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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.
This article contains spoilers. The standard format for a K-drama has long been to cast a rich, handsome man opposite a scrappy young woman trying to fend for herself and throwing them against each other, again and again, until sparks fly. The most refreshing thing about the recent run of high society prime-time melodramas such as SKY Castle, The Penthouse.