#thaitv

Genre – Rom / Com

Year – 2016

Language – Thai

RATING 3/10

Summary -

Yihwa is a girl in university who doesn’t really believe in the idea of having a relationship.

Cho is a boy who believes in love at first sight and falls instantly for Yihwa.

Korn is Yihwa’s best friend who believes that a relationship should only be known to people that are important and not necessarily the whole world.

Knock, Korn’s boyfriend, believes in being totally open about his love for his boyfriend and can’t stand to be kept as a secret.

All four of their tumultuous journey towards a happy ending forms the crux of the show.

Reasons to watch it -

When I first decided to watch this, it was for a few reasons:-

This was my first foray into the Thai drama world

The female lead is a sassy no-nonsense girl

A cute straight couple and a cute gay couple

TV Show - Good or Bad -

Basically, this was my entry into the Thai drama world -

I could not possibly have been more disappointed if I tried. I tried so hard to not fall asleep or throw a remote onto my screen. It was really that bad.

Reason for My Reaction -

For the record, I usually try to keep really low expectations out of any TV-show to give them a fair chance. But the writers and the directors of this show.....

1) Yihwa & Cho - I loved Yihwa. I loved Cho. I loved them together. I love their snappy retorts and their chemistry, which they had plenty of. But somehow the writers decided to put their relationship through the wringer and give us a half-baked leftover bag of Bleh. This couple truly deserved better writers and directors and supporting cast.

2) Korn & Knock - I loved Korn. I loved Knock. I loved them together. I loved their cuteness and their softness with each other. Again, the writers decided to take all these wonderful ingredients and give us a bowl of crap. Again, a couple that really needed better.....well, better everything. 

3) Supporting Characters - These were incredibly one-note characters whose only responsibility is to make the main characters’ lives easier or harder. They have no other reason for their existence.

4) Storyline - Girl and boy meet and falls in love. This is Yihwa and Cho. So, the journey towards that is what you watch the show for and that is where this show fails. Aside from the introduction of the characters, the writers didn’t seem to know what to do so they just kept including cliche after cliche into the storyline. Then, when the cliches ran out, they started including storylines that were just plain ridiculous. As for the boys - Korn & Knock - they were already together. So the show should have been the growth of their relationship and their future. Instead, it was more cliches that got stretched really thin and also got more and more ridiculous as the episodes crawled by.

Is it worth watching?

The rating of 3 is primarily for the creation of the Both Main Couples and the title song. Please watch only if you have nothing to do and you want to watch something that reminds you not to ever take ok/good/great/excellent/out-of-the-world shows for granted. You have been warned.