Five Enough

10/10 is my rating. This is a 2016 South Korean Family Drama. It has romantic and comedic elements. There are 54, 60 minute episodes.

Review

I have watched over 300 dramas at this point and a lot of family dramas. This immediately became my favorite family drama and ranks up with a favorite in all the dramas I have watched in general. It has great character growth and development, lots of twist and turns in the story, the central plot is very interesting and everything wraps up well. With 54 episodes that run about an hour, it is a time investment but, in this case, a good one. I find myself missing the characters as if I got to know them as personal friends. That for me is always a sign of a show I really enjoyed. I would watch it again in the future, if someone had it on I would sit down and even re-watch parts of it and highly recommend it to anyone that likes family dramas. There are spoilers at the end of this post.

Synopsis

I provide a unique synopsis because often the synopses available are often not informative enough to determine what the story is really about I hope this unique description will help in determining if you want to watch or not.

The story is built around two primary characters and their families. Lee Sang-tae (Lee Sang-tae) is a widower who has raised his two children with the help of his in-laws since the untimely death of his wife five years prior. The in-laws, after having lost their precious daughter, have clung to Sang-tae as the last real tie to their daughter. They monopolize Sang-tae and the grandchildren to the extent that Sang-tae's mother, Oh Mi-sook (Park Hye-sook) feels like she has lost her son and her grandchildren which propels her to get her son re-married.

This family based story follows these two characters and their families and friends as they struggle to find new paths in their lives and a second chance at happiness.

Spoilers

Lead guy sure puts up with a lot from his previous in-laws. They are over the top in interfering with his life and not wanting him to move on. But they also provide a lot of support to him and his two children. I was worried that his two kids would remain very spoiled and selfish because of the way the grandparents overly spoiled them but it seemed like, as the grandparents spread their love to more children, that those two kids would also level out.

I loved the female lead. She was exemplary in the way a good mother will do just about anything for her children. Not many women could embrace a relationship with their spouse's

Lead gir's grandmother was amazing. The way she helped her granddaughter raise the kids so well and even took on the step kids later. And she was so good with them, she was loving but also had no problem telling them when they were messing up.

The male lead was also very kind but he was tough in the ways the head of a family should be. I thought he went a little soft on his own children at times, when they were acting spoiled, but that is a fault any parent may have so that just made it more real.

Golfer guy? He was one of my favorite characters. He loved the youngest sister so much and did not deviate in his admiration. I thought she could be a bit much sometimes. Like how she got so stuck on the fact that she had a crush on his brother, an unrequited love. I get why she felt embarrassed and all that but I thought she was wrong in treating him like she did because of it. But she came around and admitted she was wrong and so there was a lot of character growth out of that. I was surprised their wedding was the closer for the show. They were a side romance. But, I was not disappointed as I really liked that couple.

I thought one of the most comedic parts of the show was when grandpa got himself in trouble with both of his little step granddaughters. One was upset because he told her they had a special experience that was just theirs and then he took the other girl. So she felt duped and cheated. The littlest girl got upset when he broke her rock. It was funny seeing him get ostracized by them and how bothered he was by it.. He had tremendous character growth through that experience when the one little girl told him the route to forgiveness wasn't just the things you buy, in fact you can't buy my forgiveness but you must actually verbally express you are sorry.

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