My Safe Zone - EP 1

Oh I’m so excited to watch this with you love the hair. Also I’m excited to see your reaction funny story of your other shows is we ave the same reactions a lot of the time happy new year

I also have mixed feelings about this show, on one hand I love LenaMiu's chemistry and the scenes they have together. But on the other hand, the plot is non-existent, and sometimes the music starts playing, but it doesn't suit the scene or atmosphere at all. I also had a problem with the music in Only You as well, for both of the CH3 original series, they used the songs sung by the girls way too much throughout the series. It was so repetitive, I did not want to hear those songs played again for at least a couple of months. They need better writers to improve the stories for both Only You and My Safe Zone, because as much as I loved seeing LingOrm and LenaMiu the story was not very well done.

I know many people didn't like it, but I actually enjoyed it a great deal. It helps that these two women have amazing chemistry due to their 7 year history off-screen, which resonates within the show

The first episode of course tries to introduce us to the main players und the inciting incident; for the latter, they don’t waste any time showing Alin as a successful photographer on New York who has an assistant named Tan (played once again by the king of douchebags, Victor, from “The Loyal Pin” and “Somewhere Somehow”). She works into the night, but comes home earlier than expected – but then catches her wife-to-be Kate in bed – with Tan! She is deeply hurt, and throws them both out tossing her engagement ring at Kate. Tan leaves with Kate, smirking. Then, we switch to Bangkok, where we meet Jane who’s out to bring someone called Aunt Aom (really Alin’s mother) curry, placed there by her own Aunt Tuk (played by Fresh, who currently also plays Bo’s gambling addict mom in “Dangerous Queen”). Jane doesn’t find Aunt Aom (who will later be played by Kai Supranee, whom we last saw in “Poisonous Love”), the house seems to be empty until she finds Alin back in her room, which she visited often during her high school years. We get a flashback to the end of those highschool years, where Jane wrote “Can I Love You?” onto her shirt only to find out she already left to study abroad. Jane turns and leaves, with Alin going after her; she clearly wants to reconnect, but Jane isn’t interested after eight years without a call or text message from her, so she leaves her standing on the street; they’re not friends anymore. The “mothers” talk about their children who must be reconnecting right now (no such luck!) and Aom, Alin’s mother, also doesn’t know she broke up with her girlfriend. Then, we meet Pie (played by Ying, Engfah in “The Secret of Us”), a model friend of Alin’s, to her she confesses that she’s thinking of moving back to Thailand. Pie wants to get to a restaurant called “Jane’s table”, but it is fully booked until next year, Alin thinks she can get a table there (as it’s her friend’s restaurant) and will take her there if she can. Pie clearly is interested in Alin. Late at night, Alin and Jane have their second encounter as Alin almost hits her with her car, but that doesn’t go well either, Jane tells her to go back to New York. But we learn that there is nothing left in New York because her work contract was terminated. Alin still wants to reconnect with her, or at least book a table, but Jane is adamant in shutting her out – util she accidentally burn her with hot water. She rushes to treat the wound, and she opens up a little. Jane mentions that she would reserve a table for her and Kate if she wants to come – which makes Alin cry, Jane asks her what is wrong, and she admit that they broke up and there won’t be a wedding anymore. A small smile appears on Jane’s face and Alin scolds her for being happy at her failure. They hugs each other as it starts to rain heavily. Afterward, Jane dies Alin’s hair at Jane’s, and she still trying to get just two seats at her restaurant. Jane asks who the other person is if not her girlfriend, and Alin tell her it’s a model friend of hers – just a friend. She’s still not giving in, not even after Alin dries Jane’s hair – but Jane is happier now. Alin checks out the restaurant, planning to get Jane drunk; but as Jane gets off work she’s already drunk herself. She complains about her life, after working hard her whole life, her New York career and her private life just crumbled at once. She wants to take a photo to get back at Kate, and Jane ends up making a selfie of the two of them. Then, she wants to know why they broke up, and she immediately start crying again, leading Jane to ask whether she misses her; she tells her that she caught her in bed with a guy, then proceeds to straddle her recreating the scene. She clearly is still heartbroken over the betrayal – than, Jane proceeds to kiss her on her chest that Alin kisses her on the mouth – and as they are kissing the episode ends. ____ I’m happy, but wary about “My Safe Zone” (or “Final love” as the original title says) – I felt the main characters a well-drawn (and nice to look at), but some things just irked me – like the fact that Alin just wanted to go back to being friends after eight years(!) without a word(!!) or the fact that she mostly wanted to score a table at her restaurant. Jane was perfectly okay not wanting her back, not wanting to reconnect after this long a radio silence, especially cause the was already in love with hat as she first left. Other than that, I found that some scenes – especially of staring and some slow-motion shots lasted just too long. Ying as Tie will surely cause problems as well, but we need to have plot for seven more episodes, so I remain cautiously optimistic for the series.