Master of the House

I don't usually watch Thai dramas, but I saw a preview scene on Netflix and I thought "how interesting".

THE MAIN PROBLEM I had with this drama was the slowness of everything, not of the action in itself, but of the movement of everything. I had to watch this in 1.5× speed so I wouldn't die of boredom 'cause the pace doesn't do justice to the kinda nice plotline! It's not a work of a genius, but I think it would have worked better as a movie. There aren't a lot of important things that are happening and this drama focuses more on the mystery and the atmosphere.

Most of the acting was good and the storyline of the protagonist truly kept me interested, the actress embodied the character very well. But sometimes I couldn't feel the reality of the plot, so I found it chaotic at times.

Also, the music fitted the narrative plot, yet I couldn't stand the eerie and suspensful sound that was all over the episodes. I think they used it too much. I fell in love with the ending song of the finale episode.

Give it a try if you want, but don't expect much.

The universal theme of rich and poor is one that will always intrigue. However, to create intrigue, the plot needs intricacies, peppered with ambiguity, to keep the viewer on the edge of their seat and scrambling for the remote to 'skip intro'. This doesn't have a lot of that. In fact I found myself using the FF button on some episodes to stop the pain of some of the acting.

Then Episode 7 comes along. Beautifully filmed and creates the buzz I'd been waiting for throughout... they should have used some of this to create the intrigue needed in the first episode...

Overall, too obvious, some atrocious acting but enough to keep me watching. I'm glad it's over though... or is it?

The job market must be really bad to have to work in that house, so that they can then say that unions and workers' rights laws are useless.

The script and the performances make this series, unintentionally, one of the best comedies of the year.

The characters are so basic that they have to resort to illogical decision making in order to surprise you, they are totally flat, without nuances, the good ones are more stupid than good and the bad ones seem like beings from hell, this makes you not care what happens to them, you can't empathize with them.

Anyway, I think I'm spending more time writing this review than it took to write the script.

One and no more Netflix.

A fresh faced young girl works as a maid for a wealthy jewellery empire owners family, at a dinner for his birthday he announces he is formally marrying his personal maid.

His family are incensed at this then he mysteriously dies, the family shun his widow at the funeral and treat her so badly she retreats back to being a servant, after his will is read leaving her nothing this seems a shrewd move.

What follows is the horror of people with too much money and too little sense exploiting those with nothing.

As the untalented and unappetising family unravel, we take a malicious slice of schadenfreude with cream as things take a turn for the worse.

If you like The Glory Korean TV show you will love this, it's themes are universal, use the subtitles it's a blast.

Felt like two different shows almost. The beginning half and the second half were a bit disconnected. The second half especially the last two episodes were confusing. It was using a weird storytelling technique where it was just having the viewer guess at stuff instead of actually explain anything. I liked the initial premise and acting, although the English dub was a bit odd because the voices sounded disembodied.

If you want a quick watch where the story wraps up in one season, enjoy mysteries and stories where about eating the rich than this is definitely a good option. Could've been more stars if they had explained more and not rushed the end.