She sees the mysterious woman through the window, but her thoughts are drawn elsewhere as her two younger brothers burst into the kitchen to complain about how their noona isn’t doing enough of the chores Mom did.Ĭuriously absent is their father, which leaves Han-gyul to wake up her little sister and all but pry away the sweater of Mom’s that she still sleeps with. Her dad looks powerless and in over his head when it comes to comforting her, so the job is left up to her aunt, who’s also inept.Įveryone watches the family drama unfolding, but no one seems quite as aloof about it all as Song-hwa.Īn ominous forty-nine days passes, and we see the same mysterious woman from the opening scene approach the Eun household thirty minutes before she’s scheduled to arrive, causing her to wait patiently outside.Įldest daughter EUN HAN-GYUL ( Kim So-hyun) is first to rise, waking up to a house that looks like it’s never been cleaned. She can’t stop crying because she misses her mom, and none of her siblings’ efforts to console her seem to be working. I understand that there are social stigmas at play here, but good grief-her mother’s body isn’t even cold yet and some other kid couldn’t resist a you-don’t-have-a-mom jab? Song-hwa’s coworkers note her odd absence for the past two days, which she hurriedly brushes off right before the banquet is interrupted when Sang-chul’s youngest daughter runs into the room crying because someone already made fun of her for being motherless, which, ugh.
As Sang-chul turns to introduce Song-hwa to his children, his eldest daughter glares at the both of them knowingly. The recently-widowed husband, EUN SANG-CHUL ( Lee Sung-jae), greets Song-hwa as his coworker, but their words are tense and just this side of strained. We don’t hear the answer, but the woman doesn’t look like she’s about to say no.Ĭut to: A funeral service where YOON SONG-HWA ( Wang Ji-hye) pays her respects to the departed woman and the family she left behind, including a husband and four children. I’m still trying to figure out whether this is even the show for me, so take from that what you will.Ī woman clad in dark clothing and a baseball cap looks dead ahead, her serious expression unchanging even as a female voice asks her off-screen, “Can you do anything you’re told to do?” If you’re easily turned off by whole chunks of time spent on chest-thumping grief, then this might not be the show for you. Some of the dry humor lands, but most of the comedy feels out of place and shoehorned in to lighten up all the crying, screaming, and general bleakness that comes with the territory of following a family in mourning. Her character alone is worth even a tiny peek into this premiere, which is an adaptation of the insanely popular 2011 Japanese drama Kaseifu no Mita.Īs for the rest, well, it’s a bit of a tonal mess. She always obeys orders, never smiles, and seems to be missing some of the essential components that makes a human a human. Suspicious Housekeeper premiered on SBS earlier this week, and it’s certainly got a little bit of everything-comedy, melodrama, and an interesting mystery revolving the strange housekeeper of the show’s namesake. 157 SeptemApSuspicious Housekeeper: Episode 1 by HeadsNo2
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