A Gentleman's Dignity (2012)
Grade: B
20 episodes
20 episodes
The show is about four best friends: Kim Do-jin and Im Tae-san who
run an architect business together; Choi Yoon who is their lawyer;
and Lee Jung-rok, who married wealthy and runs a local cafe. The men,
now in their early forties, met in high school. Jung-rok regularly cheats on his wife but
his friends always help him out. Yoon is a widower, but Tae-san's 24
year old sister Im Meari has feelings for him. Tae-san is friends with Seo Yi-soo, a high school teacher and
the umpire for his city baseball league. Yi-soo secretly has feelings
for Tae-san, but he asks for her friend Hong Se-ra's number instead.
Do-jin has a serendipitous run-in with Yi-soo and helps her out of an
embarrassing situation, more than once. Will the friends ever figure
out how to have a happy relationship with the women in their lives?
*This
is definitely a more adult-themed drama, with more promiscuity than
usual (discussed or alluded to, not shown). Since all the
main characters are middle-aged, it's a bit more somber, which I
didn't care for. It did have a happy, neatly packaged ending however,
with many very cute moments along the way. All the stories of each
character were woven together skilfully, including the numerous
flashbacks (which is something you wouldn't see as much of in a drama about high school kids). I liked it more than I thought I would; top 10 overall. I'd
probably watch this again.*
