Second Time Is a Charm (2019)

Cute but not great!

I liked this drama a lot! It was sweet and I liked the cast. But the plot was kind of repetitive and by the end I wanted it to be over. The main female characters motivations and action were unrealistic to a annoying degree. I wanted to like them but it took a while for me to do so. The main "villian" woman was so exhausting to watch and frustrated me. There also often felt like there were not high stakes for which she was doing these evil things for. She had no growth or made any smart moves, just doing the same annoying things. The main lead woman was very annoying at first which got better as her character developed but it also almost made me give up watching.

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I started this Drama because the synopsis sounded promising, about two single parents starting again. What I got was a makjang marathon made more miserable by the awful female lead.

For the first 25 episodes I raged against the FL's unbelievably selfish son, who did whatever he wanted whenever he wanted with no regard for anyone else and NEVER apologised for any harm his actions caused. It made me think of "little emperor syndrome" What made it worse was realising he learned that behaviour from his mother's own view of herself

In the course of 57 episodes she apologised exactly ZERO times for all the times she flagrantly exploited the male lead - even before they were together. She was an adult version of her spoiled sprog, utterly self-absorbed, HER immediate wants and needs the only thing that mattered. Even in the final 10 episodes, she was prepared to break promises she made to the FL whenever she felt she knew better AND then expect him to apologise to her for daring to get upset about it.

I stuck it out hoping for character growth, but the Drama's version of "character growth" was "she's always right, he has to say sorry", a pattern that was literally carried into some of the very last scenes of the very last episode. While I can count on the thumbs of one foot how many times she apologised to him, she made him apologise countless times for failing to realise that he should always tolerate everything she did.

In the interests of fairness, I have to admit that leads like this are common in Dramas, but the "spoiled child" lead is normally a sulky chaebol boy brat, not a newly-divorced single Mum. I dislike male leads who act this way every bit as much as I disliked this female lead. Whiny, self-absorbed "aegyo" from adults is NOT cute or endearing, regardless of gender. Ms Wang did a fine job of making me dislike her character, so kudos for her acting. The love story of the FL's BFF was cute and engaging, and one more reason why I made it to the very end of this stupidly overlong wasted opportunity.

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CLOTHES

OMG I gave up watching this many time and eventually fast forwarded it as I could not stand the clothing on An An and the way she ate was disgusting. She was worse than a child and how on earth do two formidable handsome mature men fall for that??? She was so ugly the way she hung her head and sulked omg how can you all say she was glorious?? The same with her friend. two spoilt uneducated women, I mean at least the evil one had a sense of fashion style and etiquette!!!!! Ripped shorts the size of underwears were disgusting on a mother. She rarely wore anything below her knees. She had the body of a 13 year old. Do you not have any other actresses there?

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