Season 2
Please I honestly want the producer to try and get season of this show,because the ending is awfulYang Hun is supposed to be punished for his sins .
I think the producers need to do more, as I expected a better ending ,there are more truth that needs to be revealed
We need another season.this wasn’t what I expected,given the name First Lady I expected more, I think the producers need to do more
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The series that wanted to be high caliber and ended up being a soap opera.
I was disappointed; the plot and the story in general didn't satisfy me. I feel there was much more potential; they didn't know how to give it a proper script, the actors seemed lackluster, it needed more energy, it seemed too naive.As for the roles, the first lady identified with her character; her husband was depressing, completely ignorant, which I find ridiculous; the villains lacked energy in their characters, some only showed facial expressions and that was it; the daughters were far too naive, I expected at least one of them to be more intelligent, perhaps show some ambition.
The soundtrack needs further improvement; it didn't feel impactful at all.
Overall, it's cheap melodrama, with facile feminism and second-rate villains. The worst part is the way they handle divorce in the opening scene—"one kiss and divorce." I was expecting a thriller, a drama, a suspense series. Instead, I feel like I stumbled upon a soap opera romance that was meant to resemble a presidential enlightenment drama, but it just didn't quite work.
Honestly, based on the written synopsis, I felt it had a lot of potential. As I mentioned, they didn't capitalize on the central theme, which was a dramatic series with elements of thriller, politics, betrayal, conspiracy, and divorce. They should have improved.
Even so, thanks are due to everyone involved in the production; hopefully, they will continue to improve.
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Behind every great man, there is always a great woman
A man becomes President thanks to his wife, but he wants to divorce her at all costs to "protect" her. Twenty years of marriage and a daughter, but at a certain point he'll be forced to choose between his family and the mission for which he wanted to become President: to pass this "special act" to bring justice to friends who died in a fire at a chemical plant.For mysterious reasons, his wife was the first to want to block the passage and refuse to divorce.
To protect herself, she hires the only lawyer who accepts her, a friend of her husband. He also betrays her, stealing evidence from her and handing the bag to the President.
At a certain point, the plot thickens, and it's no longer clear who's the good guy and who's the bad guy, who's upright and who's a traitor. Everyone is seeking revenge for the death of a mother, a friend or their parents.
In the end, I felt disappointed by this powerful "Madame," whom I pitied throughout the series but who also had her share of blame.
They could have saved the final scene because we're short on time. They don't find him, but how (?) she knew perfectly well where he was. In the meantime, she was hospitalized, recovered, had time to give a conference about her beloved husband (to whom she had told she had only used him to achieve her goals), then she waits for the rescuers to find him and... surprise... a word, which I won't reveal!
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Not A Complete Waste of Money Though!!
Eugene’s comeback show after four years is a glitzy, glamorous affair, but it fails to make its mark!It could be attributed to poor marketing or simple directorial discrepancies. As the First Lady, Cha Su Yeon (Eugene) has a strong presence. She is smart, resourceful and has high acumen, even her backup plans have plans in motion. She is the Queen who keep the entire chess board under her control, scheming and plotting to achieve her goals. In short, when she wants something, she gets it; by hook or by crook. There are no straight rules in her book, unlike her righteous husband, Hyun Min Cheol (Ji Hyun Woo) who plays by the book. They are complete opposites and their relationship is on the verge of deterioration. Min Cheol is hellbent on passing a special act to investigate an arson incident in the past that victimized his close friends while Su Yeon doesn’t want the bill to pass. From there begins, a cat and mouse game between them, under the guise of getting a divorce.
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Terrible
Dreary cinematographyDirection is awful
The director is trying to make it artsy but it just doesn’t work.
Music awful
Too many plot holes
None of the characters are likeable. They are all cold and do not communicate.
The director/writers have manage to make us root for no one.
The supposedly clever characters are all poor judge of characters and make silly decisions.
How on earth did the characters get so far ahead in life?
No familial relationship between parents and children.
Secretary plastic surgery is too distracting.
Could be better
This is a car crash drama where is so terrible that you will
Watch it in the hope that it will turn a corner.
We are 4 episodes into a 12 episode run and it still struggling.
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First Lady: Political Drama? No. Just a Cheap Melodrama with a Presidential Backdrop
The show starts with the couple when they were young and then—bam!—a 15-year time jump without warning. The result? You feel nothing for the characters. It’s called First Lady, yet the president barely shows up: one accident, a couple of photos, and a never-ending speech. He’s a ghost in his own story.This reeks of lazy feminism: he’s reduced to nothing while she’s portrayed as the ultimate heroine. They even show a recovery video that plays like a campaign ad—he’s broken, she saves him. The message is clear: without the First Lady, there is no president. That’s not politics; that’s poorly packaged empowerment.
What’s left is just cheap melodrama—divorce, affairs, family quarrels dressed up with presidential flags. Add to that the ridiculousness: a seven-minute “real” speech (if I can’t stand real politicians, why would I listen to a fictional Korean one?), presidential security that’s a joke—even a K-pop idol has more bodyguards—and scenes that border on parody. In one rally, they arrest an attacker but still let him chat with her… just to spit in her face.
And the final blow: the crowd chants ‘Kiss, kiss!’, they kiss for the cameras… and right there the president tells her: ‘Let’s get a divorce.’ Political intrigue? No. This is just a bad soap opera with presidential lighting
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A Final that Whispers, Does Not Declare
It is a very good drama, although it carries that soap opera veneer and all the emotional intensity typical of Korean productions. Following the trajectory of this woman consumed by her own obsession for power and family stability is, at the very least, fascinating. The main actress sustains everything with an almost surgical precision, gliding between the cold and calculating figure and the mother who tries, at all costs, to preserve marriage, reputation, and the fantasy of normality that collapsed long ago.The villain, on the other hand, is of a memorable anaemia. Lack of presence, lack of threat, lack of anything beyond the basics. But does this compromise the drama? Not at all. The narrative never needed a monumental antagonist to function and politics, here, is more atmosphere than a battlefield. The ending, subjective but with a glimmer of hope, works as a breath after a lot of suffocation and says more than it appears.
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We Will See - Seen This Theme Before
Only the 2nd episode so far, so leaving it open for additional comments tor "First Lady" when more come out,, but I have definitely seen this theme before of the ML running for President of S Korea with the faithful wife sticking by his side (with a HS age child of course), and also the wife behind his success for winning the election in the first place, all the while him being stone cold to the wife snd child with cheating allegations snd asking for a divorce of course.I initially am struggling to adjust to the Ml's change of acting roles from last year's award winning drama from good guy to the stone cold cheating guy this time and also another actor who was on the same drama in s different roll. Will see how the total flip of acting skills turns out.
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Bisher das schlechteste Drama 2025
Einfach nur enttäuschend und so langsam frag ich mich (Folge 1-6), warum die Beidenüberhaupt verheiratet sind und wie die Tochter
entstanden sein soll. Weder bei ihr noch bei ihm hat man den Eindruck, als hätten sie je Gefühle für
einander gehegt. Dieses Drama hat bisher absolut
keine Romantik und wenig
Spannung. Es geht nur um langweilige Politik. Warum Er sich so plötzlich von Ihr getrennt hat, ist auch nicht
nachvollziehbar. Es soll zu ihrem Schutz sein, er
behandelt sie aber, als wäre sie ihm völlig
gleichgültig. Und sie verweigert ihm die Scheidung,
obwohl sie ihn offenbar auch abgrundtief hasst.
Egal was der Grund dafür sein soll, das sie sich so bekriegen...ich bezweifle, das ich das noch raus
finden werde. Den ich bin kurz davor dieses
enttäuschende Drama abzubrechen. Ich frag mich
ernsthaft, was der Autor sich dabei gedacht hat.
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