Young Lady and Gentleman (2021)

One of the worst...

I usually hold Korean recent Dramas in high regard, and occasionally one or two in recent time has disappointed me.. And Young Lady and Gentleman I thought was really entertaining and actually good. Then after episode 10 or so it began to start unravelling and went downhill gradually at first and then it just accelerated to the end. Korean drama rarely goes beyond 20 episodes, but this one went on to 50 torturous episodes, and with more than an hour per episode they were clearly out of their depth! What on Earth were they thinking? It should have been 20 episodes at max and the storyline would have been tighter and more interesting, rather than bombarding the viewers with shit.

The FL lead, on my god, a 24-year-old, behaved like a retard 16 yo school girl all through the drama!!! WHY? Selling that 'Cute' girl to the boys? REALLY?

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Age Ain't Nothin' But A Number and Money Isn't Everything.

This show set out to illustrate how a big age difference should not be a determining factor on whether two people should be together or not as portrayed by Young Gun and Dan Dan; It also set out to show through the actions and experiences of its characters that money is not everything and love, affection and family trump money - this is shown through the characters of Cho Sa Ra and her mother, and also through Dae Bum's story and his struggles while dating a woman richer and older than him.

I would say that all in all the show did succeed in illustrating these points but it was done in an uneven manner, the writer focussed heavily on the negative with only a sprinkling of goodness. This made for a frustrating watch.

Cho Sa Ra ruined this show single handedly, the writer drew out her schemes for way too long that by the time she got her sad
(ish) ending it was too little too late.

Having said that, I enjoyed the family slice of life, the kids and Park Dan Dan, I also really enjoyed the relationship between Dae Bum and Se Ryeon, their unabashed love for each other kept me going when other aspects of the drama were dragging.

By the end of the story the characters had learned the lessons they were supposed to learn but the road walked by some characters to redemption was a bit trite, eg. Yeon Shil, what made her change and decide that money isn't everything? she just changed her mind from one day to the next. A more believable transition is that of Mrs. Wang, I could clearly see her battle to change her mindset and eventually events and life experience changed her and she became sincerely repentant.

I could have easily dropped this around the episode 25 mark but something made me keep watching so I can say that much about it.
Music was repetitive, it would have been nice to hear more songs

One great thing I can say about this drama is that it has made me interested in watching the longer episode weekend dramas which I have never watched before, I enjoyed the up close slice of life vibe of this show and am looking forward to watching more longer form dramas,

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felt like a drama from 2010 with too many episodes

Honestley, I started to watch this drama because of the OST song "love always run away" by Lim Young Woong. I really love this song, so I wanted to give it a try although it has many episodes. (I usually don't watch kdramas with that many episodes)

I liked the first third of the drama. It was good and I liked the main characters (Young Guk and Park Dan Dan), but through out the drama I just found myself skipping quite a lot...

Se Ryeon's mother and Jo Sara were tiring me out. I couldn't stand them and also Sara's mother as well. There were quite a few supporting character that I didn't like in comparison to other dramas I have watched.

The kids were really saving this drama! The side story of Dae Beom and Se Ryeon was very enjoyable, Mi Rin and Jun Oh were cute too.

If you leave out the unnecessary stuff, the story is not THAT bad. The drama just felt like a drama from like 2010 with too many episodes.

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Nice love story, but...

I just finished watching this drama. I'm going to be honest: it's not like I don't appreciate the hard work of all cast and crew, but this time I cannot say I was impressed. The drama tells the story of a couple, with 14 years difference in age. I liked this aspect because it dealt with the stigma and objections that people have to face when they are different. They meet on a mountain, she mistakes him for a rogue and hits him, and a short time after she becomes the nanny of his three children with whom he lives after the death of his wife. The family is estranged and Dandan basically brings them together, offers the children the care, love, and attention they lacked, and reunites the whole family. This is the context in which the two ground their love. It was also nice to see how their love evolves, how it deals with opposition from others, and even the attempts to break them apart. What I did not like was Youngguk, which I felt was a weak man, who caused Dandan a lot of grief. Ashamed by the 14 years of age gap, he hesitates to engage in a relationship with her, fearing what others might say, then what his children might think, then his friends and work colleagues. Although I understand his motivation, I think that making a choice and following it would have been better. At one point he looses his memory and becomes engaged with another woman, that he doesn't love, but that he knows from a different time. Sara, to be exact, is the prototype of the woman interested in wealth, although she has some feelings that may make us relate to her suffering. She is the birth mother of Youngguk's youngest son and tries to be close to him after abandoning him at Youngguk's door. But using this as an excuse for all her intrigues, I was really bothered by that. I also profoundly disliked all their family members (parents and aunts) that had no other better things to do than yell, fight, oppose everything and make them suffer. I actually liked Dandan, a determined young girl, who followed her dream, who was not afraid to say what she thinks and feels, lovely, gentle, kind and honest. I'm happy for the ending of the drama, I think it would have been to much to bear if the couple could not marry and remain together.

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Annoying and manipulative characters

Plot had a good potential but I had to drop this kdrama at episode 3 and trust me if I say I usually like long dramas such as family dramas with clichés and lot of dramatic events happening but I couldn't stand this one. The FL acted so silly and was too immature + not having any respect for her adoptive mom despite they grew up together (just saying I only watched three episodes so I don't know if there's a further reason for her to behave like that but so far I hated the way she treated her adoptive mom) and even ended up doing silly things when meeting the ML and started working for him.

The ML, on the other hand, doesn't even seem to have a personality, he gets mad over nothing or acts like he knows everything about people (for example, the part where he was checking the FL resume to hire her, and ended up judging her as an alcoholic)

The elders act silly and manipulative, Sa Ra's mom would do anything just to get some money, Dandan's adoptive mother is very immature and acts childish, even knowing she's in the wrong for always taking her son's side and ends up crying for everything.

The only good part was the acting, I obviously can't deny they all did a good job portraying the characters.

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Bored

At this point I am watching till the end, to justify the last 49 episodes I have watched. But i would not recommend this show to other watchers.

The story started fine in the begining but then it just repeats with the same family drama. And the repeated story line of if you like someone they automatically have to like you back and if they dont you just have to manipulate them and eventually they will. REALLY. Also if a guy is saying no and telling you its over that is not a sign to try harder, usually it just means no. And I am not even going to start on the money grabbing mothers.

This is so hard to continue watching but i have wasted 49 hours whats another 3.

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A cast of toxic women - a drama that hates nearly every woman on the planet.

After leaving home in frustration that her step mother and her step-brother have yet again lost a lot of money, meaning they will be homeless, a 26-year old woman takes a job as a live in tutor for a 41 year old widowed CEO with 3 kids. You of course realise we can expect them to fall for each other.
Not as straightforward as that tho – lots of other business which is frankly annoying. His female 'butler' has designs on him for marriage as she is also the mother of his third child who he and his wife adopted. She 'loves' the CEO (perhaps?) but dotes on the kid, while discriminating against the other two. She is very limiting with all the kids and only when the tutor moves in do they feel understood and life improves.
So far, so predictable – you might think "Edelweiss" any minute, but no.
There are a whole raft of other characters – the CEO's father's mistress and her spoiled princess daughter, the butler, her mother and her mother's friend, the tutor's impoverished family. Somehow, in a city the size of Seoul, they all end up meeting, having relationships, and getting under each other's flesh, sometimes innocently and sometimes (naturally, the richer ones) in order to try to protect what they think they deserve.
I found the behaviour of nearly every single female apart from the FL, the CEO's cook and the child, incredibly toxic. Narcissism and greed abound. They behave like toddlers throwing tantrums and punches. Eventually I realised this is meant to be funny. It wasn't.
I speed watched from Ep18 to 25 and when I checked the episode count to find it was less than half way through, I dropped it.
How can I possibly give this crazy lazy plotting a mark? I did my best to be fair. There are some rather lovely characters but the good ones are weak, living in a cloud cuckoo land where they don't realise they are the only ones who are kind, and the rest, horrendous.
I struggle to give it more than 3/10

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How can I get paid as a co-writer of a shit-show like this.

That must be the dream. Imagine your workday, director asks "ok what's next?"
Writer 1: hm... he figures out that ******** and then the plane crashed, he got stranded and slowly acquired some sort of illness, and then slowly loses his sight and hearing and speech!! so yeah, we have another 8 episodes for BS before they know some truth. But he recovers.
Directors and producers: Genius!!!
Nielsen Korea: yup.

The skill needed to f~k this up and make people want more (50 eps) BS and then rank first in Nielsen Korea, is a mystery.

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Acting is SUPERB.

I skipped some parts from ep 22nd to 28th, but still able to get the gist of every episode.

Target market I think are Ajummas. Mom can't be happy with 16-20 episodes of drama, she wants 50-100!!! there's just not much stress in her life she wants 100!

My kdramas are only those with 16-20 eps (except Empress Ki). Mom always asks after we finish a 16-ep series "that's it???"

AHHAHAHAH what do you want ajumma?! It's happy ever after!

Mom: too short.

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Story: Messy. Cliche buffet. You don't want all the cliches in the world in one drama.
Acting: SUPERB
Music: Meh. It was ok, but only emphasized how boring the scripts were. It made scenes longer and more insufferable.
Re-watch Value: OH PLS DON'T. *Zero. This is not Empress Ki, I watched that 4 times!!! And will still watch in the future.

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If it's not for you, don't watch it with an ajumma; mom yelled straight to my ear (we're sitting side by side), freaked the living shit out of me. Cuz I skip parts too often in each ep (from 22nd - 28th).

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Has become lazy and excruciatingly stupid

I tried writing another comment yesterday but for some reason did not appear so I’m back. I need to vent out my frustration in this drama. Minor spoilers ahead.

First of all, let me just say that the kids are now carrying this drama on their backs. They are the only reason now why this can still be enjoyed somewhat. I used to rate this drama an 8.5 to 9 until episode 17 then it all went downhill. I now rate this a 4 at best. 3 for each of the kids and 1 for Dan Dan’s hardworking dad. The rest can just go to hell now.

The writer is just throwing cliches now which makes me think she ran out of creative juices. This whole amnesia subplot could’ve lasted a good 3 episodes which should have led to the Chairman realizing how strong his feelings really are for Dan Dan but it just dragged on unnecessarily. I am also inclined to think that the writer thinks her audience is stupid and will just take whatever the crap she puts in. The antics of the bad characters have been accompanied with quirky background music as though we are supposed to take it as something funny but it’s just wrong in all accounts. I need to see those women get severely punished in the end of this would’ve been just a total waste of time.

The rest of the characters have also been lazily written now and have been made excruciatingly stupid and naive.

To make it worse, the writer just had to put in that dance break on episode 23 which coupled with this overused amnesia plot just makes it all the more stupid.

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Good for a one time watch and to pass time while getting frustrated

Okay this started off good. But most of the characters are selfish yet portray themselves as a victim or "having a reason". No having a reason doesn't justify whatever they do. Especially Ms.Jo the secretary and the FL step mom. The step mom plays the victim, i understand that she saved Soo chul and Dan Dan but didn't she also got mutual win in that? Like soo chul helped her raise Dae bom as well. Soo Chul helped her with all financial ways, if not for him what would have she did as I had never seen her work (ofcourse i appreciate the household work she does) but if not for him what would she do for money? She always demands him for more and keeps playing the victim also subtle favouritism for her child. Everytime Dan Dan is missing she isn't bothered but for dae bom she cries like anything. Also Ms. Jo she doesn't even have basic consciousness she justifies everything "for the sake of kid" i really want to see her getting paid back for all the bad stuff she does. I can keep ranting on all bad stuff she does. I hate that character from the bottom of my heart and she doesn't deserve the love from dad Dan's uncle.

Will be back after i finish. Continuing only for Dan Dan, Lee chairman and cute kids.

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