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Doctor Cha korean drama review
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Doctor Cha
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by Vanessa
Jul 6, 2023
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.5
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 4.5
This review may contain spoilers

Dr Cha made this drama! Well constructed characters but the storyline felt short in the 2nd half

This drama was a real roller coaster. I’m sure many woman can sympathize with our Female lead. She’s at times strong and other times very emotional, is an amazing mother, friend and loving wife that sadly gets ignore and push back by her family all the time. Despite the heavy topic the drama uses many times comedy relief, they don’t pretend all problems will be solved or all characters are perfect. You hate them but find yourself laughing with them at times, so I enjoyed watching it.

I think the writer grew out of plot lines in the middle and started going back and forth with the story, but at that point I was too attached to the characters, specially I was rooting for the FL happy ending, so Indecided to finished it anyways and I wasn’t disappointed!

*ABOUT THE ENDING* (Spoilers)

I know people wanted for the ML to have a very bad ending and the divorce alone wasn’t enough but anyone saw how lonely he was? There was more than just a divorce, he was left alone and even though his position in the hospital as a director is a great achievement he mentioned many people look down on him or doubted him so we never know how he’s actually doing. Besides, he needs to repay all his moms debt and his connection with his children was shattered. I know people wanted something worse but in most real life cases a narsicist man like him can walk away easily from a divorce like nothing happened. On the other hand, the mistress was kind of a victim in the situation in my opinion, she later on apologize for being such a bitch and she did horrible things but I dont hate her. From my perspective she was manipulated most of the time by the ML and thought her situation was worse than the FL or that she deserved him for being the gf first? Anyways, she never got herself the happy family she wanted so I’m okay with her ending.

Most importantly, about Dr Cha, the message that you as a woman can get divorce in your 30s, get back on the workforce and live a happy life for yourself -despite not being so realistic- is an amazing set up in Korean drama land. Did anyone forgot the toxic storyline in The world of married? Most of those women stayed in crappy marriages or else their life would be miserable. At least here Dr Cha is much more happy and in peace, her peace included forgiving his ex husband despite everything and actually I respect that. I was also fine with her not choosing Roy since I never though she loved him.

All good but I was mad at Dr Cha for not taking care of her health well! Finding a donor is very hard and many people die because of that. At the end we saw her living a more honest life so that means she at least learned the hard way.
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