Madame Antoine

Madame Antoine

Promotional poster
Genre Romance, Comedy
Written by Hong Jin-ah
Directed by Kim Yun-cheol
Starring Sung Joon
Han Ye-seul
Jeong Jinwoon
Lee Joo-hyung
Hwang Seung-eon
Jang Mi-hee
Country of origin South Korea
Original language(s) Korean
No. of episodes 16 episodes
Production company(s) GnG Productions
Release
Original network JTBC
Original release January 22 – March 12, 2016
External links
Website

Madame Antoine (Hangul: 마담 앙트완; RR: Madam Angteuwan) is a South Korean television series starring Sung Joon, Han Ye-seul, and Jeong Jinwoon.[1] The drama was originally scheduled to be aired on JTBC on November 27, 2015 but was delayed and premiered on January 22, 2016.[2]

Plot

Go Hye-rim (Han Ye-seul) is a fortune teller and cafe owner who goes by the name Madame Antoine. She claims her fortune telling abilities are based on a spiritual connection to the famous French Queen Marie Antoinette. Although by her own admission she lacks any true psychic connection to the queen, she is a skilled cold reader with a knack for following hunches and picking up on details.

Choi Soo-hyeon (Sung Joon) is a psychotherapist specializing in women's psychology and known as the 'Soul Doctor' amongst Hollywood stars. Although his Stanford professorship and good looks make him a highly eligible bachelor, his past research and life experiences have left him skeptical that true love actually exists. Choi Soo-hyun moves into the space above Go Hye-rim's office and starts a psychology practice where he designs an experiment intending to prove his hypothesis about the nature of true love. His decision to name his practice Madame Antoine leads to a scuffle with Go Hye-rim, whom he then tricks into taking part in his experiment.

Cast

Choi Soo-hyun is a man in his 30s and a psychology professor from Stanford University. He has a cold personality and doesn't believe in love. He opens a psychology center on the 2nd floor above Go Hye-rim's cafe. He decides to secretly use her in his experiment (also called Madame Antoine) on how women truly feel about love. Although, the experiment is about a women falling in love with one of the 3 suitors (including Soo-Hyun) he eagerly wants Hye-rim to fall in love with him in revenge for her being rude towards him. He plays the rich man in his 30s for the experiment.

Hye-rim is a con-artist and fortune-teller in her early 30s. She runs a cafe called "Madame Antoine", where she makes people believe that she has special connections with the ghost of Marie Antoinette. She cons people so that she can pay for daughter's tuition. She despises Soo-hyun for opening a psychological center above her cafe, coincidentally named "Madame Antoine". She believes people will misunderstand between her cafe & fortune telling place and Soo-hyun psychology center. Even though her job is just deceiving people, she has a good talent on observing things.

Seung-chan is a former rookie rising baseball star and the younger half-brother of Choi Soo-hyun. After he quits being baseball, he decides to move in with his older brother after hearing Soo-hyun came back from America. Initially, his brother rejects him from staying with him, but then agrees to let him in if Seungchan takes part in his experiment "Madame Antoine" while competing with Soo-hyun and Ji-ho in return. He play the role of a man with an athlete vibe in his 20s for the experiment.

Won Ji-ho is a genius that has an IQ of 210. Because of his lack in communication and understanding to people, he decides to go to psychology field and become Soo-hyun's student. He is a very innocent guy also behaves stiff and child-like. He was ordered by Soo-hyun to become a part of the experiment "Madame Antoine" where he competes with Soo-hyun and Seung-chan for Hye-rim's heart. He ends up liking Go Yoo-rim. He plays the role of the flower-boy in his 20s for the experiment.

Go Yoo-rim is Hye-rim's little sister who works as a camera lady and also helps at her sister's cafe. At first, she helps Ji-ho into getting her older sister fall in with him but ends up falling for him herself. Thus, she becomes jealous of Hye-rim. She takes advantage of Ji-ho's innocence and child-like behavior, by "teaching him how to ..."

She is psychologist in her old age. After her plan of retiring from jobs, she decided to work on 'Madame Antoine' center after she met Seung-chan when she pay a visit to the center as Soo-hyun supervisor. A feeling of being youth comeback again after she met Seung-chan and cheering her up.

He is a successful CEO of a big cosmetics company, he is also the owner of the building Hye-rim and Soo-hyun work in. Hye-rim thought President Kim is just an average old landlord but find out that he's a rich man. He seems amused by Hye-rim talent at observing on things and her job as a fortune teller. He is very nice to Hye-rim and helps her whenever she needs him.

Cameo Appearances

She is a famous singer that gifted with beauty. But she actually is a singer with a mental issue that craving peoples attention, she get jealous of Hye-rim because she get to enjoy herself with 3 good looking guys in 'Madame Antoine' center. Her character is kind of stingy and childish but actually she is not a bad person at all.

She is the South Korea representative as a gymnastic athlete. She almost lost her ability to see after she received many hates from the anti-fans.

He divorced to Hye-rim because he doesn't feel happy with her anymore and already found a new woman. Now, he live with his new wife also with his and Hye-rim's daughter in America.

Ratings

In the table below, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings.

Episode Original broadcast date Average audience share
AGB Nielsen[4] TNmS Ratings[5]
1 22 January 2016 0.880% 0.6%
2 23 January 2016 0.886% 0.6%
3 29 January 2016 1.053% 0.6%
4 30 January 2016 0.730% 0.6%
5 5 February 2016 1.058% 0.6%
6 6 February 2016 0.657% 0.5%
7 12 February 2016 0.991% 0.7%
8 13 February 2016 0.548% 0.5%
9 19 February 2016 0.60% 0.6%
10 20 February 2016 0.516% 0.5%
11 26 February 2016 0.614% 0.7%
12 27 February 2016 0.663% 0.3%
13 4 March 2016 0.743% 0.6%
14 5 March 2016 0.475% 0.3%
15 11 March 2016 0.483% 0.5%
16 12 March 2016 0.503% 0.5%
Average 0.713% 0.5%

Note: This drama airs on a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC & EBS).

Awards and nominations

Year Award Category Recipient Result
2016 9th Korea Drama Awards Excellence Award, Actress Han Ye-seul Nominated

References

  1. ↑ "Han Ye-seul and Seong Joon to star in JTBC "Madame Antoine"". Hancinema. Sportshankooki. Retrieved January 29, 2016.
  2. ↑ "[단독] JTBC, 정우성-한지민 주연 '빠담빠담' 리마인드 편성". TV리포트 (in Korean). Retrieved 2016-01-31.
  3. ↑ "2AM's Jeong Jin-woon nabs new drama role". Korea JoongAng Daily. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
  4. ↑ "AGB Daily Ratings: this links to current day-select the date from drop down menu". AGB Nielsen Media Research (in Korean). Retrieved 22 January 2016.
  5. ↑ "TNmS Daily Ratings: this links to current day-select the date from drop down menu". TNmS Ratings (in Korean). Retrieved 22 January 2016.
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