Împreună Acasă (2017)

Very different story to most Kdramas

I actually really enjoyed this drama. Most of all, I liked how they were able to keep it consistently interesting as most dramas are only good in the first half or the second half.

My favourite characters were Woo Suji and Ma Sangoo, they were even more interesting than the main characters who were mostly just timid and annoying at times. Even though the female lead wasn't my favourite, I liked how the writers chose a personality for her and stood by it. Although, she does experience some growth, she is still the same person throughout the plot, which is something that can be hard to maintain. On the contrary, the male lead's personality did a 360. It was nice to see the contrast between the two. I also really enjoyed watching the other second leads (Wonseok and Horang), the actors' portrayal of their characters was amazing.

One thing that bothered me a bit was the fact that she was struggling to afford rent yet her father had bought an apartment for her and her brother? How was that possible?

Either way, definitely not in my top 15 but it's a really enjoyable drama if you're looking for something different.

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Overall Alright

Had a good Start but halfway through got quite verbose. Especially the last 3 Episodes. I dislike unnecessary misunderstandings to prolong a Story.
For the Female Lead it was unfortunate to see her Personality decline the Moment she realised her feelings. That often happens in Korean Dramas and they're constantly sad until the sudden Change at the End.

But it's also the most Marriage Propaganda Drama I've come across.

I overall give it a 6.0 but since Female and Male Lead shared good sensual kisses (and didn't only press the mouthes together) it gets a +1

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Cliché plot, but worth the watch

Most dramas I've seen under the romance category revolve around the same plot of sharing a house or being in a contractual relationship, but I think what makes this stand out is the maturity of the characters. I really appreciate the fact that the main leads aren't the typical rich man, poor girl, but rather people of a more equal social status dealing with their own issues (and in the journey to understanding what marriage is). I also enjoyed how each episode contains a lot of quotable quotes and strong realizations in life (especially in the life of the characters). I feel like I'd pick up different realizations from the drama each time I re-watch it.

I'm not very fond of re-watching dramas because the whole plot becomes predictable and of course the drama loses the thrill, but I decided to re-watch this drama as I've been recommending this drama to others for a while now and I've realized that I have forgotten the exact plot. Now that I have rewatched it, I felt that I did not fully appreciate the drama to its fullest during the first time I watched it, rather I was only watching it for the "cliché" plot. ( this was the first few Asian dramas I've watched) I'm not sure if I'm being overly absorbed in the drama, but at one point I felt that the dialogues of the characters were in a sense inspiring and relatable.

I agree with how some people say that the plot towards the end of the drama was not at par with how it started, I also remember my frustrations and my verge of dropping the drama the first time watching this. Apart from that, I also dislike the lack of strong chemistry among the main lead (not sure if it has to do with the ML character). But overall, I do still think this drama is totally worth watching.

*side note: I love the OST for this drama, it's one of the few songs that I still listen to after watching it for the first time last 2017.

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A slow-paced romance k-drama perfect for audiences in their 20s to 30s.

Basic and not so much memorable but this show was shockingly relatable, and sometimes even touching, that there are moments I cried my eyes out. Who knew a romance k-drama can be capable to have such meaningful plot like this?

It covers all the problems the working people the society are currently facing, from work, dating, relationships, friendships, family, marriage, and even housing, this show has it all.

Because This Is My First Life had the right casting, characters, and plot, but i don't know what it was, it got a bit slow and draggy for me in the middle. I think it was because it came to a point that there's already too much going on? What made me stick to this show was the curiosity of how Ma Sang Goo and SooJi's relationship will end up, I was rooting for them! All the other couples were cute too though!

Acting wise, everyone did so well especially Jung So Min, Lee Min Ki was still but i'm not sure if it is because his character required him to be one?

What we can get from this drama is that, love is not really found and given through big gestures, but in small ones like simply caring for another.

This might not be my favorite, but I enjoyed watching the show.

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I finished watching this earlier in the week so I could focus on my next drama. It was okay.

The drama was so enjoyable in the beginning. The story was strong, the characters understandable and some relatable. The character relationships were everything and things weren’t too unrealistic or cringey.

Suddenly, almost out of nowhere, episode 13, 14 and 15, things just started happening for no logical reason. Conflicts seemed to come out of nowhere to create problems for some relationships. For other relationships, their issues were resolved equally as fast and seemingly out of nowhere. It just… things just started to lose sense and logic.

The ending, was a typical happy ending, but felt unsatisfying because of all the nonsense that happened in the immediate episodes before it.

Overall, I guess I would say I enjoyed the drama. I feel like I was cheated genuine excitement and joy over the ending because of how thing went in the last few episodes. I would probably still recommend this, but with a warning attached.

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The delicacy of love

This show for sure is not one of the masterpieces you can find around, but still has its solid what&why which make it more than worthy of being watched.
The story is obviously focused on the two leads, but also the other main roles are well encompassed and developed, which make the show a chorused one, since the stories of the three couples are all well tied the ones to the others, due to the strong and amazing friendship shared by the three women leads.
The story is a love story, or better (as said) a chorus of love stories, each one with its peculiarities and its identity. The psycho one, between the two leads Ji-ho and Se-hee, the normal one (so much normal that fell into a huge crisis) between Ho-rang and Won-seok, and the special one between Soo-ji and Sang-goo which I found simply captivating and perfect. Around them there are the support roles which are actually well convincing and functional for the story itself.
The main characters were well casted, even physically: I found all of them perfect, each one in the respective role. My preferred one: Soo-ji for sure. The kind of strong, unconventional, and independent woman, well performed by Esom, who breaks the rules of a society often still too much traditionalist, conservative, patriarchal and sexist, who finally finds her way to self-make her life and success, and who at the same time still believes in feelings as soon as she found the partner who's able to complete and support her (and Sang-goo did it excellently). I found them shiny together. As well as the performers were really nice (and surprisingly I found Park Byung-eun unrecognizable after having saw him in Eve). But that does not mean that the other two couples were bad. Instead, I have to say that their stories were captivating too. Ji-ho and Se-hee because they are actually more affine to me (and to my partner: ok tonight I will die) in their being a bit psycho (in the good way) and actually not banal. I liked a lot the way they faced the issues coming from the conventionalities well identifying the traditionalist Korean way of life. And I appreciated their path toward their liberation, as individuals and as a couple from those constraints, and from the miseries of their past lives. They actually growth together, in a sort of transfiguration well depicted eventually by the transition from the formal to the unformal speaking. Jung So-min and Lee Min-ki well performed two roles which actually were not banal. Last but not least the classic love story, the apparently banal one, the normal one, the one so normal and adherent to the traditional way to live a love story that very realistically exploded, because of its forced normality, predictability, conventionality, The story between Ho-rang and Won-seok is all of that. And as very often happens in the real life, the couple exploded because sedimenting upon the wrong premises. Both of them looks naive and banal, but actually also them eventually experienced a transfiguration which finally led them to reconciliate upon new premises. Both Kim Ga-eun and Kim Min-seok were able to perform their characters successfully, to include their irritating traits.
It looks like the underlay message in the end is: no matter which are the adversities, no matter the hindrances, Love will always find its own way to make it...
As said already, the rest of the support roles were well sorted and casted: Bo-mi, Jung-min, and (a bit less essential) Bok-nam well played their key roles in pushing our heroes to make their choices.
You will not cry, but you can find some things on which thinking. Nice photography and direction and convincing plot: just tell the director that cats are not so continuously meowing :)

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not bad but overrated

i really wanted to give this drama a better score than 7, but it's so full of tropes - though well executed - that i cant help it! the ML is really Mr Perfect, the FL is Miss Innocence, the parents are way too typical, the coincidences are never ending! it's also very predictable, slow, and... boring? after the first episode, all the action flows one direction. still it takes forever for anything to happen!
the woman-chases-man-first trope put me off - the FL acts clingy sometimes.
the old story of cohabitation and new love that heals past traumas is only saved by the good-looking faces - though i suspect filters were added - and the adorable cat... cinematography is excellent, benefits from modern technology.
everything is too polished to give the illusion of reality, like - the numerous expensive coats worn by the part-time waiter FL on a daily basis? seriously, her wardrobe wouldnt fit into a small rented room. this goes for the other characters as well.
support cast is excellent, though not necessarily needed to the main plot. a lot of scenes could be cut/skipped with no loss.
also... i'm not into narrative movies, i dont need that voice to teach abt what we see and what we should think.
watch it if you wanna kill time.

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OMGF

i just finished this amd wowwww.... from lee min-kis acting omgmgmgmgmg im so amazed he played the role so well the slight angst towards the ending and the perfect start THE BABYYYYYYYYY omg i 100% recommend this for people who love sweet kdramas with slight angst, idk i could feel how in love they were OMGGMGGMMMMM this made me cry i love this. this show is srsly one of my faves i love this sm..

the side couples and the amount of perfect screen time they were given along with how much emotion each story has. Ji Ho was really an interesting character and the way she spoke to Se Hee made me fall inlove the deep talks and the way he listened was so sweet. During the crying scenes in the kdrama that was amazing it was so realistic i fell in love with the actor..

please watch this, this is an amazing kdrama..

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Amazing in spurts, but the last three episodes killed the main romance.

There are moments in this series that are truly amazing. Moments that will make you cry, moments that will make you giddy, and moments that will make you laugh out loud. I was completely hooked on it in spurts. During those spurts this drama is one of the best I have seen. Unique plot for the leads, minimal to medium amount of cliche for the other couples, and the catharsis from some moments is just breathtaking. At the end of episode 11, I was so happy I was fist pumping a la Michael Jordan because of the ending which was a first for me when watching Korean Dramas.

But the last 4 episodes absolutely killed the the main romance for me. The ending of the main romance and how the story got there completely wrecked the foundation that the prior episodes provided. Such a shame. If you are interested in watching the drama, consider episode 12 as the last episode, and look at the last four episodes as bad follow-up movies they should not have done.

Is this series still worth watching? Absolutely. Just be warned that the main romance fizzles quickly from a cute and unique budding romance at the halfway point of episode 13, into a toxic and dangerous sewer by the middle of episode 16.

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YES.

I watched this awhile ago but I felt compelled to contribute a bit more gushing for this show in the hopes that more of its ilk are made.

I often find K-dramas fall in one of two camps: super-technicolour surreal middle-class world where everyone lives in nice apartments, works hard at their jobs, drinks soju with colleagues after work and get given piggy back rides home by their crushes OR the super-in-your-face gritty world where the hardships of society are magnified, intensified and delivered as a punch to the gut so that we think a bit more (and probably feel a bit of guilt). This show managed to gently blur the lines between these two camps. It takes a lot of the conventions of an Asian rom-com but gives it to us as a group of friends who are all experiencing quite different but very relevant challenges. It asks the hard question: if you only get one life, who are you living it for? The answer should be obvious but real life is never as obvious or easy.

Is it fun? Yes. Is it funny? Yes! The support cast are as solid as the leads - side-note fan girl moment, is there a character on this planet where Kim Soo Young hasn't yet made it all her own? The sheer variety of roles she has played, and with such skill, continues to baffle me.

Okay, back to the show: it was visually lovely and the music is wonderful; a little bit in your face in parts, perhaps, but that tends to be the K-drama way. The pacing is largely great, although sometimes the FL is so agonisingly slow to make her revelations that I wanted to scream at her a little bit to hurry up! The story and and the journey are wonderful, and even as a non-Korean speaker like me I got a sense of how beautiful the writing was. I won't spoil it for you but there are some truly great moments that will make you laugh out loud and some equally moving ones. If there was ever a show with character and gumption, this one has both in spades.

This show, for me, is a class above many of the K-dramas I've consumed. Let's hope South Korea hears us loud and clear and gives us more.

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Masterpiece romance drama

This show has one of the best concepts I've ever seen for a romance drama. Start with the lead characters getting married. But they don't marry out of love. Only then does the show break down the preconceived notions of love, marriage, and happiness between two people. It questions what marriage truly is and why marriage doesn't automatically mean love between two people.

The character development is also some of the best I've seen in a kdrama. The male lead goes through a ton of growth from the start of the show to the end. The female lead all throughout the show wrestles with her emotions for the male lead. By the end of the show you feel satisfied with where the leads end up and the amount of growth each character goes through

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Good show about the idea of marriage

I really liked this drama and bingewatched it without fastforwarding through boring parts, which I do with 9/10 drama's after the first couple of episodes. the side characters were interesting, although I thought her friend who wanted to get married was really toxic to her boyfriend.

I would've rated this 9/10 if it weren't for the ending though, were the FL went off the rails. Without spoiling too much, her behaviour in the last two episodes was manipulative, toxic and selfish and I didn't care about the story from that moment on. I wish she had communicated with him instead of what she did, but oh well. It was a great watch overall, except the last two episodes so I would still recommend it.

I would've rated this 9/10 if it weren't for the ending though. the

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