A reborn woman, Pat now goes on a quest for revenge against her husband by plotting to make him fall in love with her and then dumping him to give him a taste of the emotional trauma he put her through. In the process, however, she finds herself falling for him anew and with a different body and a new set of eyes she starts to see the true colours and intentions of those around her.
The story itself sounds promising and for the most part, it is. A thing worth noting is that Pat's revenge is more of an emotional revenge. In her own way, she gets back at her husband, but not in the literal sense that we're so used to seeing in revenge dramas. As a person who suddenly has to face life trapped inside someone else's body, she is first perplexed and stays indecisive for a long time before taking action. When she finally puts her decisions into action it doesn't take long before she has a change of heart (no pun intended), but as viewers, we completely follow and understand why.
View's acting was for me deserving of respect. I must admit I had my doubts and didn't expect she'd be able to go from portraying the sweet and meek Nalan to portraying the same woman (her body) inhabited by the soul of the fierce and strong-headed Pat (played by Jeab in the initial episodes). However, she pulled off both characters with flying colours. Even her make-up and way of dressing changed accordingly. Her chemistry with Tui is also worth mentioning. Despite the age gap, View and Tui looked good together and delivered some realistic chemistry and an ample amount of (real) kiss/hug scenes.
Now for the things that didn't work for me: The side characters.
Lakorns are notorious for their cardboard-like characters but this one probably tops them all. With the exception of Pat, her husband Win and her gay best friend Noojoon, all the characters sucked the soul out of me (again, no pun intended). Characters are often most cardboard-like when they exist only for some superficial purpose: making the protagonist look good or the villain look bad. The side characters in this lakorn (and even the villains) were poorly written, hard to take seriously and most of the time served no other purpose than to blatantly annoy the crap of out the viewer. You can't help but wonder why they'd even waste filming time and budget to bring such useless characters to live.
Overall, an enjoyable lakorn that could have been written more tightly and executed better had the characters been more layered and believable. Otherwise, if this still sounds like your cup of tea, I say go for it. A good thing is, the episodes aren't longer than 56 min each, making it a fairly easy watch.
Happy watching!
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This drama could have easily been a 9/9.5 drama. Easily. The plot's general concept was very alluring, something that grabbed my attention and kept it there enough to make me commit 17.3 hours of my life to this drama. For the most parts, I'll say that I enjoyed this drama very much. It's not a bad drama, definitely, and I'll recommend this to everyone! But it definitely has some faults that I could not overlook. I'll list the positives and negatives down below for easier reading. >> SOME POINTS THAT I DID NOT LIKE:
1. The second female lead is obnoxiously irritating. One thing I really hate is when people do not know their social status. She was a snake that bit the same owner who took her in as her secretary and gave her a good life just because of her own insane jealousy and delusion that she could even compare to Pat. A good load of great things that gave her in the end. *rolls eyes*
2. I do not want to say that Pat/Lan (the female lead) was very dismissive of the body that she has acquired and the responsibilities and reality that comes with it. But she was.
Firstly, after she comes 'back to life' in Lan's body, she completely disregards that the body she is in has a family of her own and is actually married. She completely decides to give no face to Lan's father and refuses to live as Lan at first, which I felt was very sad for the actual Lan who was now dead.
Secondly, Pat/Lan totally ignored the fact that she had a husband, which could really bring up a lot of problems in the future. Of course, Pat/Lan did not like her 'husband' at all. Therefore, I do not see why a divorce was not something she seeked first and foremost after finding out that she's married in this new body.
Finally, When Pat/Lan realised how evil and high-reaching Kaew is, she still endured her 'feces' and let her pull and push her around until the almost end. A lot of things, I believe, would have been better if she had just revealed the truth about Kaew to Win (Especially since she had proof).
>> SOME GOOD POINTS:
1. This drama was not draggy. It was conscious in that it knew where it was going and went there swiftly.
2. Kawin's loyalty is precious. Even though he was a little slow in the beginning, he was still firm.
3. Noojoon is a treat to my heart. He really was a great best friend and comic relief.
4. I appreciated the variety and complexity of the characters in this drama. You could see that there are good people, and bad people, and good people that do bad things intentionally or unintentionally and repent. It was more close to real life. I liked that.
5. The plot is good for most parts. Because it's not draggy, not a lot of 'arguments' carry on for a lot of episodes unnecessarily. I liked that.
6. The bad guys really got their karma back.
>> CONCLUSION:
After watching the drama and sleeping on it, I really like this drama despite its shortcomings. It made me laugh and smile and cry and get really pissed off. But I liked it a lot, still.
8/10.
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Also with this cast, the sweet lovestory had this perhaps unintended, sexist undertone of the 43-year old guy getting his wife back in a body 16 years younger. As long as she has the same "soul", right? LOL.
Aom Piyada is in a guest role. Now, SHE would look more believable paired with Tui than both Jeab or Vill, but we're out of luck there.
First, the older woman is shown behaving often childish, and also crazy jealous. There's a childhood flashback of her being portrayed by Xiang Pornsroung (I think), which explains her jealousy. She shouts and laughs and is seen goofying with her kid. Probably for the purpose so it won't look so different when she's swapped with younger actress. Also, clearly so that she will be able to connect to the boy even in a different body, being on the same wavelength, singing self-created songs they shared, etc... I just found this whole idea a bit of a pitty. Jeab Sopitnapa was still beautiful, plus got more personality, so I didn't see really the reason that for this lovestory, she had to be replaced by a doll-like Vill Wannarot.
The younger woman's husband is a snake. Her dad seems good, though. It's cruel to him that his child dies. Or, just wakes up as a stranger and heads off to sort things with her man. So... Is this his punishment for being selfish and taking a heart from a dying patient? (I thought he would at least need the husband's consent.) It's funny the scene had onscreen notice that this was done for entertainment purposes only, with no intention of harming careers of doctors or nurses. Yeah, anything to keep the younger and prettier actress onscreen. That's what we, the audience, want, right? So why should we complain.
Also, from what I could gather, the person's mind in this series is connected with the organ heart, not the brain. Because the woman whose heart failed, her soul died. The woman whose brain died but her heart was salvaged, was able to transfer her soul to another body. In most sci-fi I previously watched, it was the brain that was the mind/soul's carrier, lol. But hey, it's a romance, so it's the heart (the name of this series is: New Body, Old Heart). It's actually weird that instead of brain, thoughts and feelings should be associated with the muscle-y blood pump, but to associate romance with the heart is traditional. Not a failure of this series. Still, I couldn't help but smirk when I imagined someone who's scheduled to undergo heart transplantation watching this show and getting nervous whether they'll wake up as somebody else, lol.
So, the woman, for the rest of the series called Lan, is actually Pat. Her husband first says his goodbye to her old corpse. Then slowly discovers her again in new body. How, er... romantic. But first, she wakes up and tells Lan's father (a doctor) who she is. He asks her many questions to test her, she answers all of them. As she has all Pat's memories (stored in her brain... no! her heart, obviously, lol). Lan's father is kinda creepy at first, asking her to stay with him anyways, so he can be close to his daughter's body. I thought just the body wasn't what made his daughter. Her snake husband just wanted money from her... Then, okay. I was able to accept the main heroine to just go and leave the younger woman's family behind. I decided to keep watching, because as a drama this had many things going. The young and inexperienced looking woman actually now had spunk, undying love for her kid, and bitter feelings of revenge towards her cheating not-really-widower husband. She decides to get into his life no matter how and when he'll last expect it from her new sweet face, kick him hard. I think Vill Wannarot is not bad actress, she should be able to deliver someone freshface looking/mature thinking, so it should be an enjoyable watch.
And... it is. Vill does a good job. It's intriguing to watch how well her character can handle everyone around her, as she is not as green as she physically looks like. And it's fun how she behaves brusquely with her new boss, her senior by both rank and age, because he's actually her husband. With the looks of a new young wide-eyed secretary, she knows the work better than him and she knows HIM to the last embarassing detail:) Definitely fun to watch. She's a bit too obvious when with her kid, but I chose to forgive it. One person whom she told who she really is and who actually believes it is her eccentric gay best friend, which is cute. Things with the father of the woman whose body she's now using were also resolved well.
So, it's all going quite well. The only problem is main heroine's plan for revenge. She intends to make her husband fall in love with the new young pretty woman, then break his heart and leave him. But that's hardly a good plan. Because, what about the kid, then? How can she leave the husband if now in her new body, she's got no rights to the kid? She NEEDS to stay with the guy. Then, she kind of forgets these plans, she tells almost everyone around who she is and it is a bit anticlimax how the truth gets revealed to her husband at last. Then the two skip into being happy together again and instead of working out their marriage issues, we focus on dealing with side-character antagonists (they transform into full-blown criminals for the corny "action final").
Still, as you've probably noticed during my review, no matter the difficult "logic", or the problematic beginning/ending, this show is mostly enjoyable to watch. It works for the fleshout characters. I had fun.
The second couple was also cute, I didn't like the guy but Yingying Sarucha was the most beautiful woman in this lakorn, in which ALL the women were beautiful (or was it May Sirin? so many beauties:) It was also fun to watch the bad girl and the bad guy together - they joined forces in their plotting - they so deserved each other:)
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So I bump into this drama a a year ago and I thought ohh it's interesting I checked the main plot of the story but since I was also binge watching a certain series that time so I forgot about it. Now I was able to finished it within 3 days. The plot is very interesting and I asked myself what will happen. So I dive into it, I was watching the first five episode of the series I thought "wait what is going on?" so I was like okay lets not jump into conclusion and continue watching. There are times that I almost drop it because there are scenes that is almost going no where. The only reason I stay to these is because of the main lead Tui Thiraphat Sajakul and Vill Wannarot Sonthichai or Jeab Sopitnapa Chumpanee. I been watching some of the work of Vill and as I notice that she is one versatile actress. She can be sweet and innocent then turning her into fierce woman. The main actor was really good at portraying his character. I loved the gay friend he's my stress reliver when I think of dropping it. Oh well so much for that all in all the plot was good but the way they deliver it was a little boring so I guess it's because of the poor scripting?? I don't intend to offend anybody this is just my thoughts and opinion. As for the OST it's good.>For those who want to watch a drama that is a little mature and light story go ahead and watch.
>This one is for one time watching I guess and it's more like just random series to watch while waiting for other lakorn
>Thank you so much for reading this
>If you have suggestion for me to watch and review feel free to comment .. thank you again.
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