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MBC

Drama Crime Mystery
Korean     6.8     2022     South Korea

Overview

Yu Kyung is a successful woman who is proficient enough to become an executive director of Chunha Group when she started as a secretary. She recently found out her daughter is alive, so she plans to get her back and take her revenge. Meanwhile, Hye Soo is a strong girl who faces challenges head-on. She has a daughter with Ji Ho, and she would do anything for her. However, she gets tragically betrayed by Ji Ho, the love of her life, over power and money. How will those two mothers end their fierce revenge?

Reviews

ParkMin wrote:
Right from the first 8 minutes introduction they failed to.... no, just failed. The entire story's setup involving the kids was absurd even for a silly makjang. It quickly became apparent that the drama was attempting to do something different from other daily makjang but the execution was nothing but comical, even while adding hints of unintentional parody. I couldn't stand how the drama was structured with its storytelling, it was really tiring how every single key information had 3 layers of truths that kept throwing the blame onto 3 parties. It was really exhausting repeating the same pattern 30-40 times. There's a lot to be said while breaking down everything but I would be repeating myself so here are some random bits. I found it particularly cringe when characters called themselves and each others witches with nicknames, for example 'The White-Haired Witch'. Despite being the face of the drama, Yoo Kyung's lifelong revenge wasn't finalized due to some events which is disappointing. It felt like the male lead suddenly confessed his love with no proper build up or showing prior interest beyond some sympathy, it happened too early in the story even though he was a womanizer a couple of episodes ago. Moreover, the male lead was mostly useless and didn't play as big of a part as most of the other characters. Midway through he was just there wasting time while occasionally being an unfunny clown. I guess he was just there to give the female lead a hug every now and then. On the flip side, the other male lead, Ji Ho, was in every other scene more than any character in the drama. One last thing, the overall vibe and tone later on was very detached and different from the few first episodes (after the kids story setup). If I had to mention something positive other than the cinematography being up to the modern standard with the majority of projects, that would be how secrets don't linger for too long which is because of the aforementioned repeated pattern.

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Las Muñecas De La Mafia is a 2009 Colombian telenovela produced by BE-TV and broadcast by Caracol TV. It's based on Juan Camilo Ferrand and Andres Lopez's book "Las Fantásticas". They also wrote the scripts for the television series. The telenovela will debut soon on the Telefutura Network. Series debuted on May 3, 2010 after the Vecinos finale. The show ended July 2010 in the U.S. It talks about the story of Brenda, Olivia, Violeta, Renata and Pamela. They get into trouble throughout the series because they get involved with some mafia guys from "El Carmen" in Colombia.They all have sad endings. Pamela immigrates, at the end of the story, to the United States of America to try to get away from trouble and be close to her father, who was a pilot and end up in jail because he was captured by DEA taking cocaine to U.S in a plain, and ends up as a maid but tells Brenda she is happy and having a great life. Olivia ends up in jail for having a fake wedding with a Braulio Bermudez and getting some of his properties. Violeta dies when the two mafia opposite sides were going to end a war that was going on in between them.Renata also dies because she was force by erick, to pay money she owe him, to carry drugs in her stomach to the United States and no one of her loved ones knew because she had no identification on her. Brenda ends up being pregnant by Braulio, she never saw him again, because he was taken to an US jail. This is a very exiting story to see and it shows how easy life is never a good choice, might be nice and easy at the beginning but some day all ends.

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Las muñecas de la mafia
2009