A Model Family is a well-written, absorbing and deliciously crooked crime suspenser. With a title like “ A Model Family ”, the irony also’s that the characters that make up this family are anything but a tight unit.
Netflix’s bottommost K- drama is a 10 occasion exploration of dedication and the lengths one will go to cover their family. But also it’s also about the perception VS reality of one’s family; how the face can sometimes show a truly different story to what’s really going on under the hood. This motif of family is not only in the conventional sense of blood relatives still, it also extends out to family ties for the drug ring gangsters too.
With each occasion clocking in at around 40 beats or so, A Model Family is sharply paced, with the chapters blending into one another nicely. Each features a lovely hook at the end to keep you watching, and a welcome flashback at the launch to meat out character dynamics, history or commodity that happened out- screen to justify a shocking twist.
This is an intelligent way of bleeding exposition, and late on we ’re also graced with some black and white shots of earlier events in the show to give farther terrain and gravitas to what’s end.
The story itself centres on Park Dong Ha, a hardworking but 
poverty- stricken joe. He does his swish for his family and attempts to get a creation by buying one of the professors he’s working with. Unfortunately, the capitalist he uses is supposed to be for his son’s heart surgery, and it backfires spectacularly.
hopeless for capitalist, Dong Ha strikes luck on the way home from work, noticing two bags of capitalist in the reverse of a bus. The two men outdoors are dead. After taking the capitalist and burying the bodies in his own rear theater, Dong Ha unwittingly tumbles head-first into the raggedy underbelly of crime, and in particular the Yongsoo and Sangseon Drug Rings.
The first 3 or 4 circumstances play out like a game of cat and mouse, as Dong Ha attempts to keep his vagrancy- whams in the wake of these gangsters and police officers smelling around his neighbourhood looking for answers.
Around the interior point, the dynamic of the show shifts slightly to slip farther light on the Sangseon and Yongsoo Drug Rings and those involved in pedaling the gear around. This is where that forenamed idiosyncrasy about family comes in. These blood sisters – Kwang- Chul, Kang- Jun and Yoon- Soo – are the ringleaders of the operation but a rift starts to grow between them thanks to Dong Ha.
A Model Family changes its meaning late on to commodity much more thematic, examining the lengths one will go for justice and dedication. Indeed Joo- Hyun, the officer probing the Drug Ring, is given a compelling arc and ultimate of these characters have a solid and satisfying conclusion to them. still, do be alive that the final scenes of the season are enough nebulous, meaning we may or may not be getting a alternate season.
Aesthetically, the show has slick editing and a decent soundtrack, one that uses a lot of guitar tracks to try and echo the sense of an old western. It’s commodity that works suddenly well and there are easily parallels to series like Ozark and Breaking Bad in the way the plot and characters evolve.
While it would be easy to point at A Model Family and call it a Korean echo, there’s enough also to let this bone.
The story is much further of a exploration of what it means to be family, wrapped around a pressure cooker situation that’ll keep you gripped to find out what happens coming. It’s not perfect, and there are a couple of miscalculations along the way, but the good pacing and compelling recreation – not to mention a slick aesthetic- are enough to recommend this sick suspenser.
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