The World of the Married (2020)

Where do I even start about talking about this drama? Even if I think that, I know one way that perfectly summarizes it: a rollercoaster ride.

This is one of the most intense and emotional dramas I've ever seen, and the rave reviews it gets is all very deserving. The thing I loved the most about this is how it explores the dynamics of different people and how no matter what status one has in life, in the end we are all the same, emotional human beings we are. I think I could go on and on about everything I enjoyed about this drama, but I feel like I would just keep writing about my understanding of the characters and the decisions they all made in the end.

I also want to commend how strong some of the female characters are? Although I don't stand with all their actions, in terms of how they were written they had proper growth throughout the series.

One thing I'd say I didn't like about this drama is the over-irrationality of decisions. For example, Joon Young being a super spoiled brat and him being very disrespectful to his mom despite everything he did for him. My mother watched this drama with me and we often talked about the things that annoyed us the most about the parent-child relationship between both Tae Oh and Sun Woo with Joon Young.

Anyway, to wrap this review up, I just want to say that I enjoyed this thoroughly despite the points I mentioned above. Watching this while it was ongoing made me control myself from binge-watching it and I would probably binge-watch it if I started it later.

In conclusion, Ji Sun Woo step on me. Men are trash. Good day.

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I couldn't make it.. this is too toxic

Starting from ep. 06 I watched it on ff button
Jumping scenes and sometimes jumping a whole EP

Each episode I watched I guessed almost the whole EP and advanced events

And I thought many times of dropping it till I did at last
Same repeated events as if they are Spinning in the same circle
Too slow pace
Too long length for the episodes
Nothing new
Too much hateress

I saw the relationship between the main couple turned to be very toxic
There were no purpose of the whole drama
He can divorce quietly
But his weakness and his empty pride were controlling him
Same as the FL her ego and her controlling character were moving her

I dislike the ML character so much
He is so weak and selfish as hell
The FL was so controlling
This was a perfect toxic disgusting couple for me

They are all cheating , they are all lying
Too much negative feelings I got from this drama
They should name it the world of the toxic disgusting relations instead of the world of the married
The end was annoying but suits two toxic couple like those

P.S : I don't know why it reminds me a lot with the American old drama named
Desperate housewives

I gave up and dislike a lot

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DO YOU LIKE REVENGE?

If you like a drama filled with revenge, this is the drama for you. Every single episode has some form of it. Revenge was all over the place…the main couple, the side couple, the side/side couple, friends, fellow employees. It has love, hate, jealousy, violence, resentment, plot twists, oh, and did I mention revenge… The acting, writing, directing, producing all were excellent. I couldn’t stop watching it. One minute I was crying, the next I was angry, then I was rooting different characters on. This is a very heavy drama that maybe everyone wouldn’t like. At times my stomach was in a knot. It does not leave you feeling “happy and light hearted,” that’s for sure. If you decide to watch it, be ready to be put in a kind of anxious, sort of sad mood. All I can say is this is a must watch! One of the best revenge dramas I’ve seen, actually THE best.

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I suggest you to watch this once to feel what is crazy is

Craziness overload. Through this drama I wished that every men should disappear from this world even though it’s fictional . All the acting and story is good but I watched this drama till 8 ep then I jumped to 16 to see the ending because it’s really suffocating me the after that I jumped back to continue the rest . I can’t rewatch this drama , while watching I even dreamt about this plot in my pov . In this drama both characters have their own decisions or plot or what ever their thinking but I support the female lead the most and the kid is really stronger than me . I also went through this plot , for me it’s my mom but it’s not this worsen

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'The World of the Married' is a roller coaster of emotions since the very first episode. The amount of times I deeply held my breath throughout the whole drama is countless. We have a group of the most realistic and flawed characters ever, I believe everyone who watches this drama can agree and say that they know at least one person for every character portrayed here. I wouldn't know how to start getting deeper about this masterpiece with this review, but I think the most important thing is to start by the main characters.

We have Ji Sun Woo as a very strong and independent woman who got to be an associate director of the most important clinic in her city and got a huge house and somewhat stable marriage all by herself and her strong personality, who found out about her husband cheating and realized that everyone around but her knew. This is such a strong first episode that got me in shock for hours, great start. We see her at her best and worst, all while trying to keep her son and getting back at her husband, or simply trying to get back on her feet despite all the things she had to go through because of a cheating husband. What I admire the most about her is that no matter how much she hit rock-bottom, even at her worst she was still able to stand up for herself and defend herself against anyone trying to humiliate her or her son. She was truly the strongest character in the whole drama, while being amazingly flawed as well. Something that I can never excuse her about is how bad of a mother she was as well (pre getting Joon Young back). Because she worked too much, she forgot that she also needed to be a caring mother and the physically emotional support for her son; financially providing isn't everything in a family, especially not for a teenager who had to go through his parents' divorce in such a dramatic way. Blaming Joon Young for his attitude through the drama is very shallow, considering how awful his parents were.

Lee Tae Oh managed to be the worst character in K-Drama history all through the end. I hated every bit of his personality, how selfish and pathetic he was, the fact that he came back to Gosan just to make his ex-wife's life miserable, when he was living well by himself and she was barely starting anew. He proved how delusional cheating men can be, especially after finding out that their ex-lover may be moving on with their lives. It's funny to think that LTO is not even a reach of a character or fictional at all; cheating men are the first to try to get back at their ex-lovers and not find peace once again in their lives. I remember pausing episode 7 or 8 multiple times when Sun Woo went to Jenny's welcoming party and how Tae Oh tried to ridicule her continuously and actually succeeded at that moment. This man really proved himself to be the worst man in history.

Lee Joon Young was obviously a brat and an incredibly annoying teenager and I could rarely understand his anger. Of course we know he was the biggest victim of their parents' mess and his attitude was simply a collateral of everything his parents did to him, directly or not. But one thing that was hard for me to get was the hatred and disgust he showed to his mom. Sun Woo was definitely an annoying mom during those 2 years for what we saw after the time slip, and I get that he must've been very annoyed at her overprotective self, but whenever he told her that he was embarrassed about her, that she was the talk of the town and he hated it, I just couldn't justify him. He grew up the closest to his dad, so it's obvious that he would be trash too, but no matter how messy his life got he really shouldn't have made his mom feel like that when all she ever did was trying to provide for him and take him away from all the mess. Of course, her love was flawed and she was unstable, but he got on my nerves so much. Though after he came back from Da Kyung's house, I definitely understood his actions more since they were a lot more rational. Overall, he was the most pitiful of every character here.

Yeo Da Kyung was my second favorite character here. Yes, the first one is Sun Woo and Da Kyung is right there. She got on my nerves a big lot in the first episodes because of her shameless attitude and how she tried to act all worthy and offended when Sun Woo told her parents about her cheating and pregnancy, but till the end she was the second strongest of everyone here. I'm not going to romanticize cheating with this statement at all, cheating IS wrong and is never excused. That's why I think that Da Kyung was such a strong lady because she put up with everyone's criticism and managed to lead a family born from breaking another family and succeed at it. Of course her family's wealth played the biggest role and it showed that even if you break a family, as long as you're rich all will be good. But her personality was still impressive, how she faced Sun Woo with her head up every time, how she held the worst in and acted like all was good when she was dying inside; even how she managed Joon Young's attitude was pretty impressive. She was quick to read through him and understand him better than his parents all his life, but still, what she did was definitely wrong and she paid the consequence of that: if someone cheated with you, they will cheat on you.

Let's get to Je Hyuk and Ye Rim. I must confess I liked Je Hyuk a lot a bit after the beginning even when he was a cheater and basically trash and I kind of supported his sleeping with Sun Woo, mainly for her but also for him and I blame myself for this, of course. He was trash at the beginning and again, he showed how cheating men only realize what they lost after they lose it and find themselves trying to get it back no matter how. Ye Rim was also very strong but I also believe her strength came a bit from lack of self-love. She knew her husband was cheating way before Sun Woo but she still put up with all that, probably because she thought she didn't deserve anything better. After time passed and they got back together, I was again rooting for them because they did look cute together and Je Hyuk did show a drastic change, so it looked like he was sincere about her. But I guess I am satisfied with the ending of these two, since rebuilding trust is a really, really hard process that takes a lot of regression and effort. I'm just a little annoyed at the portrayal of a man moving on and getting a young lover because he's hot and handsome, while the woman simply tries to live her life working for herself because she's old and can't date anyone new.

Dr. Kim Yoon Ki was the strangest character in this show. I never figure his role and I think there are a lot of people who feel like this too. We thought he would be Sun Woo's love interest and although he was definitely there for her, his feelings were never reciprocated as she never showed more emotions than a comfortable friend to hang out with. Then I thought he was there to betray her (after the conversation with Chariman Yeo) but that wasn't the case. Also thought that he may then be there for Joon Young as his permanent psychiatrist and become like a new father for him but that wasn't the case either, so at the end his character was just there as an accessory of the plot whenever it was needed. It's kind of a huge waste of a character since he had all the potential to start something with Sun Woo, even if it was just a softly hinted romance. At the end of the day, he did save her life and took care of her a lot, but she never even thanked him, nor did we get any romance line between them, so until the end I never understood his real role on the drama, so I feel like his character was just a huge waste.

The second worst character after Lee Tae Oh in this drama is Seol Myung Sook. She was selfish, hypocrite, shallow and all the worst things from a person and a friend and I don't understand why Sun Woo kept her around until the end. I don't think we even got a proper explanation about why she was such a huge hypocrite and how she kept informing Tae Oh about everything Sun Woo did, or how she didn't show any type of support for Sun Woo during the women's association meetings. I don't think a few drinks at one's house could solve all the damage she actually provoked to Sun Woo and how much she sucked whenever she was on screen. She was Sun Woo's closest friend but she never even told her about his cheating, seriously? I don't think Myung Sook ever got punishment either or something that would make her snap from her ridiculous world.

This drama had so many more remarkable characters but I don't want to make this review too long, so I'll just say that Da Kyung's parents were the worst type of parents: they support their children's decisions (good) without ever reasoning with them (bad) and then try to make up for their children's mistakes (terrible). Scolding isn't reasoning, so the fact that Da Kyung's mom scolded her a lot and tried to talk her out of that relationship with Tae Oh, they never really punish her for anything and it showed on her ability to do whatever she wanted without thinking of the consequences. I would've liked an ending that wasn't so settling for her parents, but I guess it's nice that they didn't even show them at the end.

Anyway, now to conclude this review, this drama is certainly a no-miss for people who enjoy more mature dramas, with real life situations that can teach you a lot and make you open your eyes a lot regarding marriage and many other deep topics in life. I'll definitely give it a 9.5 and anticipate most actors' future works.

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Something new, an interesting watch

Before getting into the storyline, I'd like to appreciate the insane acting skills of all the actors involved, they have done a phenomenal job,

Coming to the plot, the story is about Ji Sun Woo who thinks her life is perfect, until one day, when she discovers her husband is cheating on her, and all of her "friends" knew about it, her world comes crashing down. Its a story that further develops into the actions the "Married couple" takes, which changes a lot of scenarios, and the life of the people around them.

Let's come to the characters now:
1) Ji Sun Woo : She is the main character of this story and I loved how she handles (most of) the things. The 2nd episode where she realizes that her husband is cheating on her and she finds out that bag from the car, I felt so bad for her. She is strong, and independent on anyone. She fights for herself, and doesn't ask for help or pity. I liked that about her. However, some of the things she does are pretty questionable, like using his son to get to his husband, or having sex with her husband's friend in the name of revenge, etc. She goes insane and starts losing it somewhere in the middle of the drama, as a result of which she pushes her son away and he feels trapped. There are some things she could've handled differently.

2) Lee Tae Oh : He's the worst. And the fact that Park Hae-Joon (the actor) was hesitating about if he could play the character well? He did an amazing job. I hated Tae-Oh and nothing he did, could convince me even 1% that he was a good man, cause he wasn't. He just did what he thought was right/good for him and cheated on his wife as he pleased, stole his son's policy money, kept a mistress for 2 years and his friends knew about it, tried to harass his ex-wife, stalked people, and god, the list goes on. Even after Da-Kyung leaves her in the end, he doesn't get his lesson and stalks his family again, and drinks around. I mean how wasted can you be?

3) Lee Joon-Young (the son) : This role is played so perfectly, I can't explain. The amount of stress, frustration, hatred, weird, fucked up thoughts and mental problems one can experience after he sees his parents getting separated, is portrayed perfectly by him. I know many people find his behavior questionable and don't like the things he did, arguing that he could've handled things better. But let's not forget, the teenage boy, saw his dad kissing another woman, and saw his dad behaving everything was perfect the very next moment. He saw his mom driving him to the middle of nowhere, saw his dad almost strangling his mom to death, and the mean kids at school talking about him and his parents in the most absurd ways possible. All of this drives him insane, and he develops Kleptomania, and suffers through anger issues. As a young child, he refuses to understand his parents after they put him through so much, and all he demands is for his life to become normal, isn't that what he's supposed to get?

4) Yeo Da-Kyung : Well, I hated her. She didn't just steal someone's husband, but their entire life destroyed because of what she did. I mean how hard is it to just stay away from a married man, and have your boundaries when you know they're married? No matter how hard she tried to make it up, to her parents, her husband or even Joon-Young, it was all in vein. Although, she does really understand that what she did was not good and leaves with her daughter, to follow her dreams, is a good end for her. Ladies, don't waste your 20's over a man. Especially if he's married lol.

5) Je-Hyuk and Ye-Rim : This couple caught my eye. Most of the times, side couples are just there, for the story, enhancing the lives of the main leads in some way or the other. But I really liked the way they handled this couple. The fact that Ye-RIm was the kind of woman who put up with his cheating husband for so long, and kept forgiving him, shows how sometimes people can be, that you always want to trust the person over and over again if you love them, even if they keep hurting you. And even though, Je-Hyuk realizes his mistakes, and does every little thing to make it up to her, she just couldn't trust him again. It was only right that she moved on from someone like him, and lived a better life(I hope).

5) The Bar tender girl and her crazy boyfriend : She definitely deserved better. The way she cried when her boyfriend dies, shows she did really love him. But the guy was just too stupid. I understand he was unloved, and so he didn't know what he was doing to her, in the name of love. But he didn't deserve to die a mysterious death like that though. They don't even tell us if he was killed, or if committed suicide. We need an answer on that!

Other side characters :
The other lady doctor at the hospital, I get it that she was single and desperate to achieve success, but betraying her friend all of the time, and then pretending that she didn't is really not done.

Dr. Kim, he was the only one who was good natured at the end of the day, he helped Joon-Young with his therapy, saved Sun-Woo multiple times, and was calm minded all the time. I really liked how he handled the situations all the time.

The lady from Women's Association whose Chairman husband cheated on her : Well what a description, but now we know who I'm talking about right? She always had a wit for what was going on around her, and she observed everything from a distance, only meddling in when she needed to. She shut people down who were wrongfully gossiping about other people and supported Sun Woo at times. A good character.

At last, the overall story was good, and I enjoyed most part of watching it, although it does get stretched at times before the final end, imagine a 16 ep drama with 1.5 hours showtime. That's crazy. However, the actors did an amazing job at playing their roles, and the music was just right. I love how they used that one Marriage song to describe Tae-Oh's craziness. The cinematography is good, some of the scenes are really well shot. Kudos to the team.

I don't really rewatch dramas because my "to-be-watched" list is never ending, so it'll be a dishonor to them haha.
But this goes down to the list of the dramas which were something different, something which will not erase from my memory, and I'll remember for a long time. A good watch.

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Super

I have been so frustrated recently at the kdramas that seem to justify and glorify infidelity in
marriages. Thankfully WOM did not take the easy way out. The emotional rollercoaster caused by cheating and infidelity was exposed. The veil was pulled back and no one was left
unaffected. Too often the husbands are given a pass and the wife is portrayed as a weak, whimpering moron. Not so in WOM. Some parts were painful to watch but the impact was felt. The message was clear. Infidelity comes with
consequences and the people you most love may end up as collateral damage. And divorce may not be the road taken by some despite the pain and the anguish. Whether I agreed with all her tactics or not I applaud the writers in giving us a wife who had the balls to fight back. She was downright scary in some parts. Even the depiction of the son was right on point. Too often the impact on the children is glossed over. Right or wrong in a marriage no one comes out unscathed when deceit and lies are exposed.

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Makjang vibes without the makjang lol

really mature themes explored, seriously flawed characters, and perfectly executed through 16 episodes.
i love how it has the 'makjang vibes' but it is still rather realistic and mature- it's not just some sadistic kid writing his nightmares - instead it was layered really well, it felt so real it was kinda scary.
Overall a really great psychological breakdown of the patriarchal society in Korea and how marriages look like behind closed doors.
I especially love how they explore the taboo of divorce. Most people think that divorce as an easy way out of the troubles of a broken marriage, but actually divorce itself is such a hassle and has its own troubles too.

this show is not my usual cup of tea and this is definitely not a feel-good drama, but this is nevertheless a well-written drama that explores the worst of humanity- which always serves as a good time of reflection :)

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First of all, this is quite similar to the drama VIP in the sense that the man cheats on the wife etc. I like the initial storyline because it hooks you in and it's extremely frustrating most of the time.

The problem I have is that the female lead is not as strong as I want her to be, like I get lost between episodes because I feel as though she isn't getting what she deserves. I know they try to make it realistic but it annoys me because she's innocent yet she gets treated like Shi* from her son, her ex-husband and everyone around her.

To be honest, I might drop this drama just because I don't like how they constantly prey on the FL, it's almost like it goes around in circles but episode 9 is airing tonight so we will see.

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What would you have done if you were in her shoes?

As a fan of cheating dilemmas , affairs, forbidden love, mature and realistic content , i was instantly drawn to this show.
The cast is spot on , when many will choose Han So Hee as the spotlight stealer of the show, i would personally choose The husband!! The way he portrayed his role was deep rooted in reality . He gave us the broadest spectrum of a typical cheating man . I didnt have any negative feelings for him throughtout my watch . He depicted a pitiful character more than an evil one. I wasnt disgusted or appalled by any of his wrongdoings.He always looked the smallest in the room . To me he was an image of an emotion driven man , as opposed to the cool , charismatic typical kdrama ML.

To not make this review long , i m not going into the details of each character , but i ll have to mention a few things that got a strong reaction out of me . First is the son , i have seen a few comments calling him selfish and i felt the same way , until i realized, he was the most coddled child ever, he had no understanding of adulthood and its complexity . We might be used to the overly mature, thoughtful kid character in kdramas, which is why we didnt empathize with this guy . It took me a second to convince myself that he had an upbringing that made him the spoiled kid that he is . So can we really blame him?

I would also like to add, that suprisingly , the character i was most , and i mean THE MOST annoyed with, is the mother/wife. She pretended to be the opposite of her emotional husband, lived as a fake rational, collected and poised woman, but in real she was a ticking bomb of red flags , negativity, aggressiveness and pent up emotions. I hated every decision she made, every superiority thought she had and every competitive endeavour she pulled at the cost of everyone 's well being, just to feed her egotistic nature.....Not to justify cheating, but i can see why her husband cheated ...

The husband and the wife are both an emotional wreck , insecure and selfish individuals, with two different methods of coping with all that , The father is eaten by the inferiority complexe , while the mother is under the cracked shell of a fake superiority complexe.

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A beautiful disaster

What I liked:
*The characters. The writers put so much detail into the characters, they felt so real and multilayered. The writers gave everybody a reason to act the way that they did and created very realistic and messy characters.
*The performances. Everybody was pretty good in this drama. Han So Hee stood out though, her performance was phenomenal. It was a delight watching her.
*The soundtrack wasn't very memorable but I really enjoyed that orchestral/instrumental music was used most of the time. It really gave more drama to the series.

What I didn't like:
*The plot was a bit too drawn out for me, it dragged a bit. If the drama was shorter by a couple of episodes I think it would have been less exhausting to watch. The plot was great nonetheless, very dramatic but still realistic. Due to being on the heavier side, I don't think it's very rewatchable.

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Heart Pounding, Heart Wrenching, Perfect Drama - Not To Be Missed!

My first K-drama in 2021. TWOTM popped up on my Netflix and I thought to give it like a 10 minutes trial watch and then move on. To my surprise, I ended up binge watching this magnificent drama in 2 days . EVERY episode was so good on it's own, and then some ........

I remembered there was much hype about this drama whilst I was watching The King : Eternal Monarch (TKEM) which released as TWOTM has been airing for a month. Even with the heavy weight draw of Lee Min Ho , TKEM could not kick TWOTM from it's first ranking. And I have to agree, this drama is magnificent.

The acting flawless, the directing was to perfection, a story line meticulously written. Even the music was mesmerizing and drew out all our emotions on point. I felt so tensed whilst watching every episode and felt like I was always on the edge of my seat. Heart pounding.

What a great start to my year 2021. And anyone who has not watched The World Of The Married last year, highly recommend to do so. You will not regret it.

Perfect 10 rating from me.

Cheers - K-Drama "Forever"

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