If you haven’t figured it out already, Ruk Sudrit aka Race (the English title as suggested by the production team) has James Jirayu front and center as the self prescribed bad boy with daddy issues. Something happened between his parents, which caused his mom to hightail out of Thailand, leaving her only son to deal with the controlling father alone. But Ittirit does not blame his momma who abandoned them; he blames his father instead for putting his momma through tears and strife. And to make matters worse, his father adopted his partner’s son, adding another level of competition and angst in Ittirit’s eyes. So Ittirit opts to play the misunderstood rebel.
Therefore it is not surprising that during his final examination in his final year in college, Ittirit is caught cheating. The teacher’s assistant, and his newest foe, Chanamon (Punch Worakarn) fails him on the spot. As she reconsiders the verdict, Ittirit confirms her decision by charging at her with his motorcycle. Boy doesn’t help matters. Thankfully, his father is the Major General and pleads with the professor to give Ittirit another chance to redeem himself. The professor approves that Ittirit may retake the test, however, he must ace the exam and attend school in the summer quarter. If he could achieve the aforementioned condition(s), he may actually graduate.
Ittipol surmises that the best tutor for his son is the person who failed him to begin with. With a little cajoling (and triple the pay), Chanamon reluctantly agrees. Although she comes from a warm and doting household (of father and incorrigible little brother) they are still scraping by. She also needs pocket money in order to further her studies for a Master’s degree abroad. Desperate times call for temporary abandonment of her pride. So Chanamon is determined to take the necessary measures to work with Ittirit and help him past the test, despite Ittirit fighting her in every way.
The only two things he currently cares about is racing on his motorcycle and his celebrity best friend, Maya (starring Wawaa.) Chanamon will have to incorporate these two things in order to convince him to study. But slowly (I’m sure..) she will not only help him through his studies, but will also teach him a thing or two about growing up and appreciating what he has. ‘Cause life is so hard being rich, beautiful and privilege.
This is James Jirayu’s second lakorn and although his first few screen time is shaky at best, he slowly grows into his character and commands the screen. Ittirit and Chanamon’s relationship starts off on a bad footing, but the chemistry is there. It would be interesting to see Ittirit falling for a woman who’s two years his senior, intelligent, responsible and strong. There’s certainly a lot of fan service as well, James mopey and angsty scenes, discerning that the whole world is against him.
Although Ruk Sudrit is clearly all about James, there are other aspects of the lakorn that captures my attention. The family dynamic between his father and brother Thun (Beam Kawee), the fun and loving relationship between Chanamon and her family, as well as the budding love story between Thun and Maya (Ittirit’s best friend/crush.) There’s going to be so many love triangles/criss cross relationships. Two episodes in thus far, I gather that this is a lakorn I’ll be keeping my eyes on. It’s light hearted, easy going but hints at some interesting conflict to come. I’m not gonna lie, James is adorable, and the soundtrack is amazing.
This lakorn airs during the Friday-Sunday timeslot, spearheaded by Wave Production on Channel 3. Also, it’s currently being subbed on Viki, do search by “Love to the Extreme” otherwise you can watch it raw on Youtube.
What think you?
Tagged: Beam Kawee, James Jirayu, Punch Worakarn, Ruk Sudrit
I thought the first two episodes were just okay. Really excited to see more of the pairings though 🙂 And I’m really loving James’ bad boy character.
I’m liking Ruk Sutrit so far. I think the cast looks good. Though I like Wawwa and Beam, I honestly thought that they were just going to look good together but have a boring storyline, but boy was I wrong. I find myself to actually really like Beam and Wawwa’s story line. I find very cute, especially when they both like one another but they show it in a very adorable and shy way. I was all smiles during the texting scene, it was too cute. Punch is growing on me and I like her family, they are very much a fun, loving family. I see little chemistry between James and Punch at this point. This is a very cute lakorn and I will continue with this lakorn.
I haven’t really been into any lakorns since I don’t know when…I think the last one I watched was the Gentlemen Series which James was apart of…I will try to make time for this one though…Thanks again for sharing your thoughts! I look forward to seeing more about this lakorn to see if it’s worth the time.
–Raiya
I need to watch this after my exams finishes, which is next week!
I love older woman-younger guy kind of relationship. Though the age gap isn’t entirely that big, it would be fun to see their relationship blossom!
Ruk Sud Rit part 1 of Episode 6
We began with the scene where Thee Lex cleaning his bicycle when one of his lackey cames by the house in the hurry, all disguising up with sunglasses and hat, suspiciously, he asked his lackey what happened, why act so mysteriously. His responses that he is in debt right now. So Thee Lex let his goon borrow some of his money for now. Thee Lex also advises his lackey to stay away from trouble, and wear a helmet when riding a bike while coming up with the plan to get revenge on Itirit. After the drugs bust going wrong, Muat Tan was in trouble with his boss because of his recklessness almost got him and his friend kill. Muat Tan was in injured during the process of trying to arresting the drugs lord. As the consequences, Muat Tan was rejected by his big boss, his adopted father on the murderer cases of his biological father (whom happened to be friend of his adopted father). Later Muat Tan regretting his action and bad temper, and asked his father to be reinstated on the cases, but his father refuses.
Itirit tries to do something nice for Chanamon by cooking for her, but his cooking is terrible. He almost burned down the kitchen. Chanamon refuses to eat his cooking and she advises him to spend more time studying then to wasting his time doing something like this. Even his nanny taunted him for trying to do something nice for other people. Itirit ended up eating his own cooking (his fried rice is disgusting, he put some alcohol in the fried rice). The next things we have Itirit and Chanamon discussing a report topic for school. It seems Itch is having trouble picking out a topic of the report. Chanamon and Itirit is having a small argument, resulting of Chanamon left the room. After Chanamon left the room, Itirit discovered the topic sheet for the report that Chanamon is making for him.
On the way back home from Itirit house, Chanamon was attacking by four hoodlum in the masks. The hoodlum tries to attack her, but Chon put up the fight best as she could. Before the hoodlum can doing anymore damage, Itirit comes to Chon rescues. Itirit driven Chon attacker away. However, Chon glasses are not so lucky, it was broken during a fight.
After the incident, Itch takes Chon to Jang house, to bandaging her wound on the head. Jang offer to bandaging Chon wound, but Itch sent him on the mission to find out who their attacker are, so he can have more alone time with Chon. While the faces of Chon attacker is reveal it is Thee Lex, crazy fan club of Maya and nemesis of Itirit. Itirit tends to Chon wound, and they had a tender moment. Itch now known that Chon care for him because during the attacker threatened Chon to stop tutor him, otherwise they will hurt her. Nows, Chon and Itch are headset of searching for their attacker.
To Be Continuing….
Any chance you know either the title or who did the opening theme song ive looked everywhere for it and can only find 2 other songs that the leads each did but im dying to download the theme song for this show its so good