Familiar Wife

What an underrated show! I stumbled across it by accident, and watched the first (and only?) season over the weekend.

Certain pieces were quirky, corny, slow, and forced, but were necessary for the conclusion. The sci-fi aspect to the show really hit home when they realized they had choices.

The casting was PERFECT -- and I cannot stress that enough.

This is a message to all divorced people, or anyone with questions about their choices. You don't need to disrupt your entire timeline to make better choices concerning your attitude and relationship RIGHT NOW.

I LOVED THIS SHOW. Please don't create a sequel. It is perfect as-is.

To all divorced men: if you could go back in time before you met your ex and avoid starting that il-fated relationship, would you do it? And what if you encountered said ex later in your new reality and found her to be vibrant, beautiful, vital, and exciting - the epitome of that woman you thought you were marrying earlier in your first life - what would you do? Would you leave her alone? Would you try to strike up a new relationship and avoid the problems you perhaps caused in the old reality? What if, by some rift in the space-time continuum, your paths crossed and she came on to you? Would you spurn her? Would you feel some sense of responsibility and watch out for her? Would you tell her you two are not meant to be?

These are the questions Cha Joo-Hyuk (Ji Seong) must wrestle with when he chooses to go back in time and erase the marriage he had with Seo Woo-Jin (Han Ji Min). The moral of the story is best summed up by Seo Woo Jin when she responds to Cha Joo-Hyuk's confession: "There are no one-sided relationships." Couples should give each other second chances and try to make the best of things.

Some reviewers complained that the plot got boring after episode 12, which admittedly is the emotional peak of the series. I don't think they quite got the gist of the last four episodes, wherein the two go back in time once more, only this time at Seo Woo-Jin's behest. Now Cha Joo-Hyuk is really in a bind. He knows that, without him, Seo Woo-Jin has a great life, even though she feels something is missing. Should he take the safe route and keep her away or let her back in, take the chance and try to do better?

I recently saw One Spring Night with Han Ji Min and really liked her craft. I searched for other dramas with her in it and found this one which is even better (heads up Netflix). IMHO she is a top shelf Korean female actor and she acquits herself nicely in this series.

I had never seen Ji Seong before but I am very impressed with his acting. I will keep an eye out for more of his work.

If you like K-dramas, Familiar Wife will be a good investment of your time.

What's that old saying? The grass is greener on the other side? This story about a married couple that has 2 kids and their relationship starts going downhill with the daily doldrums and keeps escalating until the wife can't take it anymore and yells at her husband everyday after work and then one day he can't take it anymore and abandons her. He finds a way to back in tine and start his life over to before he met his wife - a time when he had a crush on someone else. Will he be happy? Was the grass greener on the other side? Does he wish to be back with the wife he abandoned and his 2 kids? Did he make a mistake? How can he correct his mistake? Is it even possible? You will have to watch and see all the ups and downs that happen along the way. I actually liked the sidekick actor Cha Hak-yeon who played Kim Hwan the new recruit in the office. His cute expressions and addition to the team at the office gave the cuteness to the series. I would have liked to see more cuteness from the lead actor - we saw some in the ending episode for example the proposal near the ending of the series was so romantic and cute of him. I wish the write would have shown a little more of that side of him during the series.

I didn't know what to expect from the title of the show but from the 2nd/3rd it's soooo amazing. I don't think I've ever felt the pain of the characters in a show quite like this before. It's incredibly underrated. And the actors are so good at what they did. The whole concept is so cool. And the soundtrack... oh boy even listening to it now brings tears to my eyes cause it remind me of them and their hurt and their love. MUST WATCH

This drama is simply excellent. I think Familiar Wife hits that sweet spot between fantastical romance and relatable reality. Despite the large role played by elements like 'destiny', Familiar Wife never fails to feel like an everyman's story, one that everyone can see themselves be a part of. This drama had so many applicable life lessons and such larger than life characters, it was a complete joy to watch them. Familiar Wife requires a slightly mature and forgiving audience, because these characters are flawed, not unlike real humans. They make mistakes, learn, and make more mistakes - and that's how life works.