I loved the drama. It gives you a warm feeling and outside of the comedy aspects, there are also a lot of serious topics touched... even if, given the nature of the show, they can't go to deep into things.
I loved the guys. They are so much like real brothers, when I saw them and their shenanigans, I was instantly reminded of my own batch of brothers around the same age.
Also, there are a lot of details... I noticed a lot of small things, gestures, interactions, that I missed on first watching the show, now that I need to rewatch it scene by scene because I'm translatng the WITHS2 subs from English to German.
For example, there's a scene in Episode 4, where Kyeong Tae, the cop with the smelly feet, makes his complaints to the other guys sitting on the sofa. They are waiting for the baby to be born, and after certain unfortunate incidents earlier in the episode, KT has been sleeping with his shoes on every night... for ten days now. Of course, his friends complain, and KT shoves his feet into their faces to show them what happens when he doesn't wear his shoes. Everyone ducks for cover and you while everyone's moving to the next line, you can see KT having a really wicked smile plastered on his face...
Or the various reactions to Na Yeongs cooking... For example, everyone's saying she can't cook, but if you look at episode 2, when NY and Song Min celebrate their third wedding anniversary, you have KT and Soo Hyeon going over to the table with the food and sneaking off food... and neither of them looks as if the food isn't to their taste.
Also, and that's what I like most, you can see how much the three friends are thrown out of balance when SM dies. For the first two episodes, everyone does a great job in painting the friendship betzween the four guys, you can see the power structure and the dependencies within the group. Then, when SM is removed from the formula, the remaining guys are not only forced to cope with their grief and NY's situation, but also, SM's leadership and glue function is lost, leaving a gap where the "rank structure" has to be redifined.
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Of course, the show has not just great sides. As much as I love having four lead males, they're too many. Everyone of them is lovable and cutting one's air time for the sake of another would be sad... because (at least for me), I really enjoy watching them. But for a show that runs just 16 episodes, it leaves you with a "on spot watch", you don't get that much background information, even though each has an interesting background story that in itself would be worthwhile to explore in a show of their own.
Alas, things are only hinted at.
Also, the romance factor feels forced on, mostly focussing on the later episodes, when the feeling you get is that NY isn't really interested in anyone new, because she lost her husband, who she loved dearly, just a little over a year ago. But, to give credit to the writer and the characters, the love-turbulences are mostly something that the guys duke out between themselves, with "Who is the father" being a driving factor in certain character's behaviour. I like it how you can see how one of the characters confuses his love for the child with the love for the mother. Or how one of them falls really in love, but is stuck in the pit of his own ambitions.
But ultimately, the show is way too short for what it tries to do. It would've worked better if only one of the characters had done the donation, or two at best. Or at least have one of the guys do a paternity test at an earlier stage... if they are so keen on being the dad, then why didn't they do that on their own devices, no matte rwhat they promised their dead friend?
Ultimately, they would've had made a time jump a few years into the future at an earlier point, to allow the romance to work out properly. Even if I love Baby HS no 2 (cocumber-girl) to pieces.
As it is now, the ending scene is cute and funny, but it's like an afterthought because it has to be a "romance".
But overall, definitely worth watching, very enjoyable (and it is still enjoyable to watch after ten times... compared to "Who are you", which I initially loved more, but with which I had problems watching more than twice...)
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She looks 10 years older compared to Wonderful Life!
