anna pansacola

I found the story line quite ridiculous and yet I watched it till Season 3 because it has a great cast and some engaging scenes. The problem is it can't decide whether it wants to be a tearjerker drama, a romantic comedy or a paranormal story with ghosts lingering and living characters being possessed. It started out with melodramatic scenes between a mother who got cheated on and prevented the daughter from having a relationship with the cheater husband...and the now adult daughter who bitterly blames her for the lost opportunity of bonding with the now deceased father. She is now a young mother with a devoted successful doctor husband who is also a perfect dad, yet despite her good fortune, she still cannot forgive her own mother who suffers the lonely isolation from her loved ones. And then the same thing happens to the angry daughter...the perfect husband cheats...but it's too late to make amends with the mother as she dies from cancer. How overdramatic is that? There are 3 groups of character - the 3 wives who all got cheated on, the husbands who all cheat, and the 3 women home wreckers. Later episodes show the home wreckers winning, even if one mistress is so shallow (but cute) that one wonders what a good looking successful doctor who was once a good family man ever saw in her. The scenes between a professor husband and a dowdy looking writer wife seem realistic enough. The husband whines that they've been married too long and his mundane life has become intolerable. But in truth, he has been ensnared by a celebrity singer who turns to him after being dumped by a rich playboy. The 3rd couple is even harder to understand. The wife is a celebrity radio hostess, pretty and brattish. The husband is a handsome lawyer, yet he is totally clueless about what to do with his spoiled wife. So it's understandable that he falls for a mature gym mate who becomes his confidant and later on, predictably, a lover. But then (spoiler alert!) she gets killed off the plot! Also, Season 3 changes the 2 actors and actress (their contract expired? or they no longer want to be involved in such a bad show?), so it severs the audience attachment to these characters (if indeed there was). The 3 wives who lost their husbands to the home wreckers also all got interested in their radio show's engineer, played by a handsome actor (who only has one facial expression) and is supposed to be a son of a rich tycoon...yet he only plays golf and works as a sound engineer of a radio show, so what could 3 lovely wives possibly find in him? Anyway, I could go on and on describing every flawed scenes and ideas, but the fact remains that a lot of people love this Korean drama and gave it 5 stars! Which probably shows that even bad scripts and plots can be engaging...and I should probably shut up now!