I tell you this is by far, the best korean romantic comedy drama I have watched to date! (I only watch romantic comedies~ hehe) How I gauge a romcom as good, it's all by the feeling. If I feel happy and full of emotion (at apropriate times) while watching, I consider it as a really good romcom. Why? Because a romcom should have the right balance of funny and sad(you know, since it's a DRAMA). And Marriage Not Dating really ticked all of my boxes for the great LOL moments, the story flow, the awesome really really daebak sound effects and the cast all in all.
You are gonna enjoy e ve ry sin gle one of these episodes!
The male lead. The plastic surgeon. That character who doesn't laugh as much as the others, but shows a different side when he's with her~ the act cute side heh~
Yeeap, she's the lucky one. Though my pictures are not showing the best of her, but rest assured she's an interesting character to watch, an actress very adaptable to the comedic scenes, and she is pretty in her own league.
Talking about funny scenes
She, and Hoon Dong. These two make up the funny duo. They're like bro and sis fighting and arguing. Just seeing them together makes me laugh.
Hoon Dong is unarguably the main one that's bringing in the comedy.
Without him, this romcom will be missing out a huge part of itself.
I think the actress that did her best here was the one acting as Hyun Hee. Most of the time this character is sad moody and negative, and the actress pulls that off nicely, A*!
And she's just mucho mucho pretty to me πππ
Oh Hyun Hee and Hoon Dong? Yea they have a chemistry of their own. A master-servant couple. Guess which is the boss? Haha. And this two are the ones that receive news the last. They are always the one last to know of anything going between the other four main cast.
Yea these four, cut out the auntie on the left. Se Ah, Ki Tae, Yeo Reum and Jang Mi.
Se Ah. The woman that I truly think has gone through plastic surgery! I don't know, her face just doesn't look as natural as the others.
Here we are. The Birdman. The man with a beak. The pigeon. Sorry, but every time I see him, his nose, it just really distracts me. At first, his small tiny eyes reminded me of Rain(actually every small eyed actor reminds me of Rain, cause he's the first korean celebrity I know with slit eyes)
But as time went by, I focused on his nose more!
Dang, it's one sharp bird nose.
Yeo Reum is the love rival. But these two look more like siblings, meh~
It's time for a showdown!
Here's my scenes where I actually *sniff* *sniff* cried
Before anything, I gotta say episode 10 is like the most emotional episode, heads up on that and bring in the tissues!
The part when Hyun Hee confess to Hoon Dong about something, I can't tell~ but it's the first scene that made me cried. I shed quite a lot of tears here, but after that Hoon Dong started taking his shirt off, and I'm like, "man how my sadness gone so fast", cause the deep tone just became funny.
This is the part where we Ki Tae for the first time cried, as if pouring out all the words he kept in him all this while. Poor thing about families being under the spotlight, can't show what's real, and must act as if they're such a happy family with no flaws, sigh~
Ki Tae's mom is just like Ki Tae, a hard rock unable to budge. And when all things surfaced, well due to Jang Mi who's very forward in telling even her mother-in-law off, saying she knows that mother has hurt A LOT in her marriage, and she doesn't want Ki Tae to go through the pain she has experienced. Then after that, Jang Mi adds in the rudest remark ever(cause the whole aim is to not let her(Jang Mi) get married to Ki Tae and have Ki Tae live by his own the rest of his life, but that's not what he REALLY wants, right...), saying Mother is the one that made Ki Tae so lonely. And that sends off the mother flying to her room, giving in to her emotions.
And this? No worries no worries, nothing sad about it, I cried happy tears, like "finally!" Haha, I'm just happy to see them together at last. And the background music accompanying the scene is my favorite song in this drama, goes well with the situation haha.
This scene was when Ki Tae realize the alone life he loved so much back then, his mom was with him during that time. Knowing that your mom loves you very much is truly a blessing.
I cried because the grandmother let Ki Tae's mom free, to not care about what others would think about a broken family and make important the happiness of the people involved.
Every time after a sad crying scene, then out of the blue something happens, haha and it makes you laugh, it's like the producers are telling you don't be so hung up on the emotional scenes, and laugh a little, this tactic works all the time.
The other cast members are also contributing really well in this drama.
These 3 ladies(mother, grandma, aunt) acted their best as the 3 busybodies.
The manager of the place Jang Mi and Hyun Hee work. She, is either the worst actress, or she just plain can't express her actions through face expressions.
Hoon Dong's mommy. She seems like an unfriendly woman, but she gives in fast, when the situation is inevitable.
The useless father of Ki Tae. The father is the scariest, he gives his son the 'beeeeest' advice a father can give: go cheat on your wife, go two-time. Wao, he amazes me all the time. Hah, and he doesn't feel bad doing those actions, amaaaazing~
It's a good thing he got splashed with all kinds of liquid.
And the two that don't get along very well, Jang Mi's parents, but I know they love each other.
One of the greatest reasons why I love this drama so much is how they made each and every sound effect for every little actions and gestures the actors make, this makes it truly a romantic comedy.
I am totally in love with the "Hope and Hope" song. It's a sad song, but i sing it everywhere, and I get so excited when I hear it play, I came to the conclusion that, I really like the song! By Kim Na Young! woo!
I also love the fact that they show how couples are after they become a couple, they somehow became more distant, and the only way to solve this is to be honest with each other π
This drama also promotes drinking I think, as you will see, everything takes place with alcohol: beer, liquor, wine, cocktails etc
It's scary sometimes, when will they stop?
Here are few more clips I love so much
#cutebickeringmoments
#ireallyloveyou <=that's what Ki Tae was thinking
#(very)rarehappymoment (between these two)
Beautiful cast, beautiful complete story plot, awesome production and wonderful sound effects makes the perfect romcom drama!
