Full House

Friends are awesome aren’t they?

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Full House, and no not the american sitcom of the same name, this is a korean drama, and a pretty good one at that, or at least, it gets my vote.
Ok, so here’s the normal schpeil, what is this drama all about?
Well, first off what an interesting pair of friends this main character has. We have, Han Ji Eun, a writer of stories seemingly set in her life, with a nice house and nothing really to complain about. However, life seems to have a interesting twist in store in the form of her friends, although, and please excuse my cliche, with friends like them, who needs enemies? These friends are a couple who happen to be about to have a child, but without money, what can they do? They decide a daring, foolish, and outright immoral act. They take their friend, pretend that she’s won a vacation to Hong Kong, and send her off. Interesting thing tho is, the only legit thing is her airplace ticket TO (note i only said to) Hong Kong, the hotel reservation is bogus and she brought no money with her under the premise everything was provided for. So she’s in Hong Kong so what? Well that question is answered when she manages to get home. She comes “home” to find out, it’s been stolen and sold, who got the money? Well her loving friends of course, to pay off their debts and provide for their soon to come baby. Oh what awesome friends. Oh her house happened to be sold to an up and coming actor, Lee Young Jae who coincidentally was the same one who helped her get back and also happened to throw up on on her plane ride to Hong Kong (coincidences anyone?). She meets lots of people, and slowly gets caught up in alot of trouble. For one, the actor is insecure about his love, he likes someone but knows she likes someone else, so he pretends to marry Han Ji Eun to get the girl of his affections’ attention. Who is this other guy? Well it’s a person Han Ji Eun meets in Hong Kong and eventually falls in love with Han Ji Eun (wow, this drama really is depending on so many chance meetings).
All would seem well tho, they make a contract (a obvious sign that later there will be love, it always ALWAYS happens when there’s a contract) that they will pretend to be married and keep out of each others’ lives and divorce after a certain amount of time, after which Han Ji Eun will get her house back. But of course, this wouldn’t be a romance if the fake marriage turns to love, first she falls for him, but he is so unknowing about love that he doesn’t realize it until later and even then fails to show it. And of course his friend falls for Han Ji Eun, but the girl who Young Jae likes actually likes the person who likes Han Ji Eun, so we have a nice complex love….mess, going on in this drama. For the romantics who want sweet moments, this will not disappoint, as it certainly didn’t me, but the drama critic in me complained at the lack of a more complex plot, but of course this is a romance, often times complexity must be sacrificed for it. The music is decent, the cast is great with Bi Rain and Song Hye Gyo of My Girl and I fame.
With a romance, a contract and fake marriage that soon will be put to the test and suddenly become real, will they find happiness or will this whole mess blow apart? I won’t spoil the ending, so you’ll have to watch it if i’ve hooked you and sold you on the idea =3