Main Cast (The Brothers)
Kim Geongang (played by Ahn Nae Sang: He's the eldest brother and quite frankly hates the fact that he was born as the eldest. From what I've learned and read about South Korea, there is a lot of pressure put upon sons who are the eldest to take care of the parents and live with them for all their life. At an early age he rebelled against his parents and eloped to escape the responsibilities of an elder son. His marriage ends up in a divorce however and he's forced to go back home to live with his parents and brothers. The first lot of episodes have him suffering with hemorrhoids which brings a lot of laugh out loud moments.
His relationship with Cheongnan starts off as harmless fun and flings until their eventual marriage (something he protested against furiously). Tension rises when he finds out about her son (he doesn't want kids) and it hurts him greatly. You will admire Geongang when he makes it his mission to be a good husband/father. Plus, you'll love the scenes between him and Cheongnan's criminal ex-boyfriend.
Kim Hyeonchal (played by Oh Dae Gyu): He's the middle brother and you could say that he suffers the "Middle Child Syndrome". Hyeonchal was pretty much forced to take on the role of the eldest. He suffers with a lot of stress as a businessman. Who wouldn't be when you have to run 3 businesses and loan sharks making your life miserable and constantly reminding you of the debts you have to pay back? Not only that, but then you come home to hear your mother complain about your wife (whom she treats like a slave) and treats you as the black sheep of the family.
Hyeonchal is someone that you probably won't like from the beginning but I can honestly say that you will end up respecting him as a husband, father, and man when he sticks up for his wife as he finally reaches his breaking point.
Kim Isang (played by Lee Jun Hyuk): He's the youngest brother. Isang passes the Korean Bar exam and instead of becoming a lawyer, as his mother hoped, he decides to follow in the footsteps of his father and becomes a police officer. He's the mediator of the family and does what he deems necessary to ease tension among his loved ones. Due to the fact that he passed the Bar exam, Isang is instantly made a Captain and is in charge of his own team which all bring a decent level of comedic bromance moments.
Isang falls head over heals in love with Eoyoung (who is 3 years his senior) and acts like a goof just to see her smile. During their relationship, the two suffer the usual issues of young couples... career choices, family disputes, differences of opinion and how the relationship should be structured. The two butt heads many times when it comes to the subject of children. Isang believes having a child is the true way of showing a couples love where as Eoyoung believes that you need to plan ahead of time and that having children is expensive. This issue becomes the main problem in their relationship during the last half of the drama and maybe you'll take ones side over the other. Maybe you'll see both sides.
The Wives
Eom Cheongnan (played by Do Ji Won): Cheognan is a single mother with a little boy (his father is a criminal that appears later on in the drama). She spent most of her childhood and teenage years in an orphanage. Cheognan is has no choice but to leave her sick son with her best friend and live in the city of Seoul to make enough money for them to live. Though Cheongnan tries to be positive and is a bit cooky, its more of disguise to hide how she truly feels about life.
She loves her son and would do anything for him. Cheongnan sees the opportunity to seize Geongang believing that she will live a better life with him and that her son will have a real father.
Cheognan does bring a lot of humor to the drama but you will also feel touched by her own struggles.
Do Umi (played by Kim Hee Jung): Umi is the wife of Hyeonchal and your heart will break for her many times over during the course of the drama. The amount of verbal and laborious abuse she suffers under the tyranny of her mother-in-law will upset you plenty. She is basically treated as a slave by her mother-in-law who makes it her mission to put down Umi any chance she gets. Life just gets more stressful for her when she has to cook, clean, and do everybody's laundry as well as take care of her two young sons. Her husband doesn't help her situation when he comes home and refuses to listen to any of her plights. Not only that, but then she ends up torturing herself with the idea that her best friend has love feelings for her husband.
I can honestly say that you will cheer for Umi when she finally rebels against her mother-in-law's tyranny and does her life how she sees fit. Sometimes I would even forget that the drama is about the three brothers and believe that its Umi's story to be told.
Ju Eoyoung (played by Oh Ji Eun): She's the eldest daughter of a single father and works as a jewelry designer. Eoyoung had to assume the role of both an elder sister and mother to her little sister due to her father being in prison for a time.
Her boyfriend, Wang Jaesu, of 5 years decides to dump her after becoming a public prosecutor (even though Eoyoung was the one supporting his ungrateful self). This is where Isang steps into her life. Her relationship with Isang begins rocky as she tries to get over Jaesu who plays with her mind and heart through sleezeball antics. Luckily this song and dance lasts only for the first 14 episodes to which we're able to see the next issue in the relationship between Isang and Eoyoung... their fathers. One a cop and the other a former gangster with a history of chasing each other back and forth until one has been framed and other ending up in prison. Overall, I'd say you will enjoy their relationship as it does have many cute, funny, and romantic moments. You'll also enjoy the subplot of the fathers and their history.
All of the supporting characters are fun to watch and will either touch you with their own stories, make you laugh, or downright annoy/anger you.
I love the music. The main theme is especially awesome.
What I loved about the drama... everything to be honest. All of the relationships, the story, and subplots.
What I disliked about the drama... the mother and you'll see why if you decide to watch this great drama.
See the drama and judge it for yourself. I loved it and was entertained from the beginning to the end. Hopefully you all will feel the same! Hope you all enjoyed this review and I apologize for the length.
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The mother is selfish and treat like shit all of her daughter in law, and when things doesn't go like she want she throws tantrums. Her three childern are even worse, they are all spoiled brat/mama boy. The father is the only one to have common sense but he is one against four.
The eldest son is useless, he try hard to to the right thing but always end up in trouble, at some point it became almost comical to see such a character, I felt sorry for the actor. Of course his wife is the perfect troublemaker and the two of them are the perfect pair when it came to create drama.
The second son suffers from an inferiority complex, desperately looking for his mother's attention while treating her wife like shit. While her wife is a saint, she is the only character I cared about and I felt sorry she had to put up with such a family.
The third son is very immature and of course he end up marrying an immature spoil brat girl, the perfect couple, their story is based on misunderstanding and their back and forth became soon boring and repetitive.
This drama is the classic example of lazy writing. After 20-30 episodes it becomes clear that the drama has nothing to tell, the characters don't improve and the story is stuck in a loop.
Even the characters were written in pairs of two, the writer wrote the male version and then he copied it for the female. The troublemaking son marries a troublemaker, the immature son marries an immature, and the son with the inferiority complex marries a woman who doesn't respect herself but bears everything.
Overall is really a bad makjang about a family who suffers every kind of trouble, there are better family drama out there to waste 70 hours on this one. I really felt sorry for the cast, what a waste of talent.
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Passable....
This family drama revolves around three brothers, each with their own distinct characteristics and struggles. The eldest brother faces challenges in life and always reach a dead end, the middle brother is obsessed with money, and the youngest brother relentlessly pursues the love of a girl throughout the drama's 70 episodes. Unfortunately, the relationships portrayed in the drama were plagued by extreme seething toxicity, which undermines their overall appeal. The drama lacked a clear overarching goal and instead focuses on a series of smaller, successive problems. Which resulted in underdeveloped storylines for most of the couples in the drama. Out of the three main couples, the youngest one had the most nonsensical relationship. While the banter between him and Eo Young may have moments of endearment, it can also be seriously annoying at times. The depiction of the three brothers' relationship was a mixed bag. While there were instances where their brotherhood shined and offered glimpses of potential, it ultimately fell short of delivering a truly compelling dynamic. Overall, the drama had an appealing set up but it didn't fully utilize that.Was this review helpful to you?
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Смотрю корейское мыло на 70 серий да только с английскими субтитрами. Чего не сделаешь ради поднятия рейтинга Хотя не жалею. Потому что в лучших традициях корейского кино -сюжет закручен как надо.Значит так, рассказываю, что произошло в первой десятке серий.
Дано: три сына, как в сказке, но наоборот. Младший - умный был детина, средний - и так и сяк, старший ж вовсе был дурак.
Старший - разведен, без работы и дома, имеет красивую подружку, но которая вешает ему лапшу на уши, что она богатая одинокая с высшим образованием, но на деле - разведенная с сыном и даже не окончила школу.
Средний женат, не скажу что счастливо, имеет бизнес, двух сыновей и фанатичную любовь к деньгам.
Младший - самый успешный в семье, пошел по стопам отца и выбрал профессию полицейского. Уже командует подразделением , обласкан начальством и вообще умница и красавица (его, кстати играет актер из City hunter).
Условно для меня он Гг и здесь. Пока...
Отец этих братьев - старый полицейский, мать - домохозяйка, Средний сын живет с родителями и его жена ждет не дождется переехать в свой дом, но надо помогать свекрови.
И вот "жесть" номер один - мамашка братьев, ооо, как ее хочется прибить. Я понимаю, что старшего сына всегда любят побольше, тем более в Корее - старшие всегда статус и положение, но тут любить старшего в ущерб остальным - это дебилизм. Младший то пока не очень и страдает, а все падает на среднего сына, потому что мамашка ухитрилась не только у него деньги выцыганить для старшенького, да еще выпрашивает среднего какой-нибудь бизнес ему отдать, чтобы тот опять встал на ноги. Прикиньте - этот все профукал, а давайте ему баньку подарим, чего тебе стоит, у тебя и так их несколько. Вот жду - чем этот бред кончится.
А еще мамашка постоянно пилит невестку. Может свекрови там себя ведут всегда, но это невыносимо. И главный шипёж на невестку идет из-за ее семьи. а конкретно мамашки.
Вот и "жесть" номер два - мамашка невестки. OMFG это нечто вульгарная, громкая, пердежная, ржет как гиена и.... я даже не знаю как еще описать. И постоянно клянчит у всех деньги. Вот тут и можно понять, что семья мужа ее на порог не пускает, потому что она уже выцыганила у них немалую сумму - но постоянно пилить невестку в этом... она же ее мать, что тут поделаешь.
Теперь к другим - вторая линия сюжета крутится вокруг младшего сына и женщины в которую он влюбился. Нашел он ее обыкновенным полицейским способом - как то его вызвали в уличное щатер-кафе, где какая то пара бурно рвала отношения. Вот женская половина этой пары и оказалась нашая Г-гня.
Он их разнял, успокоил ее пьяненькую и как-то вот так получилось - надавал в морду мужской половине вышеозначенного скандала. И вот встречайте -
"жесть" номер три - молодой прокурор и соперник младшего брата. Да, он прокурор, и на волне жуткой обиды на нашего полицейского, устраивается работать в его же участок, почти его начальником. И с первого дня, начинает сношать его без мыла в мозг на предмет "ты нифига тут не работаешь, а я такой крутой и все знаю лучше". Пока это у него получается - весь участок уже точит на него холодное оружие и мечтает повесить у входа. И я вот тоже жду, когда ж он лажанется.
Помимо прессинга на работе этот прокуроришка начинает брать уроки самообороны, чтобы и физически завалить нашего Гг, а попутно мирится с Г-ней, обещая ей любовь и верность до конца...
"Жесть" номер четыре - Главная героиня, эта дура 5 лет терпела своего мужчину и когда он ее бросил ушла в горькую и плачет не переставая. Только только наш полицейский ее приголубил - вроде вот - новый мужчина хороший, симпатичный - бери и пользуйся. Так нет прокуроришка, видя все это, и назло, опять ее поманил и она побежала как собаченка. Ну и поплатилась. У третьего "мудака" уже есть на примете богатая невеста и планы на будущее, где нашей дуре уготована лишь роль любовницы. Он так ей это и сказал. Ожидаемо получил по яйцам.А еще знаете он что попросил - прийти к его невесте и убедить ее, что ты всего лищь сталкер и преследуешь ее. Ожидаемо получил по яйцам второй раз. Боюсь, что теперь он будет сношать нашего полицейского в мозг в особо извращенной форме, или не только в мозг.
Вот такая картина маслом за 10 серий. Думаю, дальше еще подкинут парочку сюжетный линий.
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