, but the father who had Song ( Neung stayed with her mother) goes on to marry another woman, moves abroad, and never looks for his daughter. That’s not okay.

Although the aunt is caring and loves Song like her own daughter, which is very unusual in lakorns, we have the crazy jealous cousin Yai, who loves any man who shows attention to Song.

In the end, Neung contracts sexually transmitted diseases and spreads them to all the men she slept with, including San.

There’s a happy ending for Song and Noi, but not so much for the rest of the characters.

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