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Good husband makes a nicer wife. This drama let husbands make reflection on their attitude of treating of their wives and family. Lacking of care and concern ruins the family. Jusung is such a husband. However he is given a second life to experience a marriage with another wife, a dream girl he is always thinking of, but then find out that the original wife is actually his best choice. The story is itself quite meaningful.
This drama makes me think of Discovery of love, which is another relationship drama to let men reflect how a man should care for his girlfriend. That is a great drama. Out of more than 50 kdrama i have watched, it is my favourite and i will give a full score of 10.
I watched Discovery of love long time ago. The two dramas have a similar theme and similar message to bring out. But to me, i find Discovery of love excel Familiar wife.
I think the problem lies in the 2nd female lead of Familiar wife. In language of my place, her character is only one dimensional, that is, she is made the villian of the drama and is bad without a reason. A spoiled wealthy girl who does not care about her motherinlaw and develops an extramarital relationship with a guy younger than her. In the love square, clearly she is made the culprit and the one to be blamed for breaking of relationship. She is kind of like the witch in Snow White, shouldering all the blame. She is a simple solution for the writer to bring out the divorce.
Besides, the writer rely on a time travel to the past to let jisung come to understand what is wrong with him. Time travel is a convenient means to bring out regret of jisung
In Discovery of love, there exists also a love square. But no single side is totally wrong. In fact, they are all decent persons. The 2nd male lead meets his child sweet heart again and therefore shaking his relationship with the lead actress. On the other hand, the male lead come to work with the female lead. He begins to treasure his past love with the female lead out of jealousy. He has a deeper understanding of her through constant contact and finally revive their love. The storyline is much more intricate and resemble the complexity of the true world. As some commentary say, it is a realistic drama, with a plot not easy to write.
In the coming epd jisung will tell the truth to female lead about their marriage in his first life. Hope that the climax is yet to come.
score 6/10
madbird-61243 7 September 2018
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