Remarriage & Desires (2022)

Quick Take: Remarriage and Desires (2021), starring Lee Hyun-wook, Kim Hee-sun, and Jung Yoo-jin.  8.0/20.   8 episodes of 60 minutes each.

Synopsis:   Remarriage and Desires is supposedly a satire on high-end matchmaking companies that find potential mates for the wealthy, but it takes itself too seriously to pull that off.  Manipulative and ambitious Jin Yoo-hee has her sights set on a particular billionaire who’s young and good-looking as well as rich.  Meanwhile, middle-class Seo Hye-seung is determined to thwart Yoo-hee, as revenge for driving Hye-seung’s husband to suicide after Yoo-hee broke off their affair.

It’s a melodrama of the most melodramatic.

Review: Remarriage and Desires is kind of like a hot-fudge sundae.  You know you shouldn’t love it though you do — until it gets to be just too much.  The women are the stars of this one, especially Jung Yoo-jin who plays the wicked but unapologetic Yoo-hee.  The men just kind of react.

Rewatchable - 2, Compelling - 3, Plot/ Story/Writing - 7,  Acting/Casting - 8, Production - 10,  Bonus -  0.   4 Bonus points for deliciously evil Jin Yoo-hee, but minus 4 points for the ridiculous ending.   

Notes:

Lee Hyung-wook

has been acting in theater, film, and television dramas since 2000. See him also in #Alive (movie, 2020) and She Would Never Know (2021).

Kim H

ee-sun

reached peak popularity in the 1990’s in a series of television dramas. After a series of flops in the aughts, she married in 2007 and took a five-year hiatus after the birth of her daughter in 2009. She is popular in China and has appeared in several Chinese projects. See her also in Alice (2020) and Tomorrow (2018).

Jung Yoo-jin

began her career as a model. See her also in Something in the Rain (2018), Romance is a Bonus Book (2019), and Snowdrop (2021).