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Notification thai drama review
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Notification
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by 8392225
May 20, 2022
8 of 8 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 5.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 5.0
Music 3.0
Rewatch Value 3.0
This review may contain spoilers

Isn't Eye Kamolned kinda old for this?

I found it maybe a bit awkward pairing Eye with August Vachiravit, even though she kept wearing her girlie hairstyle and backpack.

Then there's this complicated sci-fi time-travel plot involving simple dating. That is never good sign. This can hardly be a romance, because it all gets turned into some kind of "project" in the hands of main girls's best friend Sonia (31-year old actress portraying a student), who basically handles her love life for her. Also, as one other review here pointed out: If the messages from the future shows things are perfect, why should be there a need to try and do something about it? Just sit back and let it happen, eh? And that's just one of hundred reasons why I don't like anything supernatural.

I love watching relationship naturally developing (well, as naturally as it is possible in scripted drama... the better the script, the more natural the relationship development seems to viewers, of course). Which is precisely the thing we are denied here. It's one of those attempts to be original by making a weak script actually an asset. Yeah, good scriptwriters were always scarse. Drama producers WOULD try any kind of experiment. In the end, it's actually rare to find simple good romance...

First episodes, the notifications showing things being ideal and ROMANTIC alternate with actual events being clumsy, mishap and far from developing a relationship. The heroine tries hard each time to make the "prediction" come true and it either doesn't or does in non-romantic way. Then her friend even goes as far as telling the heroine that she has to make sure the thing in notification happens on the given day, else "the future will change". Huh? All I can say is the "magic phone" gets broken at one point and I just thought: Great, let's leave it that way.

Also, there is "Best" Nathasit in his "best friend" role. Suddenly, there are also notifications about the main girl ending up with HIM. While I honestly think Eye more compatible with Best than with August Vachiravit, his character shows ZERO signs of feelings beyond friendship at first. Then the script suddenly changes. Then, the script plays with a possible death of his character, which is too dark a theme for a girlie romance thing, making it actually a worse script once again. The author of this really doesn't seem skilled in writing romance. Someone on the production team could draw cute drawings, that's one thing for sure, else...

At 1/2 of the series, there is a scene in which the best friend Sonia pushes the main girl so hard towards the boy portrayed by August Vachiravit, that she bumps into him violently and his nose starts bleeding. I thought this little scene very symbolical. It depicts the kind of annoying meddling characters, the level of humour, and the "romance" best.

The relationship development is forced and laborious, the two main actresses Eye Kamolned & Meen Chayanee clumsily stylized into someone 10+ years younger look like bad cartoons, and it is all underlined with sequences of actual cartoons. Jomjam Suphitcha brings something bit more into this, and so does Best Nathasit. The ending of each episode belongs to Best and it's... best, LOLz. Cuter than any drawings!:)

Episode 5/8 is another revealing moment to note. When the notification keeps changing from one boy to the other each 2 minutes, it only underlines how credible such "romance" was from the start. Whom does the girl actually want to date, obviously that doesn't really matter to makers of this series, who set the whole episode in manga con, un/conspicuously pushing gay culture. The scene with both boys in gay-looking get-ups, who hug each other or hopefully even kiss gets the most screams.

I say the last episode is the worst. We jump from the fluffy silly romance comedy to something like 'The Lake House' with Sandra Bullock. But, here I didn't believe the main girl WOULD choose her FRIEND (no matter the hidden deep feelings) over the ROMANTIC looking boy BEFORE living through the experience of having a relationship with him and LOSING forever the one who'd really make her happy. She would have to travel back in time with her OLDER mind. Therefore, the only scene that can be counted is AGAIN the post-credits ending one. "Did you break my model?" "How do you know?" "I am watching your live video.":DD

So, the only thing I must praise the authors for is SEEING that the character portrayed by Best Nathasit was so adorable there's no way girl would not actually love him more than August the pretty boy. On the other hand, I didn't see the need for him to have to die so the girl would regret. Or us, the viewers to suffer the "mobile notification" plot for the whole story. We learned in the end that if was for a good cause, but the form it took was just silly. Logically, you cannot win with time-travel stories no matter what. As entertainment, I think I already described it above. ALL the five rating stars I give this are for the video-makings scenes.
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