de Soju, octombrie 20, 2020
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And before we've known it,
October has arrived
Ten months of utter chaos has passed us by and we are almost halfway out 2020's door. While 2020 is almost over — thank everything good and holy — the year is just getting warmer in the Thai drama world. 


Within this article, I am listing down all of the Thai dramas that are currently slotted to air in 2020 and I am personally excited for.


Now please be advised that these dates are privy to change — especially due to our lovely and most favourite personality of 2020, Miss Rona — so these might go from 2020 release to 2021 or later.


Also please be aware that this article is lengthy, so do make yourself a cup of tea or two ≧◡≦. 

Additionally, this article is titled "Dramas" and will thus contain "Lakorns", "Series", and "Mixed" dramas. 

If you wish to know the difference between the three types of dramas, do read Brownie's article on this, she has done a wonderful job explaining what the three are in-depth.

However, for your convenience, I will briefly describe the three. 

Lakorns - 'Traditional' dramas made for an older audience. Each episode is usually longer than 1hr 20 mins. 
Eg: Likhit Huajai. 

Series - More youth-centric, 'modern' dramas. They are usually timed 20-45 mins per episode, and oftentimes also have many parts or seasons.
Eg: Oxygen The Series. 


Mixed - This is something that you can’t place in one category. It holds elements from both the above categories. Sometimes it is "traditional" and yet it comes in different parts, sometimes it is modern — appealing to the youth — and yet it also has some traditional Thai drama elements.
Eg: Subraburoot Juthathep Series. 



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Alright then, now that all clarifications are done and dusted, let's get started.


Duang Tah Tee Sarm 


Genre:  Action, Romance
Tag: Police Officer, Theft, Investigation, Suspense
Genre:  Romance, Supernatural
Tag: Best friends, Ghosts, Investigation, Suspense
An investigative drama following the case  of a billion-dollar diamond theft (1)

Excitement Level
★★☆☆
Trikarn (James Ma) has the special ability to see ghosts who were involved with murder cases. Pum (Mew) has been friends with him since childhood and knows about his ability.
Excitement Level
★★


Sanaeha Saree

Kaew Lerm Korn

Genre:  Romance, Drama
Tag: Interracial Relationship, Royalty, Love at First Sight, Arranged Marriage, Adataped from a Novel

Genre:  Romance, Drama, Historical
Tag: Twins, Angst, Family

Nuannuerkaew (Baifern) never thought of going to India, but has to pack her luggage to fly to India for her sister Nilapat (Richie), who is going to get married to Chaithat, the prince of Muntra Putra the small city in India. 

He is acting king of here. Everything was going to be fine, but the queen Sasiprapai doesn't accept Nilapat as her daughter in law and set up Savitree for Chaithat. She is a trouble maker who will ruin Nilapat and Chaithat's wedding ceremony . . .

Everything was going to be great if she didn't see Giris (Sean), the brother of Chaithat nad then fall for him at first sight.
Excitement Level
★★★☆


Kaew and Chidchanok (Green) are twins who were separated at birth.  Kaew's been grown in poverty live with her cruel foster mother. The other twin, Chidchanok,  lives with her father in France. 

Both twins do not know of each other's existence until one-day Chidchanok finds out about her mother's (who became mentally challenged after delivering the twins) existence and decides back to Thailand to find her mother.  


Eventually meeting, they attach to each other with twin relationship then try to help each other to get away their uncle who is still hell-bent on having the property all to himself.

What does fate have in store for Kaew and Chidchanok? Will they get to live together as a complete family? Will Kaew be able to free herself of the mentality that she’s undeserving of love? (2)

Excitement Level
★★☆☆



Dare to Love: Hai Ruk Pipaksa

Trab Fah Mee Tawan

Genre:  Romance, Drama, Comedy
Tag: Noona Romance/ Older woman-younger man, Lawyer, Modern setting

Genre:  Romance, Drama
Tag: Hate to Love, Adapted From a Novel, Time Jump, Enemies to Lovers. 

This story is about the handsome young boy (Kongthap) who secretly falls in love with his beautiful senior (Bella) at school. Time passes and the senior becomes a smart and talented lawyer while he becomes a handsome student completing his degree. 

As he studies, he follows his crush around, trying to win her heart. Although she has good feelings toward him, the smart lawyer isn't sure if she should accept his heart because there are other qualified young men wooing her.
Excitement Level
★★

Fahmai (Supassara) moved into Arthit's (Mark) house after her parents died. She knew she was going to get kicked out of the house so one day, she set up a plan to get Arthit into bed. Instead, Arthit stormed out of the house and got into an accident. He survived but his hate for her grew.

She was sent abroad for 4 years then 4 years later, she returned because she made a promise to his parents. She thought time will heal all wounds but that wasn't the case, instead, it intensified even more.
Excitement Level
★★



Mae Krua Kon MaiPom Sanaeha
Genre:  Romance, Drama, Comedy
Tag: Disguise, Arranged marriage
Genre:  Romance, Drama
Tag: Disguise, Arranged marriage
Lomdao (Namfah) was supposed to get married to Balam (August), but she refuses to because she has never seen him and she doesn't even know how he is. So she disguises herself and works under Balam's family as a servant by the name of Fai Dam. 

Balam becomes suspicious of her and later he discovers that she is Lomdao, the girl he was arranged to get married to. Slowly, the two fell in love with one another... 
Excitement Level
★★

Parichat (Ice) was fooled in love by Trin (Sorat), a married man, until getting pregnant with his child. When he forced her to make an abortion, leaving her heartbroken. Her sister and brother-in-law decided to give their hand to help her when she is going to decide to die by suicide. 

Parichat is so mad about what Trin did to her that she made a decision to seek revenge. She comes back to Thailand after studying aboard for many years. Then she begins her plan to reach to Trin.

 Payu (Great) who is Pimpaka (Trin's wife)'s cousin, tries to stop Parichat's revenge in order to protect his sister.
Excitement Level
★★



Let's Fight GhostDao Kon La Duang
Genre:  Romance, Action, Comedy, Supernatural
Tag: Ghosts, Ghost seeing Male lead, Adapted from a Webtoon, Serial Killer, Possession, Horror
Genre:  Romance, Action, Investigation
Tag: Police, Drug dealers
A cohabitation comedy about a ghost of a high school girl (Orn) who has been dead for 5 years and an exorcist college boy (Saint)  with the ability to see and hear ghosts.

What he’s discovered over the years is that he can touch them and fight them off, so when he’s in need of a part-time job and can’t find one that pays well enough, he starts putting ads online as an exorcist for hire.

His ad: “Will face off with your ghosts. Chances of winning: virgin ghosts 80%, bachelor ghosts 40%, child ghosts 97%, the rest 50%.”

One night he goes out on the job and faces off with a schoolgirl ghost, and during the fight, they accidentally kiss and sparks fly.
Excitement Level
★★

Thanat (Great) and Wasan (Gap) are the sons of police officers who grew up together. Since childhood, both wanted to become a police officer with the same ideology as their fathers. 

After taking the position of inspector at the Crime Suppression Division of Narcotics, Thanat has the opportunity to work together with Wasan in finding drug dealers. They also meet Supika, a talented female police officer. She's close to Chalanthorn (Boom), a beautiful girl who's popular in the same social circle as Sia Sunai, who has a background in the drug dealing business. 

Chalanthorn starts working with the police by giving them confidential information, which puts her in danger. Thanat is always by her side to protect her and they develop feelings for each other. The same happens with Wasan and Supika, after going through many dangerous situations together.
Excitement Level
★★



Ruk Nirun JuntraMaya Sanaeha
Genre:  Romance, Drama, Supernatural
Tag: N/A yet
Genre:  Romance, Drama, Supernatural
Tag: Adapted from a novel, Infidelity, Character Death
The love story of a 200 years old immortal man (Ken)  and a young ordinary accountant (Ice). (3)
Excitement Level
★★
Chakree (Ken) broke up with Monsicha (Ice), his long-term girlfriend because he slept with Sawarot (Chokprajakchat), his servant, while he was drunk but he doesn't have feelings for her. After that, he got into a car accident due to drunk driving and became a roaming spirit.

He can see everyone around him, but no one can see him. When Chakree finds out about someone's secret, he attempts to stop something bad from happening. He also tries to keep Monsicha from moving on to another guy.

How is he going to do that since he's now a spirit who might not reborn again?
Excitement Level
★★☆☆



Manner of DeathTalay Luang
Genre:  Romance, Suspense, Investigation
Tag:  Mafia, Action, LGBTQ+, Forensic, Adapted from a Novel, Gay Relationship 
Genre:  Romance, Drama
Tag:  Amnesia, Love to Hate to Love, Crazy Second  Female Lead
Dr. Bahnjit (Tul) is a medical examiner who works at the provincial hospital. 
One day, the body of a woman who died as a result of hanging comes in and after carrying out the autopsy, Dr. Bahnjit concludes that it not suicide but in fact a murder case.  

This suddenly makes him a target of someone powerful.  As a result of his statement, Dr. Bahnjit has an anonymous man break into his house and threatens him to change the report to suicide. 

Dr. Bahnjit doesn't take this man's threat seriously, until one day one of his friends, who is a prosecutor disappears. He begins to secretly conduct an investigation of his own in order to get to the truth — and somehow all clues lead to a man called Tan (Max) as the main suspect. 

Tan, however, denies everything and instead convinces Dr. Bahnjit to work together in order to get to the bottom of this and find the real murderer together.  
Excitement Level
★★
When a strange man (Mik Thongraya) with amnesia floats to the island, he meets Moya (Sammy Cowell).

Knowing little, he begins falling for Moya and devotes himself to build a resort for her on the island. Moya, against the warnings of Moya's best friend Namrin, ends up falling in love with him too.

However just as their love begins to bloom with promises, a pregnant woman (
Supaporn Malisorn) appears on the island claiming the man to be her husband and taking him back.

Left with only her memories of their time together, Moya tries to cut him out of her life completely but he comes back, this time as a player.
Excitement Level
★★



PraomookBoss & Me
Genre:  Romance, Drama
Tag:  Forced marriage, Misunderstanding, Cat and Dog love, Revenge, Adataped from a Novel, Possible bisexual character
Genre:  Romance,  Drama
Tag:  Rich Man/ Poor Woman, Adataped from a Novel, Boss/Employee Relationship, Office Romance, Cheerful FL, Devoted ML
Praomook (Bua) works at a nightclub to earn money and pay a debt. She doesn't get along with Chalunthorn (Pon Nawasch) because he misunderstood her, thinking she's a bad girl.

One day, his parents ask Praomook to marry Chalunthorn to remove the bad luck from him. She accepts the proposal just to get back at him. He pretends to be gay to avoid her but she doesn't believe it.

They will eventually start falling for each other, but there are obstructions to their love. Treenutch, Chalunthorn's ex wants revenge while trying to get Chalunthorn back.

There's also Maithong (
Ting Kratingg), the rival of Praomook's family, and Chalunthorn's fling.
Excitement Level
★★
Big conglomerate president ML (Push Puttichai) has a younger sister, with a very rare blood type, who needs a transfusion. He finds an employee (Aom Sushar) at his company and asks her for a blood donation.

Afterward, brother and sister are rather indebted to FL, but rather than using FL typical method of paying her off, his sister suggests sending her nutritious packed lunches so the FL can recover from the blood loss and to make the thank you more personal.

The FL loves to eat and her enjoyment of the lunches, along with her general bright and sunny personality, slowly start melting cold  ML's heart... 
(6)
Excitement Level
★★


Miti Thi SarmKhun Ying Jom Khaen
Genre:  Romance, Drama, Fantasy, Historical
Tag: Angel, Adapted from a Novel, Karma
Genre:  Romance, Drama, Comedy
Tag: Adapted from a Novel, Police Officer, Tomboy Female Lead, Action, Matchmaking 
Chompoonute (Natapohn) just graduated from abroad. She reached the turning point of her life when she met Naruenartbodin (Nadech), a mysterious gentleman.  She starts to practice meditation to find out where he's from, and later she discovers that he's an angel from the sky.
Excitement Level
★★

Mom Rajawongse Ying Kantima Kanokchan (Toey Jarinporn) is not a very feminine woman. Indulged by her father throughout her childhood, Kantima turned out to become a tomboy, even ending up with a profession as a police officer.

Tired of seeing her niece continue being a tomboy, Kantima's aunt Ying Chalaphat begins matchmaking her niece in hopes to turn her luck around.

That is how she meets Prince Anucharin (
Bomb Tanin)  who is a doctor by profession. (4)
Excitement Level
★★★☆


You Are My Heartbeat
Genre:  Romance, Drama
Tag: Slap Kiss, Arranged Marriage, Hate to Love
Genre:  Romance, Comedy
Tag: Adopted from a Web Novel, Strong Female Characters, OCD, Cohabitation, Love Square, Boss/Employee Romance
Tawan (Pie Rinrada) lives with Yuanjai, aunt in law and her daughter Yardfah (Pear Pitchapa) as a servant. Yhod, her uncle once made a promise with his friend Trong to set their child marriage. 

Yhardfah refuses it, think that Tomorn (Mai Warit), Trong's son, is a rustic and poor guy, also being in a relationship with Bunlaeng. They don't make any money, just spend Yuanjai's money. 

One day, Tomorn gives his hand to pay a debt for Yuanjai, so she let Tawan marry him as Yhardfah. Because of telling that he hate liar, Tawan starts feeling awkward about this. At Tomorn's house, she's always bullied by Sawai, his mother, Gingkaew, the nanny of his sister, and Sopit, his friend who crushes on him.
Excitement Level
★★★☆
The ML (Push Puttichai), the adopted son of the Gu family, is the CEO of a Mall Corporation. His adoptive grandmother (Tai Penpak), however,  wishes for her biological grandson (Jackie Jackrin) to take over the company, and the ML is tasked with guiding the rightful heir towards becoming a respectful businessman.

During this time, he meets fashion designer FL (
Mai Davika) and discovers that she is the biological grandson's ex-girlfriend. He decides to hire her to motivate the dude, who still harbours feelings for her.

The plan works because the dude decides to join the company and pursue her. When grandma finds out about the biological grandson's feelings for the FL, she is livid and tells ML to separate both of them. This creates an opportunity for BL and FL to get closer to each other. 
(5)
Excitement Level
★★



Poo Yai Lee Gub Nang MaSapai Jao Sua
Genre:  Romance, Comedy, Drama
Tag:  Hi-so FL, Love at first sight, Cat and Dog love
Genre:  Romance, Drama
Tag: Family, Marriage of Convenience, Action,  Rich Man/Poor Woman
Malinee (N/A)  is a famous model living in Bangkok. One day, she receives a letter from Poo Yai Leenawat, the headman of Howling Dog Creek village.

The letter said Madam Wan, her grandmother has passed away and left her several acres of land and her house in Howling Dog Creek village. Her grandmother had dreamed her granddaughter would leave Bangkok and come live in the country.

Malinee or Ma for short can not sell the land to just anyone. If she does not want to keep the land, she must sell it to Poo Yai Lee only. Malinee had no intention of going to Howling Dog Creek village until she catches her boyfriend Pardit of cheating.

To escape him, she takes a trip to Howling Dog Creek village. There, she meets a country guy but does not know it is Poo Yai Lee (
Pope). Poo Yai Lee falls in love with Ma instantly but is annoyed by the city slicker personality, so he makes it a point to tease her. Ma learns to adjust to country life and falls in love Poo Yai Lee in a comic fashion.
Excitement Level
★★★

Tien, a Chinese-Thai business tycoon, and his wife, Liu had four sons – Traipob, Traitep, Traipoom, and Traiwit (Ohm Kanin). Tien had planned his sons’ lives from what they should study to whom they should be married to without caring about their willingness.

Traitep got married to Ruengrin and Traipoom got married to Wallapa, while Traipob who was very religious, chose to stay single. All of Tein’s three sons helped Tien in his textile business but Traiwit, the youngest son, didn't want to be like his older brothers. He decided to become a policeman, and left his home to move to the North-Eastern part of Thailand.

There, he met Fahsai (
Prima), the country girl who was a developer of her hometown. Traiwit didn’t reveal his identity at first, so Fahsai thought Traiwit was trying to trick people in her hometown and didn’t like him. Traiwit was transferred back to Bangkok, so he hired Fahsai to marry him and to help him fight against his father. He brought her back home to try to make his dad accept what he wanted to be.

Tien couldn’t accept Fahsai and tried every way to get her out of the house with the help of Ruengrin and Orn-Nisha, the girl that Tien wanted to match up with Traiwit. Fahsai had to strive to win Tien’s heart, while she and Traiwit started to have real feelings for each other.
Excitement Level
★★★


Rak Woon wai Jao Chai Kob
Sroi Sabunnga
Genre:  Romance, Drama
Tag: Rich Man/ Poor Girl,  Amnesia, Angst
Genre:  Romance, Drama, Historical
Tag: World War II, Royalty, Adapted from a Novel
Looktarn (Vill) is a smart girl who made up a legend about a frog ghost to protect her hometown, Chuen Chiva, from greedy businessmen who are looking for an opportunity to invest in that village for their own sake.

One day, a cold-hearted, calm, and strict businessman named Kin (
Son Yuke) had a secret plan to create a high-end luxury resort.

However, due to an unexpected accident, he lost his memory and become very kind and warm-hearted. Looktarn then starts taking care of him and soon they fall in love with each other and start living happily.

However, their happiness didn't last long, as Kin's parents come to the village to bring Kin back with them. Soon he gains all of his memory back.

Unfortunately, Kin has forgotten everything that has happened in the village, including Looktarn.

Will Looktarn be able to make Kin's to remember her?
Excitement Level
★★★

In the midst of the flames of war, an old noble's daughter, Sroisabunnga (Baifern) grows up to the teachings of her father to be arrogant of their blue blood and be ambitious in life despite their family being left destitute because of war.  

However, in the dark, Sroi is still fortunate to her candles. A young and kind mill owner, Tine (Nine), comes into her life and quickly attaches himself to her heart.

However, Sroi had promised her father that she would bring Kosum family back to its former glory. Therefore she can not attach her heart to Tine. 

After all, how can a candle give her what she wants? He does not have a proud, old last name. He can not build a palace for you. He is unable to bring her into the high society of the city life. 

However, he is always by her side. Whether times are unhappy or happy, whether she is poor or rich. 

Then... will she stop chasing the dream to obtain the former glory of her family by pursuing Prince Aiyares (Panjan), and finally turn towards Tine instead? (6) 

Excitement Level
★★★


Chor MalilaLai Kinnaree

Genre:  Romance, Drama, Historical
Tag: Tragedy, Past, and Present, Angst, Ghost, Time Travel, Adapted from a Novel

Genre:  Romance, Historical, Suspense 
Tag: Mystery, Medical, Investigation, Adapted from a Novel

Poomtai (Son Yuke) works as a government secretary and he's assigned to repair an old building located not far from his office. There he finds documents, personal belongings, and photographs of Jaokhun Saymamuang (Tik Jesadaporn) and his wife, Lady Pinmuang. 

He decides to transfer the funds to the museum, but suddenly the spirit of Pinmuang appears and stops him. She tells Poomtai the story of her life. 

Pin and Jaokhun fell in love with each other, and although there were difficulties on their way, they still got married. 

7 years later, Pirath, Pin's childhood friend, comes back from England. They get closer again, and although Pin is now a married woman, Pirath secretly falls in love with her. 

Lady Sae, Jaokhun's mother, dislikes Pin and tries to match her son with Pragai, her adopted child to be Jaokhun's mistress. Jaokhun does not particularly mind, but Pin cannot accept this situation.

 Things get worse when Jaokhun goes on a business trip to the province, and Pragai follows him. 

Considering that her husband accepted Pragai as his mistress and forgot about his wife, Pin seeks comfort from Pirath. 

However, Jaokhun mistakenly believes that his wife is cheating on him, driving her out of the house, and divorcing her. The disgraced Pin returns to her mother's house and stops all communication with Pirath. 

Later, she dies, but her spirit, feeling guilty in front of her husband, stays in their house ready to forgive him and explain everything.

Excitement Level
★★

The reign of King Narai was the most prosperous during the Ayutthaya period. Ayutthaya kingdom at that time has great commercial and diplomatic activities with all foreign nations especially the west. Everywhere was full of foreign immigrants, merchants, missionaries diplomats, and military personnel.

Foreigners especially westerners were backed to oppress the Ayautthaya people causing the rage among Ayutthaya people. Lady Pudsorn (
Yaya) is the beautiful daughter of a famous deceased doctor. She well inherited medical knowledge from her father.

Aok Luang (Viscount) Indra Ratchpakdee (
Nadech)  is a handsome police nobleman who is responsible for the peace and safety of people in the metropolitan area.

 Monsieur Robert (
New Chaiyapol) is a handsome French guy who closes to an important French military diplomat whom King Narai borrowed from the King of France to work for.

Faith brought the three of them to met and work together in investigating the suspicious death of an important French cargo ship captain who died while wearing a female sarong cloth with Lai Kinaree (Half Bird Half Human) patterned which is the kind of pattern prohibited for royal ladies in the palace only.

Therefore this case has the existence of Ayutthaya Kindom at stake because it may trigger the war by being claimed as a rightful cause for the French army to seize Ayutthaya Kindom.

The investigation leads the three of them to many somehow involved people, many stories, and many suspects which each of them has unexpectable secrets.

Moreover, one of the suspects is a very powerful lady in the royal palace too. Besides that, the investigation also leads those two gorgeous and high-profiled guys to fall for Lady Pudsorn, and both of them ready to compete to win her heart. What should Lady Pudsorn do? 
Excitement Level
★★

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You've finally reached the end! Congratulations!! 
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I hope you all found this article informative and fun to read. I hope that this article has also given you something to be excited about, or has a drama that you've been waiting for for a while.


Please feel free to also let me know how excited you are about upcoming titles in the comments section.  I would love to know your opinions.

Even if some of these titles will be pushed to next year, I hope it will all still come out eventually because I want to see them all!

 Happy drama watching everyone!! 
- Soju

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Editors: BrightestStar (1st editor) & Jojo (2nd editor)

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