Marry My Husband Review (Eps 1-2): A Swifter Experience

Marry My Husband Review: In this Prime Video adaptation of the much-loved 2024 Korean drama series, Kobe Misa, a loving and innocent woman who always puts others before herself, finds herself utterly betrayed when she finds her husband and her best friend engaged in an affair. Despondent, she vows revenge but suddenly finds herself transported 10 years ago. With the thirst for revenge burning bright, she plans to destroy her ex-husband and former best friend’s lives, but a chance meeting with Suzuki Wataru, a man who had no connection to her former life, changes everything.

Both the Korean and Japanese shows are adapted from the web novel Marry My Husband (내 남편과 결혼해줘) by Seong So Jak (성소작). The series has 10 episodes, and will stream from Jun 27, 2025 – Jul 25, 2025.

Marry My Husband Recap

Episode 1

The episode opens with a rundown of Misa and Reina’s friendship, which started when they were very young. They have been by each other’s side through thick and thin and share a lovely bond. We also see her getting together with Tomoya and then falling sick in the present. However, there’s hope over the horizon – she’s going out for an overnight stay that day and seems excited.

After getting a surprising call that her life insurance nominee has been changed without her consent, she anxiously goes home in a very suspicious taxi and finds Reina and Tomoya in bed together, talking about using her life insurance money to buy a new house together. Tomoya eventually ends up pushing her off the balcony after she tries to tell the insurance company about the scam, and she finds herself reminiscing about her life, and seeing it in a new light, as she dies.

However, just as she dies, she wakes up at her job as if nothing had happened and is left completely confused. She soon realises that she has gone back 10 years and is reliving her life, and decides to right all the wrongs that she has done. During this confusion, she also runs into Suzuki Wataru, and is immediately taken by his icy personality. However, Misa finally sees through Tomoya and Reina’s falsehoods and attempts at sabotaging her and starts to make time for everything that truly matters in her life.

She also starts noting down all the important things that have happened to her over the years so that she’s prepared to face them and take her revenge. Meanwhile, during her catastrophes, she finds that while some things that had happened continue to do so, some other things do because someone else intervenes. I mean, it also helps that Wataru gives her a piece of his mind very bluntly about how her naivety will ruin her life.

Armed with the knowledge of how royally her boyfriend and best friend are about to screw her over, Misa decides on serving her revenge cold and gets engaged to Tomoya.

Episode 2

The episode starts off by showing Wataru and Misa sharing a connection from their younger days. We see how they have bumped into each other unknowingly over the years, although he is the only one who ever noticed her. The person who was seen in her previous life as just another boss in her company now holds, or is about to hold, a significant space in her life.

Either way, with annoyance brewing in her heart, Misa grits her teeth through her best friend and fiancé’s antics, knowing that it’s all for show. She saves her colleague from Reina’s nastiness, leaving Tomoya in a messy situation and standing up for herself and finds out that Wataru has been seriously considering her tapioca proposal and then invites her to a cafe opening.

The more Misa digs into her past with Reina, she realises that her “best friend” has been destroying all of her relationships and has been covertly bullying her for years. Determined not to let her bully her any longer, she gets rid of everything Reina gave her and goes to the cafe with Wataru. After having a delicious meal, they go out shopping and have a wonderful time together.

Later, with Wataru’s encouragement, she decides to go to the class reunion and expose the truth about Reina, and it almost goes downhill until Yuto arrives to corroborate her story. It’s an emotional scene, and Misa is heartbroken at her doubts becoming real, but it is also cathartic in a way. On her way back home, she comes across Wataru once again, who drops her home. The next day, to exact revenge, Reina tries her luck at getting Wataru’s attention after dumping her cheating fiancé, while Misa walks to the office with an air of confidence.

Marry My Husband Review

I really enjoyed the first two episodes of the series. Although there are some slight differences between the Korean and Japanese adaptations, the 2025 release finds its footing in its own way, with great performances from Fuka Koshiba, Sei Shiraishi and You Yokoyama, who is surprisingly easy to hate. Koshiba, especially, feels naturally pitiable but not the goofy kind. I think that’s the only problem I had with Park Min-young’s character in the Korean adaptation – she seemed a bit too silly sometimes to be believable. Although, to be fair, she carries that series in general.

Other than that, the situations the twists are very easy to watch, and this might just be another great addition. My biggest problem, however, is that Takeru Satoh feels absolutely bland. It’s not the actor’s problem. I feel like Na In-woo had a similar problem as well. It’s the webtoon and direction issue, and he just feels like… nothing. Invokes no feelings. I also feel like the antagonists are too cartoonish. Like, you can be a very bad person, but come on. Some subtlety is what makes bad things feel a whole lot worse.

One great thing, though, is that the Japanese adaptation is much shorter than its Korean counterpart, and things happen more swiftly, so you will have a crisper experience. Either way, I am looking forward to what the series does after this. We hopefully go in a good direction.

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