MishMeesh

"we have The Good Place at home"
The Good Place at home:

There's only 4 episodes released so we don't know. Lots of dramas add new themes partway through. It does not only focus on romantic relationships but that is the main focus so far.

This feels tonally a bit all over the place. Definitely has some brilliant moments for both comedy (the frying pan PLEASE) and drama (honestly just adore Yeong Ae's characterization), and it has a lot of potential, but not sure how much whiplash I can take as it struggles to juggle between those two modes. I like when emotional shows use comedy to help break up the heavy parts, but here it felt like the shifts between emotional moments and comedy are quite clunky, to the point where I end up too tentative to take an emotional/dramatic moment seriously as I'm not sure if a zany joke is around the corner. Sometimes one comes and other times it plays it straight. Also not a fan of the narration button (??) which feels like they just blatantly gave up on the concept of "show, don't tell". I'll give it a couple more episodes to see if it can settle into a more consistent tonal rhythm. At the moment tho, it's kind of got an undercooked The Good Place vibe to it

Yes, they see each other every year in Switzerland.

Where was it proved that he didn't do it? He literally admitted that he did it.

Shin Ha Ri feels like two different characters when she isn't around Kang Tae Moo vs when she is around him. She is introduced as quick-witted, ambitious, and bright but suddenly turns into an airhead who goes "eh? what? [blank face]" at almost any interaction with Kang Tae Moo. I can grant a bit of it happening at the first couple of meetings but this aspect seemed to never get better and it was really frustrating to watch. Her personality got drained whenever she was with the guy. It exacerbated the mid-series plot slowdown and it became a slog to finish. The second leads had way more chemistry and consistent personalities.

After thinking about it again, I think maybe they were trying to get the neighbour Geun Ho arrested because he did know the truth about Seon-A’s murder. So they tried to frame him for another murder by creating circumstantial evidence placing him there. Which is the most convoluted way to go about it but I can’t think of any other reason why they would do what they did, all those years later lol. It still wasn’t explained well or implemented well.

I love a cute slice of life, and this one at its heart is very sweet. Siwan did so well acting as someone with severe social anxiety/selective mutism. I'm a bit confused about the motive for Mrs. Jung's murder. Seon-A's murder was already considered solved and the real murderers weren't suspected, so why would they even go about trying to murder Yeoreum? They said it was to cover up Seon-A's murder but I don't understand how that's the case. Seemed like unnecessary drama and heartbreak that put a big dark cloud over a show that's otherwise really light and healing.

does anyone else remember how Ri-an got so embarrassed that she put a paper bag over her head and ran away one episode and we literally never see her again for the entire show, or did I hallucinate that

I hate to be the shallow "he's handsome" comment but...👀

It was bothering the heck out of me because I knew I'd seen Kim Yoonjin in something before but didn't recognize any of the credits on her page here. But I realized after a bit that she was Sun in the ABC show Lost! It's really cool to see her come back to Korean dramas, and I love this character. Badass.

Ah yes, you're right! Still can hardly believe that transformation, holy gosh

It is a bit confusing though, this website has a Tae Won Suk and a Tae Won Seok (both 태원석) listed with different credits yet the same birthday. They also have different headshots for each, though both look like they could be the actor in Player (however the headshot for Tae Won Suk looks more obviously like him because of the eyebrows, but still drastically less muscle). Makes me wonder if they're confusing two people or if they mistakenly have the same person listed twice.