Tida Wanorn and its multicultural impact

Tida Wanorn is one of Thailand’s most popular Lakorn franchises, with two original seasons, a depressingly off model postscript season and a softer spinoff reboot (albeit not a total continuity wide one, anyway). It’s about a Lanna foundling, Iyawadee, raised by two escaped circus orangutans and a bunch of elephants in the north of Thailand. Despite her shortcomings, Iyawadee is a pretty compelling character more endearing than Pansy. 

Tida Wanorn, even with many kinds of maritime and mainland ASEAN trappings, seems to be inspired by. To be fair, the Thai and Laotian elements somehow get a bigger spotlight in the spinoff reboot, starring different characters with the same names.