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clairedaring · 23 days ago

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The most worthwhile (long) evening lakorn from Workpoint TV - The Cheery Lee, Village Headman

if i knew Workpoint TV was gonna put The Cheery Lee, Village Headman (2023) on Youtube with English and 10 other multi-language subtitles eventually, i wouldn't have tried so hard with the thailand vpn to binge watch this through netflix.

if i can recommend one workpoint lakorn from all the very mid ones i've seen, this is definitely at the top of my recommendation.

The Cheery Lee, Village Headman is a light-hearted comedy lakorn set in the rural countryside about a gay make-up artist who got tricked by his sister into returning home to run in an election to become village headman/chief.

Leena/Khaosali (James Rusameekae) is a gay makeup artist and the eldest son of Somboon, the soon retiring village headman of Sri Ban Yen.

Khaomai (Yada Narilya) is Lee's younger sister. She aspires to become Youtuber with millions of subscribers and to travel the world. After hearing that her father has to retire soon, Khaomai devises a plan to drag her brother back home so that Lee would run for local office instead of her.

Bank (Gee Sutthirak) is a recent post-graduate with an environmental engineering degree returning home from studying abroad. He is manipulated/persuaded by his mother to run against Lee for the position of village headman.

The first arc of the lakorn is about Lee and his unconventional journey in running for local office as a gay man.

And the majority of the lakorn is Lee's journey in proving that he's a capable village chief through helping the villagers with their variety of issues, with the assistance of Khaomai and Bank.

Of course, you'll encounter some cartoonish villains and clichés in your average workpoint tv lakorns, but I enjoyed this one particularly because I thought there was a lot of heart into the characters, especially the character development of Lee throughout the lakorn and his family bonds.

So if you ever find yourself wondering how Workpoint low-budget evening lakorns are like 🤔, this is definitely a good start.

Fun fact: this is James Rusameekae's first ever leading role in a series, for which he won Best Actor (Evening Lakorn) at 15th Nataraja Awards and became the first Thai LGBTQ+ actor to achieve this. He dedicated his win to the LGBTQ+ community in his speech.