Secret Garden Episode 4

Rattlesnake mother appears

You will laugh, but I was a little on edge about watching this episode with my mom. It is one of my favourites, but it also contains the most disturbing scene in the drama for me: Joo Won throwing clothes at RaIm's feet and stating she's not worthy of even being thought of as his toy mistress.
When I saw it the first time, I truly wanted to cause Joo Won physical pain, and until now I can't think of it without shivering.
That same scene, however, is also one of the most sensually charged and revealing, and this is what my mother focused her attention on.
Although condemning Joo Won's behaviour on basically everything he does and says, she agrees with him on one thing only: RaIm's badly dressed.

me: "she's poor. How can he humiliate her for the fact that she can't afford things?"
mom: "it's not a question of money. She could just wear a pair of normal jeans and a white T-shirt, it would be classier. He's not criticizing her poverty, he's blaming her lack of propriety."
I can't contradict her: that's the main point of the episode, mirrored perfectly when Joo Won's mother appears at his house and suggests RaIm is there to collect money for her "services". And not surprisingly, Joo Won's appalled too, now that he hears it from the mouth of somebody else.

Mom laughed out loud at the Kim's family lunch. She commented on how perfectly chosen the two sisters are: Oska's mother is the essence of vanity and shallowness, just like his son. And Joo Won's is a modern Lady Catherine de Bourg, haughty, unreasonable, obnoxious and materialistic.

For those who may have forgotten or overlooked the exchange between the two sisters, here's how it starts:

Oska's mom: What were you talking about?
JW's mom: Does anyone here have a chatty mouth except for you?
Oska's mom: Is it not possible to get plastic surgery on that attitude?

Oska's mom: It's lame without my Woo Young. [...] I just talked to him, he said he's in Jeju island, not in Thailand.
JW's mom: He's like that. Doesn't even know where he is.

Hahahahaha. Oh my. :D

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