Our Golden Days (2025)

Has potential but misses the mark

Our Golden Days had potential but imo totally went off.... It was supposed to be a great commentary on unemployment, seniors having to work, women's rights, women at work force, women in relationships, jerky blind males coming to their senses, about family conflict and sacrifices, what do parents owe to their kids, what do kids owe to their parents, about reconciling parents and children, stern idiotic proud fathers, bad mothers, criminals, what do adopted childrren owe to their real and surrogate parents, friendship, etc etc etc, etc. IT HAD GREAT POTENTIAL as it raised sooo many relevant issues..... and them imo flopped. The script did not present the issues well, FL could not act, ML/FL were practically the only ones on the screen - and the moron cemented Dad - and the filming made it too draggy...

I stopped watching Our Golden Days. I bailed out when FL just had to donate her liver. Pfsk. The third KBS weekender with young ppl donating their livers to some doozies. Now ML has to get a donated heart...

The best parts were Soo Bin - Soon Jae and Ye Ra - Youngest Brother pairs.... but they recently got removed... The family is telling their grown daughter she cannot date this guy bc he was divorced and his family is not nice and they dont want her to suffer - but all her life they kept her in poverty to pay hospital bills for the drunken grandpa... !!!!! It is like .. brain dead hypocritical family. I just had to quit watching that.
FL-ML pair never worked out bc FL actress cannot act and the script was not in their favor.

Also the trope of a toxic disfunctional family that messed up their kids - they put all money and attention into saving the grandpa who willingly engaged in reckless activities and kept causing more and more hospital bills!!! and the family heads, their kids, paid it all and disadvantaged their kids, aka the grandchildren, for life - but then the same adults want to dictate who kids marry bc it is so important for kids' happiness... !!! Bologney. It killed SB-SJ pair that was so fun to watch. And Webtoon-Bodyguard couple also got killed...

FL is acted as a snide cynical cold person and I think it misses the point.. I really dislike the FL actress lack of acting skills...

Our Golden Days has a lot of potential but just never took off bc some conservative film makers always push it back into soapy dumb trash.

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Sorry for length I was just rambling on, I have no time to polish this



It was very ... rough. It was so ... harsh, macho, lots of melodrama, all miscommunications, ... Bad script... FL on the screen a lot and cannot act... .The Father on the screen a lot as a totally clueless poker faced cemented old geezer closed mind character... ML a lot on the screen as a jerk....

Our Golden Days made some mistakes.. it had just a few actors and focused mostly on ML and FL on the screen but then it gave awful script to ML and made him a jerk for too long, and FL actress was just TERRIBLE in acting... Also, since ML and FL were on the screen a LOT and the drama used the other characters as just fluff and rarely showed them... they were kinda really on the side - the drama got really bogged down. FL was on the screen so much and had nothing to offer... she was sooo boring... her acting is terrible... and ML had a terrible script so his time on the screen was mostly wasted - first he was a harsh rude jerk, then he was this grown man who behaved like a teenager when he first discovers hormones, which was rather .. weird... waste of talent for that actor... then we had ... liver donation.. then heart donation... then forbidding a grown daughter to date someone bc she was supposed to live well and free - but her family bogged her down for like 30 yrs while they paid hospital bills of some drunken grandpa who could care less and kept smoking drinking etc and smooching for his medical bills...

then we as the audience complained and then side stories took over and that was a breath of fresh air. The 2 side couples and the villain mom saved the drama!!!!! but then were removed to make way for the plot of donating the heart...

And this is not the first time that secondary pairs took over to save the drama! In 3 Bold Siblings, Mi Young and the youngest sister took over the drama since FL was 100% terrible in acting omg. ML tried so hard but she was a piece of CEMENT. etc.

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