Crazy Handsome Rich (Thai Series)

There are bad series and then there are terrible ones. As you can imagine, this hodge hodge of a series falls into the latter category. With a title like this, I have to admit that I was actually quite looking forward to watching this one, but this show is almost impossible to enjoy, how much ever you try your best to not overthink anything. The plot is just nonsensical, the jokes are outrightly bad, the romance is forced and hardly exists; essentially almost everything about this is a disaster. But you know, I always look at the bright side. This show was only 6 episodes (although it did scare us at the end saying there maybe a sequel coming up), but still each episode was about 40-45 minutes.

Luv works as a vegetable vendor who is an orphan and lives with an uncle who looks after him. The uncle's son is Inn, who is good friends with Luv and also romantically likes him, although Luv is unknown to that. Enter Butler Soon, who is a butler for a wealthy family an this younger brother is about to start as a butler at same place since Sorn has to be out for some personal work. When his brother backs out at the last minute, Sorn requests Luv to pretend to be his brother and become a butler. Luv agrees to the job despite no experience due to high salary. Also recently Luv had visited a future teller who had given him a key and said that it will unlock him to meet his life soul mate and make a rich future for him. Back to the rig family, he meets the three brothers and his eyes catch the middle brother Thad who returns the favor and likes him. Since all three brother wears locket with a lock, Luv wonders if one of them is key his soulmate. The one rule of the house is that no women are allowed which Luv finds weird. Eventually we are told a family story on how the mother pf these boys cheated on their father and left home. But the truth is far from this. This follows 2-3 episodes of ridiculous drama, where more secrets are revealed and it turns out that it is Luv who is true heir of all the wealth that these 3 brothers have been protecting. Somewhere in between, we also witness Inn's longing for Luv , while clearly Luv and Thad have fallen for each other.

A BL drama about butlers is a unique concept, offering many storytelling possibilities. But I am sorry to say that this show has one of the most awful scripts that I have seen. The series wants to be a cheeky comedy, but it tells obnoxiously unfunny jokes. It uses goofy humour to cover blatantly illogical plot holes. Their outrageous family past is more absurd than a soap opera. Don't expect any reasonable explanations from the vague, confusing narrative. Plus there is a huge list of wrong and harmful stereotypes this show uses in the name of trying to be funny (including mocking disability). Even the romance in the show is forced. There is absolutely no explanation given on why the attraction between two guys. Thad has a weird personality and behaves like a cartoonish caricature. He isn't an appealing love interest. Meanwhile Luv just wants a soulmate. A better ending would have been if Inn ended up with Luv. From the complicated twists to the incoherent character motivations, the last couple of episodes are non-sensical at best with full on soap opera-ish melodrama for no reason. This show has almost no redeeming quality about itself. There is absolutely no excuse to be making a trash BL show like this in today's time. Stay away as far as possible. (2/10)