Doctor Cha

A series about a downtrodden wife and mother breaking free from her philandering husband and abusive mother-in-law might have culminated as a joyful celebration. However, this series fails to hit such heights. Nevertheless, it gives us a sympathetic heroine to root for, if you can forgive her initial failure to fight back.

That sympathy for Doctor Cha's plight carries you through the series. Unfortunately her husband is often depicted as a comic character, which, for me at least, dissipated somewhat the emotional power of the story. Nor does the final episode help, with overly easy conclusions to each of the plot strands.

Nevertheless I did watch it through to the end and do not regret having done so.

Really looked forward to each new episode in the beginning but the series gradually goes downhill as time goes on. The husband is a cheating jerk who cheats at work right in front of his wife and son and co- workers at work. His wife loyally raising his children for 20 years before restarting her career at the hospital where her husband and cheating mistress works. A brat secret love child tops it off. Plenty of pity and blame and illness - and went bad in my opinion with an unsatisfying ending. Am glad Netflix is adding more K-Drama for us lately however saw a few others that had some better script.

Doctor Cha returns as a first year resident twenty years after leaving the medical profession to raise children after getting married. Her husband has been cheating and has a child from before they were married and this is the story of how she comes to terms with her changing life and the fact she has serious health problems. The Dr played well by Uhm Jung-hwa is a great character but the writers touched on lots of subjects and characters but gave little depth to any of them, it felt like they had a tick list to cover a scenario and then move on. I was particularly annoyed at how they all treated the illegitimate daughter and then tried to make it right with a few scenes in the final episode. Kim Mi Kyung plays the mother as she always does and I mention her as even though her roles are usually minor she always makes the character believable. So great characters, well acted but let down by poor script.

Although I have only seen 5 episodes, I was hooked after the first 15 minutes of the 1st episode.. I adore the cast which is truly amazing and believable. I was first introduced to kdramas on Netflix and my playlist is mostly filled with them! I wish the USA would learn from kdramas on showing the respect between the cast and giving the audience a chance to use their imaginations instead of showing every sexual detail. Everybody should give Dr Cha a chance before forming an opinion that you will ultimately regret. The only problem I have with this show is that it's only shown on the weekends!!

Great start and great idea.

The beginning is strong and extremely funny! I laughed so hard at so many of the scenes.

Acting is extremely good too, their skills are superb.

Tells you the story of a family and specifically a mum/wife who is basically mistreated, slaved and disrespected by her whole family and of course cheated on big time by her husband.

And that's basically the main and key plot (or should i say only plot) of the whole series.

One day our female lead has enough and decides to start being selfish and for once live the life she wants and get back her career as a doctor.

All of those ingredients could have made a fantastic story of empowerment and liberation but it fails tremendously.

The female lead is so weak throughout the whole drama it's sad to watch. She never stands up for herself and she keeps swallowing offense after offense and not once the has the right comeback against the ones hurting her.

Maybe this is a societal thing in Korea but where I come from, the whole idea of 2 grown women chasing after a weak, narcissistic, indecent and pathetic man and forgiving everything he does to them is just ridiculous.

Then, perpetrates constantly patriarchal gender roles like single mothers cant raise their children without a father figure and that a stay home mum doesn't contribute to the household and owes herself to the husband for providing for her and the kids, when the reality is a stay home mother is the only reason ( and invaluable asset) why the man can actually have a career and a family at the same time...

The series starts dragging the plot all the way until the end and it becomes VERY frustrating, nothing ever really evolves or changes, everyone is just trying to keep a secret from someone and that's it.

The characters are literally one dimensional and they have little development. All of them are bad, hateful and selfish at the beginning and in the last few episodes everyone is good and all is forgiven.... They literally change personalities from day to night.

I also need to add that the second male lead could have been written way better, at least the story and relationships between him and the female lead, he is completely irrelevant when the show finished.

This had a lot of potential, and is not that's bad, is just a pity, they could have done better.