If you are scrolling through Netflix looking for your next K-drama fix, you might skip over Mad for Each Other . The title sounds generic, and the thumbnail looks like a standard bickering rom-com.
Oh Yeon-seo delivers a career-best performance. Min-kyung could have been annoying—a screaming woman who overreacts to everything—but Yeon-seo injects her with so much vulnerability. You see the trauma behind the tantrum. Mad for Each Other -2021- - Korean with English...
Released in 2021, this 13-episode gem (originally on KakaoTV, now streaming on Netflix) is one of the most tightly written, emotionally intelligent, and surprisingly raw dramas about mental health I have ever seen. It is funny, it is violent (in a slapstick way), and it will make you cry when you least expect it. If you are scrolling through Netflix looking for
The first four episodes are a chaotic symphony of screaming, therapy bills, and petty revenge. But beneath the yelling is a profound loneliness. Most K-dramas use "crazy" as a quirk. Mad for Each Other uses it as a wound. Min-kyung could have been annoying—a screaming woman who
Both leads are seeing psychiatrists. Both are on medication. And the show never mocks them for it. The comedy comes from the situations their illnesses create (e.g., Min-kyung hiding in a bathroom because a man looked at her), not from the illness itself.