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No need to justify anything. She runs a legal business. She's completely up front and honest with her clients. Her clients accept the terms and sign the contracts. The only people lying are the clients.

You made me bark laugh out loud. FL was minding her own business, had her eyes closed mooning over kissing ML, when 2ML walks up behind her, slips around, lip locks her uninvited and with no warning. That's exactly the definition of his fault.

FL didn't kiss 2ML. He kissed her, uninvited, while she had her eyes closed and was dreamily mooning over kissing 1ML. Definite mood killer.

As to why FL apologized to 2ML, I was baffled, too. FL was in a contractual business relationship with these men, neither had dibs on her and she wasn't the one who did the kissing, not that it would have mattered - being a single adult woman, she gets to kiss any consenting adult who takes her fancy - but women often apologize to men when they've done nothing wrong, business people often apologize to clients when they've done nothing wrong.

There are so many script moments that are cringy. Great cast, great potential: I'm always impressed by Park Min Young, and not just because I would be in awe of any woman who can cry without getting puffy eyes and a red nose; nobody plays a vulnerable wannabe-but-just-can't-quite-get-there villain better than Lee Joo Bin; this is the first role I've actually liked Kim Jae Young in; and it's the first time I've seen Go Kyung Pyo -- he was great. But there were some needless "swing and a miss" elements.

Why would a writer/director have a 30+ year old independent, mature, entrepreneurial, self supporting woman behave like a giggly witless tween? Scripting character lies when there's some payback for the character makes sense, but having characters lie when there's no payback is bad writing. And what's with romantic partners falling asleep mid-stream in Park Min Young movies?

I have no idea how you got that from what I wrote.

As a mother of daughters, I found Jae-Hui's secret keeping, directness, vacillation, and acting as if all is well realistic for the age of "13 going on 30." My girls were, by turns, astonishingly mature, predictably childlike, and episodically petulant at that age.

I'm going to try to comment on Episodes 11-13 without spoilers, so I apologize if it's too vague to convey how stark and appalling this story line is. By appalling, I'm referring to the actions of a client character, so I'm not taking issue with a series of episodes that are truly outstanding and some of the best television drama I've ever seen dealing with this topic.

Trigger warning: Episodes 11-13 are gut wrenching in their spot-on depiction of the realities of spousal physical and emotional abuse. Every moment, from the resistance to allowing the abused spouse to leave the marriage to the escalation that led inevitably to the final minutes of the story arc, were faithful to the real life tragedies that are heartbreaking and as common as days of the week that end with "y".

The writers and producers didn't shy away from pointing fingers at malicious social media sh!storms; workplace discrimination against women even at executive levels; social apathy toward violence against women; corporate greed and unapologetic venality; the oxymoron that is legal ethics; and a very thinly disguised chaebol "above the law" entitlement that is the daily reality of life in Korea (I specified Korea only because that's where the drama is set, and honestly they have raised it to an art form, but the "money is God" mindset applies to all kleptocratic oligarchies - I'm looking at you, USA). Somehow the crew and cast of this series did justice (pun intended) to these difficult topics and managed to make their treatment of them riveting viewing. I will forevermore be in worshipful awe ofJang Na Ra's acting talent

Downside: there were a few distracting, unrealistic, and unnecessary scenes near the end of episode 13 that marred the otherwise flawless execution of this 3 episode arc.

Agree. I went into this show understanding it was essentially a high school soap opera chock full of teen angst tropes, so my quality expectations were low, and for the most part those expectations were met. Perhaps that's why I was so impressed with Park Shin-Hye. Any decent actor can impress with an outstanding, well written role, but it takes real talent to command attention with formulaic schlock. Not to disrespect the other actors - I think the core cast was outstanding. Since this was my first time seeing Park it was a delightful surprise.

Episode 0 seems like a pilot episode. It condenses the first three episodes, so it feels rushed and leaves a lot of questions. I watched 0 before starting episode 1 and it didn't add anything to my experience.

Eui Jung kissed Ki Chul to help save her husband, Joon Mo kissed (and more?) Hae Ryeon to save a drug deal. Guys in these comments doing pirouettes to pretend there's some moral high ground for their bromance icon.

But Joon Mo porking his drug supplier is peachy, right?

For future reference, "sit this one out" is something you should request *before* someone hands you your ass.

So wrong she's had the lead role in 2 series just this year. Poor, poor thing. How's your show biz career going?

Well, if KHN looks every bit of 46, then she looks just right to play a ~46 year old. Welcome to the winning team! 🎉 🥳Woo hoo! 🎆🧨🥂

Who is this mythical man who tried to keep his distance? Yoo Ji Ho pursues Lee Jung In in every episode - even tries to offload his emotional responsibility into Jung In, asking her to reject him so he doesn't have to make that decision himself.

It's not that Lee Jung In is reluctant to break it off with her boyfriend - she's done that at least three times up to episode 7, and the man just won't go away. The only error I see on her part at this point is failing to threaten a restraining order against Kwon Ki Seok.

Why y'all giving a free pass to two guys who are voluntarily up to their necks in a mess they helped make?

I'm 7 episodes in and LOVING this series. I love the leads, the story, the characters, the cast, the dynamic between the sisters, the whole basketball team, and the locations -- everything except whoever made the decision to keep shooting pensive, self-reflective scenes through lumber and glass. Cute the first couple of episodes, annoying since then.

I usually watch dramas with one finger on the ff button, but to my own surprise, I'm taking my time with this series. Instead of dragging, the story thoughtfully plays out decisions, consequences, and the emotions that inevitably are evoked.

Maybe the fact that I like it so much, particularly like the lead pairing together, makes me less judgemental about the ethics. Is it cheating when you tell your partner "Let's break up," and he replies, "I can't agree to that."? I'd be like well, hun, this is not something that requires your agreement. To me, all previous obligations are vapor after that, and the gaslighting isn't likely to sway me.

I understand why folks are saying "emotional cheating" in the early episodes, but even then the options aren't pretty: shut it down from the start and marry a man who presents, at best, a lukewarm future, or break it off with boyfriend to explore a future with someone who sparkles your heart. Damned if you do and damned if you don't, it seems.

What I don't understand is why the moralists in these comments condemn Lee Jung In and give Yoo Ji Ho a hall pass when he knew Jung In was in a relationship. Both made the stupid decision to be "friends," both had the ulterior motive of attraction, both were dishonest with Kwon Ki Seok, both pursued the other.

IRL situations like this, my reaction is well that sucks but thank goodness you figured it out before marriage, so I'm going with that reaction for this drama as well.

"I hope she won't get bored with ml too after being in years of relationship"

She won't, because the relationship ended after 16 episodes.

A double down flailing fail of a response. The only people who whinge about "virtue signaling" are those who have none to signal.

There is not an actress in all of Korea who doesn't look 7-10 years younger than her actual age. We should all have their skin care routines and genes. Carry on as you will, though, the karma of not aging gracefully will gnaw your raggedly old ass into oblivion.

That's just realistic. When a woman kills her abuser, she often ends up in jail. That how the world works. Prisons are packed with women who would be dead if they hadn't fought back.

In this case, though, the detective was practically begging her to take the excuse he was feeding her.

Jealous