Rakkaew (2022)

Eventful

I personally gave this show seven stars but even I think that’s too high. Without the actors this show would not be as good.
The story is really eventful and there isn’t a dull moment but that’s not always good. Events are happening back to back and it’s hard to digest the plot. Even when they stretch out an event, three “plot twist” would come up.
My next issue is the romanticization. They romanticized a lot of harmful behaviors and put pushed it away with montages of cute moments. Whenever a character did something wrong, the very next episode they would receive sympathy points.
Besides that I loved the music and cast. They played their roles so well, I genuinely hated half of the characters. If you aren’t triggered easily and like the actors, I would recommend it. A lot went on but I was very entertained the whole time.

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Disgusting display of LGBTQ RELATIONSHIPS

This series is a conservative propaganda film on LGBTQ relationships. This is wrongly labeled as GL but the LGBTQ relationships displayed in this series are predatory and based on sexual trauma. The main character (Roithongsai) views her adopted sisters romantic interest as perverse and sexually deviant. I'm not saying LGBTQ people can't be sexually deviant. We certainly have examples of it in Hollywood (Kevin Spacey).

But this whole idea that the main protagonist (Rangrong) is only attracted to woman because of sexual trauma. And that LGBTQ relationships are framed as being predatory and manipulative is a conservative narrative, and plainly stupid.

I think the woman who wrote this was in her 80's? Go figure! Tbf there was some good acting by the cast. But the story line of this whole series was a disappointment from beginning till end. Roithongsai even marries a man in the end. DISGUSTING!!

Lesbians SKIP THIS DOG SH*T!!

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The ending was different from the movie and the series ending spoiler. I wish they would’ve kept the movie ending for Rungrong, and the updated ending they have for all the other characters is fine.

I feel like the story was mostly about a mentally unstable woman who throughout the story, became increasingly more so. In bits and pieces, we get glimpses into what’s happened in her past to make her this way. And in her mental instability, she hurts the person she cares about the most, thinking she is doing what is best for that person.

I think if the story was better presented than her being an obsessive, crazy woman going on a rampage against everyone who dares to help Sai escape from her, the story would have been more palatable. I think they tried, but the delivery just wasn’t quite there for me personally.

The last two episodes tie in everything pretty well. I originally gave this a 5 rating due to the earlier ending spoiler, but I’m changing that, because I’m ok with the end they eventually go with. I don’t love it, but I don’t hate it either.

Cris nailed this role.
Zani slays the OST as always. The lyrics to the OST does an exceptional job of embodying Rungrong.
The cast did a wonderful job.

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Ruined my pleasure on the last 2 episodes

Although this drama let me down in the end, I still gave an eight rating because of its interesting storyline. The story follows an overly possessive older sister to her adopted younger sister who developed romantic feelings toward her which caused a drift in their relationships as siblings.

I am always fond of female characters playing roles with resolute personalities like the four women in this drama. But each of them was not entirely fearless all the time when their weaknesses were thrown back at them. The same with the male actors here, a mature married man and a single young man who were both clever in protecting the female lead from her older sister.

Everything was going well until episodes 11 and 12 where the heights of the confrontations happened. it was overplayed with too many lines from the older sister justifying her evil actions rooted in her painful experiences with men in her life. It failed to attain the dramatic art in which the viewers, should be emotionally immersed along with the character. And then, some unrealistic scenes where no one ever noticed the older sister putting a piece of broken glass inside her pocket even with people surrounding her and how come the ex-husband would know the escape car used and chased her ex-wife when he was in the hospital during the caught scene.

Felt bad for this drama that it broke the chain of excitement due to the poor execution of the most important scenes.

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