MindfulWanderings

yes I felt both the ML and FL were struggling in their performance it felt like they were operating at a completely dofferent pace from each other

LOUDER for the cheap seats in the back!!!!! 👏🏼

dang for a romcom there was a lot of triggering, dark scenes and HEAVY content. for me the chemistry was weirdly lacking too. somehow the story was kind of boring…idk it had promise 🤷🏼‍♀️just didn’t really deliver for me

i know the tragic ending trope is tiresome 😩but its really good up until ~ep 28/29!

this drama was surprisingly hilarious esp. in the middle. had me laughing a lot — even with my dry humor. the writing was pretty one-dimensional and it could have used a stronger ending. but this show is meant to be goofy so you won’t enjoy it if you can’t accept the silliness or if you take it too seriously. there is a lot that doesn’t make sense but i don’t think that was the point. the point is about bullying and how we internalize negativity, self worth and our own self image. it was also about inner vs outer beauty. and learning how to stick up for yourself. the topic was the type that had to be over-exaggerated otherwise it would get very dark very quickly — and they were obviously trying to lean into comedy more than drama, so i didn’t mind some of the plot holes since i saw most of it as cartoonish anyway. it def had room for growth in order to better balance the writing, but overall still a fun little watch. i liked all the actors.

no one cares

I was just thinking this! It’s a comedy. It’s meant to be ridiculous. Some of these commenters need to stop taking everything so dang seriously.

it’s really good and fun, but the ending is annoying

sorry that was a long reply. but that woman sincerely makes me vomit. she deserves zero sympathy. less than zero even, in my book. 🤢

but as a villian, she was very well written in that she was very complex — and that was great. 👍🏻 i loved the nuance to her character as a villain purely. bc she was purely a villian, so the sympathy crap just pissed me off but it made sense that she saw herself that way bc she was a lunatic constantly justifying her lunacy and rein of terror on others.

wasn’t accusing you. and for sure i agree, she had too much screentime. they didn’t really do anything with her character so even moreso it was torture that she got all this time for basically nothing.

i was referring to the character being annoying-and im not disagreeing btw just reflecting. i admit i found her irritating a few times in the middle when the plot was kind of drifting, but the entire script was annoying and useless those episodes so it was more annoying to me that they weren’t writing good development. otherwise i didn’t see her as truly irritating bc she was so genuinely innocent and pitiful. naive and doe eyed to a fault YES and too easily taken advantage of absolutely. but she was also surrounded by sharks from a young age — and was gaslit from an impressionable age which is really damaging psychologically (she couldn’t easily have a strong sense of discernment since she took those things in so deeply and she was getting mixed info at literally every turn).

because she was always a pawn being used left and right, i guess i was torn because i found it annoying that the writers didn’t try to develop her to become stronger and get a sense for what was real and not real for herself sooner. they sort of edged toward that for a minute but barely…and then almost just u-turned right back to where she started.

so ultimately yea just too much screen time for a 1 deminsional character. i ultimately liked her character though because despite her tragic upbringing she had a moral center and she didn’t get caught up in the power crap that the rest of her family was obsessed with. she immediately tossed all that stuff the minute she had it all to herself, so she had my respect overall. it was just disappointing how she didn’t have much savvy or critical thinking when she was literal shark meat for the majority lf the show!! but then it’s like she only knows the hostage life so who can blame her. idk.

i think if the writing were tighter it might have been better off for her character being more interesting, or yes as you said if they just gave her less screen time. that works too.

i don’t believe it, she chose everything and she could have chosen to walk away at any point. she refuses because at the end of the day she cares about power too and she plays her victim violin but she never really was one, past or present. she was never forced into that way of being. her pride is driving her 100%, so i can’t believe she was a genuinely kind person once - she is far too selfish and lacking empathy. her husband may have sucked but if she was really a kind person she would have just acknowledged that she chose the wrong guy and moved on - cut him off, walked away from him… and all the vain prestige and power and image of it all and found happiness. she went crazy because of how it hurt her ego more than her feelings. she even let a woman die over it, when she could have saved her life…when she knew her daughter was in the same room no less…like wth. nahhh. thats messed up and what a lame reason. that was incredibly selfish. yet somehow she felt sorry for herself about it, lmao. the list goes on and on and ON from there. she doesn’t care about murdering or threatening even children just to get gain and manipulate things in her favor. she is not a good person, she never was. a good/nice person doesn’t flip character that deeply. her husband certainly sucked but you could say that same for her, she was holding a knife to the throat to his daughters neck her whole childhood and into adulthood practically — and for what?! for her appearance and personal motives and wishes. she feels so sorry for herself too while terrozing people, truly a sick and twisted woman.

i can believe that she was quiet and seemed sweet once, but her sociopathic character was always there. it’s just not that easy for humans to throw away empathy to such an extreme extent and definitely not due to something so junenile that a simple divorce would have taken care of. she knew too, she was aware of her choices and what was too far. she wasn’t really sorry until she was bleeding out and dying and even then she just lamented feeling sorry for herself still. but it was clear she had a clear mind about it all, so. thank goodness she and her husband got blown up. good riddance i say, she deserved a life sentence of jail time (at least). she was just that psychotic. and she openly refused EVERY single opportunity to walk away, start anew, let it go and just move on an be happy. so many opportunities were presented to her but she had no real remorse or desire to relinquish “power”. she cried until her dying day like she was the pitiful victim when she was literally a puppet master. even early on she didn’t hesitate to play her power when it came down to it. so no she was never nice i wont ever believe that. she probably thought she was (bc she is self centered like that), or perhaps she even seemed it to others bc she was happy and hadn’t been deeply tested or whatever, but pressure and hardship sure showed her true colors.

agree with everything other than yoo jin being badass. she was a sociopath, utterly selfish and viscious from beginning and she spent 90% of her time wallowing in nauseating (and exasperating) self pity but she was absolu no victim. i dont see that as smart, just selfish enough to do whatever to get what she wants and run over anyone and anything that didn’t suit her agenda. it’s easy to appear smart when you dont play fair or have any real rules. it’s cunning and lack of empathy to the extreme. she deserved the fate she got.

yoo jin was deeply disturbed, and she simply was never going to land a guy like k2, it was not only NOT meant to be…it was completely unrealistic. she was too twisted to redeem either. yoo jin & k2 are completely different types of people. never in any universe would a guy like that go for her, it was always delusional of her to think that was ever possible from the beginning.

well yea, and she was held hostage and locked up in an attic (basically) away from the world for her whole childhood so…to me it makes sense that she is naive and weak

it would have been MUCH better if they developed her more and helped her character grow more backbone, but seeing how she was treated all her life … and gaslit CONSTANTLY left and right from the time she was little, i didn’t despise her character so much as it made sense…i just think the writing overall needed tightening

ewwww i don’t get why people feel this way. that woman was a SOCIOPATH. jail or death were the only appropriate endings for her…

she was never going to land a guy like that. lmao. in what universe.

stepmom was a complete sociopath - hell no - that would be so disgusting

THIS. she was held hostage her whole life, gaslit constantly left and right from the time she was a kid, and was locked away in the attic practically what do people expect???

also so many people rooting for the villian stepmom to be with ML 🤢🤮she is a literal sociopath, like excuse me???

She seems too dense and immature, I doubt she would come to her senses even then. She does need a serious reality check, but she seems too self centered for it to even make a difference in the end. I think the ML deserves someone more loyal.

The 2ml is a workaholic + he has no interest in the child just the FL, so I agree. The only one that seems to actually care about the child is the ML. Even though the FL claimed guardianship. FL is an idiot.

agreed, she can’t appreciate the ML but she was very self centered before the baby too

The baby and the ML are the only reason I keep watching but I don’t want him to be with the FL 😭 her character and the writing really tanked after ep 5