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Choosing to Step into the Light – The Pink Sin (Trabab See Chompoo) 

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Posted on December 3, 2018

We are entering a lakornworld that examines some heavy topics, but the saving grace is that we are given the drama in shades of pink. It’s a melodrama I don’t mind watching. There is conviction behind the argument of the story, behind every tear, and it’s one of those lakorns that makes me chomp at the bits for more (because of the sinfully delightful pairing). Allow me to start by discussing our hero, Peat Patsakorn (Pon Nawasch).

Categories: Lakorn First Look

Tagged: ตราบาปสีชมพู, Bua Nalinthip, Pon Nawasch, Trabab See Chompoo

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The Nation’s Tiger and his Little Monster

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Posted on November 21, 2018

Chat Suea Pan Mungkorn (Nation’s Tiger of Dragon Descent) has a very strong directorial hand and solid writing with a promising cast. Set in the 1960s, this show challenges the very core of our main character’s deepest desire to be good, by pitting him in the middle of a mobster world: Yaowarat (Thailand’s Chinatown). Songwat (James Ma) aka Suea (Tiger) was born into a Chinese mafia family but was given an opportunity to venture out of danger by getting adopted by a top colonel, whose life he had saved. Songwat gets taken under the influential man’s wing and excelled in the police academy until his sordid past catches up to him. His adopted father withdraws him from his last year at the academy, as well as removes him from the household in order to protect his and his own son’s future and objective. Songwat is given another purpose to Adopted Dad’s life: live in the shadows and become the clean-up man. That is, during the day he runs a new and profitable rice factory, and at night he keeps organized crimes from fighting amongst themselves and clean up after the colonel’s mess. To think you’re leaving an openly “bad” life, to step into and even worse fate.

Categories: Lakorn First Look

Tagged: ชาติเสือพันธุ์มังกร, Chat Suea Pan Mungkorn, Diana Flipo, James Ma

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The Beginning 

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Posted on September 30, 2018

To My Dearest Readers,

I hope this post finds you well. Some of you may not know that I started this blog in 2010 because I was living abroad in Jakarta, Indonesia at the time, and blogging was a cure for loneliness. I was childless, Mr. A was working a lot and on call, so the days, the hours, and the lakorn world was my oyster.

It hadn’t always been a lakorn blog. I wrote about whatever came to mind at the time, but because Jakarta had channel 3 on TV, I always tuned into whatever was airing during primetime, then wrote about it an hour later. My blog morphed into a lakorn blog naturally due to your requests, our interactions on each post, and my return to lakorns after a long 10-year hiatus.

I realized I missed this reliable story telling. I was hungry for others’ thoughts and opinions and realized there weren’t many websites or blogs out there that discussed or recapped lakorns in English. From experience, I knew there were a lot of English speaking lakorn fans out there, and most abundantly in the U.S., which was my home, and another reason why Lovefia’s blog became a lakorn centric blog.

Categories: Life

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PSA – The Reluctant Bride 

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Posted on August 20, 2018

After back to back recaps, I told myself to take a hiatus from lakorns. We’ve been handed piles of melos lately, it’s time to unwind and allow the brain/blood pressure to relax a little. This explains my lack of updates. But what did they say about timing? Once upon a time, we’ve all been reeled into the lakorn fever that is Mick Thongraya. He was divine in Karn La Krung Neung, a lakorn that had an addicting pace and great onscreen chemistry. Though the ending went downhill, the lakorn for the most part got everybody hot and bothered. But YOU GUYS, Mick in Jaosao Jam Yom is a must watch. I had to do everyone a favor and throw in a PSA: watch The Reluctant Bride. It has aired three episodes so far, though I’ve only seen the first episode, it’s so addicting you will go back for seconds. Mick is absolutely delicious. His character and chemistry with Fonthip will get you smiling like a silly, silly fool. 

Categories: Lakorn First Look

Tagged: เจ้าสาวจำยอม, Fonthip, Jaosao Jam Yom, Mick Thongraya

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Game Sanaeha Final Round – Second Chances

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Posted on August 8, 2018

Ah, this show gets me in the feels when they do it right, and the ending is no exception. Our final round draws on a meaningful perspective, which isn’t often explored, in that children can suffer the most pain from their parents. As parents, people think it goes without saying that a parent’s love is unconditional and self-sacrificing. But this show explores how parents are imperfect, parents who love their children without a doubt, but unfortunately show their love in their own way, not realizing that those ways can cause long lasting, damaging effects. But on the bright side, this story argues that even if you fuck up, and even if it’s your fault, you can still have a second chance as long as you admit it and learn from it. If this show teaches me anything, it is that we are never too old to learn and never too grownup to grow.

Categories: Lakorn Recaps

Tagged: เกมเสน่หา, Game Sanaeha, James Jirayu, Taew Nataporn

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Game Sanaeha – Round 13 – Game Over (Almost)

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Posted on August 7, 2018

Hey Everyone! I’m still alive, just a little pissy. I had episode 13 recap done last night but as I tried to transfer from Word to my blog – which became a huge mistake – I ended up losing the entire Word data because it crashed (and evidently burned). Now not only do I have to rewrite the episode 13 recap, I have to table my time from watching the ending. Bleh, I should have learned my lesson from the first time years ago, but whatever, it was a bad night. It’s a new day now, and let’s all strive to breathe deeply and begin again. Apologies for the delay, for the extra snark in my recap today, and well, for the shorter content. It is, what it is.

I have always wondered, from that fateful intro of the story, on what Nok must have done in order to warrant Nai removing their baby from her clutches, and minutes after she had pushed a baby out no less. Turns out, absolutely nothing. You don’t have to do anything, because it NEVER happened. That scene was only a DREAM, Nok’s deepest fear, that strung us along for THIRTEEN episodes and played with our emotions. It was a let down really, a lazy resolution to an issue we’ve been wondering about for so long. Not to say that at least it stayed true to our faith in Nai, in that he would never do such a cruel thing, because then I wouldn’t forgive him, but I was prepared to see how the writer resolved the scene, and what creativity or restoration of faith she would impart. But a dream? That’s disappointing.

Categories: Lakorn Recaps

Tagged: เกมเสน่หา, Game Sanaeha, James Jirayu, Taew Nataporn

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Game Sanaeha – Round 12 – No Turning Back

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Posted on July 31, 2018

This was a hard round to watch – them blurry tears always getting in the way. We are almost at the end of the match between Meunchanok and Luckanai. Nok knows how to fight dirty and she says things that she cannot take back. She knows how to hit where it hurts, but after a punch she would regret it immediately, stewing within herself and wishing she could take it all back. But when a line is crossed, is there no turning back? Nai says exactly what he means, but are his words final too? I hope it’s no to all of the above. 

Categories: Lakorn Recaps

Tagged: เกมเสน่หา, Game Sanaeha, James Jirayu, Taew Nataporn

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Game Sanaeha – Round 11 – Denial and Family

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Posted on July 31, 2018

A friendly reminder that this lakornmommy has a crazy and busy life, and unfortunately, the more you demand the recaps to be faster, the slower you’re going to get them. Because I do not feed on negative encouragement. Though I love to provide recaps to you and always strive to do so before each new episodes air, but this thing we call blogging does take time, the time I’m already strapped for to begin with. I dislike having to spell it out to some of you, because most of you are wonderful and kind and beautiful (so thank you!), but it goes without saying, I really can’t recap an episode that hasn’t aired yet. Xoxo ~ Fia

There are times I don’t know if I’m watching this show to see how Nok and Nai build their relationship, or if I’m watching this show to see how things fall apart, or continue to fall apart for this matter. It’s like I can’t rest easy because I know that the first five minutes of episode one is still looming over our heads, and I just want to get there so we can see how things resolve. But then I also don’t want the sweetness to end and I just want to freeze all the sweet moments in time. Can’t I just wrap these two in a bubble? Keep Nok in Nai’s arms forever, in their stress-free zone?

Categories: Lakorn Recaps

Tagged: เกมเสน่หา, Game Sanaeha, James Jirayu, Taew Nataporn

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Game Sanaeha – Round 10 – The “Nai” Style

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Posted on July 24, 2018

Everybody still alive after this episode? Crying level is a 10 and so is the squealing factor. This round sets out to show that the strength in a relationship is when two people fight for each other, not against each other. When one strives to be there for the other, life is a little more profound, satisfying and less lonely. One thing is for sure, slowly but surely, Nai is knocking down the walls surrounding Nok’s heart, and he does it in his own signature Nai style. It’s a one-two punch of love, communicating his feelings in his straightforward manner, and then making sure she fully understands it (instead of misunderstanding as many relationships are wont to do). Beautiful and effective. Perhaps they should patent this Nai style? Certainly Dad could use the strategy.

Categories: Lakorn Recaps

Tagged: เกมเสน่หา, Game Sanaeha, James Jirayu, Taew Nataporn

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Game Sanaeha – Round 9 – One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure

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Posted on July 23, 2018

This round could also be entitled “The Beginning of the End”, because we come somewhat full circle with Luckanai’s mom’s abandonment and her reunion with him, during the most important moment of his life. It’s a handoff of sorts, where Meunchanok admits that she will take care of mom’s most valuable treasure, and we’ll see how she goes about that – even if it’s in her own little, competitive way. But first, let’s get married!

Categories: Lakorn Recaps

Tagged: เกมเสน่หา, Game Sanaeha, James Jirayu, Taew Nataporn

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