Like many of us, I've watched En of Love first and Love Mechanics 2022 second. Recently I've rewatched both versions and thought I'll write a review.

First of all, 4 episodes are way too short, but it could've been done way way better. There are a lot of time skips making this short time really chaotic and hard to understand. Main characters feelings don't feel genuine because we don't see much interactions between them. It's hard to tell how much time passed between one scene and another. Vee is obsessed with Mark without any reason and is annoying him, Mark is mad, but then one second later he's not mad. It's hard for me, viewer, to understand why they could be magically in love. Giving most of the plot in posts or videos on social media is also pretty easy way to deliever something. Too easy. It just looks like our characters are always scrolling and refreshing homepage of some social media app and that's how their whole day goes by. It just doesn't feel real.
Even this one stupid detail like the fact that Vee is spending time in Ploy's room that is beside Mark's isn't explained that well in the first scenes in my opinion (or maybe it's translating issue?).

After watching 2022 version, I actually did like the story. It wasn't the best, but with cast and enough time, it was nice watch. And this makes me hate this version even more. Honestly, I feel like these two versions are adapting two different stories and definitely would say, skip this one, it's bad.

There are two thing that make these 4 (or maybe 3,5) episodes good for me, music and War's acting. I feel like War Wanarat can make any show look good. It was I think his second main role in drama, but it already was pretty solid. He can make really small changes in his expression and still show viewer what the character is feeling. I would say it was one of his weakest performances, but still, my eyes couldn't look at anything else than his facial expressions.

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