Manny

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Tall, with a perfect figure and his qualifications as an Ivy League graduate, Lee Han is Seoul's top male nanny. He is employed by Seo Do Young as a live-in nanny to look after her two young children, Eun Bi and Jung Min. (dramawiki)

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Suh Ji Suk (Kim Yi Han)
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Choi Jung Yoon (Seo Do Young)
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Byun Jung Soo (Janice)
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Jung Da Bin (Oh Eun Bi)
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Park Joon Hyuk (Eun Bi & Jung Min's father)
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Goo Seung Hyun (Oh Jung Min)
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Apr 3, 2012 16 of 16 episodes seen

shiningskyline
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I'm pretty conflicted on how I feel about Manny. It felt to me like it lost its way about 3/4 of the way through, and it's difficult to prevent my view of the drama as a whole from being tainted by my distain for the last handful of episodes.

In any case, I'll start with the positives. Manny, more than anything, is a comedy. It's light and funny, with many laugh-out-loud moments, and most "conflicts" tend to be resolved in the space of a single episode, at least in the beginning. The main couple in Yi Han and Do Young are obvious from the start, but they fail to steal the show in favour of cutesy Jung Min, his divaish older sister Eun Mi and they're even more divaish aunt, Janice. I'm a fan of secondary characters being developed individuals in their own right, so this worked for me. I especially enjoyed that the kids weren't just plot devices, but had strong personalities of their own.

However, this is where the strong personalities end. Yi Han and Do Young, our main leads, are hollow archetypes at best. Yi Han is a Superman-type figure who can fix ANYTHING. One of the basics about any conflict in a story is that it should be believable to the audience that things really won't turn out for the best. This isn't true at all in Manny, because Yi Han is interminably capable and you're never in doubt he can solve anything with some wise words and perhaps a flashback to his old baseball friend in America. With Do Young, our female lead, it feels like there were efforts at development of her character, but to the point where there's two competing sides in her that make her confusing to watch and difficult to empathize with. She switches between stressed out single mother, still not having bounced back from what can be assumed to have been a messy divorce, and love-sick, infatuated teenager, complete with doodling her crush's name in her notebook. Needless to say, put Yi Han and Do Young together and the chemistry is far from sizzling.

As I mentioned at the beginning, the percentage of this drama is good. It never reaches any startling heights, but then that's not what it was aiming for. The drama seemed to know its place as a standard comedy. But then towards the end, it's like the it's been told to grow up and act its age because suddenly there's a barrage of seriousness and an emotional overflow that is so unfitting with the ambiance established up until this point. The characters haven't been built to be people you care deeply about, which is fine in a comedy, but tedious when these same characters are thrown into situations where emotional investment is a prerequisite if you're not going to lose the audience entirely. Without this sudden turn in tone, the drama would have been a solid watch. With it, the experience was, if not ruined, at least soured. read more
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Jan 17, 2012 16 of 16 episodes seen

LMitsuki
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THIS. I never found a drama so addictive from the beginning. Every single part was addictive, it was amazing. Usually even my favorite dramas have some boring moments and this one didn't have it until the 13th, 14th episode for me.
It's a good drama. Yet, it can be somehow surrealist in a way. The manny seems an angel who came to help them and nothing more. He seems not to have any flaws and that bothers me a bit.
In comparison, the mom is totally irresponsible and one of the kids is really rude. If you're finding a way to educate your kids, don't follow it. Aside from him, those characters have a lot of flaws. I'm still 18 but I have the perfect notion how we shouldn't educate a child. And I deal with them every week so I know what I'm talking about.
Back to the drama, watch it. I honestly watched because I'm a sucker for dramas with children but this kept me watching from other reasons other than the children.
Just one thing i'm unhappy about are the latest episodes. It seems they condensed all the drama parts in the last one and the ending was not even satisfactory. It seems to have a season two, I hope so, I really do. read more
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mariliis Mar 31, 2012
one of the most frustrating dramas i've seen
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HAVA-RAVA Nov 16, 2011
This was so cute XDDD
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medotcom Jun 22, 2011
It's a nice drama with a great cast but that's all. Suh Ji Suk is absolutely gorgeous! Would I recommend it? Hmm maybe if you don't have anything better to do and want to watch something light and cute.
Also try natnatvip-online.org for full episodes with eng subs. I absolutely recommend it.
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kdramafan89 Jun 21, 2011
they have full episodes on Dramafever.com
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angelitocurioso Jan 1, 1970
@epdrama I love it so far! I'm Janice!!!! LOL

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!
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mariliis May 15, 2011
@nancydrew mysoju & dramacrazy for example
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nancydrew May 14, 2011
anyone know any websites where they have Manny up with English subs? Apparently Viki.net had some issues with the broadcasting company and can no longer release subbed videos so...
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Hangebokhan May 12, 2011
This show is really fun but 'Janice' is driving me crazy. I have seen anvils more subtle than her! I think that he has cottoned on to what is going on and trying to execute 'Artful Dodge' whether he is successful or not remains to be seen.
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mariliis May 3, 2011
It has been pretty entertaining so far
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Ashu Apr 25, 2011
This is a lot of fun. x)
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HAVA-RAVA Apr 10, 2011
I can't wait for this ~~ The synopsis seems to be fun :D
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