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the funniest thing is how Jun Ho gives advice to OTHER people how they should just take a no and not obsess lmao

the fun part is that Chairman said that, back then, he went bankrupt and went to jail, and his wife took the daughter and went to work in the USA.... let's see how THAT plays out, esp in relation to BH and his parents :)

omg the familiar face Jae Pil!!! from 100 Memories! Jae Pill was annoying and hated character lmao and so boring to watch, poker face the entire time

Luckily here that actor really acts and is good at this role, he is a good comedian and a good villain
FL actress ... hm... this is not her best acting for sure :(

Do you see when I wrote that comment? It was waaay before ep 30. so your correcting me is incorrect lol what you are talking about has not taken place yet when I wrote my comment

So, my comment holds for before ep 30

Ater ep 30, I would say - they had a partial healing :) and are on their way to resolve the rest :)

Yeah mom was controlling and is still controlling, did you see what she tried to do during that ffirst breakfast? AND also, elaborate con artistry for a year is a sign of some super toxic issues.

HS was truly rotten...
and JH was truly a gigolo - and HS's match, a brutal killer.

As @mysteryqueen9 suspected, he cared for FL and tried to keep her alive and not remembering.

I never felt any love to FL from him. Bc he didnt love her. He was just an obsessed psycho.... lol in retrospect that is why :) So I thought he was keeping her alive and not remembering so that he could swindle her for something
and I was thinking maybe the land of her parents, or ... something...

But that the whole thing happened bc HS was so stupidly driving and then whining... wow... HS is evil incarnate.

I am impressed with ML's actor acting, he is really great actor.

FL actress didnt get to act at all, she was always poker faced. Boring :)

Everyone else was decent.

I love the ending between Joseonjok and Purple Hair on the way to Hong Kong lmao .

FL is walking in some green woodsy area, dressed in gray ... blouse and with a bag - but it is not the same clothes she wore to the graves of her parents - ...
does the scene show WHEN she remembered, when she was walking around the JH's house?

Ah this wrapped up nicely! Bravo!

Question: when does the VERY last scene happen in the timeline? @mtsteryqueen9

Chairman should just kill Yu Na and be done :) easy peasy!

MJ actor is super good in seducting scenes. Experience anyone?

HJ actor is super handsome with the new haircut, we can see his yes and he really drills through people with his eyes. He will be great as a gangster boss or a dirty top level politician in some drama.

Camera loved YuNa actress this time, the angles showcase her pretty and yeah the drama improved from that.

Chairman's wife is amazing crude primitive serial killer, she will try to kil Aunt and MJ... for sure... and her sone will help her, i bet.

How will Chloe get out of the marriage? She doesnt want it anymore lol

Dumb Mi is hopeless basket case. Cannot even run away or hit or bite her kidnapper JH... step on him with high heels.. .anyting... !!! SCREAM!!! isnt the priest sometwhere there? WHAT IDIOTIC SCRIPT AND IDIOTIC JM. So she is supposed to inherit Dream Group???? SHE IS *D U M B*
It is useless to watch any JM scenes, she is 100% * D U M B*

I FEEL SORRY FOR BH, TO BE STUCK WITH SUCH DUMB DUMB DUMB MORON. And it is BH's fault - he and JM should have been at the city registry office to register their marriage on paper All these wows alone in the church are STUPIDLY USELESS NOW

ALSO BH AND JM BLABBING TO EVERYONE WHERE THEY WENT AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING - TOTAL TOTAL MORONS

They deserve the bad stuff happening to them

In stark contrast , LawyerMom is super smart :) that scene running into Lapdog omg she wa sooo charming and sooo effective :) and super cute :) wow .. go for it :)

@JieJie check out the fashion start of ep 102 - LawyerMon has a gorgeous white jacket over black dress wow.
And i love that asymmetrical cream heart-like / cranes// mantaray/ginco biloba on blue print on the LA lady, OMG wow that is such a beaautiul adaptation of traditional patterns and clothing, so elegant!
and I love GoldDigger; big flowers bouse - wow so glam!!!! - and golden yellow skirt with it :) lol GoldDigger has a knack to add one thing and ruin the whole thing, imo lol I would use ... maroon or dark plum purple/brown skirt. It would also be stunning with dark brown or dark green or black slinky skirt. With dark green, the woman would literally look like a flower it would be so cool! And it would go well with her horse races black hat with lace too... and the diamond red lipstick from SR :) Ah femme fatale look

ANd HY's black dress with white collar and a bun and her skinny stooped over body TOTALLY makes her look iike Popeye's Olive Oyl lmao

imo Nam Sang is PERFECT in her Pearl in Red role JJ./Chloe
and
Eun Jun is PERFECT as Seo Rim :) and was PERFECT in Queen;s House.
She is just really bad as a dumbo

I agree with everything you said
Chairman and HS are dead so there is no more revenge for FL ... but .... she needs to remember .. and pay her karmic debt ...

and yes why is ML keeping FL alive and as his woman... ? We are all dying to find out!!!! Something is weird and we need more info. The last 2 episodes will be amazing :)

Try currently airing daily Our Happy Days - it is a great family drama, no ridiculous plots

I loke Our Happy Days, currently airing 100 ep. daily - there is NO HYPED DRAMA and ridiculoous plots in that drama :) It is a great family drama

Hi from Pearl in Red!
One question: did drama The Love in Your Eyes have the plot that the guy with the eyes could see what the old owner could see with the eyes? Then the plot was stolen in Spring of Youth very shabby 2025 college drama

Definitely! HJ is entering into a wild villain phase and it is IRONIC that his serial killer monster mother UNDERSTANDS true love lmao and is trying to stop him from marrying someone who doesnt love him
It is IRONIC that his monster mother understood and described the situation so accurately and is pushing for her son having a spouse who loves him - his mother saw that he wants to "own" his spouse, who is marrying him only out of interest - and his monster mother wants him to have true love. ..

Anything is possible!!!!!! This is wild, isnt it :)

Yeah the root problem is that the writers DO think we the audience are dumb. And .. it might be true :) lmao
NamSangJi as JMi? imo, no. It has to be a very "common girl coming from poor uneducated background" vibe.

Thanks for the recomm, I will watch Su Ji and U ri - I am a fan of FL actress too.
I like Recipe for Love, that is another classic in the making. There are so many amazing actors there... the characters seem real, dont they? Uncle in that drama is an amazing actor.
Our Happy Days too is a classic family drama masterpiece in the making.

Yaah JH actor here is a novice for sure... and still cannot act well,, which is such a pity bc that role is so rich and a good actor in it would totally trasnform entire drama... In Queen's House, ML actor too seemed a novice, but by the middle of the drama, he was acting well.

btw I am watching Sold Out on U for research. It is frustrating bc I am sure ML can act - he sometimes tries - and is clearly bored with this 1-dimensional John Wayne role, but they won't let him act.. @!*%#!
I have seen that in so many dramas!!! Younger actors and even older actors with skilZ just do not have any desire to act those unnatural roles.. But they are pushed into it.

I think the drama that nailed the gender balance and has a solid FL and reasonably realistic ML is Our Happy Days. The more I watch it, the more I am convinced is a total keeper and a masterpiece, and has the potentioal to become a classic. One amazing family drama to remember, like Once Again, etc. - but imo actually better.

The charm of Our Happy Days is that characters are seemingly "ordinary" but are unique and have so many paradoxical layers, and it is all acted so well !. It is very rich and powerful.
For example:
THe china-doll serious SFL is also a hot badmighton player and dances with the zeal of a hot rock star...give her some dance training and you got ... Tina Turner enrgy :) SFL is jealous petty and insecure AND ALSO so strong to see the truth and see that the porrige came from FL and acknowledge and respect that...

The FL is a childish bunny, super cute and naive chick, but also - an amazing communicator, politician, direct and honest, humble, polite, kind,considerate, AND also razor sharp in cutting out all bs :) She is merciless ... but never upsets people bc she is so ... respectful and humble... . and she SOLVES PROBLEMS at their root and in the process earns respect and even makes friends, not enemies- FL is an extermely powerful character and a great leader . That scene of SFL and FL on the rooftop is a power scene. WOW. Those two gained respect and appreciation of each other and THEY ShOW IT. They are very powerful female role models.

ML is this serious quiet dude who can be sharp and cold AND ALSO - he is super communicative, direct, very political, and very emotional and caring, and even makes a great charmer flirt. ANd he expresses it. He is a great leader too. **** He never saves FL... he never meddles.. He helps FL. ***** WOW that is a powerful male role model. He treats FL with respect and tact. Even when he flirts with her and takes advantage of her naivette, he is tactful, proper and respectful. Also, he lets her take the lead in their relationship and is not afraid to be vulnerable. FL teasing him was some very masterful scenes...

ML and FL actors here togther are really a great combo, they play off each other so well, it is a a plasure to watch. SML and SFL too.

SML character is also complex and acted so well - such a great love boy charmer to SFL, and a meanno to the employees etc... A mix of his mother and father.... who are very shady but also relatively decent people to some degre.... and in love with each other...
SML's father is a masterful actor, his role is so complex and he is so good at it. SML's mother has a very nasty dumb role lmao but she too seems real in it.

ALL CHARACTERS ARE VERY COMPLEX ... and actors portray that complexity so well, the characters seem real. This is a really good drama.

and then the old fashioned deep relationship betwen Grandma and Grandpa ... he took the photo without asking!!!!!! but returned it with an apology...

Then we see the simple minded Natural Secretary and his family and their care for each other... etc

FL's family that went from toxic "we keep secrets" to "we are all on the same page" (edit: by ep. 29, then again out and back in again :) WOW THAT WAS A PROFOUND AND POWERFUL TRANSFORMATION in ep 29!!!!!

AND ALL OF THIS WAS DONE IN VERY SIMPLE WAYS, WITHOUT RIDICULOUS PLOTS AND BLOODY OVERDRAMATIC PLOTS AND CRAZY TWISTS... THIS DRAMA LETS THE PEOPLE LIVE AND TRY IN SEEMINGLY SIMPLE WAYS...

BUT IT IS ALL PROFOUND AND VERY POWERFUL!!!!!!!

SO THIS DRAMA IS A CLASSIC IN THE MAKING, IMO. It has amazing depth, the story flows in ways that are fun and relatively comfortable to watch and seemingly simple but POWERFUL TRANSFORMATIONS AND INSIGHTS. This drama has a potential to become a classic - and to be honest, even better than the existing classic Once Again.

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This drama overcame the old time "dumb loser woman-child saved by stoic dedicated male" - as kdramas tend to portray, in an attempt to capitalize on and further deepen the audience's SEXISM - and the audience is deeper conditioned to see only STUPID BUT KIND FEMALES WHO GET TAKEN CARE OF BY AN EXAMPLARY AND DEDICATED MAN. This is the classic premise of sexism and the classic trope used - FL is super dumb loser, makes mistakes, and ML keeps saving her. This is exploiting the lowest impulses of dominance and societal prejudices.

SO SUCH SCRIPTS ARE BASED ON DUMB DAMSEL IN DISTRESS FL MAKING MISTAKES AND KNIGHT-IN-SHINING-ARMOR ML SAVING HER.
It is super boring and awful, and very limited. And any dog can write a script like that. Super dumb.

ALSO SUCH SEXIST SCRIPTS LEAD TO LIMITED AND AWFULL BORING ACTING. FL is just anxious clutz and ML is just this "Superman" who is always at her service. Both are total caricatures and so 1-sided.

There are other baits, like ... ML is cold but taking care of FL melts his frozen heart... Ah what a bologney... the delulu story of immature women... "I will continue to be a flawed loser and will not have to move one finger to grow and here is this sugar daddy who will take care of me and adore me forever." Common...

IT IS DISGUSTING THAT THE SAME SEXISM CONTINUES EVEN WITH NEW DRAMAS AND YOUNG ACTORS. Like... Sold Out on You, Practical Guide to Love, etc etc Dynamite Kiss was a prime example Which is ok at the START of a drama, but then the drama better show them growing - and it did not....
DYNAMITE KISS and PRACTICAL GUIDE TO LOVE WERE TOTAL TRASH. Sold Out on You has some good messages about healthy life in a small town, natural self-healing and getting off drugs, but the ML is John Wayne/Clint Eastwood Good Bad Ugly grumpy cold poker face, and he suddenly decides to becime a psychiatric nurse and rehab FL-addicted to sleeping pills. Common. It is 100% infuriating to see a young and very capable male actor being forced to act a role from 1950s.

And, MBC has a history of really pushing this sexist plot of dumb loser FL and good guy ML who saves her. the previous drama "The Woman Who Swallowed The Sun" did it and the current iFirt Man tried to do it - lucikly to a less degre and finally changed


KBS tried to fix this so it tried the concept of a capable FL and even a villanous capable FL, e.g the first attempt were Our Golden Days and A Graceful Liar, now it is Pearl in Red


IN ANY CASE, THE OLD SCHOOL SEXIST KDRAMA SHOWS THE MAN AS AN SUGAR DADDY ESCORT NURSE WHO TAKES CARE OF ALL FL's NEEDS, including money, s.x, company, adoration, housework, ..... -
JUST LIKE LITTLE GIRLS FANTASIZE ABOUT MARRYING THEIR FATHER. THAT kind of plot.
So females are conditioned to be woman-child, men low in status feel proud and JUSTIFIED as the heroes saving these incapable stupid woman, and men (and a few women( who are really in power are laughing on their way to the bank and counting the money they swidled from these stupid fools.

Currently dramas are at least allowing FL to be successful in her career. But in person, she is still a moron clutz, IMMATURE.... and making mistakes that ML fixes.

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BUT I SEE THAT OUR HAPPY DAYS IS DIFFERENT. Someone smart is running this drama.

When FL has some brains, it opens a whole wide world for creating the script. The plot can be a lot a lot a lot more interesting bc FL has more options, now the plot is UNLIMITED.
Also, when ML is a live human being with a heart and self awareness and ability to relate, the script can be a lot a lot a lot more interesting bc ML has more options, now the plot is UNLIMITED.
And if you have both ML and FL like that, wow the sky is the limit bc it is COMPLETELY UNPREDICTABLE how they will react, act, and relate.... It really becomes like ... playing God, creativing super unique characters and circumstances and situations.....
ALSO, a more dimensional character allows the actors to really act and have fun withi it.

I have seen so many actors totally bored with their unnatural 1-dimensional roles. Sure it makes them money and it is clear they are doing it just as a job, just to cross it of their chores list.

When you see an actor who is really into their role, experimenting, creating the character, bringing the character to life, having fun with their role, it is a totally wonderful magic experience - for the actor, and for the audience. It doesnt have to be a "fun" role, it can be a serious role, but it is clear the actor is committed to it and it is real to them.

Actors really energetic and having fun in their role of course the most familiar, classic, obvious example is ML in Bon Appetit Your Majesty - and bc of his high energy and enthusiasm, the role made him into a star. Currently airing such roles include SML, SFL, FL in Our Happy Days, ML in Our Happy Days when he is able to relax and act :(

I really wish that ML actor go out to eat something good and go exercise, and then to RELAX. He is sooo amazing in acting WHEN HE RELAXES. I am not sure what he is worried about, is someone pushing him too much - director, camera, money pressure, pressure to be perfect perssure to ... ??? what?? In any case, that actor is so cute and so warm and fuzzy and cuddly and NATURAL in acting naturally normal everyday complex characters- but he can do it only when he relaxes. RELAX :) And whoever is pushing him and pressuring him - STOP IT. Let the man be. He can do it. Do NOT make ML into a poker face chaebol and avery super serious reserved person. It ruins the drama.

THE CHARM OF THIS DRAMA AND ML CHARACTER IS THAT HE IS A QUIET SERIOUS SHARP GUY BUT ALSO A VERY WARM AFFECTIONATE AND COMMUNICATIVE GUY. It is a paradox that makes that character interesting!!!!