Graceful Family (2019)

Just Perfect

I went into this drama with average expectations but was I got in return was a drama that totally demolished all those expectations and allowed me to watch just maybe one of my top 5 favourite dramas. 'Graceful Family' had just about everything, the story was amzing, the characters and actors playing them was one of the bests I've seen and the OST worked perfectly to add flavour and mood to each scene.

I want to first talk about the story, this isn't your simple revenge story to where we know the culprit and we are fighting against whatever it may be. This drama shows the fight in which our 2 main leads fight against injustice in whice the knot which is tightly tied in the first episode gets slowly unravelled as the episodes went by. One thing I loved about this show was the structure and the way they went about showing the story, at the start of each episode it gives us a snippet of the past and allows us to obtain a puzzle piece in which we were able put together to complete the bigger picture and tell us the true events of what happened. In my opinion, the best thing that came of this drama was the characters and the actors who depicted them and did them justice perfectly and couldn't of done better. The ending for this show was perfect for me because we got all the endings we want and it shows the antogonists feel some kind of guilt to thier actions. We also got a romanced ending with Seok Hee and Yoon Do ending up together by the end of the drama.

I want to talk about the MVP of this show in my opinion and that was Mo Seok Hee, she literally bacame my favourite kdrama characters in the matter of days, I first watched Im Soo Hyang in 'My ID Gangnam' and I really enjoyed her role and that was when I first started watching kdramas so I didn't really get to look for other works she did but I most definitely will. Now with the character, Mo Seok Hee was everything you could want for a badass strong will female protaganist. I love how in every scene was in, my eyes were glued to her due to her personality that shone through the screen for me. I loved the dynamic of her character becasue on the outside she didn't show any weakness but on the inside she was hurting a tremendous amount after being sent away to the US being ditched by her family and her mum being murdered by someone she didn't know yet. The screen writer utilised Soo Hyangs character to its highest potential becasue not even for a second did I feel like she was being wasted in the plot. I actually felt really sorry for her becasue she literally lost her mom and then loses her grandfather which turns out to ve her father in which brought out more emotions from Seok Hee becasue she remebered the past and how much her 'grandfather' helped her.

Now the male lead in this show whihc was Hoe Yoon Do, I generally really like his character, he was what I expected from a male lead who is out to get the truth to release her mother. I like his how his personality was a calm and caution one because it meant that he hardly lost his head to his surroundings. He was a neither a bad nor amazing character to me but he fit his role well being the partner of Seok Hee and also finding the truth about the murder. I want to breifly mention the romance between the two of them, this show is by no means a romance but the scenes they had togther, you could just see thier chemisty so when we finally see them together by episode 13 I was very happy.

Now onto the main antogonist, Han Je Gook. She was the emodiment of a person who didn't care who she trampelled on so she could procted the MC group and wouldn't hesistate to non-remorsly betray the late chairman. No matter how loyal she was to the MC group and how much she projected her ideals, I just couldn't get on board with them. As shes not really one of my favourite characters I don't have a whole lot to say about her.

One thinsg this show did was utilise its support characters, and oh my was there some gems in the support cast.

First I want to talk about the eldest son Mo Wang Soo, his life was literally pitiful from the get go and even if he did kill Seok Hee's mother, you can't not feel sorry for him. Even Seok Hee did at the end because she knew he was a good person and was the only person there for her when she lost her mother. All Wang Soo wanted was the attention from his family and especially his mother in which made him derail and ultimatly become the failure of the family in which the whole Mo family emphasise but whats ironic if they just gave him the love he wanted and wasn't in such a dysfunctional family, I'm sure he wouldv'e achieved great things. Wang Soo's brother-sister relationship with Seok Hee was amazing just perfect, even after Seok Hee came back 15 years later, Wang Soo still acted as a brother to her. You could say that Wang Soo's ending is the most pitiful in the whole story. In the end he became a good brother and unfortunately killed himself in which ended his life achieving nothing. It was only until after he died was when his mother and older brother realised they lost a great son and brother. The mother realised all he wanted was motherly love and the brother realised that he acepted him being a transgender by giving her a brooch in which was feminine.

I will quickly talk about the mother and older brother. With the mother, I really couldn't get behind her greed and her love for Wang Joon which was clouded with greed. The only thing ill support her with was that she was being a good mother to Wang Joon when it was revealed he was a transgender and still supported him. She did say that she suspected it and left it due to not wanting it to be true. If she confronted that fear then maybe the family dynamics would be different. With Wang Joon, I believe he was overly cocky for his own good. He didn't really do anything with merrited his cockiness because he his behing Director Hans shield and got everything given to him. You can't help feeling a bit sorry for him because he was forced to do things he didn't wanted to do because of his old fasioned father but then kind of embraced the role of being a dick head to everyone.

The OST in this drama was amazing, the two main ones which were 'Black Diamond' and 'Liar' worked like a charm. Especially 'Black Diamond' whenver Seok Hee did somethign badass, this song would accompany it and just emphasised her actions.

Overally this show will be going of the favourites list. If your'e looking for revenge drama with an amazing duo which consists of a badass female lead and a calm and collected male lead, also if you want a complext story and characters then this show will be perfect for you.

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