Kazoku Game Episode 1 Thoughts

[squallina]

Before I start, just wanted to thank everyone for their support and kind comments on certain posts and tweets of mine recently. I appreciate every kind word very much and hope not to disappoint. I know it'll take time and there are a lot of things about me that need to be fixed, but I hope to do my best over the next year or so

Comments

[murrponchan]

I want to reply with NO, IT'S NOT TRYING TO BE KASEIFU NO MITA, but I haven't seen Kaseifu, so I can't make that argument without sounding extremely... incompetant.

For what it's worth, not having seen either of those two dramas, it's an extremely promising first episode. It does play into all the tropes that you mentioned above, I'll agree (though the mother one, I think is wrong. I think it's more that she's so concerned with what the neighborhood moms think of her family that she's so busy projecting a perfect image that she's lost track of what's happening in her own household). But I don't think Sho is completely stealing the show. If I were to give it a balance, I'd say it was 60/40? But again, this is only the first episode. There is still more to come. I felt we were given an adequate dosage of the family and any/all issues that may be plaguing them.

But if your comparisons are accurate (and I'm not saying they aren't), I really hope FujiTV isn't trying to compete.

On the other hand, I think Sho's doing an excellent job here. His acting has improved. And this role is such an exciting one to see him play. I'm really looking forward to how this drama plays out.

[squallina]

I also want to say it's not trying to be Mita and I really hope it's not trying to be Mita, but it really is impossible for me not to compare. (Go check out Mita and Aishiteru! Great dramas! If you like Kazoku Game, you'll probably really like them too.) I think the reason why the family doesn't really stick out for me in this is because there's a very strong focus on the home tutor, whereas in the two series I'm comparing it with, the main protagonist and/or outsiders were fairly quiet and the families moved and did things over the top of them.

I think it was a pretty good first episode and I think people should give it a go even if it isn't as mind-blowing as the first episodes of Mita (robot-like housemaid arrives to serve a family whose mother has just drowned herself and nearly drowns the youngest daughter because she says she wants to be with her mother) and Aishiteru (elementary schooler is arrested by police for the bloody murder of an even younger boy). I'm enjoying Sho's acting in this and I'm definitely looking forward to episode two.

I've rewritten the phrasing on the mother trope too, thanks to your prompting. Hope it sounds a little better now.