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I hope it’s well written. I am aching for something well written out of Korea this year, as it’s been a particularly low season in terms of writing. The cast is mint. I don’t expect less from them cos they are all very intelligent actors.

My opinion is mine. Yours is yours. If you feel strongly about your opinion then just hold on to it. There is no need to tell someone there opinion is invalid or not right. An opinion is not a fact. It’s just a position you and I have taken based on our frame of reference and taste. If you think this guy is “adorable”, good for you. Don’t come at me with it. I’m not interested nor did I ask to know if you find him adorable.

You know, you must be right. But in all honesty I have only seen this guy in two shows - When The Weather Is Fine (with Park Min Young) and his Cameo in Boyfriend On Demand. And frankly speaking, I don’t even think he’s a serious actor. He’s forgettable and mid. And therefore, his look or anything didn’t even register to me. I haven’t seen the show you are talking about. So it must be the case as you say. The girl, however, she’s a good actor. And I keep an eye out on her projects. That’s why I only noticed her and commented on her. (Shrugs) the guy is forgettable and basic as an actor.

In Siren’s Kiss, the ex-detective was too good being a police detective while his actual job was Insurance Fraud Investigator 😂

I feel such agony at how they have wasted the time of an actor like Namkoong Min on a script that’s badly written and a director who didn’t know what he was doing. But then again, no one forced him to do it, I guess. He signed on to this project himself. Oh well.

I feel no sympathy for the wife’s character. I really don’t.

I can feel it in my bones that this show’s writing has AI involved. 😂

The product placement with the whole damn box on a tray is diabolical. 😂😂😂 I laughed so hard.

The director is on a roll of making this show a caricature. A mother load of bad ideas.

Mr and Mrs Weirdo’s sob story is as badly written. lol nope, no thanks.

Okay wait a minute, the wife has issues with the husband that he’s been talking to a therapist?

Now she suddenly wants to be a wife. Didn’t we start the show with the husband trying to be a partner and the wife shutting him out. Now she suddenly wants to be let in. 😒 I mean, just divorce her. Why keep this marriage even. It’s irretrievably broken. Just get on with it.

“Counselling is confidential, so I can’t really share”. But I can tell you that he comes to me for counselling.

Like what ?!!! This is mal-effing-practice!! You can’t go about telling people hey, this person you know, he comes to me for therapy. What is this writing ? 😂

I know she’s done it on purpose, but the wife could have used it as a comeback.

The lady should have changed her look at least for this show. She just looks like she walked off the set of dynamite kiss and then doing the same thing on this one.

That deepfake video of the husband telling the kidnapper to abduct and do away with his wife is a thing of the past and just by bedridden criminal woman’s word we are to believe everything about her word and not corroborate the testimony from the evidence which is necessary for a trial. The detective work in this crime drama is so shoddy. I feel like … I wanna go into the show and tell those incompetent cops, hey look here, go there, do that. It’s obvious. I don’t see any urgency in episode 9 to try to catch a criminal who is at large. And the cops are so bad, they show up at the crime scene like three musketeers, doing not much but just repeating each other’s lines and looking dumb and confused. No sharpness or edge of cops in their demeanour.

From a crime thriller it is now morphing into a hospital drama. Like … I honestly think the director wasn’t capable enough to juice the damn script. Send it for rewrites and then create a cohesive storyboard that made the viewer not call out the problems.

The loony couple have much more chemistry than the ML and FL as a couple 😂

This show shouldn’t have been called The Husband. It should’ve been called The 70s Cop Work 😂

I have exceptional taste. 😉 and I don’t say it in a braggadocio way or anything. If I don’t cultivate good taste and evolve eclectically in my choices, then I don’t make a living. And that’s why I mean it when I call something shit or good. It has nothing to do with the actors or their fandom or their conduct or life choices. It’s purely on the merits and quality of an actor’s / project’s talent, craft and growth as a working artist.

I think it's Min Ho Woo (the writer and director of the series) just giving us what we missed in S1. or maybe he's just tying the ends for the global audiences who don't know much about that era in South Korea's history and will not bother to read about it either and then show up at the gates of season 2 and say "hey what happened? I need more details". I respect the choice of using a different medium (webtoon) for filling the gaps in the 9 year narrative. Drama/Filmmaking, especially a period piece set in a specific era is extremely expensive. The creator has to be right about everything production wise. You don't have to consume it. But it definitely is not a Star Wars type thing.

I think it's MinHo also exorcising his childhood in some sort of way. He grew up in that era of upheaval in South Korea. If you go through his filmography, you will see it is heavily influenced by that era. And as a cineaste, I sometimes understand more about the creator's psychology, personality and approach to storytelling from the work they put out.

Can someone post the link to this webtoon here, please. Thanks in advance.

In my line of work, I have had access to talent. And let me tell you something that I’ve observed. I would not want to live a life that they live. Ever. The part you said about “access to a stranger’s romantic relationships”. It goes beyond that. Their politics, their body, their choice of partners, their sexuality. No wonder they go crazy. Human beings are not created for global scrutiny and constant attention. We are created for community and service. I mean speak about the merits or the quality of their work and craft and that’s it. Why inhale their private lives like some drug and then go on a rampage. Lunacy.