7 of 76 episodes free · about 12 min
Private Tutoring in These Trying Times sits in the Family row on My Drama, and it earns that spot fast. A grandmother wakes from a nightmare about her late son to find her lost sight has come back. She keeps that secret and watches her own daughter-in-law scheme with the family tutor to cash in her life insurance. Our team clocked the opening minutes as some of the tensest we have sorted this month: a woman forced to fake blindness inside her own house, counting every step so nobody suspects the truth.
What keeps us watching is the slow unravel. She dodges poisoned meals, survives a car accident meant to look like fate, and pulls a family friend, a doctor, into a quiet counter-plot. Each short episode closes on a fresh gut-punch: a swapped plate, a whispered threat, a document that puts her son's death in a different light. The trail runs through a man in prison who confessed to a crime he didn't commit, a frightened wife hiding what she knows, and a boy the grandmother has raised as her own, whose real identity may be the reason someone wants her gone. Private Tutoring in These Trying Times never lets an episode end flat.
The leads carry every scene: a grandmother playing weak while she outthinks everyone around her, a daughter-in-law whose smile hides greed, and an ally working undercover inside the family. Anyone who wants a vertical drama that turns family loyalty into a weapon will find Private Tutoring in These Trying Times hard to look away from.
Patrick Walshe McBride plays the men behind the men in charge.
Meg Bush plays the woman you love to distrust.
Kirby Ellwood plays the loyal one.