Remember: War of the Son

One of the beautiful dramas that you will always remember. All the actors have acted well most importantly the leads, the antagonist and Park sung woong. The reason why we want the protoganist to succeed is because the character arc of the antagonist(Namgoong Min) is well written and when you see the antagonist losing in the end, you will feel for him too inspite of all his sins. The ending was more realistic. It just made to feel that this is what life is. A huge credit should go to the writers for the male and female lead's characterization, it felt more natural.

I was hesitant to watch this drama at first. Though I've already seen some clips of it on Youtube, I thought it was boring and mediocre. I want to stay away from melodramatic and tear-jerking dramas as much as possible, and just stick with light, fun and comedic stuff.

This is one of those that carry heavy loads of emotions, which in the midst of doubt, became one of my favorites. Great story line. Very interesting yet "frustrating" plot. I got hooked in the first fifteen minutes run of the pilot episode.

Although I'm more into cheesy and romantic kind of a story, Remember is an exception, along with Angry Mom. It talks more about crime, conspiracy, political aspects, bureaucracy and the like with very minimal romance. Sure, there are specks of unintentionally hilarious scenes, but I have no idea about the practices and implementation of laws in S.Korea, so I can't pinpoint things out for discussion. Besides, those are too little to distract viewers and ruin the entire episodes or even the story line for that matter.

Otherwise, Namgoong Min and Yoo Seung-ho's acting is phenomenal! The first, stirred my anger with his crazy 'stunt' and outre behavior ,while the latter burst me into tears, almost the entire drama. The affliction of the main character(s) is real. The emotional impact is 'severe'. It affected me really hard.

I highly recommend this drama. It's worth it! And it's worth it hundred times!

Min Namkoong is fenomenal in this. He is the main star of the show. His ability to play the extremely disturbed and insane Nam Gyu Man is out of bounds. High praise for his acting skills.

I hope he'll show more of his skills in other projects.

About the show/story: This show once again shows the extreme differences between the "upper" and "lower" class. Money buys everything, and money thinks it is above the law, even the law itself.

The show was highly frustrating in that way.

It was a nice procedural law series with a somewhat satisfying outcome.

The loose ends are all tied up and you can help but feel a bit triumphant at the ending of show.

Even a 2 year old doesn't fall for such stupid plot lines 😭😭

The good points of this show outweigh some flaws.

This is a revenge melodrama about a son trying to exonerate his wrongly accused father of murder. There are some exciting court battles, lots of corruption and the best makjang male villain played perfectly by Namgoong Min. He provides the much needed laugh out loud black comedy as he plays the worst chaebol son you can imagine. Rapist murderer & drug addict you name it, he's it.

Flaws: 20 episodes was too much. 16 would have eliminated some repetitive scenes of angst and flashbacks. Although things do move along with some nice twists and cliff hangers that keep you tuned in, much could have been edited out. Also there wasn't enough romance between the cute leads. Park Min Young is suited to her role since she acts serious roles even better than rom com. Yoo Seong Ho is quite good as the man with a photographic memory although he has some tiresomely repetitive scenes. The conflicted lawyer played by Park Sung Woong is an interesting character.