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No one aside from ML.

She may very well be older - studying to become a practicing prosecutor/lawyer takes a lot of time, she's at her final year. Also, there was some info about her in episode 2, when she brought her CV to get hired by ML - there was closeup shot of her CV. Maybe there was her age there, but I don't speak Korean to understand what's where in it. Something blurry looking like an age was in the upper right corner - 24 or 34.
ML character looks to be at least in his late 30s, but his actor is actually 44.

Nice to see the score coming back to 8+, this show deserves it.
My favorite side character now is Aziz. He does seem to be an amalgamation of common stereotypes about guest workers from Middle East and South Asia, but he fights back with his funny "it's your bias".
I hope ML stops running after that conniving bitch who talks about herself in third person soon. Have some self-respect, man.

There is ML's ex girlfriend from 12 years ago, who returned and wants him back, even though she herself cruelly ditched him. ML though couldn't care less after all that time, so there's no real love triangle here.

I kinda didn't get the paintings switcheroo and what really happened to defendant's foster father.

The defendant painted the umbrella man on a three year old painting on the wall to cover something up on it (blood?) and greedy art industry workers practically stole it to auction it? What right did they have to take any paintings that are the property of the family (defendant's sister for example), especially while the whole house and property inside it was sealed because investigation is still ongoing.
What happened to the painting on the easel, the one his foster father was supposedly painting last?

His foster father is actually dead? When did he actually die (judging by the preview he died a while ago)? The way they said it was as if he didn't paint the paintings himself/was an impostor or smth?

P.S. FL really did lean heavily on her family connections and wealth in this episode, but with mixed success. But ML still got the most brains, he seems to be the only one who figured it out already.

Both couples are cute, but I hope there's also more funny corporate stuff like in the first two episodes.
ML pining for that conniving woman who just uses him for her convenience was sad to watch, hopefully FL will kick his butt so hard he finally snaps out of it 🤣

It’s an ok watch.

SK has a bit safer environment in public places and both drug dealers and users are severly punished by the law, but still it's just wrong to show female characters getting sloshed senseless for cheap giggles. There's rarely a kdrama without this sort of scene, it's practially a staple trope by now. And it sends the wrong message that excessive drinking is good and fun, alcoholism is nothing to be afraid of and there's no danger of being taken advantage of.
Also, why male characters are very rarely shown in these embarassing situations?

Agreed, these drunk females scenes show all the wrong messages. Irl that’s a sure way to get taken advantage of or worse. But in kdramas they very rarely show the horrible outcomes of getting wasted in public places, mostly in criminal dramas, and even then often try victim blaming.

Well, as you point out, it indeed looks like siblings relationship at this point. 20 years gap is just way too long not to realize whether they have romantic feelings for each other or not. I'd totally be fine with a 5+ something years of friendship/secret pining kinda plot, but not frikking 20! This is just ridiculously long time span, for more than half their life they've been living like this. And from what we've seen they basically live in the same house like an old tired couple or close siblings, not bothered with appearances, and suddenly - a supposedly "unique" situation - and bam! it hits them. Yea, right 🙄
And although nothing was stopping ML from confessing years ago, or after FL moved on last time from breakup with her ex, I still smell the classic unrequited love trope here somewhere, but 20 years is still too long.

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There's also May It Please The Court on Wednesdays.

Some sort of dumb circus, pass.

Sounds very similar to recent If You Wish Upon Me.
Let's hope it's not as boring.

Blind date girl is very cunning by playing innocence. And looks like it’s gonna be love square with FL’s ex back into the picture. I’m not a fan of third wheeling in dramas, but let’s see how annoying it will get.

What’s your take, guys, on this “friends to lovers with giant 20 years gap” type of plot? Realistic or fantasy? Personally, I think there’s no way in all these 20 years they didn’t have any sort of situations like the one at end of ep2 and neither felt any romantic feelings towards another at some point. It’s either your classical ML with unrequited love again (possible because FL was in love with another man and maybe didn’t notice ML’s feelings). Or it’s a fantasy slice of life about midlife crisis, regrets and realizations about what and who’s really important in life. Or at least most suitable.

Without knowing the leads better it’s as unrealistic to me so far as the premise in ongoing Law Cafe, but there at least it’s all clear with ML being in love with FL all those years, but due to dumb circumstances he avoided her most of the time.

P.S. No hate for the drama, I actually like that it’s more mature audience oriented. Just this premise is kind of a niggle.

I'm more curious how this whole plot gonna end. In the beginning of episode 1, wasn't it the blind date girl with ML in that dating variety show? They're not gonna get married for real, are they? I hate this certain type of drama where the leads go separate ways in the end, it's a waste of time for me. Now that I think about it, maybe I should put it on hold...😬

You should have paid more attention, especially to FL, it didn't start in the last few episodes. Maybe it was too subtle for you, I don't know.

I tried it once, put it on hold, tried again after more episodes aired and then dropped it today. ML is cute, but the rest is a messy waste of time. I'm also not a fan on PMY and her typecast roles, so maybe that played a part.

It's pure fiction, but clearly some people take it too seriously and blow it out of proportion. Yea, it was mentioned that Koreans were few in Vietnam war and they were super elite trained soldiers in that ficitional version of history, so of course their KD ratio was skewed heavily in their favor compared to average conscripts. It was deliberate writing though, to show how elite those soldiers were and judging by ML's commando dad I could believe it.
But if every historical fiction were to be banned there'd be none to watch, because of course writers very often glorify one side and disparage the other. But whatever, nowadays just give people any reason and they'll scream bloody murder...