Series Review: K family Drama Once Again

 K dramas are the thing: Many are even showing on NetFlix, which Ruby has a subscription, but usually I screen them via a local streaming service. There are several, some with aps for a small fee or free but with ads.

I discovered the show while checking out the Kpop discussion boards... most of the discussion is about the melodramas and romances, but they also have the ratings of which are more popular, and one of the highest rated shows was one called "Once again", which hasn't yet hit Netflix,

(the NetFlix show "Once Again" is a completely different show).

But this one, made in 2020, is a G rated family drama, so you  should, so keep an eye out for it because it is a very nice show, not in a bland cliche ridden Hallmark channel way, but similar to the nicer classic tv shows we used to see in the past, where family members had different personalities but loved and supported each other. 

And we are now approaching the 100th episode (in two more weeks) and I can say: It's a very very good show.

IMDB has a description of the early plot:

Song Young Dal and Jang Ok Boon have been married for many years and they have 4 children: Joon Sun, Ga Hee, Na Hee and Da Hee. Third child Na Hee is a doctor and she works with her husband Doctor Kyu Jin at the same hospital. They fell in love during their medical school days and got married, but their marriage life is not doing very well. Meanwhile, the first child Joon Sun and the second child Ga Hee are both divorcees and live with their parents. The youngest child Da Hee struggles as an intern at a company.

and then things change: The doctors date others, but figure out they still love each other, the mother in law from hell befriends the youngest sister, who works at her cafe and later falls in love with her other son. And then there are lots of subplots of finding a lost sister, the stunt team moving upstairs and are joined by a young man who was essentially homeless because he is fleeing his family after a terrible accident, etc.

and yes the PC police came after them because a minor subplot is when the Kimbap shop is opened by a lady who got tired of running a kareoke bar and fighting off drunks, and brought two of the bar girls with her...and I guess the PC thought these ladies were "sexualized" but they seem to have missed the point: It is about rescuing these girls from the tawdry environment of working in bars... they quit and came to help the older lady at her restaurant because she had protected them and they did not want to be mere sex objects (hint: They tone down their costumes after being corrected by the other shopkeepers).

here is a scene from one of the recent episodes:

TVHappysister has a video here that describes the show:

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the father runs a fried chicken shop, and many of the episodes revolve around family meals.

and in case you are wondering what is kimbap, here is how to make it: