It's Not Giving What Yall Said Its Supposed to Gave

This show smdh. It's like going to a restaurant with high expectations and you get to see all the great ingredients and the food smells heavenly. You get to take like two bites and before you even to digest it, the food is taken away. That's how I felt about Praomook especially after finding out about episodes being cut and the lame as hell ending. It started out really promising and then just died out towards the end. You could literally see the bad editing and cutting and pasting of random scenes to round out the ending.

I'm giving the show a 7/10 just because I'm a PonBua fan. They both look beautiful in the show and have that sizzling chemistry that made them into a koojin. The chemistry is what kept me from dropping the show. This was completely different from Tra Barb See Chompoo. I know some people who are not used to mean ML's or lakorns couldn't stand Peat's character in the show but I was fine. I really enjoyed that lakorn and didn't take the ML's revenge seriously at all. I could tell he was in love with Bua's character the entire time and so just ignored the dumb behavior with the SFL. My feelings were not the same with Praomook at all. ML leads shows no love or real interest (other than lust) until like the last part of the show. There was way way too much skinship with the SFL. She had way more romantic scenes with ML (which are never explained btw). The secondary couple was a complete joke. I really would like to see PonBua take a role with the ML actually being sweet and nice. Pon has the face for slap/kiss but I'm tired of Bua being treated so horribly all the time. I lowkey would like to see them in a remake of What's Wrong With Secretary Kim. They both fit the Korean aesthetic really well and Bua is always compared to Park Min Young.

I honestly would only watch the show if you are a PonBua fan. You will leave dissatisfied but the show does have some good elements until you hit about midway. Main highlights of the show is the great comedic timing with the actors, the sexy chemistry between the leads and the bromance between the ML and SML. Ch3 really needs to get it together and take a page from some of the other channels that do great fanservice (for ex. Ch7 and So Wayree). If you are going to do a Hate to Love storyline, you gotta do it the right way.

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It Had Potential but it Fizzled out

It was a cute drama but it had some issues. I almost dropped this drama at episode 12 because it really started to drag and get boring but I pushed through literally because of Park Bo Gum. I have a feeling that a good amount of people that loved this drama were around the high school/early 20s realm. I noticed some reviewers have compared this to Disney films/fairytales and I totally agree. I love and enjoy Disney movies but the show should have been cut down.

Pros:
Park Bo Gum. He is the only reason why I didn't drop the drama. I totally understand why everyone is gushing over this actor. The man really has a gift. He has something about him that draws the eye and you can't help but focus on him when he is on the screen. It is much more than his looks. I can tell he really makes an effort to work on every detail of a character from mannerisms to expressions. He also has a smile that makes you want to smile back lol. I will definitely be keeping an eye on him.

The drama really showcases the beauty of South Korea with its landscapes and architecture. K dramas are usually pretty good about paying attention to all the details on the set and they really went all out. Vivid colors, lavish clothing, and beautiful music really makes the show look like it was taken from the page of a fairy tale.

Cons:
I was super disappointed in the FL. I know some people consider gender bender dramas to be a mixed bag but I usually find them interesting if done well. The strength to hide your identity and to live in fear of being discovered is very interesting. The character is constantly focusing on maintaining the mannerisms of that gender and making sure to not be out of step. I was annoyed that they didn't even make an effort to even make her look like a boy. I kept focusing on her smoked out outer v eye makeup and wondered why a girl who is impersonating a boy has detectable makeup? They literally just gave her an updo and put her in boys clothes and called it a day. There was no way she could have passed. I get we want a pretty FL but there can still be some effort to make her look like a boy. They should have found a different actress. Coffee Prince and Bromance are two gender bender dramas were the FL's looked cute as a boy and pretty as girl.
I felt she was really one dimensional and boring as character. I actually liked her in the beginning and thought she was cute with her coarse, mischievous, and playful behavior. She completely changed to a super passive character by the middle of the show. She literally just stared and smiled or stared and cried. I wish both their identities had stayed hidden longer because they had way more chemistry in their relationship. The other female characters had way more personality smh.

Funny enough my other main issue with the show was the romance. I love romance and majority of the dramas I watch are romantic dramas. My issue is that everything happened way too fast and we don't really get to see any kind of tension or conflict to get the leads together. I loved the drama Bromance because you get to see that push and pull between the leads and you could literally cut the sexual tension with a knife. This drama gave me struggle Romeo and Juliet vibes lol. The romantic scenes were cute but dragged out and it would be five minutes of them just staring at each other. I think this show would have been better as a shorter drama or as a movie. I actually got excited when the SML stepped up to the plate and we kept getting palace drama. It was literally the only conflict that kept the show from completely dying out.

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