The first teaser for upcoming weekend series My Golden Life has just been released, and it definitely has that upbeat, warm fuzzy vibe that I love in family dramas. And yes, Shin Hye-sun (Forest of Secrets) is coming back to family dramas! She was so relatable and cute in Five Kids that I want her in a similar role every time I see her on television.
The teaser’s supposed to show how Shin Hye-sun’s character has the chance of overcoming her impoverished background through a false identity, but due to a series of misfortunes, she ends up worse off than before and learns to deal with the obstacles that follow.
In the teaser, the drama promises to gives us a reversal of the commonplace makjang weekenders we see so often in dramaland. It starts with this question to the viewers: “You’ve seen these types of scenes before, right?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z9Ra4LNk10
Then, the teaser goes through a checklist of familiar setups we see all the time in family dramas:
Then the chryon asks: “Is this all?” An emphatic “No! No! No!” reply flashes, and the teaser explains that there’ll be no frustrating elements in this “refreshing” new drama. With a smile, Shin Hye-sun ends the teaser by saying, “Bingo!”
I’m pretty sure that Park Shi-hoo has first billing on this drama, but I’m experiencing second lead syndrome already after seeing Lee Tae-hwan’s adorableness again. KBS family drama My Golden Life will air starting September 2, following the end of Father Is Strange.
