Call me a pessimist but with so much marketing of this drama, I am suspecting it would turn out to not be great. Just my feelings. I will be happy to be proved wrong.
My suggestion if someone wants a slice of life drama with great acting. With zero glorification of cheating. A drama where the main cheating man does not go scot free and there are very heart felt scenes with the same actress even, watch Our Blues. There are so many wonderful interwoven stories in that drama. This will totally scratch the itch for people who want to watch slice of life drama where they want to empathise with the lead characters. This drama Dr Cha is rage inducing for some (especially people who do not life cheating to be glorified) but Our Blues is very heartfelt. I won’t give spoilers but the relationship of Han Ji Min and her sis is amazing.
I loved this drama too. It’s super sweet. Only drawback - I usually watched this drama at night and I would get super hungry (I avoid eating post 9 pm 🤷♀️).
Ok so I am dropping this drama. Not because it’s bad. It’s actually very very good. But it’s proving very hard hitting. Will come back to watch when I will feel less emotional about the story.
Yes or go and write in victorian era magazines hating on women who chose to remarry.
It’s not the ending but the journey. The author glorified the cheating. She seems to have an agenda. She thinks any woman above a certain age (read menopausal here), does not deserve love and hence can find happiness only when alone. Meanwhile cheating men, who even refused to donate liver the first time around and would have been happy to see his wife die, gets complete redemption arc. With zero collateral damage to his majestic self. This really reads like frontier era (turn of 19th century Wild West) historical romance with heavy Christian undertones. Trust me I have read loads of them especially by Francine Rivers (I love her actually this author not so much at all). I love reading conservative 19th century novels, but they have no place in 21st century. I would, rather watch a historical show with beautiful costumes if I want the traditional way of life depicted.
I still haven't warmed to Lee Min Ki. The dramas I've seen him in he just seems stiff.But I'll give this a try…
Same here I find him very stiff. Almost like someone created a wood carving like Pinocchio and gave him life. Having said that, the drama he chooses have good script. So I can kind of ignore him and enjoy the dramas he is in. It somehow works for me. For me I can watch a drama if direction and story is good even if I don’t like the leads. And all of his dramas, I mean all of his dramas have been wonderful 1) story wise 2) direction wise 3) female lead wise. Only he is the problem bu t like I said I ignore it. So I will watch this drama too, since the premise sounds very interesting
I agree to this. And staying alone is not a perfect ending since at the end of the day, if you are not extremely introverted you want to be with someone even if they are not lovers. You can read stories about how old people make friends at nursing homes. Someone to laugh with, someone to share simple joys with. She had nothing. She was not even shown pursuing any hobbies. I remember the 80s golden girls, where sixty something women find companionship in sisterhood. Our protagonist is a hermit. A literal nun, who had a sexless life for decades, was in service of all for years and now has been sent to pasture in alone land, since everyone has made use of her. She does not even have pets for company. Don’t know how that is a perfect end for anyone. They should have shown her with a friend at least. But no. Our heroine is too self sacrificing to enjoy simple human companionship.
She clearly seems like she had an agenda. Women should better stay at home minding kids. Husbands can cheat as much as they please. And even if they chose to leave said husbands women should forever die alone. If they have a career they should only do so when kids grow up. How fulfilled is she. How dare she have a life where she is happy with another guy. Men can have as many women as they want but women should have only one dude. If he is bad they have no rights being in another relationship. This author deserves to live in the 1880s.
I respect your opinion, and indeed, moms can't be generalized. But for the most part, let's just agree to disagree…
Absolutely 👍. I have nothing against your opinions. I am just angry with the author since I feel like she had an agenda. I forever will boycott call her dramas. I got that angry (Illogical I know, but what to do). I also 100 💯 respect what you thoughts. You have articulated them very well.
I am a mom too. And I don’t think we take all decisions based of our kids happiness. We are daughters, wives and our own person too. As women, and I have spoken to many older women including very old grandmothers, the biggest fear is being dependent on their children when they are old. So they are chose selfishly (women) so that their can guarantee their own future independence. It’s a 3 D picture. Thinking that women will continue to sacrifice for their kids is a very one dimensional thought. And I also think men also sacrifice for their family and kids. But they show us an idiot man paired off with a saintly mother Mary woman. I think it’s the author who herself has these views. It’s not what happens in life. For me the movie in Pursuit of Happiness with will smith where he sacrificed for his son and an Indian movie Mimi (a mothers fight to keep her surrogate baby) are more powerful portrayals for how parents stand up for their kids. This drama is just a wishy washy mom who will be a doormat first to her husbands and now to her kids.
I will watch if there is no romance. So what is it? I just watched love in contract (I loved it) so my appetite for romance is sated. Want a drama without romance now…
An ending that traditionalists and conservatives will love. A middle-aged divorced woman focusing on living a…
I agree a woman who lives like a widow and “knows her place since she is 50”. If her own husband did not find her attractive no one else should and she has no business being with anyone. I have read enough novels with conservative themes which have ended this way to second your thoughts. Try reading novels written by authors in the 1960s to 1980s about women whose husbands cheated or passed they all were the same. The one I am trying to read now is called “Demon Coppearhead” based on David Copperfield. In the book there are dialogues like “she should have focused on raising her child why did she marry again”. So there you go.
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This drama Dr Cha is rage inducing for some (especially people who do not life cheating to be glorified) but Our Blues is very heartfelt. I won’t give spoilers but the relationship of Han Ji Min and her sis is amazing.
So I will watch this drama too, since the premise sounds very interesting
For me the movie in Pursuit of Happiness with will smith where he sacrificed for his son and an Indian movie Mimi (a mothers fight to keep her surrogate baby) are more powerful portrayals for how parents stand up for their kids.
This drama is just a wishy washy mom who will be a doormat first to her husbands and now to her kids.
Try reading novels written by authors in the 1960s to 1980s about women whose husbands cheated or passed they all were the same. The one I am trying to read now is called “Demon Coppearhead” based on David Copperfield. In the book there are dialogues like “she should have focused on raising her child why did she marry again”. So there you go.