Hello! Pleased to see you as new DB staff. Looking forward to reading you. You make me want to look up The Guest.

Thanks for the recap! I agree with @attiton: this show is very uneven! The sad parts are great. The writers are onto something: people who had really bad relationships with their parents tend to have a harder time, not an easier time, when their parents die. They have to mourn the relationship they never had. I am trying to recall a k-drama that has done as well with this idea as this one.

The problems are, I do not vibe with these leads as comic actors. They just aren't very funny here. Yoon Park is hilarious in his role as the brother. He's also good at a soft, lovey-dovey face. Park So-jin is killing it opposite him. They are a lot of fun to watch.

I feel like we're still missing a sense of the ML's family or past. We know his parents don't live together and his mom is lonely. She thinks of arranged marriage as a business deal. We don't know whether he ever had a trauma or anything like that--just that he's been raised to work hard and have expensive tastes. (Opera is not cheap!) Part of the reason they seem unevenly matched is that the actor is 24 and was given zero backstory. You know? Can we have one in the last two episodes, please? I was going to say, "It's a tall order," and of course it is, they hired him and said, "be tall and have a pretty face." That's his jam, man! But seriously, it's not fair to the kid to do that to him. Of course the second lead seems like a better match--he isn't so flat!

Short, sweet, solid.

This is a family drama, focused on healing and redemption of past regrets and wrongs, with 2 generations of romance sprinkled in (I say sprinkled, cos the romcom is an auxiliary feature to the primary focus on family).

Drama explores facets of family dynamics seldom seen in K-dramas (at least I haven't) in surprisingly nuanced and perceptive ways.

Think: Vibes of a weekender (but without the makjang and meanderings) + some romcom.

It sets out to do what it said it would do, and delivered without over-selling (unlike another show next door). On that count alone, I give it an 8.

One tiny gripe: Change the title pls (Romance in the House is kinda misleading).

Maybe call it: "How did President Byeon Get Rich?" (ok, even more misleading) 🤣🤣

Good Partner is well written and has a great cast! I like it a lot too!

Hello @starrygazer! Looking forward to reading your recaps! Its great u r doing what you love!

So nice to learn more about you @starrygazer 🥰

Dang! @daebakgrits So sorry! Kudos to you for sticking with us. Thanks Tabong 😂

I've blocked it out of my memory apparently.
It ends for me after their performance.

Those large computer monitors in the KNOCK OFF pic with Kim Hyun-soo bring back memories. Matter of fact when my office entered the computer age I swear the monitors were bigger than the ones in the pic. My buddy at work burned out his first mouse playing DOOM (totally against the office rules).
Our monitors also acted as televisions and we all watched the 8 month O.J. Simpson trial live in 1995. It was a wonder any work got done (but it did, it had to lol).

ah in my previous life I was a J drama viewer and finding non-weird dramas was my specialty! please try: Hotaru no Hikari (rom-com), Suika (comedy), The Woman Who Never Compromises (legal & slice of life), Yume wo Kanaeru Zo (fantasy & rom-com), Nagareboshi (romance & slice of life), Mop Girl (fantasy & detective), Diet Rebound (rom-com), Kuitan (food & comedy & detective), Yama Onna Kabe Onna (comedy), Galileo (detective)