11th April 2014, Friday
Recently have just finished the drama stated above. Its an low key drama, but has relatively scored a significant viewership. I also started off from their 16 plus episodes but I was stuck with them all the way till the end. This drama style is not to capture you instantly, but it captures with their normal life-like conversations.
Literally from the drama, this is a about a life of a lady who had married twice and divorced respectively. Will she get married the third time? You see her struggles, her choice whether it is her right decision as she moves on in life.
The writer, being a famous writer (I have also watched her other dramas, equally good and touching), is well known for her endearing scripts. I can't really explain, its the everyday vibe her scripts had written in. The characters talked about life, just about really what you see in typical korean families. The drama, being able to sync with the viewers as one, and I think that's why its able to garner so much viewership nearing climax and all till the end.
It can't be compared to the makjang drama kim's family books because its not the typical exaggerated drama. But I like it. A typical housekeeper can even get equally as many lines as the other leads. They even get their own exclusive scenes and they just mumble off while doing their housework. How strange is that in the beginning I found that. Why are they given extra scenes? But later on I began to enjoy those scenes because that is through a third party eyes that depict the perspective of the family.
I liked that the housekeeper still works for the family when she is always insulted by the house mistress. Because that is life.
I like how the aunt in the house pacify her housekeeper everytime she is having difficulty with the house mistress.
I like that the female lead divorced her first marriage because that is life. She is a nice lady, but the her mother in law just doesn't like her.
I like how her family all supported the female lead's choices. She is especially close to her elder sister and they have always called each other. Her elder sister always comes to her when she needs help.
Something her second mother in law lamented which is so true and speaks of the generation gap:
내가 자존심땜에 이 결혼을 참았는데 그 얘가 자존심땜에 못 참겠어.
And her cute daughter. When she found out that she is pregnant with her second husband.
엄마, 이 아이가 어떻게? 아이가 불쌍해. 나 처럼 엄마 없이 살아야 돼.
When she learnt that her mother won't be seeing her second child, it was so touching and yet heartbreaking. 나 엄마를 지겨줄게. 나는 엄마 효녀잖아. 더 잘해 줄게. I'm sure a lot of viewers must have cried.
And the way the female lead tolerated her sadness all the way till at home, when she is in her room, then she let out her tears quietly. That was so so so heart tugging.
Lee ji a isn't considered a very good actress as compared to the writer's other drama's leads like Su ae. However she had did it fairly, but at times I hoped that she could have some other hidden emotions that we could see! After all its a drama; somehow the leads have to show us something if not we wont know whats happening.
I'm willing to give her another chance.
