Rom-Fam (50 ep) with Ji Hyun Woo as ML and Im Soo Hyang as FL

PLOT: Story about 3 dysfunctional families.
- 1st: 1 mother in debt but gambler, fleeing creditors, with her 3 children (FL & 2 sons, ML2 and ML3). She survives by slaving her daughter to make her an artist.
- 2nd: Cowardly father, lives with his wife, their adopted son (ML), his mother (toxic), his sister (FL3) and his wife's father.
- 3rd: Chaebol couple, harmonious, living with their daughter (FL3, who will become disabled), the ex-mistress of the dead grandfather and her illegitimate son (ML4) and both are super ambitious. The aunt living in the USA comes to live with them.

1st narrative arc [ep 1-3]: teenagers
2nd arc [4-16]: 15 years later. FL became a star, exploited by her mother. The ML is an assistant director. They fall in love (Roméo & Juliet style). ML4 fall also in love with the FL.
3rd arc [17-28]: The amnesiac and seriously injured FL is taken in by an old lady with Alzheimers. She eventually returned to Seoul and worked in the ML team. The ML ends up recognizing her, but waits for her memory to return. She starts acting again, meets ML3 but her mother puts her hands back on her.
4th arc [29-37]: The CL is separated (the mother starts her shenanigans with the ML4 again) but is working together on a drama. The truth about the birth of the ML is causing uproar in families.
5th arc [38-41]: The FL regains her memory in fragments, and tries to cut ties with her toxic mother and the ML4. After a lot of struggles, the CL gets closer and decides to get married to escape the ML4's harassment. This guy reveals to the press that the FL is Do-Ra, and she is blacklisted.
6th arc: The CL clears Do-Ra's name, opens a restaurant. But the ML4's birth is revealed and that crazy guy loses his mind. The FL has 1 accident (etc)

+++ CL performance is excellent. They do everything possible to make people believe in this over-dramatic and VERY poorly written story.
+++ Great actors (particulary the grandparents, Ma-Ri and ML4)

### The description of women-mothers is HORRIBLE: they are all twisted, possessive, stupid, greedy, etc. There isn't one to save... The only reasonable characters are the ML and his sister Ma-Ri.
### Too melodratic & all clichés
### no real chemistry for the couples: a few hugs, but only 1-2 (fake) kisses without skinship... in 50 episodes... for couples who are madly in love! The screenwriter has a problem Щ(ಠ益ಠЩ)
### Far too long series

=> Watched until the end (with difficulty) because I'm curious and the actors are excellent. But I won't rewatch it, and I won't watch any more series written by this screenwriter!!!