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They did do something weird because it felt exasperating when he starts accusing her about killing that other demon by making it look like suicide with only paranoia, while everything else had so far followed from what they established. They didn't clarify yet why she tells all she is a demon and an auditorium of doctors hear how the real Kang Bitna is actually dead and how demons take over corpses but she nor her assisstant want to end misunderstanding trope with the cop. So this was karma(except it reflects badly on Daon because hes doing what Justitia did in the beginning, condeming based on assumptions because he is getting too obsessed too. He did give her a whole talking to about hiding behind the identity of being a demon while doing in his words "bad things"). Many think Daons right simply coz police=laws/morals=correct side but thats not quite it with him. He is another highly impuslive creature, who isn't like other humans according to FL, and going out of the line that is police duty at every case. He feels the victims pain too personally and the concept at hand is about victims family needing their closure not just by the law but by answers too(that only Justitia gets since nobody is confirmed guilty in public eye because of her rulings and that she is creating a issue on earth to make her quota). The preacher woman's reassuring Mando about how prayers for the humans who are living is the thing too. Bael created this abnormal situation on earth by okaying demons to hasten fate and Justitia is twisting it more while doing the bare minimum judge job to give the usual message on how the system is corrupt and inept while making situations that should be trouble for her human body she needs to do the task in for the year.

"Justitia" is in this boat because she was full of hubris from the start about how she is never wrong in her judgement(the root cause of her "fall" and punsihment) and is impulsive acting like a bit of an obsessed stalker wanting Daon's attention. She sent him the bodies in his jurisdiction and now she has his attention but she also has his "reproach" which is what I feel the part that is bugging. The cleaners can erase all clues including the body as they say- they are demons after all and like in a series called Jigoku Shoujo(where the plot was revenge by website order is how the human 'victims' left behind got their solace too) sudden disappearance from the mortal plane is more plausible as the end to divine punishment but she wants it to be a statement from the start. She created a literal serial murder case on earth which she knows is unsolvable because she wanted a laugh at the cops and it is awaiting for one slip-up to become a catastrophic avalanche. So far she followed the laws of hell('contrapasso'/karma) to the letter while punishing the evildoers but she switched the stamping order because she was pissed and kindof throwing a tantrum because of ML. Gremory's twist adds tension about her growing careless impulses.

Justitia is as you interpret a literal God(even with the label Demon her title as Judge of Hell in majority religions is a valid afterlife God and her ruling should be beyond human understanding but ultimate, even though she is shown to be a human-like mess full of hubris). But we know ML doesn't know she will be punished to eternal death and its not like she has a choice in this punishment(her pride will not have her admit this part) Bael has given her. But once again it is Justitia- or rather the plot thats wonky- why won't they say a few simple vague things about demon rules to avoid this misunderstanding trope. For her it seems she wants a cat and mouse game with ML. Overall it seems for trope of making her warm up human way by angel ML or restoring her to her goddess state of Justitia, etc.

The cops- the two side lackeys are there to pad the team numbers and for comedy so I'd be surprised if they get any plot. The team leader however is there to be the connect to ML's past together with her family and maybe it ends in tragedy or twist betrayal. The real suspect logically for the police to look at is ML as FL had pointed out because their team is in charge of all those cases and Daon has gone extra on the stalker guy and has been seen in public having issue with the culprits and lax rulings. The team itself as each was their arrested culrpit who were given a slap on the wrist but at the same time this serial murder appears like some vigilante taunting their team specifically and they should react about it?

Ah...initially you had speculated if we ever saw her having any personal relations outside of work ones. I remember because Choi Daniel did the worst ex-boyfriend role... and she and her girlfriends discussed all about her shitty ex(but she never shared at home...) and they also encouraged her to stop being so much about family duty and take care of herself as well. (Mirae is however later characterised as a workaholic even outside her family obligations definitively) Her friends and ex don't appear in later episodes at all when its more of her and ML's tale. I found it interesting that she did have her own restricted private life, and also was secretive. Most of the introduction was in episode 1. Overall the time period of their past is a blank aside from few snippets(mom was working since long ago we got in dialogues and snippets) so it is hard to put together what it was other than assumptions.

Also, Mirae is called jooim-nim(supervisor) at work before being promoted(to daeri-nim, asst manager), not team leader(thats her senior Lee; and Park Chul-min is boojang-nim), and what I know of titles from similar office dramas this approx fits with her having worked in JPlus for 4 years at JPlus(which is what she said in ep 1) is round about okay.

I really love their relation. I also feel like hes shipping Taepyeong and Mirae too XD

While we finally get an explanation of what happened with the landlord I'm almost like the crime writer still wondering its anticlimactic. Ep 1 they showed someone in a suit came to talk to lanlord the morning of the fire about selling the house yet again(why was he against selling and more certain of arson working- it was a gamble unlike the sure thing selling was) so was it only create suspense? Also the landlord's daughter first appeared in epsiode 1 when mom went to talk with her about the lease in the taxi she drives. Dad's friend is possibly still a little suspicious till drama finishes but after he was cleared up about wanting to scam his friend(?) due to having fallen into debt due to the same investment, I'm now rooting for him being aunty's "partner". Everyone watching Ae-yeon's ad was so sweet and Mirae's colleague when she said she fell for Ae-yeon when she got off the bike, like, so true!

I get the feeling we'll find out he made the money in some weird way. Just hoping it isn't too anticlimactic since most of the usual ways were already contradicted. I wonder if its either to do with Thailand or his unseen elder sister. Which is another oddity- like why wouldn't paternal aunt insist on the children coming to funeral or they'd have heard from mutual aquaintances if he'd really have died even if they were divorced and all? Doubt this will suddenly turn out to be some fantasy reincarnation thing tho...? Nah. Theres also something about how seems dad's friend was also involved in some process of the money or maybe he simply is the tax guy after the money was made.

"She didn't make space for romance, friends" is a bit different since in ep 1 itself we know she had at least one shitty ex-boyfriend(saying she was bad in her choice of 'men') and Mirae also has two girlfriends in ep 1(both of whom are more 'settled' in life which makes her a bit wan) she went drinking with other than her work collagues. But when she came home turns out she doesn't tell her mom this part of her life for some abnormal reason that she was out drinking with friends when mom asked why she was late and if she was doing overtime nor about her shitty ex. Her brother also assumed she has never dated before means she never spoken of her dating life at home normally he'd be able to overhear his mom nor did she consult her mom nor neighbour aunty about her dating life nor they ever ask her and assume. Her thing was she was secretive and determined to be the independent-eldest-sister-family-head so she resolvedshe "won't get married, won't have me-time/leisure time/holidays, have to ensure a good life for family to be mom's wonderwoman and settle my brother" which she was too into the idea of which is being overcome now.

Also I don't know why I got a different feeling from what others assume- that Mirae did go to college since she says she got in through an open interview(which are the off-campus ones)while not in school clothes anymore in the end of a long flashback(of various stages of her life with womnderwoman mom) after the sequence when her mom said she'd come up with the college fees to highschool aged Mirae(Mirae was 18 in highschool when her parents divorced so it looks like a blank timeperiod of what happened. Most are assuming Mirae got a job shortly after finishing school after her dad left so mom didn't have to be sole breadwinner for long due to her job while from what Mirae said she has only worked fulltime at JPlus this being only her 4th year so she started in this job at 24/25?). Mirae said her brother would find it hard to do part-time jobs while job hunting in college but her mom says Mirae did exactly that. Overall drama has issues with storytelling so not too sure how it is.

Can't wait!!

He really does his best trying to be the dad as a priority its heartwarming. In his office table he has a photo of him and kid Taepyeong and bicycles. He may have his faults too but seems to have his heart in the right place for the most part...

I knew it...there was no way a chaebol family would be normal in a kdrama. Like of course dad was so nice he wasn't 'dad'...

Same - something felt incomplete the way it was never addressed again

It seemed like they were in Thailand or somewhere abroad so there maybe she was and nobody knows her past in the neighbourhood

I get the feeling it was the right hand man- theres something very shady about him- and also however they made that money. The father may be thinking something else or been lied to by the right hand. Maybe insurance fraud?

This is based on a old school webnovel and while I don't know if that plot is or isn't in the webnovel, but this used to be a common trope in things ages ago. They reference a clip from Strong Woman Nam Soon by JTBC and that show retconned so much it was obvious baby propaganda so maybe JTBC wants to push it but why in two mob related kdramas and not the normal ones where...why are the leads nowadays 30 year old virgin teens? God only knows.

From the beginning it had many similar coincidences to BYT like the raincoat killer and ending with the old man even having Parkinsons. I'm guessing the besties thing was supposed to be like Ok-hui who moved from her crush on the hot guy to the 'ugly' older guy with a heart of gold, but it lacked the comedy and builldup. BYT was genius old school comedy and interesting risky ideas till the script let it down in the last 3 episodes. This one, it has some points it improved on BYT's plot flaws but only that much. The ML making him more like the sml of BYT and gave him closure and catharsis over his missing mother. The mother's pain over her sister's death was equally poignant and justice actually being served with a clear death sentence were also cathartic(the shaman being like I'll just take over the prison was so unsatisfactory). But she was a serial killer equally with no real reason than for the heck of it. They should have taken the risk and made a My Liberation Notes instead with this whole premise of a slice of life story about finding self worth and appreciation of life. The non-romantic(except strong bromance) interpersonal relations and sentiments were sweet and it could have been done much shorter and more effective. The passage of time was supposedly 2 years considering enlistment times but they weren't too clear on many things.

As others have mentioned Korea used to have statute of limitations on murder but this changed with time. First time it was increased to 25 years this was not done retroactively so none of the older cases applied. I recall it from Signal but might have been some other drama too- in 2015 the statue on murder was abolished(Tae-wan Act) and all crimes after August 2000 would fall under this no statues, including those from before this time if only it can be proved the culprit fled abroad for the amount of time that can be suspended but not otherwise. (Tragic irony was the case the law was named after fell before the statutes)

What I got she grew smitten with him after he saved her. Its in the first 3 episodes- from the post acid attack scene she is smiling to herself coyly about how he was glowing when she first saw him when scammed and he helped even though they were strangers(he also gave her his own shoes to wear as she lost hers). Her reactions in the bookstore scene interaction she had a crush on him. He is the bigger mystery for why he suddenly likes her, though they try to say she reminded him of his mom that one time. But basically he was very devoted to his work and wanting to find his mom so he never romanced till he meets her and once he found his mom he could move on with living life and seemed determined that he liked her alone(as a first love? or her lipstick reminds him of his mom?). From the beginning though only thing clear was ML liked her parents almost completely and her parents liked him and tbh I think he really wants to be in their family. I really don't get any of the romance in this one at all- the familial relations, friendships and others like the caring empathetic nature of people are written stronger.

I've seen speculation flying around about Crash season 2 being in talks right now
https://x.com/nophiasandverb/status/1819271620063604920

Jae-soo was the heart of this show

Thank you :)

Oh then can you please tell me about Jae-soo's past its the one that I can't figure out at all

Yeah LR has become available where I live and its coming to only few countries I'd heard. Netflix Korea apparently says it will release My sweet mobster in late august so far I heard.