The Good Bad Mother (나쁜엄마) is a Korean comedy-drama slice-of-life TV series directed by Shim Na-yeon, written by Bae Se-young and stars Ra Mi-ran, Lee Do-hyun, Ahn Eun-jin and Yoo In-soo in main roles. The series is all set to release on JTBC and Netflix (in select regions) and will take over JTBC’s Wed-Thurs 10:30 PM timeslot previously occupied by Interest of Love.
The Good Bad Mother episode 5 has a runtime of 64 minutes.
The slice-of-life series follows Young-soon and her son Kang-ho who share a tumultuous relationship with each other thanks to her strict parenting when he was a child. Now an adult, Kang-ho is a cold-hearted prosecutor who chooses to keep his distance from her mother and lives in the city. However, when a tragedy strikes, Kang-ho is forced to return home to the village, wherein he finds a new lease on life and rebuilds his relationship with his mother as well as with his childhood friend Mi-joo.
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The Good Bad Mother Episode 5 Recap
The Good Bad Mother episode 5 begins with Mi-joo’s return who is surprised to see Kang-ho standing outside her gate. She shuts the door in shock while Young-soon takes her son back before Mi-joo can open it again. She later reminisces about the time spent with Kang-ho and how brutally he broke up with her.
Later, Mi-joo’s mother updates her on what has happened while she was gone and about the friendship between her kids and Kang-ho. She warns them to stay away from Kang-ho while Gum-ja finds out that Mi-joo has returned to stay and what went wrong with her life in America.
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Elsewhere, Kang-ho feels an unexplained feeling of pain in his chest after having met Mi-joo and wishes to meet her again. The next day, Kang-ho watches Mi-joo from afar and seeing her happily smiling at the chief’s wife’s dog he wishes to get a dog himself.
Soon, the wind and rain come in full force and get the stench from the pigsty around Baek’s clothes after which he lashes out at Young-soon and decides to sue her. On the other hand, Mi-joo tells her children about their father not coming which pleases them and surprises their mother. She then sees a closed nail salon and wishes to open one herself.
Later, Young-soon takes Kang-ho to the doctor and the latter decides to put forth his wish for a dog on the way there, but rejection comes soon and he is dejected. Young-soon too gets herself checked before which she sees Tae-soo on the television in the waiting room.
On the other hand, Ha-young is getting drunk at the club while remembering her conversation with her father when he revealed Kang-ho’s true intentions for approaching her. The shock of that news still pains her, but now she drowns in the misery of helping her father by ruining Kang-ho.
The next day, Kang-ho continues to persuade Young-soon but when rejected again he goes to get Yellow so that he can approach Mi-joo. Unfortunately, Yellow runs away as soon as he is released and Andrea sees this and runs behind him after handing Kang-ho the piglet he was carrying.
Kang-ho settles for the piglet and goes towards Mi-joo’s house only to see the twins playing outside who approach him when he arrives. Seeing the piglet in his arms, they get curious and Ye-jin tries to carry it only to have the piglet, whom Kang-ho has named Lion, run.
The three soon begin a chase and run around the village to capture Lion and end up on the road. Trot Baek who is on his way back after trying to sue Young-soon is complaining on the phone about the exchange with her. Suddenly, he is startled by the ruckus caused by the three and ends up in a ditch.
The three continue chasing Lion and see Mi-joo standing outside the house, but while they signal her to capture the piglet, she is stunned by the sight of the three together. However, she comes back to her senses and soon catches the piglet and their chase ends.
On the other hand, Young-soon is angered by Kang-ho and arrives at the scene after looking around the village. Kang-ho soon runs away while she is happy to see that Mi-joo is back.
Later, she returns to disinfect the piglet while complaining to Kang-ho when Baek arrives and begins complaining about her pig farm which is causing him distress. Suddenly, he grabs her collar and continues to express his anger when Kang-ho sees this and hurries to push him away.
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The three soon end up at the police station where Baek once again goes about complaining and recalls the incident of Kang-ho and the piglet causing a ruckus earlier that day. Kang-ho gives his statement about that incident and reveals that he did not wear his seatbelt and was talking on the phone while driving.
This is a traffic violation and begins to recall the law in front of everyone. The scene shifts to Sam-shik who is working as a waiter when he spots the man who was the reason why he was sent to prison.
The Good Bad Mother Episode 5 Ending
Tae-soo’s campaigning continues while he warns Ha-young to not get in his way only to be reminded that Kang-ho poses a bigger trouble for him because there is no saying that his memory won’t return. Tae-soo thinks about this and soon sends someone to take care of Kang-ho’s matter.
Meanwhile, Young-soon asks Kang-ho about what happened at the station earlier but is disappointed when faced with her son’s naivety. They soon reach home and she sends him in first before going to the chief’s house for medication.
Kang-ho is alone at home when the man sent by Tae-soo arrives, but before he can attack the former Mr Cha and Ji-suk jump out to the cupboard and save him.
The Good Bad Mother Episode 5 Review
The playfulness between the mother-son duo continues, however, a new emotion enters Kang-ho with Mi-joo’s return and while his naive happy self wants more, it is nothing more than pain for Mi-joo. On the other hand, this is the beginning of something new and let us hope that things slowly fix themselves in the right place.
The episode has also brought us to a clearing where the plot is soon to bloom and while we witness this emotional sight, all we can hope is for it to bloom bright.
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The Good Bad Mother is streaming on Netflix.
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