RishyG
This is a slow moving and wretched episode. I am about ready to drop this altogether. So, if that is not your thing then you may also find the sobbing, moping and sniveling of this scenario insufferable after what has so clearly been one-sided interest. Also, a ballad is literally sung over the dialog of most of the critical airport scene between ML and FL. It's pretty distracting from what was already a difficult to engage drama with little dialogue and an endless assembly of frivolous montages. It may be an unpopular opinion, but this particulary sucked.
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Are we supposed to believe this FL is a highly competent PM? She trips and falls twice just being near ML and the third time she does it she actually falls on him. She can't even seem to manage her own two feet. The writers poured it on a bit thick in this first episode.
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Watashitachi wa Douka Shiteiru Episode 4
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This episode does not lose on delivering the juicy background of the boy with the bedroom eyes. Kyoko gets wild and sloppy as only an overconfident heifer like her can, and the whole thing climaxes with reveals at the Tanabata contest that are delicious for one and all. 5 stars, but where do we go from here? I can’t wait to find out!
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Watashitachi wa Douka Shiteiru Episode 3
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I am so intrigued. No really these people are absolutely twisted and clearly one of them is an actual homicidal maniac, yet they make good candy so society just looks the other way? More dimensions of the past and tensions of the present are revealed in this episode bringing FL and ML curiously closer. FL is proving to be like her mother, lacking the sense to recognize the absolute fuckery around her and head for the hills. The grand old master is a miserable man embittered by the loss of his son, but why then does he keep the venomous harpy of a daughter in law around? He clearly hates her and her son. It is so weird, but enjoyable to unravel these secrets and motivations character by character.
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I just really started rooting on the characters, 'cause dammit those trash bags have it coming. I was amazed by the self-restraint.
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It was only hinted at before, but we see it on full display in this episode. The tension is so high and really it is unbelievable how reprehensible this whole family is. It is testament to the writing of the dialog and the performances of the actors how viscerally repellent the characters are rendered. Also the actor playing the maid was superb in capturing both fear and repulsion for the Baeks. Conversely seeing detective Choi show pity for the Do siblings and forgo any persecution is a kind of foil for how an outsider can judge the families' cover ups and have wildly different result. I mean it is a totally just disparity, because the maid was seeing pure remorseless evil at work. But it is also a brutal juxtaposition. This episode will make you feel so many things. Ooh chile.
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Unsubtle characterization of Naoto, who screamed every one of his lines this episode. They should have allowed some nuance there, because he genuinely is a lot less shallow than he comes across, but that is really the only thing shaky in this story. It serves to emphasize how he is a foil to Naruse, so I ultimately get that choice.
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