Great start and great idea.
The beginning is strong and extremely funny! I laughed so hard at so many of the scenes.
Acting is extremely good too, their skills are superb.
Tells you the story of a family and specifically a mum/wife who is basically mistreated, slaved and disrespected by her whole family and of course cheated on big time by her husband.
And that's basically the main and key plot (or should i say only plot) of the whole series.
One day our female lead has enough and decides to start being selfish and for once live the life she wants and get back her career as a doctor.
All of those ingredients could have made a fantastic story of empowerment and liberation but it fails tremendously.
The female lead is so weak throughout the whole drama it's sad to watch. She never stands up for herself and she keeps swallowing offense after offense and not once the has the right comeback against the ones hurting her.
Maybe this is a societal thing in Korea but where I come from, the whole idea of 2 grown women chasing after a weak, narcissistic, indecent and pathetic man and forgiving everything he does to them is just ridiculous.
Then, perpetrates constantly patriarchal gender roles like single mothers cant raise their children without a father figure and that a stay home mum doesn't contribute to the household and owes herself to the husband for providing for her and the kids, when the reality is a stay home mother is the only reason ( and invaluable asset) why the man can actually have a career and a family at the same time...
The series starts dragging the plot all the way until the end and it becomes VERY frustrating, nothing ever really evolves or changes, everyone is just trying to keep a secret from someone and that's it.
The characters are literally one dimensional and they have little development. All of them are bad, hateful and selfish at the beginning and in the last few episodes everyone is good and all is forgiven.... They literally change personalities from day to night.
I also need to add that the second male lead could have been written way better, at least the story and relationships between him and the female lead, he is completely irrelevant when the show finished.
This had a lot of potential, and is not that's bad, is just a pity, they could have done better.
