The disaster of the cast

Nut Devahastin as a wife-beater? Great, just great. I've been complaining about the kind of roles he's been getting for quite some time. Thought it couldn't be any worse!

Then there's Koy Rachwin, despite the age still more beautiful than Mew Nittha. Her romance line with Prin Suparat's character starts intriguing, if he really loved her and kept fighting for her, it would probably make a better watch.

But no, we are to have the childish-bickering kind of main couple, here. They get married, but we continue watching the other woman with abusing husband, still. I wasn't interested in that WITHOUT Prin Suparat's character involved. And Mew Nittha annoyed me...

Dropped by episode 2. Koy Rachwin is CHARMING. Even Prin Suparat can be cool. But it's THEIR age-gap romance which would be worth watching, here. Not the ugly-duckling/sibling-like/annoying-to-death-bickering/cohabitation couple one. Pitty.

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Weir being talented ALSO as a singer unfortunatelly drowned in a lame genre mish-mash

We have 34-year old Weir paired with a generation younger Stephany Auernig... Their characters in here unfortunatelly seem to be the annoying kind. On their first meeting they yell at each other on a street like a pair of demented 15-year olds, he's loud (has a bullhorn, too), she's loud, trying to be "cool" by speaking english to him (they're both thai), and they end up almost physically fighting. I felt like closing the lakorn immediatelly. Not that I ever expected anything from Stephany Auernig besides being pretty, but after all his previous work I thought Weir finally could do better. This kind of "bickering couple beginning" deserved to be axed, and whoever written this to be sent back 15 years in time, when this was perhaps still in fashion. But, we have 17 episodes here. Shall the series gradually improve? It does have some nice reviews.

Yeah, next scene(s) Weir's character starts to act like a policeman, whom he also is supposed to be, in this role. Only it's incongruous with his childish annoying acting with the main girl just before. Pol Poonpat is a villain... once again. But, probably for 1 episode only, else I don't know why isn't his role listed here on MDL. Either way, he attempts to strangle nang'ek at one point. Ends up having his head cracked by a flower vase. And being called idiot. And then having his teeth drilled without anesthetics. It started to look like this would be the "crazy comedy" kind of a lakorn... Again, back to the word childish.

There is one more pretty face here, called "Boss" Chanakan. Besides being pretty, there's not much acting, which in case of a male is kinda worse. Then Stephany Auernig's nang'ek starts throwing food on pra'ek and he starts calling her names... She shouts: "Oh my god, you're so annoying!" which is ironic on many levels. What is SHE, then? Many years I continue to pray towards the whole asian community: Please, don't attempt to speak english. Just don't. PLEASE.

Then there's a song sequence featuring Weir. Thankfully, he's not singing in english so that's definitely a positive. I was thinking, perhaps they should be dancing & singing the WHOLE runtime. The show might actually be LESS annoying. Yeah, let's make the whole thing a musical. Episodes could be shorter and blissfully spare us any "crime" elements or "thai-glish" conversations. That could be done, right?

Sadly, they haven't done it. Soon, the song ends and we're back at watching various attempts of "acting" or "crazy humour acting" of the numerous cast. Not long after first 30 minutes of runtime, we hear the first gunshots (Remember the saying "Good romance doesn't need guns"?). Yeah, the disappointment comes quite soon. This won't be any better than any silly-screaming-and-fighting shows I watched before. Only difference would be, how often that would get interrupted by the musical sequences... As the 1st song was also the last one for the episode, answer is: not often enough.

"Boss" Chanakan's character ends up in a same situation with one secondary female (called 'Mo') in which females usually find themselves in. The gender roles got switched there, somehow it doesn't feel "refreshing".

Acting is not good enough for this to work as drama. It is too annoying to work as comedy. It's too little of the musical (which is a huge pitty, because watching the ending credits, I recognized Weir actually being quite tallented singer! The musical COULD be good. Seriously.) So...

Overall, the whole cocktail of MORE than hour and a half left me VERY tired.
So, maybe the show later improves a little, but I'm tired with it NOW.

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Es Kantapong still has it. I watched his previous main roles under Oliver Bever, this is like third in a row. Obviously he knows if he wants someone who'd look convincing as both action hero & romantic lead, he can cast Es and he won't make a mistake. Who is not convincing though, is bratty "Boss" Chanakan and his team, whom I would not believe he could help the main hero's case for a second. And I'm seriously getting annoyed with these naive storylines that "fight corruption" in more stupid way than love stories occur in romantic telenovelas. I know extreme naivety is like Bever trademark, but I'm tired with thai television producing more and more stupid corruption dramas, like they would like to somehow justify what is occuring in real Thailand. Making such a stupid shows about it is probably helping the mafia even more:// What's worse, this is not as trashy as Oliver Bever's previous work so you cannot even laugh watching it. I watched 1 episode which had a length of a movie and I think this time I had enough, nothing compels me to watch 17 of them.

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I watched this already. So I'm sorry, but if today's scriptwriters are unable to come up with any story of their own and keep doing remakes it can't be helped: I've seen this already and that itself is annoying.

Other thing is, when I watched this for the first time, there was CHAKRIT, plus young Aum Patcharapa. Now, not only this is not original, but I need to put up with Michael Pattaradet & MOOKDA, instead (both these actors "proved" themselves to me in their previous lakorns I DROPPED).

Anyways the online site which this series was on was rather slow, and the video kept buffering till I found myself not really feeling the need to finish the 1st episode, meaning more than one hour of this.

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Wow, in the main cast we have two women, who are both super awesome. I remember Yui Chiranan as the sexiest, kick-ass female in 'Lep Krut', and she was 37 in there(!)... The exactly 10 years younger Thisa Varitthisa, also distinctively charming woman, and by the way the only convincing onscreen partner I've ever watched Weir with. Wow, what a combo... And with them, as the only main male, we have... who? Who forgot to take their medication? Who did this to the audience? What a colossal waste.

In his very first scene, he is called 'Steve' and he attempts to speak english. I can tell you one thing. I had to pause this series at 2min42sec and I just wanted to close it for good.

Okay... I did know about the cast and I did want to give this a chance. It looks it might have an intriguing story, though it is clear this would NOT be my eye candy, to say the least lol. There's just Great Sapol in a side-role to complete the remarkably bland male cast, and he's to be paired with uninteresting girl, too (wished it at least was KiewKoi Kwankawin).

There is a funny scene where the main guy's boss makes a big fuss about him being absent from work without note. She wants to fire him, but when he apologizes saying he had an accident during which he lost his memory and now only remembers his childhood, she lets him go back to work, without bothering about how is a person who knows nothing past their childhood qualified to work (there or anywhere). It's always SO funny with any amnesia plot. No matter if real or pretended. He tells her it might take years to get his head straight and she says okay, go to work now lol.

I'll try one more episode of this but do not give much hope...

Dropped by episode 2.

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Now, this lakorn's praek looks like a lead (or second lead) from some BL on Line TV or similar channel. There is at least one more here (Aun Akrabhaj) he could work with, but I wasn't sure how he'll work with the lead girl. Rapeepat Eakpankul is here, trying to look serious (well, he's aged so his look got a bit sadder:) During the first episode, I really wasn't enjoying most of the cast didn't fit their roles.

I wondered what's there to look for on a wholescale... The most helpful review here mentiones this as best 2020 lakorn with great story, which should be free of any cliches. If this is true then it is really tragic. We no longer have any pra'eks that would not look gay and as for the story, we can see a little boy who's mother had been neglected while sick for another woman, the dad leaving the boy desperate in the rain, bla bla... Okay I'm sorry but I did watch this before, LMAO. To say I was half asleep after 30 minutes of watching would not be an overstatement. This "Donut"'s acting consist mainly of smirking (at his father's picture when nobody's looking, or at just anyone, really) during which he looks like a nerdy brat. The most prominent acting belongs to Jeab Pijittra and that speaks of something. She reached 40 and finally at least the age has given her some depth, LOL. If our "Donut" would really go for her and not the daughter perhaps I wouldn't be so colossally bored.

I do understand it's a massive change for a Channel 7 lakorn to even HAVE any drama in it but I cannot honestly imagine 18 long episodes of watching this cast. Didn't finish the 1st episode, even.

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Sponsored by Royal Caribbean Mariner of the Seas... "Enjoy."

I never managed to get through 1st episode of 'Fated To Love You', and that had my then most favorite taiwanese actress in there. So, I never tried any of the remakes, as I guessed this is just not my kind of story. Until... This one. Now with even more stupid name 'You're My Destiny', shall it share the same fate (dropped in 1st episode)? I never liked Bie Sukrit or Esther Supreeleela... And... I didn't like the 1st episode of this. But, it was like the music was enjoying itself way more than I was, it was roaring so much! Perhaps the somewhat bizarre experience made me open even episode 2, this time...

And, it starts right away. The music! It's so grand you expect a story of an epic calibre. What does actually happen? One girl gets into wrong room when under influence. But! Before that (for 1 episode and a half, we still wait for it) she like trips and drops her glasses and stuff. The epic music of course highlights everything "accordingly". LOLz. Anyways, the sex is portrayed by huge detail on real kissing. Which is something you never see in thai production, so you could say they outdid themselves BUT it is not a kiss scene, it's a sex scene:)

He then parades her around the luxurious ship (looks like it all was made as a promotional video for the cruise, by the way) and dresses her up like a doll and tries to boost her confidence but somehow I couldn't care less. The synopsis says she got pregnant that night. I realized I didn't care whether he's going to marry her or plain tell her to get lost. Even if their story thus ended immediatelly, it would be the same to ME. And therefore... while the music kept raging on... I resolved I can wrap this up early.

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First episode: Well, the opening credits leave no room for doubt that this should be something big. The older generation cast is top notch. The main leads are not interesting, but else the cast is like packing with hot guys, who never made it to being pra'ek, but I find them hot:)

And there is Jacqueline Muench!:) Last time I saw her was in 'Rabam Mek' (which I dropped) and this sadly was like a deja-vu for me, as in this series, she AGAIN first appears after long screentime has passed, again as a side-girl, again in some nightclub scene. Sigh.

In short, opening credits epic music sound way bigger than the actual content following, and each cast member has the more screentime the less I wish to see them and vice versa. Then again, which series it was NOT like that? lol.

Second episode, I started to be bit annoyed with the opening credits: I already knew what should really await me after them. Also, I realized I don't like any crime/action element in my lakorns, really. I am not interested in plots about drug cartels (whether they are written by good writer, or lakorn writer, or former pra'ek, like here). I am not impressed with tiny girls trying to look badass as police officers. They are about as credible as Prin Suparat, lol. In short, a simple romance lakorns which are good are GREAT in compare to badass "crime lakorns" that try so much to look cool.

A single episode runtime is unsufferable and number of episodes is too much, also. I considered dropping this. Maybe, watching the opening credits ONLY was the best, lolz.

I decided to finish the very long (like a movie) second episode and then... decide. Technical prob appeared before that happened so I did not bother to watch it again for the rest (I think I managed about an hour of it).

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Well... The main couple cast of this did NOT look promising (judging from my previous experience). Just the name Park Shin Hye. How could one not shudder remembering the "drama" that was so bad (and it was not because of bad cinematography, in fact the "drama" remains in MDL Top 10 "Most Popular Shows") I wanted to rate it 1.0, but it was SO bad I rated it 2.0? LOL. Not much more can be said about "Love Story" in Harvard' which had Kim Tae Hee in the lead (!!) and I DROPPED it after 10 episodes (rated it 3.0, that much charitable I felt).

I decided to try just ONE episode of this. No more chances. So. This one has an interesting age gap. He is introduced to be quite likeable school teacher. Very well. But I was not particularly looking forward Park Shin Hye's character joining that school. Her character is seen leaving to somewhere in 1st episode, she might as well just left the drama and I wouldn't complain. While she might not be just a wooden doll like when she was younger, her portraying loud and "badass" type nevertheless looks like a girl acting out, which looks a bit embarassing with her being 26, and not 16. So, the first episode did not convince me. The guy was too cool for her. I don't need to watch it 20 times to see that.

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Watching the 1st episode of this remake... Not only is the main couple's cast... er... different, they don't seem to be the same characters. I mean the show is supposed to be funny, but the main characters' behavior was not this silly.

You must understand how painful this is for me. 'Tok Kra Dai Hua Jai Ploy Jone 2003' was the 1st lakorn I EVER watched. It would never occur to me before to watch something from Thailand. Had I not stumbled upon it on Viki years back, had I not liked it so much, I would NEVER watched the 400 other thai lakorns. It was very bad picture quality. It was bad sound quality, it had ridiculous looking visuals... But it was SO romantic AND funny at the same time! There was the classic bullsh*t from lakorns, but not much of it. And what I also appreciated was, that both nang'ek & pra'ek were very likeable. Now, Pae Arak is someone who already reached 35 and changed and is not the young hot guy anymore and now is supposed to be the "new" star in 'My Girl' (where the original guy was younger) or in THIS lakorn?! Where the "good old" Tik WAS YOUNGER! And if we talk about likeable, you know how RARE is to find a likeable GIRL. That's what Mam was. That's what 100 today girls are not but unfortunatelly, that wasn't enough: they had to put distinctively unlikeable girl in this. I did watch her in 2 previous shows. First I disliked, second I dropped. I know viewers of this who don't know the old version were surprised how cute & good story this has (The countryside setting done right. NO birth secrets. NO revenge. NO cross-dressing. NO rich people. NOTHING supernatural. NO hidden/switched identity. NO rape. Ridiculous crime element which was cute NOT annoying. And even children who were not annoying, but adorable and actually added to the romance!) but it was stolen from THERE. The only quality here is the repeated one.

Episode 2: LOADS of Pae Arak and Gypso Ariigantha. Sorry, but that's a big no no. I am just not interested in this, so I am dropping this even before Ice Athichanan appeared, I didn't finish the second epi to the end, I'll rather watch the old version again, or something else. But hey, Tik isn't dead. There is a 2018 show with him called 'My Detective Buddy Is A Ghost', and while 41, Tik still looks okay in there (definitely better than Pae Arak) PLUS there is Chakrit, who is SO adorable as haunting ghost, lol. It's funny and not the forced kind funny, like here. So, I'm off:)

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Okay... We have young girl, barely over twenty, barely any personality... Her "mother", who looks like her grandmother... And her "new" husband. Meaning 40-year old "New" Wongsakorn (he's not that new to me and while I didn't like him even when he WAS young, I don't think combing his hair all up should prevent anyone from noticing how "young" he is now).

As for other cast, we have Nappon Gomarachun (wow), Art Pasut (hopefully he'll have his own story line, because I'll definitely won't watch 24 episodes for New Wongsakorn), Katreeya English (that's really her name, lol) who is 44 but looks even older (must be those strenuous workouts) and Benz Narinya (!) who blew me away as 16-year old nang'ek (seriously) in her 'Naree Rissaya' lakorn and since then, I haven't seen her in anything. Regretfully, this looks like a very small role. From what I have watched yet, I havent as much as noticed her.

This story BEGINS with the wedding. Obviously the girl is marrying some wothless manwhore who's the type with whom one is more lonely than actually alone. And Art Pasut is his brother (oh, no) which looks like he won't have his own line but only would hover. Girl even receives a written warning she shouldn't marry this guy and I say such advice should always be heeded even if it comes from the enemy line:)

So, since episode 1, it is clear this won't be my cup of romance.

The girl might stay at the wedding but I am leaving.

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No attractive guy on the poster...

On this lakorn's poster, there's quite large group of people to be honest, but the main center belongs to Thisa Varitthisa. Sadly, there is no attractive guy on the poster with her. Someone who is there is probably Oil Thana, who is unrecognizable after those lakorns from 13 years ago I remember him from. There's Mai Nonthapun, who is cute, but he's in a side-role.

Tags for this lakorn list Investigation, Revenge, Murder, Sisters' Relationship, Police Department, Death, Marriage Of Convenience... Geez, sounds like everything I am NOT interested in, lol. But, sometimes I surprisingly like a series that is not my favorite genre. So, I always try the 1st episode, at least...

And? It seemed to be filled with scenes I usually skip, only this time there's not really anything here to skip TO. Someone else called this "nice investigation-action drama" and while I admit that it's not my cup of coffee, still even if it was, then honestly Thailand isn't the country I would go to for such themed dramas, those don't seem to be their best. I stick mostly with romance/comedy lakorns.

Roy Arkart won't be my thing, I knew after 1 episode already. It did not offer me any eye candy and there was nothing to cheer me up amongst the murder investigation I did not care about.

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Interestingly themed drama... But what's up with the cast? If I'm not anxious to watch more of someone, then it's Non Chanon and Marina Sadanun (suffered enough with their previous roles). The only positive thing for Non Chanon, trying to look like a rapper (heh), would be to at least finally get a proper haircut. That could only do good to his overly feminine face, but no. And him wearing couple of braids (seriously) ponytailed on the top of his head, that "surprisingly" did not make him look cool, lol. Same with Marina Sadanun. That girl should be awarded a title of Miss Bland: there hardly was ever anything even remotely rememberable about her except it's repeated everywhere that she's a sister of one other actress (Margie), which after all is not important to me as a viewer. But I guess they need to repeat it because she doesn't resemble her at all and because there's nothing interesting about HER. When I watched her in opening credits, trying to move around and make "rap" gestures, I had to smirk.

First episode (it's 49 mins only) shows us little about the characters. There's the main rapper who looks lame (as he's portrayed by Non Chanon) but hates his dad so at least he's got something to rap about, his friend there just likes to chill but he is tense about becoming someone... Then there's schoolboy being bullied, but liking a girl who likes him back, but as a friend only... She wants to become famous, if he wants to hang out with her in the future, he'll have to become famous, too. This MIGHT work had the schoolboy actually be the younger version of the main rapper, at first I thought we were watching his past flashbacks which would explain his intense need to become famous, but no. So, we just watched a bundle of characters doing this and that. So far no major story.

I might give this a chance to see how it will develop in later episodes but I don't like the cast. And to continue a series, EITHER story or cast must engage me. Nearing the end of the episode Marina Sadanun started singing and I was like: Okay, enough NOW, lol.

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