Heo's Diner Episode 6

Wonderful historical and psychological rom-com thriller

This kdrama is funny :) The acting is great. Learning about Korean history and food is amazing. The story is really good and so fun. Hey this is not a fast paced thriller but it is an amazing story and acting and... it is REAL. This kind of stuff is happening right now as we speak. This kdrama is about you and me and everyone else... Yeah maybe it is an old trope time travel, but this one has twists that you haven't seen before :)

One thing that makes it great is good acting of the FL, ML and the villain, esp FL. It is hard to find a good FL actress. This FL actress is an excellent actress, so she made the FL character very complex and fun to watch. FL is sarcastic, insecure. poor-trying-to-be-tough but really feeling desperate and lost,... - and also warm and righteous, typically when nobody is looking ... She is a little girl, hurt and failing, and trying to trudge on, and also smart enough to seize the opportunity and kind enough to teach the Josean guy about things he does not know.. She is a little stupid and rude, calls the dude Mr. Homeless in public.... She is a little rebel angry desperate girl and hopefully will grow up soon. I am writing this after ep. 6 :) where she exhibited her smarts and asked some tough questions but fell back into her insecurity and swallowed the lies :)

FL is an amazing comedian and really makes it real. That actress is excellent. Her role is really complex and deep as she has layers of opposites that she keeps toggling between LOL and her acting skills are amazing.

FL is a perfect match to the bubbly, overly optimistic, overly confident, overly righteous, very warm and generous, and VERY NAIVE Josean ML. ML is really a nice guy and he has trouble understanding that there ARE bad guys out there.... ML is an amazing comedian too. He is an idol, I think, but he is a great actor. Many models or idols are good-looking but cannot act. This guy CAN act well. His role is not all that complex though because he is a typical oblivious male who just cannot read the room and he is socially ZERO, he really cannot read people nor the room LOL He is not a politician at all... He is a healer. He sees what people truly need. He never ever plays games and it does not occur to him that other people do LOL but he is smart enough to study it and understand, and adjust. But he is nobble and at this point useless noble bc he is so naive. I am writing this review after ep 6. He has NOT grown up yet :) He has not even started to ask questions nor to take note of his own feelings of imminent danger or his memories of the villain trying to kill him. He SEES IT, he FEELS IT, and his brain is stuck on "hey that Villain dude is such a nice guy." That's how dumb he was in Josean and today... eons of being stupid... and now being healed in this kdrama :)

And the villain is an amazing actor too as a villain. The Villain actor really conveys a MONSTER. A monster a lot more scary than anything you could find anywhere. He is subtle but powerful and gets you goose bumps how SCARY he is, he is scarier than Godzilla..... a smooth-talking, praising you, pretending he cares for you, pretending he has an interest in your well-being, you-feel-good-while-he-backstabs-you kind of person, a CHRONIC LIAR in a way that is impossible to detect... he makes YOU feel like you are going crazy as he convinces you that blue is red. and takes your life. He is like ... you know that Disney movie about Moglie? When the big python wraps around Moglie and hypnotizes him with his eyes and is just about to eat him? Well the villain character, Chef, is worse than that. HE IS SLIMEY and DANGEROUS.

The actor who acts the Villain makes it really really SCARY bc he really conveys the Vilan character so well. And the script is great to show the important details that really showcase that he is so cruel, evil, scheming, lying, and he is soooo good looking and nice and successful, so socially engaged and so political, always in positions of power and dolling it over others, he is A RESPECTED PUBLIC FIGURE OF GREAT STANDING , he is soooo smooth and always says the perfect thing ... AND LIES AND CHEATS NON STOP.... and DESTROYS other people non stop ........ bc HE has to be on the top..... and the scary part is, .nobody suspects him. He is a successful social and political figure.... So he goes around doing all kinds of bad stuff... he really knows how to lie. He is calm, composed, lying and killing machine with a pretty and COLD face.

This is not your typucal psychopath cheabol who kills others to get to the top. This dude is a sociopath. He is UNDERCOVER. His devil's tale is well hidden under his polite, smooth, handsome, PLEASING, SUCCESSFUL appearance and demeanor.

One value of this kdrama is just to watch him and find out what kind of facial expressions, body language, tone of voice, and your own intuition are RED FLAGS that you should RUN RUN RUN!!!!!!! run for your life before this monster eats you alive. The villain is a classic sociopath, in a very very very bad flavor, an extreme case. Read "The Empathy Trap" article online to learn what that is like. The scary part is that ppl like that are all around us. The villain character is a monster, truly monster, in Joseaon and today.

This kdrama is about building karma. That dude was building bad karma since Joseaon and probably before... he was just PERFECTLY EVIL. and... FL and ML are totally smitten with his nice face and lying... FL is so insecure, a few nice words bought her 100% unquestioned trust... and the ML is too naive and did not acknowledge that the Villain back then in Joseon actually tortured him and killed him. ML is that typical confident PRIVILEGED male who is just OBLIVIOUS. He meets all kinds of people who he recognized as ppl who did him bad and he still does not connect the dots bc to him ... the world is a great place. The ML is too naive and trusts the villain blindly bc ML is a very good guy.

I AM SURE you will find yourself in some of those three characters. Each one is an exaggarated character flow and character strengths... This kdrama has karma and magical figures and time travel... but the issues are eternal. I love it. It is real life, for real. Everything in this kdrama is definitely happening right now to you or me. Maybe not in a kitchen LOL like for them, but in life.

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