A new series featuring the world of the rich commences on SBS with One The Woman. Going on fun and clever route, it looks like Honey Lee got a lot of tricks up her sleeve all ready to be unleashed!
Decking 8.2 and 7.1 nationwide ratings, One The Woman joins the current spectacular weekend drama race. Powered by a stellar and talented cast, if you prefer dramas about dysfunctional rich families in an amusing mood, book this newest SBS drama treat for your weekend.
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Episode Recaps: 01 & 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Finale + Review |
One The Woman Opening Week Story
Sharing similar faces, Kang Mi-na and Jo Yeon-ju lead different lives. Mi-na is a submissive daughter-in-law of a rich household treated badly by the members of the family. Unfortunately, as an illegitimate daughter of a rich family, she does not hold any value to her own family as well.
Meanwhile, Jo Yeon-ju is a brilliant but feisty prosecutor in Seoul. She affiliates with former gangster members to get her job done. But she makes sure to punish the wicked people she helped secretly.
While working on a case, Mi-na and Yeon-ju attend an art auction. Seeing her target culprit Lee Bong-sik after noticing a woman who looks exactly like her, Yeon-ju prioritizes to chase after Lee Bong-sik. However, a raging car bumps on her and she ends up being rushed to the hospital.
When she wakes up, she lost her memory and was taken care of by her in-laws thinking she was Mi-na. In a twist of fate, Mi-na’s rich family was wiped out due to a plane crash. That pushes her to inherit her family’s vast fortune, although her position on the business is yet to be finalized.
Needing to be good to their daughter-in-law for her fortune, Han family is not aware that Yeon-ju is getting the picture of Mi-na’s situation.
Enter Mi-na’s first love Han Seung-wook (Lee Sang Yoon) for whom she used to be betrothed. Seung-wook is supposed to be third in the line of succession to head Hanju group. However, with his father’s demise, his uncle’s family took over.
At a mass offered by Han family, Yeon-ju goes on an outrage spewing the pretensions of her double-faced in-laws. Recognizing Mi-na is not who he used to be based on his memories, Seung-wook seeks lone time after the mass and directly asks who she is.
One The Woman Opening Week Musings
If you like family dramas orbiting on a power struggle, One The Woman is a fresh take because it feels like a quasi-underdog story. We don’t know yet if the docile Mi-na orchestrated alone or with some help bringing Yeon-ju to be an avatar of her to face her wicked in-laws.
Of course, what happened to Mi-na is another driving point of the series. But we mostly look forward to how the unbridled Yeon-ju assuming Mi-na’s role would fight back and redeem herself.
The opening week of the series impressively hooks right away to root for Mi-na’s requital for the harrowing life she experienced with Han family. Surely, the tenacious and devious Yeon-ju fits the bill to help her doppelganger.
Garnished with humor and vibrantly sketched characters, I doubt this drama would go to the recent family story fad heavily layered with revenge and infidelity themes. Presenting unrighteous ways is inescapable, but given Yeon-ju’s innate virtue of upholding justice, the narrative would mostly be heroine-centric.
Lucky for Yeon-ju and Mi-na, they have two reliable men who would be willing to help Mi-na as she wages war on the in-laws who had abused her. Yeon-ju’s junior Ahn Ju-yun (Lee Won Geun), who obviously dotes on her, would sure sense she went missing. He would certainly probe on what happened.
Smart Seung-wook is in the right direction of suspicion, will he figure out his first love’s situation?
Will Yeon-ju find the answers to her cryptic situation? Is it part of Mi-na’s premeditated plan?
Catch up on the latest episodes of One The Woman on SBS every Friday and Saturday. Global fans can watch it on Viu.
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