This is a rather dark drama with a pinch of comedy and whiff of romance. The main focus is on Kang Ja's fight against the injustice of the corruption. For a change, this is a Korean drama that doesn't beautify anything. The tragedy is raw and ugly, the plight is real. The story itself follows a typical Korean formula with the sweet and righteous protagonist sacrificing and going through immense torture (on all levels) before the justice finally prevails. In a sense, the ending was extremely cheesy and unrealistic, but it was also beautiful and idealistic like a model of how things should be. The acting is good and that's what makes this drama so enjoyable. The cast brings Angry Mom to life and it's a pleasure to watch them all. There are no unnecessary side characters and every character feels important, they change and develop. It's also interesting to see how the story plays out, how the bag guys drive themselves into a corner. There are so many levels to this story, the mother - daughter relationship, a parent -child relationship, husband - wife, teacher - student, parent - school, law - citizen, weak - powerful, good - bad, money - human being, etc. I think, Angry Mom is a remarkable drama in South Korea, it addresses all the current problems of the society very clearly and the message rings strong. This is not some high school drama about students bullying each other or about love, this is a drama about one angry mom who decided that enough is enough and actually went and stood up against the injustice. What brings my score down is the overflowing melodrama. There was a lot of crying, which is understandable, but when they sniffled for 20 minutes in each episode it became downright annoying. The character development regarding some side characters was lacking and rushed. The repeating pattern with Kang Ja always on the losing end became a bit repetitive and numbing in the long run. Sometimes the story stopped for minutes for some characters to share their poetic and philosophic world views like for educational purposes... And then there were all those super unrealistic and distracting "the easy way out's" for the writers that brought the quality down. The last episode was a great disappointment. Not only did they rush things but a lot of last minute advertisement was pushed in and it was totally obvious.