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First episodes had potential. Then only 1 solid character got swarmed in a huge sea of garbage...
'Prom Mai Dai Likit'... The last show with Bie Sukrit left on my watchlist, and FINALLY one I liked:) Same goes for Esther Supreeleela. I have watched her in approx. 10 roles already, but this was the first one I liked her in.
While I liked the main couple and thought the way they met well thought of (the rich spoilt playboy was in very vulnerable position as a patient:) I honestly anticipated the romantic drama to stretch more, before they started dating. Instead, she affirms that she loves him back in episode 12/27 already (first kiss is episode 10, be careful to not watch the censored version, lol) and instead of more romance progress, we have to watch other things, from Ak Akarat's fellow doctor/suitor's sideline (unnecesary), through more weak side characters portrayed by questionable "actors" (Puifai Natapat & Chin Chinawut), to plain weird/tacky side-storylines (Lily Pansirithanachote & Tack Pharunyoo). I'd think putting Esther's nurse into the high-society mix would suffice enough drama. She is an enjoyable character to watch at any circumstance, because she is firm. But, no.
Esther & Bie make surprisingly good fit. Actually, they make a perfect fit. Unfortunatelly, once again, the drama is not theirs. The greatest importance is given to side-characters. Looks like the writers will never learn. First, Ak Akarat's rejected suitor is pouting, the grown-up man makes such faces I wanted to slap him. He then sacrifices himself for Esther's nang'ek so that it inspires a massive guilt trip which now won't leave our main couple in peace... Apart from that, there's Esther's character's conviction. She sees the relationship with pra'ek quite realistically, pointing out their differences. Her character sure is something else, she tells him to call it quits right after a sweet couple of bedscenes, lol. It's cemented by her marrying the other guy out of pitty (epi 16/27). I said I liked Esther in this role? I ceased to enjoy it.
Ak Akarat's pitiful blind husband starts to exert passive agressive behavior with his wife right away. I was dismayed, because so many episodes were still awaiting. This each-marries-someone-else plot is so tiring when running for 100 episodes within hispanic telenovelas. Did they also have to put it here? I didn't want to watch it even for 10. Basically, Esther's character tries to be more "rational" than just giving into feelings, so she discards love from her decision process, which results in her actually making stupid decision. Nobody is happy. Nobody will be. And it's going to be painful to watch, like ever before. And I mean painful, because episode 18 she sleeps with the other guy out of pitty. Perhaps this lakorn was supposed to be a cautionary tale about how this is wrong (it's GMM, they love to preach) but it's hardly anything new in 2018 this was filmed: actually the source material for this can be dated back to 1980's. So, this is what you get thanks to thai tv continuing to do remakes of remakes... Everybody gets a smartphone in their pocket, else their behaviour is like before, LOL.
Here, I can comment about the quality of skinship scenes:) Esther & Bie's scenes are decent, thanks to them being able to "train" once before ('You're My Destiny'), Esther & Ak Akarat's scenes are plain awful. Also, by this point, I was skipping all scenes of all the side-cast completely. They were all unwatchable in this lakorn. And I was considering skipping ALL the rest, it was not like one would need to keep watching the main line, either. Obviously the big plot is nang'ek still got pregnant with pra'ek, despite each of them being married to someone grossly incompatible. It doesn't really matter whether you watch the 1982, 1986, 1995, or 2018 version. If you like Esther, or Bie Sukrit, HD quality image, and generic soundtrack from the (by now large) tv music library, watch this version. LOL.
It's a painful watch because we get to watch 2 dysfunctional marriages. That's why usually the romance drama has romance most of the screentime and then it ends with the wedding. This is similar to what you can see if you have married neighbours and you can hear them arguing through the wall. Nobody needs to turn on a drama for that, lol. So, it's a dated approach, nevertheless it suits the GMM channell which seem to always prefer teaching the viewers "life lessons" to presenting them with something enjoyable to watch. Mostly, we watch Esther with her child, always potrayed by an onscreen child visibly at least 6 months, or 1-2 years older than the supposed age (we do know we can hardly expect a real newborn on camera, but the child is huge, LOL), acting hateful towards the man who's supposed to be her romantic love interest.
This is what you get with this kind of story. Episode 22/27, I was so wishing it was over already, and there was still 5 more. This is probably the only show I would welcome if there was amnesia, because had the blind husband forget Esther's main girl after his surgery, then he'd finally let her go and we could have the happy ending sooner, LOL. Instead, he just gets his eye sight back. 1st thing he can see, "his" child is looks just like his wife's ex, LOL. Yeah, I wouldn't mind skipping all this kitsch. Ak Akarat's level of acting "skills" was enough to make this a real skip fest. Like, there's LOADS of screentime filled with the unwatchable side-cast scenes as it is. Then he adds to it. I wished Esther would kill him in this drama, LOL. Or Bie, or someone. Anything but more listening to his whines (when the scene requires of him to yell at someone, it's REALLY unwatchable). I would laugh but sadly this was not my 1st experience watching bad acting.
Even watching the main couple alone and blissfully without others, Esther's nang'ek acts real hostile towards her pra'ek. The two are at war. Is that Romance? I admired when she was stern with him in early episodes. But that was about her being nurse and him being irresponsible and spoilt. A bad patient. Her making stone-y face expressions with him (rightfully) demanding what she owed to him as her loved one and her child's father, I could not admire. She wronged 4 people, including her kid. And herself. And then, watching Bie & Esther's scene of them physically fighting for the child (seriously) left me gobsmacked even after Ak Akarat's departure, because I thought we reached the level of garbage for this show already. Nevertheless, after all this passed, I was equally astonished by how well Bie & Esther worked as onscreen couple... They were magic. I didn't care whichever corny way the script would take them to their happyend, as long as it finally did.
It's probably the best to watch just a MV of them in this drama to enjoy the watch: because the drama itself CEASED to be enjoyable.
While I liked the main couple and thought the way they met well thought of (the rich spoilt playboy was in very vulnerable position as a patient:) I honestly anticipated the romantic drama to stretch more, before they started dating. Instead, she affirms that she loves him back in episode 12/27 already (first kiss is episode 10, be careful to not watch the censored version, lol) and instead of more romance progress, we have to watch other things, from Ak Akarat's fellow doctor/suitor's sideline (unnecesary), through more weak side characters portrayed by questionable "actors" (Puifai Natapat & Chin Chinawut), to plain weird/tacky side-storylines (Lily Pansirithanachote & Tack Pharunyoo). I'd think putting Esther's nurse into the high-society mix would suffice enough drama. She is an enjoyable character to watch at any circumstance, because she is firm. But, no.
Esther & Bie make surprisingly good fit. Actually, they make a perfect fit. Unfortunatelly, once again, the drama is not theirs. The greatest importance is given to side-characters. Looks like the writers will never learn. First, Ak Akarat's rejected suitor is pouting, the grown-up man makes such faces I wanted to slap him. He then sacrifices himself for Esther's nang'ek so that it inspires a massive guilt trip which now won't leave our main couple in peace... Apart from that, there's Esther's character's conviction. She sees the relationship with pra'ek quite realistically, pointing out their differences. Her character sure is something else, she tells him to call it quits right after a sweet couple of bedscenes, lol. It's cemented by her marrying the other guy out of pitty (epi 16/27). I said I liked Esther in this role? I ceased to enjoy it.
Ak Akarat's pitiful blind husband starts to exert passive agressive behavior with his wife right away. I was dismayed, because so many episodes were still awaiting. This each-marries-someone-else plot is so tiring when running for 100 episodes within hispanic telenovelas. Did they also have to put it here? I didn't want to watch it even for 10. Basically, Esther's character tries to be more "rational" than just giving into feelings, so she discards love from her decision process, which results in her actually making stupid decision. Nobody is happy. Nobody will be. And it's going to be painful to watch, like ever before. And I mean painful, because episode 18 she sleeps with the other guy out of pitty. Perhaps this lakorn was supposed to be a cautionary tale about how this is wrong (it's GMM, they love to preach) but it's hardly anything new in 2018 this was filmed: actually the source material for this can be dated back to 1980's. So, this is what you get thanks to thai tv continuing to do remakes of remakes... Everybody gets a smartphone in their pocket, else their behaviour is like before, LOL.
Here, I can comment about the quality of skinship scenes:) Esther & Bie's scenes are decent, thanks to them being able to "train" once before ('You're My Destiny'), Esther & Ak Akarat's scenes are plain awful. Also, by this point, I was skipping all scenes of all the side-cast completely. They were all unwatchable in this lakorn. And I was considering skipping ALL the rest, it was not like one would need to keep watching the main line, either. Obviously the big plot is nang'ek still got pregnant with pra'ek, despite each of them being married to someone grossly incompatible. It doesn't really matter whether you watch the 1982, 1986, 1995, or 2018 version. If you like Esther, or Bie Sukrit, HD quality image, and generic soundtrack from the (by now large) tv music library, watch this version. LOL.
It's a painful watch because we get to watch 2 dysfunctional marriages. That's why usually the romance drama has romance most of the screentime and then it ends with the wedding. This is similar to what you can see if you have married neighbours and you can hear them arguing through the wall. Nobody needs to turn on a drama for that, lol. So, it's a dated approach, nevertheless it suits the GMM channell which seem to always prefer teaching the viewers "life lessons" to presenting them with something enjoyable to watch. Mostly, we watch Esther with her child, always potrayed by an onscreen child visibly at least 6 months, or 1-2 years older than the supposed age (we do know we can hardly expect a real newborn on camera, but the child is huge, LOL), acting hateful towards the man who's supposed to be her romantic love interest.
This is what you get with this kind of story. Episode 22/27, I was so wishing it was over already, and there was still 5 more. This is probably the only show I would welcome if there was amnesia, because had the blind husband forget Esther's main girl after his surgery, then he'd finally let her go and we could have the happy ending sooner, LOL. Instead, he just gets his eye sight back. 1st thing he can see, "his" child is looks just like his wife's ex, LOL. Yeah, I wouldn't mind skipping all this kitsch. Ak Akarat's level of acting "skills" was enough to make this a real skip fest. Like, there's LOADS of screentime filled with the unwatchable side-cast scenes as it is. Then he adds to it. I wished Esther would kill him in this drama, LOL. Or Bie, or someone. Anything but more listening to his whines (when the scene requires of him to yell at someone, it's REALLY unwatchable). I would laugh but sadly this was not my 1st experience watching bad acting.
Even watching the main couple alone and blissfully without others, Esther's nang'ek acts real hostile towards her pra'ek. The two are at war. Is that Romance? I admired when she was stern with him in early episodes. But that was about her being nurse and him being irresponsible and spoilt. A bad patient. Her making stone-y face expressions with him (rightfully) demanding what she owed to him as her loved one and her child's father, I could not admire. She wronged 4 people, including her kid. And herself. And then, watching Bie & Esther's scene of them physically fighting for the child (seriously) left me gobsmacked even after Ak Akarat's departure, because I thought we reached the level of garbage for this show already. Nevertheless, after all this passed, I was equally astonished by how well Bie & Esther worked as onscreen couple... They were magic. I didn't care whichever corny way the script would take them to their happyend, as long as it finally did.
It's probably the best to watch just a MV of them in this drama to enjoy the watch: because the drama itself CEASED to be enjoyable.
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