Calmly moving at a tranquil pace, Your House Helper is an easy k-drama watch that touches on the woes and fears we have about career, love and life.
KBS2 TV’s healing drama sealed the message it wished to impart by smartly casting Ha Suk Jin as the focal character of Your House Helper.
One of the few actors who can bring justice to roles given to him, his character as a former banker turned genius house organizer has made viewers swoon from those pep talks he delivered as he also journeys in confronting his own misgivings.
- Main Leads: Ha Suk Jin, Bo Na, Kim Ji Hoon, Go Won Hee, Seo Eun Ah, Jun Soo Jin
- Highlights: Soothing Narrative Ambiance, Feel-good characters
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As promised, I gave the drama a chance to redeem itself from its awkward premiere, and I am glad to have given it time to present its soothing appeal.
Your House Helper does not have anything grand that happened in its duration, but it won’t annoy you either.
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Your House Helper Plot Recap
Reuniting to share one house are Da Young, Sang A and So Mi, who used to be really good friends in high school – until a misunderstanding shattered their friendship together. They belatedly fulfill one of their high school dreams of living together as the two move in to share the big house of Da Young (Bona).
Once a beautiful house, Da Young struggles to keep the abode clean so he seeks help from a handsome professional house organizer, Kim Woo Jin (Ha Suk Jin) who revived the dwelling back to its beautiful glory.
As Woo Jin helps to tidy up the house shared by the girls, he also becomes an encouraging person who helps them in their career and personal predicaments.
Your House Helper Highlights and Drawback
Soothing Narrative Ambiance
I find it strange how the simple premise of Your House Helper has made me sustain watching it every night after a day’s work. Bluntly speaking, the series is so laid back and plain, nevertheless, viewers would find themselves surprisingly gravitating to the characters’ individual battles.
Feel-good and Well-utilized characters
There was no hair-pulling conflict nor misplaced plot bends in the series. Focusing on how the house-sharing friends overcome their life battles through the help of the cleaning fairy they met, has always been what drove its narrative to a cohering closure.
The characters of the girls presented provided relatable faces of women, who worked hard to find their worth. They also left empowering message to women by displaying their tenacity to come to terms with what needs to be forgotten and accepted in their lives.
Plain Narrative
Your House Helper mostly felt flat as it progressed to its culmination. You could barely realize its peak because it neatly wrapped up the individual problems tasked for each character one by one, taking time to do so as if it is a natural thing to do. With that, casual drama watchers might easily drop tuning in to the story since it does not lean to playing with your emotions.
Your House Helper Series Afterthoughts
Taking a minimalist route, Your House Helper does not make the viewers feel any negativity, yet the series’ impression does not linger, unfortunately.
Woo Jin, who connects with the girls struggling to unclutter their thoughts, and the lessons extended in the drama have been the saving grace of the series.
While it lives up to its promise of becoming a healing drama, it would have not hurt the narrative if it went through a few insertions of energizing twists to upbeat the flow of the story.
The predictable plot, which spelled a problem-to-be-resolved trajectory, could have done more – if the talented cast who graced the series would have given more movement to the narrative.
At the very least though, it captured a few significant notes about career, love and life that adults can specifically learn from.
Photos: KBS Drama
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