You and Everything Else

Ragebait or Masterpiece?

How do you even put it into words when you love and hate something at the same time? That’s exactly what this drama was for me. A 15 hours of pure ragebait that I couldn’t stop binge watching.

I loved the overall aesthetic of the show. The plot was well written, and I liked how it took us through every stage of the main leads’ lives while also touching on the stories of the supporting characters.

Now let’s talk about the second female lead (SFL). Whew. She drove me crazy. The way she treated the first female lead (FFL) was infuriating, and what made it worse was how the FFL just let it slide for so long. But then the second half hit, and the FFL finally clapped back. That shift was so satisfying.

The thing is, nobody in this drama is perfect. Everyone’s flawed, sometimes to the point where you want to throw your laptop, but honestly, that’s what gave it depth. The romance, too, was compelling. It carried that nostalgic spark of first love, and Kim Go Eun and Kim Gun Woo delivered outstanding performances. Still, like many first loves, theirs was imperfect and painful.

Now… I still don’t know how the FFL managed to forgive the SFL. Like, yes, she was sick, but after everything? Personally, I could never. That girl needed therapy, not endless passes to dump her issues on everyone else. But the show made a point both the FFL and SFL only got to where they were in life because of how much they pushed (and sometimes broke) each other. Messy, complicated, necessary. A frenemy arc that could only end the way it did.

By the end, I realized this drama mirrors the FFL and SFL’s relationship itself. Just like they couldn’t decide if they loved or hated each other, we might feel the same about the show. And honestly? That’s what makes it stick with you.

Would I recommend it? Yes… but also be ready to scream at your screen.

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Since when we romantize toxicity and manimulation

From the beginning of this heartbreaking drama someone can feel uncomfortable, sometimes angry,like if you have a thorn by your side
This is not a story between two friends which begun from the childhood shared deep affection with the ups and down of the life .This the story of the narcissistic Cheon Sang who never wished to be happy and find her own path in life,her wish was Ryun Eun to be miserable and broken and dedicated all her life to steal Euns man who was in love,her job,her identity ,her future On the other side Ryun Eun sincerely face Cheon with genuine feelings and always is the one to step back even if she knows that Cheon like to victimize her situations
I feel sorry for Ryun Eun because i think that Sang Hak made his decision when he decided to turn off the phone and leave her without notice looking for Cheon
The worst when Eun asked him about his feelings for Cheon he looked shattered and he said it to her.
Something that made hard the ex lovers to be together i suppose was the weaknesses of Sang Hak to convince his love In the film Sang Hak says to Eun ...i am starting again
falling in love with you again. ..why i found it so wrong
I was expecting to say i have never stopped loving you
I hated the role of Euns mother,instead of protecting her daughter of this parasite friendship she was acting like she had brain damage.
Ignore the last episodes, are not good examples for healthy relationships.
What is the meaning, the person who hurt you the most and hate you the most regrets and ask for forgiveness few days before her Death.
I dont find any poetical messages definitely nothing about friendship that drama was cruel.

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Complex people are not for everyone.

When I first heard about this drama, I did not really understand the title. But now I see that she wanter her friend and everything else around her
I wish I could say I didn’t understand Sang-Yeon. I wish I could say I hated her. But the truth is... I do understand her.
Cheon Sang-Yeon wasn’t evil. She was broken. Most of what she did came from fear and insecurity — reacting to a world she didn’t know how to trust.
Eun-Jung, on the other hand, was almost too kind, too naive. She just wanted to be loved by everyone. Maybe if she had set firmer boundaries from the beginning, things wouldn’t have gone as far as they did.
Each of them was flawed in their own way. That’s what made it so real. Still, as much as I sympathized with Sang-Yeon, I don’t think she deserved Eun-Jung’s forgiveness — and perhaps, she didn’t even deserve a happy ending. Sometimes, remorse comes too late.
This review might seem conflicting — because my feelings are conflicting. But I think that’s exactly what this show does so well. It makes you sit with the uncomfortable truth that not everyone who’s hurting deserves a second chance... even if you understand why they’re hurting.

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The Messiest Friendship in Kdrama History - And I'm here for it!

A Surprisingly Beautiful Drama

You and Everything Else was such a pleasant surprise and definitely one of the most underrated dramas of the year. It felt so well thought-out, and every scene had intention and weight behind it (with the exception of the random smoking scenes). Each character was beautifully developed to the point where there were moments I felt deep love and deep hatred for certain characters, especially Sangoen.

Female Friendships Done Right

I don’t think we get enough portrayals of the complexity of female friendships in media: the unspoken boundaries women have with each other, the envy, the bare vulnerability, and the subtle pretentiousness that sometimes shows up. This drama captured all of that. We got to see a friendship stand the test of time, but not in a conventional way. They argued, they fought, they hurt each other, and they even hated each other at certain points, yet they still cared so deeply. Their lives changed so drastically, and honestly, so many things went wrong between them that I wouldn’t have expected them to even be in the same room. But somehow, they were always drawn back to each other.

Forgiveness, Faith, and the Messiness of Love

My faith teaches me to love my enemies and forgive those who hurt me, but this show really put that idea to the test. Eunjong suffered a lot because of Sangoen’s pride and fear of connection, and she had every reason to hate her. But I don’t think she ever truly did. Sangoen basically ruined her love life and part of her career, yet Eunjong still found a way to forgive her and empathize with all the awful things Sangoen endured.

A Drama That Stayed With Me

Overall, I loved this drama. It’s the first time I’ve cried to a K-drama this year, and that alone says a lot.

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Worth the watch! Red flags for that friend!!!

I could have spot her red flags from a mile a way. I couldnt find anything to like or care about Cheon Sang-yeon.
Ryu Eun-jung is very soft hearted and Cheon Sang-yeon always play with her emotions. She ruined Eun-jung and I know even when they were all working together, she again played with Eun-jung emotions and Kim Sang-hak and Eun-jung couldnt rekndle their relationship.
She just ruined everything over and over and over.
What I don't like is that Eun-jung always welcome Sang-yeon in her life. She set no real boundaries and that is why she always think she is welcome in her life.
Someone (friend) like that would make me very cold hearted towards her and there was nothing that could happen that would make me feel warmth towards them.
I dont wish sickness of anyone and surprisingly, I didnt shed a tear.
I know Eun-jung would have had her happy ending with Sang-hak (when they got older and working together)
Overall it was worth the watch and it was nice to see a story like this.

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A moving story retold with heart, lifted by Kim Go Eun’s brilliance.

The Korean drama You and Everything Else takes its roots from the 2016 Chinese film Soulmate — and, by extension, the long lineage of stories about two women whose lives and friendship are deeply intertwined. But where Soulmate condensed its tale into a focused emotional tragedy, this drama stretches the story over 16 episodes, making it more layered, complex, and socially loaded.

At its heart, the show is about Eun-jung and Sang-yeon, two women bound together by friendship so deep it feels like destiny, yet torn apart by love, betrayal, and time. Their relationship is the emotional core — every episode circles back to their bond, how it falters, and whether it can ever be healed.

The role of Kim Sang-hak: the butterfly effect

Though the drama frames itself as a story about two women, it’s impossible to ignore that Kim Sang-hak is the butterfly that sets everything in motion.

He dates Eun-jung, enjoying a physical and romantic relationship with her.

At the same time, he forms an emotionally intimate bond with Sang-yeon, hiding conversations and feelings that clearly cross boundaries.

He admits later that he was “swayed,” but beyond this confession, the drama doesn’t hold him accountable.

From a modern viewer’s perspective, Sang-hak comes across less as a confused young man and more as someone who benefits most from the triangle: he gains love, intimacy, and emotional support from both women — while the two friends pay the heavier price. He is the spark that ignites years of heartbreak, yet he walks away relatively unscathed.

Why the women blame each other instead of him

Logically, Sang-hak should bear most of the blame. As Eun-jung’s boyfriend, he owed fidelity. But the drama emphasizes betrayal between the women:

Eun-jung feels her soulmate, the one person she trusted most, crossed a sacred line by getting close to her partner.

Sang-yeon, meanwhile, prioritizes her own desires over loyalty, proving herself selfish and willing to hurt her friend.

The result: the focus shifts away from Sang-hak’s unfaithfulness and onto the fragility of female friendship. The real wound isn’t just the cheating — it’s the loss of trust between two women who once felt inseparable.

The tragic outcomes

The drama paints both women’s lives as tragic consequences of this betrayal:

Eun-jung becomes independent, empowered, and outwardly successful — but she remains emotionally closed off, unable to risk love again after such a deep break of trust. Her strength is a mask for loneliness.

Sang-yeon spirals further, her selfishness and betrayals piling up into guilt that consumes her. Her eventual death from cancer is framed almost like karma catching up — a symbolic punishment for years of unresolved sins.

Meanwhile, Sang-hak fades into the background. He admits fault, rejects Sang-yeon later in life, and moves on. Compared to the devastation he caused, his punishment is negligible.

What the drama really says

Viewed one way, You and Everything Else is an extended exploration of Soulmate’s themes: how fragile, precious, and destructive female friendship can be when love enters the picture.

Viewed another way, though, it feels frustratingly unfair. The man who first set off the domino effect is never truly condemned, while the women lose everything — their bond, their peace, their futures. The narrative burdens them with the tragedy while sparing him real consequences.

In the end, the drama works best when read as a modern fable:

Eun-jung represents the cost of broken trust — strength without love.

Sang-yeon represents the cost of selfishness — passion consumed by guilt and death.

Sang-hak represents temptation — a butterfly whose small act destroys entire lives, yet who drifts away almost untouched.

Final Thoughts

You and Everything Else is haunting, emotional, and beautifully acted, but it leaves a bitter aftertaste. It expands Soulmate into something more socially complex, but in doing so, it exposes an imbalance: women bear the scars, men slip away.

It’s a drama that will stay with you, not just for the love and loss it portrays, but for the uncomfortable questions it raises about blame, responsibility, and the way stories choose who suffers most.

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A story about toxic yet forgiving friendship, toally carried by leads' acting

Honestly, I was ready to drop it at episode 3 when I realized it's gonna turn into a mess. I continued hoping to watch more of Sang Yeon's side of story which actually never happened. There was about 1-2 minutes of script reading about her life but I wouldn't count that as her side of story.
The writers really couldn't justify the way she acted. Not sure if it's just me but the portrayal of her character was giving a hint that everything she was doing was ultimately for Eun Jung. Turned out, it wasn't. The writers really made her a "patthetic bitch".
Sadly, it only tried to show the exploitation of human emotions and kindness and never tried to prove otherwise. There were many instances of such, not just Eun Jung's emotional abuse. Sang Yoen accepting the proposal of that boy during her uni days, marrying the director, Lee Seung Jae's actions and violence during the shooting, their apologies despite being the victim and so on. I also had a gripe about the writer's reasoning behind their brother's suicide. The writers kept trying to drag the story, earlier with their brother's death, later with love triangle and finally with terminal illness.

I couldn't find anything positives in any of it. It's a frustratingly depressing story with nothing to learn from. I know it's typical of dramas to drag the misunderstandings to make the whole story but it was a lot worse.

If it wasn't for their acting, I doubt I would have completed the drama at all. Overall, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

Not sure why people are hyping about it. Maybe, I'm just different. I don't enjoy a story just because it makes you bawl your eyes out.

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A puzzling friendship

I have to say, I dont really understand what this show is trying to convey.

This isn't a story about great friendship or great love. It seems to be mostly about a woman who is gracious to the point that the word "pushover" comes to mind. With a bit of family and romantic drama sprinkled in.

Eunjung is just average in most respects, but has an innate ability to draw people to her. Sangyeon is intelligent and tenacious, but also prickly and unable to get out of her own way. This makes for a complex decades-long friendship.

There are many raw, intensely realistic moments portrayed between friends, family and loves.

But where this show really messed up, imo, is 1. not showing enough moments, particularly past childhood, of Sangyeon behaving in a way that warranted Eunjung's loyalty and kindness, & 2. continuing a blasted love triangle from college years into their 30s. Surely there are other methods to explore a complex female friendship than putting a man in the mix.

The drama ends with these women in their 40s, and gives proper closure to the friendship, but not to the life of present-day Eunjung.

Do I feel it was worth the watch? I honestly don't know.

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sangyeon wasn’t evil, she was empty. and emptiness hurts everyone around it.

sangyeon broke me. at first she seemed cruel and a bitch, but then i saw her loneliness. she never got love, always felt useless, and hurt her bestfriend bc it was the only way to release her pain. when she said “he told her goodbye and smiled at her but not at me, it must’ve been me, i was the reason for his death” 💔 you feel her emptiness. park ji hyun made her human, layered, tragic, she just needed someone to stay by her side, every girl needs her mother’s presence, or else she learns to live unloved“sometimes we feel like we’re ruining our own lives, but what can we do when we don’t even know the right move? all we need is a hug, some love… not revenge. she was truly one of the best written female character or chaarcter generally I’ve ever seen. I love how complex they made her and explained everything she did :((( this drama rlly ruined me

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