I really, really liked the first 10-11 episodes of this drama. As for the later part, I realised yesterday that it has all the hallmarks of the Telenovelas I used to watch as a child, but in condensed form (minus the toxic lead that plagued those): long suffering heroine, betreyal, makeover, revenge, love story, villains and their evil machinations, everyone plotting murder left and right,, crazy antagonist trying to steal the lead’s man, actual murder, bad guys ending up either dead or in jail with possible insanity on top and the gran finale lavish wedding. This revelation helped me enjoy it for what it was. I still wish they did some things differently, it needed less Yura and more Ju Ran and Mr Lee but it was mostly a fun ride.

Well, everyone got their happy ending.
I didn’t enjoy the show as much as others did, but I did like the theme of being a better version of yourself given a second chance.
I found some episodes enjoyable while some were a chore.

The show was elevated by Lee Yi-kyung and Song Ha-yoon. They both were perfect. And the ending for both of them (and the awful mother) was perfect. Yu-Ra was just added to die, and was a annoying character.

The two Secretaries deserved a happy ending. I hope there is one waiting for them.

Thanks, @solstices for your fantastic recaps of this drama--one that I truly enjoyed from beginning to end.

Sure, there were scenes and even sometimes characters (**cough Yoo-ra cough**) that I would skim past while watching each week, but truly not many.

I like makjang, though, and was never under any illusion that this show was part fantasy, part makjang, part rom-com. I also don't require for "rules of fate" to be consistent as long as they're fun and don't end with philosophical musings on the painful nature of being human--and I thought this drama delivered on that.

My absolute favorite scene of this drama may end up being the physical fight between Soo-min and Min-hwan in the pension house. I literally sat up and watched every...single...second. Who was going to win out? Who was going to die? How was it going to play out?? I honestly usually don't focus on violence that closely--it was successfully not only about their physical relationship but also their mental states of desperation...and then also the way that the "fate" in this show was seemingly as much a roll of the die as it was about something fixed and directly transferrable.

It's that...or the last scene of Soo-min having a full-on mental breakdown in jail. The way the prison guards were calming her by rubbing her back while she was simply wild with fear and delusion was simply astounding.

Would recommend to others--especially as a binge watch!

Thank you for your very kind review and analysis, @solstices. You are very generous

When I first heard about the show, I was concerned about the length whether show would have enough meat to fill out 16 episodes and my hunch proved right. The show would have been more effective with 12 or 14 episodes.

The last two episodes proved that why Min-hwan and Soo-min are superior and effective antagonists. These actors talents elevated the show and made show enjoyable.

I wasn't fan of Yu-ra. She was just a plot device to punish villain's without getting lead's hand getting too dirty or turning them into darker shade of grey. She was their to increase episode count and to take on Ji-hyuk's fate and die.

It was nice to see that show wrapped up everything nicely with pretty bow. It had potential of being my most fun show of the year had it been shorter.

I liked many things about this drama, particularly the outstanding performances. I also really appreciated the nice, long, complete ending that was delivered. Too often k-dramas stop short at the denouement and give us very little to savor for the completion. We even got a wedding scene.

@solstices, I like your take on the moral ambiguity aspect as I must admit this is the one piece of the story that just didn't quite work as well for me. I felt at times that Ji-won and Ji-hyuk manufactured situations to bring out the innate bad behaviors of the antagonists. Maybe I didn't watch closely enough. Would they have behaved as such otherwise? Was the gift of reliving those 10 years not enough for JW and JH? Ahh well, the story wouldn't have been quite as interesting without that and the transfer of fate rules.

This was not a drama I had planned on watching, but I'm glad I did. It was really nice to see PMY recover from last year's disastrous drama, and I was truly blown away by Song Ha Yoon.

I hope it's okay to say this now: I'm glad that this drama didn't handle the infertility storyline the same way the comic did. I'm also glad that it toned down the fates of Min-hwan and Soo-min. I really wish it had given Soo-min a different fate entirely, but alas.

The ending of ep 16 was happy, really happy, imo a little too happy. I felt that way about the comic, though. Such unadulterated happiness felt a little tonally off after the face of all that misery, especially when in the drama the main couple orchestrated a lot of the other characters' downfalls. I also wish they'd had more follow-up on the side couples, who I cared about far more than the main couple. We go that far into the future and we don't get definitive endings for Hui-yeon and Ms. Yang?

In the end I'm gonna say what I've said before: the drama did a good job trying to improve upon things, but imo in the end was still limited by the source material. My complaint was that Soo-min in the comic was like a cardboard cutout villain, and in this drama Soo-min was a great character, while the role of cardboard cutout went to Yoo-ra.

I just have to add this as more evidence to my theory that revenge stories just aren't for me, unless the story ultimately ends with the person deciding to let go of their anger and desire for retribution and live their best life.

I agree with most of what has been written here (and thanks @solstices), but I really needed Ji-won to fully address that her MOTHER WAS PART OF A PLOT TO KILL HER before she could be that happy. I mean, a little therapy, please?

A hand shake... I'm feeling robbed!

For the drama, I never really liked it. The plot didn't really make sense and for me the main characters were the less interesting and neither PMY neither NIW couldn't elevate their role.

I see no ressemblance between Ji-Won at the beginning and Ji-Won at the end, they're two very different people and not one who grew up.

Song Ha-Yoon was stunning in this role. Her character was the most interesting, she wasn't a clown villain like LYK, her reasons and her ways were well written. Her acting did justice to her role. It's sad they went on the makjang side with money, murders by adding a new villain etc because I don't think her character needed it.

Welp, that ended. Liberal fast forward button. Also they started using a weird filter at the end there, hmmm. The beginning was meh with some good points, but then it went to hell and just became bad, but at least I got my bean.

Since one of my main gripes about many kdrama romances is that they don't even have a kiss at the end, let alone showing the couple married and sleeping together and then with children, I'm not going to complain too hard about the extended ending of this show. There were actually some sweet moments in the fluff--I liked Ji-won teasing of Ji-hyuk and vice versa because it made the relationship seem a little less ponderously fated. Although, with the one family scene with the cute twin boys practicing being boring like Dad, showing Hee-yeon also with an infant, I was almost expecting Gramps to bring out a couple of babies of his own, produced as the result of a marriage with a young trophy wife stuck reliving someone else's fate. Nothing like time travel to ease S. Korea's demographic collapse!

Despite my general satisfaction with the happy ending, I still think this show could have been 4 episodes shorter. I think a lot of the climactic action and time line substitutions could have played out the same--it just would have had fewer of the absurd twists of episodes 12-14.

Ultimately then, though it was a close call, in the battle of the time travel bad marriage revenge dramas, I slightly preferred Perfect Marriage Revenge. Both had somewhat lackluster main couples--although, of course, Park Min Young was quite a bit more glamorous and her character better developed than her counterpart in Perfect Marriage Revenge. The villains were more flamboyant and more complex in this one, but I liked the supporting cast a bit more in PMR.

Also, I think I'd rather have a glowing date tattoo on my wrist than wear a heart on my chest, especially since its usually on my sleeve.

Park Ming Yang is my girls crush but she was quite invisible in this drama. Su Min steal the show. It is a perfect binge watch KD.

After a few tedious episodes, I thought the show finished strong with two very well-paced and true-to-character finale episodes that wrapped everything up in a satisfying way. There were some very dark moments, including Soo-min and Min-hwan's ugly fight that culminated in Min-hwan's much-deserved death, and even Min-hwan's horrible mother expressing her absolutely sincere and devastating grief at his funeral (and staying true to character by blaming Ji-won for his death). But I loved the little bits of humor, too--Ji-won mimicking Ji-hyuk furrowing his brow to the camera, her look of pain when she first tried to snap the zip-tie in judo class, and Seok-joon's laughter at the group dinner.

Finally, I appreciated that there was no tidy about-face or character growth from either Soo-min or Min-hwan. They remained selfish and shallow villains who met the exact end they deserved. That said, both actors did a tremendous job giving depth and complexity to their roles, helping to elevate the entire show and making it seem much smarter at times than it actually was.

I already ranted about the ghastly wedding dress on my wall so won’t talk about it here again haha! The rising star of the entire plot was none other than SoMin. I read an article shared by another beanie about how hard it was for her play this complicated sociopathic character and how she herself felt like a victim to SoMin. Kudos to her kudos 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Overall I liked the writing until they bought YuRa’s unnecessary character. But I guess she was introduced to be the ‘fate tranferer’ for JuHyuk’s death. Last episode was all fan service but I was glad they shared that jail scene with SoMin. Did I say she is amazing? I did? Okay.

All in all it was nicely paced and I would recommend it.

Alas. While I enjoyed the first half so much I gave it a 10, by the end I felt it was generous to rate it a 7. Somewhere around the halfway point, it seemed to throw everything but the kitchen sink into the plot. It began to stretch my suspended disbelief beyond its stretching point and felt, well, a bit soapier than I could handle. The constant murder/revenge twists were excessive.

I did read the manhwa and I remember also growing disappointed by the end, though I think for different reasons. At least this one had a satisfying, fairy tale ending, even if I grew tired of the characters and their lives before we got there. But again, I barely remember the manhwa.

Oh well. I still think the actors were fine. The plot just dragged.

Honestly, I'm glad this has come to an end. I had a love hate relationship with this drama. And the hate part overtook the love over time.

Once again, what I got is a teaser instead of a full blown answer. The open ended way they wrapped up Seok-joon and Joo-ran's story was met with displeasure. They could have done more. Cut out at least a few minutes off the leads time and fully conclude the love story I wanted to see develop.

However, I must congratulate Marry My Husband for not shying away from showing the burnout from tending to two newborn minions. The look on both Ji-hyuk and Ji-won's was golden - very apt.

The leads were the weakest part of the story for me. And it took the first four episodes to realize that it was a wise choice to cast Lee Yi-kyung as Min-hwan even though he'd have nailed Ji-hyuk to better perfection. But then...gwenchana. Song Ha-yoon performed way better than Park Min-young did. I've finally said it. I didn't think I'd say this about PMY but I just had to. This is the weakest drama I've seen her in out of all of her's that I've watched. She was so bad in here.

Most of the times when she was walking around, she was strutting instead of walking it felt fake and unnatural. It was stiff and uncomfortable. Even in scenes that didn't require her to walk that way she did walk like that nonetheless. It is bad.

The final Ji-won Soo-min showdown had me laughing at the ridiculousness. I was asking myself what cable tie she extricated herself from that required her supposed judo training. One tiny kpiiiiiiiiiiiiiiish and it'll be gone. I was expecting a proper beat up and not a arm wrestle that didn't even feel like it. Who binds a arm like that? They should have just stopped with the shoulder throw and not mess the whole thing up with that lacklustre arm wrestle to the ground.

Min-hwan's ending shocked the hell out of me. That was a transfer I wasn't expecting. Yu-ra? I wasn't expecting hers too nor did it have any impact. But I did think it is a perfect gift after all the drama she caused.

This was a love hate watch. And I think I have successfully earned my first proper reluctant bean of the year. I'll give that bean to Seok-joon if need be.

The glass table of doom strikes one last time. Not a fan of Yoo-ra and Min-hwan dying though. I prefer they lived to suffer through life like Soo-min. But two deaths were still owed.

Soo-min and Min-hwan’s characters were the stars of this entire thing.

Thank you for the recaps solstices.
I appreciate the show gave us more than the usual two minutes at the end for the happily ever after fan service but I felt exhausted making it to the end.
Both the second leads, Soo-min and Min-hwan stole and saved this show. If it wasn't for them I would have dropped this long ago.
PMY was just meh and I think a big part of the problem for me was her character strutting uncomfortably around the office in her high heels and ridiculously glamorous, high end fashion - it was more about making PMY look good than being faithful to her character. Solstices made the comment about the leads' morally ambiguous choices which didn't sit well either.  
I congratulate the lead characters actually being able to get pregnant as every time we had a scene with them in bed they were dressed like it was the middle of winter. 
Also Yu ra and Min-hwan being caught in bed together by Soo-min made me laugh, it was comparable to a dead fish kiss. Don't get me wrong  I'm not asking for a lot of skin but it's hard to believe there is any desire when the characters are fully dressed in day wear to sleep or have sexy times :) 

I found the morality of the show too distracting from the personal growth story arc. I mean, she kinda was just as bad towards the end there but I’m being logical, and it’s just a show. It wasn’t a wow for me. Good acting by the villains though

Thanks for the recap. I read somewhere that the last episode ended with the highest ratings yet, so kudos to the cast and crew!. And just to inject some positivity into this thread, I did like this show. I do like revenge stories, so there's that. Was the show perfect? Definitely not. But it delivered. And I think the OTP still carried the show, together with the villains. Yura was an unlikeable character but I get now why she was there, to take on Ji Hyuk's fate. Oh, and I like the wedding dresses too, PMY could pull it off and she did.

I had never found Na In Woo swoonily handsome, probably because I am an 2D1N viewer, but I must admit he did look extremely good on that wedding scene.

Thanks @solstices for your wonderfully upbeat recaps, that always gave this drama the benefit of the doubt (and produced gems like "incapacitates him with a kick to his sterile family jewels" - heh. 

I was so invested in this at the start but I have to admit my interest and passion for it waned over the span of the series. 
As Elie Wiesel (and my mother!) said "the opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." By which she meant that love and hate are both passionate emotions that show that person affects you in a significant way. Indifference is when you really don't care any more.

MMH made me think of this for two reasons in finale week. One because all the villains have really demonstrated this - they simply can't 'get over' their feelings for the FL/ML To really move on with their lives they needed to get past their hate and into indifference. Stop obsessing and focus on their own happiness. There was a Greek tragedy vibe to how they were all punished for failing to do that. 

So glad for Dramabeans recaps as I gave up on this drama after ten episodes but was curious to see how they tie up the loose ends. It started so well but then felt (to me anyway) so laborious and padded out. It really could and should have been ten episodes long and the pace would have been improved and the side stories shortened to be relevant but not so long. Great start, damp ending.

I stopped watching at around episode 11. I had a number of issues with this drama…the chemistry between the leads was weak and PMY was just ok in this role if we’re all being honest. Her character was such a push over at times that I really couldn’t root for her at some points. Perfect Marriage Revenge did it better with a much smaller production budget.

Me, I wished they’d given a few minutes of the extra looong epilogue to allow Knight Flower to properly end. 😂

But seriously, after expecting the worst after the past few episodes, it ended relatively decently for me. It even had a few good moments. I quite liked the parallel tracks where events unfolded in this timeline as they had in the alternative one. Some of the jokes landed well (snap that tie Ji-won!). The good guys (esp our secondary characters) got their happily-ever-afters and the villains came to satisfying ends. Soo-min in particular was fantastic once again (tho I’d have ended with her gaslighting her new jail BFF rather than in crazy town).

I’ll still mourn what could have been. Can’t disagree with all the critiques. But it wasn’t a total loss. Next!

After the episode(s) that featured the break up and Yura, I couldn't recapture my investment in this but I did think that once again I liked changes made for the drama. It was fitting for the show to have Min Hwan and Su Min's showdown and him dying by her hand. It was fitting for Min Hwan's mom to be lashing out at Ji Won at the funeral.

All I could think during Su Min's spiel to the other inmate is she's just gonna try to have Ji Won killed from prison. Also it's a very good thing Su Min is predictable and used flex ties versus something else.

I didn't connect at all with Yura's death (but then again, I didn't connect with her period). For what reason was she even driving like that? For what reason did she fire the assistant? Did she know he turned on her? But then why would she keep him around to make flight reservations. Is it supposed to be implied the assistant messed with the brakes?

It's gross (to me) that the grandfather knew or was told enough about Yura's crimes and his suggestion was "go to Africa to volunteer and reflect". I think that pricked my "eat the rich" type feelings haha. Seriously, she tried having 4 people murdered and the thought is "let's just send her out of the country and say she's reflecting and helping others".

Just to think I wasn't even gonna watch this drama bc I'm allergic to FL's acting (City Hunter). But I'm so glad I did... I loved the ML and the potential he has. He's only 29 and it's going to be a joy watching him maturing and growing even more manly on the screen in the years to come. I think ML had the best stylist on this show. Everything he wore complemented him. FL seemed to have the worst. Her outfits were very generic and lacked complexity and nuance. You almost didn't need a stylist for her outfits, they looked like clothes that came off the rack. Last thing, this drama didn't change my mind about FL's acting ability/style. ML felt a lot more real and like a real person next to her. FL puts on a facade in front of the camera. When she smiles, it's beautiful but it never feels real. As an actress, that's the worst thing you can do. To her credit, she does have one of the most gorgeous three-quarter profiles in the biz. She missed the mark on several key scenes, including the baby scenes with ML. What should have been a warm and funny scene but her acting made it so awkward. It's strange that the director didn't catch her awkwardness and change the scenes around (for example, take out her speaking parts) Lastly, I really really would LOVE to see Marry My Husband made into a 100+ episode long daily drama starring the same ML with a different FL this time. I want to see ML with his long legs and arms and husky, warm voice and sweet eyes in a suit every single day for as long as possible on my screen.

Thanks for the recap Solstices! I've earned my bean. This show was entertaining. Beanies, I'm enjoying comments, thanks for sharing. I agree that the show was probably a 9-10 star rating until Yu-Ra showed up, then it was more like a 7.

I liked the ending because it was actually a conclusion--not an open ending, not an implied ending but a real ending where we see the results of the character's actions. The show took time to fill in those missing 10 years with a wedding and babies, etc. Stepping us through that timeline back to the day they started the do-over confirmed that all that drama was worth the effort for the leads.

Hope the cast enjoys their reward trip to Viet Nam and that Na In-Soo can join them before his military service begins. Now my calendar is clear for Imperial Heir.

It's weird that I am defending Park Min-young here, cos I'm certainly no fan of hers. There's no doubt Lee Yi-kyung and Song Ha-yoon stole the show. However, if you look past the top star glamour and its attendant inappropriate outfits, I feel that PMY's portrayal of a lonely woman crushed by abuse, gaslighting and everyday sexism in the earlier episodes was thoroughly convincing. I agree with some Beanies here that the Ji-won of the last few episodes is barely the same woman, but I was also pretty impressed by the mid-show Ji-won who started taking tentative steps to assert herself, and the glee she conveyed at every small success.

Well, I thought I would enjoy ANYTHING with this actress, but I thought it was very disappointing; she is such a good actress I can't understand why she would waste her talents on something as ridiculous as this, unless she was just filling in time until something better comes along. I'm as willing as anybody to go with the flow and suspend all disbelief, but I became more and more aware of how artificially perfect everybody was, not a hair out of place, lipstick perfect, model-style clothes, how totally over-the-top villainous the villains were and how impossibly perfect the ML and FL were. In my opinion it just got sillier and sillier towards the end and it certainly won't get a bean from me. Come on PMY, you are insanely talented, give us something that will make us laugh and cry, get involved with the characters and the story, and actually care what happens to you at the end. I watched out of respect and gratitude for all the good dramas you have done, but that really wasn't good enough. In the language of somebody who posts regularly on this site, that was D-.

I really wanted to like this drama but I found the insistence on packaging a really painful psychological thriller as a rom-com disturbing. All the fluffy silliness of the romantic asides felt creepy. Who has the heart to joke around, buy jewelry and flirt over cake while plotting how to make others be murdered, die from cancer or killed in an accident, regardless of how much they may deserve it? The constant back and forth between the psychological horror and fluffy teenage-grade innocent romance gave me whiplash and made me feel like somehow this show was lacking a moral compass more than shows that simply present gratuitous violence. I am not sure how this happened, but this is how it felt to me.

An excellent summary of this show! Even though the premise was absurd and the plot points a bit over the top, I didn't care. I loved seeing Park Min-young do her thing again, as she has not really been doing her thing in the last few dramas. And by "her thing," I mean, making me care about a character! I never had to think about whether I liked the FL or not, though the whole drama. I just identified with her as a sort of everywoman, even though honestly I am nothing at all like that character.

But, as everyone has said, it was Lee Yi-kyung and Song Ha-yoon that made the drama. Their villainy was so bad, yet they managed to make these into real characters with complex motivations and emotions. I hope they will both get more roles out of this. I would love to see Song Ha-yoon playing a variety of characters.

Na In-woo overcame a truly terrible hairstylist to entertain me with his beautiful voice and pretty eyes, but this was hardly his breakout role. I know, I made an argument that the ML has hobbies, friends, family relationships, and a cat. Nevertheless, in terms of his lines, the writers really gave him very little to work with here. I loved him in Mr. Queen, but it took me ages to recognize that this was the same actor. One thing I did like was the scene where he eats ice cream because he's upset that the FL should go with someone else.

I do have a few criticisms of the show, but I'm putting them in another comment!

Sorry that I'm so long winded. I only had a few criticisms of the show.

Though I had no problem with the Yura subplot, I really disliked the "moral of the story" thrown into the last two episodes. (I had no problem with it because the extra villain helped move the plot along nicely, as we say.) Essentially the writers show a bizarre belief in noblesse oblige when the grandfather offers Yura a way out in the form of charitable volunteering. Then we contrast this with the FL's eventual foundation work. This is some b.s. I watch k-dramas to see people trash the rich as disgusting gangsters. Seriously! Didn't the original comic end with the ML leaving the corporation? Does volunteering "in Africa" (the world's largest continent) make up for attempting to murder three people?

Because of your influence, dear Beanies, I've come to notice fashion and hair choices more. I found it discordant to see the heroine tottering on her stilettos in the last scene after several scenes of her learning to do martial arts. The costumers in these dramas frequently put the leads in far less flattering clothes than the outfits from this drama. These were outstandingly pretty dresses and suits. Na In-woo can really fill out a suit. The problem was that nothing about their appearance in the drama had anything to do with their personalities.

It looked to me that the newborn was Hee-yeon and Eun-Ho's child.

Ok, so this ended, and the most shocking thing that I wanted to talk about was the character development of the masochistic, "kkonde" manager Kim Gyeong-uk. I don't even know how to reach to his character's development into a semi-decent human being, apologizing to Ji-won for undermining her meal-kit project where he requested chefs to not take their calls/meetings (but of course, he never apologized for giving HER original idea to Su-min). If they could show this development, couldn't they atleast have shown Ms. Yangand Mr. Lee atleast dating in the final 3 minutes of the show???

This pretty satisfying, maybe even more than The Glory because Song Ha-yoon knocked out of the park as Soo-min. Poor BoA, feels like it'd be better a short cameo because she looked real bad next to the veterans. And I'm a fan.

Not only does it have the truck death but the glass table of doom too haha.

I really liked this one until episode 11 ,it did fell short after it but I still wouldn't say it's bad. The ending was good.