Oh My Baby (2020)

Wonderful story about two single people finding love and happiness

Likes
1. Han Yisang and Go Joon. Yisang's love for maoi statues.
2. The drama wasnt just telling the story of a single lady who wants to get married and have a baby, it also showed that guys also have problems with infertility. And it also showed the different views of people - the struggles of a working mom, and a mom who had to leave the workforce and cant find a job again, to married couple who doesnt want kids. And even fathers who struggle to earn money to fulfill their children's dreams. And mothers who just want the best for her child.
3. The balance between humor and drama. I laughed out loud during the funny scenes and bawled whenever Hari and Yisang cried.
4. The beautiful ost. I wish they release the ost with a photobook!
5. That there are different ways to be happy. And everyone should follow his own path to happiness. It may not be the usual route but we should learn to respect other people's choices without judgment.

Dislikes
1. That they made Jae Young into a selfish annoying second lead. Park Byung Eun deserved better. He could have been the nice childhood friend with a one-sided crush on Hari.
2. The first few episodes when all Hari could think of is to be a mom. That it's her main dream and she wont be happy until she was a mom. I disliked her views on that but the ending when she finally realized she was wrong made it all worth it.

Rating: 9.5/10 (9 for the story plus 0.5 for Yisang )

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A trip to the sperm bank

Let's call things by their name. This is not a romantic comedy. It's barely a romantic drama. The Netflix publicity poster that has three men following a woman like she's a bitch in heat is misleading. It's even less funny than that. There are no hijinks and no hilarious misunderstandings. The supporting cast is led by a mother who pays lip service to supporting her daughter while she channels every social prejudice.

It's nothing more or less than an infertility melodrama. If that's what you were looking for, stay. Otherwise I cannot recommend it.

There are three men involved. One man looks like he lives in eternal sorrow and puts on a happy mask. One man looks like he's having a sad, incestuous fantasy. And one child doesn't even know why he's part of the conversation as we watch another woman pursue him for most of the series. It's not even a love square with three men urgently looking to deposit their seed. It's a meat market with a selection of goods about as appetizing as a Soviet supermarket shelf. In the end she buys whatever's available on any shelf and it's half a pound of ersatz mortadella.

Jang Na-ra did her reputation no harm in this role. She was given little to work with and made it look like a lot. The male leads were given crappy stories and struggled to rise above them. Park Byung-eun demonstrated his uncanny skill for looking pathetic in a role that wasn't good enough for him. The supporting roles were generic and bereft of standouts.

As another reviewer correctly said, I felt catfished.

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i found this drama was a mature heartwarming one

but the ML was a bad choice for me
good role with lukewarm acting
his face expression was so cold and couldn't deliver me the right feeling

mainly it was focusing and talked about different kinds of parenting, motherhood problems and work problems
so i saw the romance in it was light and some times lukewarm

normal reactions towards the one you love were extremely absent


the FL's childhood friend was the most selfish and son of a B**** man i've ever seen
he lived his life fully (left her suddenly, married, got a baby, divorced )
then coming back discovering he loved her
trying to interfere every single decision she took
intruding her life and forcing her to choose what he want
taking decision for her by himself thinking that he is doing that for her own benefit OOOOOOOOHHH
what a As***** guy really

he annoyed me till the limit when she refused him i was so happy
and i'm not evil woman in normal life but i was really happy
because many times i want to break the screen from his deeds -_-
he didn't respect her choices at all , while she did towards him

i could consider this drama as a mature light romance
but mainly not romance

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Decepcionada

Incrível tanta sensibilidade na escrita mesmo sendo um homem, não que fosse um problema, mas o contexto machista que ainda existe na Coreia e no mundo e pesa muito para mim nesse sentido e confesso que criei muitas expectativas sobre esse dorama, por ser mesmo autor de Mirror of the Witch.

Várias opiniões sobre o assunto são mostradas das mais machistas a mais modernas, pensei que finalmente teríamos o foco em uma mulher que quer ser mãe solo e está bem com isso.

Toda vez que alguém metia o assunto casamento quando ela falava de ter um filho, eu tinha vontade de os socar, sério, é como se uma mulher não pudesse ser mãe solo. Por que isso é motivo para reclamações? Não são a vida deles e achei ridículo uma mulher solteira não poder fazer fertilização em vitro na Coreia. Ela tem que ser casada e pedir autorização ao parceiro.

Sobre romance, não está em primeiro lugar em minhas preferências por dorama, então o enredo é grande responsável para dar uma chance, mas sempre que posso tento ver romances maduros. Realmente não suporto essa mania de forçar uma inocência em uma mulher adulta, quando Na Ri e Yi Sang finalmente ficam juntos, fiquei um pouco decepcionada por seu relacionamento se parecido com de adolescente, pela idade esperei algo mais maduro.

A insistência do Jae Young foi muito irritante, estragaram um personagem que tinha um plot muito legal de pai solteiro para virar um simples chato que não entende que perdeu a vez, bom que isso foi redimido, mas mesmo assim foi um desperdício de personagem. Acabei sentindo falta de vontade de ver a partir do episódio doze e senti o treze arrastado, sem contar com os famoso clichês que foram usados.

Então me senti decepcionada pois o foco da Na Ri nunca era só ter um filho, não me convenci o essa desculpa de não está pronta para adotar, parecia uma forma de esconde um preconceito, na verdade o rumo todo foi modificando e perdendo foco.

Não posso dizer que o final foi cem por cento como queria, mas isso não apaga as maravilhosas atuações e os momentos que me emocionei, os bebês fofos, porém ainda sim, esperava mais.

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This idea would seem a bit novel but it has been in our respective societies ever since women have stepped out of the house to earn a living. You won't believe how common marrying at the evening stage of life has become. This is a fictional story of 39 years old single woman who loves children, working for a magazine focused around babies and mothers wanting to have her own baby someday finding out that the time is ticking and she has a slim chance of getting pregnant by each day passing. She is mortified by coming across this reality so much so she is ready to skip the part of marriage and directly getting into motherhood. Now, I am sure that in the upcoming episodes we will see how she gets choose one out of 3 men pursuing her but what will be interesting to watch is how a woman in her late 30's struggle with society stigmatizing her for being single up to that age, having a prejudice against her having a baby without marriage, her struggles dealing with the judgemental looks of the men coming across the idea of her wanting to have a baby out of them and her complications when she bears a baby (which I hope happens). It's a must-watch for the fact that we all are kind of dealing similar situation ourselves if we're in the age bracket of late 20's to early 40's and yet to find the perfect partner and rear a family. I am writing this review based out of 2 episodes which I enjoyed. I will be updating when I have advanced with more episodes.

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