Marry My Husband (2024)

Marry My Husband: A Time-Traveling Twist on Revenge

Marry My Husband takes the classic K-drama revenge trope and injects it with a fantastical twist: time travel. While the premise promises high drama and thrilling plotlines, the execution can be uneven at times.

Second Chance at First Love, with a Vengeance: Kang Ji-won, betrayed by her husband and best friend, finds herself transported back in time 5 years. Armed with this knowledge, she seeks revenge while also attempting to prevent the events leading to her tragic fate. This sets the stage for a whirlwind of emotions, weaving together themes of betrayal, forgiveness, and second chances.

A Blend of Genres, Unevenly Executed: The show attempts to balance several genres, including revenge drama, romantic comedy, and fantasy. While the time travel element adds intrigue, it can occasionally feel jarring alongside the lighter moments. Additionally, the humor might not land for everyone, with some jokes falling flat.

Compelling Performances Keep You Engaged: Despite the uneven execution, the cast delivers strong performances. Park Min-young charms as the determined and resourceful Ji-won, while the supporting cast adds depth and intrigue to the narrative. The chemistry between the leads is undeniable, adding a layer of heartwarming romance to the complex plot.

A Show for Fans of the Genre with Reservations: If you enjoy K-dramas with a healthy dose of revenge, romance, and a touch of the fantastical, Marry My Husband might be worth checking out. However, be prepared for a show that doesn't shy away from melodrama and might not always strike the perfect balance between its various tones.

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Served

As a person who watched "Perfect marriage revenge" before that I have to say: I expected a copy paste just stretched from 12 to 16 episodes. Watch me be happily surprised when that was not the case. It was more deeper that that. This drama is pure perfection in terms of giving everyone what they deserve. As for the characters:
***Kang Jiwon-I like her and how she was slaying the whole drama. She knew that with tears you won't achieve much so she grew up mentally and went to take heads off. I like her and i'm happy she is happy.
***Yu Jihyuk- My man was grateful he was even there , and I don't blame him. I like the connection he has with Jiwon . It wasn't just her using him to take it out on her cheating husband and narcissistic "best friend", they really had a conection and i love them for that. Not to mention Jiwon's dad "sending" him as a gift for her. It's the cuuuutest thinggg.
***Park Minhwan- This little b.... deserved more suffering that the drama (and manhua) gave him. He should've lived so he can grow old alone and suffer because of it but someone had to take the destiny to fall on a glass table soooo I'll close my eyes on that.
***Jung Soomin- Idk if it's true but i heard the actress was allegedly a bully so i don't blame her for the good acting. Even if it's not true you have to give it to her that the acting was on point. As for the character.....she should die in a fire for all i care but her mental illness is enough for now.
***Baek Eunho and Yoo Huiyeon- I'm putting them together cus they were made and i mean MADE for each other. I loved them even tho they had very little scenes together. I would've loved it to see their couple moments or smth but oh well i'll try to read the manhua maybe there will be more?

In conclusion: The drama deserves the hype. I don't get the people who overexaggerate that it's bad but everyone has an opinion. I recommend it. As i said many times the drama gave me anew definition to the word "satisfaction " so it's enough for me.

Have a nice watch and if you are reading this, please comment if you are inspired to watch it from my review. I'd like to know what you guys think. Bye Bye.

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It's a good watch and heartwarming

This is my first review and I felt the need to write this. I personally really really loved this show, especially up to episode eleven. I think I felt mostly frustrated when Ji-Hyuk's ex-fiancé came into the picture. I felt like it was unnecessary and done to fill the 16 episodes. Otherwise, this show was really good.
Kang Ji Won: Her character went through immense character development and I personally love seeing that. It was nice to see her fully utilize her second chance at life fully. The only time I found her slightly annoying was when she refused to believe Ji-Hyuk when he said he wasn't having an affair (due to the presence of his ex-fiancé). Otherwise, her character is not feeble, and she takes action to make changes. I also like that she is the director of a foundation that gives people second chances. I like that the directors didn't end the story with her getting married to Ji Hyuk like that was her only purpose. Besides her willful nature allowed her to prevail against her ex-bf and ex-bf (LMAOOOO BOYFIRNED AND BEST FRIEND).
and talking about those two characters....... LORD DID THEY PISS ME OFF!!!????
Jeong Su-min: The worst character I've come across in a solid while. Like her character was done so well that I would forget she wasn't real and seriously wanted to pull her hair out. Like kudos to her for playing the character so well too. Number one visible factor about her that pissed me off was her smile. LIKE GIRL WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUR EYE? Number two, she is the most entitled character I've ever come across. How was she so single-minded? All she saw was herself and her greed was immense. She was manipulative, destructive, violent, aggressive, ridiculous, selfish, harmful, and just unreal. Because I can't imagine an actual human being being ALL of that. And murder on top of it too. Good God saying I hated her is the least of it. Also, her saying her reason for hating Ji-won was because she always seemed happy and started blaming Ji-won for the way she(Su-min) was acting. I just think she was nature evil relative to nurture evil, for a 14-year-old to think that way. She was gradually losing control of her sanity and she actually loses it toward the end.
Park Min-Hwan: LORD HES ACTUAL TRASH!!!! HE TRIED TO GET WITH EVERYONE AND ANYONE. HIS EGO WAS HIGH ABOVE IN THE SKIES. AND HE WAS SEXIST. He really was a pile of trash. His character just progressively got worse. He was an abuser and I really want to blame his mom for half of the reason why he turned out the way he did. He was also another entitled character who was just so hard to shake off. I believe that his mom had a big role as to why he is the way he is- A big man baby. I don't understand why he could never wipe his ass after a dump. Like you have to pick up after yourself. But like Su-min he was single-minded and his immediate solution to everything only harmed other people. There are many ways to do things without harming the people around you. He felt entitled to his own life more than Su-min did, but was more than ready to harm others and he also couldn't hold another human life as valuable as he did his. I could keep going actually but I'd be ranting.
Yu Ji-Hyuk: MY MAN!!!!! ????God was he such a green flag. I just love him so much. He was so ready to sacrifice anything and everything for Ji-Won. AND OMG HE HARBORED A CRUSH ON HER FOR ALMOST 15 YEARS (in their first life). He was a major support system to Ji-Won who was given a second chance. Like she became a support system for others in the future with the foundation, he was that to her. And I think it would have been entirely impossible for her to reach where she was without him, not to say that she is incapable, but together they both bettered each other. He allowed her to do everything she wanted (except for the proposal?) and he was there for her through and through. I think it would be nice to have such reassurance always. And I'm just so happy that she met him. "I want to be land for you" I think it's so lovely that he came into her life and supported her. I just love his character sm.
Oh Yu Ra: she was just annoying. Hated seeing her. pissed me off sm.
The two parents (Ji Won's mom and Su Min's dad): just crappy characters, money greedy and blind to everything but themselves- even their own kids.
Ji Won's dad: What an Angel bro ?????. I'm so sad he didn't get to Ji Won happy but he was the hero of the day. I can't imagine being so loved because he truly loves Ji Won. I'm not quoting him per se but him talking about how sometimes a different path might be better and you might still reach your destination- I will forever remember it, so I'm grateful to his character.
The other characters: Hui Yeon, Eun Ho, The secretary (i forgot his name), Miss Yang, the grandpa, and the cat!!!- just love them all sm.
Overall this drama is such a good watch. I recommend ?

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started off great, ending meh

As stated in the title, the drama started off really intense and I was really excited how the plot unfolds.

I liked the characters and they were portrayed really well. They had depth and how the characters developed in the course of the drama was also nice.

However the storyline in the last 5ish episodes was dragged too much, I ended up skipping a lot of parts and got bored a little bit - which is sad, as the plot itself was nice. I’m a sucker for revenge dramas!

Since I didn’t like the last part of the drama, I wouldn’t rewatch it unfortunately.

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I really enjoy it when kdramas surprise me or sneak up on me like Marry My Husband did. Because I had no interest in watching it until half of it had come out, but somehow it fell into my arms because I needed a cute romcom to watch during the darkest time of the year and I’d heard good things about it. And I don’t regret starting that journey at all.

I’ve fallen a bit out of drama romcoms over the years – in the past it was the genre that I watched the most but now it’s sageuks. But despite that, I’ve enjoyed Park Min Young in romcoms so often over the years, and her warm and easygoing on-screen demeanor tends to draw me well into the characters she’s portraying.

Marry My Husband focuses largely on her character, Kang Ji Won, and her quest for revenge and a better life that fills her with more passion and hopefully a better ending – which is a very engaging and compelling story to fallow, and I think the drama does a great job of making us feel for her. Even if it goes a little into too much victim complex and the characters tend to be a little too naïve at times.

Many of the secondary characters and their side stories were also very entertaining or interesting – which I think is essential in this kind of office drama. Both the blossoming friendships in the office, but also villains would completely steal the show for me. Some of the characters are horrible people, like Ji Won’s ex-friend and husband, but the drama manages to illustrate well how subtle they are and how they manage to use people. The actors and script made them very interesting to watch while you’re praying for their downfall. They feel like complex, multifaceted characters who can look funny or fascinating on the outside like many abusers are. But even though some of it felt a bit over the top at times.

For some time, it seemed that romance wasn’t a priority in the story, which doesn’t pick up until well around the second half of the drama. But I thought it was a very wise decision while everything else is being set up. It gives the drama time to highlight the emotional abuse Kang Ji Won is dealing with and trying to break away from so she can live. But all these different side stories also give us a little break from the romance that starts to drag on a little towards the end.

To me, romance is actually the weakest part of the drama, and it could just be because I don’t think Yoo Ji Hyuk is a particularly interesting character. I thought he was a little dull and I don’t think Na In Woo is a particularly charming actor on screen. He’s just fine. he’s tall and handsome, yet often he feels like he is just there, like a beautiful blank canvas, for a good majority of the drama. The rest of the cast was doing such a good job with their characters and sometimes made his scenes a little stiff in comparison, for me.

He did slowly start to make sense to me as a person and romantic partner when Ji won started falling for him and you get to fall in love with her – which is what the best romance films tend to do in my opinion. You fall in love with the characters and through the characters. But there were parts where I found his scenes, when no one else was with him, a bit full and just not that interesting. Like his backstory and past felt a bit too much of a kdrama cliché for me.

Overall, I found Marry My Husband a gripping and interesting story full of emotions that was far gloomier than I expected from such a romcom drama. But that didn’t hurt the story at all. There were interesting characters that you could hate and lovable characters you could root for, and a fair number of stakes to make the story exciting. The narrative flows well and doesn’t drag on too much, which is a bit of a bane for many romcom kdrama, especially towards the end, even if it did turn a bit too melodramatic and clichéd at times at times.

What caught my attention most about Marry My Husband was its use of comedy for the villains of drama. We are often made to laugh at them but not with them, and humor is also used to show how they could seem good and fascinating on the surface. It shows their insecurities and inferiority feelings and why they hold on to other people and drag them down because of them, but also how they manage to deceive the people around them. The way Ji Won saw them before she had another chance to live and gain clarity. That and Ji Won’s revenge was what really gripped me all throughout this drama – Ji Won’s on-screen revenge was often a certain cathartic release for the viewer, in a good way.

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Just some thoughts...

There are already plenty of reviews for this drama, so instead of an actual review, I'll just write some thoughts that may or may not ever be read. Just because. LOL

--Is it really really good acting, or do I actually, truly, hate the mom??? Also, I hate that she never understood that she was the cause of her son's moral deficiencies.

--The plot twist. I wasn't expecting a plot twist. How was I not expecting a plot twist?? I was truly surprised. And honestly, it was informational only....they would have been fine without it. But it did give some justification to the motive.

--I never did understand the relationship between Yu Ji Hyuk (ML) and Lee Suk Joon (Lawyer/HR). I got a sense that there was a familial relationship, but I was never sure.

--Yu Hee Yeon was adorable! It's nice to have a genuinely good character occasionally. Not to mention, intelligent and helpful, with no ulterior motives.

--Poor Baek Eun Ho. He was so clueless throughout the entire thing. I felt so sorry for him.

--Yu Ra's bodyguard/driver/secretary.....he looked so betrayed in the last episode. Not to mention his reluctance to murder people. His role was pivotal in saving some lives. I thought he deserved a better ending than to be left standing in the parking lot.

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Thank you for picking up my trash

This was a watch and a half! I mostly really enjoyed the drama, but I feel there are certain little plot holes or events with no real conclusions left in the end. I loved how clearly they differentiated between the scenes of their first lives and their second lives. Seeing there were a lot of flashbacks or parallel scenes, that was something I liked.

Kang Ji Won was both on a path of revenge and path of self-discovery. She used to be very meek, someone who was living in the shadow of her best friend. Yet things changed once she died. At first, there was a lot of little acts of rebellion which soon grew into something bigger. Ji Won realized that the only way to be happy and to be free of those who hurt her is to change. Change herself and change her faith. They really worked on showing her a good person, someone who hurt when she caused pain to others, even when it was well deserved. She grew into that person. She became more confident, stronger and someone who stood up for both herself and others. But in the final stages of her revenge, it was like she lost all the good parts of herself. I am not sure how I feel about that. In a way, she showed that she really had had enough of it, that she will not let herself fall victim again. But in a different way, I hated how this meant she had no empathy, no her good-person attitude in those scenes.

Park Min Hwan has no redeeming qualities. The man never learns. He is selfish and self-centered, he doesn’t care about anything or anyone except for himself. And money. That might be his one and only love, and he is willing to do anything to get it. In both timelines. He never shows regret and is not capable of having feelings for anyone. Even his “feelings” for Ji Won were never real, he simply found it convenient to have her around. He never appreciated her when he had her. But once she became unattainable, unavailable, he wanted. Not because he loved her but because he refused to admit defeat or admit that she can be happy without him.

Jung Soo Min is another character that has no redeeming qualities. To put it simply, she was obsessed with Ji Won. To her, it was either she has Ji Won or no one has her. Her only way of achieving that was to isolate her, tie her to herself. In a way, Soo Min was jealous of Ji Won, but I think it was mostly her need to better than her while making sure Ji Won is always there to lift her confidence up. Soo Min, similar to Min Hwan, only ever truly cared about herself and her status in the world. I must say that Song Ha Yoon, the actress who played Soo Min, did an amazing job. She made us hate the character, but it was easy to see how much work she put into portraying Soo Min in the way that she did.

Yoo Ji Hyuk was a confusing character to me. What exactly was his point? Look, I’m a sucker for a good romance plot but I just wasn’t feeling him suddenly realizing he wants to be with Ji Won. He spent most of the series playing her errand boy, doing everything and anything she asked for or needed. She needed money to execute her revenge (and some extra support at work), so they threw in a rich manager who would do all that for her. And while it might be cute to some extent, I found it a bit annoying by the end. I feel like there was a lot more potential for plot development related to Ji Hyuk that just wasn’t explored properly.

I have similar feelings about some other characters. Like Oh Yoo Ra who I found absolutely unnecessary. I get that they wanted to throw another ex into the mix, but her whole wannabe gangster attitude towards everything and everyone was just not it.

Seeing it’s 2024, can we please agree to stop with the makeovers where everyone just loses their glasses? It’s stupid and annoying cliché. Glasses are hot and there is nothing wrong with people deciding to wear glasses instead of choosing an alternative.

There were other scenes and characters that made very little sense to me, but I don’t feel like getting into it. So, why am I still rating this drama so high? Because I loved it. It kept me hooked from start to finish and it had some absolutely amazing scenes, characters and acting. The good outweighs the bad for me.

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=> Very good series, but could have been much better.

PLOT: The FL, in an unhappy marriage & abusive mother-in-law, has terminal cancer. She discovers that her husband is cheating on her with her best friend, and is killed. She wakes up 10 years earlier, preparing for her wedding, and decides to "put things in order". However, she can't avoid the troubles, she has to pass them on to others. Why not to her "fake best friend"?

+++ Very good actors, all of them, including the supporting actors. The cursed CL is particularly good: twisted, selfish, vicious,...
+++ The story is more and less coherent (a bit dramaland anyway)
+++ Lively direction, without downtime, with well-orchestrated suspense.
+++ Well suited OSTs.

### The ML's personality is a bit bland.
### No real revenge for the FL, just +/- suffer and avoid the worst. ### The narrative arc with the crazy ex-fiancée is superfluous and discredits the series.

=> Very good series, but could have been much better.
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PLOT: La FL, dans 1 mariage malheureux + belle-mère abusive, a un cancer en phase terminale. Elle découvre que son mari la trompe avec sa meilleure amie, et est tuée. Elle se réveille 10 ans + tôt, préparant son mariage, et décide de "remettre de l'ordre". Cpdt, elle ne peut pas éviter les ennuis, elle doit les transmettre à d'autres. Pourquoi pas à sa "fake best friend" ?

+++ De très bons acteurs, tous, y compris les support actors. Le CL maudit est particulièrement bon : tordu, égoïste, vicelard,...
+++ La story est +/- cohérente (un peu dramaland qd mm)
+++ Réalis° vive, sans temps mort, avec un suspense bien orchestré.
+++ OST adaptés.

### La personnalité du ML est un peu fade.
### Pas de vraie vengeance pour la FL, juste +/- subir et éviter le pire.
### L'arc narratif avec l'ex fiancée folle est superflu et décrédibilise la série.

=> Très bonne série, mais qui aurait pu être bien meilleure.

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The second chance aspect of the story intertwined with revenge was a refreshing and original concept for me. I found it captivating and entertaining, despite having seen some snippets on YouTube shorts and Instagram. I was hooked from episode 1 to 11, eagerly watching every moment without skipping a second. However, as the story progressed into episodes 12, 13, and 14 with the introduction of Oh Yu ra, I started to anticipate a twist.

When the second half of episode 11 began, I sensed that something significant was about to unfold, especially considering there were still several episodes left until the finale. It's uncommon for a Kdrama to have six episodes of pure bliss without any major plot developments. As a result, I found myself selectively watching scenes where the main leads were on screen.

Initially, I was unsure about Oh Yu ra's role in the story, but her reckless behavior on a busy street in episode 14 hinted at her significance. It became evident that she served as a sacrificial lamb for the male lead's journey, though I couldn't help but feel she was somewhat unnecessary, perhaps due to her annoying demeanor.

Furthermore, the characterization of the male lead's grandfather left me a bit puzzled. While it was clear he cared deeply for his grandson, his inconsistent stance on his love life confused me. There were moments where he seemed supportive, yet others where he appeared to contradict himself.

Nevertheless, I must commend Park Min Young's outstanding performance in this series, and Song Ha Yoon's transformation from sweet Seol Hee into the evil character Jung Soo Min. Additionally, it was refreshing to see Lee Yi Kyung and Na In Woo for the first time. Lee Yi Kyung's depiction of the dumb and lazy character was spot-on, while Na In Woo's portrayal of the cold, expressionless persona suited the role perfectly.

Overall, the series was enjoyable from episodes 1 to 11, as well as episodes 15 and 16. The unique blend of revenge with the concept of second chances kept me engaged throughout. It made me reflect on the idea of having second chances in life, leaving me wishing for such opportunities in real life.

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Interesting series that took it too far

Original storyline. Interesting plot twists. Great acting. This series has a bit of everything - until it has too much of it. Just when you think the madness and sociopathic behaviour will stop, this series goes all out to prove it can all get just that little bit worse.
In my opinion, the extreme behaviour depicted, and the ability to get away with it, brings a level of unbelievableness that was hard to digest. Furthermore, the fact that most female leads are depicted as pathetic, unable to stand up for themselves, talk or even function as normal human beings severely takes away from the overall feel of the series (and yes, they supposedly grow through the episodes..). I guess my issue is that this is yet another show depicting women unable to decide to break-up with a boyfriend on their own - where aggression, violence, threats and even attempted murders against women all are allowed to happen without consequences.

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