Talking about Hana Yori Dango, Meteor Garden, Boys Over Flowers, you name it...you've probably have watched or seen one of those tittle at least once in your life. I have watched all Asian versions of this franchise (because I heard Turkish version of this series as well); the younger version of me when I first watched Korean BOF (and then Taiwanese Meteor Garden) thought it was romantic story. Later on when I grew up, I read and learned about gender study, I found myself talking about Hana Yori Dango as an example of toxic relationship. Abusive behavior from ML and FL also family status and the poor princess is hoping prince charming to save and change her life forever (talking about FL mom here) is a- two-decade-ago-mentality. Now girls can do and can achieve whatever they want in life without any help of rich man behind them! So, I found myself very skeptical when I first heard about this remake last year; not to mention I haven't watched many Thai contents as well.

3 weeks ago, in a very random moment because I was bored I stumbled upon these couple of episodes. I clicked and watched and I just realized, hey! it's HYD story and hey! it's what I've heard last year about. One episode became two episodes and then three and four, and I couldn't help to drawn once again into the story , the story that I've watched when I was still in my early teenage years.....and I fall in love!!

Thai version is unique and the story is "kind". The production team surely know that despite the story is well-known but the original story is so outdated, so two-decades-ago and not to mention so toxic. The original story encourage bullying and girl being damsel in distress waiting for a prince charming to save them, not to mention back and forth toxic relationship as well. But so far I've seen , F4 Thai addressed the issue well. They create Doumyoji aka ML aka Thyme to be realistic ML character with every action has consequences and reason. And the FL, oh! I love how they re-create FL to be less annoying, independent, less harsh and understanding her action well. Also Rui aka 2nd Lead aka Ren, oooh... Thai F4, your Ren is more "swoon worthy" than Meteor Garden 2018's Lei. I love how you give real color and real character to Ren. Ren isn't prince charming, he's human too.

So far, I love the story. It's been 11 episodes and I like it!
I hope this version will beat all versions out there, even the original!
This is the remake we all deserve!