K-DRAMA REVIEW: “Wedding Impossible” Cheers In Sweet Moments Despite Dwindling Plot Excitement

April 4, 2024
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After giving us more circling around, a breakup, and a time jump, our leads finally muster up the courage to act upon their feelings and hold on to each other.

It has been quite the journey, but instead of complaining about the process, let’s enjoy the destination we got and send them off with a smile, wishing for their happily ever after.

Bunny S. watches Wedding Impossible on Prime Video

Episode Recaps: 01 & 02 | 03 & 04 | 05 & 06 | 07 & 08 | 09 & 10 | Finale Week + Series Review |

Wedding Impossible

Wedding Impossible Finale Week Recap

Having dropped the bomb, Ji-han goes off the grid, leaving a devastated Ah-jeong behind. Set against running away and hiding behind Ji-han’s lies, Do-han comes out of the closet about his secret and the fake marriage. Even if the contract is called off, his friendship with Ah-jeong will remain forever. After tying up all the loose ends, Do-han travels back to the US. But this time, it feels like he is going there to live as himself, not to run away like last time.

Tracking Ji-han’s whereabouts leads Ah-jeong to the seaside village they went to before. For a strong-willed girl who always speaks her mind even when it might put her in trouble, we thought Ah-jeong would drag Ji-han home by the ear. But frustratingly, she is there to break up with him. (We couldn’t agree more with Chae-won feeling disappointed about Ah-jeong’s decision.) In typical Kdrama land fashion, they enjoy a good day together and part ways when the day is over.

One year passes by. Do-han is back for an exhibition, looking more relieved. Chae-won has moved on. Ji-han has left the company and started a new business. He is back for his mother’s death anniversary. And wouldn’t you know it? Ah-jeong is there too.

She has been doing fine, going to auditions and thinking about Ji-han from time to time. If there is one thing that didn’t change, it is the stubbornness of these two, who keep pretending to be okay and ignoring their real feelings.

With her manager not available, Ji-han is roped into being Ah-jeong’s manager for the day, where he is misled into believing Ah-jeong now has a boyfriend and drinks himself silly. In a hilarious scene, Ah-jeong and Chae-won keep tossing Ji-han on each other. And it is Ah-jeong who ends up taking him home.

For a drama that revolves around opposing a marriage, it is only right we end it with a wedding getting interrupted. (At least we got a proposal scene, albeit hilarious.) Except, it is only a drama scene Ah-jeong is shooting, and Ji-han is there to grab her hand and run away together to their happily ever after.

Wedding Impossible Series Quick Recap

After years of trying to make her acting career work out, our leading lady, Na Ah-jeong, gets an irresistible offer to star in a real-life drama as her best friend’s fake wife. But things turn a bit challenging when the fake groom’s younger brother starts getting in their way.

Wedding Impossible Series Highlights and Musings

The drama started as a campy fun ride, with the entangling relationship connecting our quartet taking center stage. Typically, people who go through a contract marriage end up falling for each other. But aside from Do-han’s secret, I found it refreshing that Ah-jeong fell for Ji-han instead.

While Ah-jeong was pretty likable from the start, it took us some time to warm up to Ji-han. On the other hand, Do-han’s main characterization was his secret. He was used mostly as a plot device to get our leads together and stir some tension near the end. Not to mention how Chae-won kept going back and forth between gentle and obsessive and got her arc wrapped hastily.

We got some fragments of character development. Yet it could have hit deeper if the drama gave more focus to the characters and the motivations behind their actions, instead of wasting time on the conniving Chois, the trashy reporter, and the succession battle. Not only did this all feel flat, but also the conclusion of the Choi siblings’ father being the reason behind Mother’s death didn’t hit any feels.

Even the last-minute redemption arc the drama tried to give Grandpa didn’t feel earned. How can a grandpa torture his grandson all his life just because he happened to be the only survivor of the accident and the car exploded afterward?

If anything, the drama’s major strength was its dialogue. Which fell more on Ah-jeong’s character because she had no problems calling people out on their wrongdoings. Case in point: calling Grandpa out on treating Ji-han and Do-han harshly while claiming it is all for their sake.

To sum it up, the drama had its highs and lows. While the first half felt tight, the second half was more like a sinking ship. And instead of dwelling on what could have been, let’s move on and only remember the good things.

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Bunny Sonaki

I am Bunny. Just like you, I am smitten with Kdramas and look forward to watching every Kdrama out there, but is that dream ever possible since they keep showering us with new dramas every day? For me, Kdramas are my comfort zone and a warm hug that makes it possible to face up to whatever life throws my way.

  1. peiyeelai

    April 6, 2024 at 3:53 pm

    Nice one, Bunny

    1. Bunny S.

      April 6, 2024 at 4:05 pm

      Thank you for your kind words.

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