Not that great, but pretty good
The biggest weakness of the drama: We knew he would recover.
I wasn't a fan of the revenge plot, you find it in almost every crime/thriller drama.
I loved him being disabled for a while, even though I question how they portrayed his regression to a 7 years old. Is this even possible? Normally you forget things, but you don't change your personality until you have some unreversible brain damage. He basically behaved like a child just for the plot "mother has to raise her son a 2nd time". But this kind of plot was rather new to me and refreshing.
That said, series like Good Bad Mother or When Life Gives You Tangerines seem to be some kind of propaganda that romanticize suffering, especially the suffering of mothers/daughters. While as a woman, I appreciate that such series show us the harsh reality, it makes me giggle knowing that the birth rate in South Korea is the lowest worldwide. And no, this is not only because of economic reasons, in that case people would have one child and not two, since one is easier to afford. Instead, the number of childfree people raised. I will tell you why, even though countless scientists are scratching their heads and can't find the simpliest truth. It's because motherhood is suffering. Endless suffering. I mean it. You suffer until you die. Women don't want to suffer anymore.
Enough of the negativity. I love the male lead, but I'm not a fan of his childish and cute acting. He impressed me more in Sweet Home or Death's Game.
The mother is a great actress, and the female lead fitted the role. Korea didn't invent filmmaking yesterday: they know what they are doing, and they know how to create a beautifully filmed and well acted emotional scene. So yes, this was a tearjerker. *Sarcasm on*I found it very thoughtful of them to give us time to dry our tears, because after every emotional scene we got a silly stupid village people scene, that was just silly and stupid *Sarcasm off* I'm a bit fed up with those cliché village people and this very unfunny humor.
So yeah, it was worth my time for sure, but the revenge plot didn't interest me (I have seen something like this too often), the village people were annoying and not funny, the twins were cute, yes, but also rather bratty. In real life, those children would give me nightmares.
Well, this was the story about a strong woman. I'm glad such stories are told. I loved the son-mother dynamic, and I really liked the love story. Those two had a good chemistry, and their relationships seemed deep and genuine.
When the big secret about the twins was revealed, I was rather disappointed. I looked forward to the male lead discovering it, I looked even more forward to the mother discovering it - but there was not much of a reaction, especially from the mother. When the male and female lead got together, after he "came back" - that was also not very impactful.
I expected more. I thought my heart would beat faster, I would cry more. But yeah, it is what it is.
I wasn't a fan of the revenge plot, you find it in almost every crime/thriller drama.
I loved him being disabled for a while, even though I question how they portrayed his regression to a 7 years old. Is this even possible? Normally you forget things, but you don't change your personality until you have some unreversible brain damage. He basically behaved like a child just for the plot "mother has to raise her son a 2nd time". But this kind of plot was rather new to me and refreshing.
That said, series like Good Bad Mother or When Life Gives You Tangerines seem to be some kind of propaganda that romanticize suffering, especially the suffering of mothers/daughters. While as a woman, I appreciate that such series show us the harsh reality, it makes me giggle knowing that the birth rate in South Korea is the lowest worldwide. And no, this is not only because of economic reasons, in that case people would have one child and not two, since one is easier to afford. Instead, the number of childfree people raised. I will tell you why, even though countless scientists are scratching their heads and can't find the simpliest truth. It's because motherhood is suffering. Endless suffering. I mean it. You suffer until you die. Women don't want to suffer anymore.
Enough of the negativity. I love the male lead, but I'm not a fan of his childish and cute acting. He impressed me more in Sweet Home or Death's Game.
The mother is a great actress, and the female lead fitted the role. Korea didn't invent filmmaking yesterday: they know what they are doing, and they know how to create a beautifully filmed and well acted emotional scene. So yes, this was a tearjerker. *Sarcasm on*I found it very thoughtful of them to give us time to dry our tears, because after every emotional scene we got a silly stupid village people scene, that was just silly and stupid *Sarcasm off* I'm a bit fed up with those cliché village people and this very unfunny humor.
So yeah, it was worth my time for sure, but the revenge plot didn't interest me (I have seen something like this too often), the village people were annoying and not funny, the twins were cute, yes, but also rather bratty. In real life, those children would give me nightmares.
Well, this was the story about a strong woman. I'm glad such stories are told. I loved the son-mother dynamic, and I really liked the love story. Those two had a good chemistry, and their relationships seemed deep and genuine.
When the big secret about the twins was revealed, I was rather disappointed. I looked forward to the male lead discovering it, I looked even more forward to the mother discovering it - but there was not much of a reaction, especially from the mother. When the male and female lead got together, after he "came back" - that was also not very impactful.
I expected more. I thought my heart would beat faster, I would cry more. But yeah, it is what it is.
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