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Hi everybody!  Welcome to Sunday Drama.  This week is I’m Mita, Your Housekeeper episodes 3 and 4.  Here is the post about the first two episodes if you need a refresher.  What an emotional roller coaster!  Well, the cat’s out of the bag about the circumstances of the mother’s death.  Let’s dive in and find out what happens next.

Episode Three

If there is ever a time to flip a table, it is during this episode.  I’m going to skip around the episode a bit so that it makes sense.  Stupid Dad is the most infuriating character I have ever seen.  For you Game of Thrones fans, he is on Joffrey status.  So, you know the hatred is strong.  He makes a string of terrible decisions.  When oldest daughter Yui asks was he going to leave them along with the mother, do you know what the a-hole says?  He says he was going to leave enough money for alimony and child support!  Then he asks her to keep this a secret from the other kids, still trying to cover his butt.  Once the kids leave, he tells Mita that he did not want to be married and have a family in the first place.  Now, it would have been fine if he says this to Mita and Mita alone.  But then he says something in episode four that makes this more despicable.  So his kids are suffering and his family is falling apart, but he is still trying to hook-up with Kazama, the mistress.  I hate this dude.

Yui is heartbroken at the recent discovery.  She begins to act out because her father’s a jerk, Mita is not one for advice, and her aunt’s an airhead.  In school, she slaps one of her classmates and disturbs the class (it was kind of justified because he was talking trash).  Yui is curious about Kazama the mistress.  She goes to work to confront her, but her father intervenes.  She finally confides in her boyfriend.  Yui winds up staying at her boo’s house and giving him the goods.  Not a constructive way to deal with issues Yui.  The next day, she asks Mita to go to Stupid Dad’s job and expose him as a cheater, liar, and responsible for the mom’s death.  Of course, Mita does the job by handing out fliers.

While all of this is happening, the younger kids are curious about Mita.  They go to the agency to try to get some information but to no avail.  When Mita comes to the agency, the kids hide and decide to follow her.  She goes to an amusement park, buys a tray of food for two, and sits there the entire day.  When the kids arrive home, they finally learn about the circumstances of their mother’s death.  It is a very emotional moment that left me a mess.  The kids decide to leave, even though little Kii wants to stay.

Episode Four

The kids stay with their grandfather, and their mother’s sister Urara.  Meanwhile, Stupid Dad is lying around feeling sorry for himself instead of trying to get his kids.  I think he is more upset about the job transfer and his boo breaking up with him instead of his kids hating his guts.  Anyway, he tells Urara about the suicide and apologizes.  She says he does not have to apologize and vows not to tell her father, who already hates Stupid Dad.  He blames Mita for all of the trouble, not himself for deceiving his children.  He fires Mita who is unbothered by the situation.

It is absolutely heartbreaking to watch little Kii deal with her family’s split.  Kii hires Mita to help her get the family back together.  Kii concocts a plan in her little Kindergarten mind to reunite her family.  She tells Mita to kidnap her and the only way the family can recover her is to reunite and go home.  Everyone starts looking for little Kii.  The kids and Stupid Dad find her at home on the second-floor balcony.  She says that if they do not reconcile, she is going to jump.  She slips off the balcony, but Mita catches her.  The dad slaps Kii and says she had them worried.  Mita gives her a tin that contains rocks the represents each of the family members.  The one that represents Stupid Dad is missing (symbolism much?).

Here is where I get deep in my feelings.  While they are looking for the rock, Kii asks Stupid Dad if he loves her. Do you know what he says?  He says he doesn’t know.  HE DOESN’T KNOW!!!!!  If I could’ve crawled through the screen and kicked him in the junk I would have!  This is the last straw for Yui.  She says that he should leave and she will take care of her younger siblings.  He agrees to do so, still not fighting for his family.  He asks Mita to take care of his children and she says she will.

Well, I am emotionally drained.  What will happen with the children?  What will they ask of Mita?  I guess we will find out next week.  I will see you on Tuesday for MC Tuesday and Iron Man 3.

Hi Everybody! Welcome to Sunday Drama where we click on that drama tab on Crunchyroll and watch a show.  From now until the second week of March, we are watching I’m Mita, Your Housekeeper.  I try to keep the shows to once a month, but each episode is about 45 minutes long.  So, I will be doing two episodes every Sunday.  So far, this 2011 show does not skimp on the drama.  These first two episodes are an emotional roller coaster.  Well, let me begin by introducing you to our family and their housekeeper.  Spoilers!!!

Episode One

Before we dive into what happens in this emotionally charged episode, I will acquaint you with the family.  There is the father who no one seems to respect.  Yui is the oldest daughter.  She carries the burden of being the lady of the house (I’ll tell you why in a bit).  The second eldest is her brother Kakeru.  He is your typical hormonal, angst-ridden teenager.  The next child is Kaito.  He is the intellectual.  Finally, there is little Kii, the youngest daughter.  The mother died from drowning in a nearby river.

We meet Mita in the first scene of the show.  We see her creepily walking up the street like some sort of robot.  The first word that comes to mind when we meet Mita is “sociopath”.  She does not smile, she does not cry, she does not emote whatsoever.  She is either a zombie or survived some sort of trauma that has left her completely numb.  At any rate, when she arrives at the home, it is in shambles.  Banana peels are on top of things, shoes are everywhere, the plants are dying, and they are out of toilet paper.  By the time the father and kids return home, the house is pristine.  Mita cooks a delicious meal, something the children have not had since their mother’s death.  The most important quality about Mita is that she will do whatever is asked of her, even killing someone.

Speaking of the mother’s death, it has really taken a toll on this family.  It appears that no one has properly grieved.  It has been 49 days since the mother’s death and the family is not coping well, especially little Kii.  However, Mita helps them with their catharsis.  At the behest of the older sister Yui, Mita begins burning the mothers things.  This leads to all sorts of emotions flowing out of the children.  I shed a few tears myself.  By the end, they all feel better.  But, the father is still hiding something.

At the end of the episode, Stupid Dad admits to Mita that the drowning was not an accident, but a suicide.  He says it is his fault but asks Mita not to tell the kids.  We find out why in episode two.

Episode Two

Most of episode two is primarily about the youngest son Kaito.  Kaito has a bully.  He asks Mita to beat up the kid.  She shows up at a store where the bully, his cronies, and Kaito (by force) are about to shoplift.  She starts punching the bully in the face.  This only makes things worse for Kaito in school.  Then, if things weren’t bad enough, his mom’s bumbling sister Urara shows up to talk the kids about bullying.  No wonder no one likes her.  After this humiliating scene, Kaito decides not to return to school, but go to tutoring instead.  But the bully follows him.  Kaito then asks Mita to kill the bully.  Of course, she agrees to the task.  But, he stops her, stands up to the bully, and takes a beating.  Mita commends him for confronting the little a-hole.

Now, back to Stupid Dad.  The reason why he says that the suicide is his fault is that he was carrying on an affair with one of his co-workers.  He had given his wife some divorce papers.  She gives him a note saying that if he leaves her, she will kill herself.  That is why she committed suicide.  Now, I do not think he is stupid because he had an affair that is the motive behind his wife’s suicide.  I call him stupid because he did not divulge the fact that his wife committed suicide to the children.  He tells them that it is an accident.  This only leads to more questions, especially from Yui.  She wants to know why her mother went to the river in the first place since her mother cannot swim.  At the end of the episode, she gets her answer.

Stupid Dad asks Mita to burn the note and divorce papers.  Before Mita completes the task, Yui bursts through the door and tells her to stop.  She looks at her father and demands the truth.  If Stupid Dad would have told the kids that she killed herself, then this scene may have been avoided.  The youngest child Kii was blaming herself in the first episode!

Well, that’s it for the first two episodes.  This show appears to explore some dark and emotional places.  Will we learn more about Mita?  What will happen now that the truth is out about the mother’s death?  I guess we will find out next week!  If you are watching the Super Bowl tomorrow, have fun.  Who are you cheering for?  I’m going for the Eagles because Tom Brady is a cyborg I’m sure of it.  I will see you next Tuesday for The Avengers.