Posts from the “Lakorn First Look” Category

Weekend Watch: My Hero Series 2&3

Posted on July 1, 2018

What is everyone watching these past few weekends? Are you staying on top of currently airing weekend lakorns or catching up on past lakorns? Weekends are tough on my schedule, so I don’t usually have time for lakorns, but I still try to tune in on Sunday nights and see if any of the weekend installments catch my eye. I’m here to report that both aren’t really my cup of tea, but maybe it could be yours? Advertisements

Categories: Lakorn First Look

Tagged: Grate Warintorn, Lom Phrai Pook Rak, Montra Lai Hong, Nycha Nuttanicha, Saimai Maneerat, Top Jaron

Kharm See Than Dorn – First Impressions

Posted on June 21, 2018

Oh Pope. He wants to make us cry, doesn’t he? The opening of the show takes us into his character’s (Tiangwan) predicament perfectly: he’s standing on top of crashing waves of an ocean in South Africa, thinking back on his substance addiction days, the lowest of low in his life. It looked bad; he must have relapsed into addiction after promising never to do it again, and his girlfriend caught him. She broke up with him that day, and in a state of paranoia and under the drug’s influence – he envisioned cops chasing him – Tiangwan drives right into a little boy. His face gets blasted all over media outlets, but thankfully the boy survived and Tiangwan must have gotten admitted into rehab.…

Categories: Lakorn First Look

Tagged: ข้ามสีทันดร; kharm see than dorn, Chippy Sirin, Peach Pachara, Pope Thanawat

Introducing Matupoom Hang Hua Jai

Posted on May 29, 2018

Matupoom Hang Hua Jai (Motherland of My Heart) is the first installment of My Hero Series, Channel 3’s latest project featuring heroes that start out in a youth disciplinary center and are honed, trained and molded by the skilled Teacher Chantra into the best patriotic examples they can be. The series is spearheaded by Cholumpi Productions. Our first one is Techat or Ben (Boy Pakorn) who lives in California but hangs out with the wrong crowd. He witnesses the leader of the gang shooting someone point blank, which made him grow up in a blink of an eye. His girlfriend, Hope (cameo by Taya Rogers) suggests that he get out of dodge because the gang leader will stop at nothing to kill him. But…

Categories: Lakorn First Look

Tagged: มาตุภูมิแห่งหัวใจ, Boy Pakorn, Chakrit Yamnarm, Chippy Sirin, donut manasnan, The Hero Series

Time travel binge, anyone? Love Destiny & Love beyond Time

Posted on February 22, 2018

When you go from watching nothing, to binging somethings, I can’t imagine a more fun endeavor than a time traveling premise. This topic has always been a favorite of mine, ever since Tawee Pope 1994, which is a lakorn that made sense of a woman who steps into the past through a mirror portal, where she finds her soulmate and saves the world. It’s been a story that many cannot hold a candle to, despite its best efforts and remakes. The two time travel lakorns that I’m watching simultaneously are Buppae Sunniwas (starring Pope Thanawat and Bella Ranee) and Buang Banjathorn (starring Mario Maurer and Mai Davika). My first impressions specifically speaks to two key components: does the time travel portal front make sense,…

Categories: Lakorn First Look

Tagged: บุพเพสันนิวาส, Bella Ranee, Buang Banjathorn, Buppae Sunniwas, Love Beyond Time, Love Destiny, Mai Davika, Mario Maurer, Pope Thanawat

Leh Lub Salub Rarng – It’s Electric

Posted on August 2, 2017

Has it been since The Rising Sun Series since we’ve seen Nadech and Yaya on screen together? That is too many years too long, if you ask me. But they’re back to win our hearts in Leh Lub Salub Rarng (which isn’t a hard feat if I’m being honest), it is a body swapping lakorn about alpha male Captain Ramin and beloved Pearl of Asia Petra Pawadee. It is action meets comedy meets gender reversal. When we first meet them, you’ll love to hate these two because of their spoiled brat, conceited and selfish tendencies. And at first you’ll wonder why our leads are unlikable, and yet despite how unlikeable their characters are, Nadech Yaya’s portrayal of them comes out hilarious because it’s so…

Categories: Lakorn First Look

Tagged: Leh Lub Salub Rarng, Nadech Kugimiya, Yaya Urassaya

Sai Lub Jub Abb (S.P.Y. I Love You)

Posted on June 28, 2017

Do you ever wonder if your lover, son, nephew or competitor is gay? Worry no more, because with the right amount of money, you can hire a team of spies who will find the proof for you and avoid any confrontation. Nangfah (Patricia Good) knows all too well what it’s like to be tricked by a gay man, after all, she has dated them since grade school and was fooled in every relationship. The last one was the straw that broke the camel’s back; she discovered that her then boyfriend was having an affair with her male boss at a gay bar. After the altercation at the gay bar, Nangfah gets fired and blacklisted at all advertising agencies in the city. Desperate for work,…

Categories: Lakorn First Look

Tagged: Boy Pakorn, Patricia Good, Sai Lub Jub Abb

James Ma and Margie in Arkom

Posted on June 13, 2017

James Ma is back on screen since his portrayal of Dr. Sattawat in When a Man Loves a Woman– which made me want to pull my hair out no less – but I was still excited to see his face. Arkom (Magic) is a story about James Ma’s character that comes back to life after a deliberate bomb that hits the airplane containing his whole family. A mysterious sorcerer not only gives him a second chance in life but also teaches him magic in order to seek retribution on a group of rich men who are complicit in the murder of both their families. It’s very much similar to a superhero type storyline where the hero has another identity and hopes that friends and…

Categories: Lakorn First Look

Tagged: Alex Rendell, Arkom, James Ma, Margie Rasri

‘It Must Be Fate’ – Tricky Love

Posted on June 6, 2017

Oh this is cute. The pairing of Tono and Nychaa is really working for me. I took notice of Tono since the Star 6 competition but never followed his work on OneHD. The sixth story of the Cupid Series, Tricky Love, is his first foray with Channel 3 and I’m glad he took on the rugged but kindhearted dentist named Saran, even though at times, it seems like he’s in a different lakorn entirely. While everyone is in a romantic comedy, Saran seems to be in a melodrama. Cue very sad music. We can blame the poor editing on the director I suppose, because the tone of the show can seem all over the place, and the writing is rather weak, but Tono brings…

Categories: Lakorn First Look

Tagged: Kammathep Son Gon, Nycha Nuttanicha, The Cupids Series, Tono Pakin, Tricky Love

The Cupids Series – The Beginning – Kammathep Hunsa

Posted on June 1, 2017

Kammathep Hunsa is the first story among an eight part series from Channel 3 called The Cupids Series by Broadcast Thai Production Company. The series as a whole centers on an unsuccessful matchmaking company called “Cupid Hut” run by Khun Phim (Ken Theeradeth) who is the son of a wealthy hospital chairman, but he prefers to treat people’s heart in a non-medical way. He deems that every single person is missing someone special in their lives, and his firm would be the company that will find the missing other half. Unfortunately after being in business for 4 years now, Khun Phim and his eight employees could not turn the company around. His mother, the stakeholder had bargained that Khun Phim has 5 years to…

Categories: Lakorn First Look

Tagged: Boy Pakorn, Kammathep Hunsa, The Cupids Series, Toey Jarinporn

When Khun Ramet Meets Pimrapat – Buang Hong

Posted on March 15, 2017

They could not find a dreamier Khun Ramet in James Jirayu, with relaxed hair that brushes below his ears, body clad in tailored but effortless suit, lips that wield into an easy smile, with sharp eyes that don’t miss a beat. He epitomizes the relaxed and down to earth feel that is Chiang Rai, a city in which he builds his hotel conglomerate. He expands his work throughout this large city through ethical means and truly cares about the livelihood of its inhabitants along with the preservation of its natural resources. In other words, he’s a dream developer to local citizens, much to the chagrin of the greedy developers who want to turn a quick profit. Right off the bat he has conflict with…

Categories: Lakorn First Look

Tagged: Buang Hong, James Jirayu, Kimberly Voltemas

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