On paper this should've been a show I really got into, especially with how much love it's been getting from fans online, but somehow it just didn't click for me. The first four or five episodes had me so lost that I started checking out mentally, and honestly it never really recovered from that for me. There were definitely bits here and there that I enjoyed, but as a whole it just felt like too much was happening at once and I kept losing my grip on what I was watching. Doesn't help either that this is a twelve episode series where each episode runs somewhere between seventy and ninety minutes in its uncut version, that's a lot to sit through and process. Nakhun's a twenty year old college student living in Bangkok who doesn't buy into superstition at all, but his twentieth birthday turns into a disaster anyway, everything that can go wrong does, he even gets mistaken for a thief at one point. Later that night, feeling down, he's out watching shooting s...
Nakhun's a twenty year old college student living in Bangkok who doesn't buy into superstition at all, but his twentieth birthday turns into a disaster anyway, everything that can go wrong does, he even gets mistaken for a thief at one point. Later that night, feeling down, he's out watching shooting stars when fate steps in and yanks him nearly four hundred years back into the Ayutthaya Kingdom. He wakes up to find everyone calling him Master Klao, turns out he's a dead ringer for a young nobleman named Klao who vanished without explanation. So Nakhun ends up stepping into Klao's identity, trying to just survive while also figuring out what actually happened to the real Klao and how he can get back to his own time. That's when Phop enters the picture, and he clocks almost immediately that something's off about the "Klao" standing in front of him. From there it turns into this drawn out back and forth between them, cat and mouse basically, that slowly turns into something a lot more emotionally charged, all set against this really well built historical backdrop. As the two of them fall for each other bit by bit, we also get pulled into everything going on behind the scenes in the kingdom. The Ayutthaya court's knee deep in smuggling and forged paperwork, and there are powerful people setting up innocent folks, cooking up fake accusations, twisting justice however they want. Phop's father, Lord Preechapiban, gets caught up in one of these accusations, and in the original timeline that's what eventually leads to his death. Turns out, without Nakhun even realizing it at first, his whole reason for being sent back is to crack the case of Klao's murder and clear Lord Preechapiban's name.
I really did want to be into this from the start, but it just wasn't happening for me. I think the hangover from "I am the most beautiful count" was too much for me with its similarities here. Once I mentally checked out, there wasn't really anything that pulled me back in after that. That said, the cast did a genuinely great job, especially the actor playing Nakhun and Klao. His comedic timing lands really well, and the way he reacts and rolls his eyes adds a lot of charm to the character. He nails that balance of being this slightly awkward guy out of place in the 1600s while still hitting real emotional beats when it counts. Phop, on his end, brings this deep warmth and loyalty toward Klao, total green flag energy, very protective. There's also a second couple woven through both the past and present timelines. The last episode ties everything up in a way that actually feels meaningful, closing this whole loop of cosmic timing. Episode twelve is where Nakhun's arc finally gets its resolution, he comes to understand that he had to be there in the past to fix a piece of history that had left the souls of Jom and Kaew stuck and suffering. Once that's done, the ancient portal opens up in this big cosmic moment, and him leaving becomes something that just has to happen.
To the fans who loved this show, I get it, but it just wasn't for me. (4/10)
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