Full House
4.5/10
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| Full House |
Genre: Episodes:
16 Year: 2004
Romance
Comedy
Synopsis:
Han Ji Eun is
an aspiring scriptwriter. When two of her friends unexpectedly find out they
are having a baby, they send her on a vacation and sell her house while she is
away. On her vacation, Ji Eun meets famous actor Lee Young Jae. When she
returns she is shocked to find that her house has been sold and her life
savings stolen. She is even more surprised when she finds the one who bought
her house is none other than Lee Young Jae. At first, Young Jae allows Ji Eun
to stay in the house as a maid. However, in an attempt to make the girl he
loves jealous, he announces Ji Eun as his fiancée, and the two get married-
planning to divorce after six months.
Cast:
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| Song Hye Kyo (Han Ji Eun) |
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| Rain (Lee Young Jae) |
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| Han Eun Jung (Kang Hye Won) |
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| Kim Sung Soo (Yoo Min Hyuk) |
General Thoughts:
Oh, Full House-
where to begin. The series
started out with a lot of promise, with an interesting premise and an appealing
relationship between the main leads. However, it becomes evident fairly quickly
that aside from the hot and cold, push and pull relationship between the leads,
there’s not a lot else going on.
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| Nothing says 'I love you' better than snogging another girl |
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| This time, please, please stop fighting |
While the main
couple had promise and definitely had some sweet moments, they are never a
convincing pair. I don’t remember how old the leads were supposed to be, but
they acted like they were 5 for a good duration of the series. It’s basically
16 hours watching two kids throw tantrums and yell at each other. Even after
finishing the drama I wondered why they had ended up together. It’s really
nothing more than ‘I guess the writers wanted it that way’.
What Was Great:
I can’t really
fault Song Hye Kyo or Rain for what a disappointment the drama turned out to
be. They certainly did their best with the sloppily constructed characters they
were given, and by the end they were pros at delivering a convincing (if not
stupid and irrelevant) argument. Hye Kyo was
adorable throughout and Rain was gorgeous (and shirtless).
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| Quality cute was rare, but present |
Fleeting
Comedy:
The start of
this drama was packed with laughs and I thought I was in for a real treat.
There were so many fantastic, hilarious moments at the beginning- from the
leads first meeting, meeting the family, drowning during the honeymoon,
attempted bed sharing- but the amount of comedic moments began to dwindle as
the episodes rolled on. Thankfully they managed to keep at least a little
comedy going to the end so that it wasn’t all doom, gloom and
misunderstandings.
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| Bear song was the highlight of the whole drama |
What Wasn’t:
Stupid Friends:
Surely no one
in the real world is a dumb as the two friends of Han Ji Eun. I don’t know how
they managed to gather enough brain cells to formulate a plan in which they
sold someone’s house and stole all their money because they are as thick as two
bricks. The amount of times they let crucial information slip because they were
just blabbing on made me want to light something on fire. So frustrating.
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| C'mon, they even look shady as hell |
To add to this-
no matter how many times the two kept screwing Ji Eun over, she still called
them her friends and let them get all involved in her business. Sigh.
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| My emotions after 16 hours of our couple yelling |
Constant
Bickering:
Good grief did
this wear thin fast. After about a third of the way in, I was expecting this
constant fighting to begin to develop into cheeky teasing, but it just didn’t
happen. These two people who were supposedly in love with each other just
continued to hurl out the most devastating insults and flare up at the
slightest thing.
One of the most
annoying things in K-Dramas is when leads fall into huge fights over nothing
but the simple inability to communicate their own feelings. This series has so
many cases of this. Pick any episode and there will be a perfect example. We
watch K-Dramas to feel better about our lives, not worse- and this constant
fighting definitely made life seem pretty grim.
Why Rain:
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| I'd choose this |
I have no idea
why our leading lady chose Young Jae over Min Hyuk. On the one hand she has a
handsome man who doesn’t respect or appreciate her, constantly abandons her and
leaves her waiting, and basically treats her like trash. On the other hand she
has a handsome man who treats her like a princess, takes her on dates, and
cares deeply for her. And yet she chooses the d*uchebag. There is also
not a great deal of lead up to her falling for the mean celebrity. One day she
more or less indifferent, and the next she is soul crushingly in love.
Please Don’t
Divorce:
The divorce was
the final nail in the coffin of this drama. While I can see how divorce could
be a handy tool in keeping the plot edgy and interesting, it is best used as a
threat, not an actuality. It especially blows when the two decide on a divorce
in a pathetic, illogical roundabout way of trying to protect each other while
hiding their uncontrollable (if wildly unbelievable) love.
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| How do you relationship? |
Not only do
they carry through on the divorce, but they then re-marry about an episode
later.
Hye Won Sucks:
I really have
no idea what the writers were going for with Kang Hye Won. Were we supposed to
like her? I didn’t. She was sucky from the start and the last-ditch attempt to
redeem her character at the end fell miserably short.
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| 0/10 |
Re-watch?
No. I don’t
think I could ever sit through that much pointless arguing ever again. It
turned out to be an unremarkable, easily forgettable drama- but not forgettable
enough that I could fool myself into thinking it was worth a second watch.
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| The end was a relief |
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