Mama Fairy and the Woodcutter (2018)

Show is quite enjoyable but there are too many imperfections.

I decided to watch this drama because of Moon Chae Won. I had liked her for so long as an actress and my love for her regained after watching Flower of Evil. But I realized except for Princess's Man, Painter of the Wind, Innocent Man, Flower of Evil, Brilliant Legacy, and some clips of her It's Okay Daddy's Girl and My Fair Lady; I haven't seen her other filmograohy. I decided to give Mama Fairy and the Woodcutter a go since Moon Chae Won wears hanbok in this drama, and I love seeing her in hanbok.
I rate the story only a 6.5. The positives of this show is that there is a plot twist that makes this drama interesting, and from the title of the show, the plot twist is not obvious. Seeing the title and short summary of the drama, people would think it's just about a fairy and the show's goal is only for the fairy to find out which of the two guys is her husband from years ago. However, as the story goes on, we discover that the dramas is also about friendship, acceptance, loyalty, and valuing yourself as much as about romance. The character of the professor, I didn't expect at first how his background gave so much twists to the story. An additional plus in the show is that the cute and lighthearted moments between the fairy and either of her two love interests, or the love interests with each other is good and enjoyable to watch. For the negatives however, there are some plotholes. I didn't understand why the fairy has to appear as an old woman to most people. Nor do I understand what kind of relationship should you have with the fairy for someone to see her young. The female professor for example, saw her as old at first then saw her young later (was it because she was getting to know the fairy more since the fairy is becoming more involved with her male professor friend?). I'm also confused as to why the villages in Gyeryong (Kim Geum's mom for example) didn't know the fairy and her fairy friends since it is such a small town and the fairy friends live in that town most of the time. And the most annoying thing is the lack of explanation for fairy's kids. How and why are they reborn as cat and worm/dragon (plus for the dragon/worm I didn't understand how the barista fairy said that all the powers of the world is in the egg of that dragon)? Do they die and live again for the hundreds of years their fairy mom waits for her husband? And last thing I'm wondering is what will happen to the fairy and the husband she chose after they got married? Is he coming back with her to the fairy world or is the fairy and her kids transforming into real humans to stay with him there (how weird is it that the young husband has a 20 year old looking daughter)? There's no rating for visual effects here, but I'm just gonna include it for the story's rating and gosh, the visual effects and CGI are just below average. I could have rated this show lower but since the plot twist of the drama as well as the morals plus lighthearted moments are really good (plus Moon Chae Won in hanbok is just so wonderful to see), so a 6.5 should be the fairest rating I can give to the story.
Actingwise, I give this drama an 8.5. Moon Chae Won as the fairy acted just good enough for her role. Her crying scenes are my most favorite of hers actingwise since she's really good in it. Her character of the fairy does not demand much of her acting skills though, thus despite being her usual good acting self, she doesn't come off as particularly impressive. But she's good enough and she embodied the character of the good hearted beautiful fairy well. Yoon Hyun Min is really impressive. For me at least, his character is the one that requires the most acting skills. His role of professor has such a complicated background and past, it's difficult to express the emotions of a character that had to overcome such difficult past. Fans of Yoon Hyun Min could really enjoy this drama if they want to focus on his acting instead of what happens to his character. Seo Ji Hoon is Kim Geum is also good, he was charming and was able to portray the character well. Rest of the cast is great. Surprised to see Ahn Kil Kang from Queen Seon Deok in here as a funny fairy. Due to his serious character in Queen Seon Deok which has remained in me for so long, it was really hard for me to imagine him in a comic role. But after watching him here and in Iljimae (which I just saw recently), I'm starting to think comedy might be one specialty of his.
The music is good but not particularly memorable, It doesn't affect much my enjoyability of the drama so an 8 should be a good rating.
5 for rewatch value. I don't think I'm gonna rewatch the drama again, but I might watch in the future some of my favorite scenes.
Overall a 6.5 rating for this drama.

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Cringe as hell!

I only watched this because I love Moon Chae Won. Honestly, people tend to give a better score than they should because they love the actors or something on the show is cute. This show has an average story, the writing is bad, the acting was average at best, thanks to the director, and I don't think I liked any of these characters. I don't give a damn about who's going to end up with whom. If your main focus is that, you don't care about the story, that simple. I only care about the story, and the main story started at episode 14 or so. This should've been a 2-hour-long movie! Every other episode was pointless to be honest. The story had a good potential, but they only did something with it in the final two episodes. The whole show was cringe as hell. Also, I know this is just a drama, and they didn't have a big budget, but if you don't have enough money, why are you even using these crappy looking CGI cats, dragons, tigers? They used CGI even when it wasn't necessary. I love comedy and all but 90% of the time it wasn't funny at all, just cringe. I literally skipped every scene with Ok Nam's 3 friend, because they were so bad and irritating. Not to mention the lab guys and that idiot Lee Ham Sook. Anyone who says this show should have a better rating, should be banned from this site, because they're the reason that 90% of the shows on MDL are overrated! Seriously, why are you guys giving higher score for shows just because you love the actors, or you think something or someone is cute?

One of the worst drama I watched so far.

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The CG cat has no butthole.... >_>

So...in as far as dramas go this was a pretty silly one, especially with all the CG and the talking CG spoonworm. It was a little difficult to fully immerse in the drama with all that goofiness. But in the end they pulled it off well enough and it was fun to watch the story unfold, even if the end doesn't go quite how most dramas go. They did a pretty good job confusing the heck out of me initially with the storyline, so about halfway through I had a lot of anxiety around WTF was actually going on. They wrapped it up nicely enough though, so I suppose that means it was a successful plot device.

I would have liked to see some more funny scenes with the old visage of Miss Fairy, like it would have been hilarious to see what others saw during kiss scenes. At the very least, it would have been funny to hear the students or lab partners gossiping about how they saw the Professor kiss a grandma. The tiger role was really well cast, even without the CG effects that actress totally looked like she could be a tiger. Her red curly hair was SO CUTE. The other actors all did fairly well too, though some parts (like the secret camera boy) were really hyped up toward the start and then basically went nowhere relevant in the end.

Overall, it's a decent watch when you want something mostly light and fun....there are a few dark storyline spots, but definitely the show keeps with its overarching light comedy theme. I wouldn't rewatch it though, it's sort of a one-and-done story.

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