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The title song is annoying (partially sang in bad english), then we have the annoying "love-square" thingy where everyone is torn in between two options, we have 30-year old "girlie" Aom Sushar who got paired up with barely 21-year old Peter Denman wearing the world's most slimy hair... towering over Aom even when she's wearing her killer heels (looking awkward but not hiding it: so he's not actually unlikeable). We have Saimai Maneerat & Puen Khanin who are close to kiss as soon as in episode 2, but they don't do it (epi 3, they dance tango and then fake-do it). And we have 40-year old M Apinan, who still counts as the most attractive member of the whole cast... in gay side-role. But! We also have very very cute & likeable child actress. I'm not into kids in lakorns unless they are really cute.
Clearly kissing is banned in this lakorn, because we can't see it with any couple, present or flashback. It has fast progress of relationship in between the characters though, no wonder it's 10 episodes only. Somehow Saimai & Puen couple isn't exciting at all, despite them having their almost-kiss in every episode. Peter & Aom couple has huge age gap. The child is needed actually to save it somehow. Still this couple has more life to it.
After the past of all characters got explained, I settled in and cheered mainly for the Peter & Aom couple, not only as lovers but also best set of parents for the little girl. I especially cheered for Peter Denman's character and his "papa giraffe" to be the little girl's dad. Denman, youngest member of the main cast, was able to portray warmth and maturity which was pleasant to watch. He was actually more credible than Aom Sushar's thirty year old pixie.
As the other review pointed out, since episode 7 it all kind of crumbled. The characters including the nicely mature ones went petty for the sake of bringing more drama, which made me wish instead for peace and quiet, for the little child. Overall I really wasn't enjoying the "progress" the characters made. Somehow, everyone became less likeable, of course the little girl's mom ("evil spoiled bitch") acted the worst because her character got also unhinged by the scriptwriter to go too far with the little kid, else she was pitiable more than anything else, and by the way she was the prettiest woman around (the usual rule "the prettiest actress = nang'ek" did not apply in this show) so I kind of wished her to repent and get happy ending instead of just leave. Never mind. If they made everyone an asshole just for the sake of romantic angst, they should have added kiss, though. A good one. Not a forced fake thing to uglify this drama. Also, I obviously felt they put the little girl through too much... Hopefully, at least the child actress had a good experience shooting the drama.
Episode 8 added yet one more bizarre twist that made no sense and divided all characters into 2 battle groups (it's a custody battle for a little girl who doesn't remember her dad, but remembers her nanny). Her naughty mom doesn't get her happy ending. In fact no one does, the only thing we get to see is someone proposes to someone but it's not a couple that one would cheer for before this episode. Episode 9 the general situation calms down. Things are more or less back to how they originally were, only now everyone has a broken heart. So that was probably the only purpose.
Of course there is a "big action final" in the end and Peter Denman kisses the right girl on her oxygen mask, lol. It's so bad it's funny. It's clear they didn't know what to do with the ending, but they managed to squeeze some really hilarious moments into it (those were unrelated to the main plot). There is a happy ending on a beach of course, but the main guy suddenly started wearing glasses so that the audience could see there was a further barier in that final kiss, to forgive how it looked. Looked like the cast was also glad this was 10 episodes only. I won't even mention the death-embarassing "catholic" (aren't they all buddhists?) wedding with the english speaking priest and english spoken wows recited by the asian groom & bride, who both then posed for a camera not-kiss. Yeah, I was also glad it was ending.
Clearly kissing is banned in this lakorn, because we can't see it with any couple, present or flashback. It has fast progress of relationship in between the characters though, no wonder it's 10 episodes only. Somehow Saimai & Puen couple isn't exciting at all, despite them having their almost-kiss in every episode. Peter & Aom couple has huge age gap. The child is needed actually to save it somehow. Still this couple has more life to it.
After the past of all characters got explained, I settled in and cheered mainly for the Peter & Aom couple, not only as lovers but also best set of parents for the little girl. I especially cheered for Peter Denman's character and his "papa giraffe" to be the little girl's dad. Denman, youngest member of the main cast, was able to portray warmth and maturity which was pleasant to watch. He was actually more credible than Aom Sushar's thirty year old pixie.
As the other review pointed out, since episode 7 it all kind of crumbled. The characters including the nicely mature ones went petty for the sake of bringing more drama, which made me wish instead for peace and quiet, for the little child. Overall I really wasn't enjoying the "progress" the characters made. Somehow, everyone became less likeable, of course the little girl's mom ("evil spoiled bitch") acted the worst because her character got also unhinged by the scriptwriter to go too far with the little kid, else she was pitiable more than anything else, and by the way she was the prettiest woman around (the usual rule "the prettiest actress = nang'ek" did not apply in this show) so I kind of wished her to repent and get happy ending instead of just leave. Never mind. If they made everyone an asshole just for the sake of romantic angst, they should have added kiss, though. A good one. Not a forced fake thing to uglify this drama. Also, I obviously felt they put the little girl through too much... Hopefully, at least the child actress had a good experience shooting the drama.
Episode 8 added yet one more bizarre twist that made no sense and divided all characters into 2 battle groups (it's a custody battle for a little girl who doesn't remember her dad, but remembers her nanny). Her naughty mom doesn't get her happy ending. In fact no one does, the only thing we get to see is someone proposes to someone but it's not a couple that one would cheer for before this episode. Episode 9 the general situation calms down. Things are more or less back to how they originally were, only now everyone has a broken heart. So that was probably the only purpose.
Of course there is a "big action final" in the end and Peter Denman kisses the right girl on her oxygen mask, lol. It's so bad it's funny. It's clear they didn't know what to do with the ending, but they managed to squeeze some really hilarious moments into it (those were unrelated to the main plot). There is a happy ending on a beach of course, but the main guy suddenly started wearing glasses so that the audience could see there was a further barier in that final kiss, to forgive how it looked. Looked like the cast was also glad this was 10 episodes only. I won't even mention the death-embarassing "catholic" (aren't they all buddhists?) wedding with the english speaking priest and english spoken wows recited by the asian groom & bride, who both then posed for a camera not-kiss. Yeah, I was also glad it was ending.
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