The Gentleman and the Lady (2021)

Could have been a Korean Sound of Music (minus the music) but too many characters who cant act!

Hmm... if this was a 12-16 episode drama that just focused on the story of the widower and his children, and the plucky young live-in tutor - of how she melted his hard heart and helped restore his relationship with his kids - this would have been a brilliant K-Sound of Music (without the music)
But sadly it's over 100 episodes, with a supporting cast who a) get almost equal screen time and b) are terrible actors that I found myself fast-forwarding their scenes. TERRIBLE ACTORS! But ! persevered through four and a bit episodes, only to find that in ep5, the production changed from the beautiful, glossy, well-produced practical sets that we know and love from good kdramas - to that of a daytime soap! #dropped
Such a shame as Lee Se Hee's character was adorable and that particular story arc had real potential.
What a shame!

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Give me vibes of Parasite but more melodramatic and not as Dark

The Story centers around Lee Young Kook, a widower, his family which is a bit complicated
and Pak Dan Dan and her complicated family of 4 (maybe her mother as well who left her)

It is interesting how the Pak Dan Dan father becomes the driver of Lee Young Kook, her step brother becomes boyfriend/lover of the step sister of Lee Young kook. Even the step mother of Park Dan Dan crushes in with her father/ now live in Driver of Lee Young Kook. Similar to a Dark and twisted movie Parasite the family is more or less interacted/ engaged with the household of Lee Young Kook. Though I hope it would not be just as dark

there are plot stories of the children, the family dynamics and how everyone will adjust to the already complicated situation
plus many twist and turns are expected making it more interesting to watch in a span of 50 episodes.

Will love if the villains are made sympathetic yet hatable at the end . Love how Dramas sometimes makes us realize to see their point of view, so that we as viewers know that what they were doing was bad but was still justifiable

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All it took was one flawed actor to sink this for me...

Must say...even though many are rankled by the age gap trope, it didn't bother me at all when the young girl crushed on the handsome soldier who bandaged her up and took her home on his bicycle. I wondered how they would tackle this storyline. However, now on episode three, I've reached my limit, all because of the female lead . Her talents as an actress fall way short of being able to pull off this storyline. Acting immature might be the writing or the director's coaching, but this 'lady' is overdoing it and keeps piling it on, in a most insincere way. Just doesn't have the acting chops to give us a layered performance and is too on the nose to be interesting. Apologies if I sound harsh, because I like the male lead, eversince "Queen In-Hyun's Man"...and there are many other seasoned professionals in this one too, BUT the pivotal role is way out of this 'Lady's' skillset.

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Falls flat

I have tried a few times now to watch this show because I have liked other dramas with Ji Hyun Woo, but each time I feel like this drama is over the top (storyline) and missing something that I honestly I can't tell you what that is. I really don't feel the chemistry between the leads...maybe it is because the lead female acting doesn't seem sincere to me (basically, not the best actress) and therefore the humor falls flat. Really, there was more humor and chemistry with the young Dan Dan in the first episode than with the 20 something Dan Dan. Overall, it does have a strong cast of actors (like Dan Dan's dad and stepmother...now that relationship is interesting), but the storyline and age difference between the main leads feels off. Dan Dan is closer to the Young Guk's daughters age and behavior, which makes it hard for me to see why he is falling for her. Since, I haven't watched much of this show, there is not much more to say, except it failed to catch my interest.

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WTF did I just watch?

I tried one episode of this drama out of sheer curiosity for its ridiculously high TV ratings, This drama is blowing up week after week so I wanted to see what the hype was all about. Oh boy! Worst drama ever and this is saying something cause, if you look at my reviews, dramaland has enough turkeys to feed 12 Thanksgivings every year. And this one is Turkey of the Turkeys! If there was 0 star option, I would award it that. Alas.

So from what I figured out after just 1 sample episode - dramas are no rocket science, folks, and your kitten would figure them out since numerous flashbacks explain everything from relationships to cookware - this is a modern take on "governess romance" (think Sound of Music or Jane Ayre) with K drama's favorite trope of tropes - amnesia - thrown in for a good measure. So K Baron Von Trapp (read: much older widowed/divorced ML with kids) has amnesia and thinks he's a young man of the pretty governess's age, which would be 20something, yet for unknown reasons acts like he's 5 throwing childish tantrums every 5 minutes. That's supposed to be funny except that it's not. I was horrified and embarrassed for actors, audience that likes this and myself for watching. The latter embarrassment was too much so I did the only reasonable thing - dropped this drama and wrote this review to purge it from the system. Feels better now.

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