The Golden Spoon

Unique and Thrilling Drama!

This drama has one of the most interesting and socially relevant plots I’ve ever seen. The acting is superb and though many of the characters are flawed, their flaws hi light their humanity. I don’t want perfect characters, so I appreciate the anti-hero qualities to many of the main characters. There is a fair share of ridiculousness and a few characters are one -dimensional and cliche,but it doesn’t take away from the talent displayed and the message of the drama. I think many of the harsh reviews are from viewers who possibly forget that no one is truly good , not even ourselves. But it’s that uncomfortable friction that creates compelling stories.

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SO FAR THE BEST SHIT I WATCHED

I watched up to ep4. This drama is absolute art. I thought it was gonna be shit after reading the synopsis. Yk the basic boring body switch. No, it's not a body switch but a life switch. The rules to golden spoon, the circumstances the characters everything just fits so well and goes so smoothly.

It was well worked on. The authors and screenwriters and directors worked their souls out. Its pitch-perfect. THe story is so hooking. Ep 1 may not be ur type but trust me it gets better and better. This is so utterly perfect I love it so much. The fact that it's a high school drama is so smart. I really am interested on how the characters develop.

Compared to all the shows airing right now, like law cafe, love in contract, and little women they all are great but they are so absolute trash and very mid compared to this show. Normally I ain't interested in fantasy shows but this show got something special in it.

100/10 recommend i would rewatch it all the eps so far.

Look for my ep 8 review if u wanna know how the show is going

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Annoying Situation

I am trying to really finish it before i make a review but its really hard to finish it as I am always annoyed by the flow of the series. first why so many spoon? the story is bocoming more and more about greed, the poor became rich but intead of improving himself he so obsessed of wanting both lives is became rich and still wanted the girl. He is being bullied by his ankle but his not doing anything. He didnt even consider learning what kind of person he replaced. He doesnt show interest how to become rich while his on switched life. All he does is pursuing the girl?

I dont know where is this going and the villain girl who used the spoon and other on died not even rich enough can manipulate everyone? she is blackmailing the the lead?

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Spoonless Mindset!

The very first scene we were introduced to generic high schoolers that left a sour first impression. Right off the bat we were hammered with the deplorable trope of bullies and rich kids that both were done in the most tacky ways possible. I hated every second but I kept my patience waiting for the fantasy/supernatural tag to kick in and change the scenery. It certainly did for a little while during the first half despite being very slow, especially with the insane 80 minutes runtime per episode. However, the drama started to fall apart around episode 7 and it became an unwatchable piece of utter junk after the insane 10-years time-skip in episode 9. Any potentials it had were evaporated.

The story had insane gaps that were impossible to patch. There are a lot of points to be made about the mystery, secrets, reveals, decisions, and transformations but I would be repeating myself. It was really frustrating watching the golden spoon's rules change and evolve to fit the story's new development and narrative, a very strong sign of amateur writing! It's possible to blame the writers' heavy reliance on the source material and doing the bare minimum to script it. Since the source material is a Webtoon, it wasn't surprising seeing strange behaviors and random elements starting to seep through. It's hard to trust a Webtoon story to translate well into screen without competent writers unless the Webtoon creator was exceptionally brilliant which in this case he wasn't.

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✒The Ladle Will Knock ♧ The Cradle Will Rock °8.1° °Excellent°

Trade your parents for other ones?

Sadly, in these overgrowth-of-narcissism days full of self absorption, more & more kids wouldn't find that idea unappealing; but for most of us, it sounds preposterous. A non-starter.

Even so, Lee Seung Chun (SC) is so over being poor. So over his worthless father. So over kimchi stew. So over being bullied by rich punks. He's smart - smart enough to attend an elite school on scholarship, but there's a wall between him, in his convex existence, & the /other/ side - the concave side where the rich reside. He's doing everything he can to gouge a hole through, so he can get to that other side. But he feels like he's digging through rock w/ a dull spoon. He feels banjaxed. Knackered. Downright desperate. Stick a spork in it.

TGS opens pretty hot & very sad. It's really rough for the poor kid (SC), & it's even rough for the rich kid (Tae). Each of them is scraped on different sides of the grater. TGS is a 2022 release that is rated 80 on AWiki. It is 1 season consisting of 16 80-minute eps. Early on, it proceeds slowly (but steadily) w/ only a couple hiccups. The early eps are the appetizer, & the main dish emerges around ep9 or 10 when alot of other shows stutter. I appreciated it more as the eps rolled by.

The acting is quite good & at times, excellent. The actress who plays Tae's stepmother, Son Yeo-Eun from Band of Sisters, is amazing in a couple of scenes. Yook Sung Jae (Mystic Pop-Up Bar-8.2, Goblin) is ML, SC. They have him in long bangs which means less of his face is showing. Therefore, his lips look absolutely massive. He's a dishy looking guy, but all I see is lips when I look at him. He does a nice job. The beautiful Yeonwoo (Dali and the Cocky Prince) is schoolmate & general interferer. Lee Jong Won (Knight Flower, S2 Hospital Playlist-9), plays Hwang "Tae" Yong. Jung Chae Yeon (My First First Love-8) is the sweet Na Ju Hee (JuH). The 3 forge a tangible bond & seem to be perfectly casted. SC's dad is played by Choi Dae Chul. He has an emotional scene in ep14 that took my breath away. I was astounded to learn, after dipping into his credits, that I'd already seen him in Inspector Koo-8.4, Hello, Me!-6.7, Vagabond-8, When the Camellia Blooms-8, & Revolutionary Love-5.7. I'll never overlook him again. Competence shows: The director is Song Hyun Wook of The King's Affection-8.3 & Another Miss Oh-7.5, & screenwriters, Kim Eun Hee (Live Up to Your Name-7.6) & Yoon Eun Kyung (The Snow Queen) all have proven records.

"Golden Spoons" & "Dirt Spoons" are Korean adages referring the "haves & the have-nots". SC is painfully poor. His family is a slotted dirt spoon - whatever money they do get just drops right through & is lost. It hurts all the time. At his elite HS, none of the other kids have any inkling of what that's like. They're all rich, spoiled & entitled. SC's best friend understood, but he commits suicide along w/ his family in the early minutes of ep1. (Ouch) Next, the rent collectors are back. SC's family is on the verge of being homeless.

'Who wants to be rich? Buy a Golden Spoon & get rich...' It was the right day for the crone to scoop him up w/ these words. SC stops at the weird old lady's table of goods & studies the golden spoon. (Korean spoons are shallow & perfectly round - they're very cool looking). 'Eat 3 meals at someone's house w/ it & you will switch parents w/ that someone.' Right then, SC didn't value his parents. He's tired of the plastic utensil life. Hello Tiffany's tableware! By the end of ep1, SC had eaten at Tae's place twice. Tae is... think Gu Jun-Pyo from Boys Over Flowers-8.3. He's the tippity-top. He's the most elite HS student in Korea. But it doesn't look like SC will ever get invited back for that 3rd meal. It's looking like convenience store fare for the balance of his life. For the record, I hate the way he finagles the 3rd meal. The way he got the 2nd one should have been the way he got the 3rd one. As it plays out it's clunky. But he gets the deed done & the food eaten. The switcheroo is complete. Magic is real!! Now his own parents don't know him, & Tae looks so So SO HAPPY w/ his new family.

In a way, it feels like the writer is a mother bird that pre-chews the food for the viewer. The moral choices are quite easy the way the writer stacks it up & ladles it out. Tae makes a horrible mistake which makes eating that 3rd meal (effectively stealing Tae's life) almost justifiable. As it turns out, SC is much better suited for the Hwang family, just as Tae is a better fit w/ the Lee clan. SC has the brains & moxie to be a player in the financial world, while Tae is a sweet & artistic soul who loves piano & drawing. He misses his mother, most of all, so after the switch he will keep repeating that he can't believe he has a mom. The viewer will also find out how profoundly dysfunctional the Hwang family is. One night SC spies on the Lees, his real family. They are cozy together, like birds in a nest - they're practically spooning eachother! The family is so happy /without him/. Dad is SO PROUD of Tae's artwork. JuH likes Tae. Well, she actually likes SC, but now Tae is SC. Tae likes JuH. That works out, right? WRONG! SC likes JuH! It wasn't enough to take everything Tae owned. He wants the girl, too. Most things roll out gradually - there's over 20 hours of programming, afterall. SC helps his family from behind the scenes, & he checks on them frequently.

'Whoops. I forgot to tell you about a rule. If one of you runs into his real parents on your birthday, you'll switch back.' That's in the note from the old lady. Switching back is possible. It's possible at 1mo, 1yr, & 10yrs. Apparently it's a danger on every birthday as well. SC ends up scrambling at a birthday party to keep real Tae from running into his bio-dad.

'Don't tell me you wouldn't trade your poor parents for rich ones in a heartbeat.' SC (in Tae's shoes) is incredulous. Tae had everything, but he's happy - very happy - w/ SC's poor, pathetic family. 'I love my parents more than anything in the world. No matter how much money, I would never trade them,' Tae (in SC's shoes) insists. He then drops this dollop on top: 'I don't like your parents at all. I'd rather live in my poor house than in your suffocating one.' He means it. SC is speechless. Next, it's Tae's dad that is jealous of the love SC's family has. He doesn't respond well to such feelings, so he wants to prove a point about the value of money to SC's father. What he doesn't know is that his own son has already chosen to be poor, alongside this poor man, rather than be rich w/ him.

TGS scoops out quality elements generously. They're stroon, eh - strewn - everywhere. Some flashbacks & memories in partial B&W & have a washed out feel. It's a refreshing & effective technique. As of ep3 I couldn't be certain who will end up w/ whom - except big sis, Lee, is definitely destined for Munki. They can run a mixed martial arts studio - ep3 has a couple of dazzling fight scenes. One is amusing & the other is professional & smooth. The way SC looks, after a cooling off period in the USA, is hilarious. That's how they see us. It's fair. In the background is slightly stylized pop music; it's not bad. Answer, by Yeji Kim is very nice, as is Falling by Jeon Sang Keun. They can be found on Shazam & Spotify.

Just when I started to wonder if things were getting stale, there's a mid-show shift! A biggin. There's another big twistaroo at the close of ep13. The ending is yet another excellent double-take.

'Desires are always for something we feel we lack.' "Your choices weren't always right, but I still think you're a good man." The theme is wants vs needs, how what we want may not bring us happiness, & how people that become powerful & successful tend to become stingy & believe that they really are better than those less fortunate. Power is corrupting & corruption starts in the heart. The history of the world is the history of a few that have too much, & the many that have too little. Hard work is a great equalizer, but even hard work cannot overcome a corrupt & flawed system. It's not right to blame someone for working hard & becoming successful. However, once a person becomes successful, what is h/h obligation to society? We should all give back, right? Nobody gets a pass on this. Before you judge rich people too harshly, realize that if you are even lower middle class in the USA, you ARE rich by world standards. I had to look at myself at one point & ask if I was as guilty as the ones I despise. Generosity is not taking someone else's money & giving it away; we all have a duty to give. If you don't have a dime to spare, maybe you have something worth more - time. The funny thing is that humans seem to be designed to feel blessed when we give to others. So give to receive! That kind of selfishness is the good everyday magic.


QUOTES📢

The weak always fight amongst themselves, while the true enemy is someone else.

The truth doesn't pull people together, but rather makes them hate eachother.

〰🖍 IMHO

📣7.9 📝8 🎭8 💓7 🦋5 🎨7 🎵/🔊7.7 🔚8.2 ▪ 🌞5.3 ⚡5.8 😅3 😭4.5 😱3 😯3.5 🤢3 🤔5 💤0

Age 13+ Language, violence, some blood

Rated TV-15+

Re-📺? ☑

⛔Mini spoilers follows⛔

It seemed that the writer was setting up a situation in which it would come out that Tae's dad had switched places w/ SC's father, years back. They do come up w/ a passable twist, but it is not as good as the father switch would have been. The fact that SC is so much like Tae's dad and visa versa is wasted, and it makes a poor red herring. We are in a day when surprises and subverting expectations are valued above quality, sadly.


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MUST WATCH if you are into Mystery thriller !!

I absolutely loved this series!

The morals of the show are so straightforward but also complex when you really think about it.

Love the idea of Golden Spoon, the plot depicts real social problem. There are many interesting plot twist too. All the casts do wonderful job, especially Sung Jae Yook. I like here most is the fact that they proceed with the deep character development of the protagonist. He somewhat has grey shade.

This show has an excellent ending. Generally dramas get a little boring in the middle..but this drama was captivating through out.

I was intrigued by the story and liked the series until the end.

I would highly recommend it.

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I was really hoping this drama had a great storyline... I enjoyed a lot of what I watched. The storyline was different. I don't know if these screenwriters want to twist it at the end. Honestly, I didn't like the ending at all. Did the main leads die, or commit suicide? I think you need to watch it and judge it for yourself. I don't know what that was I saw.


Yook Sung Jae (Lee Seung Chun), Lee Jong Won (Hwang Tae Yong), Jung Chae Yeon (Na Joo Hee), and Yeonwoo (Oh Yu Jin) did great in the scripts that were given to them. I wanted to learn more about Yook Sung Jae who is a KPop Maknae Artist from BtoB. I love his personality so I wanted to see how good of an actor he was. I will find other dramas he is in. He has very good vocal tones which I do know.

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One of the best on going drama right now!

This drama is amazing!

I dont know how many times already i'm watching this drama, even only have 2 episodes until now. The story is so interesting, a lil bit different from the original webtoon but that what makes this drama more unpredictable! The development of the story is so fast, you will not feel boring at all because every scenes have a their own story. I always believe in Yook Sungjae's drama because i think he has a good eyes for his projects. Yook Sungjae acts really well, so good! He can potrays as Lee Seungchon and Hwang Taeyong so good, i guess his acting skills increase from his last project (Mystic Pop Up Bar), not only Sungjae but all actors act really well, even for supporting roles. You will not going to waste your time with this drama, this drama worth to wacth, no wonder the rating is high, even though it's only 2 episodes. Lets HIT BIG The Golden Spoon team 💙🤍

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Writer’s angst???

Safe to say this is a fantasy themed series. I only completed 4 episodes and might still change my rating and review after completion of the series .

The writer piled up every suffering on the rich lad. Pretty much only two things going for him, son of a tycoon and his good looks and even lost being a child of a tycoon as a start. Left, right, up, down there’s constant issues thrown at this rich lad. Not educationally savvy, hard father, wicked step-mother, anxiety disorder, then turned poor, bullied by classmates, evil female friend, only person who saves him occasionally don’t like him, etc. what else ??? I’m exhausted just imagining what this kid if being put through. Then at the end he probably will also lose the two things that makes him feel content: parents and girlfriend. Then return to being a rich tycoon son, wicked stepmom, devil of an uncle and a brutal father.

I wish the story is more balanced out. My heart aches watching this series and still debating if I should continue or save myself the anxiety.

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Insano

A história é original, com muito potencial, interessante e viciante. Porém tem uns furos, algumas coisas desnecessárias e tu passa muita raiva assistindo. Metade dos personagens não prestam e a outra metade é chata haha. Meus personagens favoritos foram o Munki e a Yujin. Demorei pra terminar de assistir, não porque era chato, mas porque era um tanto irritante. Finalizei o drama rindo horrores com o final que deram, até que gostei de como acabou algumas coisas. O melhor foi a reviravolta no finalzinho, isso foi empolgante:
Quando a Young Shin falou pro "Hwang Hyun Do" que o Juntae que ele o incitou a se matar é seu próprio filho. eu fiquei OMG :O
E o Seungchun que viveu por conta do outro cara que teve um minuto de tela, um minuto de burrice, o cara morreu no lugar dele eu ri muito KKKKKKK
Amei ver a atuação do Sungjae nesse drama!

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