Mine,
tvN’s latest hit chaebol melodrama, passed the 10% mark in viewership a good number for a cable drama that intrigued audiences right up to the end.
In the show, a highly recommended tutor and maid in dire straits enter the sprawling Han estate as the family patriarch falls into a sudden coma. These three events set off a cascade of increasingly dramatic events that test the family and culminate in murder.
While the overall mechanics of the drama are strong and serve the main storyline, a lack of care given to some subplots and characters (including those with disabilities) dull some of the drama’s shine. That being said, the main story of two daughters-in-law working together to protect the ones they love and take back what is theirs is captivating enough to largely ignore these unforced errors, if not forgive them.
May 20, 2021
The Netflix K-drama Mine follows the lives of a family of rich and powerful women. Kim Seo-hyung (left) and Lee Bo-young in a still from the series.
Netflix
The torrid and tumultuous lives of women in high society are back in the spotlight in the new Korean drama series Mine.
The 16-episode tvN production follows others such as SKY Castle and The Penthouse in examining the desires of powerful women and the prejudice they face, in spite of their social rank and material wealth.
Mine explores the lives of the family behind the fictional Hyowon Group, a powerful Korean corporation, who live, by their own description, in “another world”.