The Good Bad Mother

April 26, 2023

Choi Kang-ho (Lee Do-hyun) is a driven, morally compromised prosecutor in Seoul's Seocho-gu. His mother Oh Young-soon (Ra Mi-ran) runs a pig farm in Icheon and has sacrificed everything for his success. He is too busy to call her back.

April 26, 2023

The Icheon farm — muddy, physical, alive — is the drama's moral heart. Young-soon's life there is shown in full before the accident changes everything.

May 3, 2023

Kang-ho is involved in a hit-and-run. He survives but sustains brain damage that leaves him with the mental age of a seven-year-old.

May 3, 2023

Adult Kang-ho returns to the farm in Icheon with a child's mind. Young-soon must mother the son she raised to leave her.

May 10, 2023

Kang-ho re-learns the farm, the pigs, the countryside, his mother. The drama's comedy and tenderness are inseparable.

May 17, 2023

Extended farm sequences as summer arrives. The simple rhythms of agricultural life as a form of rehabilitation.

May 17, 2023

Investigation into the hit-and-run and who ordered it. The Seocho-gu prosecution world Kang-ho left is still dangerous.

May 31, 2023

Kang-ho and Young-soon working together toward the same end for the first time.

June 7, 2023

The Icheon farm in a different season. Everything has changed; the farm has not.

June 7, 2023

The finale. A surprisingly tender drama about regret, second chances, and the complicated love between a mother and son — driven by Ra Mi-ran's extraordinary performance.