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A sobering lesson on karma and healing

Mr. Plankton died at the end. BUT it is the best end he COULD have had, since his karma was so bad and he never overcame it,

so at the very end of his life, when he was forced to, he tried to clean up his life trauma. HE TRIED TO THE BEST OF HIS ABILITY

he was a very immature and wounded person so his "best" was still quite disfunctional.... He refused to listen.... Looking good and strong on the outside, on the inside, he was ... broken ... and not working hard enough to put himself back. He did not love himself enough to really really really really really TRY.

This movie is horrifying, sad, and very sobering REALITY CHECK because it shows you to your face what happens when you refuse to clean up your past.

Mr Plankton did not try hard enough to change, and there were consequences.

Mr Plankton was not ready to take in good life. He took a crumb, bc that's all he could handle, and then died from his inability to hang onto his happiness

HE WENT AS FAR AS HE COULD HAVE. So yeah he died in peace.

HE NEVER DID THE INNER WORK TO TEACH HIMSELF THAT HE CAN LOVE HIMSELF AND BE HAPPY AND THUS MAKE HIS HAPPINESS POSSIBLE AND **** LIVE ***** like that

The side character of FL's boyfriend is fun and interesting during the drama, but ... after all this time, i remember only Mr Plankton. Bc he was so genuinely SAD, deeply sad inside him.... Sad, unloved, shaken, scared, abandoned, alone..... although he wasnt really. He found ppl to love him and acted nice to some but he himself wasn't opening to loving himself... . and thus was quite cruel to others, unintentionally

Very sad, tragic story of what happens when you dont clean up your shi%

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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.

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Fun and educational

I love this kdrama. It was really fun and really educational. Acting was great, EXCEPT by the FL, she wasnt all that great. Also, her character was not written too well. She was very nice with the kid etc but in her life she was a total coward and never made any decision rationally. Weak character. She was lucky her condo didnt sell.

The divorce lawyer and the Friend nearby and her sister from NYC took the attention with better acting.
Some of the funniest scenes are yaksuri (shaman)

Some of the funniest scenes is how the Lawyer is filmed sideways as he chews his lunch and overhears the conversation between FL and predator
etc

The reality of the scenes, e.g the sister exercising with some tape

The Friend Nearby was so fun, such a great actress... HOW she said "yaksuri!!!"
and her kids and husband.. the remote viewer on the robot LOL

SMALL DETAILS LIKE THAT make it real, make you remember them

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Starts fluffy and shallow but it ends as a deep, warm, mature love and relationship

People wonder why I gave 10 to this kdrama.
If you are not smart enough to see it :) This drama is about a "new world" where differences are handled without prejudice and the genders are equal. The ML and FL are **** E Q U A L ****. She is not a loser, she is competent, and THEY COMMUNICATE. THEY ARE A FUNCTIONAL HEALTHY PAIR THAT WILL HAVE A LOVING PRODUCTIVE HAPPY RELATIONSHIP ALL THEIR LIVES. I think this kdrama is a pioneer.

The first episodes made me think this was just a fluffy rom-com for youngsters full of hormones. Like sneaking up on him to see his naked back with a tattoo etc. I was like ... omg I think Neflix is ruining kdramas.... ok.... I will just sleep through this... I was using the drama to destress from some ugly legal stuff, so my expectations werent high... The drama has an upbeat vibe bc ML and FL are very rational, adult, responsible characters although they are in their 30s so I watched because I was benefiting from that positive vibe. I am also a fan of the ML actor bc of Twinkling Watermallon, and FL is not a loser, she is highly capable, so I kept watching...

So at the very start, ML and FL were fighting against their own feelings in ways that were ... well... boring :) But ... there was no needless drama. ! I liked that. ML and FL are smart people and did not waste time and very quickly realized they liked each other and went along with it. They are smart and know it is necessary to hold onto your dream to make it happen. They are go-getters. That was fun to watch but still not quite it.

Then they had to resolve a conflict based on their animosity and hatred for each from the past. That was not quite fun to watch either but was getting more interesting. THEN the drama very sneakily took the turn to raise the curtain and for us the audience to watch behind the scenes and see MORE, and to see how it all fits together perfectly.

SUDDENLY we got to see the strength and the depth of ML and FL as individuals and as two lovers committed to each other. That was really impressive.

So everything that looked fluffy and over-the-top exaggerated and shallow, suddenly became a piece in a very nice looking overall picture. The two of them MATCHED with their personality and traits and ways of doing things, and were there for each other. THEY COMMUNICATED CLEARLY. They were committed.

So this drama ends on a note that is deeply satisfying, a very warm, solid, reliable relationship, human and humane note, and a lifelong love in a very positive, solid, reliable, sophisticated, mature way. By the end of the kdrama, ML and FL demonstrated HOW you can achieve it. Both were bossy and perfectionists, and both understood the deeper requirements of human condition and relationships, and both took steps to make it happen. They had arguments and fallouts and always cleared it out and came back together ON THEIR OWN. THis kdrama is not about them meeting by chance somewhere or friends rehooking them. EVerything good that happened in their relationship, happened bc ML and FL were mature enough to think it through , self observe, self correct, and step forward towards the other to fix the mess they caused. IT was very inspiring and positive.

THe underlying story is about accepting ourselves and living our life as we are, creating good karma, and about having loving clear productive family and personal relationships.

So that message that it is possible to pull it off if you try, properly :) and clearly, and bravely, was the message that was so powerful and so warm and educational. I started watching this bc there was nothing else to watch on Mon/Tue/Wed and it was boring at first but by the end, I felt good about watching it. IT LEFT A WARM FEELING IN MY HEART. It showed what is possible if you try properly.

Imo the key was the FL character. She was no-nonsense and relatively mature enough to see what was important, and to ACT on the important stuff before it was too late.

For me the breaking point was when the FL was talking to the evil Grandma and told her that this was not about who is the successor but is about the family of her love, how to keep his family.

As for the ML, his character is complex but the script did not leave room to show him as a complex person. The filmmaker made ML role so flat, always stiff, pompous and kinda grumpy and poker faced, so that really did not show even 0.5% of the actor's ability and made ML boring to watch. Some of his funnest scenes in this kdrama is when he gets kicked out and cooks, etc. I think the drama had to show him more in his HUMAN state, not just cheabol-idol-perfect-successor fake ACTING state. The drama forgot to mention how the ML character acted tough for his cheabol job and how different he was in his normal life. Not at concerts but when he was cooking, etc.

I saw the ML actor in "Twinkling Watermellon" one of the best scenes is when he communicates with the guitar player at the start of their first concert. Also, in My Dearest Nemesis, he had just a few moments where it seems like he ran wild and did not listen to whoever was filming him, and showed some of his fun, flirty, romantic, and charming side.
SO he can act a wide range and for some reason some bozos always put him in rough dumb flat shallow roles. Like Weak Hero Class 1.

I guess filmmakers are scared to lose money so they put an actor in a role he already did well at least once before. Like putting Meg Ryan ONLY in romantic comedies.... But that really messes up the filming and drama. It is boring. I cant even distinguish between Meg Ryan's films, they are all the same thing.

You need to milk the actors for all they got.

Well I understand you have to make money off dramas too so perhaps it is easier to recycle actors in the types of roles they already did...especially if the actor is not capable of acting anything else LOL there are those.... !!!!
But it is better to let the actor show more acting. Imo.

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This is a KOREAN movie, not Chinese. And yeah it is a masterpiece, It is fun

This is a fun and heartwarming movie
about a Korean single mother who made a baby from a sperm donor,
and later the kid found out the donor was from somewhre near Hong Kong
and went to look for him

and then the mom and dad got together in drama real life LOL
bc.... his Chinese grandma wanted the boy :) this is a real issue in China... they always value male children.... . So suddenly the family had this boy ... and the grandma worked hard to force the dad to get together with the mom, just so the Chinese family would have a male grandchild
and another trope, since Chinese grandma has a lot of clout in a chinese family bc of her age... the grandma was able to pull it all off LOL
she was a wealtht grandma so she could buy her way around too, like making sure there was no airplane tickets LOL

The Chinese grandma basically saw that her only grandson was playing hookey and would NEVER marry or settle down and then this smart great grandson showed up and Grandma seized the opportunity to rope her grandson :)
and she was super wise about it... she never forced anything. She provided plenty of opportunities and then it became clear that there was something there between mom and dad, so.... things happened naturally

Granma was a master gardener

Chinese government censored this and prevented it from showing at a festival
https://www.fareastfilm.com/eng/archive/2016/making-family/?IDLYT=15535

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Cute and positive boy sports story

It is a very "boys sports" story
the story itself is a pretty good story, sometimes slow or a little cheesy but nicely moving along. The acting isnt bad, The adult actor is a seasoned pro and his acting pulls up the acting of the youngsters. He was in Man to Man so he is all good acting macho men who join forces with other men in friendship and teamwork, he is very charming or nasty, as needed :)
The youngster actors are not bad, actually they are acting pretty well.
The music isnt quite the zap it needs to be... it is not a perfect match.
It is just that overall the vibe of tis kdrama is not pumped up but more mellow, we are basically watching the daily interactions of a bunch of very young athletes. Most ppl in this kdrama are super young male basketball players and a male high school student.
Perhaps how it was filmed made it a little choppy? somehow scenes do not follow quiiiite smoothly. I am sure the filmmakers will improve that.
The only adult is the Coach, more or less, and the only females are Coach's wife and daughter and yeah one hater, and we see them soooo rarely. It is definitely a macho drama about "a boys' network".

Coach's wife is in 2 other dramas currently airing: here, a mostly-villain in For Eagle Brothers, and a quirky assistant in Second Shot at Love. So, by now I watched so many videos of her.... I am IMPRESSED that all 3 roles are very different, fundamentally. and SHE ACTS THEM DIFFERENTLY, clearly, it is 3 different people. Two of those roles are the mother with a daughter, and one is a personal assistant / caretaker of a young doctor. That actress truely can act.

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Cheesy way to diss plastic surgery AND advertise it at the same time

I would have given more stars if this didnt advertise plastic surgery.

So the drama really shows the bad side of the plastic surgery, in a very fun comical way - the woman is pretty and attracts attention BUT you cannot kiss her, squeeze her, etc. bc everything is plastic and hurts or breaks LOL

I love that message :)

So she is just for the looks, from afar :) AND she gets a lot of attention for it.

That part is awful, bc she DID get lots of attention and became someone JUST BC OF PLASTIC SURGERY

The drama didnt send her exercising ......

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My politically incorrect opinion is that this drama has rosey glasses on

FL was amazing actress, acting with such detail, e.g. coming into a room. BUT she got cocky by the end and you could see the glee in her eyes HEY LOOK I DID IT YAY AM I NOT GREAT??

So I think this kdrma has some good messages and also some super thick rosey glasses.

Common, that handsome straight dude who fell in love with the woman who didnt allow him to touch her. The actor looked majorly pissed in the drama...

And glorifying and hiding the bad stuff lawyers do...

I was pissed off that Attorney Woo thought how to make the monastery lose their income. That was rotten.

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Had lots of potential and .... turned into a mush

The story makes sense, and actors are not bad, so I am not sure where it went wrong and kinda died before it had a chance to bloom.
Perhaps the story did not flow evenly, or was filmed with the wrong energy

Instead of being more "full of light" the story has suffering notes, needlessly as the FL is a flawed character causing trouble with her egotism and pride and rashness and honestly - cruelty

The story is filmed in this BLAND BLAH energy but also energy of ANIMOSITY AND FIGHTS and it is tiring to watch

ML is a really solid guy and his story is interesting. However, I remember FL more, bc the actress was so full of energy - unfortinately bad energy, she was cronically angry and bitter and prickly towards others

I just did no enjoy this kdrama much Waited for it to get better and it didnt

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Cute and bubbly and inspirational - but ... fluffy shalow

I watched this long time ago and I do not remember the details, but only what stuck to me.

The acting of that 2nd ML made it fun bc he was always into antics

FL was a clutz so she was rather boring and frustrating to watch.... by default, the "loser" irrational women are boring to watch....

however somehow only her image stuck in my head from that kdrama, which means that she acted very well. I think what was impressive is letting her friend run out of steam on pursuing the guy... ? Or how hard she tried to do well at her job? I am not sure why I remember that actress in that role. There must be something genuine in her acting and/or script.

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A sloooow burn drama.....

This drama is kinda Ingrid Bergman style, lots of face shots and long pauses.... it goes slooooowly.... and the actors are not very animated for most part, there is lots of strife and depression and grief...

it paints not a pretty picture of entertainment industry.. the competiton,,,, the greed... the politics... the money the power the GAME ....

and how to survive and thrive if you are an artist with baggage..

And the final message is pretty inspiring.

Warning: there is no romance in this kdrama . The focus is healing the ML and getting him to become a successful professional artist (by providing a stable family environment)

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