My Love in the Countryside (2024)

This is such a great show to watch.

Thank you for making this comical. It is so funny. It has a lot of humor. I have to laugh about it watching each episode. Great acting and i love the storyline. I really enjoy the characters played by the actors. Mayom does her best performance so far. Chujai is so adorable and funny. She knows what is right and wrong and lets her mother know in her own funny way. You can almost feel the “love”, “sorrow” and “hate” between the characters. It is a great show. So far one of the best I have seen on Thai tv. Cant wait to see how it ends., but i will be sad when it ends as it so funny to watch. Thank you for this.

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Female Empowerment in a Humble Countryside of Thailand

Gone is the era of old-school lakorns with macho guys/doormat girls, slap-kiss, etc. Thai lakorns, especially from their traditional Channel 3, have gone so far as to empower their female leads, to the point that the female characters are pretty much in control in this drama. Aside from that, this is an exhausting comedy with a steadfast romance of a cute couple with sizzling chemistry.

STORY:

Saisamorn wants to be a top actress following the step of her belated father who was a famous actor. She aims her career progress with the upcoming blockbuster movie project "Love Floods the Field" (รักท่วมทุ่ง = Rak Thuam Thung), which is actually a novel source written by Suriyatis (สุริยาทิศ). Because she is a big city girl who graduated overseas, the director sends her to learn about rural living in the countryside where his relatives live who run a palm sugar factory. Off she goes and pretends to be Mayom, and meets two prominent families: the Phanphlai and the Khokkhongcharoen. Long story short, Saisamorn successfully gets the role and an award, but not without so many difficulties, including her navigating her love with the son of Phanphlai: Mana (Ma).

Saisamorn/Mayom and Ma's romance is steadfast from beginning to end.

ACTING/CHARACTER:

This is where I will talk about female empowerment because the female characters here are the bosses over the male characters.

Saisamorn/Mayom versus Mana (Ma)
Saisamorn is a perfect Female Lead in dramaland imo. She is beautiful, rich, smart, independent, and determined. She is also funny, kind-hearted, gentle, humble, and patient. Even though she ends up falling in love with Ma, Saisamorn still doesn't deter herself from her dream of becoming an actress. She even endures hardship because of the abusive treatment by Ma's mother and sister, and the Khokkhongcharoen family.
Ma, although his character is nice, he's quite weak imo when it comes to protecting his beloved versus obeying his mother. Especially since he falls in love at first sight with Saisamorn in the first episode (when she filmed a guest role) and finds out quite early that Mayom is Saisamorn. Only toward the end, he stands up against his mean mother.
Namfah and August have such sizzling chemistry since they collaborated before in Mae Krua Kon Mai.

Phongphaew versus Kusol
These are Ma's parents. The mother is SO mean towards Mayom, not because Mayom is a country girl not worthy to be her son's wife, but because Phongphaew and Jaem (Mrs. Khokkhongcharoen) are besties and they made a pact to marry their sons and daughters together. Not only that, Phongphaew is the most selfish woman in dramaland, because of her gambling addiction she's ready to sell her own family!
Kusol, her husband, is supposed to be the head village. He's nice but he's overpowered by his wife and doesn't stand up as a family man and a head village

The actress who played Phongphaew (Namfon) is a veteran actress who is very good as a villain. As much as I hated the mother, I praised the actress's acting!

Other strong female characters: Sri, Chujai, Krongthong, Phisamae, and Nath
Sri is Ma's younger sister. The drama synopsis says that Sri is a sharp-mouthed woman. She is meanie alright, but still bearable in comparison to her mother. Little Chujai, the youngest in the family, is also a strong female character. In fact, in comparison to her father and brother, Chujai often who sometimes stands up against her mother.

Krongthong, the daughter of Khokkhongcharoen is also annoying with her ambition to get Ma, to the point of making a big lie! I feel like she shouldn't get redemption in the end!

Phisamae is Saisamorn's mom. I love this character! She is a single mother who brought up her daughter. She also built her own company, which became the top publishing industry. Nath is her sister, a film producer.

Other weak characters: Temorn, Saisamorn's father, the director
Temorn is the son Khokkhongcharoen. He's weak at first but Temorn gets a good character growth.
Saisamorn's father, after he became a famous actor was also a womanizer and a gambler until he died.
The director Chat. He actually doesn't want to give the role to Saisamorn but he's afraid she's the niece of the producer and the heiress of the top publishing company. So he lies to Saisamorn that she needs to learn to be a country girl to be accepted to the role.

OST: Main Theme "Love Floods in the Field", an upbeat duo by August Vachiravit and Pearwah Nichaphat (who played brother and sister in the drama).

ENDING (Scroll down belong if you want to be spoiled about the ending of the characters):





















Happy endings for the couples: Saisamorn and Ma, Sri and Temorn, and even Krongthong with her lover! Finally, Ma's mother accepts Saisamorn (not because she's a rich girl). The villains got their punishments.

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