This drama has it's own charm.
StoryThis drama is made as same as people's common life. It tells us about 1980s IMF crisis and how hard was that time for korean people. Also this drama story feels like I'm watching in 2016 drama. It feels like old kdrama vibe. This drama give us more advices about life. In hard times we should believe and help each other. Story was quite different from other drama stories. I mean this is not rich man poor woman drama code. This based on real life and the characters was hard to live that time. But this drama gives a hottest feeling about family and people. Even this story wasn't major hit it isn't bad like people telling it. If you want to give it a try don't hesitate just watch.
Characters
It's obvious that my fv characters are kang tae poong and oh mi seon. They have a insane chemistry. ML & FL was strong in there ways. When things get hard they are good to rely on. I love tae poong character so much. He is good, forgivable, helpful, loveable character. Mi seon was also good FL. She helped many times tae poong without hoping anything from him.
Because of jun ho this drama was more attractive to me. He has his ways to charm and shine this drama. Kim min ha was suitable for mi seon's character. She has natural charm fits for the character. Also typhoon family employees acted well. With them drama is not boring but it becomes interesting.
Music
I really hoped strangers with flowers on a crowded train song will released. It so fit the train scene. I hear many times it. lee jun ho's song was soo good to hear. I also liked updraft mv from stray kids han. It was heart exciting ost. Other osts was good as well but i don't remember their names.
As a lee jun ho fan i never doubt about his dramas. He acted so many dramas and they were all became my fv. First episodes (especially the train) scene vibe was really amazing. It was so eye candy to me. I like this drama calm old vibe. If anyone here have doubts about watching this drama. I'm telling you to give it a try. It's not bad as others telling. Sometimes you can find drama is amazing. 💖💖😁
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the point isn’t the leads getting together, finally. but still enough romance for me to love it.
I love patterns and I love when a show depicts a specific type of symbol throughout it. In this case, this show had a pattern of father/son relationships. A son who lost his father, a son whose father almost killed himself, a son whose father taught him to be the devil on earth. It find the diverse depictions beautiful and so, so exemplary in teaching us all something. I don’t recall any other symbols falling under this pattern but their were *many* more patters that were all so illuminating. I honestly loved the show and would recommend it.This is the second Korean show I have watched based during the economic crisis in Korea and I’m interested in watching more. People in poverty are the closest things we have to devils and angels on earth and I’ve found Korean dramas to do an amazing job at depicting this.
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Too Much, Too Soon, and Probably Too Little, Too Late
Summary: At first, I loved this underdog dramedy featuring an unlucky guy and his misfit crew. It was so heartwarming and some of the loss hit home for me. The acting was great and it made me appreciate Lee Jun-ho more as he showed his character versatility vs. in King the Land in which he played a boring and predictable chaebol. I also love that the female lead was a normal size compared to the often unrealistic obsession with stick thin as the standard body type, represented in many other modern Asian dramas, which made her more relatable and believable (at least to me 😅).Later, I started to hate the show when I realized that NEARLY EVERY EPISODE involves some sort of MISFORTUNE to the main characters, to the utter point of exhaustion. I lost attachment to the storyline after the inventory destruction scene in Thailand and was just numbed out by Episode 12. Also, it was a bit strange how Kang Tae-poong outsmarted his way out of every difficulty he encountered (were his handsome looks his superpower?). It was too much heartbreak, too soon, but also lacked hooking me at the same time, especially by this late in the series. I never thought I would say this but the Netflix episode scheduling wall gave me a much needed emotional break from all that tragedy.
Eventually, that emotional break turned into a hiatus, and still wasn't enough. When I finally came back to the show at Episode 15 and saw another tragedy strike, I just couldn't... On top of that, the filmmakers had the nerve put a bunch of previous scenes into a sappy montage. Jinjihage??? I'm kind of afraid to finish the show now. Lol.
Other than those critiques, I found Typhoon Family a lovable comeback story. Would I rewatch this? Probably not. I like the uniqueness of the story, with a cinematic twist on the tragic South Korean economic downturn in history. But it's kind of depressing seeing how much hardship all the characters suffer over and over again, topping that WITH a bullying competitor breathing down their necks at every turn.
At least the soundtrack was good (love Gukkasten/Ha Hyun-woo) with period appropriate (late 90s/early 2000s) jams alongside modern ones. The advertisements weren't too blatant, with the modest plugs for Solarique juice, CepoLAB skincare, and Pepero chocolate sticks. 😂
Details: eh, too exhausted to write them...
Side Notes:
- Why were there subtitles for when they spoke Korean and Thai but not English?? I had such a hard time understanding those lines. Lol
- Pyo Hyeon-jun teasing Oh Mi-seon with "freckles" nickname was totally getting on my nerves but I really appreciated that they showed a FL with normal complexion that many women possess. Not all folks can have perfect porcelain skin like most Asian dramas like to portray. Hoping there's a trend in featuring all types of skin rather than the Hollywooded ones.
- Why would someone run with an open envelope? Why didn't Oh Mi-seon put the envelope in her bag like she did with all the other documents before? Also, the negatives proved nothing since it's harder to identify them then with actual photos...🤦🏻♀️
- Why would the construction worker in Thailand keep maneuvering his excavator crane into the taxi after he sees it blocking his path? AND why would they freak out when just some of the product was destroyed and there's like PILES of boxes right behind them?
- How does Pyo Hyeon-jun keep coming around at just the wrong (but also just the right) time to ruin Kang Tae-poong's company plans? Ugh...😮💨 Also, how did his dad survive being bashed in the head and locked up in the shed like that without any apparent sustenance provided nor a way to relieve himself? 😮
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Y'all just so mean
why does everyone hate it?? y'all hate the show for what? I think it's pretty fricking good and honestly if you don't like a show why watch till the end? like please go do something with your life, go outside, make friends idk gang but nobody is forcing you to watch a show that you don't like..like yea don't get me wrong there are things I don't like about the show like the FL she annoys me and seems pretty selfish but that doesn't mean I don't like the plot, i'm just saying if you don't like something turn it off don't just waste your own time and watch eps that are an hour long each for some show that you say is oh so bad, like at first before I started I came to the reviews they were basically screaming don't watch it so I didn't I watched a whole bunch of other shows until I saw it again on TikTok I was like might as well turn it on.. at least the first ep and I enjoyed it.I get it everyone has their own opinions but you don't have to trash talk the actors or the storyline..JUST TURN IT OFF like smh your not being forced to sit down and watch it. that's on you for watching all 16 eps get over it and move on. like do y'all really just watch shows to say something bad about them? don't waste your time if you already didn't like it the moment it came on. please and thank you, y'all just making the people that might actually like it not even wanna turn it on, like I hate to say it but this review is a little directed towards at least 3 people.
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This will go down as a classic
This drama will not appeal to everyone. It is beautifully crafted and is like a 7 course meal rather than a cheap rush of sugar. Those that prefer light and fluffy should choose something else. Typhoon Family is brilliantly cast and acted. The 90s setting and IMF backdrop is fresh… but that is not where I found the charms of this drama. It is the human stories, the beautiful and meaningful script, the switch from fun to deeply emotional. The acting and directing is masterfully subtle… done with facial expressions rather than screaming and ranting. It is fun, passionate, sad and uplifting all at once. It is all just so good. So so good. It is by far my best kdrama of the last 2 years so far. I am 2 episodes in and I can’t wait to see how the story unfolds,I am also aware that MDL is a toxic place where fans of competing dramas / actors come and give bad reviews even though they haven’t actually watched the drama. This happens to all of Lee Junho’s dramas it seems. My advice… watch at least 2 episodes for yourself. Even if you don’t think this is your genre, I promise you, you will be surprised.
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Typhoon Family- hooked up on it!!!
I was looking for a series which had both serious plot and of course rom-com. Found this! Typhoon family-both the casts FL and ML both portrayed their roles to the best it could be. And seriously loving the chemistry between them already.Waiting for it to be aired quickly, I can't even wait for the 5th and 6th episode to drop.
Totally worth watching and totally hooked up on it.
I will give it a 10!
Loved every scene till now and, waiting for more!
Both the leads are cute together and this series tells you how to cope up with the worst situation.
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Heart wrenching, crises driven drama...so far
up to Ep. 5 and it's alot of sad melodrama that tries it's best to make you cry at some point in every episode.I love the cast & it's done really well, BUT it is a VERY crises driven drama & by that I mean that there is a crises in every episode, which makes it heart wrenching, so not an easy watch.
I mean is the acting good ? yes, but is it enjoyable ? not sure- crying or watching the actors cry is not my fav kind of entertainment. You know there will be a happy ending, but so far it's alot more heartache than I find I need in my life
Picking it up every now & again because the cast is very charming & endearing & you can't help but be fond of them & cheer them on.
In Episode 7 the mood lightens significantly & gives me hope that it will not be such a heavy drama going forward.
But will I end up rating it higher by the end ?
(Note: am I the only one that sees the male lead as a perfect in a drama playing RAIN's younger brother!?)
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Dropped after Episode 8
I don't really think I'll be adding anything new from what other's have said about this drama. I'm a fan of Lee Junho and have loved his other Kdramas, but I just couldn't watch this to the end. When you have a slow burn main plot, you need a lot of good sub plots to carry the story and the viewer forward. I thought this would have some really good subplots, but it didn't. It's basically the story of the IMF crisis in South Korea and the tragedy that hit one family who owned Typhoon Trading. The CEO died and the employees could not hold the business together and left one by one until there was only one left. Enter the CEO's son who knows nothing about the business, has massive guilt over his father's death, and decides he can resurrect the business. The one employee left is a smart, pretty female who wants to grow in her work and is the bread winner for her family, so she commits to helping the son. There is also a spark of attraction between the two. As they put the business back together, this is where the storyline comes off the rails. This was an especially difficult time in SK's history. Businesses and banks went under, people scammed each other to get ahead, and corruption grew. All this had to be navigated to put Typhoon Trading back to gather. Stupidity and poor decisions ruled the day which always got the business into a mess which they had to dig out from under. This happened over and over and over and over again. The same plot played out in 10 different ways. The acting got clownish, it was downright boring, and although I tried....I really did.....I gave up in episode 8.This had a good cast of actors. It really was a poorly developed storyline so there was no character development. The subplots were either poorly developed or fizzled after barely being introduced. As a viewer, I just couldn't connect to the characters and finally said, "enough." The only enjoyment was the retro vibe it gave in the clothes and the sets of this by-gone era.
Sorry to say, I can't really recommend this.
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Started good but dropped off midway
Sadly, LJH couldn't save this show and all I have to remember it is the soundtrack which stood out.Every episode felt similar with out ML taking on too much for him to handle because he felt bad for someone else while suffering different but similar setbacks. While we know this business meant everything to his dad its tough to believe that someone who was so disinterested in his dad's career while alive would struggle to keep it afloat after instead of finding some other job.
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Subtle 90's Romance.. Very good and common story of middle class... Very good acting.
Very soothing good drama with a very good but vommon story..... If you are watching it then you have to understand the era 1997 when everyone was struggling for financial stability...... you have to understand that this was not 2025 where communication was so easy..... acting is great.... chemistry is good not bad.... very subtle..... no unnecessary touch or kiss...... bcz in 1997 ppl were not too much fancy to date or sleep here and there like 2025.....Overall it us still good....
This is a STORY which has characters.......and Romance is good... that 90's Romance where everything was subtle, soft and emotional.
This is not a Character's story where everything revolve around only them...
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90's, IMF crisis & Pookieness
What a beautiful pilot episode. Nailed the 90's aesthetics with cinematography & detailing. Even the crockery and office setting is so on point. JUNHO and Minha are being the POOKIEST of the Pookies, fitting characters like a glove. The rise of entertainment industry vs decline of economic growth, those streaked hair, glossy pants and hardworking middle-class... Everything made sense & done so well.This was true to 90's where parents were never your FRIENDS but you adore & respect them silently like Tae poong does. You never say, they never say anything lovey dovey. The era where the best generation was raised through thick n thin. Tae poong loves his family, friends & flowers. Total Green flag.
Looking forward to the later episodes, knowing the cast will definitely deliver a stellar performance.
Fighting.
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But here, it's all literal, which is embarrassing for everyone... Well done, brave small business owners, true fathers of families, we owe you everything. We love working for you. Thank you again for all the risks you take without any compensation, you are true saints on Earth. We live off you and live comfortably by sucking your blood, we have an easy life thanks to you, the heroes of modern times.
I gave up on episode 3. I'm sure the romance and plot twists are very well done, thanks to Minha Kim, who undoubtedly brings a deep sensitivity to her character. But I'd rather spend my time on something other than an ode to work and exploitation.
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