This Drama Had So Much Potential
I will say I enjoyed this drama until I reached episode 88-90 where the female lead, Oh Jang Mi breaks up with the male lead, Baek Ho. Her move totally destroyed Baek Ho. Her betrayal, made infinitely worse by announcing her marriage to his brother, Oh Jung Ho. She makes this drastic move to protect Baek Ho but does she really believe Chae Wha, her future mother in law, will honor her promise to not kill her family or Baek Ho ? Chae Wha has no honor can never be trusted . So why marry Oh Jin Ho? Also how can Oh Jun Ho marry Oh JangMi when he knows his brother loves her more than life itself. Oh Jang Mi should have found a better way to seek her revenge and get justice but instead chose a way to totally destroy the love of her life, Baek Ho.So if you step back and look where we are in this drama, there is so much sadness that personally, I really can’t watch. Does anyone besides me see any redeeming value in the FLs behavior because I just don’t see any happy moments….. just incredible sadness. I need a reason to keep watching this drama and right now I have none .
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This drama is so entertaining
You guys should watch this drama.It's about revenge.I'm not going to spoil, but like, yeah, that's the main thing.It's really cool.You should watch it like right now.Because it has only six episodes, it will have all of one hundred and twenty episodes.So you should be catching it up like right now.This is probably my favorite ongoing drama.At the moment, check it out, guys.Was this review helpful to you?
WEIRD
I went into First Man expecting a story about justice, truth, and emotional depth, but what I got instead was a confusing mix of weak writing, forced romance, and completely inconsistent characters.
The biggest issue is that the show doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be. At one point, it tries to present a serious story involving murder, betrayal, and revenge. But at the same time, it keeps shifting into light rom-com moments that feel completely out of place. When the situation is this serious, the characters acting playful or romantic just feels wrong.
The character of Baek Ho especially feels poorly written. He comes across as someone who has no real loyalty — not to his brother, not to his family, and not even to basic morality. Instead of acting like a strong or conflicted lead, he often feels selfish and driven by impulse. His relationship decisions, particularly with Seo Rin (while Jang Mi is in a coma), make him look insensitive and emotionally careless.
Jang Mi isn’t much better. Her entire approach to revenge is frustrating to watch. Instead of using logic or going to the police, she chooses emotional confrontation with people who clearly can’t do anything. It makes her look reactive rather than smart. Even worse, her actions as Seo Rin create unnecessary chaos, especially by interfering in Seo Rin’s relationship with Jun Ho.
Jun Ho is probably the most unfairly treated character. He doesn’t deserve the way he’s pushed aside and emotionally ignored. What makes it more confusing is that Jang Mi once admired him, yet later treats him coldly for no clear reason.
The relationships in this show are messy in a way that doesn’t feel intentional or meaningful — just poorly handled. Characters fall in love, break up, and reconnect without proper development, making it hard to care about any of them.
Overall, First Man feels like a story where drama is forced over logic, and emotions are prioritized over consistency. Instead of a satisfying narrative about justice or revenge, it turns into a frustrating experience where characters behave in ways that don’t make sense.
Final verdict: A confusing and inconsistent drama that had potential but lost its direction due to weak writing and poorly handled characters.
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Super DUMB FL and Kardashiams-like plot after ep 87 ruined the drama
I WAS happy with this drama until ep 87/88 and now I am dropping it.The FL is the same stupid in ep 88 as in ep 1!!!!!! By now the FL should transformed enough to know that one photo of SR is not a proof that SR is safe, and that the villain has no intentions to keep any promises to keep FL's family and BH safe. The villain plans to kill them all and WILL.
I do not mind that in ep 88 she thinks about dumping BH and marrying his brother. That is normal. She SHOULD be considering that as one option. But she SHOULD be rejecting it, based on some solid logic and previous experiences and information. BUT I AM SURE SHE WILL ACT ON IT and so I am gonna drop this drama.
BC FL HAS NO ABILITY TO SELF REFLECT. Runing the life of her love and his brother just so that she can get revenge by seeing the villain suffer - how DUMB is that???
Wow JM is cesspool. Her idea of love - to destroy the man she "loves" and his brother.... so that she could revenge and make HY suffer .... That is the situation in ep 87/88 when FL becomes evil and STAYS AS DUMB AS EVER
She makes the deal to marry ML's brother so that she would "save him" - whch is completely DUMB as the main villain has no intentions of keeping any promise and will kill everyone anyways.
Until ep 87/88, the drama was great for me and made perfect sense to me... Except that JM was too stupidly dumb, like The Woman Who Swallowed the Sun... seems like MCB loves creating dramas with REALLY DUMB LOW IQ FL.... Wow what a suicidal slant.
And seems like everyone wants to try Graceful Liar villain FL ... wow what a stupid slant. To appease the western audience, which is used to watching Kardashian kind cesspools...
YUCK THE REAL KDRAMAS ARE DEAD ALREADY
Some ppl complained that the drama doesnt make sense to them and wanted a bloody revenge - and they got it!!!! In ep 87, the drama turns into Kardashians. Western audience is so used to watching Kardashian-like stories based on s.x violence and evil, they just want it slightly dilluted in kdramas, and so they keep asking for it in kdramas, and they got it.... So I am out of this Kardashian story.
SO THIS IS MY REVIEW FOR EPISODES 1-86:
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I love the particular feel of this drama where family people try to navigate revenge without losing track of family and love, and LIVE THEIR LIFE while doing a revenge.
I think it is super limiting to expect revenge in one particular flavor. I notice some audience wants some all obsessed bloody revenge. I say - there are a million ways to do revenge, this drama is just one way...
I like the plot and the acting of this drama, it all makes sense to me. I think it is a high quality production with a reasonably realistic plot, and with excellent acting. I LOVE the underlying cozy lovey dovey family feel of this drama. It is truly a family drama with revenge, instead of a drama focusing on revenge and using family as the props. In this drama, a loving family deals with the misfortune that has befallen them, and they do their best - while thrown into a chaos of various entities moving against them.
The drama is an amazing thriller as there are SO MANY IRONS IN THE FIRE, so many "teams" of people competing to gain some info and upper hand on the opponent and then make a move... it is actually nerve wrecking :) :) :)
Quite a combo of lovey dovey and a nerve wrecking thriller.
Imo FL is an excellent actress, I saw her for the first time in Queen's house and became a fan. That was a quality production with many excellent actors, so I learned to follow the actress and ended up watching First Man too.
First Man is even better, the start of the story was fast, and things are rolling.... ML-FL pair is a good team in this drama, and they are GREAT. ML actor is fantastic.
The villain is super effective, her slimey flippant voice makes me growl any time I hear it LOL
and there are other good actors in here. GoldDigger duo is really fun, and their flirting with Tae Puyng allowed us to see how good looking they are and he is... The Chairmain is a great mystery card... the Adjuma is great too... Overall, the acting is great (except Jun Ho but he improved and is still improving.)
FL Jang Mi and ML Baek Ho come from very warm loving families, so their world is based on kindness and trust - and makes then naive and slow to understand when they are being swindled... makes them less cautious... and yes perfectly capable of having a lovey dovey romance while doing the revenge. Their whole life they have been a "sheltered kid" so yeah dealing with criminals is new to them. They are comfortble, stable, slow people who take family and love first. So of course they are having a lovey dovey romance while doing revenge!!! LOVE IS THE ONLY WAY THEY KNOW HOW TO LIVE :) and they live it!!!! no matter what :) JM also needs help for the revenge, the job is too big for one person...
It doesnt help that JM is not terribly smart :( and tends to make rash arrogant (and false) conclusions, fails to connect the dots, and witholds critical information from teammates "because she does not want to shock them" - that is seriously dumb way of thinking - and it is all a detriment to the drama...
Luckily JM was slowly getting better.... the organic slow progress made sense as it was "day to day" dramatime...
and episode 77 shows JM changed and got a LOT smarter and wiser and street smart... That's cool.
I love the character of Baek Ho bc he is that loyal doggy stable reliable loving caring guy. You know that guy, the nice neighbor, the good friend guy? He is not the smartest either but he is honest and keeps trying.
FL and ML actors really convey their characters. It is fun to watch Jang Mi and Baek Ho grow and change. By ep 66, they are getting more and more skilled in working together to overcome the crime, and they are getting more and more skilled in their romance too :) BH from a quiet "stable" shy guy turned out to be quite a charmer LOL It is possible bc BH actor is very talented and nailed down his character. In fact, I do not see the actor, it seems REAL, like BH was a REAL person.
Jun Ho is the most complex character of them all, and also Seo Rin. They both survived extreme hostile environments from birth on, and survived on their intelligence and creativity. They are crazy risk takers, have crazy high difficult-to-reach goals, they are shakers and players. When SR was the leading character, the drama was moving a lot faster!
JH has a mean streak as well as abandoned child in grief and needing his mommy streak, so it will be fun to see how his character develops.
Jun Ho actor was such a piece of cement at the start but luckily his acting is now more lively and expressive. It is fun to watch that.
Overall, this is the quality of a good weekend family drama, but with more drama - like murders and villains - and revenge and makkang, just spread into 120 episodes 30 mins each, with great cliffhangers.
Great to watch when you have some time in your breaks.
Around ep 66, about half of the drama, started getting more "faster and complicated" as more players are into the game, and the core players are smarter :) and JM and BH got foxy :)
The twin sisters SR and JM are soooo different... JM is not educated, from poor family, and slow... SR is witty, smart, fast, creative... and ends up in coma, so JM has to grow up fast...
Both sisters are acted by the same actress, the FL actress.
FL actress is very talented and she really nails down both characters.
It is harder to find good actresses, esp bc their script is typically NOT in their favor and makes them too dumb. Queen't house started with super dumb FL and finally let her be smart and successful. The FL is same there and here, and she nailed both roles. To act twin sisters at the same time, even in the same scenes, is some impressive acting skillZ. RESPECT!!!!
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