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Nang'ek is a cute girl who is a mechanic. Pu Montree's character who is a desperate father, hires her (she's not so easy to buy for money, but her loved one is in hospital) to be a fake girlfriend of his son. Unfortunatelly, not the one portrayed by Great Sapol:) It's the one played by Chap Varakorn, who nang'ek is not interested in. And I understood her.
Poonphat Attapanyapol is here with short hair (except of the quiff, of course... just like in any asian drama not only thai, he's got that stupid "haircut" with the sides almost skinhead shaven, and the front part overly long). Pu Montree's daddy was annoying. If one of his sons obviously liked the mechanic girl, why was he hell-bent on marrying her to the other? Both sons were similar age. It didn't matter which one would take on management of the family firm. I seriously doubted things should get solved by a marriage for 2 years only. Then again, which lakorn does NOT have a silly plot?
Nang'ek's character was great. She wasn't the loud and screaming type, also not the silent angelic one. She was nice, gutsy and direct. How refreshing. I wished a better pra'ek for her (but she's got 3 suitors in this lakorn, so at least she's enjoying the reverse-harem situation:) Acting of the 22-year old Chingching was decent, definitely better than Chap Varakorn's.
After 10 episodes I settled in the lakorn and started to cheer for the main couple. But the "kiss" in epi 11 was a little almost/fake thingy hardly worth mentioning... Yet, she got all worked up, dramatically slapped him and pushed him into pool. I didn't buy it, I think when we get to see only the slap part of the slap/kiss, it doesn't work. There was still plenty more episodes coming, but I was afraid the quality of this won't improve. It's always like that with 'Channel 7'. They're all talk, lol.
Episode 14 has another embarassing not really kiss. Even though he was pressing his cheek right next to hers like crazy, lol. As usual for 'Channel 7', a large number of side-characters is then engaged with their clamoring and disturbing to create a diversion. Pitifully it also involves small child. I started to wish for nang'ek to get out of her "marriage", which was after all contract only.
Meanwhile, Great Sapol's character mostly hangs out with one of the girls who originally wanted the other brother. They see each other on the pretext they conspire to break up the main couple, in reality they practically date. Then this girl disappears. A new girl appears in town, says the previous girl left town (offscreen) because she was brokenhearted about the other brother. New girl is supposed to know both her and Great Sapol's character from childhood or smth. So she immediatelly says she'll help to conspire in her stead. This happens during episode 16. So, Great Sapol's character not only fails to be with the main girl at first, but then even his succedaneous partner is changed exactly in half the series. The main couple is sent away (by the "wise" daddy figure) on an improvised honeymoon, where they are supposed to reconcile BEFORE the child situation is resolved.
But first, a dose of "action kidnapping", attempted suicide and gunfight provide us with overwhelming stupidity. So that we'd stop being too greedy for a good romance. After that, it's good enough the demented "crime" element ceases. Yeah, I get that strategy.
Unfortunatelly, main couple has not much chemistry even playing in a water. There's a scene where each of them are supposed first accidentally, then purposefully pull the other into water. It results in the other person rather jumping there themselves, as obviously the cast did not want to fully engage in pulling the other's body to fall into the water. I think little thing like that tells you a lot. I liked the couple, but they did seem like they were just posing for the camera. Big drama was made about them already having slept together, while they didn't look they were past holding hands stage.
Then there's the second couple with Great Sapol with the new girl who suddenly appears and suddenly sleeps with him that really felt second rate. The mother is also born on different planet, she faints after her adult son tells her he slept with a girl (and intends to marry her) also keeps being obstinate about accepting the main girl, whom her other son already married. She just keeps repeating she's a mechanic, she's a mechanic, despite her already living in the household long enough for her to know she's also a nice, decent girl. When one of pra'ek's ex-girlfriends shows up with ton of make-up and her mafia father and her child she blatantly uses as leverage and her crass behavior, we don't see the mother realizing how much worse draughter-in-law she COULD have. Obviously I would wish the producers to give up on plentiful side-characters and concentrate on improving the main ones. But I do understand that their interest is to prolong the whole thing for the longest possible time to show more washing powder commercials instead of more concise watch for the audience.
Last several episodes I felt it was kinda still running just because somebody ordered it to have 30 episodes. But obviously we've already seen the best both the romances could offer and I was no longer interested in watching either their nonexistent skinship or the situation in the company. Let alone MORE stupid "crime" scenes like shooting/kidnapping etc...
I quit after 24 episodes, which honestly is 20 more than I was even mildly interested in. To give at least this "high" a rating. Because if I had to watch even more, it would probably go even lower.
Poonphat Attapanyapol is here with short hair (except of the quiff, of course... just like in any asian drama not only thai, he's got that stupid "haircut" with the sides almost skinhead shaven, and the front part overly long). Pu Montree's daddy was annoying. If one of his sons obviously liked the mechanic girl, why was he hell-bent on marrying her to the other? Both sons were similar age. It didn't matter which one would take on management of the family firm. I seriously doubted things should get solved by a marriage for 2 years only. Then again, which lakorn does NOT have a silly plot?
Nang'ek's character was great. She wasn't the loud and screaming type, also not the silent angelic one. She was nice, gutsy and direct. How refreshing. I wished a better pra'ek for her (but she's got 3 suitors in this lakorn, so at least she's enjoying the reverse-harem situation:) Acting of the 22-year old Chingching was decent, definitely better than Chap Varakorn's.
After 10 episodes I settled in the lakorn and started to cheer for the main couple. But the "kiss" in epi 11 was a little almost/fake thingy hardly worth mentioning... Yet, she got all worked up, dramatically slapped him and pushed him into pool. I didn't buy it, I think when we get to see only the slap part of the slap/kiss, it doesn't work. There was still plenty more episodes coming, but I was afraid the quality of this won't improve. It's always like that with 'Channel 7'. They're all talk, lol.
Episode 14 has another embarassing not really kiss. Even though he was pressing his cheek right next to hers like crazy, lol. As usual for 'Channel 7', a large number of side-characters is then engaged with their clamoring and disturbing to create a diversion. Pitifully it also involves small child. I started to wish for nang'ek to get out of her "marriage", which was after all contract only.
Meanwhile, Great Sapol's character mostly hangs out with one of the girls who originally wanted the other brother. They see each other on the pretext they conspire to break up the main couple, in reality they practically date. Then this girl disappears. A new girl appears in town, says the previous girl left town (offscreen) because she was brokenhearted about the other brother. New girl is supposed to know both her and Great Sapol's character from childhood or smth. So she immediatelly says she'll help to conspire in her stead. This happens during episode 16. So, Great Sapol's character not only fails to be with the main girl at first, but then even his succedaneous partner is changed exactly in half the series. The main couple is sent away (by the "wise" daddy figure) on an improvised honeymoon, where they are supposed to reconcile BEFORE the child situation is resolved.
But first, a dose of "action kidnapping", attempted suicide and gunfight provide us with overwhelming stupidity. So that we'd stop being too greedy for a good romance. After that, it's good enough the demented "crime" element ceases. Yeah, I get that strategy.
Unfortunatelly, main couple has not much chemistry even playing in a water. There's a scene where each of them are supposed first accidentally, then purposefully pull the other into water. It results in the other person rather jumping there themselves, as obviously the cast did not want to fully engage in pulling the other's body to fall into the water. I think little thing like that tells you a lot. I liked the couple, but they did seem like they were just posing for the camera. Big drama was made about them already having slept together, while they didn't look they were past holding hands stage.
Then there's the second couple with Great Sapol with the new girl who suddenly appears and suddenly sleeps with him that really felt second rate. The mother is also born on different planet, she faints after her adult son tells her he slept with a girl (and intends to marry her) also keeps being obstinate about accepting the main girl, whom her other son already married. She just keeps repeating she's a mechanic, she's a mechanic, despite her already living in the household long enough for her to know she's also a nice, decent girl. When one of pra'ek's ex-girlfriends shows up with ton of make-up and her mafia father and her child she blatantly uses as leverage and her crass behavior, we don't see the mother realizing how much worse draughter-in-law she COULD have. Obviously I would wish the producers to give up on plentiful side-characters and concentrate on improving the main ones. But I do understand that their interest is to prolong the whole thing for the longest possible time to show more washing powder commercials instead of more concise watch for the audience.
Last several episodes I felt it was kinda still running just because somebody ordered it to have 30 episodes. But obviously we've already seen the best both the romances could offer and I was no longer interested in watching either their nonexistent skinship or the situation in the company. Let alone MORE stupid "crime" scenes like shooting/kidnapping etc...
I quit after 24 episodes, which honestly is 20 more than I was even mildly interested in. To give at least this "high" a rating. Because if I had to watch even more, it would probably go even lower.
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