So...yeah...the blurb says: "Han Seung-Joo (Uee) is a single woman in her mid 30's and she works as a PD at a broadcasting station. She does well at her job, but she is not nearly as good when it comes to housework. Han Seung-Joo has a hard time dealing with social prejudices about single women. To get the position of a "married woman," Han Seung-Joo marries Oh Jak-Doo (Kim Kang-Woo) who lives in the mountain. Their marriage is not based on love, but their relationship develops romantically."
Sounds reasonable, yeah? Bit of a cohabitation hijinks thing, maybe some fish out of water stuff, probably light and fluffy...right?
Why don't I know better by now? And who are these people that write the blurbs on AsianWiki and Netflix and Wikipedia? WHO ARE THEY? I kinda want to smack them. THEY LIE. THEY LIE LIKE A RUG.
Because, while there might be some fluffiness in this one, it also seems like it will be chockfull of makjang craziness. Han Seung-Joo is, indeed, a single woman in her 30's and very focused on her career. She's also supporting a deadbeat mother and brother (haven't even met him yet, but based on the horrible mother alone, he's bound to be awful) who take advantage of her every step of the way. And everyone -- friends, strangers, you name it, is constantly after her to get married. Yes, she does suck at housework. She's a workaholic. She's manipulative (in getting people to do things or appear on her shows). But at least she does have a couple of girlfriends who do things with her...when their husbands let them.
And...apparently, someone wants to kill her. And actually does kill someone in her house...on her bed... (a temporary renter), likely because they think it's her. So much for light and fluffy.
And Oh Jak-Doo is actually Oh Hyuk, who Seung-Joo was trying to find because he's the grandson of a famous gayageum (a traditional music instrument) maker who disappeared sometime back to go live in the mountains. A mountain that, strangely enough, Seung-Joo now owns due to the death of her one decent relative (her aunt...who specifically left it to her and not her older brother or mother because they are rotten people).
And Oh Jak-Doo coincidentally saves her at the end of episode 1 from a random attacker (probably the same guy that tried to run her off the road and/or killed the woman in her house) and she swoons. At least she had an excuse. The bad dude had been choking her mere moments before.
So...oh, man, I dunno. On the one hand, I rather liked the slightly strange Oh Jak-Doo from the get go. Not sure I'm much impressed with Seung-Joo. Definitely not in the mood for makjang horrible mother antics. Was not at all expecting Death! Murder! Drama!!
And it's long. Episodes are over an hour and there are 24 of them. I checked out some reviews and everyone is pretty much, like, around the midway point you want to gouge your eyes out. But you can't really trust reviews. Half of them said "oh, the chemistry between the leads made it all worth it" and the other half say "I didn't like them together at all." But most did seem to think it had way too much over the top drama.
I haven't seen any of the lead actors in anything before. They all seemed pretty good. But this will probably go on my "watching" list for a while and maybe I'll just do an episode now and again. We'll see. You can't trust those blurb summary writers. At all.
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