My Father is Strange (2017)

This show is fun! I watched the first four episodes in one sitting. I haven’t watched a Kdrama in ages. It felt so good to watch this.

Parents
The younger actors for the parents are just a beautiful pair with such great warmth and chemistry in their short moments. Even though the younger actor especially for the father has some very serious and harsh scenes, the actor portrays his innocence and kindness. Actually, the sincerity of the younger actor, made the older actor shine more because often the older actor didn’t show that vulnerability and heart that the younger actor did.

Hyeyeong
Favourite character! She’s so pretty and I loved her facial expressions and her responses. I even liked her voice. It’s rare to have a sophisticated heroine in Kdramaland who can hold her own and be calm and smart and sensible. LOVE HER. Her serious face when she’s being cute is so charming.

I probably relate to her the most because I’m the second born of a family of four with an older sibling who is not earning and still studying. The father dotes on Hyeyeong despite her reserved nature and it’s the same in our family.

Rayeong
I’ve often had a hard time connecting with this actress. I did appreciate her approach in romance and she and her boy are pretty darn cute and funny.

Yuji
Yuji was a pretty bad egg but she really learned how to become a sister.

Premise
I do find it hilarious how the family keeps adding to their numbers one shock after another. I loved their bonding moments as they learned to live together and accept each other.

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Wow, just wow.

When I started watching this drama, the year it came out (2017). I dropped it and picked it back up in 2018, than dropped it around episode 20. Than came back to it in 2019, well you guessed it, I dropped it again. Lastly, I came back to it this year 2020.

Something has kept pulling me back for 3 years despite the fact that I thought the story between the oldest sister and her love interest was repetitive, and the fact that I didn't feel like I could watch 52 episodes of it because I felt like I truly hated this drama. (I don't).

I think the biggest reason I couldn't watch it was because back than I was with a really toxic family, and I just could not bring myself up to see such a loving family and have to deal with mine.

But moving on,

This dramas is just amazing, the side story lines might seem a bit repetitive but is truly amazing. I think it really shows the family dynamic and what a simple secret can do. I love all the couples but I think my favorite character was the grandma. She made me laugh multiple times and despite her hard feelings for Actor Ahn she truly cared for him towards the end of the show. I have yet to finish it but I think I won't regret watching it until the very last episode.
I recommend this drama for anyone who likes to see funny, loving, and truly heart moving dramas.

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Watch it while doing something else if you feel intimidated by the number of episodes. This is a very good drama to start appreciating long dramas and their slow pace. You need some patience and an open mind to enjoy the dramatizing of simple things because a longer drama is about having a more realistic pace of action.

disclaimer: I've watched 27/52 episodes

Weeks have passed and I still can’t get over it. It is my first time watching a lengthy drama with such an ease, while loving everything. Despite how slow it goes, it is enjoyable. It’s a part of its charm. It is also my first time being invested in all characters’ stories, because they were actually given equal importance. The drama has a serious touch of reality, and it doesn’t paint things like dramas usually do; and it makes a big deal of things that would be quickly dismissed in a normal drama but not in real life, which makes it even more realistic.

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Most K-dramas are renowned for being full of heartfelt moments and heartwarming 'lessons'. 'Father if Strange' is chock full of those and more!

I put off watching this just because it was 52 episodes - a LOT of commitment for me but I finally gave in eventually - more for the cast as I loved so many of the actors in previous roles. It started off quite slow and I almost dropped it several times but I persisted and I'm so glad I did!

Theres a huge cast as this story is about a huge family but this drama uses all 52 hours to give each family member enough character development and depth to make all of them come out with a solid story arc.

Many moments brought me to tears, the realities, struggles, and approaches in life and family were beautifully handled. This drama made me miss my parents and wish I had a huge family too.

I can't say enough about this drama, it was so wonderful and every part was played beautifully. The soundtrack is one I'll be humming for months.

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To begin with this is my first review and I decided to do it since this was the first time I watched 52 episodes in a Asian Drama, plus I really enjoyed the story and the characters so much.

Honestly I decided to watch this drama after going through some hashtags in Instagram for #JuSongMin and then saw this video clip of her with Lee Joon. It just called my attention how funny they look; so I looked for the drama and indeed it was true. Their acting was funny and cute. However, once I started watching the dram, I ended up loving Lee Yoo Ri's character out of all them. She represented a lawyer and the family daughter; with a strong personality. smart, pretty, funny, sexy, romantic, arrogant and full of herself, sometimes showing her flaws as well.

Also, another character I really loved was the grandma, she suited her role so good; and even Lee Joon did pretty good. I never saw any of his dramas; but by the end of this one I loved him even more because to me he resembles my ultimate Bias #JHope from BTS (Some might think I might be a little bit off, but that’s how it looks to me though).

Well, on the other hand it was a great developed - entangled family story. The connection with everything was pretty good, and even though there were so many episodes, they knew how to keep the suspense at the end of each one. Besides, I felt like I was watching a few dramas together, because of the different stories in most of the characters like the mother, the father, the grandma, sisterly and brotherly love plus the in laws issues. At the end, they have the common type of struggles in marriage, family and relationships, but they learned how to overcome all of them very well.

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What a beautifully written and well-depicted drama!

Byun Hye Yeong is hands down my favorite female character in all of the Korean drama's I have ever seen. She is such a role model to all the women out there. Love her character to pieces! Her values are so developed and progressive it is so hard to see female lead characters like her. Kudos to the writer and the muse the character was based on! Jung Hwan complimented her so well. He looked after her even when she pretended to be strong enough to do things alone and was supportive of her regardless of how foolish his mom was. He didn't enable his mother but actually called her out on her shit.

Joon Yeong was a bit dislikable at times but once he found out that the got his girlfriend pregnant he sure grew up a lot. NGL hate characters like Yoo Joo but she also grew up even though she took her sweet time doing it.

All of the couples in the drama were so good to each other. They took little missteps a time or two but always made sure to get things right. Well worth the time spent. I would highly recommend it to anyone who asks in future.

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Hola! It's my first time writing a review and I'd like to write it in my mother language (spanish).

Primero y antes que nada este drama tiene el típico estilo hogareño y familiar por lo que hace al espectador sentirse parte de la historia. Cada personaje en esta serie tiene su propia historia y sus propios arcos lo cual es impresionante por que muchos dramas con familias no muestran mucho de los personajes individualmente siendo más de 5 personajes principales. Tengo que admitir que la serie es un poco larga pero satisface mucho ver el desarrollo de personaje individual por miembro de familia.

La serie varia de comedia y drama que por ser un poco exagerado en varios lados se siente tan real y fresco que no aburre en ningún momento. Personalmente es muy raro que una serie me haga llorar, reír y enojarme repetidamente y esta logró hacerlo por lo que de verdad me gustó.

Aunque la serie no es para todo publico sigue siendo recomendable para familias y jóvenes. La historia progresa de forma lenta y afable por lo cual es larga. En general es un contenido PG-13/15.

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