The Atypical Family

I like the fact that this atypical drama took on the superpower genre and turned it into something original and unexpected. Rather than following the usual “with great powers come great responsibilities” rule, the family had little interest in saving the world. Instead, they tried to use their superpowers to live an ordinary life, even as ordinary life kept getting in the way of their superpowers. The counterpoint to the family was another atypical family of scammers, simultaneously despicable and endearing. The music in the drama was also unusual and, I thought, wonderful. I found The Atypical Family’s ultimate message of love and sacrifice to be much more compelling than that of the other Korean superpower drama, "Moving," which ended in the usual apocalyptic superpower battle between good and evil.

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Um dorama que me surpreendeu.

Comecei a assistir por conta de alguns comentários nas redes sociais, mas não é que a história me surpreendeu? Achei uma temática diferente, do que eu já assisto normalmente.

Uma família com superpoderes, que não sabem lidar com o fato que o estão perdendo, por conta da era moderna e por problemas pessoais.

O bom que aborta temas que fazem a gente reflexionar: como lidar com a perda, como lidar com as frustrações, como lidar com a indiferença, como lidar com a solidão.

E uma mulher que entrou apenas na família para extorqui-los, acaba sendo a chave para a solução de todos os problemas.

Gostei de todos os personagens, e o desenvolvimento dos mesmos. A única coisa que achei que poderia ter sido melhor elaborado é com relação ao desenvolvimento do romance dos principais. No meu ponto de vista achei muito acelerado, o que me casou uma pergunta: em que momento eles começaram de fato a se amar? Isso me incomodou um pouco. Não sei se também não enxerguei uma química entre os atores que fizesse eu sentir isso. Mas tirando isso, achei a história perfeita.

E como a história deles estava conectada, tornou tudo lindo. E o romance inesperado da irmã do prota com o cara da sauna foi simplesmente sensacional. Gostei muito também do atores mirins, eles arrasam.

Só achei que o final deixou muitas brechas, gostaria que tivesse sido melhor desenvolvido. Mas foi lindo de ver o momento em que o filho deles foi busca-lo, e assim a família se tornou completa.

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A-not-so-Typical K-drama

Atypical family is not your typical Kdrama and I think that's very clear from the description itself. I always love to watch romcoms, melo, and thrillers, but I always find these dramas very refreshing. One thing I have noticed with Netflix is that they mostly like to take these kind of 'out-of-the-box' dramas.Now there's a lot of things I liked and disliked about this series that I will explain below.

The Good
1. The Plot
A family with superpowers? YES!! I don't think we have any Kdrama about a 'family' with superpowers. What I am glad about is that they didn't overdo it unlike some English series that I have watched. I was excited about the plot, but as the story developed, I had different opinions.

2. The Music
The music is great! Especially 'I see you' by Lee Sora. As soon as I heard that song playing, i felt like I was flying and transcended to another universe. None of the music are dramatic. They are soothing? (I am not getting the right word here)

3. The Acting
I have to say, the acting convinced me. More than the adult actors, the child actors did an amazing job.

4. The Atypical Family
I loved how everyone overcame their differences and bonded very well. A superpower family bonding with the family trying to scam them was heartwarming (you'll understand when you watch it.) I won't go into the details because that has spoilers.

The Underwhelming aspects

1. The Story
As much as I liked the plot, I felt like the script was lacking as the series progressed. Don't get me wrong, from 1-8 episodes I really liked it. 9-11 episodes were emotional, but I felt it a little skippable. 12th episode could have been a little longer. What I am trying to say here is that the 9-11 episodes couldn't grab my interest and attention as much as the first 8 episodes.

2. The Chemistry
The chemistry between the main lead was a bit unsatisfying for me. Not that they lacked chemistry, but after a point, I couldn't connect with them too much. I liked the chemistry between the sisters of the main leads more.

3. The Ending
Usually I like happy endings. But what happened with this? The Ending was good but bland. More like abrupt? It is like that food that tastes good but makes you feel like something more could have made it better.

Overall, this is a good watch and I would recommend everyone to give this a try keeping aside your bias after reading all the reviews.

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Superpowers

I love it.
Took a while to finish the drama because I was on vacation but this mini series is so good. Theres part where i was lost and confused but the overall story.. i like it.
The way Bok Gwi Ju healed and changed for the better was cute. Hes so ffff hot. After watching this drama it makes me want to watch MY ROOMATE IS A GUMIHO AAHAHHA.
The female lead tho... AAHHH SHES SO PWETTY. I did not know she was the chatcater in the movie 'UNLOCKED'.
BUT anywys i like this drama. Nice. Simple with supernatural effects.
I-na and the guy's moments are so kyut too.
Idk whay else to say.
Amazing. Abahahah.
955am 61724

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First kdrama that I've completed this year

Watching this kdrama was never in my plans. I threw it on to just watch something while doing a mindless task and I'm so happy that I did. This drama was beautiful and phenomenal.

The story and the colorful set of characters drew me in, making me curious about what happened to them and what would happen. I was sucked into their past, pressnt, and future. Which is very on theme for this story. The characters made you go through several emotions and live in all of them. The story makes you try to figure everything out and puzzle it all together yourself but still await the truths to find.

The acting was amazing and I'm already looking to finsih some dramas with the male lead and now look into sole with female lead. Their chemistry was chefs kiss.

I will be watching this again! And you should too!

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i binged this show in a day....

When the trailer for this drama first came out I decided to wait until it ends to start on it. Im glad I did that. This drama is heavy on the supernatural aspect most of the plot is related to that BUT thats not all. Surprisingly there are many other interesting stories as well for each character in the show.

When you think the female lead is your normal kdrama lead but actually she has an interesting family. She also has a story in the past which of course will somehow connect to the future. The male lead has a very deep storyline as well, he had his obsessions which made him oblivious to things around him and the FL is the person who brought him back to reality.

I enjoyed watching the drama it had great acting and the unexpected plot twists. Park Soyi was really good she was so good at bringing out the emotions i cried so much when she and her dad finally reunited. Jang kiyong was really good as well as he had to act so many different versions of him in a short period of time. Like his character was just a roller coaster ride. It kept changing. Plot wise there were quite alot of loopholes...but it didnt impact the flow much so it was fine.

The romance chemistry, i feel we went from 0 to 100 without anything in the middle. When the FL said she liked him I was like what exactly did you'll do to like each other. Like it was so random. For him I can understand a bit because the FL is the reason his daughter has someone to rely on. So maybe thats how he liked her but like it went from "r u here to marry me for money" to "please marry me" in like 1 eps or something. After they got together there wasnt alot of romance moments only some cute moments.

What the adults missed, the kids had it. The daughter and her crush although they didnt have many scenes together, i felt their chemistry was stronger. I just wanted the daughter to be happy towards the end.

The going to the past and seeing the future part will be quite confusing. But the ending twist was good!

Overall its a decent drama to binge but I dont think i will rewatch it. I really hoped they had more father daughter moments T.T

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One of the top dramas of this year!!!

i got this drama reccomended by netflix and was curious about it since it was in the top 10 at the time- I SEE WHY IT WAS IN THE TOP 10!! THIS HAS TO BE IN MY TOP 10 LIST OF AMAZING KDRAMAS- the plot is amazing and this is not your normal time travel drama or any of that. there are more aspects to the drama and i felt like the actors delivered it perfectly!! the acting was so on point- so much that it made me feel emotions ive never felt- ON AN INTENSE LEVEL. I SWEAR I CRIED IN ALMOST ALL OF THE EPISODES!!! every single one of the episodes had a captivating feel and some amount of suspense. each episode had me absolutly HOOKED to the story ,like and the ending was well deserved. i would very much reccomend this as a romance / time travel drama with some aspects of comedy!! I LOVE THIS SMMM

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Weird ahh ending

I started off really liking this and that feeling didn't really fade until we got up to the last episode, but I will get into that later. I saw a lot of people commenting on how confusing the plot was to follow after I had already finished it but personally I had a really easy time following along and knowing what was happening, the main thing that was going on in my mind was “this dude better not fucking die” because I hadn’t seen a single thing about that show so I had absolutely no idea what happened throughout the show. Hell I didn’t even know they had powers until maybe the second episode, thought they were just very weird. But I actually did enjoy this a lot, it surprised me how good it was. I was giggling and kicking my feet whenever the main couple interacted with each other because of their dynamic, and I love how he never backed down. He was even willing to possibly die for her at the end, mostly because it was technically his fate to do so but still like cmon. He was literally in all of her first moments too, might be a bit creepy but hey they were meant to be. It actually got me to tear up a bit too, with the daughter's story and her basically being the reason her mom died. And her interaction with gwi-ju whenever he found out that she had mind reading powers was really heart warming, both of them had been through a lot and had just been watching each other from the sidelines until then it was a very nice moment to watch them be together like that. I have to say I really did hate da-hae at first because I thought she was just an insane liar but learning her backstory of bullying and orphan life made me like her and not absolutely despise her as a character. And in the end, be it the wrong time, she did the right thing and told the lie even though if she got the money right then and there she would have been free from her debt collector. Now to the thing that made it go from 100 to a 95. That fuckass ending, sorry it's just way too much for me that this 5 year old went back and got him from the past. Too weird and I just find it so insanely stupid, other than that weird ahh ending. Beautiful series no other complaints.

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Wow, such a lack of imagination!

The Atypical Family had so much potential but fell short of lack of imagination. I liked that the family had superpowers but the powers were somewhat obscure and had "no rhyme or reason". It would have been nice if the plot led to the family pulling their powers together nearing the end to solve the main dilemma. It would have been nice if there was some background on why they have powers. It would have been nice if they had explained why the ML can only go back in time to see moments with the FL after his powers mutate. It does explain why they have lost their powers.

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WOW!

The headline says it all!

I knew this drama is going to be great, but it actually surprised me a lot of times. For that alone, it deserves a high score!

We could say it has an original plot, likable and real characters, and it has a LOT of fun and meaningful moments as well.

There were only a couple of things I didn't like, that's why I can't give a perfect score.

(CAN BE SPOILER!!!!)


1. I think they should've focus more on the character's personal issues, the reason they lost their powers.

2. I didn't like what they did with the antagonists. Honestly, they should've kept them on the bad side, especially the "mother".

3. Lastly, the ending was a bit off and unnecessary. If they wanted to save him, they could've done it differently. A 5 year old kid saving his father is a bit much for me.

Also, I think they could've done something with the legal side of the story, because literally no one cared about what they did. That was also weird.


Other than these minor issues, this is a fantastic show, and I highly recommend it!

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What An Incredible Surprise!!!

What a magically surprise this drama was for me....
I was in between dramas and searching for something to fill my time and this popped up. For me "superpowers" is usually a red flag, so not into that BUT Atypical Family deals with it so beautifully and it is such an integral part of the story I LOVED it! The acting was wonderful, especially Jang Ki-yong, who I'd never seen before...but you can bet I'll go looking for more of his dramas immediately. Chun Woo-hee played her part so well and is one of the most arrestingly beautiful faces I've seen on a drama...she was captivating! The supporting cast was also great especially Park So Yi as the daughter I Na.... incredibly expressive face and eyes! Also loved the black, white and color effects used in Atypical Family!
If I have any complaints (and it's a tiny one) I'd have wished for one more episode to round out the story...it developed so well and slowly that his return, in the final few minutes of the last episode was fast and a bit abrupt...I mean was he a ghost? Was he there for good or could he just return when "called up" by his son? ?
And one last note, and probably one of the MOST outstanding parts of this drama was the ABSOLUTELY incredible OST!!!! My god, it totally made this drama that great work it is! I've already purchased (and listen to incessantly) two of my favorite pieces..."I See You" and the theme song "Atypical Family"...so hauntingly beautiful!! This drama is totally worth a watch...or two and do buy that soundtrack!

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