LA_Drama Fan

I don't even know where to start....so maybe I shouldn't.

All I will remember about this series is the wasted potential. This could have easily been a GREAT series, all it needed was a writer who could concentrate on the story without being distracted every 5 minutes and taking us all over the place instead of distilling the script down to the best parts. Oh, well. At least we made it.

That being said, I hate myself for falling into the trap of looking forward to Iron Family with its great acting cast.....they couldn't possibly screw up a shorter 30ish episode series......could they????

Iron Family actually looks promising, and what a great cast. Things are crazy here, as I'm in the middle of selling my house and moving...Things should be over and done by Halloween. I am currently watching "Her Private Life" and am 3 eps in and absolutely love it, however!

I had a margarita. They should have a warning on the subtitles "MAY CAUSE ALCOHOL ABUSE"

Save yourself, Sher and RUNNNNN

Good grief, how many head injuries are there going to be in this series??? You just KNOW the writer is doing this so we wonder "is she going to give us the 2nd amnesia arc like in YLAG?"

The stupidity of the writing here is another level...and a car gets into a head-on with a truck, and the trucker doesn't even call the cops? And a car is left smoldering on an embankment and no one notices?

What really gets me is that MaRi 's story is still the most compelling and interesting of all the garbage shown here. The writer really blew it, when she could have made a story of the life of a challenged young adult trying to cope in the world, finding love, etc....sort of a Extraordinary Atty Woo variation. Make PS/DoRa the 2nd leads and shorten their story to eliminate most of the angst and dump most of the other characters. KBS would have had a better time with that one.

Comment of the month!!!! LOL

Totally agree, and what really got me was the continuous over-acting. Especially with PS Mom, as you mention here....I can almost see the look on her face of 'do I really have to do this?' Even she knows this is a joke.

How on earth this show holds a 7.5 rating here is beyond my ability to understand.

Unbelievable. The show gets worse and worse with every passing episode. I didn’t think that episode 44 could get any lower, but 45 really takes the cake. This show stinks.

Well, it's an all-star cast of elders, that's for sure! Fingers crossed that at 36-episodes they can have a script that stays strong all the way thru.

What really angers me is that they are showing a "bright, brave woman" being constantly harassed by a stalker and she refuses to do anything about it. What kind of example are they showing to Korean women???? There should be a long disclaimer at the end of these episodes telling the audience that stalking and harassment is illegal and should not be treated this way, etc......MY GOD.

Oh my God, I’m watching episode 44 now and this may be the worst thing I’ve ever seen on television. You have to be a masochist to watch this mess.

(lead actress, Im So Hyang). And I concur, at least the ML knew what he was in for, with YLAG under his belt.

Well, in Ep 43 the writer just couldn't restrain herself and checked off the final box in the cliche checklist: confession on a bridge...it wasn't much of a bridge, but then, this isn't much of a show.

I'm now convinced that she's trying to make a spoof/parody of other k-dramas at this point. Nothing else explains all the over-the-top writing of the villains, and cluelessness of the innocent. The over-acting hamminess on the part of JD and BMJ actor/actress is the cherry on top.

But in doing so, she created what I think is a major plot-hole: In their last exchange, JD tells DR about JT's plan to adopt PS, and that she shouldn't count on it, etc. This seems to go right over her head and she has no reaction to it, which makes NO sense. This should have been a "what are you talking about????" moment. The writer is too busy trying to be clever and cute, and fails miserably here, unless this is addressed in Ep 44 right away.

last :30 seconds of final episode, no doubt.

BT, it's right down there with TRHC. The only difference is the good part of this series only ran up to about ep 10, while TRHC gave us 30 good episodes.

I hear you. I want to drop this show like a bad habit, but it's like watching a car accident on the freeway: you don't want to look, but you can't help yourself. I guess you can call it "Morbid Curiosity".

I really wish she'd have brought the leads together, as I do love their chemistry. The only highlight now for me is MaRi and her story (about to be ruined by BMJ) and the aunt/aspiring screenwriter, who's own arc has been hopelessly neglected by the writer - a shame as she and the brother/boyfriend also had good chemistry and a funny relationship. MaRi is such a unique character (I've never seen someone like her, with her challenges before) that I want to give props to the writer for including her.

And honestly, I knew this would be a mess of a series given the writer's history. It frustrates me to no end that almost ANYONE on this forum could have written a better storyline than we are getting. I keep asking myself, "What is her (the writers) agenda here???"

At least instead of redemption arcs I'm guessing we'll see prison time for :
BMJ- Grand Larceny (Grandma's Gold theft); engaging in illegal gambling
AK - Conspiracy to commit fraud (passing off her son as someone else's)
AK Boyfriend - Conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder
JD - Conspiracy to defame and defraud; stalking; assault

Did I leave anyone out? (LOL)

After watching that dumpster fire of Ep 42, I began to wonder if the writer is pranking us? Is this really just a parody of every other makjang drama ever made? All that's missing is a scene on a bridge.

What really made me think this was the weird background music: listen to the "happy" music played in the background of JD's "parents", and him, when he thinks about DR. It's totally out of place, right?

And look at the character of the series writer (Oh Kyung), who is probably the best-written of the side-characters involved (I am happy for this actress in getting a better role than she had in Unpredictable Family). Is the writer injecting herself into this series as a witness to the drama industry?

I am beginning to seriously think that this series is just an "Inside Joke" among those in the K-drama industry.

Waaaaay back in this forum, there is a series of posts about how KBS has decided to stop the 50-episode weekenders and shorten them to 30ish instead. The decision was about the same time as when this premiered, IIRC.

Agree...the cast looks good. The writer's last 8 dramas average a 7.3 here, so we'll see. She only has to write 36 episodes this time.

"even we could write better scenes"

I was thinking that EXACTLY after watching 41. How bad is this writing??? The guy gets hit by a car, has profuse bleeding from the head, and winds up with a tiny bandaid on his cheek?! I almost thought this was a parody. The idiot production team could have watched a few episodes of Bravo My Life to see a realistic approach to recovery from such an accident.

So, let's take a set of proven Main Leads, who have great chemistry and hardly ever put them together! What a great idea!

How this stupid show got the green-light is beyond me. The KBS exec who approved it should get sacked. At least we won't have to put up with 50 episode clunkers anymore after this fiasco.