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I'm just as excited as any other Yeon Jung-hoon fan was to see this drama. It's 50 episodes long family drama and so I've been warned to carefully decide if I want to start such a long journey. For YJH, I think I would.It started out pretty clichéd, which was expected of many family dramas I've watched. But the reason to stick to the first episode is because for the first time I feel YJH is to be pity. He played a character named Park Hyun-soo, the eldest son of the family but was looked down by his family. The reason being is that his mother was kicked out of the house for allegedly having an affair with another man. Other reason would be that he couldn't control his strong-headed wife, Yoona (Han Ji-hye). Yoona hated Hyun-soo for marrying her without love and just for money. Their several confrontations finally lead to Yoona leaving the house.Hyun-soo knows that if he ever divorce Yoona, it means that he will lose whatever respect left that his father has for him. While desperate to get Yoona back, Hyun-soo met a woman with uncanny resemblance to his wife. That's when he concocted a plan to hire that woman (Mong-hee also played by Han Ji-hye) as his wife.The drama started fairly well with enough revenge plot, money-craving heirs and in-laws troubles. But with all the family dramas out there, I Summon You Gold doesn't have anything new to add. The only addition is the identical-twin characters and that's not even very original.There are times when I was speechless at the turn of conversations and events. I could laugh because I'm not sure if it was meant to be a joke.Han Ji-hye was obviously doing her best and was awarded Top Excellence award at MBC Drama Award but I could feel that YJH was not so comfortable with his character near the end. Glad he did win an award though for the bad script he had to went through.Overall, I gave it a 4. All on all, it's not an easy thing to produce a drama with 50 episodes. I gave the rating for effort and for the actors that stick to it till the end.

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