Marriage Contract mom has me feeling ranty: I know it’s a convenient plot device but I’m so tired of the succession fight trope and all the plot-filler nonsense that comes with it. Toxic workplace culture. Gossip and fake news. Company directors who are no better than whining Joseon era ministers. Let alone plotting and executing violent crimes. The antagonists in these fights rarely seem to have a goal for the company other than retaining control for their own benefit. How about determining who gets the position by merit? Or using a management professional as PMR’s Yi-Joo so reasonably suggested? What’s so great about being CEO anyway when you’re already richer than Croesus? Maybe your family wouldn’t be so dysfunctional if it didn’t treat life like a battle royale. Here’s a different path: Lead the family foundation and use it as a force for social good instead of a slush fund. Arrgh!

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    I agree with you and I haven’t watched today’s episode yet, but I actually liked the power fight in episode 5.

    I like how their fight is actually helping Yeon Woo achieve her dreams. And I like that the fight isn’t directly between the stepmom and Tae Had but instead, stepmom and haraboji. And I like that both of them are bad.

    I can’t say the same for the other contract marriage show tho.

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    I thought you meant the 2016 “Marriage Contract” (starting Uee & Lee Seo Jin) 😅

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    That’s it. It’s a Joseon era holdover! The boardroom is the modern court—and just as exhausting. Notice how they often also split across the table just like left and right ministers? (OK often not but sometimes 🙂

    But I did like in #6 they actually showed work being done at the office as well. And tying it so neatly to YW’s Joseon era skills.

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