Massaya (2017)

Personally, I didn't fully enjoy this drama because I found that there were too many unnecessary scenes so I had to skip a lot until the scenes between Lak and Massaya or the fight between Sajee (or her daughter) and Massaya comes on and the grandmother and Mae Prom have to get involved.

However, it does have a nice story and moral lesson, which is "to not let anyone have an influence or power towards the decisions you'll make for yourself and in the future". In this case, Lak and Massaya shows this by rebelling against the social conformity and expectations placed by society and the people around them, particularly their super-dominant grandmother.

Although, they are labelled as "brother and sister" they are not actually related but it's that their grandmother and other relatives are worried that it will affect their family's good name and honorable reputation.

I liked how each characters had actual reasons as to why they act mean or feel triggered by others and this is clearly evident by their experiences. For example, I understand that Sajee's hatred is caused by the lack of affection and encouragement that her mother failed to express to her ever since she was young.

Her mother seems to always favor Lak's dad and therefore also favors Lak hence lacking on her other grandsons and granddaughters alongside. Grandmother always had favoritism towards certain people and Massaya entering the Rattanamahasarn household triggered Sajee's hatred to grow even more.

Sajee felt threatened by Massaya's presence and thinks that she might become further distant from her mother. She doesn't want her children to feel that they are not appreciated by their grandmother and be filled with hatred. So she tries to drive Massaya out of the Rattanamahasarn house.

In the end, Sajee is only acting on behalf of a desperate and insecure mother who is willing to do anything in order for her children to be loved and appreciated by the people around them.

The actors/actresses played their characters well and delivered the emotions and thoughts needed to allow the audience to understand the reasons towards their actions. Personally, I liked the two main leads: Lak and Massaya.

It makes me feel happy that majority of the female characters (e.g. Massaya) are strong-minded and that some of the women can be dominant towards the other male characters at times. This is because often Thai lakorns portrays weak-minded and frail female leads and it's nice that this drama doesn't follow that aspect.

In terms of music, I only remember that happy Massaya song (sorry I don't know the title of the song) playing in some of the cute scenes between Lak and Massaya but the rest of the other soundtracks I can't remember. Maybe because that soundtrack made more impact to me than the other soundtracks?

Overall, I can watch this drama again but maybe after a long time.

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The story :

The story is good, beautiful and with many ups and downs ....
some things I have to say make not that much sense but that's ok ( mostly )

The acting is amazing and the actors have an exploding chemistry together.
I especially love the female lead since she shows her character change and growth so amazingly.

The negatives :

The drama can't be perfect can it ?
My negative point was the grandmothers behavior made no sense whatsoever.
(spoiler warning again )
First she gets her granddaughter back cause she feels like she made a mistake casting her adoptive son out of the house because go his choice in wife.
But then when Massaya chooses who she wants to be with, she forces her to be with someone else and even threatens to cut this with her and her grandson.
I mean what ?
At the start she is like Ive learned my lesson and then 10 ep later she is like nope .... Im gonna do the same thing all over again .
Just saying doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition is insanity.

And then she learns her lesson again ? I mean Im sorry I don't trust her and I feel she isn't a good character and she was the only one with negative character growth for me.

Btw the actress was still great and conveyed everything great. But her actions just made no sense to me and I was like just tell her that she can leave you alone all together.

There were a it too many ups and downs in the couple life.
I mean she loves him then he starts to love her. Then he tells her she kind of behaves like she doesn't love him for an idiotic reason. then she does tell him. Then they break up again and again and again. And there is so much crying. I felt like every scene there were in together involved her to cry immidialaty and him to cry afterwards.
Just a it much to be honest.
Also I wished there was more of a real conflict that couldn't have been solved by just telling your grandma that you wanna live your own life and just holding on to their love.

Another little point I kind of wish Than chai would have gotten a bigger love story of his own. He was just such a cute character.

The positives :

From reading this one might think I didn't enjoy this drama at all, but no no no .
I rewatched it for like 3 times already and I love Massayas characters, her way of growing and learning about love.
The way she supports him and always puts him first,

The chemistry between them was insane.

And now my real reason to watch this is my favorite character and that is Pong. He is the literal bad boy turned responsible man. He is so cool and I wanted him to get to much more screen time.
He is the character I admire the most , because even though he was raised to be evil and hate people in his family, he learns and grows and he is such a responsible police officer. SWOON
And he never ever lets go of his love. ( I mean yeah its a bit obsessive but its just so cute )

So in conclusion :

Its a very good drama to watch and I can only recommend it.

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