Okay, I was apprehensive about this one, because it is SUPER popular. And that means only 2 things: either it IS good, or it is utterly horrendous. It usually never is average...
Well, first time for everything.

Cast is not super attractive, nobody is really hot but they are likeable. Main couple consists of two professionals, a soldier going on "special missions" like rescuing hostages from Taliban, and a doctor doing everything from appearances at ER to complicated surgeries. There is a montage showing them both fighting on their job: him literally, her in surgery room. It looks good budget, standard drama, like from mainstream movies. Then there is a standard rom-com like I imagine is on shows like 'Grey's Anatomy' or 'E.R.'. Though I personally never watched the US shows I just mentioned, overall it oddly feels like this k-drama was made for american audience.

It's not bad, it's just... Meh.

I have absolutely no complaints or criticism to write about this drama, perhaps it would be better if I had... I just truly and honestly feel zero interest in seeing more episodes of it.

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Okay, we have main heroine portrayed by Noona Nuengtida, who is not my favorite actress. She works in a kitchen for an annoying boss portrayed by Pae Arak, who doesn't give her proper work despite her being able to do way more than just wash dishes. She tends to be pushed aside by people who are more assertive, and doesn't stand up for herself. Her boss also doesn't give her better position to match her real skill but challenges her to stand up for herself, or better leave. So, she's about to leave but then she gets possessed by spunky, horny ghost. The ghost girl is portrayed by Gypsy Keerati but it doesn't do us any good 'coz for her to have a physical body we still have to look at Noona Nuengtida. When she's possessing Noona's body, we can hear Gypsy's voiceover and the character behaves with confidence, finally putting people stepping over her at their place. It doesn't do her any good though, because even given the chance to shine, she now doesn't have the skill. She only has the desire for any semi-attractive male around, including the 34-year old Pae Arak, whom I am not able to enjoy as "boy-toy". Oh my... crap.

Basically, when not possessed, this "dishwasher" knows the craft better than many chefs, but lets others walk all over her and even apologizes TO THEM. On the other hand, when possessed, she's practically arrogant towards everyone including the boss, while being crap at work (busy mostly with gossipping and flirting). So, I liked the possessed version even less. She was no better than the people stepping over the original girl and she reminded me of people from MY work, lol.

I think Pae Arak should be now cast only in comedy, preferably family, he already looks like a daddy and I can imagine him with toddlers crawling all over him but he's not convincing in scenes where he's supposed to be angry hot guy or speaking loud voice. I managed to withstand SEVENTEEN episodes with him in thai version of 'My Girl' while I was hating it. I don't think I can be so immensely patient again.

When the horny possessing ghost needed to quickly seduce a guy in the kitchen, I would literally prefer any other guy in there to Pae Arak. Also my head kept hurting from listening to constant squabble of practically all the characters. I missed the quiet girl:) Will she come back? I suppose that would be the only way to keep this show going. The two would take turns. The ghost girl would use her sharp elbows to make way for the shy girl to finally showcase that she can cook. Meanwhile, she can just wash dishes, and if anything she can disctract the boss by seducing him. After all, without her interference the shy girl would probably never marry, lol. Later hopefully the ghost girl shall be able to leave shy girl's life at peace, due the crazy premise that "only losing her virginity will help her to ascend to heaven". LOL.

Only I am not patient enough to watch it all unfold, not with this cast. I'll look forward next lakorn with Gypsy Keerati where she'll be more than a voice. I can't say the same about Pae Arak, but never mind. At least one more of his "main role" series is off my back.

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Not much of a role for Mik Thongraya, again

Eh... Maybe if they at least cast Toon Pimpawee in the lead role? But this Miss Thailand... Universe... I don't like her. LOL.
Even the main guy... Nothing against Mik Thongraya, but he was not old enough here to portray "30 year-old businessman", and I would prefer Bom Phongsakon, or Guy Ratchanont.

Anyways, Mik Thongraya's deserted groom kinda acts bit too cheerful when he meets the abandoned bride and spends a night with her, while he should actually be brokenhearted, too. We get to see (real) kiss scenes and a bed scene right in episode 1 with these two strangers. I couldn't help but think about how I never got to see such scenes with couples I liked and/or at point where I cared about them. Mik Thongraya is someone we haven't yet seen with compatible onscreen partner (I don't care whom he dated in real life). Pooklook is certainly no exception. Also Mik is not very well suited for a... suit. I mean he does well for blue collar roles or soldier roles but being "a suit", gives him kind of an awkward feel, something in his body language, perhaps his height and body built.

Main couple marries after 2 episodes for blatantly stupid reason and I couldn't help but think the girl would be better off without the guy. The guy was weird. I wondered who would liked him if he was not portrayed by the handsome Mik Thongraya. But, safe to say the character portrayed by Guy Ratchanont was even more sleazy.

What is interesting about this is that nang'ek isn't the usual type of poor cinderella: in fact she is someone whom her former fiancee deserted for such a cinderella. And in contrary to what we see in most similar stories (where rich boy & poor girl are opposed by everyone and "can't" be together) here we actually can watch how the rich guy absolutely cannot leave the poor girl because she always desperately needs him to take care of her destitute situation, of her baby, etc... It's actually the poor family members who are able to put pressure on the guy, not the rich family's, like we see in all the other dramas: it actually makes sense. And therefore, this nang'ek can ironically only envy the "poor" poor girl. She in fact does have some property, her hotel isn't successfull, still it's an asset various men are after and they all turn to her with various methods. At the end of the day, even her fiancee is actually a nice guy, who does only wish to live peacefully minding his own bussiness which can be small only enough to provide for his new family. There's nothing wrong about it, only it's kinda wrong of him to ask his former girlfriend to help. Just because she isn't poor, it doesn't even occur to him that it might hurt her feelings.

Episode 5 I still experienced disengaged feeling while watching. We still watch the former fiancee situation, his secondary character is going through some struggle that still fills the runtime even though he's practically out of the main story, while the main heroine is now married to a guy who started saying that he loves her, and acting like it, overnight. She also started to show some signs (like being upset that he might have someone else) and we watch scenes of them flirting/bickering back and forth, he also interacts with her family situation, takes care of her more than her father does but it all looks so weird, he is a complete stranger. I am afraid this reminds me of Mik's previous role in 'Mon Garn Bandan Ruk' where he also became nang'ek's husband overnight, literally. I didn't care to watch more than 3 episodes of that. And I'm not enjoying this, either. Mik seriously needs a proper role, where he can portray a character whose romance line with the girl would be properly developed.

There are many "drama" props added to this, like other suitors and jealous girls, old family enemies, gossip affairs, someone attacks nang'ek on the street, sometimes all this happening at once. It seems the writer just keeps writing - what they consider - drama on and on, instead of development of the relationship, which would be needed to make it at least mildly believable. So that I would at least mildly care about any of this. But I don't. So, I can just quit watching.

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Atichart as devil? Could it be finally a good use to that face of his...

...after numerous dubious attempts to be pra'ek?:D

Though, to play a devil... you'd need to be a good actor, right? And that was never the case with Atichart. First, we watch a nasty sequence where a guy brutally shoots to death his cheating woman, her man and them himself. Then we watch ridiculous sequence of all 3 of them ending up in cartoon-ish hell. With Atichart on the throne. I would personally think that nothing is actually more horrible than the stuff from our mundane world, and the fact there is NOTHING after someone thrusts a few bullets to your body and life out of it. But, never mind. If such is the premise, we'll have to work with it. Besides this, I'm currently watching 'Majurat Holiday' with similar theme. But there, they have HUMOUR. They have actors, like Film Rattapoom. Nut Devahastin. Here, besides "legendary" Atichart, we have Kao Jirayu? Pattie Ungsumalynn?

Watching episode 2... It's like unintended parody with this cast. Whenever Atichart tried to stare at someone menacingly, I had to laugh. As for Pattie Ungsumalynn, I've suffered enough in the past. I think my tolerance has fullfilled. I'll leave this to other audience.

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The first very few minutes of this felt awful: some cast is notoriously bad, we have the period setting (do we have to? that's rarely done right) few actresses showed up wearing huge and hugely obvious wigs, the ML showed up looking strange and doing some dance number, the music was bad. And I thought: oh, cr*p. Is this a parody on something? So many ostentatiously bad things.

Then we get into some houseparty in a rich house. Everything is grand and all the guests are there, waiting for the FL. She is announced (really, announced) and comes slowly down the stairs. After all the anticipation it's shown it's Marie Broenner. Who is obviously not that much of a highlight, including her dress. But at least she gets surrounded by Nat Devahastin and Aerin (though they are in their thirties already, and don't seem her "peers") and the dance number is not bad. Music is not bad. It's very dated, but we ARE in the 50's. And yes, we are in a musical.

Being set in tumultuous times, the party is of course soon interrupted (and with that, both the decent dancing & acting gets interrupted) by the plastic beauty queen Willie McIntosh, who announces to everyone they should return home for safety. But then nang'ek meets her pra'ek, which is another letdown. I am disappointed as I don't find the main guy attractive, I don't care if he really dates Marie Broenner but if that means at least this time we won't get to watch dead awkward wooden fake "kisses", then hurray.

Marie is the only woman not wearing the stiff period hairdo, they iron-curled her hair, instead. While not quite natural, it doesn't look period at all. Everyone's look is firm while she's got those temporary curls that change and loosen. She stands out from everyone else (her boyfriend looks so simple he could really be from the fifties) in this series. But not in a good way.

I'm bored by episode 3 already - as I don't care for anyone much, here - especially when the epi starts with Marie Broenner gazing dreamily at her boyfriend, who is singing a song which sounds very country but unfortunatelly not e-san. It gets interrupted mercifully by Nat Devahastin, but there I know I can't get my hopes up. His is the unrequited suitor side-role (I asked around which episode number it is he'll violently grab Marie Broenner as seen in opening credits, so I would skip to that bit for at least some reverse-enjoyment, but no one responded in time so I didn't bother, it was more enjoyable to delete the whole lakorn from my drive than entertain that mild interest).

I am annoyed because in the past I always wished more lakorns to be musicals. But what I actually wished were more dance scenes and good songs. Now I am suffering at static scenes, listening to long ballads sung by Marie Broenner's boyfriend. Looks like she really promoted him to the producers very much. I'm not sure how many more episodes I can withstand...

Dropped by episode 4.

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Season 2 starts with a funeral. Nevertheless, it doesn't seem any major character (but with doctor Nat crying, it can't be a side character) was lost... rather gained. I watched the whole first season, but this is a series where I don't really have favorite character... Now not only that, Katreeya English is a cast addition I could live without. Pock Piyathida, I could live without... Wait a bit!! There is ML from 'Diary of Tootsies'!! But whatever did they do to his hair? I hate when he goes (mousy) natural brown...

First episode seems to concentrate on Ae, who was so notoriously unlucky with men that they decided to put her together with a woman. The woman is a middle-aged fitness trainer, keenly overseeing her excersising and dieting. With Ae looking positively anorectic, this is not needed. Either way, I always thought Katreeya English looked kinda scary. There is yet another scary woman at Ae's work. While Petch Paopetch seems to have landed unsignificant side role. Not a good beginning, sis...

Doctor Nat keeps seeing Boy, which is a relationship characteristic by... not being characteristic with anything, actually. For the whole season one, it was just kinda running in the background, while doc was dealing with the "theme of the week".

Then we have Tata, who is now married (could SHE die? please?) and we can additionally watch Jane Ramida to most of her scenes. Her character dates multiple guys like Chloe/Kluay, only is younger and prettier.

I don't find the "jokes" (if there are any) funny.

Watching 3rd episode, I am bored already... I don't know what's supposed to be so "very complicated", nevertheless I don't really care whatever is happening. It was like that in 1st season too, but now it's kinda worse, as it is prolonged. Who thought it was necessary for this to have 2nd season? I decided to drop it as I don't really care for it. Who ever is or is not dead is all the same to me, too.

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Looks more like untreated brain damage than time travel

We have quite compelling premise, more than likeable main couple cast, yet it's kind of... off, since the very 1st episode. The main girl acts out, spills the first minute that she traveled to the future, yet the person whom she tells this to - her mother - acts like she can't be bothered, she leaves her to deal with all the things AND with her husband all alone, so it's like she haven't told her. Main girl also acts crazy around her husband without sitting quietly for a second to think that (no matter her usual type), she had to have fallen for him else he would not be her husband in the future. Every woman in her place would at least take a good look at the guy, lol. Then she goes to work with NO problem, she is lucky she is working at the same place but still, after several years how the hell does she know what to do? Even the most repetitive work WOULD have some changes. How does she know her daily assignment? The list goes on and on... Basically, her main character keeps to brusquely dismiss things she should think hard about, then she easily does things she should have problem with. Someone did not write this right from the beginning.

Mik's male character is kinda far fetched, too. I get we are to know that he is a nice guy and a loving husband but they are no longer on their honeymoon. Even the nicest guy in the world would not put up with the main girl's behavior, not for this long (I haven't watched this long but I read the other review:) Why should he? He's not paid to be with her, is he? She keeps hurting him, he should react naturally. Again, it's like this got incompetent writer. First, it's said the main girl traveled 3 years into the future. Then all the characters in there say that she is now married for 3 years. If she did not even know him 3 years ago, then they could not already be married for the whole 3 years, right? They needed to meet, and at least briefly date, first. How many years in the future is she, then? Did anyone think before writing this?

So, I could not understand the story, and I could not understand the characters. The girl in her situation could either try telling the guy that the last day she remembers before waking up with him there, was years ago (no matter how crazy it would sound), or try to get along with him. Telling him nothing & treating him like cr*p was the worst option. And also kind of least credible... Like, she was at ease enough with him to almost/insult him? If he was a complete stranger, then I get she didn't want to get intimate, but to behave like this made no sense, either. His reactions, too. It was more like watching people with some kind of brain damage, than characters in comedy/romance.

It's also all very prolonged. Seriously, in her place, had he keep acting that way, I would tell him the truth. She acts like she doesn't have to care. Like she does have some option to get quickly back to the past, so it doesn't matter however she'll act. But she doesn't. We don't see her solving some sci-fi way to travel back. So, she cannot treat her husband like that indefinitely. At one point he takes her at doctor's. Had she told him that for her, before waking up she had short hair and she did not know him because for her, it was year XXXX (I don't know which), then he would probably taken her to a specialist. Nobody believes in time travel, they would probably suppose she had some kind of amnesia... In other words, brain damage, lol. He would also know that he cannot treat her the same. This way, it's going in circles. If this is going to be the only plot, then I'm not sure how many episodes I can withstand...

Dropped by episode 3, which the main heroine spent almost entirely doing crazy stuff to avoid sleeping with her husband (perhaps it would be better if she had... other than prolonging this idiocy even longer, as described in the other review).

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I can see there was already 1976 version & 1980 version both with young Pisan Akaraserani... That might be an interesting watch. There's also 2007 version with Aom Piyada, version with Ann Siriam... It all looks more interesting that version with Om & doll-like Nao Tisanart, I'm afraid.

The story doesn't hide that it's dated. Nang'ek is a destiny girl, whom pra'ek knows from childhood. Nang'rai is of course A GIRLFRIEND pra'ek originally dates, and acts like a harpy in her very first scene.

I had the same feelings as every time I watched this story. The man's character is not appealing. First, he dates a woman who has flaws, but had he really loved her he should have stayed with her anyways. I never thought it very romantic that he gradually - usually very gradually - leaves her for the main girl. The virgin. I don't like his behavior towards the main girl either. Mostly he judges and teases her with conceited smile. He is at awe at her beauty, without it, he would not as much as talked to her, really.

So, all this is exactly what modern romantic dramas try to improve. Not this one, apparently. My interest dropped as soon as episode 2. It felt I've already watched this, which in a way is true.

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I nearly fell asleep

This lakorn was not enjoyable, because both the leading male & female hurt my eye. I really didn't like the look of either of them, so... What's the opposite of "eye candy"? I still remember 2010 'Ngao Kammathep' with Davika & Weir (*shudder*) and let's just say, this kind of story does not flatter to anyone.

Girl won some "super" model contest apparently because she's so tall. Guy (16 years older) is REALLY not my type. Still it wouldn't have to be this bad, I just cannot fathom why the lakorn's hair-dresser won't think of simply cutting the male's short hair actually SHORT so there's no need for any funny, slimy looking quiffs. To expose the high, receding forehead and make him look even older than he is... Perhaps I concentrated on the appearances too much in this? Well, there was not much else to go on, LOL.

This has 15 episodes 1,5 hours long all about how the girl ugly duckling turned into a swan (or from a "tom" to the same looking one, only with skirt and longer hair) so you forgive me my shallow assesment. Either way, the nang'ek here is seriously supporting the pra'ek courting HER AUNT, lol. What a nice start of a ROMANCE...:-p

He's pretty lukewarm in courting the aunt, as he is a flimsy guy in general. She has time to grow up in the meantime. When she returns a pretty girl, he starts liking her more than as a brother but doesn't admit it when prince (you know Nat Arnus, always portrays a prince:) directly asks. It's his usual avoidant approach like with the aunt. But Duen is grown and he actually looks scared of her, LOL. Well, she only needs average heels to be the same hight as him:)

Despite tender age, Bo Maylada sounds mature singer. Most lakorns she was in this was not put it in good use, this won't be an exception.

By episode 9, I catched myself looking more off than on the screen. I am dropping this, not finishing episode 9 (as of zero interest of seeing whatever happens next, or later in the story, or how it all ends).

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A funny lakorn filmed partially in Prague. Pra'ek with looks of Ken Theeradeth is still single and works at Royal Thai Embassy. His mother is unhappy with him still being unmarried in his thirties, to the point that she is now forcing him to enter an arranged marriage. So, he asks his friend for help, because he's got an idea that if he hired someone posing as his girlfriend, then she could block the arranged woman from getting to him. His friend then looks for a girl for him, whom he could hire and asks his local pimp for a paid girl. At the same time though, the friend's sister, who's got a longtime crush on pra'ek, hears about this and decides impulsively to get hired for the task herself. Therefore, for love, she pretends to be a hooker, LOL. It has to be noted that with looks of Janie Tienphosuwan, she is convincing as such. She arrives at Prague airport in red mini-dress, black sunglasses and black leather high boots. Her make-up screams from a mile off.

It's funny, because had she been a real call-girl she would not have the need to dress up like that in public for everyone to see, but because she only pretended to be one, she needed to, LOL. Either way, pra'ek obviously doesn't remember, or recognize his friend's kid sister. Hers is the unrequited crush, then. It's cute to watch her using the oportunity to be openly flirty with him now, as she is playing the prostitute role anyways. The more funny it is that his reactions to that are totally stuck-up: not interested in paid women any more than in arranged brides, he keeps being all bussiness. So, while in general I would prefer Ken to be paired with softer beauty than Janie, she did fit the requirements for this kind of a plot. I couldn't help but approve the way her character grabbed the chance to flirt her pra'ek. It was certainly getting her his attention at last, and it was hilarious.

But! The runtime of this lakorn is HUGE...

So, besides this, there is the second couple, who is even more raunchy than the first couple, formed by pra'ek's best friend, the one who's a regular at "massage parlors", portrayed by funny & sexy Not Vorarit (perfect cast) and the uptight, glasses-wearing "reporter", nevertheless portrayed by the bombshell Sara Legge. These two instantly "hit it off" right their first meeting, when he - what would you guess? - mistakenly takes her for a hooker, lol. These two are even more funny than the main ones, and didn't need to travel all the way to Prague for it, lol. Speaking of which, I indeed thought the Prague setting would suffice for the 1st epi, why the filming lingered there was a mystery to me. It was not needed at all for the plot. When I had to watch sequences like Janie wandering the Old Town at night wearing her "hooker clothes", encountering a young guy who was supposed to scare Janie by whistling at her (the volunteer "actor" almost choking at one point, not able to really whistle for the fourth time in a row:) and then almost getting raped near the Old Town Square, I really thought that enough was enough. Let's get back to romantic comedy, not parody, here. Only thing I liked was when Ken's pra'ek received a small buquet of a few gentle tulips from Janie as thank you. It was a cute & touching gesture and looked way better than the huge buquet Sara Legge received from the naughty second pra'ek back in Thailand;)

Then the third couple is introduced, which is nang'ek's friend, portrayed by Selina Pearce, and nang'ek's intended future husband, portrayed by Boy Chokchai, whose character is the guy nang'ek fled to Prague from, lol. He then starts to harrass her friend instead, resulting in very bad/not visible "kiss" (it looks more like he wants to choke her or strangle her) on the same annoying level as Boy Chokchai's low acting skills. Gee, the 3rd couple will be a pain.

Since epi 3, it starts getting boring (overly prolonged). Instead of returning to Thailand, yet more cast arrives in Prague, including praek's arranged marriage girl. Janie's nang'ek then moves into pra'ek's bedroom to play the girlfriend role, but does not sleep in a bed with him (despite her character is supposed to be a hooker) and rather sleeps on the floor. Second couple got separated, because praek's sister came to Prague, too. Third couple is annoying as before, only now without even the poor quality "kiss". Looks like many skippable filler episodes await...

I'm putting this on hold as I'm not very excited to see more.

Episode 4: Okay after I put ths show for 2 months on ice I attempted episode 4. I did not finish it. I am dropping this for the lack of futher interest.

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Ae Isariya Saisanan is now unrecognizable (in compare to 2009 'Sarp Phusa'), perhaps she had some surgery to make her face look completely different. Her character in here, Wandee, decided not to solve her marital problems between herself, but to drag her daughter through divorce and then make her live with struggling single mother, which un/surprisingly, the daughter does not appreciate. On the other extreme, Tong's mother tolerates her husband's indiscretions to grothesque extent, just to keep the family together.

It's funny how it's shown that both Rose & Tong are unhappy and would probably prefer to switch places. As they both appreciate different things, which are the exact opposite of what they receive, and which happen to be the only ones available to the other girl. On the somber note, both Dueandem & Wandee try to be good mothers in their own way. Wandee's way proves to have more weakness. Resulting thus in weaker character of her daughter. Dueandem is more self-sacrificing, resulting in her daughter's character being stronger, more mature but also it comes with a price.

I think the audience can easily relate to the "slice of life" story, of course depending on what kind of home a person comes from. Then there comes Nike Nitidons's character, wooing Rose's mother with sweet words like from fairy tales. The false note immediatelly sounds very prominent. From the drama point of view, the show has standard quality of music, acting, editing etc. but of course it all kinda feels flat as any kiss is so obviously faked. I can accept this kind of lukewarm performance if the show at least offers romantic escape, but problem with 'Club Friday' is they try to bless us with "real life" stories which they then work with the same way as the fictional ones so the only difference is that it's not romantically enjoyable. Therefore, I don't need to watch this all unfold (obviously no Nike Nitidon/Nonny Nutcha steamy kiss scene awaits us anyways:) and can suffice with 1 episode only.

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The second couple is more attractive

I was pleased to see Praew Chermawi. Great Sapol is okay too, I suppose... But Bank Artit? Don't stretch it. I would have it if the second couple would rather be the main. And if this was rather a comedy. NOT interested in the obligatory plot about family members who are practically criminals and muder your parents and do anything to steal all your money... Oh no, not another hysterics of Gookgiik Kochakorn... I watched enough of her in previous lakorns. This is like really OLD thing remade "new" with a few veteran actors who must be bored to death by now. I know I am. And this Pinkploy Paparwadi? She's all groomed like she's a supermodel, but her face... Who ever thought her a nang'ek material is beyond me. Switch her with Praew Chermawi! Even thirty, lol.

I'm afraid I can't bring myself to care about the main story. Praew Chermawi would need to have WAY MORE screentime. If she'll continue having 1 scene for each episode I'll either drop this series or finish it real quick, lol.

EDiT: Watching only Praew Chermawi's scenes since episode 3.

Episode 5: There's no scene with Praew Chermawi. Great Sapol has a scene where he finds his mother tied down & with gagged mouth. Okay, enough. I won't watch any more "criminal" cr*p, that's always sign of idiocy in lakorn.

Ending credits song is nice, best thing about this lakorn.

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Okay, this lakorn's main couple is... Not a couple, actually. Pra'ek, not too attractive guy with a slightly girly face (there's a scene with him crossdressed as a woman right in episode 1, and he actually looks better that way: never a good sign) is married to someone else and lives with his wife, who's older than him, and her father in her huge house. She doesn't want him to work and wishes to keep him home as a pet. She's basically unsatisfied with him not paying his attention to her for 1 minute. His father, obviously the owner of the huge mansion they live in, also instructs him to keep her happy at all costs. Which makes it difficult for him to as much as go to work, which is something he likes to do (it's implied his wife could support him if he let her). There, he can spend time with his "friend", who obviously hates him and also meet up with nang'ek, who's also older than him, acts like schoolgirl and looks like 31-year old Kwan Usamanee. In short: what an unhappy pra'ek.

Watching this, I wasn't much happier. I didn't like any of the cast. I didn't like any of the characters (except maybe the rich house's servants, lol). And I didn't really care much about who ends up with whom. Pra'ek's wife starts an affair with another man - who obviously just wants to get even with pra'ek - right in episode 2... I did not care. I didn't like anyone there. Maybe Gap Thanavate's support role was cute. But watching 15 more episodes of this? That's a no. Runtime was so long it was a strain to even finish second epi... Of course they added some gunpoint action to the lakorn (if at least pra'ek was not a policeman... sigh) to definitely dissuade me from watching and they succeeded.

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Slap & Kiss of 2 people who can't kiss and neither of them is attractive

I've already seen 2006 version, honestly nothing much to be worthy of being remaked, but perhaps writers are REALLY out of ideas.

Oil Thana wasn't my type of a guy, but Ko Vasin looks more like a girl... So I can't even COUNT him as a guy. Also, while I never liked Kwan Usamanee, the new nang'ek Pinkploy Paparwadee is no improvement, either. Like, HE is way cuter than her. Perhaps this is our future? Girly looking guys and manly looking girls...

What I also remember from the older version is the character who was the older sister of the nang'ek. There was something likeable about the actress and something graceful and humble about the character, that even though she was a "kept woman", I actually respected and liked her way more than nang'ek. She had class in her behavior which the nang'ek definitely lacked. The only times I rooted for the nang'ek was when she tried to protect this older sister... So, as I've never liked the nang'ek anyways, it's not that important if I don't like her new portraying actress. But who is playing the older sister in this new version?

Well, I'm neither repulsed nor impressed by her, and in general... I started skipping through this lakorn since the 2nd epi. Mostly draggy and awkward scenes... Not much to hold my interest... And there is THIRTY FOUR episodes of this. Lakorns I DO like never have that many! LOL. Truth about THIS lakorn gets revealed in 4th episode of these 34. Because there is the 1st kiss. It's not a good kiss. So there. We have another overly long thing viewer is bound to skip through: and there's not even any good bit to skip TO.

So, precisely at that point I did know that for myself, it's perfectly ok to drop the remaining 30 episodes and save a lot of time. (I skimmed through the remaining episodes nonetheless, I wanted to skim all of them but there was so many and I got tired... It's a slap & kiss of two people that can't kiss, and neither of them is attractive... I've seen enough from most of the key scenes... So basically yes, I dropped this after 4 episodes out of 34:)

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Epi 1: Why is it so hard to simply find enjoyable romantic series to watch? This lakorn has a synopsis that immediatelly puts me off, I'm not interested in any crime lines and in anything supernatural. It's always stupid and never helps any romance. In the first minutes, this spurres a load of action scenes on the viewers, before they can even start to care about ANY character in there (after 1hr and 25 min runtime, the police has a meeting which finally makes for an introduction of the characters that is missing at the beginning). The thirties daddy Off Chanapol is shown wearing either heavy makeup, or fisherman's hat. Other lead is Kitkong Khamkrith, who seems very stiff. Maybe he needs to be a police officer for his "acting" to work? I like Anyarin Terathananpat, but what of it, when I'm not interested in anything/anyone that surrounds her (here). But her '2016 Rissaya' is still not fully subtitled. I'm waiting for it so I'm watching this meanwhile...

Everyone who watched this praised the secondary couple. Just because they're not COMPLETELY boring as the lead one. It tries to flatter the feminists as she is proving herself to be "better crime boss" than her brother. Well, if he's a stupid person, then it's not that hard. Off Chanapol is not so young anymore but can do more than just one facial expression so he easily beats the male lead acting-wise, especially while portraying the character overflowing with various tricks. I admit that at times it's funny (about the only reason I did not DROP this lakorn in episode 1). Pitty he isn't more of a looker (like Cee Siwat in 'Lep Krut' - vaguely similar role) and she a better actress.

Apart from him I don't see anyone pulling their weight, so if Off Chanapol is the best actor here far and wide, it would be difficult for him to keep the whole series going (probably the reason why this is 12 episodes only).

Epi 2: Anyone can recognize Off Chanapol in his makeup and hat, so it's kinda silly. Also, he's not THAT young for most of the antics.

Epi 3: Getting bored.

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