I haven’t watched a weekend K-drama in years but will always remember fondly the heydays when there was always a chance to chance upon a good one. Not that the weekend dramas in recent years weren’t good but there seems to be a lack of excitement and buzz around any to make it worth checking out. Two bigger names will be heading to weekend land for the next KBS drama Iron Family, starring Kim Jung Hyun and written by the screenwriter of When the Stars Gossip, Miss Korea, and Pasta. The female lead will be Geum Sae Rok who I liked when she first debuted but in recent projects she’s been playing the annoying antagonist which made her take steps back. The two leads match up and this should make for an easy watch on weekends for those who still have the bandwidth for long commitments.
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He is quirky. He had unique on-screen presence in Crash Landing on You. But I’ve never been able to finished his dramas as ML since. LOL.
Its not just Kim Jung Hyun, I believe this is also the writer’s first weekender too. I really enjoyed Jealousy Incarnate (same writer) and there were elements of that drama that felt very weekender, so I think this might be the drama to revive KBS’s weekender slump. Its been a while since they’ve had a hit on that time slot. Oh, and tick tock for When the Stars Gossip.
Iron Family is going to run 36 episodes, because KBS2 is slowly transitioning to 30-episode weekenders. I think I can make time for this, because it has been described as a “black comedy” (Geum Sae-rok is blind and her family comes upon a lot of money, similar to the writer’s previous drama Romance Town). Koreans seem to have a different understanding of that term “black comedy,” but if it is anything like a full-length Sky Castle, I am in.
I have a soft spot for Kim Jung Hyun as an actor (as an actor), so I’m checking his dramas to find interesting one. Not sure about that drama, but I liked previous writer’s drama Jealousy Incarnate, so will watch the 1st episode.