The story, without the spoilers.
Young-soon is a single mother who raised her son Kang-ho with strict, even harsh discipline, believing that toughness was the only way to protect him from poverty. Kang-ho grows up to become a cold and successful prosecutor, distant from the mother who made him. Then a terrible accident leaves him with the mind of a seven-year-old child, and Young-soon must care for the son she barely knows, in the village she left behind. The Good Bad Mother is funny, heartbreaking and deeply humane. Ra Mi-ran gives a career-best performance as a mother learning to be soft, and Lee Do-hyun is remarkable playing a grown man with a child's mind without ever turning it into a joke. The village setting, the pig farm and the small daily moments of care give the drama its warmth, while a darker revenge plot runs underneath. Some tonal shifts are abrupt, but the mother-son story is so moving that it carries everything with it.
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