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Pierce Conran

This article contains mild spoilers.
Lead cast: Jeon Jong-seo, Moon Sang-min, Kim Do-wan
Latest Nielsen rating: 3.4 per cent
Na A-jeong, the protagonist of Wedding Impossible played by Jeon Jong-seo (The Call), has longed to land a leading role her whole life. She has been a prolific jobbing actress but has never succeeded in being cast for more than a bit part.


That changes when her best friend Lee Do-han (Kim Do-wan, Doona!) approaches her with an unusual proposition. A-jeong is the only person who knows Do-han’s secret: he is gay. But what she did not know was that he was also secretly an heir to the LJ Group.
Do-han’s father wants him to marry Yoon Chae-won (Bae Yoon-kyung), another corporate heir, but to avoid this and to claw back a semblance of freedom, he asks A-jeong to join him in a fake marriage for three years.
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In this special role, A-jeong has to deceive the rest of Do-han’s family, which includes his protective younger brother Lee Ji-han (Moon Sang-min, Under the Queen’s Umbrella), as well as her own. While acting inherently involves some form of deception, the personal nature of the lies gradually begins to weigh on her.
The irony of this “leading role” is that it leads to even more difficult performances as the web of lies grows around her and her feelings begin to take an unexpected turn.
First, there is the fact that, early in the fake courtship, she is cast in a real leading role in a drama series. This happens thanks to Ji-han, who pulls some strings to get A-jeong away from his brother.

When A-jeong learns on set that she only got the part after someone else was fired, her pride takes over and she walks. However, she does not have the heart to reveal this disappointing turn of events to her family, to whom she had bragged about this career break.
Yet A-jeong’s most difficult performance is still to come. After spending an inordinate amount of time with Ji-han, who keeps trying to convince her not to marry Do-han, she develops feelings for him. But since she has made a promise to her friend, she has to bite down hard on them and pretend otherwise.
A-jeong can pull off just about any kind of performance on set. She can ride a horse, she can scuba dive for underwater scenes and she is trained in all kinds of action, but she finally encounters her limit in the climax of episode eight, when her inner feelings overwhelm her duties as an actress and compel her to kiss Ji-han.

Earlier in the show, A-jeong met a fortune-teller who told her that she will be the bee that sucks the honey from her husband. Could the honey mean the payment she is receiving for the fake marriage she is entering into, or might it be Ji-han, Do-han’s doting sibling?
Ji-han may not be an actor, but his circumstances force him to act as well. Since Ji-han, like Do-han, is an illegitimate child, he has to work twice as hard to prove himself more worthy than their odious half-siblings.
He knows how to put on the charm, because he has to, and he can suppress his true desires if it means helping him and his brother secure their future within their family.
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We saw these contrasting performers at the wedding at the beginning of the series, where A-jeong was hired to pose as the bride’s best friend, and Ji-han charms the groom’s family out of a land deed.
Just like A-jeong, Ji-han also has his limits as a performer. As he grows closer to A-jeong, he uses her lie about how she feels about Do-han against her, telling her that he likes her so much that it is painful and that he can no longer act any more.
Speaking of acting, one of the show’s most fun moments has been a whirlwind trip down to the Busan International Film Festival, partly shot on location during last year’s edition when Jeong was there promoting the premiere of her Netflix film Ballerina.

Now that A-jeong and Ji-han have finally been honest with one another, all that remains is for them to be honest with those around them. Given how much remains in the balance, that is likely to be a messy process which will provide ample fuel for the remaining third of the season.
The mirroring of the personalities of the show’s leads is deftly handled, but Wedding Impossible has not always been a satisfying viewing experience.
After being introduced as a major element early on, Do-han’s queerness has been relegated to the back burner, save for the disappointing emergence of a former lover as an antagonist.

Meanwhile, Chae-won has been such a weak romantic rival for Ji-han’s affection that her frequent appearances feel increasingly superfluous.
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While the struggles of Jeon Jong-seo and Moon Sang-min’s characters to put on a show are deftly handled in the Amazon Prime K-drama, everything else feels flat
Look out for one of the series’ most fun moments at the Busan International Film Festival, shot partly on location during last year’s edition of the event


So far Amazon Prime K-drama Wedding Impossible has handled the struggles of A-jeong (Jeon Jong-seo) and Ji-han (Moon Sang-min) deftly – but everything else feels less than satisfying.
