Colum H
UK - Yorkshire Free State
This review may contain spoilers
Yet another abusive Jerk lead!
The premise sounded good as I had recently watched Oh! My Lady and this was apparently similar...except it wasn't.
There's nothing new about this plot line really - Jerk male lead and nice Female lead bicker but eventually fall for each other same old, same old.
As ever it is the execution that makes the difference and keeps us watching but this is yet another of those 'it's only cute, fluffy and romantic in Drama Land' programs.
Song Jae Bin isn't just a childish, spoilt little boy in a man's body, he's an abusive twat. He spends large amounts of his time physically and emotionally abusing the female lead. He thinks up new ways of hurting her and laughs when it works.
Even when everyone around him lets him know he was totally out of order, he doesn't learn from his mistake but compounds it.
Very occasionally he helps her out or obviously realises his feelings but almost immediately sets about belittling and controlling her.
This is compounded by him physically abusing her - dragging her around by the wrist, by the back of her shirt, pushing her around by her head etc. as well as publicly humiliating her.
He makes her cry and then kisses her.
Does the 'Cinderella' treatment - dresses her in expensive clothes, paints her face, does her hair and then takes her to a posh party... to introduce her to everyone as the Housekeeper!
And so on and so on
Just awful. I got to episode 8 (drag round by the back of the shirt) before I had to stop, this is days later and I'm still upset.
Choi Jin Shil, the female lead, was physically attacked by her husband in 2002 when pregnant with her second child. She divorced in 2004 and committed suicide in 2008 the same year this was released. So you get the pleasure of watching a woman who was physically abused being physically abused, humiliated, bullied and controlled, joy!
How Romantic, Fluffy and Cute!
I have no idea what happened in the last half of the drama, how he redeemed himself (if he truly did) or whatever but after eight hours I couldn't watch any more. Not recommended unless you can watch without thought.
The premise sounded good as I had recently watched Oh! My Lady and this was apparently similar...except it wasn't.
There's nothing new about this plot line really - Jerk male lead and nice Female lead bicker but eventually fall for each other same old, same old.
As ever it is the execution that makes the difference and keeps us watching but this is yet another of those 'it's only cute, fluffy and romantic in Drama Land' programs.
Song Jae Bin isn't just a childish, spoilt little boy in a man's body, he's an abusive twat. He spends large amounts of his time physically and emotionally abusing the female lead. He thinks up new ways of hurting her and laughs when it works.
Even when everyone around him lets him know he was totally out of order, he doesn't learn from his mistake but compounds it.
Very occasionally he helps her out or obviously realises his feelings but almost immediately sets about belittling and controlling her.
This is compounded by him physically abusing her - dragging her around by the wrist, by the back of her shirt, pushing her around by her head etc. as well as publicly humiliating her.
He makes her cry and then kisses her.
Does the 'Cinderella' treatment - dresses her in expensive clothes, paints her face, does her hair and then takes her to a posh party... to introduce her to everyone as the Housekeeper!
And so on and so on
Just awful. I got to episode 8 (drag round by the back of the shirt) before I had to stop, this is days later and I'm still upset.
Choi Jin Shil, the female lead, was physically attacked by her husband in 2002 when pregnant with her second child. She divorced in 2004 and committed suicide in 2008 the same year this was released. So you get the pleasure of watching a woman who was physically abused being physically abused, humiliated, bullied and controlled, joy!
How Romantic, Fluffy and Cute!
I have no idea what happened in the last half of the drama, how he redeemed himself (if he truly did) or whatever but after eight hours I couldn't watch any more. Not recommended unless you can watch without thought.
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