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Right, but what does he do? Why is he interested in a different outcome from the other investors? We need to learn more.

Who da fuck is “Jayden”

For killing him in their past life, which she doesn't remember.

And I lap it up every time!

Isn't the FL supposed to be a firefighter? Why do the tags list both leads as students?

There seem to be a lot of moving parts in the premise of this drama and I guess I won't really know what it's about until I actually watch the first episode. But learning that the ML will want to take revenge on the FL at first made me intrigued.

OMG, episode 2 was even better than the first one! It kept adding layers of psychological nuance to the foundation of the first episode.

Mahiro and Kaori are both flawed and occasionally frustrating people—Kaori can be really self-absorbed and insensitive in her pursuit of the truth even when she thinks she's being empathetic and Mahiro is self-pitying and bitter yet can't stand up for herself—and this episode heightened the interpersonal tensions that come from that. At the same time, it showed us why they are the way they are and also highlighted their good sides; they're not bad people, or rather, they're trying to be good. And they both have a point re. the ethical disagreement between them.

If the first episode was about setting up the mystery of what happened to Sara, the second was about our main characters and why they see the incident from 15 years ago the way they do. We didn't get a lot of new information and Tateishi Rikito remains a total cipher. I hope we'll finally learn something about his motivations in episode 3.

Mahiro's boss is total trash and I hope her sensationalist script and the production studio pushing it on Kaori won't be a major plot point.

Finally, the little girl who played Mahiro in the flashback scene in episode 2 looks SO MUCH like her it's uncanny. Good job to the casting director!

OK, one last thing: Kaori's nightmare was really well done. It gave me an actual jumpscare.

Umm, PSH? He looks amazing here.

It does have a handsome oppa, though?

The anti-Japanese sentiment in Korea is much stronger and more racially targeted than the anti-German sentiment anywhere in Europe or even Israel nowadays. So it's not unreasonable to ask how palpable it is in this drama.

I also don't think the person you're responding to indicated they feel personally responsible for Japanese imperialism anywhere in their question.

I think it’s up to you to interpret that scene.

I'm afraid Myungjoon might be forced to choose between saving Heeae and betraying Rohee at some point in the drama. No one has threatened Heeae so far, but she's an obvious weak point for him and if the people after Rohee get sick of MJ beating up their goons they might just threaten Heeae to get him to cooperate.

I hate the thought of this plot development, but it makes too much sense IMO.

Are you kidding, Park Sunghoon looks better than ever in his emo leather jacket!

I think she may be the dead doctor's mistress, who was mentioned in a conversation between the camera repairman and the greasy doctor in ep. 4.

Right, she's super smart and I love those moments when MJ proposes something thoughtless and she counters with a reasoned counterargument that he clearly hadn't considered, but at the same time her determination to stick with him is fundamentally irrational. She's a child, so it makes sense; he's the first person she met after she lost her memory and she can sense he's a good man who will take care of her.

Is Hyeeun the dead Dr Choi's mistress? Was she lying about being HIV-positive? For some reason when she was opening up to Rohee and Myungjoon in the hospital, I felt like she was telling the truth about her disease, being part of a clinical trial, not wanting to expose Heeae, etc., but at the same time it felt like she was telling them all that to manipulate them and she's more involved with the case that she's letting on. She also seemed to have an idea of who might have paid Heeae's hospital fees when Myungjoon told her about that.

Also, seriously, her apartment is so nice? She seems to be working as a sales rep at a jewellery shop, which is a good job, but IDK if you can afford a nice modern apartment in Seoul on that salary alone. Fortunately for her, MJ is too slow to ask obvious questions about how suspicious she is.

What the hell, why is this drama so good! The end of episode 4 was so thrilling! The big picture is starting to come together little by little. Park Sunghoon remains mega dreamy in his emo all-black getup.

I see, that makes sense! Let's hope it shows up in a more accessible format soon. Thanks again for your work! I really appreciate your subs and your drama impressions on Twitter.

I agree this plot is overused and stereotypical, but very smart girls can actually get derailed in life for all sorts of reasons, including bad luck, pregnancy, bad taste in men, lack of focus, familial obligations, etc. Being good at studying doesn’t mean you don’t have other things going on in your life.

I find the girlboss FL who is mega successful in some commercial venture and cares for nothing but career advancement until she meets an equally successful man who fits her criteria for a life partner to be way more stereotypical and unrealistic than “talented woman who fell on hard times or had to adjust her life plans for some reason.” Not all women want to work in finance and wear pantsuits (OR to be housewives, doctors, fashion designers or idols—there are many other things you can do in life aside from these five jobs, not that cdramas will tell you that). You don’t have to love your job or make it your entire identity.

Thanks a bunch! I really appreciate your work! The first episode was very enjoyable.

By the way, are you watching Malice? It's hard to find reactions to the first episode in English an I'm very curious as to whether it's good.

The first episode was suspenseful, dark and stylish! I really enjoyed it. Some scenes had an almost cinematic quality.

There were only three little details where typical jdrama maximalism prevailed over good taste (the fountain of blood spurting out of Sara's mouth immediately after she was stabbed in the stomach, her classmate still using a crutch 15 years after breaking her leg to leave no doubt in the viewer that the injury ended her athletic career, and the random snowfall when little Kaori got kicked out of the house to emphasise how sad her life was), which is actually a very low number. I'm only pointing it out because these moments struck me as amusing departures from the episode's overall subtle and restrained style of direction.

Anyway, I can't wait to learn more about everyone in the story. They're all hiding secrets and I have no idea how the secrets all fit together at this stage—for example, how does Mahiro's sister factor into it? What about her boss? I wonder if the final twist will be that Rikito didn't actually kill his sister and was falsely convicted, or if he really did it, but for a reason we can't even imagine yet. (I'm not tagging my comment as a spoiler because you can get everything I just said out of the plot summary above.)

Also Mahiro's cousin is kind of a dick, but he keeps it real. Problematic fave!