A lot of the messages about family in korean family dramas really baffles me. Its not even about things being…
I did enjoy the love story for large stretches of it! But the in-law/parent aspects of the drama were written by a nineteenth-century village patriarch.
I didn't even get into the part where her father-in-law was randomly possessed by the spirit of a Goryeo-era general for a few episodes...
let me guess another healing drama of Jung Hae In. He is now officially typecast.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'healing drama' here? It sounds like it's going to tackle social issues related to the military/Korean militarism that are underdiscussed in Korea. Sure, it may get emotional... but it sounds very different from, say, A Piece of Your Mind or Tune In for Love.
The premise is getting me hyped--could this be part of a new, darker and more imaginative sageuk wave inspired by the success of Kingdom? Plus JDY did pretty well in The Tale of Nokdu IMO and I'm looking forward to seeing him in another sageuk.
AND it's from the director of The Nokdu Flower and Six Flying Dragons????
I skipped some episodes and only half-paid attention up to now, but now that the central premise of the drama has been established it's getting more interesting. I can't wait to see Gye-ok and Sul-ak's dynamic in Young-bae's house.
I love Da-hee and Jae-seok the most out of all the couples in this drama and just want us to get to the cute secret dating shenanigans with as little love triangle/jealousy angst as possible—dealing with their families is going to provide more than enough external conflict to keep things interesting—so I’m really hoping Lee Chang-wook’s character, who’s yet to appear but will probably be connected to Da-hee’s storyline, won’t take away too much of their screentime together by pursuing her.
The girls' mother is such an immature, self-centred drama queen. She makes everything that happens to her daughters about herself and uses her struggles as a single mother to guilt-trip and control them. Family drama writers need to learn there's nothing sympathetic about this kind of entitled, selfish love and stop presenting it as understandable/redeemable.
I enjoyed this drama a lot until Soo-ah became the focus of the story. She cheated, framed people for cheating because she was jealous, slapped and bullied her only real friend, PUSHED HER ONLY FRIEND DOWN THE STAIRS ON PURPOSE, fabricated sexual abuse allegations to get a teacher fired, blackmailed students into being her servants to pad her resume by threatening to evict them from the school dorms and, in one special case, threatening to provoke the physically abusive parent of a student with a history of self-harm into beating and confining him, broke into people's rooms and stole their belongings, etc. etc. etc. and when the consequences of her actions finally caught up with her, she snapped. Am I supposed to feel sorry for this bitch? I don't. The fact she felt helpless and suffocated to the point of contemplating suicide when she had to deal with the entirely predictable consequences of her own terrible choices did not redeem her character or make her worth rooting for, and she was not interesting enough for the drama to spend so much time on her nonsense! I was cursing at the screen every time her pushover classmates gave her another chance/defended her. When the drama subjected me to that torturous montage of them ~missing their ~friend while she was recovering, I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing. Just WHAT was there to miss? She was a literal supervillain and virtually every single one of her interactions with her classmates was abusive and cruel in nature!!!
The last 2-3 episodes course-corrected, thankfully, but the Soo-ah arc was difficult to get through.
The only thing I don't like is that there are only two episodes left. The drama is so fast-paced and content-packed that they could have certainly filled 4 extra episodes. There are many peripheral mysteries and questions about the general workings of this universe that will probably remain unanswered.
Wait, WTH?? Then how come they all still died according Lee Shin when he was dead in their normal timeline????
I’m gonna guess Detective Ji died instead of Detective Park in all other timelines and Lee Shin saved JHJ (and potentially PSH’s victims) by telling the ex-con with a grudge that the best way to hurt JHJ would be to kill his partner and let JHJ live in torment instead of killing him. If I recall correctly the guy told JHJ he was gonna kill him until someone told him there was a better way to take revenge.
Jun Ji-hyun and Joo Ji-hoon would be such a galaxy-brained casting duo that I might need the full year to brace myself for their impact. But if we get JJH^2, they HAVE to give us some romantic crumbs at least. Kim Eun-hee better not play us!
Honestly, I felt zero sympathy for Se-rin. She was such a detestable character that I couldn't muster any sadness when she died. It's good that she tried to protect Young-woong from Go Jae-young, but her obsession with YW was just as violent as JY’s bullying and she was too narcissistic to realise it.
Speaking of Jae-young, I really hope Min-ho/Young-woong exposes him and gets his revenge, and that JY's father, who seems to be as much of a scumbag as his son, is forced to withdraw his nomination in disgrace.
Re. the ending of ep. 16, reading people's comments prior to watching it made me expect a much subtler and more convincing fake-out. It's obvious even just from the way the murder scene was edited that Hyeong-joo didn't kill Jung-tae but that he arrived at the scene after the fact.
There are two things I'm on the lookout for in terms of the larger mystery: someone other than Lee Shin who can time-travel (since it doesn't make sense that it's just her) and perhaps someone who survived a previous reset and is still kicking around, contrary to her claim that everyone in the reset group died the first five times. Also I suspect the date of the reset (Jan 11?) has some significance.
I'm watching On the Way to the Airport right now and she's really breathing life into her character! She's talented and cool and deserves bigger roles. Also, she's really beautiful!
Two things have been foreshadowed since the first episode: Ha-jin regaining her memories and Jeong-hoon breaking down/having a medical crisis due to his complacent attitude toward check-ups and treatment. While I'm looking forward to the former since it's necessary for Ha-jin's character development, I'm kinda scared of what the writer has in store for JH. PLEASE don't give him amnesia. That's all I ask. There's NO WAY to do an amnesia subplot well, so please don't try.
that was the silliest thing ever to be honest .. I mean how the hell wouldnt they tell him that his mother passed…
She was hoping the surgery would be successful and she could just tell him, “Oh, by the way, I had to get treatment, but I’m fine now, so don’t worry,” as per her promise to tell him everything “later” at dinner. It’s shitty, but I’ve heard of many parents doing it. The only difference here is that she was hiding a serious condition and unfortunately didn’t make it.
This comment is so dramatic lmao. It’s fine to be uncomfortable with the age difference between the main actors, but just to be clear Ha-jin is supposed to be 30 and Jeong-hoon is supposed to be 36 according to the script.
I was also very hesitant to start this drama because I don’t like it when they cast very young actresses with actors in their mid-30s, but the actors are actually doing a great job and the romance is totally immersive/believable for me. If I found their acting unconvincing to the point of being uncomfortably aware that I’m watching a 23-year-old and a 36-year-old at any point, I would have simply dropped the drama. That’s what I advise you to do instead of hate-watching it while skipping “the romance” (like, what else is there lol) and yelling at people that KDW is an ugly old man, which come on, he clearly isn’t.
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I didn't even get into the part where her father-in-law was randomly possessed by the spirit of a Goryeo-era general for a few episodes...
AND it's from the director of The Nokdu Flower and Six Flying Dragons????
I am Listening.
The last 2-3 episodes course-corrected, thankfully, but the Soo-ah arc was difficult to get through.
Speaking of Jae-young, I really hope Min-ho/Young-woong exposes him and gets his revenge, and that JY's father, who seems to be as much of a scumbag as his son, is forced to withdraw his nomination in disgrace.
Re. the ending of ep. 16, reading people's comments prior to watching it made me expect a much subtler and more convincing fake-out. It's obvious even just from the way the murder scene was edited that Hyeong-joo didn't kill Jung-tae but that he arrived at the scene after the fact.
There are two things I'm on the lookout for in terms of the larger mystery: someone other than Lee Shin who can time-travel (since it doesn't make sense that it's just her) and perhaps someone who survived a previous reset and is still kicking around, contrary to her claim that everyone in the reset group died the first five times. Also I suspect the date of the reset (Jan 11?) has some significance.
While You Were Sleeping is also worth checking out.
I was also very hesitant to start this drama because I don’t like it when they cast very young actresses with actors in their mid-30s, but the actors are actually doing a great job and the romance is totally immersive/believable for me. If I found their acting unconvincing to the point of being uncomfortably aware that I’m watching a 23-year-old and a 36-year-old at any point, I would have simply dropped the drama. That’s what I advise you to do instead of hate-watching it while skipping “the romance” (like, what else is there lol) and yelling at people that KDW is an ugly old man, which come on, he clearly isn’t.