It isn’t easy to follow a show through to the end considering that you sacrifice more than an hour of your life, two utmost If you count advertiser slots over a 16 day period. But here we are more than 16 days after the show ended and still the shards of broken glass heart remain l un swept on the cold floor. Never has a K-drama made me want to scream in anger which I’m sure the original writer did considering she threw her papers up mid-way and walked out. So since ranting is sure to follow this sentence, let me take the time to commend the entire production team for fighting till the end despite the low ratings and previously mentioned abandonment.
So here is the deal, ‘매리는 외박중 / Maerineun Oebakjoong’ or Marry Me,Mary for we Korean illiterates is a warm hearted story about love in the freezing winter of 2010. Okay, I’ll be honest scratching the surface has never been my strongest point so here’s Take 2. Ahem..Picking up nicely we are given a super cute heroine played by Moon Geun Young whose talent i can never forget since Autumn Fairy Tale. Wi Mae Ri is a 24 but looks like an 18 year old with no experience in love whatsoever let alone had a boyfriend. Raised by a loving but constant debt incurring father Wi Dae Han, she’s learnt to adapt in the fierce world. Marry me, Mary way before its premiere had potential with the hype it garnered by fans of the cast.Back to the synopsis however, our heroine was at ends as she was put and somewhat also threw herself into a love triangle and a mighty fine one If I say so myself.
And like all with romantic K-dramas, you know that someone is being chased by loan sharks which in this case happens to be Wi Mae Ri’s widowed father,Dae Han. Coincidentally as he was escaping his assailants, he was saved by his ‘hyung’, not by blood of course who has just returned from Japan and schamazoo, Maeri is paired with his son, Jung-In played by the delectable Kim Jae Wook (who surprisingly still looks hot with short hair raaawr)but how does the free spirited almost like a stray dog musician, Kang Moo Gyul fit in? Well, genius Mae Ri runs into him one evening in a car, well more like bumps into him since she must have been going below 15 km/hr at the time and they quickly become friends/squatter/ I’m bored and being around you is much more fun.
Meanwhile, father dearest proposes the marriage to her and like every girl she has no desire to marry someone she doesn’t love. After cheerful chiding from both KMG and WMR’s friends,a fake wedding to put out the fire is orchestrated but none of the fathers are willing to let it lie and Dae Han criminally marries off his daughter showing her the signed and sealed marriage certificate when she gets home meaning the only way out is by getting a divorce or pressing charges against her father.
Halloween during Christmas. We're losing it.
Eventually, a 100 day interim period is suggested with time divided equally between both male leads leaving WMR the final choice on the preferred suitor at the end. Inevitably,Jung In who has no sights besides keeping his father’s investment for his upcoming drama,’Wonderful Day’ gets ropped in with threats and this three-way romcom is on its way to silliness and eventually a conclusion that will turn this into one of your rainy or alone time dra….what the?! This drama did nothing but leave me angsty right at the end. The chemistry between the actors isn’t harnessed enough even though it exists, this time the shoe is flying at the original writer. How dare you secure fresh,talented and cute characters to throw them into a sewer? Infact since you walked out on the shoe, I refuse to give this a review because this is one of those dramas that makes you feel disappointed like a parent with a good-gone-bad-child.
However, I will commend the actors for sticking through till the end. And now, a montage.
