When I saw this show around, I know I had to watch it. Because what can I say, I’m a sucker for cute kids. And Please Be My Family has some of the arguably cutest kids in any drama I’ve watched.

One of the things that sets this show apart from some of the other single parent romances I’ve watched, is the fact that both characters in the main couple are single parents. Qi Si Le is a single mother of a five year old daughter, and Song Hao Yu is the single father of a five year old son.

Due to a pretty long string of events, that I won't detail, Si Le and Hao Yu get married, in doing so, providing both of their children and themselves a semblance of a complete family. And my gosh did I love their little makeshift family!

Watching Si Le and Hao Yu’s relationship develop over the framework of the kids and their family was one of my favorite parts of the show. And watching each of them connect with the other ones child through the story was freaking adorable on both ends.
Si Le and Hao Yu have quite a lot of cute fluff moments when they get together, and I loved every second of it. I could have used more of that and less of some of the stuff we got later on.

I’ve seen some people complaining about the cast, but I actually really liked them all. The kids were adorable, and I thought both Hao Yu and Se Li were well cast, I really liked them together.

Oh and another thing I loved fist, Si Le encounters not one, but two “Love rivals” and the way this drama dealt with both of them was phenomenal. Unlike many FL’s, especially in C-Dramas, Si Le is actually mature enough to deal with it all civilly and not allow them to cause a rift between her and Hao Yu. And this is also the only drama I’ve watched where FL actually becomes close friends with one of then. I loved their dynamic so freaking much too.

And as much as I did love the show, it does fall victim to a few of them problems that this kind of drama does. Including some underdeveloped plot points and a somewhat frustrating third act breakup.

I did agree more with FL during that whole story arc than I do with most though. While it was a bit frustrating, her reasoning made sense.

The last couple episodes were a little rushed and I wished we could have stayed on a few of the things that happened a little longer, but I did like the ending, so that mostly makes up for it.

I also found the secondary couple pretty uninteresting. But I’ve talked to some people who loved them.

None of this really detracted much from the things I liked though, it was an imperfect but still highly enjoyable drama.