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Pretty sure by mid next week after episodes 9 and 10 in the weekend, all those similar abusive, offensive, without any qualifications kind of criticisms will come out again. I noticed usually right after the new episodes were aired, many posts, usually positive, will be asking questions what will happen next and then fans will be making guesses and predictions, which are all normal behaviours. Then came all the negative criticisms in strong languages.

Only the first few paragraphs. Too long.

THE HUSBAND] A UNIQUE PORTRAYAL OF ROMANCE WITHIN A THRILLER

ANALYSIS - PART 8

At its core, *The Husband* is not a conventional romance. Built upon a foundation of crime, thriller, and mystery genres, the romantic element is neither heightened to extremes nor featured as heavily as it would be in a typical love story. In fact, as Director Min has noted, certain romantic scenes were intentionally omitted to ensure the narrative remained true to the spirit of a thriller.

Consequently, there are hardly any scenes of embracing, kissing, or passionate declarations of love between Tae Joo and Se Yoon.

The love in this film does not manifest in grand gestures; instead, it is tucked away within flashbacks interwoven with the present—revealed through brief lines of dialogue, a glance, a subtle action, or even the protagonist's seemingly cold decisions.

In other words, the film does not rely on a multitude of visual cues to display their love; rather, it invites the audience to sense it for themselves through the way Tae Joo and Se Yoon act, make choices, and treat one another.

This is the conversation between Tae Ju and his brother regarding the marriage in episode 8:
'Tae-ju wanted to leave Se-yun despite his family advising him not to. But he clearly explained to them that he wants to leave her not for his happiness, but to let her have a new one, as she deserves it. However, given the new mysteries are unlocked, Tae-ju decides something else.
He decides to stay beside Se-yun and not let her go, as he wishes to expose the conspiracies.'
Tae Ju already fighting his father in law at the beginning of the drama and Se yun faced isolation from her family. Typical kdrama fashion Tae Ju thought leaving her would give her happiness. Changed mind now so happy ending on the card?

Read the facebook link from Moonlightt777 below (you will need google translation) and read the first few paragraphs you can tell if the drama suit you. No drama is designed to suit all tastes.
The haters made sure they flooded the forums, as usual nowadays for kdramas especially with more complex mixed genres. Basically everything is bad so nothing new. One possible spoiler example is the cops are so bad here no one ever mentioned that in the latest episode, after very detailed crime scene search, they finally recovered a most important evident that likely exposed the truths behind the crimes?
Lets step back and ask, would anyone or normal dramas viewers stopped watching if the dramas found not interested, and won't participate forums accordingly? Who would keep watching a bad drama just for the sake of posting criticism in forums?

Thanks for sharing indeed. Seems many here came to watch the drama from wrong angles, ignoring the underlining meanings of the names of the drama (seems they coming here just to watch a cops thriller). It is a romance thriller with a matured subtle kind of romance, not the usual romcom type (well romcoms have the breakup in the middle or later while this drama has the breakup in the beginning). Every scene, every conversation, every facial expression in this drama counts. If it lands the ending it could be the best kdrama for me since Hospital Playlist as it is unique.
By the way it is rare already with all the online recap review articles came out almost immediately after the weekend episodes were released. And they all positive and excited about it so far.

What do you understand is the underlying brokenness of the marriage? Have you watched ep 8 yet where Tae Ju has a conversation with his brother about the marriage? But should drop it if not suiting your taste and not to waste time. To save your time and if decide not continue watching you can take a look at ep 8 recap below
https://leisurebyte.com/the-husband-episode-8-review/

KBS 2TV’s “The Husband” also hit its own all-time high ahead of the final two weeks of its run, climbing to an average nationwide rating of 7.3 percent for the night.

Just refer to above alternative names of the drama: Marriage's Perfection, and Completion of Marriage. By ep 8 it is clear the cause of the drama/marriage breakdown is criminal acts in hospital, ml's father in law (battle between ml and father in law started before the beginning of the drama). No drama is designed for everyone's cup of tea of course.

I tried very very hard in defending the fl in one other drama this year, I was basically surrounded by haters who all hated her to have a happy ending. Just ridiculous and missing the whole point of the drama.
I am expecting the same here.

Agent Kim is trained to do what he is doing in the drama. Tae Ju is only a doctor trained to save people not to hurt nor kill, much more difficult task for him.

This drama also has heart with the visit of Tae Ju to his mother and brother's place. Also the key of that visit is the signal of the turning point of the marriage/divorce during the conversation between Tae Ju and his brother, unless I misunderstood Tae Ju's meaning.

I am finding the fl more and more attractive with her super strong character, both physically and mentally.

That's about it don't expect too much it is not a romcom. Actually any 'romance' scene is turned into comedy mainly for fun. Ending would be interesting though.

FL haters quite common nowadays in forums on kdramas or jdramas. But very few in MDL are Koreans, I believe (I can tell from the time zones the messages were posted). Lots of different cultures here.

Tell me who took the money?

https://kwavesandbeyond.com/the-husband-episode-7-8-review/

That's why I don't find this drama boring whatsoever.

Ratings updated:
https://share.google/aimode/wHKXXuulA8KB0D6dD
Episode 8 kept on delivering. Another week to wait!
Might be not in some cultures, but in kdrama world, other than tragedies, 'mutual love' (and understanding) usually determines whether a couple will end up together or not at the end, not absolute right or wrong, not whether the couple have perfect characters (seldom). And toxic family barrier common in kdramas, nothing unusual. If not into kdrama with romance genre this might not be your cup of tea.
In ep 8 there are at least 2 events which are probably the beginning of bringing the drama to a positive ending.
Good review of ep 7, 8 above.

If you are really interested, ask Google ai (or any other browser) 'the apartment job kdrama any romance', it will give you answer based on progress of drama, probably via fans online posts, and will keep updated as drama progress.