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On its own, a masterpiece. In context of all dramas, cliche. Excellent acting, esp female
This is a true masterpiece which I found by chance in 2025. Modern kdramas are just never this good. The oldies are RICH
To be precise, this kdrama is a masterpiece ON ITS OWN, but in the context of all kdramas, this is yet another "stupid insecure FL making dumb insecure rash choices" and "male savior who acts as her brain and leader" because she is a BRAINLESS IMMATURE WEAK PERSON so she must have him to guide her so that she can function properly.
It is unfortunate that kdramas just do not know how to make the plot otherwise.
It is a little bit lucky that FL is at least competent at work and is not a terribly bad mother. But as a woman, as a person, she is ... a loser. And an alcoholic to begin with. As usual, an extremely weak immature and selfish person. The only difference that makes her the FL is that she is not trying to harm others intentionally. She just harms everyone by her DUMB rash choices. :) How is that for a disfunctional toxic plot... ? AS USUAL. Also she is super skinny. Her calves are like two sticks and there is no meat aka muscles on her body. WHY are such dangerously thin women portrayed as "cool" when in reality, they are just unhealthy.
The Mr Queen actress Sister character is basically .... a mentally emotionally socially retarded person. She is a medical case of what is called loser.
How the golfer lies and cheats and takes advantage of her is ... well.... exploitation. Because Sister is essentially a mentally retarded person, or emotionally and socially handicapped, perhaps autistic, or whatever her problem is - she is CLEARLY medically mentally OFF - because her claracter is so one sided, it became a boring character and she did not have a chance to show her comedian and acting skills. That is super highly unfortunate. YeonTae character is WEAK, selfish, childish.
Other ladies are like that too!!!!! Luckily they change some so this kdrama is not a total loss.
I like the golfer character bc he is so vivacious and dressed so well, he TRIED and I love his fashion :) But ... he .... was manipulative liar and I wonder how long could he keep it up.... ?
As for fashion, it was amazing - very often scenes had couples dressed in somehow "matching" outfits, for example golfer and YeonTae both dressed in white with black stripes or suits with thin gray stripes, or inlaw Granma Grandpa dressed in matching gray/rose outfits - but they are not really officially matching, it is just fabrics that mesh well together, maybe look similar, and look good together. THE CLOTHES ARE AWESOME I would rewatch the entire drama again just to check out the clothes they wore, esp couples.
The in-law Grandpa is an excellent actor and his character is so vivid.
TaeMin actor is also an excellent actor and handled his face on the camera so well. He is a little scary bc he is polite etc AND also quite mean and shrewd.
HoTae and his wife are terrible actors, really terrible. Cannot act.
It drove me bananas to see the manipulation of lips. JinJu and HoTae's wife just keep pouting and meowing to make it look sexy but I just have a desire to turn off the TV. YunTae Mr Queen actress also speaks with his lips shut to make it "cute" and it is majorly ANNOYING.
I find TaeMin Teacher character scary and shrewd. But ... positive
Kdramas portray women as really brainless people, and ML mother, mother in law are incredibly nasty evil bitches who run the lives of their children as if their children are toys they own. THis is SO CLICHE in kdramas, to see parents manipulating their children as chess pieces on the chessboard, moving them around like dolls. And it is typically bad mothers. Seldom do we see bad fathers. Men are shown as exemplary ppl who take care and protect everyone. Bologney.
These VICIOUS, SELFISH WOMEN makes me realie that Korean men do not satisfy their women otherwise they wouldnt be so nasty.
This explains a lot of such hysterical female characters. They havent had sex or any attention for a loooooooong time and are just bitter and nasty and over the edge.
And the rich Dad is the same thing in male version. Stuck with the pretty but nasty immature wife, he has to cheat around, which makes his wife even nastier. Those two are match made in hell...
The the Cheater Best Friend and her mother - wow that is a medically toxic relationship and characters.... and the cheater husband too.... they are ... a topic for a psychiatric study LOL extremely weak people....
So most of this drama is about characters who are medically mentally and emotionally disabled.
The only sane character if ML, as usual LOL that is the trademark of kdramas, to portray men as the only functional and positive. THat is pathetic actually.
SO THIS DRAMA IN THIS BIGGER CONTEXT IS A TOTAL CLICHE SEXIST TRASH
On its own, as if no other kdramas existed, this drama could be labeled a great story and piece of art.
SO there is TONS of disfunctional parents in this kdrama.
THE FL ACTRESS IS AMAZING ACTRESS and she is so competent in her role, she gets lots of direct face shot screen time.
Then the sister of ML is the Mr. Queen actress, she is soooo good with comedy, facial expressions, ....
Then the shopaholic daughter is The Elegant Family actress
The two grandmas and grandpa are great actors too. The two older people used in later KBS dramas are must lesser actors, esp she.
So in Five Enough, we have a star FL and several more extremely competent and strong female actresses, there is no skinny brainless loosers demanding to be coddled, etc. .
and the plot is great
and the music is fantastic. Newer dramas dont have such amazing music!!!!!
I found this 2016 kdrama by chance in 2025 when I watched For Eagle Brothers. also KBS 50-episode weekend family drama, and someone mentioned this kdrama as another example of a "second chance romance" later in life. The ML actor and his character and role are recycled from this kdrama into For Eagle Brothers 2025 drama.
Well the older dramas are better!!! I watched Young Lady and Gentleman, 3 siblings, The Real has come, It is all beautiful now, and ... it was terrible. Yeah even Beauty and Mr Romantic was pretty bad. AMNESIA, BABY... we watched amnesia plot over and over and over again until we gagged... FL actresses who could NOT act, it was icy cold, skinny ones, really boring scripts, etc etc etc.
I noticed in older dramas, women have nice bodies.
In newer dramas we get some SKELETONS and that's consider "cool" And those skeletons need to be coddled and baby sat bc they have no brains to take care of themselves.
Cool, my foot... !!!!! isnt that the reason why Korea has lack of babies these days... ????
So a lot worse food, a lot more western food, skinny women, cold women, nothing sexy, and yeah Korea is on the verge of extinction... bc SOMEONE decided to make those bad bad bad female role models as the norm. BAD MOVE. REALLY STUPID.
Then Iron Family was great, except the ending.
Then For Eagle Brothers is sooooo slow in comparison.
This older drama is much better.
I can see how actors and roles are reused.
To be precise, this kdrama is a masterpiece ON ITS OWN, but in the context of all kdramas, this is yet another "stupid insecure FL making dumb insecure rash choices" and "male savior who acts as her brain and leader" because she is a BRAINLESS IMMATURE WEAK PERSON so she must have him to guide her so that she can function properly.
It is unfortunate that kdramas just do not know how to make the plot otherwise.
It is a little bit lucky that FL is at least competent at work and is not a terribly bad mother. But as a woman, as a person, she is ... a loser. And an alcoholic to begin with. As usual, an extremely weak immature and selfish person. The only difference that makes her the FL is that she is not trying to harm others intentionally. She just harms everyone by her DUMB rash choices. :) How is that for a disfunctional toxic plot... ? AS USUAL. Also she is super skinny. Her calves are like two sticks and there is no meat aka muscles on her body. WHY are such dangerously thin women portrayed as "cool" when in reality, they are just unhealthy.
The Mr Queen actress Sister character is basically .... a mentally emotionally socially retarded person. She is a medical case of what is called loser.
How the golfer lies and cheats and takes advantage of her is ... well.... exploitation. Because Sister is essentially a mentally retarded person, or emotionally and socially handicapped, perhaps autistic, or whatever her problem is - she is CLEARLY medically mentally OFF - because her claracter is so one sided, it became a boring character and she did not have a chance to show her comedian and acting skills. That is super highly unfortunate. YeonTae character is WEAK, selfish, childish.
Other ladies are like that too!!!!! Luckily they change some so this kdrama is not a total loss.
I like the golfer character bc he is so vivacious and dressed so well, he TRIED and I love his fashion :) But ... he .... was manipulative liar and I wonder how long could he keep it up.... ?
As for fashion, it was amazing - very often scenes had couples dressed in somehow "matching" outfits, for example golfer and YeonTae both dressed in white with black stripes or suits with thin gray stripes, or inlaw Granma Grandpa dressed in matching gray/rose outfits - but they are not really officially matching, it is just fabrics that mesh well together, maybe look similar, and look good together. THE CLOTHES ARE AWESOME I would rewatch the entire drama again just to check out the clothes they wore, esp couples.
The in-law Grandpa is an excellent actor and his character is so vivid.
TaeMin actor is also an excellent actor and handled his face on the camera so well. He is a little scary bc he is polite etc AND also quite mean and shrewd.
HoTae and his wife are terrible actors, really terrible. Cannot act.
It drove me bananas to see the manipulation of lips. JinJu and HoTae's wife just keep pouting and meowing to make it look sexy but I just have a desire to turn off the TV. YunTae Mr Queen actress also speaks with his lips shut to make it "cute" and it is majorly ANNOYING.
I find TaeMin Teacher character scary and shrewd. But ... positive
Kdramas portray women as really brainless people, and ML mother, mother in law are incredibly nasty evil bitches who run the lives of their children as if their children are toys they own. THis is SO CLICHE in kdramas, to see parents manipulating their children as chess pieces on the chessboard, moving them around like dolls. And it is typically bad mothers. Seldom do we see bad fathers. Men are shown as exemplary ppl who take care and protect everyone. Bologney.
These VICIOUS, SELFISH WOMEN makes me realie that Korean men do not satisfy their women otherwise they wouldnt be so nasty.
This explains a lot of such hysterical female characters. They havent had sex or any attention for a loooooooong time and are just bitter and nasty and over the edge.
And the rich Dad is the same thing in male version. Stuck with the pretty but nasty immature wife, he has to cheat around, which makes his wife even nastier. Those two are match made in hell...
The the Cheater Best Friend and her mother - wow that is a medically toxic relationship and characters.... and the cheater husband too.... they are ... a topic for a psychiatric study LOL extremely weak people....
So most of this drama is about characters who are medically mentally and emotionally disabled.
The only sane character if ML, as usual LOL that is the trademark of kdramas, to portray men as the only functional and positive. THat is pathetic actually.
SO THIS DRAMA IN THIS BIGGER CONTEXT IS A TOTAL CLICHE SEXIST TRASH
On its own, as if no other kdramas existed, this drama could be labeled a great story and piece of art.
SO there is TONS of disfunctional parents in this kdrama.
THE FL ACTRESS IS AMAZING ACTRESS and she is so competent in her role, she gets lots of direct face shot screen time.
Then the sister of ML is the Mr. Queen actress, she is soooo good with comedy, facial expressions, ....
Then the shopaholic daughter is The Elegant Family actress
The two grandmas and grandpa are great actors too. The two older people used in later KBS dramas are must lesser actors, esp she.
So in Five Enough, we have a star FL and several more extremely competent and strong female actresses, there is no skinny brainless loosers demanding to be coddled, etc. .
and the plot is great
and the music is fantastic. Newer dramas dont have such amazing music!!!!!
I found this 2016 kdrama by chance in 2025 when I watched For Eagle Brothers. also KBS 50-episode weekend family drama, and someone mentioned this kdrama as another example of a "second chance romance" later in life. The ML actor and his character and role are recycled from this kdrama into For Eagle Brothers 2025 drama.
Well the older dramas are better!!! I watched Young Lady and Gentleman, 3 siblings, The Real has come, It is all beautiful now, and ... it was terrible. Yeah even Beauty and Mr Romantic was pretty bad. AMNESIA, BABY... we watched amnesia plot over and over and over again until we gagged... FL actresses who could NOT act, it was icy cold, skinny ones, really boring scripts, etc etc etc.
I noticed in older dramas, women have nice bodies.
In newer dramas we get some SKELETONS and that's consider "cool" And those skeletons need to be coddled and baby sat bc they have no brains to take care of themselves.
Cool, my foot... !!!!! isnt that the reason why Korea has lack of babies these days... ????
So a lot worse food, a lot more western food, skinny women, cold women, nothing sexy, and yeah Korea is on the verge of extinction... bc SOMEONE decided to make those bad bad bad female role models as the norm. BAD MOVE. REALLY STUPID.
Then Iron Family was great, except the ending.
Then For Eagle Brothers is sooooo slow in comparison.
This older drama is much better.
I can see how actors and roles are reused.
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