Rising Girl (2019)

I really enjoyed this Thai drama. It had the classic elements you would find in a Thai drama - evil stepmother, rich guy, poor girl, good beats evil, karma, etc. The twist is the musical element. A big theme of the drama is music and I found the songs really catchy! You get used to them, as they are played over and over again. I think the leads had great chemistry. There were so many sweet moments between them, even though there was no kiss scene. The way Anawin stares at Wanjai really says it all. The second lead couple Kaen and Namtarn are hilarious! Malin is a great villain, she really makes you hate her, but also feel quite sorry for her. I think this is an underrated drama, and doesn’t seem to have the recognition it deserves. Check it out :)

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Music dramas are a guilty pleasure for me, definitely. The singing is just so nice and it really makes the show, of course. The story was actually really good, it had a sweet male lead, an adorable female lead, great friends, great family and a classic story. You had an evil stepmother, naive dad, dumb evil characters, but helpful ones too. Anawin just wants his company to be successful, he wants to live up to his moms name and make everything great. Whan, just wants to be a singer, but with being famous comes complication when your family doesn't have a great name tied to the business either. So through trial and tribulations, they try to find the bad guys, overcome them and then fall in love along the way. Not just the main couple, but the secondary couple. Everyone honestly gets a happy ending and that's dope. The only thing is it could've used more romance, of course, but the actress is young and was young filming this as well, so when the ML looked at the FL, it was sweet and filling and I loved it. I loved the cousin and his relationship. FL parents were awesome. The acting was pretty good and on point in general. Other than that, overall, a great show, I liked it. It was sweet, filling, easy to watch and short. It seemed long but it was very casual. Worth the watch.

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I wouldn't mind it even if ALL lakorns were musicals...

Now, nang'ek here is 18. She has a chinese looking name. In her very first scene, she's both singing and dancing. She's a cute little girlie. Accompanied by a huge buffalo, LOL. But seriously, she looks even younger than 18, way younger than on the poster or MDL pic. Some scenes she could pass for 12.

Pra'ek is 24. He is SUPER cute (he looks like way, way more cute New Chaiyapol Pupart:) Given the givens, there is no kiss scene. He can only grab her and stare at her. Well, she IS almost a kid, LOL. But with him it's a pitty, he is so dreamy. So, due to huge number of episodes, the more it sucks there is nothing to wait that long FOR.

The plot is a BIT dated. The daughter wishes to take revenge on a music label that previously hurt her mom & dad. Irony being, she already lives in the youtube age, where no record company is needed. She can both make herself famous & fight her case without getting signed with them to "fight from the inside", still that's what she's going to do, for the story purpose of this lakorn. After all, she needs her encounters with the pra'ek, who of course is son of the music agency's owner.

Then our tiny girlie nang'ek and her "band" have their first concert. The concert is featured in the series. Xiang Ponsroung is extremely cute and fun to watch on stage. And not only her. The costumes alone can make anyone watching (especially from europe) go ROFL. Any male singer is a treat... Their shiny "tuxedos" are blinding my eyes for several hours after, LOL.

Meanwhile the "past secret" plot gets revealed in 1/3 of the series runtime and a new twist is added to it which is even sillier. I gotta say I lost my faint interest in the story quite soon. But... songs the characters (main characters, side-characters, antagonist characters) sang, were actually nice to listen to. So, sometimes when the singing was over and the drama part continued on, I wished to continue my listening mood on some mp3 or flac, instead of listening to GUN SHOTS, for god sake (seriously... please spare me of any gunfight in my lakorns). Isn't that a bit much? This really isn't something I would stretch over 35 episodes. Make a short & sweet musical and leave it! Watching already 17th episode of this, I wanted to sleep...

Luckilly, episode 19 there is another concert. It then gets like that on and off... The (side)characters whom I honestly felt like I did not care to watch for 1 more minute, then got onstage and suddenly turned fun (the dancing made me smile always:) But 35 episodes of this IS a lot. I was like sooo not interested in the plot. Though I enjoyed watching Namfon Sueangsuda, it gets repetitive, even with the concerts (the songs also repeated, there wasn't that many of them for that many episodes). I wished they'd at last lay off with the ridiculous "crime" element. That massively contributed to sink the whole series below even an average rating. After THIRTY TWO episodes of waiting, there is a romantic scene. In which he looks like he's going to kiss her... and touches her nose with his finger.

Overall, this blended stage concerts/press conferences with constant assassination attempts. In the end, it was ridiculous. It had more than pleasing cast & great songs, but as a "drama", it was not really watchable...

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