Although she was born in a poor family, Dan-dan had always tried to live her life to the fullest. To her, her stepbrother, who’s ignorant of the world, and her mother and father, who are always on her brother’s side, were nothing more than obstacles. Unable to bear it any longer, Dan-dan eventually leaves the house and works as a resident tutor in Young-guk’s house per her professor’s introduction. However, her father, Sucheol, had been hired as a resident driver and is living
in the backhouse of Young-guk’s place. On top of that, her mother Yeonsil is secretly living there as well. While being constantly anxious about being busted, the more time she spends with the kids and their father, Young-guk, the more she falls for him.
Butler Jo Sara, who practically runs the house, is not pleased with how close Dan-dan and Young-guk are getting. In fact, Sara had her eyes on Young-guk for quite some time now. One day, Sara learns that Dan-dan is Sucheol and Yeonsil’s
daughter and suspects that the family has been planning a fraud. Sara informs Young-guk about it, but Sara gets let go. Meanwhile, Young-guk goes on a hike to clear his head and goes missing… He’s found a few days later, but all his memories since he was 22 are gone.
Genre : Drama Series
Premiere on KBS WORLD : 20211002
Runtime : 80
Although she was born in a
poor family, Dan-dan had always tried to live her life to the fullest. To her, her stepbrother, who’s ignorant of the world, and her mother and father, who are always on her brother’s side, were nothing more than obstacles. Unable to bear it any longer, Dan-dan eventually leaves the house and works as a resident tutor in Young-guk’s house per her professor’s introduction. However, her father, Sucheol, had been hired as a resident driver and is living in the backhouse of Young-guk’s place. On top
of that, her mother Yeonsil is secretly living there as well. While being constantly anxious about being busted, the more time she spends with the kids and their father, Young-guk, the more she falls for him.
Butler Jo Sara, who practically runs the house, is not pleased with how close Dan-dan and Young-guk are getting. In fact, Sara had her eyes on Young-guk for quite some time now. One day, Sara learns that Dan-dan is Sucheol and Yeonsil’s daughter and suspects that the family has
been planning a fraud. Sara informs Young-guk about it, but Sara gets let go. Meanwhile, Young-guk goes on a hike to clear his head and goes missing… He’s found a few days later, but all his memories since he was 22 are gone.
Too much screaming, yelling, stupidity, conniving, backstabbing scenes, which is the writer Kim Sa Kyung fault. Shocked she got 2021 KBS Drama Best Writer Award.
Poor acting overall, which is the director's fault, along with casting personnel and producers. Exception to the poor acting was for the three children actors who portrayed the Chairman's children. The children were excellent and two of the children won awards during 2021 KBS Drama awards.
Chief Jo is a pathetic, abusive, lying, devious, alcoholic character; the actress who portrays her has no skills as an actress at all. Unbelievable that she got the 2021 KBS Drama Excellence Award for Actress in a Long-Form Drama.
Chief Jo's mother and the step-mother of the Chairman are screaming, yelling, scheming, cheating, stealing, hurting, abusive, fraudulent characters; the individuals portraying them are terrible actresses.
Park Dan Dan character cries 75% of the time and is dumb as a block; the actress Park Ha Na can't act.
Park Dan Dan's father and step-mother are the same as the daughter's character, just plain dumb; actor and actress can't act either.
The step-brother and the rest of Park Dan Dan's extended step-family/almost family members are overall decent characters, to include Lee Se-Ryun character; the actors and actresses portraying them were overall good.
The biological mother of Park Dan Dan is a fraud; lying, unrepentantable, selfish, deplorable character; the actress is borderline with her acting skills.
The Chairman character is unappealing physically and morally and stupid; the actor has limited skills as an actor, which it is utter disbelief that the Chairman actor Ji Hyun Woo received the 2021 KBS Daesang Grand Prize for the Young Lady and Gentleman.
Also, that Ji Hyun Woo and Lee Se Hee got the Best Couple award for 2021 KBS Drama is a joke!
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Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 6.5
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 6.0
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Just don't even bother, save yourself the headache.
This deserves a much lower score - but I did enjoy the first 15 episodes, and she did write some damn lovable children, but holy hell was this a disaster, and this writer has been officially blacklisted by me, lol. First of all, not a family drama. Especially if you go in after watching some great ones like Once Again, Never Twice, Five Enough, etc. Definitely more a makjang disguising itself as a family drama. But not even a good makjang. You've got multiple amnesia plots, beyond awful parenting, schemes, a lady who screamed most of the series, a weak ass ML, a female lead that literally never got a break and was always in tears, traumatized children, Sa Ra (she's a whole thing herself), and it goes on. Not a cute healing drama about a older widowed man finding love with his children's teacher.
As many have pointed out in the comments a better title would have been a Gentlemen and a Witch, because somehow Sa Ra was the female lead in this. So much of the narrative was wasted on her and her awful self. The amount of terrible things she did disguised as love, were not love. She was basically an obsessed stalker who wanted a rich husband. If you thought she'd get a fitting end - no, she just left. After everything she did she could just walk away. And the male lead was pretty damn pathetic because he fell for literally everyone of her schemes, even when everyone around him was telling him it was suspicious, which of course hurt the female lead every damn time. At first I was shipping him with Dan Dan but by the end I - along with many others were wondering why she would keep running after this man. And then there's Cha Gun, who was in love with Sa Ra for what? She used him and dumped him every damn time, and he still thought she was a good person?
Literally everyone of the parents were terrible, one trying to sell her daughter off for money and would always play the victim, another one (Dan Dan's dad) who seem liked a timid man but was really a controlling POS still obsessed with his ex who treated his daughter like a child and reacted very hostile anytime she disobeyed him and was consistently disrespectful to his wife's feeling because of his stupid pride. Another mom who just went along with her daughters nonsense specially when her child clearly need professional help who was also a thief. Another who thought she could make up for her mistakes by tricking her daughter and and ex into moving back to the states with her.
Sure there was a happy ending but it felt pretty bitter after everything you suffered through for 52 episodes. Well, less for me since I either skipped through or just flat out didn't watch at least twenty of them, thanks to other people recapping the episodes, lol. Sure I ran the range of emotions from loving it to, eh whats this? to the wtf? to angry to just a complete lack of empathy to eh I guess the ending is cute? But what was the point. All the nonsense in between was just nonsense.
The kids? I give them all the props. Literally more mature than all the adults. The boys themselves were freaking little angels who deserved so much more. I'd keep a eye out for the actors, they were better than some of the rest of the cast. But I guess I should be fair - I think most the cast are better in other dramas.
But yeah, just don't watch it and go watch a lakorn instead. At least you'd be more entertained.
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