katgotyourtongue

oh this drama is absolute PERFECTION. the story, the twists, the characters and the romance. such incredible, touching performances. all the best tropes wrapped into one solid experience. i was losing my mind, freaking out and falling in love with the leads. everyone has to watch this!!

that's the thing with a lot of media though, especially asian media i've noticed. even if your story features a corrupt law or police system, you'll still have the trusted copaganda working to showcase how you should trust and believe in the system anyways. 12 episodes with an abusive cop who used his connections and power, who was respected in the community so much they'd lead him to his runaway son he abused without a second thought, 12 episodes where we're told over and over again how they had to go to these lengths because nothing else would have been enough, yet in the end - we get the good prosecutor! we get the oh good thing the law's changed now! things are DIFFERENT! like they'll have corrupt cops then have the good leads still trust cops. it's hilarious.

absolutely none! i wouldn't even call this a love triangle necessarily, it's only really played up when the identity of the male leads (the question of which one could be kiho) is up in the air. but once that is resolved, it's very clearly always mokha/kiho and nothing else is entertained. the other brother does fall for her, however he never confesses, there aren't really any scenes to make you root for them romantically, she always regards him as a brother. definitely no angst or frustration.

this!! i really felt they just left a lot of characters and stories dangling, and the main story with RJ entertainment ended up being so pointless especially when it took up so much time.

not really. the other brother does fall for her but nothing ever comes of it, there's never angst there or a competition. it's always mokha and kiho, very clearly.

i'm still so angry about it but sadly it's a kdrama staple. the only downside of the drama!

idk if you finished ep17 by now but imo they could have wrapped it up and instead chose to have characters go from taking three steps forward to suddenly jumping a MILE back just to create fodder for s2 and i am absolutely disappointed. s2 seems to bring only more of the same and unless we get some major movements with gitak and mdh actually causing damage and some of those vile people finally getting their dues or a twist the size of dami being alive i'm afraid it will be very very boring and useless.

so many things happening yet a lot of it seems to be just random plot fillers... we'll have to wait and see i guess

i agree! like maybe a 20ish ep season at the most... like is there material? yeah i could see stuff they kinda just.. dropped but imo a lot of the major things are done. not to mention unless they bring back some of the good players or have dami be alive who are we to really root for?

i mean i personally have not seen any development with her? just bc she seems attached to her daughter doesn't make up anything for me. for once in 16 episodes she shows a smidge of remorse for her mother but i can't be sold a romance with someone who is quite literally ready to die for his mother and sibling.

i get that she's meant to be evil what i'm saying is she has no tie with mdh other than her being pretty. even helping him, she did it for her own interests. even with k, she didn't care about taking him down when she believed she could control him/remain safe from him. maybe they could have shown her as a character you could root for if they actually developed her family more or worked on her ptsd/trauma/seeming regret. but still every step of the way even when she was famous and when she could have been better, she wasn't. she kept being evil. so i can't see her with mdh who chooses to be good.

imo the only character i didn't despise out of the horrendous bunch is yjm. he had consistancy about madame no and it showed a sense of morality underneath. when she confessed she did have feelings, it was believable.

i actually feel like there IS a lot left but at the same time the question is what the motivation will be to actually do something with it if that makes sense.. lee hwisoo, gitak, the chairman's money, the downfall of the others, i still think dami might be alive, hanna, etc. like a lot of potential storylines were just dropped but i wonder if they'll ever get picked up, if they were even supposed to be important in the first place or just fillers... i think if it was planned as a limited, 20ep show it could have been a LOT better

i really thought they'd release the last episode sooner instead of waiting for a week! i really don't know what they'll do for s2... somehow i feel like the show did too much but also nothing lmao

i just wish it was given more of than an episode

tbh imo they have not spent enough time with chungha and her family, that seemed to be relegated to the back burner and i don't see how all those years of pain and trauma will all be pushed into and solved in the following episode or two, as i feel like the last ep will be all about returning to the future and how it looks. imo i have a general dislike of the disproportionate amount of time spent with the other girl as opposed to chungah.

same with the mentor. so much mystery relegated to one scene of her seeing the grandfather and seemingly only the next episode. in comparison to how much time they spent on the romance back and forth, imo it's not enough

but agree to disagree, as i said i'm curious to see how it wraps up

same!! which is why i wished mr no would end up with her actually lol she should have left her husband but i feel like kdramas will always go down a reconcilliation route so i was satisfied that at least she had the inlaws on her side

tbh i wasn't surprised. i feel like sk is just as backwards about it as my country so i can see why this whole thing about love fixing you remains strong or heartfelt.

i'm really curious to see how it'll all wrap up, i don't think three episodes are enough. they should have found out about each other last week at least imo

sooyoung please!

FINALLY

i'm going off JCW's interview where he called it realistic. idk personally they either should have corrupted him all the way and we could have seen the devastation completely, or they should have kept him as good as possible and award him a happy ending with his wife. personally, i don't watch dramas to be realistic and idk i guess it did pay off the story but maybe should have given us a few more scenes with the spouses, it ended up kind of rushed. i also wanted more from the reveals, they felt a bit lackluster. i wanted intensified drama, melodramatic idk. but that's just me, the show's solid ultimately, an 8.5 from me. the performances were the best part as well as the wonderful aesthetic and brilliant direction.