The Real Has Come

For a person who doesn't exactly like kids (especially babies) this drama should be the last choice.... but here I am! writing a review of a 50-episode drama where all goes about one accidental pregnency 😂🙈 but since now no more babies in dramas! I want romance, action, ghosts ... everything but no baby-talk 😵 The Real Has Come was all in all a good show, not too good but also not too bad. Just fine. Acting was good, script too 👌 

For me The Real Has Come has vibes of several dramas I have seen. Depending of a episode it had something from Love in Contract due to the deal and love triangles, from Young Lady and The Gentelman because of style and it was as weird as Love with Flaws. This is my second Korean soap opera and just like the first one, for the last 6-7 episodes I was wishing it would end soon. There was definitely too much going on there! In the end The Real Has Come was giving me a serious headache. One soap opera per year - that's my limit 😵 

I will try to say in short what The Real Has Come is about: 

Oh Yeon Doo is a Korean language teacher who gives online lectures and is pretty known in her profession. She has a handsome and successful boyfriend and everything is going well. Till a moment when she finds out that Kim Joon Ha cheated on her and while she pregnant from him.... her perfect world went upside down.... Even her family doesn't want to speak to her. In meantime Gong Tae Kyung is a talented OB-GYN from a prestigious family who specializes in infertility treatment. He doesn't have a good relation with his family as he doesn't want to ever get married or be a parent. 

Oh Yeon Doo and Gong Tae Kyung meet exactly on the day when she discovers dubble life of her boyfriend. From that moment on, their lives begin to intertwine to a point when to escape an unwanted marriage arranged by his family, he decides to set up a contractual relationship with Yeon Doo and present her baby as his.

....... what could go wrong? 😂

So much happened during these 50 episodes that I don't even know where to start. I certainly won't go into detail because then the review would be miles long, so I'll start with the main characters and a few side characters who were interesting or I knew from other dramas:

Oh Yeon Doo (Baek Jin Hee) - It doesn't happen often that I don't like the main character, but unfortunately it happened here. I didn't like Yeon-Do from almost the very beginning. I don't know exaclty what was so irritating in her but halfway through the series, I was close to abandoning it because of her. I don't understand her thought process nor the decisions she made. Plus - I don't find her pretty what I was used to in female leads up to now 😬

Gong Tae Kyung (Ahn Jae Hyun) - This is my third drama with Jae Hyun and I still think the first one was the best (Cinderella and the 4 Knights). He was average in Love with Flaws but here fortunately script is more solid and Tae Kyung's character was played well. Tae Kyung had his own principles that he followed all the time and tried not to harm anyone. I am not convinced about him or the female lead, either individually or as a couple. I don't know if it's because of the makeup and the type of drama, but they didn't catch my eye 😑

Jang Se Jin (Cha Joo Young) - Cha Joo Young got famous thanks to The Glory and I like her since then. She is a total beauty and funny enough 😅 in both dramas she hunts for a rich husband from a good family. Se Jin is not effeminate or evil to the core, but rather determined. She has set a goal and wants to achieve it. Unfortunately, she got a little lost along the way. I usually don't like crazy exes but she played this role greately and I wouldn't be mad if evil would win this time 😍

Kim Joon Ha (Jung Eui Jae) - a character with whom I alternately agreed and opposed. It was because the idea he stood for was not bad, he was 100% right to fight for his child but! not the way he approached it 🙈 If only he had dealt with this matter sensibly, the show would have had a completely different tone. Joon Ha is a very strong character who I really liked and I would like him to have his own drama because his story is ultra interesting! 😉

Eun Geum Sil (Kang Boo Ja) - drama grandma! Generally, if it weren't for her, the whole drama would never have been created 😆 Her idea was to not accept the adoption and force Tae Kyung to marry the secretary. I didn't like her much during most of the drama. When her old secrets were revealed, only then did she gain my sympathy. One of the better played characters.

Lee In Ok (Cha Hwa Yun) - we move on to the third character I know from another show - crazy mother from Young Lady and The Gentleman. She is not crazy any more, she is just fantastic here but unfortunately she is treated like an outcast in the family again. But at least this time she has the most loving husband in the world from the very beginning - "I can't live without In-Ok" he got me with it so hard 💞

The whole drama is based on the fact that the grandmother does not accept adoption as a way to enlarge the family. Due to her attitude, Tae Kyung has a bad relationship with his adoptive siblings and in the sequel, "his" illegitimate child with Yeon Doo is another problem in the family. Plus his mother is also going through hell in this family. When it turns out that the child is not his, the problem becomes even bigger.... All because the grandmother rooted in the family to belief only in blood ties. Personally, I don't understand the hatred towards adoption because for me it is an expression of incredible empathy and a big heart 💛

Tae Kyung's step-siblings and their partners were terrible for probably half the drama and I wished them all the worst 😡😡 The older brother and his wife (Chun Myung & Soo Jeong) got on my nerves practically until the very end. They were cruel to Tae Kyung, Yeun Doo and stepmother. Soo Jeong is played by Yeon Joo Hee, the same actress who played the stepsister in Reborn Rich. Here she behaves very similarly, which is why she had to work for a long time to receive any sympathy from me. Tae Kyung's older sister, Ji Myeong, even surpassed her brother in her meanness because at least he wasn't as bad as she was towards her stepmother. Her husband, Hyun Woo, and friend Tae Kyung had quite a position to master.... 😱

The series is full of controversies - adoption, abortion, in-vitro, illegitimate child, miscarriage and what outraged me the most in the first episodes: the dismissal of a pregnant woman for having an illegitimate child. WTF!? 😲😫😠 I hated how the school and Yeun Doo's family reacted to her pregnancy. WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU KOREA?! Yes she is not married, yes she is pregnanct so what? It is not a crime. Plus it's up to her to abort or not. Brother could go to decent work and bring some money to the family, not that only she plays the breadwinner. His kid is smart enough to have a successful Youtube account but he cannot get at least some part time jobs 😑 But that's lesser of a problem.... THE SCHOOL this is THE PROBLEM! How can you fire someone at a time like this? What she needs is money aka job. Yes, she will go on maternity leave later, but when she is such a popular lecturer, who cares? She brings money.... Even a few weeks after this episode, it still makes me boil inside 😤

Sorry if today's review is disjointed. There was an awful lot going on in The Real Has Come and I try at all costs not to reveal too much of the content so as not to ruin your viewing of this production. Reading what I wrote, maybe I didn't encourage you to watch it 🙈 Let me try now.

As I said at the begining - it is a good drama. What I have a problem with is the lenght (50 episodes) and amount of twists & events they have put in it 😅 regardless of the fact that I didn't like many of the characters in this drama, it didn't lead me to drop the drama. On the contrary - I was curious how the case would develop. In this respect, the series has something of Reborn Rich, the characters are unfriendly but you want to know how they end. Of course it's not the same level of production, oh no no, it's a soap opera through and through 😆 There's a lot here - i mean it, a lot! - moments when you think why are they doing this, this situation can be solved so easily... but it's the world of a soap opera and there must be problems there 😂😂

Comparing one soap opera to another, I liked Young Lady and The Gentleman more because of the main theme - the age difference, rather than the child (although it was in the background, it was not the main topic). Although the level of the operas is the same, I rate The Real Has Come a little lower due to the theme - 6.5/10. It's a good production, with good actors, but the topic is simply not for me 😆 

I tried my best to be short - didn't exactly work out but I hope it's managable 😉

Now it's time to move on to My Lovely Lier's season finale!