Marry My Husband follows a woman getting murdered by her husband and wakes up ten years back in time, where she must now take revenge on him and her lifelong best friend he was cheating with. The Kdrama is streaming on Prime Video.
Story
Kang Ji-Won is a terminally ill patient with stage 4 cancer.
Her death is imminent when she catches her lifelong best friend Jeong Su-Min, and her husband Park Min-Hwan, sleeping with each other while joyously anticipating Ji-Won’s death.
The confrontation leads to a physical struggle and Park Min-Hwan ends up pushing Ji-Won onto a glass table, leading to her death.
She wakes up to find that her death has somehow made her travel ten years back in time.
Here, Yu Ji-Hyuk becomes her greatest support in exciting revenge upon Min-Hwan and Su-Min, while making sure that she uses this second chance to lead a happy life.
With the help of Yu Ji-Hyuk, the General manager who would eventually inherit the company and become the chairman, Ji-Won succeeds in all she sets out to do.
Marry My Husband ends with the two getting their happy ever after as a married couple with three kids and loving extended family members and friends.
Performances
Park Min-Young is perfect as the vulnerable protagonist who makes it believable that she’s been tormented, used, and abused so much in her life.
Na In-Woo offers a formidable supporting character as Yu Ji-Hyuk, who’s just as vulnerable and emotional as he’s physically imposing.
Lee Yi-Kyung as Park Min-Hwan is just the right kind of sleazy, dim, violent, and greedy antagonist that one could curse and despise throughout the show and have a blast doing it.
Song Ha-Yoon delivers perhaps the most remarkable performance in Marry My Husband, coming across as a truly slimy, psychopathic, and creepy vamp.
Positives
The revenge fantasy of Marry My Husband is quite moving.
It sets up the dominoes to fall most satisfyingly by establishing the irredeemably bad villains and the extremely vulnerable and tormented protagonists.
It’s easier to feel for and sympathize with Kang Ji-Won than it is for a hot knife to slice through butter.
Conversely, it’s unceasingly fun to watch Jeong Su-Min be her evil, apathetic, and straight-up psychopathic self.
Negatives
There is a lack of grey characters in the show and almost all the antagonist women in Ji-Won’s life turn out to be very similarly hyperbolic and dramatic in their evil persona.
Some supporting characters really get thrown into the background and their development is compromised for Yu-Ra’s screentime, whose inclusion in the show doesn’t feel necessary to begin with.
Verdict
Marry My Husband is a gratifying mix of revenge fantasy and romantic drama. The performances are great and so is the chemistry between the actors, making one crave for more.
Marry My Husband
Director: Park Won-Guk, Han Jin-Seon
Date Created: 2024-01-01 19:30
3.5