The Gentleman and the Lady (2021)

One of the worst...

I usually hold Korean recent Dramas in high regard, and occasionally one or two in recent time has disappointed me.. And Young Lady and Gentleman I thought was really entertaining and actually good. Then after episode 10 or so it began to start unravelling and went downhill gradually at first and then it just accelerated to the end. Korean drama rarely goes beyond 20 episodes, but this one went on to 50 torturous episodes, and with more than an hour per episode they were clearly out of their depth! What on Earth were they thinking? It should have been 20 episodes at max and the storyline would have been tighter and more interesting, rather than bombarding the viewers with shit.

The FL lead, on my god, a 24-year-old, behaved like a retard 16 yo school girl all through the drama!!! WHY? Selling that 'Cute' girl to the boys? REALLY?

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Age Ain't Nothin' But A Number and Money Isn't Everything.

This show set out to illustrate how a big age difference should not be a determining factor on whether two people should be together or not as portrayed by Young Gun and Dan Dan; It also set out to show through the actions and experiences of its characters that money is not everything and love, affection and family trump money - this is shown through the characters of Cho Sa Ra and her mother, and also through Dae Bum's story and his struggles while dating a woman richer and older than him.

I would say that all in all the show did succeed in illustrating these points but it was done in an uneven manner, the writer focussed heavily on the negative with only a sprinkling of goodness. This made for a frustrating watch.

Cho Sa Ra ruined this show single handedly, the writer drew out her schemes for way too long that by the time she got her sad
(ish) ending it was too little too late.

Having said that, I enjoyed the family slice of life, the kids and Park Dan Dan, I also really enjoyed the relationship between Dae Bum and Se Ryeon, their unabashed love for each other kept me going when other aspects of the drama were dragging.

By the end of the story the characters had learned the lessons they were supposed to learn but the road walked by some characters to redemption was a bit trite, eg. Yeon Shil, what made her change and decide that money isn't everything? she just changed her mind from one day to the next. A more believable transition is that of Mrs. Wang, I could clearly see her battle to change her mindset and eventually events and life experience changed her and she became sincerely repentant.

I could have easily dropped this around the episode 25 mark but something made me keep watching so I can say that much about it.
Music was repetitive, it would have been nice to hear more songs

One great thing I can say about this drama is that it has made me interested in watching the longer episode weekend dramas which I have never watched before, I enjoyed the up close slice of life vibe of this show and am looking forward to watching more longer form dramas,

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felt like a drama from 2010 with too many episodes

Honestley, I started to watch this drama because of the OST song "love always run away" by Lim Young Woong. I really love this song, so I wanted to give it a try although it has many episodes. (I usually don't watch kdramas with that many episodes)

I liked the first third of the drama. It was good and I liked the main characters (Young Guk and Park Dan Dan), but through out the drama I just found myself skipping quite a lot...

Se Ryeon's mother and Jo Sara were tiring me out. I couldn't stand them and also Sara's mother as well. There were quite a few supporting character that I didn't like in comparison to other dramas I have watched.

The kids were really saving this drama! The side story of Dae Beom and Se Ryeon was very enjoyable, Mi Rin and Jun Oh were cute too.

If you leave out the unnecessary stuff, the story is not THAT bad. The drama just felt like a drama from like 2010 with too many episodes.

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Nice love story, but...

I just finished watching this drama. I'm going to be honest: it's not like I don't appreciate the hard work of all cast and crew, but this time I cannot say I was impressed. The drama tells the story of a couple, with 14 years difference in age. I liked this aspect because it dealt with the stigma and objections that people have to face when they are different. They meet on a mountain, she mistakes him for a rogue and hits him, and a short time after she becomes the nanny of his three children with whom he lives after the death of his wife. The family is estranged and Dandan basically brings them together, offers the children the care, love, and attention they lacked, and reunites the whole family. This is the context in which the two ground their love. It was also nice to see how their love evolves, how it deals with opposition from others, and even the attempts to break them apart. What I did not like was Youngguk, which I felt was a weak man, who caused Dandan a lot of grief. Ashamed by the 14 years of age gap, he hesitates to engage in a relationship with her, fearing what others might say, then what his children might think, then his friends and work colleagues. Although I understand his motivation, I think that making a choice and following it would have been better. At one point he looses his memory and becomes engaged with another woman, that he doesn't love, but that he knows from a different time. Sara, to be exact, is the prototype of the woman interested in wealth, although she has some feelings that may make us relate to her suffering. She is the birth mother of Youngguk's youngest son and tries to be close to him after abandoning him at Youngguk's door. But using this as an excuse for all her intrigues, I was really bothered by that. I also profoundly disliked all their family members (parents and aunts) that had no other better things to do than yell, fight, oppose everything and make them suffer. I actually liked Dandan, a determined young girl, who followed her dream, who was not afraid to say what she thinks and feels, lovely, gentle, kind and honest. I'm happy for the ending of the drama, I think it would have been to much to bear if the couple could not marry and remain together.

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Bem Dificil

Para quem esta acostumado com dramas de 16 episódios assistir a mais de 50 episódios realmente tem que ser muito bom, porem o enredo é bom, com uma história curiosade e bem diferente, que logo no primeiro epsodio surpreendeu, mas com tempo perdeu tempero , variação das cenas e artimanhas malvadas.

Os protagonistas maravilhosos e muito bem colocados, os principais formavam um par bonitinho, mas ficaram desgastados por falta de cenas novas e inovacao.

Quase todos os personagens acabam beirando o repulsivo. Poucos se salvam e, entre eles, estão as três doçuras que são os filhos do Presidente Lee. Young-kook, o “cavalheiro”, se mostra um lorde covarde, persebi que o personagem se perdeu na trama, aquepe homem centrado e focado deu lugar a um bebezao sem atitude, mesmo que algumas situacoes levassem a uma fase assim, na volta da memoria ficou completamente nada haver. Ambos os pais biológicos da Dan Dan são imaturos e controladores.
Um alívio que a srta. Park não seja uma completa tapada total, mas tem horas que faz coisas inadmissíveis para uma mulhet adulta, mas faz perte do personagem.

No mais tudo poderia ser melhor.
A estoria é boa, e touxe vários pontos interessantes, como do pai da Dandan ter sido abandonado, ter tentado desistir da propria vida, aceitou ser resgatado, se esforçou para reiniciar a vida com outra mulher e sua família e filha. A mae de Dandan tambem teve uma pedaço digno de Hollywood, com mudanca de face. O encotro de parentes perdidos era algo que nao esperava e as cenas repetidas de maldade dos vilões, que mas estao para pacientes fugitivos hospital psiquiatrico, estavam sem ideias novas e o pior e os personagens caindo na mesma maldade.

Foi um alivio terminar de assistir sem droppar mais foi por objetivo mesmo, porque a vontade sumia muitas vezes.
Enfim o final poderia ter sido bem melhor, pareceu apressado e toda a magia necessária faltou.
Mas é isso.

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nada de importante.

esse é um dos melhores doramas que assisti, a história é muito boa, te prende e faz vc ficar ainda mais interessado. uma hora vc tá morrendo de rir, e depois tá chorando KKKKKKK Parece tipo casos de família, tô pensando em reassistir! não sei avaliar dorama, mas só digo: assistam, vocês não vão se arrepender. Eu fiquei em depressão quando acabou o dorama, juro KAKAKAKKAKAKS Jjsjdjdssjaakskboi que não tem como evitar de ser assim já tô vendo a gnt vai ter que ir no banheiro e me fala oque é o que eu tenho que ir no médico e depois que vi esse vídeo nunca vi isso d top 5 anos e n

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Annoying and manipulative characters

Plot had a good potential but I had to drop this kdrama at episode 3 and trust me if I say I usually like long dramas such as family dramas with clichés and lot of dramatic events happening but I couldn't stand this one. The FL acted so silly and was too immature + not having any respect for her adoptive mom despite they grew up together (just saying I only watched three episodes so I don't know if there's a further reason for her to behave like that but so far I hated the way she treated her adoptive mom) and even ended up doing silly things when meeting the ML and started working for him.

The ML, on the other hand, doesn't even seem to have a personality, he gets mad over nothing or acts like he knows everything about people (for example, the part where he was checking the FL resume to hire her, and ended up judging her as an alcoholic)

The elders act silly and manipulative, Sa Ra's mom would do anything just to get some money, Dandan's adoptive mother is very immature and acts childish, even knowing she's in the wrong for always taking her son's side and ends up crying for everything.

The only good part was the acting, I obviously can't deny they all did a good job portraying the characters.

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Bored

At this point I am watching till the end, to justify the last 49 episodes I have watched. But i would not recommend this show to other watchers.

The story started fine in the begining but then it just repeats with the same family drama. And the repeated story line of if you like someone they automatically have to like you back and if they dont you just have to manipulate them and eventually they will. REALLY. Also if a guy is saying no and telling you its over that is not a sign to try harder, usually it just means no. And I am not even going to start on the money grabbing mothers.

This is so hard to continue watching but i have wasted 49 hours whats another 3.

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Début très bien, mais suite "n'importe quoi" : dommage

A l'issue du visionnage total (avec du zapping sur certaines parties, je finis avec un sentiment très mitigé :

- jusqu'à épisode 16 : très bien, très accrocheur.
- Après c'est n'importe quoi !!! Amnésie, retour à l'esprit du ML de 22 ans, tricks de la evil FL, ça dure, ça dure...
- Vers épisode 30 : retour de la mémoire, mais perte des souvenirs de l'intervalle ????
Multiples ruptures incohérentes et sans raison, etc.
Comportement des personnages peu cohérent

J'en passe et des pires.
Les screenwriters ont du beaucoup fumer pour écrire une histoire pareille. Dommage, parce que les acteurs sont bons et font de leur mieux pour mettre en vie cette histoire tirée par les cheveux.

Il faut arrêter la fumette !

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The wasted potential......

This drama had so much potential, but the dragging made it unwatchable. Amnesia twice? Seriously?

I made the decision to watch this drama since I adore the childcare subgenre. I was hooked in the beginning, but the drama's ongoing repetition made me want to stop watching. At some point, the plot became quite predictable, because it was like watching the same thing over and over again.  I like how they tackled some cultural standards (Age gap relationships), but I find it repugnant that they effectively rendered their characters moronic in the process. (DD's Dad, Like are u serious?)

Although they were unable to demonstrate their acting abilities due to the storyline, it was nonetheless a respectable effort.

The OST was acceptable.

I wouldn't rewatch such a drawn-out, tedious drama.

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A cast of toxic women - a drama that hates nearly every woman on the planet.

After leaving home in frustration that her step mother and her step-brother have yet again lost a lot of money, meaning they will be homeless, a 26-year old woman takes a job as a live in tutor for a 41 year old widowed CEO with 3 kids. You of course realise we can expect them to fall for each other.
Not as straightforward as that tho – lots of other business which is frankly annoying. His female 'butler' has designs on him for marriage as she is also the mother of his third child who he and his wife adopted. She 'loves' the CEO (perhaps?) but dotes on the kid, while discriminating against the other two. She is very limiting with all the kids and only when the tutor moves in do they feel understood and life improves.
So far, so predictable – you might think "Edelweiss" any minute, but no.
There are a whole raft of other characters – the CEO's father's mistress and her spoiled princess daughter, the butler, her mother and her mother's friend, the tutor's impoverished family. Somehow, in a city the size of Seoul, they all end up meeting, having relationships, and getting under each other's flesh, sometimes innocently and sometimes (naturally, the richer ones) in order to try to protect what they think they deserve.
I found the behaviour of nearly every single female apart from the FL, the CEO's cook and the child, incredibly toxic. Narcissism and greed abound. They behave like toddlers throwing tantrums and punches. Eventually I realised this is meant to be funny. It wasn't.
I speed watched from Ep18 to 25 and when I checked the episode count to find it was less than half way through, I dropped it.
How can I possibly give this crazy lazy plotting a mark? I did my best to be fair. There are some rather lovely characters but the good ones are weak, living in a cloud cuckoo land where they don't realise they are the only ones who are kind, and the rest, horrendous.
I struggle to give it more than 3/10

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