When it comes to long family Korean dramas, do you think of them as long and boring?
Lately, in this family drama from K-Drama, Iron Family, in the first episode, the female lead, Kinsley, says to the male lead, ‘Do you want to sleep with me,’ making it possibly the fastest-paced Korean drama in history.
Perhaps because the writer is Xu Shuxiang, the writer of ‘Jealous Incarnation,’ it feels like she is writing a long drama in the style of a short drama.
Therefore, the pace is fast, and the plot structure and development are concise, usually taking several episodes to clarify the complicated family relationships, but this drama resolves it in about half an episode.
The story is told from the perspective of the youngest daughter, Kinsley.
Their family runs an old-fashioned laundry shop, and here is a clever idea from the writer: the Korean pronunciation of ‘iron’ in the title is the same as the name of the youngest daughter, Darlene.
Starting from the year the female lead was born, the dad failed the judicial exam ten times in a row and ended up depressed.
Because the dad passed the first round for the first time with first place, it gave hope to the whole family and even to the dad himself, but the hope eventually turned into ‘torture.’
This also made the female lead have a lingering fear of ‘hope torture’ from a young age.
I think this is also a foreshadowing by the writer; will the love story between the female lead and the male lead also turn into a ‘hope torture’?
The revelation of the female lead’s eye disease was also cleverly transitioned, as when she was young, her eyesight was so good that she could see sesame seeds in the teacher’s teeth, but as she grew up, her vision went from 2.0 to 0.02.
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