Fai Hima (2019)

I would disregard the high praise review that this got by spicycurry21. This show starts off really well, I loved the positive relationship between the main leads, however, what killed this show for me was the constant disregard for logic. The bad guys could come and go as they please to literally beat up a CEO of a successful company and no cops, or law enforcement was called in. There are cameras everywhere these days and could be used as evidence for the crime, but no one ever files any report of abuse/battery. Even should you not want to file a report, hire security or something, but nope, logic is not a word the director of this show is familiar with.

Also, the crazy laughs that the evil people in this show always perform was really over the top and unnecessary. I mean, I knew what I was getting into when I started the show but the laughs really were jarring, even for someone like me who watches so many lakorns. I sometimes felt like the poor actor was going to have lung issues cause of the awkward cough (ahem poor Korn).

In addition, the ML's acting is seriously stiff. I felt like all his smiles and actions were forced and robotic. He is very good eye candy, but his acting is lacking and he should not be the ML of a show when he's underperforming in almost every scene. As for the FL, not sure why the previous review thought her character was supposed to be childlike? She's a mature working woman and Kwan did a really good job at performing a very rational (read: the only rational person in this whole show) person who doesn't respond hastily and actually tries to discuss issues and arguments with her partner in a mature way. I was highly impressed by that aspect of the show.

I don't think I'm being overly harsh on this show. It's 2019, writers can come up with way better reasons for why a character behaves in a certain way, and I even found glimpses of good writing at the beginning of the show (other than the reason for why the evil dude wants revenge, I can't wrap my head around that still--he hates the ML cause his father praised the ML when he was younger, thus he has harboured hatred for the ML and wants to destroy his life and kill him...like WTH is with this psycho reason?) Despite a good start, everything post episode 7 was a disaster due to lack of logic. The biggest example of this is when ML's sister, Nam takes her mother to go live with Kim (the evil guy), even though she knows he's dangerous. She's mad at her brother but doesn't think twice about going into the home of an evil man she herself doesn't trust. Yet Nam has the audacity to be mad at Tiya for somehow betraying her brother (who I would like to point out is married to another woman) while she's living in the home of the biggest rival of her brother. I really had to stretch my patience with Nam at that point.

I admit I skipped through the show towards the last few episodes, but from what I did catch, the ML was going to get married to evil guys younger sister, unless I'm mistaken, he was still married to his first wife at that point....so...how was he getting married again without getting a divorce from his wife? It exactly points like this that I think people should avoid this show. The chemistry between the leads can't hold a candle to the stupid that was performed in this show for anyone to waste their time watching it.

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wow what a journey... watching this as it aired made it a lot more intriguing

plot: yes, this lakorn is about romance. but not just that, there's so much more going on that you probably won't skip the side plots. Each character had a definite good or bad persona but they still had depth by doing questionable things occasionally. the main couple was of course cliche but the side characters all had very unpredictable things going on, so that was fun to guess. lakorns have a tendency to drag the ending but not for this one! the last few episodes were actually the ones I liked the most. also, one thing I really liked was that they didn't romanticize rape like at all, that's so important to me considering previous lakorns I watched where the guy gets off scot free or is even forgiven.

acting/ cast: so happy to see Louis in another ml role, his acting is getting better for sure. his character wasn't perfect and yet he was very likeable, not anti-hero at all. wasn't​ a huge fan of the fl's character as she was supposed to be somewhat childlike, they probably should've chosen a younger actress, however, I liked that she was honest about her feelings and didn't shy away from them. the interactions between them were very respectful, unlike many lakorns I have seen. I liked Kim's sister, expecting her to be naive and selfish, she was actually quite a complex character that was stuck in the middle of hin and Kim.

music was average, nothing extraordinary

overall, I would say watch it if you also enjoy the plot/suspense as much as the romance. once you start watching, you will become curious about the ending for each character so much that sometimes you might even forget about the romance or main couple.

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Rubbish lakorn!!! DON'T WATCH!!!

Ok.. I don't really leave the review for the drama... but I felt I want to do it because this is the first lakorn that made me really angry..

I somehow watched the trailer and started this lakorn.
before watching this, I have read some comments and most of them were saying only the first part of the story is good.
I thought it's always better to watch than believing other comments.
but I regret. yeah it is sometimes good to believe other people's comments.

At first, the plot was interesting. I liked how the FL and ML getting close.
but after that, the plot goes really ridiculous.
I have never seen the rubbish story like this.
How can they make the drama worse with the good actor and actress... if I were the writer, I could have written the better story.........

REALLY... DON'T WATCH.

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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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