Rak Ray (2023)

Refreshing! Amazing ending for a lakorn!

Is it a bit too long? Yes. Is it over the top sometimes? Well, it is a lakorn so yes, of course! If you are looking for an all logical and calm storyline, where everything makes sense stay away from lakorns and watch Kdramas.
I was literally blown away, that the bad guys really had a BAD ending here. This is sooo soooo refreshing!
Normally - in lakorns - the bad guys rape, steal, kill and so on and they are almost always getting a happy end with hugs and kisses, sunshine and roses....disgusting. Here? NOPE!
Story 7/10 but with that kind of ending it is a 10/10 for me.

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It's a Lakorn Afterall

If I could, I would rate the acting 15/10, that's how the acting in this series. Even the supporting actors did so well. I especially like Lily's (Maynee) acting. Her character is very essential to build the plot.

The amount of times I want to pull my hair out from frustration, you have no idea. Venika makes one questionable decisions after another, she doesn't believe in "chicks before d**ks", I think. But at the end of the day, all of her stupid decisions is the basis of the story. The official synopsis gave away too much, I could guess the basic plot and the "plot twist" from the synopsis alone lol

I find that Theerakit's character didn't have much impact to the story as he's pretty much just the puppet. However, I would say Jes did well despite the bland character. The main focus of the story is not the love story, but rather the battle of Venika and Dangwad to outwit one another. The female characters, both main and supporting really carried the show.

17 episodes is a bit too long tho, I think 15 would've been more than enough. Overall, I highly recommend watching this. The OST is so good too!

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Increíble que sea un lakorn Tailandes. Innovador ?

Este es el primer lakorn protagonizada por Mew Suppasit y es bien acompañado por Davika, kataleya, lili y jess. El equipo de actores todos de gran calidad ✌️. La química entre los personajes principales, la trama bien desarrollada y las actuaciones convincentes hacen que la serie sea muy entretenida. Mew Suppasit brilla en su papel, mostrando su talento como actor y su capacidad para transmitir emociones profundas. La serie ofrece momentos dulces y conmovedores que seguramente harán que los espectadores se enamoren de la historia y los personajes. Esto merece todo los premios que ha ganado ??

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what could be done in 12, was pushed to 17.

Too long!

Overall I think the story was fine but damn it shouldn't have even passed 12 episodes. especially for a show with no b, c, or runner plot(s). for it is 17, it could've used another couple/conflict, especially with all the wasted talent on account of the other female characters. (we literally see that with Phukan (the actress), she's maybe on screen 5, 7 times and she's on the poster.)

I really hated that they left my homegirl May to just be another conquest and we had to brush over the fact that her best friend ended up marrying the guy! Like homegirl pours her whole heart out to you and in some writing that feels like some guy wrote it, she just says you should've been more careful. Plus after they get married it's never really brought up again. I think this really says a lot about how lacking the conflict is...everyone is so focused on getting this money back that we don't have time for literally anything else.

My absolute favorite part was Jen. there were so many times that I couldn't help but wonder: what's your goal? like do you wanna be with the ML or use his money or keep your job (lol she loses all three). I do kinda love that she really did play herself. All she had to do was stay quiet and play dumb but this b couldn't help herself. I love that she had the gall.

Mew being here made me ask why are you here...to be the other guy? Also, I can't even tell if his acting is just bad here (which is odd since I know he can do angst well) or just the sub-par writing when it came to the two male leads. For the life of me, I truly couldn't tell you what the motivations behind half of these characters were. ...I'm just lost.

You are telling me Jes's character is some kinda of cheating playboy...yet besides Jen and the big reveal (his...not aunt) all of the girls he's been with are primarily one-night stands due to trauma? Like let him hook up with MAY and while I'm glad May didn't do anything... I kinda wish she did? There was some serious favor lacking in the whole cheating escapade plot...they should've just made him a scammer who f's his fake aunt... The cheating (?)/one-night stand phase (?) was weak.

Also...who were the perfumes for? I watch most of these at half speed and I know for a fact they forgot plot lines halfway through cuz the jump from cheater to scammer to oh you guessed it MARRIAGE FRAUD was like one episode to another. I guess that explains the whole harem thing but not really...because the photos provided for his while cheating era were from the same hotel and the whole point of the marriage fraud was that he was doing this thing internationally! I think what makes me laugh most is when the lady who is helping her with her case says that she didn't lose enough money...HUH like it sounded like quite a bit of money to me.

All in all, while I had fun this was kinda a miss. I was bored half the time and now as I've been writing this I've just become mad.

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