Because This Is My First Life

Oh yeah, now this is a show for big girls. We do without the big dramatic twists, the mothers who want the best for their kids without really caring what their offspring wants. We've got three couples, each in a slightly different situation, so if by chance one's troubles stop taking your breath away, it's replaced by interesting happenings again with the couple "a house away". It's interestingly handled script-wise because it's mostly based on the dialogue and various characters, not twists and turns. Each character has a motivation and some immutable basis, i.e. a core character, which makes the plot unfold because they are motivated by different goals, and conflict ensues. Here I would say that the female characters were very well handled, created very realistically; whereas the male ones, while also well written, I thought were slightly unrealistic. In the end, it is just a TV show, it isn’t hurting anything. It was interesting, real, a bit out of breath at times, but interesting, and you could wish the characters a happy ending because they seemed real. A Korean slice-of-life story where you might find something familiar. (19/11/2018)