Wednesday, 28 September 2016

Talay Fai: the review

Talay Fai
Channel 7

Starring Mik(Te/Techin) and Stephanie (Pasika/Pun)
Synopsis: Boy meets girl in Spain, when her purse is stolen. He falls in love with her but then later when they part finds out she is the woman suspected of being his father’s mistress. Love turns to hate. His father dies and leaves everything in his name. But with one condition Pun has to be the vice president.

This starts a chain of events where Techin does everything he can to get rid of pun.
This show was my rebound show after once upon a time…in my heart. Mik has got me feeling those vibes about him when he acts lol.
He reminds me a lot of Mario and Stefan.
Back to the story like all slap kiss lakorns we have one hair brained plot for revenge/vengeance/hatred whatever you call it, more than one awful crazy mother, a gang of murderers sending the lead pair every 4 to 5 episodes one at a time to the hospital but you have to give it to them murderers they thinking about the resorts welfare while one is injured the other president can look after it.

Pat and Pun never made a good couple even in the first one but it is nice to see both of them find their respective partners. I personally skipped every scene with Jiew and Pat.
The plot is unoriginal and leaves much to be desired but overall Mik and Stephanie did the best with the material they had.
The whole bunch of assasins trying to kill them continuously through out every episode got a little tiring I felt a little sorry for Pun she did nothing but smile most of the time at Techin but he misunderstood her a lot when he finally began to trust her though boy did he trust her. He won me over with his sweet gestures and singing for Pun. Pun on the other hand never really did much when someone attacked them she never really did anything but just shout Techin watch out. Once in a while she hit someone but other than that nothing. I understand that the Lakorn was extended because of popular demand but I wish the last two episodes did not drag any more than they did. By the end I could not help but not care who the one behind the embezzlement was.
I really want to see Fai ruk gamh ron now. Just because of Nong Pin and her P’Non. I think it’s adorable when they call each other that and how the two hold hands constantly. But then I read the story summary. Eish It sounds worse than Talay Fai. But being a Thunwa fan I will. Hope the subbers sub more of it.
I hated Techin’s mom. I kind of wish she never got a happy ending she is insane. Jiew should have taken her to the mental hospital, she was with Sudharat doing all those things to kill Pun but then all of a sudden the writers forget about that.
Poisoning Pun, setting Techin up with Sarinda all of those things she needed to be caught. But then again I did skip a lot towards the end.
Techin reminded me of a puppy a lot of the time. He followed Pun around, asked her for food, shelter.
What made me laugh was how he asked her to hide him when his mother was looking for him. For a grown man he had no balls.
But he grew them along the way.
I recommend this show if you watched once upon a time in my heart, love rivalry, Sawan Biang.
It is not the best of the best, but it has a cute quality to it.
Also if you want a drama with no OTW and OTM then this is the drama for you.
Warnings: Kidnapping, Techin ties Pun to him, Lots of forced kisses, about 3 almost Rawr scenes. Techin Forces Pun to sleep next to him.

Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Thai Lakorns decomposed:


Hi everyone. So today I was watching Talay Fai, and I felt a wash of over whelming déjà vu settle over me.
To lakorn lovers everywhere there are some unescapable tropes always thrown into dramas. So I have decided to name a few of them. Don’t get me wrong I love thai lakorns.

The over protective mother
We all have seen her perhaps even some of us in our own homes. Nobody is good enough for her son but whoever she deems fit. She will bully, and go to extreme length just to make sure her son does not marry Nang’ek.

Lakorns: Talay fai, Ngao Asoke, Sood saneah.
The possessive crazy pra’ek
He is so in love with the Nang’ek that he will turn into a rapist at the sight of her even smiling at another man. He will forcefully kiss, touch and press his face into our poor innocent nang’eks neck.
Lakorns: Pin anong, Sawan Biang, Sud sai paan, Mai tuean.

The sweet innocent heroine
She is beautiful and kind to all around men can’t help but fall in love with her while females can’t help but be jealous of her. She wins our Pra’ek’s hear with her sweetness.
Lakorns: once upon a time, mia tuean, mia taeng  

Even though he is poor he was somehow switched at birth along the line and is richer than oprah.
A main plot point is the hero is poor and heroine is rich but by some kind of magic by the end of the lakorn he is rich and owns half the world.
Lakorns: Sud sai paan, Sood saneah.

The insane OW
The insane other women, the Pra’ek has never shown her much interest other than that of to make the nang’ek jealous. But she will create misunderstanding upon misunderstanding all in her quest for the Pra’ek.
Lakorns: Roy leh sanhe rai, mai Tuean.


The sweet second lead that never ends up with the main girl
He maybe handsome and an all-round gentlemen and completely in love with nang’ek but we all know even though the pra’ek may be an asshole he will still undoubtedly win the nang’ek’s heart in the end.
Lakorns: Leh Ratree, 100  tricks of dangerous trickey.

Mountains of wrist grabs
We have all seen this scene in so many lakorns the pra’ek grabs her wrist, nang’ek shouts let go and pra’ek says no I won’t. Sigh. I am sure for the next 10 years we will still be seeing this scene.
Lakorns: Sawan biang, fai luang, game rai game ruk, Duang jai akanee, the love rivalry,

Titles that sound like mills and boon novel names
Thai lakorn names when translated often sound like mills and boon novel names. For example.
Charming deception.
Bought bride.
Lakorns: My wife (Mia taeng), Samee (Husband).


The cold Pra’ek
This pra’ek wears a suit and was either ditched by his ex or mom. So he has decided that for the rest of his life he will be an asshole until he meets the nang’ek and becomes an even bigger asshole.
Lakorns: Bitter sweet honey, the apple falls far from the tree.


The Pra’ek who misunderstands the Nang’ek the entire series
No matter how ridiculous accusations are hurled at the innocent nang’ek. This Pra’ek believes everyone on the entire earth besides the nang’ek.
Lakorn: Mia tuean and Ngao asoke.

The rape scene
When the pra’ek goes completely insane with jealousy and all round madness and decides to rape the poor defenseless nang’ek. Why?
Lakorns: Fai luang, Sawan biang, Jamey loey rak.

The ending that sometimes make no sense
Villain’s reform, everyone accepts each other. Usually in the last episode the Nang’ek is kidnaped and taken to some place were our valiant pra’ek will come save her. Then we will be shown a scene where they tell each other I love you and it ends.


All mobsters decide to retire for the girl they love
These mobsters have lived their entire lives being trained to be gangsters until they meet the one and all the murdering and whatever else illegal stuff they were doing is forgotten.
Lakorns: once upon a time, the rising sun series 1

Vengeful Pra’ek
Either his mother or father was hurt by the nang’ek family in some way so he thinks the only way to get revenge is to follow the nang ek everywhere and because all round problems for her while all the while falling in love with her.
Lakorns: Sawan Biang, Ngao jai, Bitter sweet honey, Sood sanyea kaen.

The forced marriage
For some absurd reason i.e. revenge, inheritance, money issues, to have children.  Main pair is forced into marriage.
Lakorns: Full house, the bought bride.

The vengeful heroine
She is basically the vengeful hero just not a rapist.
Lakorns: Fai ruk game rohn.

Pregnancy
After the rape scene, we usually find the nang ek feeling dizzy and falling into the pra’eks arms.
Lakorns: The necessity wife, Sawan biang, Love Rotation.

The separation
Where the pra ek and nang ek decide it is better for everyone if they are apart, or are protecting one another by being apart, or where the nang ek has had enough of the pra ek-hole
Lakorns: EVERY LAKORN EVER.

The path to redemption
Now that he knows he was wrong, our pra’ek rids himself of asshole behavior and becomes an angel. This trope goes hand in hand with the pregnancy trope as the pra’ek goes out of his way to prove he is sincere and loves the nang ek.
Lakorns: Love Rotation, Raeng ngao.

I lost my memory
Why don’t you remember me? I lost my memory trope. Who are you?
Lakorns: Sawan sang, Game rai game ruk

Twins/Mistaken identity
Usually it is the nang ek who is always mistaken for someone who is a mind my language slut.
So the pra ek goes out of his way to force himself on her.
Lakorns: Sud sai paan, Ngao jai.

I will buy you
Pra ek tries to buy the nang ek
Throws money in her face. Calls her a prostitute and other derogatory terms.

Lakorns: Love rivalry, sawan biang, sud sai paan.

Sunday, 25 September 2016

Karn La Krang Neung...Nai Hua Jai: The review

Karn La Krang Neung...Nai Hua Jai


Produced by channel 7
Stars Pimmy and Mick

Story briefing: Please the summary in Asianwiki is wrong.
Young, beautiful and cheerful Fahsai is cheated on by her boyfriend of ten years P’itt, her best friend in order to cheer her up takes her on a trip to Japan. There Fahsai meets handsome dangerouse mafia leader Daniel who injured after an attack he forces Fahsai to help him. Fahsai resembles Daniel’s past love Botan, who betrayed him.
They eventually fall in love but problems arise.
<SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT ON>
Mick is drop dead gorgeous and pimmy has had my heart from the time she played Nara in love rivalry.
But this Lakorn was adorable. What was there not to love?
The main hero is a handsome mob leader who is badass.
He is incredibly protective of Fahsai.
Fahsai is adorable it is hard to believe that she has a broken heart at the rate at which she falls for Daniel but I don’t blame her. Daniel is beautiful.
After watching cubic compared to Bomb, Mick is a much better actor.
When he cries I want to hug him. But he really needs to work on his smile. It looks so fake sometimes.
Oh yes back to the story.
After they meet they fall in love with each other. But Daniel wants Fahsai to be safe so he tells her to be strong and never let anyone hurt her heart.
After he safely leaves her in Japan.
Fahsai meets chen Ming who tries to force her to work for him. Chen ming is cute.
He hates Daniel and is the leader of a rival gang he thinks Daniel killed his family and injured his brother. And he was in love with Botan.
Fast forward Daniel comes back into Fahsai’s life to save her company as she once saved his life eliminating her need to work for Chen Ming.
But because her father is injured, she agrees to work for Chen Ming and betray Daniel.
Daniel fights with his family that Fahsai will never betray him but she does. So he dumps her.
Chen Ming by this time falls in love with Fahsai and declares he will fight with Daniel for her.
Daniel uses the girl that stole Fahsai’s ex the elegant doctor kwan against Fahsai.
Kwan is evil she tries constantly to hurt Fahsai and steal Daniel.
Daniel seeing Fahsai smiling and happy with ChenMing drags her into his change room and forcefully kisses her and tears her shirt open.
Daniel tries to leave Fahsai multiple times.
In the end he leaves the mafia and marries her.
Story negatives
I wish we had more episodes. There was not enough time to cope with everything and for everyone to have character development.
I wish someone would explain to me.
Why Daniel could so easily hand Fahsai over to ChenMing but not Botan?
I just could not believe that Fahsai could fall in love so easily after a relationship with Pitt of 10 years.
I wish Fahsai asked Daniel if he really loved her alone or her reflection?
Was he still in love with Botan?
Story Positives

MIK
Guy who plays chen Ming
Pimmy
I am incredibly shallow here but who doesn’t want to see a beautiful couple in love?
One of the best thai Mafia lakorns.
Recommended if you enjoyed Cubic and the Rising sun series.



Friday, 23 September 2016

U-Prince series

Hey everyone.
So where to start.
U-Prince, the series created my gmmtv.

The first story is about a play boy that meets a girl that is unlike any other and falls in love with her.

Stars Push and Esther.

Spoilers.
Pikrang has got to be one of the weakest characters ever! Like seriously?
Push character cheats on her twice and not the soft kind of cheating like a kiss or a hand touch no. He sleeps with another girl and not just any girl the nang rai. I am sorry but after she forgave him the first time so easily I lost interest in him.
Push character was horrible in every sense of the word.
How could he do that to someone he cared so much about as a child.
His character was chauvinistic and just down right horrible to Pikrang.
I really tried to understand his character, he was possessive and had all of the alpha man traits that most thai drama cowboys have but just no.
CHEATING.

The first time he cheated was downright awful and Pikrang did the most childish thing ever use key as a weapon to hurt Push’s character.
TBH this drama should have ended at episode 5.
I really enjoyed it up till that point.
If you think cheating is gross like me stay away.
There is one almost rawr scene.
There is one forced kiss.
He drags her around alot.
He likes to accuse her of seducing men. I hated how weak she was. 

I think I am staying away from the rest of the uprince series possessive-ness is not worth watching if the male leads an utter idiot.


Saturday, 17 September 2016

Possessive guys in drama 2016

So for the past few days I have been looking for a good drama, book or basically anything with a possessive guy.
And most list either tell us the same thing or are rather old.
So where do I start?
Hero description: He has to be an asshole in every sense of the word.
Manipulative, controlling and possessive.
So let’s get to it.
Chinese drama
1.  Sealed with a kiss

Story summary:
This is a story about the complicated life of Tong Xue, a young interior designer with a hidden secret life, living as an outcast mistress of Mo Shao Qian, a successful businessman who accommodated her with luxury living, showered her with expensive gifts, but also tortured her in a brutally battled love.
She always feared him, wishing and planning for the day, when she escapes away from his empowering claws. However the moment he finally released her, it was too late for her to run free.
Personal opinion: It was absolutely amazing. From start to finish. The forced kisses, MSQ is amazing watching him change was great.
2.  Love means never forgetting

Story Summary:
She first met him when the blooming lotus flower was falling, only to have to part ways.


Years later, when they reunited, Li Zhong Mou had all but forgotten of Wu Tong's existence, leaving her forlorn, except the only thing he wants now from her is the guardianship to their son. 7 years long years together, can they fix their broken relationship?


This drama is based off the novel by Lian Bai Se.

Personal opinion: If you watched meteor garden this is a must. It is like seeing a grown up Dao Ming Si that never met Shancai.



Korean
1.  Cheese In a trap

Story summary:
Having returned to college after a year long break, due to her family's poor background, Hong Sul, a hard-working over-achiever, inadvertently got on the wrong side of Yoo Jung, her senior who is athletic, good looking, gets good grades and has a kind personality, but also a hidden dark side. From then on her life took a turn for the worse and Sul was almost certain it was all Yoo Jung's doing. So why is he suddenly acting so friendly a year later?
Personal opinion: You don’t get a guy darker than Yoo jung. He is so handsome.
2.  High end crush

Story Summary:
"High End Crush" is a romantic comedy depicting the heartfelt and pure love story by a man with everything in his hands, who falls in love for the first time in his life with a woman, who has been living in completely opposite circumstances from his. ~~ High End Crush is a Chinese-Korean web drama.
Personal opinion: It is not rather exceptional but it is a good pass time he is rather cute.
3.  Noble my love

Story Summary:
Kang Hoon is a CEO of world's largest company D.O.L's Korean branch. One day, he is kidnapped and dramatically escapes from the bad guys but he bleeds so much that he blackouts in front of one animal hospital. Yoon Seo, a veterinarian, finds him and cures him.
Personal Opinion: The main leads look amazing together.
4.  Moon Lovers

5.  Story Summary:
When a total eclipse of the sun took place, a 21st century woman, Go Ha Jin is transported back in time to the Goryeo Dynasty of Korea. She wakes up in the body of 16-year-old Hae Soo and got trapped in the conflicts and struggles between the ruling princes. She then falls in love with the 4th Prince Wang So, who hides his face behind a mask and is given the derogatorylabel "dog-wolf" by others, making other people tremble with fear. ~~ Based on Chinese novel “Bu Bu Jing Xin” by Tong Hua.
Personal Opinion: Unfinished but amazing.

6.  Oh my ghost
Bong-sun, a timid young woman, is possessed by the ghost of a lustful virgin. She has zero self-confidence, and because of her extreme shyness, she doesn’t have any close friends. At the restaurant where she works as an assistant, she’s not particularly good at anything, and mostly just gets yelled at a lot. Her grandmother was a shaman so from a young age she’s been able to occasionally see ghosts, though it’s not until she meets the lascivious ghost that she gets possessed totally.
Sun-woo is a conceited star chef who’s overflowing with confidence in his food and his skills. Bong-sun harbors a secret crush on him, though he doesn't take much notice of her for two reasons: because he’s always surrounded by women and because he’s hung up on an old flame. But then one day, Bong-sun starts acting differently, shedding her mousy personality, and ends up constantly on Sun-woo’s mind
Personal opinion: I loved this show.

7.  Madam antonie
Ko Hye Rim is a famous fortune-teller. She is known as "Madame Antoine" and insists that she is spiritually connected to Marie Antoinette, but that part is a lie. She can see through people and read their minds using "cold reading" as a technique (a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, mediums and illusionists to imply that the reader knows much more about the person than the reader actually does). She dreams of having love in a romantic film. Hye Rim then takes part in a psychological test project conducted by psychotherapist Choi Soo Hyun . His goal is to prove that true love does not exist. Coincidentally, the name for his psychological treatment center is Madame Antoine.
Personal Opinion: I never finished it.

8.  Master sun
Joo Joong Won is the stingy and greedy CEO of Kingdom, a conglomerate that includes a major department store and hotel. He meets the gloomy Tae Gong Shil, who started seeing ghosts after an accident. Their lives take a new turn as they work together to deal with the terror and sadness brought about by the spirits, while delving into a kidnapping incident in Joong Won's past. And unknowingly, they fell in love with each other.
Personal Opinion: So ji sub was amazing.

Taiwanese
1.  Murphys law of love

Murphy’s Law states “anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” Guan Xiao Tong is known as the “love guru” of the Meet and Match Online Dating Company, able to solve anybody’s relationship issues. After He Zhi Yu, a beautiful model, leaves Ji Jia Wei, he is heartbroken but his father tries to convince him to move on. Jia Wei proposes a joint-company matchmaking event between the dating company and the divorce agency. There, Jia Wei meets Xiao Tong, and the two get off on the wrong foot and they soon delight in tormenting each other. Meanwhile, a famous chef, Xiang Zi Yan, gets to know Xiao Tong and begins to develop feelings for her.
Personal Opinion: This drama is cute.
Japanese
1.  5ji kara 9ji mada

Sakuraba Junko, an English language school teacher, has had no boyfriend even before her 29th birthday and dreams of working in New York. But one day, she encounters a handsome monk in the worst moment when she attends a funeral service at a temple. Because of numbness in her legs, she grabs the altar and ends up emptying the ash from burning incense on him while he is chanting the sutra. Although a rueful Junko thinks they will probably not meet again, she is deceived by her family and made to go for a matchmaking session. The other party is none other than that monk, Hoshikawa Takane.
Personal opinion: I love this monk. He is so adorable

2.  Happi mari
Takanashi Chiwa is an office lady who works part-time at a club because she is in debt. One day, she gets into a quarrel with a wealthy and handsome customer who came to the club and is fired. The next day, a depressed Chiwa is summoned by her boss and finds the rude man from the day before down there. His name is Mamiya Hokuto. Hokuto suddenly proposes a contract marriage with Chiaki. Although she is initially resistant to the idea, she has no choice but to accept. The two of them overcome all sorts of troubles and become a real couple.
Personal opinion: Male leads handsome af.
3.  Good morning call

Yoshikawa Nao stays behind to live by herself when her parents leave to inherit her grandpa's farm in the country. On the day she moves into her new apartment, she discovers that it was rented also to Uehara Hisashi; a cute, super-cool, popular guy from her school. Not only did their housing agency unexpectedly close down, the landlord of the apartment tells them that they had to pay more for their apartment than they had expected. With no money and no home to return to, Nao and Hisashi decide to live together as flatmates
Personal Opinion: If you watched It started with a kiss this is very similar, even LDK.

4.  Rich man poor women

9-year-old Hyuga Toru is a wealthy man. He first started to run an internet website from his small room and his hobby began to make a lot of money. Nowadays, he doesn't like to socialize and if somebody comes to him he suspects that they may want his money.

Sawaki Chihiro attends a job fair and by an unexpected occurrence begins to work for Toru. Chihiro soon realizes that Toru isn't so bad. There's pureness in him and also a good deal of loneliness. She then begins to have feelings for him.

Personal opinion: Male lead is very handsome. For people who have watched Mr robot imagine Eliot rich and in love. Love this show.


Thai

1.  Nohra
Norah's biological father is a dancer, but he was framed by a bad judge because that judge wanted his girlfriend/wife. Her father was framed and was sent to prison. The judge later took Norah's mother to live as his wife, but she was treated like a slave/servant. Years later after Norah grew up, she learned to love dancing especially the Manorah dance. She still does not know the truth that the judge is not her daddy. Her mother and she did not live a happy life.
Personal Opinion: Uncompleted but looks promising.


Indian
1.  Iss pyaar ko kya naam doon

The serial begins in Lucknow, where Khushi Kumari Gupta meets Arnav Singh Raizada when she falls over him in a public rampwalk show. Rumours arise, and soon Khushi and her sister Payal move to their paternal aunt's house in Delhi where the Raizadas live.
Arnav is a stern business tycoon and has been living with his maternal family consisting of his beloved sister Anjali, and her infidel husband Shyam, uncle Manohar, aunt Manorama, cousin Aakash and his grandmother Devyani, after his mother's suicide. Khushi, on the other hand, is a chirpy girl from a lower middle class nuclear family. They come across each other on several occasions, and after many initial fights, start warming up to each other.
The antagonist in their story is Arnav's brother in-law, Shyam, who wishes to marry Khushi. Misunderstanding, Arnav marries Khushi in turn, to save his sister's marriage, during Aakash and Payal's wedding. Shyam is later exposed by the duo, who finally confess their love to each other, marry and live happily ever after.
Personal Opinion: ARS is so hot.

2.  Madhubala
'Madhubala' is the story of Madhubala portrayed by Drashti Dhami who was born on a film set. While working as a beautician to fund her family she encounters Bollywood superstar Rishab Kundra (RK) portrayed by Vivian Dsena.
Personal Opinion: He is snarky rude, possessive, manipulative and controlling. RK is amazing.

3.  Geet

This story is rather similar to Iss pyaar ko kya naam doon.
Personal Opinion: The chemistry is amazing.
4.  Qabool hain

Zoya Farooqui, an orphaned NRI, travels to Bhopal in search of her biological father. During her endeavor, she resides with the family of wealthy businessman Asad Ahmed Khan. Initially, the two despise each other; Zoya is good-hearted yet modern and fun-loving, which irks Asad, who is traditional and ill-tempered.
Personal Opinion: Season 1 and 2 has a lot of possessive momemts.
5.       Ek thi raja ek thi rani

Focus’s on a poor girl who falls inlove with a prince.
Personal Opinion: The second season was amazing. The male lead Sarrtaj Gil killed it. He was possessive vengeful and just all round breath taking to watch.