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Ab Ruk Online thai drama review
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Ab Ruk Online
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by 8392225
Oct 20, 2022
15 of 15 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 3.5
Story 2.0
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
On one hand, this has distinctive Aew Ampaiporn trade mark of thai romance lakorn at its best: fleshy characters, lively conversations and the right amount of fluff. On the other hand, I found the whole "secret pen-friend" plot VERY dragged and after TEN (movie-long episodes) I would be HONESTLY happy to wrap it up even if the guy went on a date with the wrong girl! SO tired of the thing. If the guy was ready to date WHOEVER it was that wrote messages to him, no matter how she looked like, who she was, so be it. Just FINALLY be done with it, PLEASE. I found Anne Thongprasom still very pretty in this, but still old for Prin Suparat. Her character was shown to be a sensible woman, there's no way she should actually think their couple would work in real, which might be the reason she just wrote to him anonymously, that I could understand. Then she could gradually cease it (instead of pursuing it). But no, this dragged for most of the series, supported by the circle of, eh... supporting characters, the office gossipers who just were completely uncapable to mind their own bussiness. Make no mistake, the gay best friend was GREAT (if HE was the only one discussing her private life). But the rest of the office assembly was obviously paid for nothing. I would have them all fired lol. Ironically enough, Tuck Boriboon & Gubgib Sumonthip were the hottest & sexiest people in this lakorn, lol. Just one of many things that drowned totally in the whole experience of watching 5+ people having nothing else in their lives than to meddle in life of somebody else. The series consists of FIFTEEN episodes, so I waited WHEN we shall finally move PAST this and see the development of the end-game couples (since the beginning, the insert & credits inform us who's to end up with whom:) After like, EIGHTEEN HOURS of runtime, you can imagine how prolonged it felt, lol. (And that was only 10/15). Anne Thongprasom's character acted more and more silly and ridiculous for her age. After such a long time, instead of her gradually discovering that behind the immature playboy behavior and stupid tatoos there was the right man for her all along, and instead of calling him "boss" despite being far from office (or english-speaking country), she allowed her early encounter which should have remained a cute little thing (appreciation for his knightly behavior in episode 1) develop into heavy, pathetic drag. Or, the scriptwriter did, for more than 2/3 of the drama. The episode runtime was KILLING me. Because this was seriously threatening to tire me to death. Even after we finally got to at least some development in later episodes, still screentime was spent with watching the characters WRITING something, rather than watching them in action lol. Episode 13 I had to smirk. You can watch beautiful Kimberley Anne Woltemas, dressed in super-sexy black dress, getting rebuked by the main guy that she was not able to log in into the e-mail account from which he got such a lovely messages from. It obviously did not matter to him how much the beautiful woman in front of him cried and wanted to talk to him about REAL feelings. No, the messages were the most important and romantic lol. Truth is anyone can send you loads of supportive wisdom and motivation quotes from the internet anonymously. It's who is there for you in real world that counts... Prin Suparat's main guy then goes on a date with the right person from the messaging, portrayed by Anne Thongprasom, who's ill-matched by age but agrees with starting fresh and the date reminds you of watching someone who's child got exchanged at birth and after a long time of raising the other child he can now hug his own but the hug feels strange. Nevertheless, upon seeing this, her "boss" gives up his hope. Kimberley's "bad girl" does something brave and good underneath her new villain mask. That I appreciated. Also, about their real feelings, almost everyone of the main foursome finally realizes the truth. Well, high time, only 1 last episode to go. Only 1 episode left after this show FINALLY stopped to drag, lol. We then have the final episode, and 2 of the main 4 characters are STILL sorting out their feelings. Perhaps another 15-episode series would be needed to describe their love stories after they finally know who's actually having romance with whom? But I don't think I could manage another 15x110 minutes lol. This was LONG more than anything else, to be honest. So, one more HOUR, in which the characters began the courtship finally between the right people, was enough, especially when they did it... mostly through MESSAGES. (I had to lower my rating yet further when even during the final I had to read many messages across the screeen.)
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