The Player (2021)

Well, that was a fun ride!

First off - I really wasn't that interested in "The Player", to be honest. But I like the actors so I thought, "Why not give it a shot?" And I have no regrets. First and foremost, I really liked the script. It is a puzzle that you have to piece together. Scene after scene, episode after episode, the writers and the director would leave out just one small detail...that they would eventually get back to somewhere down the road and, by episode four, you'd be wondering who was lying and who was telling the truth. I'll give you a hint - there is a lot of lying going on. Characters that you would think are just passing through wind up being so vital to the plot. Things that were brought up in early episodes that you didn't even remember suddenly became so important in the end.

Okay. The Acting. First off - there is a clear villain from the get-go. Then another villain shows up. Then another. It got to a point where everything was so shady that I didn't know who to trust. And the actors just throw themselves into their roles. and play it all with so much conviction that you almost start to believe whoever is on and start watching the others suspiciously. By the end of the first episode you swear allegiance to one character but, I guarantee, you will switch allegiances before the end of the next episode. I remember at one point saying, "Is everybody lying?!?" The director does a really good with this great script and the actors are right there with them.

Look - if you're expecting something deep and profound and life changing...this is probably not the ride you want to take. If, however, you're up for a fun ride, just hop on board! A good time was had by all!

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IT WAS UNEXPECTEDLY GREAT!!!!

Okay, starting off with the acting, it's was good, great to be exactly, the cast pull off what their character supposed to be (does that make sense lmao) but like other tv dramas, the holes are visible, either overacting or underacting but all of that was bearable to watch, at least for me. Namtaan acting throughout and most specially the last episode got me like " oh gosh she's amazing " tho there are some point that she breath exaggeratedly, for example in the pool scene where Dan (chimon) was furious, she's still slayed, actually carried the whole series on her back, also I wanted to add how I have my mouth open in the last ep with her and drake's character, hello, that screen time of drake was short but I felt like that was the most intense scene in this series, drake better have a good pay for that, as for the others, I couldn't say much, they were all good and all it's just Namtaan and I think Drake (even his screen time was close to none) overpowered the whole cast. I LIKE THE CAST THO, I WOULD NOT LIKE TO REPLACE ANYONE.

Plot and Twist
It was expected and not at the same time, We are looking for the player thinking it'll be revealed in the end when it was just Giwi all this damn time (lmao what are we thinking, more like, what was I thinking), all the games she played payed her off at the end which is expected for her character but it still funny to think that I was looking for who is the player when they clearly showed it's giwi lmao. I also already did foresee the friendship of Eve and Mim being fixed beforehand, I don't know what to say with all in all plot actually but it was good nonetheless, got me kicking my feet excited for the next ep. The transition of time is invisible, it felt like everything happened within a week or month at least, I was hook up with Pitch and Eve thinking I won't be able to let go of them easily but I did, I did anyways, I don't know how is that possible but I moved on as soon as eve did and by that I mean not even an episode. The story is Good, I felt like I've mentioned the word ' good ' 10 times already but who cares lmao, the intense scene were sometimes not intense but most of the time it is, does that make sense, I skipped a lot I'm not gonna lie, but it was because I was expecting nothing about this series, I have 0 expectations throughout, so it didn't disappoint me and actually enjoyed watching it. I will recommend this storyline to someone who like little to less romance and someone who like a gorgeous, powerful, woman who turns out to be the villain of everyone else in the story. Let me once say this, the fight scene of tim and tin was not it, you gon see a bruise a minute and the next you wont, what is that, it was bearable but, meh

Music
It's 8 because the intro is so effin nice

Rewatch Value
I might rewatch this once just because I do it for some series where I skipped a lot, I would like to watch this again with no skips just for a better understanding and just because but all in all this is not something I would rewatch at all, it's stressing why would I lmao

Overall it was a great series in my opinion, You would like this if you love watching a typical tv drama, I love tv dramas so I actually liked this

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