Park's Contract Marriage Story

This had such amazing start, episode one was one of the best episodes I have ever watched, the storytelling was so captivating and what an emotional story, I actually cried. So believe me when I say I was really looking forward to the rest of the series, but what a let down.

The rest of episodes were just a bunch of empty filling scenes with overdramatic characters and underwhelming subplots.

Majority if the cast in this are very experienced and tge acting is superb, but the script is just too silly and nonsensical.

I give it a 6 mainly because the actual main plot and storyline of their past life was extremely good and interesting but they could have done it in just 4/6 episodes. The modern storyline was just dragging and lacking an actual plot.

I guess you will love this if you are into telenovelas and enjoy very extreme and dramatic plots.

I started watching it due to actress playing FL, I have seen her in a couple of shows before and she does a decent job. And here as well she was the only good thing about the show, she is also central character around her the entire plot revolves, other characters including ML had nothing much to do, character or story wise.

Entire drama is 90% filled with kdrama tropes, if you are an avid kdrama fan, you can pretty much predict the next scene and the dialogues and how everything is gonna unfold. Except that grandpa part, which was a little twist I didn't expect so that made me give an extra rating as 5/10, otherwise this is 4/10 at most, ost and bgm is decent, matches the tone of the show, also the periodic part of the show wasn't boring, which usually is the case in such dramas.

ML was your very typical character in a kdrama, childhood trauma, is rude and cold for no reason, then falls for FL but denies and hides his emotions like a manchild, and then completely changes his behaviour. Completely cliched.

Other characters are the same, best friend/servant to the FL, BF/secretary to the ML, then a girl in office who pines for ML, evil stepmom, bratty/flirty younger bro to ML who'll flirt with his brother's wife/gf, a grandpa bullying his grandson to marry etc etc. Pretty much everything is cliched to the core.

If this is gonna be your first kdrama, or you are very new to the kdrama world, only then watch it. Otherwise not recommended.

By seeing the topic you might have guessed that this is the best miniseries of 2023 you want to watch and end your 2023 with. 12 episodes are not enough to end this series. I just hope that their can be season 2 of this great and fantastic series in future. I want to see their after marriage life like this is not a fictional series but a real part of my life. I just want to tell every person reading this review thankyou for your precious time as you are giving your precious time reading this review i also hope that you will never regret watching this series. No spoilers here just just a pure feelings of mine for this series. Hope we can see the season 2 of it.

The beautiful Lee Se-young plays Park Yeon-woo a Joseon lady whose new husband is murdered and then she is kidnapped and thrown down a well. She finds herself 200 years later in a swimming pool and is saved by Kang Tae-ha (Bae In-hyuk) who because of a heart condition like her original husband has no interest in marriage. It is an interesting idea with a contract marriage. But the plot is never very deep like the characters so the story can be plodding at times. What saves the story is the chemistry between the two leads which makes a believable and sweet romance. The supporting cast all do a good job as well so enjoyable series but just falls short.

The Story of Park's Marriage Contract is a wonderful drama starring Bae In Hyuk and Lee Se Young with a beautiful balance of Historical (Old Joseon) mixed with Modern Times (New Joseon), Fantasy (time-travel) romance and light comedy.

For those that don't usually watch historical drama's, it will draw you in with it's perfect balance and that says a lot - initially the marriage contract theme caught my attention which adds the love story, romance and light comedy in modern society. I did get drawn in right away with the historical episodes with the wonderful early love story, the beauty of the FL and the costuming and sets which always catches my attention. The male lead Bae In Hyuk who plays Kang Tae Ha is just as captivating with his acting and handsomeness.

In the modern Joseon I loved the costuming again and how the Old Joseon style was fused with New Joseon and particularly loved Kang Tae Ha's embroidered shirt which was a turning point for the 2 main leads and their "butterflies".

The reason I gave it 9 stars instead of 10 is that quite honestly, I had no idea how many episodes there was going to be - had no idea if it were 16 episodes or what. When I watched episode 12 I actually didn't know it was the final until about halfway through it when I started to think - wait, what? Is this the final? I shouldn't have to guess that and it actually didn't become 100% clear until the last moments to me. I think the ending could have been better but still well worth watching.

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