SBS TV series ¡°I¡¯m Okay! Daddy¡± (tentative title): Monday to Friday 8:50 p.m.

A scene from SBS drama "I'm Okay! Daddy" (tentative title) [SBS]

Chae-ryeong (Moon Chae-won) a delinquent college student studying abroad begs her father Gi-hwan (Park In-hwan) to buy her a new bag and a cell phone as soon as she returns home on vacation. Gi-hwan¡¯s wife Sook-hee (Kim Hye-ok) disregards her husband and focuses only on having her eldest daughter Ae-ryeong (Lee Hee-jin) marry someone rich. Their son Ho-ryeong (Gang-won) has a girlfriend whose parents are obsessed with getting as much financial assistance from Gi-hwan¡¯s family as they can. And as if that is not enough, at his workplace, Gi-hwan even tends to the mess made by the younger sibling of Gi-hwan¡¯s subordinate who threatens to leak his company's designs. Indeed, in its first episode the drama went to great lengths to show what a devoted and self-sacrificial father Gi-hwan is and how much others count on him. This will serve as the basis to showing how the characters change in the future once Gi-hwan becomes helpless and is the formula to addictive family dramas.

But a typical and easy-to-relate-to story line does not necessarily guarantee it sympathy and understanding from its viewers. Chae-ryeong, the heroine that Moon will play, seems to be a mix of the two main characters from 2009 SBS drama ¡°Brilliant Legacy¡±: the bright, innocent girl Goh Eun-seong (Han Hyo-joo) and the arrogant rich boy Sun-woo Hwan (Lee Seung-ki). Other characters in the drama were portrayed as overly materialistic or brazen, as if to increase the burden for Gi-hwan. Jong-seok¡¯s (Jun Tae-su) weird obsession over Chae-ryeong which then led to an almost-abduction of her did not make much sense except that it was aimed at getting Gi-hwan get involved in the messy situation. Overall, the start to "I'm Okay! Daddy" leaves a lot to be desired for compared to its predecessors ¡°Coffee House¡± which had a unique story line and ¡°Dr. Champ¡± that developed its story convincingly. But then again, the real story is yet to begin as this drama is really about how ¡°daddy¡¯s little girl¡± Chae-ryeong matures along with her friends and they have yet to show on screen so we will just have to be a little more patient.