Our Universe

Even adorable baby could not save this drama

This drama is an example of love triangle done wrong. The story was engaging in its first episodes, featuring two in-laws hating each other in a forced cohabitation to take care of their nephew. However, instead of focusting on this storyline, the script devolved into an insufferable love triangle that made the second male lead the central figure of the romance...When the heroine is going into more dates over the course of the series with someone who is NOT the hero, you know that it is a disaster for any kind of proper romantic build up.

The cast was a mixed bag. The adorable kid (Park Yu Ho) playing the role of baby U Ju was an incredible casting choice. Bae In Hyuk, as the male lead, was quite good but Roh Jeong Eui was insufferable as the female lead. None of her scenes touched me, and I got more and more annoyed with the character with every episode passing. Not all the blame can be put on the actress though, as the script was really not doing any favor to her character. Park Seo Ham, as the second male lead, felt also pretty mid but once again, it might be more due to the writing (forcefully pushing this secondary role instead of the male lead) that made him unlikeable.

In addition to the big disappointment that was the overall story, the production value felt in overall pretty low, even if the camera did a good job capturing baby U Ju cute moments.

I would not recommend this to people as it very much did not succeed in terms of rom-com nor family drama. The heroine growth was non existent and the overwhelming presence of the second male lead did not leave enough room for the male lead to shine much. The baby the leads had to care for became less and less central part of the plot, leaving the viewer with nothing much too look forward. Overall what's started as a cliche / full of well know tropes but quite nostalgic watch remindering of older Kdrama, devolved into a frustrating watch.

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Our universe...

This drama is really bad... full disappointment why it was written like that, cos wdym she'll take custody for her nephew but proceeds to find love instead?

It was awful to the point that I skipped the parts which Uju aren't in it. I love the actors tho, they really did a good job portraying their roles but choosing their scripts isn't their forte... I think 🥲

Music? I can't remember, the storyline is so awful to the point that all I can remember is Uju's cuteness all throughout.

I will definitely not rewatch but watch tt edits of Uju to make my day 💗

Lastly, I'm literally speechless for this drama... and the reviews, too. People are blaming the actors but please blame the writers or whoever produced this drama. We're annoyed in the FL and that's surely because she can act (hence, the annoyance) but the terrible scripts and why the drama spiralled like that? Blame the one's behind the film and the management of the actors who can't choose the best for their actors.

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Baby Soo Cutie - Broken Promises

The real star of the entire series is the baby. Adorable.
After the death of his parents, this child is cared for by his maternal aunt and paternal uncle.
She (the protagonist of "The Witch"), He (the protagonist of "Check in Hanyang/Park's Contract Marriage Story"), just to name the actors.
This aunt's character started getting on my nerves starting in episode 4, when she makes so many promises and doesn't keep a single one. In fact, when the new director, her first love, arrives, she never says no, passes the responsibility on to her roommate, is unavailable, and then apologizes! A FOOL!
After episode 7, I put it aside for a while and struggled to pick it up again.
The ending wasn't bad, but it wasn't a series that thrilled me.
I'd blame the female lead for having this beaten-dog look even when she smiles, which should convey happiness.
Luckily, the child's charm made up for it, as did his acting and his connection with the cast. (Chegueo) The best.

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strong beginning, annoying middle, okay end

the beginning was so strong, i wish they kept that same energy throughout. unfortunately, the romance got lost in the very unnecessary love triangle. by the time the couple finally got together and we finally focused on them living with the baby again, again, the romance took a back seat.

final thoughts:
the whole show would be 100x better if they didnt do a love triangle. every other part of it was great and i wouldve loved to see more of the other characters and plot lines. i also wish there was more romance :/ especially given how mucb chemistry and tension that was built really well in the beginning. all in all, it was sweet and worth the watch (even though i wanted to bang my head in the middle).

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This series tries to be a romantic comedy, but it's stupid and has an unbearable FL!

PLOT: A young couple dies in a car accident, leaving behind a 2-year-old child. The child's aunt (the mother's sister) and the baby's uncle (the father's brother) move in temporarily to care for the child. The ML, a photographer, has taken parental leave, and the FL starts a new job. She then realizes that her boss is her first love. ML and FL will face co-parenting and learn to appreciate each other.

+++ The ML is adorable, a tsundere, cute as a button.
+++ The kid is so cute he'd melt everyone's hearts.

That's it for the good points... Everything else is unbearable!

### The FL character is so poorly written: immature, selfish, agrees to be the nephew's guardian but doesn't take care of him, rude and disrespectful towards the ML, etc.
Furthermore, the actress has no charisma, no presence. Just bland.
### The twists are meant to be funny, but they're just brainless. The story is empty and should have been reduced to 5-6 episodes.

=> 4 episodes is enough! I'm done wasting my time and tearing my hair out ヾ (✿＞﹏ ⊙〃)ノ
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Série qui se veut romantico-comique, mais qui est stupide et avec une FL insupportable !!

PLOT: Un jeune couple meurt dans un accident de voiture et laisse un enfant de 2 ans. La tante de l'enfant (soeur de la mère) et l'oncle du bébé (frère du père) vont co-habiter temporairement pour s'occuper de l'enfant. Le ML, photographe, a pris 1 congé parental, et la FL commence un nouveau boulot. Elle s'aperçoit ensuite que son chef est son 1er amour. ML et FL vont affronter la co-parentalité et apprendre à s'apprécier.

+++ Le ML est adorable, un tsundere, mignon comme tout.
+++ Le gamin est très cute et ferait craquer tout le monde.

C'est fini pour les bons points ... Tout le reste est insupportable !

### Le personnage de la FL est mal écrit : immature, égoïste, accepte d'être tutrice du neveu mais ne s'en occupe pas, impolie et irrespectueuse envers le ML, etc.
De plus l'actrice n'a aucun charisme, aucune présence. Juste fade.

### Les twists se veulent comiques, mais ils sont seulement brainless. La story est vide et aurait du être réduite en 5-6 épisodes.

=> 4 épisodes, ça suffit ! J'arrête de perdre mon temps et de m'arracher les cheveux ヾ (✿＞﹏ ⊙〃)ノ

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Good Plot. Worst Execution.

This is One of the Few Dramas where I actually put it on hold in the middle of watching for so many days and only finished it for a sake of finishing it as I don't usually drop dramas. In this review I will briefly explain about the Good and Bad things of the drama from my point of view.

Good Things
1. The Baby - Usually the infant driven dramas are always good but it's rare due to various reasons but the toddler was good and actually made me watch it during its airing.

2. The Male Lead - Seemed cold at first but actually a decent good person who learnt from his mistakes on both responsibility and caretaking. ( P.S - He was good to the point i actually wanted the show to make another female character to end up with him )

And that's all the Good points from me. Unlike lot of people's bitching about poor acting, according to me- the acting wasn't awesome or best but it's okay atleast it didn't make me cringe mainly on the scenes with the toddler as they seemed natural. Still the Acting was bad but it's not the worst aspect of this drama.

Bad Things
1. Love Triangle - There was no need for this damned love triangle to be here. And if the writers really wanted the love triangle then make it a light love triangle like Hometown Cha cha cha or Our Beloved summer and so on. The Love triangle actually made the drama worsen to the point of no return.

2. The Female Lead - Contrary to people bashing the actress, i actually bash the character which was written ( I liked the actress acting in Our beloved summer ). This Female lead was one of the worst female lead of all time. How ? - Simple she led both ml and her senior by noose until the 10th episode. The fl will bitch about family this family that but won't keep the promise she made with ml. I mean she really didn't keep the single promise she made with ml throughout the long drama. Overall The female lead was one hell of terrible character.

3. The Screen Time - I really wanted to know how high the writers were when they started writing 6-10 episodes. I mean they totally reduced the ml timing and pushed the senior screen time highly. Unnecessary screen time for the unnecessary love triangle. wow this factor contributed half to the downfall of the drama.

4. No Character Depth - This was the driving force I expected in this drama but there was none. Not a single little character depth. In the 12 episodes drama all they shown was the fl and her senior love triangle with ml and the story only moved in the last 2 episodes in a hurried manner. Man when i first watched the first 2 episodes I was expecting a depth character on why and how the ml brother and fl sister backstory and how the ml brother regretted his decision of abandoning his brother and in the present the hard things of leads raising their nephew with hardships and lil bit of backstories from the neighbors who helps them and the father's abuse and his punishment. It's all my fault when i expected all good things from this drama. The most infuriating thing in this drama is the lack of shopping for things, man it used to be one of the most cliche things I like in the cohabitation drama. So Overall No Character Depth.

Tbh the premises for story was good and with a toddler in cast usually drama won't be bad with the exception of this one. The whole drama went to shit because the writer forgot the drama wasnt some love triangle awkward story but two strangers raising a baby after a unfortunate accident. I usually don't say this but this one of my most hated dramas in the list of Heartbeat, Midnight Studio, wedding Impossible, Lion's Secret and few on.

For Future viewer - Watch this if you want to watch a insufferable fl who goes on more dates on love triangle senior rather than ml than actually raising the kid whom she took responsibility.

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The only good thing about this is the baby

The only thing watchable is that baby, cause he is super cute, aside from that nothing is interesting at all.
And to put all that weight on a 3 YO baby to make this work is just a stretch, why didn't they invest more in writing better characters and better actors.

And I'm not hating on the actors at all, i love the two MLs, but the BIH here was so meh! The FL is someone i don't know and i can't really say if she is actually a good actress or not since the ML who i like is barely good here, so she could be Meryl Streep for all i know but she doesn't seem like that here because the script is so bad and her character is terrible.

The SML too, he is literally the best but somehow they opted to make the FL ends up with the ML because.... No reason just what the writer wanted.

So yeah, aside from the couple of minutes in each episode where Baby Yuho appears on screen, nothing worth watching...

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A show that could have been great, and yet...

It could have been so good, almost like a Korean version of Life As We Know It (if you haven't watched it I would highly recommend a Hollywood take on a similar plot). Unfortunately, it ended up falling into the same old trap: a love-triangle-heavy storyline that felt bland and predictable. If I'm being honest even the love triangle part was boring, I personally couldn't care less how it ended simply because NONE of the characters were interesting.

Let's start with what I did like, which was the small community they built with the neighbors and how Hyeon Jin, Tae Hyeong and U-Ju became a true family. The ups and downs, their efforts and obstacles they faced...That aspect had so much potential, and I would have loved to see a clearer focus on the found-family dynamic. The child actor playing U-ju was absolutely adorable, and honestly the show could have worked much better as a family-centered story with the romance as a secondary element.

Instead, the characters felt underdeveloped, the script was somewhat lackluster, and the whole thing just felt like it was missing a bit of soul. One detail that also kept pulling me out of the story: because I’m fluent in Korean, I noticed that they kept addressing each other as “in-law” even after they supposedly grew closer and agreed to speak more casually. At that point it would have felt much more natural for them to start using each other’s actual names.

For the actual cast; I really like the actress Roh Jeong Eui, and I genuinely mean no harm, but every time she spoke, I found myself focusing more on how tired she appeared than on the actual scene, which pulled me out of the story. Her line delivery was also not her best work.

I’m also a fan of the male lead Bae In Hyuk from his early days, but the two leads just didn’t have any real chemistry together. Their dynamic never quite felt convincing. The second male lead didn’t help much either, his character felt like an overly idealized version of a past love. He was almost unrealistically nice and accommodating, to the point where it felt artificial. Love Park Seo Ham but I understand the backlash over how much screen time he occupied for it to serve no purpose in the end.

This could have been a healing drama with comedic moments, something about two people confronting the fact that they both grew up without a large family and slowly redefining what “family” means. There were interesting contrasts the show could have explored more deeply, like Hyeon Jin having her sister as a parental figure while Tae Hyeong never really had that kind of support, and how that shaped his feelings toward his own brother. They do get into this but it almost felt like an afterthought rather than a main focus.

In the end, the premise had a lot of potential, but the execution never quite lived up to it. I just think the show really missed the mark.

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Like a catastrophe, in my universe I was everything until another universe burst into mine.

If you don't have time to read the whole thing, skip to the end where the conclusions are :)

Our Universe introduces us to two young in-laws who, after the death of their respective brothers, must raise their twenty-month-old nephew together. Woo Hyun Jin, a young woman always focused on duty, and Sun Tae Hyung, a rebellious young man, would never cross paths under normal circumstances. However, much to their dismay, their older brothers' decision to marry intertwines their destinies. Three years later, their relationship takes a dramatic turn when their brothers die in a car accident, leaving Hyun Jin and Tae Hyung to care for Woo-joo, their young nephew. At first, the two in-laws don't get along, but what begins as a relationship marked by tension and differences gradually transforms into a bond that opens the door to affection and romance, thanks also to the presence of their nephew.

This drama brings us a premise that no other K-drama has offered: two uncles taking care of a baby, and a baby as the protagonist. As soon as I read the synopsis, I decided to watch it and eagerly awaited its premiere since I identified with being an uncle to a baby, and honestly, I loved it. Although many didn't like the love triangle, which is why I didn't give it a 10, I still enjoyed it. I just feel that the obnoxious boss should have had less screen time. The series is so light and adorable, and the romantic scenes between our protagonists are the best of the best. Woo-joo is the most adorable thing I've ever seen. I've seen comments about her decision; it was clear she wanted to be friends with him. She never said she liked him, so I don't understand the hate. People are so toxic that even Jeong-eui was being criticized. I enjoyed it, and I did feel that essence of family and the connection between uncles. The ending is one of the sweetest, but I wanted... I would have liked to see more kisses between our leads, but that one was enough to get me excited. Overall, I give the story a 9.0/10; excellent work.

The drama doesn't use a ton of characters, but the ones it had were enough. I loved them all, except for the boss who was always meddling in everything. Woo-joo is simply gorgeous, and the chemistry between the leads was amazing!

Here's my analysis of the main characters:

Sun Tae-hyung (Bae In-hyuk): A 28-year-old photography assistant, so skilled that he even makes the head photographer envious. He has exquisite taste and is happy with the life of a photographer, although the real reason Tae-hyung is dedicated to photography lies in his past: on his ninth birthday, his older brother, Woo-jin, gave him a camera and left him at an orphanage, promising to come back for him. Tae-hyung always wanted to show Woo-jin that he had succeeded as a photographer, to boast about it when he came looking for him again. But Woo-jin wasn't what he had hoped for: he only heard from him again sixteen years later, when he learned he was getting married. That was a bitter discovery that led him to cut ties with him once more, and even abandon photography. One day, suddenly, he loses his brother and becomes the guardian of his twenty-month-old nephew, Woo-joo, whom he had never met before. Little by little, he takes on the care of the child along with his sister-in-law, Hyun-jin, with whom he clashed from the first moment he saw her.

At first, his character annoyed me; the way he treated her and the baby simply didn't sit well with me, and as an uncle, I didn't feel comfortable or connected to him. But getting to know him and seeing what he suffered, I came to understand him, and how he came to care for Woo-joo was incredibly touching. In-hyuk did an incredible job; I'll watch all his projects that catch my eye. He's definitely one of my favorites.

Woo Hyun-jin (Roh Jeong-eui): A high-achieving college graduate, raised by her older sister, Hyun-ju, after the death of their parents. Her life has been divided between part-time jobs, study sessions, clubs, and job hunting. She wanted to repay her sister for all the care she received as a child and, first and foremost, stop being a burden. After the sudden deaths of Hyun-ju and her brother-in-law, Woo-jin becomes the primary guardian of her nephew, Woo-joo. But she can't do it alone: ​​when she has a job interview at BS Food, she needs someone to take care of the child and ends up asking Tae-hyung for help. They reach a cohabitation agreement to care for their nephew together and share living expenses.


Roh Jeong-eui is so beautiful! She's definitely one of my favorite actresses, and she did a great job portraying Hyun-jin. The dedication with which she welcomed Woo-joo was wonderful. The only downside is that I feel she should have dedicated more time to her nephew at the beginning, but it was clear she was a hard worker. From the start, many criticize her, but they don't see everything she went through. Obviously, she was going to feel conflicted about her feelings since she barely had her sister. And even though she chose Tae-hyung, they still criticize her as if she couldn't choose who to date. For me, her decision was excellent, and the way she kissed him was a work of art.

Park Yoon-seong, the youngest and most popular guy at BS Foods, is in charge of several successful projects. He's not only very hardworking, but also a talented cook and an attractive man who earns the trust and support of the board of directors.

His character is awful, the reason I didn't give it a 10. He's always interfering, making her uncomfortable, and wanting everything Tae-hyung has. The good thing is they didn't choose him, and poor guy, he had to leave the country.

Overall, I give the acting a 9.5/10.

I loved the OST. I'd never heard anything like "Shine On Me" before; it's a work of art, definitely one of my favorite songs. Other songs I liked included "Give U The Universe" and "Luv U." Overall, I give it a 9/10.

I would watch it again. I would watch it again with everyone, even if they didn't like it. I loved it, so I'll watch it with my cousin when she visits, and definitely with my nephew when he grows up. So, I'll give it a 9/10.

I would watch it again with everyone, even if they didn't. In short, Our Universe is a K-drama with a never-before-seen story: a baby as the protagonist! It touches on family themes such as sibling relationships and uncle-nephew dynamics, explores the protagonists' past traumas, and features a romance with incredible chemistry that I absolutely loved. Without a doubt, it's one of the best dramas of the year overall; I give it a 9/10—a fantastic piece of work.


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