MBC Mon-Tues Drama Welcome 2 Life with Rain and Lim Ji Yeon Hold Script Reading
This drama feels like a reverse version of Knowing Wife (Familiar Wife) and that’s both a good and potentially bad thing. Last year’s hit tvN drama Knowing Wife was made incredible and utterly perfect by the acting and chemistry of the two leads Ji Sung and Han Ji Min which helped ground the fantastical concept of a man driving through a magical coin operated toll booth and going back to made a different decision so his present day has a different life. A similar conceit is behind upcoming MBC Mon-Tues drama Welcome 2 Life with Rain as the selfish defense lawyer who falls into a parallel universe and finds himself now a righteous prosecutor and married to Lim Ji Yeon who his jerky self dumped ten years ago in the other time line. I like a do-over drama, who doesn’t dream of changing bad decisions or getting a different possibility, but I hope this one has a characters we can root for and great chemistry between the leads.
I wish them the best, especially Rain. All of his comeback drama so far are flop. Though some of the actings in those dramas were astounding, but still, I can’t help but feel that the way they choose the projects were forced or without getting second thoughts.
somehow the plot reminds me of “the family man” (Nicholas Cage & Tea Leoni), which I really love.
While Rain may not the one of the best actors around, his leading lady is worse.
Have to pass this one.