Flashback. Staircase, day. (The one of the breakup) EunHo+HyeonO have been dating for 3 months. Excellent: when she starts talking about marriage, he stops and she continues up the stairs on her own. Heavy with meaning.
02:20 - Title: The farewell story. ‘For love’
02:30 - Flashback, when HyeonO has the family emergency, leaves without saying a word, and leaves EunHo alone. He looks at the pendant in his car. About to go to the grandma's.
03-10 - Flashback to HyeonO as a child + his mother. His mother has to leave. Gives her the pendant. (nice transition) 04:10, the director's framing is just crazy. Double framing + mother made invisible. The mother asks him to be where everyone can see him. I guess, so does she.
04:25 - HyeonO as a teenager. Works for his father who is a mobster or a guy in debt. HyeonO has a younger brother Ji-On and a younger sister Su-Jung. But not the same mother?
07:10 - Children face illegal moneylender. A woman. (Ban Hyo-Jung, aka one of the ‘grandma’) Have to give the father money, but he withdrew a small sum. So now the children are in trouble. The woman slaps him!
09:45 - Rotten situation, father in debt because he's a gambler. HyeonO still manages to study.
10:15 - HyeonO gets a job as a waiter. The loan woman comes to piss him off.
10:50 - Fire in the building. Father dies. So he should go to the orphanage. but...
12:00 - The loan woman comes to bother him again. As if he had debts! But it's his father's debt. I just want to punch her in the face. Unexpected: she's willing to write off the debt if... She takes him under her wing. Adopts him?! On condition that he takes care of them when they're old. 15:22 - Story of the magpie who brings a pumpkin seed. He accepts the deal.
16:04 - The woman runs an (illegal?) casino. So he has to take care of 5 women (the managers) when they get old. (Or is it 6?) We see his superb bedroom in the attic. But in those days it was dusty and cluttered.
18:30 - The woman drags brother and sister into the deal? No, at 20:10 it looks like the idea came from HyeonO.
Later, the grandmothers are happy to have children at home.
The staircase cluttered with objects, to make sure that one day or another, someone will fall down it. lol! Used for the passage of time, showing that HyeonO has grown up and....
24:40 - 2017, he was accepted as a candidate Presenter.
25:35 - Pictures of this weird family. Already seen in another episode, but it was confusing. Now it makes sense, although I wouldn't be able to say the names of any of the ladies.
27:04 - During the meal, one of the grandmothers loses her memory. The troubles of old age begin... She dies shortly afterwards.
28:00 - Funeral room. A woman tells HyeonO to get married, because that's what the grandmas want before they die. He doesn't want to, because he can't involve anyone in his task of looking after the grandmas. He would be willing to get married, but thinks that EunHo wouldn't be able to stand that kind of life.
30:36 - Restaurant, night. HyeonO+EunHo She's bought a necklace in Japan identical to his mother's, after EunHo herself lost it. lol!
32:30 - She insists that he hang the pendant in the car, but he refuses. (back to an earlier episode, when she's surprised to see the necklace in the car)
33:08 - End of backstory! Back to the car. Transition with the pendant again. Well done! It's raining BUT he's back from the grandma's. So what he did at the grandma's NOW is overshadowed by his backstory with the grandma's instead. Brilliant!
Next, breakup scene. (end of previous episode)
His ‘Be sick’ line takes on a whole new meaning. Since we know he's looking after sick grandmas. Great writing!
35:00 - He returns to his car. Pendant in close-up. He unhooks it and puts it away! And yes, this pendant, we now understand, was a symbol of his enduring love for her. That's why it was hanging in the Ep3 car, after he'd gone to fetch her from the fridge van. We don't see him crying, but tons of water are falling on the windscreen, lol!
35:56 - HyeonO in hospital, grandma's leg broken. It's confusing. Is it a flashback? From the sister, it looks like he's just arrived. So it wasn't between the time he left EunHo and came back? Shit!!! What's going on?!!
38:00 - Media, day. It's raining! Teaser scene, about the 9pm news anchor, CUT Transition to HyeonO in the hall. Answer on the TV screen: it won't be him but... Clown Jae Yong, looooool! He's just lost his girlfriend, and now his dream job. The scriptwriter is in torture mode. 39:17, magic shot of the director. He's tiny on the left, giant portrait of clown Jae Yong.
39:30 - EunHo hears the company rumours.
40:14 - Revelation from the unpleasant press chief. (the one who sponsors young Shim) It's HyeonO who doesn't want to be a 9pm presenter. WWHHHAAAATTTT?!!!!!!
40:50 - Flashback. Yeah, I predicted this, in a previous episode. When EunHo got into trouble with the boss. She leaves upset. Then we saw HyeonO enter the office. The scene here. Of course, it was to help her. To present the lunchtime news. The deal is that Shim JinWa does the 9pm news with HyeonO. BUT: the boss can't. It would create too much chaos in the company to choose two announcers to present the news. SO, HyeonO sacrifices himself. T T ... For EunHo. T T
42:50 - Chief Shin-Joong tells EunHo the facts. Some of the previous media plots were confusing, but this one is clear!
43:25 - EunHo + HyeonO What's more, she yells at him. lol! I won't recap the dialogue, but it's spicy and needs re-watching. He can't get a word in edgewise. Too bad! She leaves without his opinion. Tcham!
46:00 - Despite everything, she sheds a tear. AhaAAhh, it tortures her. She cries in the lift and...
46:45 - Flashback EunHo + HyeonO She: why are you dating me? Talks about the ‘why is HyeonO dating this loser’ rumours. The ‘embarrassing’ kind of thing, lol. He doesn't answer, but when she's gone... He types a message. Teaser. We don't see but... In the car, EunHo gets the message. ‘Because I love you’.
49:20 - Media N. HyeYeon arrives. Paparazzi rumour about her and Ju-Yun.
51:15 - She gets kicked off the news because of this. Ouch.
51:40 - Ju-Yun arrives, informed of the rumours.
52:30 - HyeYeon reads 297 unpleasant comments on the internet. Curious to see their texts... Ju-Yun arrives. 53:02, another surprising shot of the director.
Later, her apology letter. A bit incisive but not too much. I suppose, not apologetic enough, and justifying her attitude as normal. Or joking that she'll never have anyone over for a drink again. lol!
01:00:08 - Car park, night. Ju-Yun is looking for Hyeri. Still missing.
01:01:20 - EunHo and Hyeri's ring. She's putting it on! Sure enough, Hyeri comes back. ahah. And then... She's on the bike... Start smiling....
01:02:55 - Car park, daytime. Ju-Yun arrives. And.............. Sees Hyeri! The thing is now: Her hair style is almost identical to EunHo's. She says hello and cliffhanger!!! Introducing a mystery: is it really Hyeri? A Hyeri who forgot EunHo? Or a mix of the two ones? Or EunHo roleplaying?
dude I use that word asexually btw I just finished ep 13 and wrote a big reply to a review then looked at comments…
Ah, I forgot to say: good comedy often makes me smile, and smile wide when it's excellent. But could be because I'm getting old, I don't have a lot of true laughing fit. I mean: when you laugh so much that your guts hurt and you have tears!
And THIS drama had a scene that made me laugh to this point. Why? How? I've no idea, because it's so silly. It's the end of the bowling scene. First it becomes absurd along the way, with balls going anywhere, but the last shot: when the guy throws the ball and it explodes the wall and we see outside. This gag made me laugh like crazy.
very well written review. I'm on end ep 13 they have kissed and heres the thing it's the romance that's the weakest…
I'm not too demanding for romance in romcom, in the way I prefer melos for love stories. So, I find too the romance isn't the best part here. I was just enough happy because, well, it happens, and a bit better than some other romcoms where my ECG remained flat. Sure, the biiiig flashback helps a lot. In historicals, dramatic stakes are higher and so we feel better the romance.
Else, thanks for reading. I called that "visual screenplay", and "TV illusion" for first episodes, because each line of dialogue has a different pic. Else, once you remove all pics and multiple lines per character, it's accurate to korean screenplay format.
Isn't that what makes Asian dramas so unique and different from Western ones? In Western dramas, there tends to…
I remember while watching BTS of previous dramas: how just a kiss with closed lips could be embarassing for actors, in some conditions. So by respect for actors, I don't expect them doing real french kisses. And I don't care they don't.
Well, a guy taking care of her day and night a few days would be toxic now.It's mostly he's bad at expressing…
Connect the dots. What she says at start of breakup scene + what she says to her sister when talking about leaving granma house. She doesn't believe in selfish love and relationships are transactional for her. You see, I'm sure if I spend time on it and nitpick more, I could turn FL in a toxic monster. 😄😄😄! But I don't care about that. 😉
Well, a guy taking care of her day and night a few days would be toxic now.It's mostly he's bad at expressing…
I like to put my grain of saltz. 🙂 Rewatch the breakup scene, the dialog has a logical flow leading to this. But it's the somewhat magic of this drama, ML lines often surprise me. Even I could expect it a bit, I was still surprised by the how and now. Of course, I love to be surprised. 😄
Seriously what is wrong with the ex? refuses to marry her, won't commit, instantly breaks ups with her. I really…
Should be said that he was frank about he can't get married. Then what she says to him imply she mostly see their relationship like a capitalization. It should hurts a bit. But in fine, he breaks-up because he thinks it's the best for her. Anyway the breakup scene was good. But we would need to copy-paste all the parts to see the whole scene in one go.
im really glad to see that everyone now sees how toxic and annoying ml is. and its NOT about her having a cute…
Well, a guy taking care of her day and night a few days would be toxic now. It's mostly he's bad at expressing anything + can't get rid of some others problems. If you go in this way, then FL is selfish and toxic. She profits of his help, not a little thing as she's enough happy to drop Hyeri disorder during this time. Then throws him away.
I may have missed it but what is the deal with JHO and the grandmas?
We don't know yet. Previous scene with that was confusing, short, with not much information we can take. I forgot everything. It was one of the few badly written scenes.
I bet for mostly a healing drama.Yep about EH-HO relationship. Instead to see one character or the other does…
I noticed Ep5 was a bit extended with secondary scenes, like anchors conflict. I even didn't take notes of that. I don't know what to take from that for the global narrative. At least, for now.
This drama is definitely making some unusual choices. Episode 5 was almost entirely drawing parallels between…
I bet for mostly a healing drama. Yep about EH-HO relationship. Instead to see one character or the other does bad. It's still failure because unresolved personnal issues. For EH of course, we know that a lot. But about HO it's still unclear. Maybe next episode will speak more about him.
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EunHo+HyeonO have been dating for 3 months.
Excellent: when she starts talking about marriage, he stops and she continues up the stairs on her own. Heavy with meaning.
02:20 - Title: The farewell story.
‘For love’
02:30 - Flashback, when HyeonO has the family emergency, leaves without saying a word, and leaves EunHo alone.
He looks at the pendant in his car.
About to go to the grandma's.
03-10 - Flashback to HyeonO as a child + his mother.
His mother has to leave. Gives her the pendant. (nice transition)
04:10, the director's framing is just crazy. Double framing + mother made invisible.
The mother asks him to be where everyone can see him. I guess, so does she.
04:25 - HyeonO as a teenager.
Works for his father who is a mobster or a guy in debt.
HyeonO has a younger brother Ji-On and a younger sister Su-Jung.
But not the same mother?
07:10 - Children face illegal moneylender. A woman.
(Ban Hyo-Jung, aka one of the ‘grandma’)
Have to give the father money, but he withdrew a small sum.
So now the children are in trouble. The woman slaps him!
09:45 - Rotten situation, father in debt because he's a gambler.
HyeonO still manages to study.
10:15 - HyeonO gets a job as a waiter.
The loan woman comes to piss him off.
10:50 - Fire in the building. Father dies.
So he should go to the orphanage. but...
12:00 - The loan woman comes to bother him again.
As if he had debts! But it's his father's debt.
I just want to punch her in the face.
Unexpected: she's willing to write off the debt if...
She takes him under her wing. Adopts him?!
On condition that he takes care of them when they're old.
15:22 - Story of the magpie who brings a pumpkin seed.
He accepts the deal.
16:04 - The woman runs an (illegal?) casino.
So he has to take care of 5 women (the managers) when they get old. (Or is it 6?)
We see his superb bedroom in the attic.
But in those days it was dusty and cluttered.
18:30 - The woman drags brother and sister into the deal?
No, at 20:10 it looks like the idea came from HyeonO.
Later, the grandmothers are happy to have children at home.
The staircase cluttered with objects, to make sure that one day or another, someone will fall down it. lol! Used for the passage of time, showing that HyeonO has grown up and....
24:40 - 2017, he was accepted as a candidate Presenter.
25:35 - Pictures of this weird family.
Already seen in another episode, but it was confusing. Now it makes sense, although I wouldn't be able to say the names of any of the ladies.
27:04 - During the meal, one of the grandmothers loses her memory.
The troubles of old age begin... She dies shortly afterwards.
28:00 - Funeral room.
A woman tells HyeonO to get married, because that's what the grandmas want before they die. He doesn't want to, because he can't involve anyone in his task of looking after the grandmas. He would be willing to get married, but thinks that EunHo wouldn't be able to stand that kind of life.
30:36 - Restaurant, night. HyeonO+EunHo
She's bought a necklace in Japan identical to his mother's, after EunHo herself lost it. lol!
32:30 - She insists that he hang the pendant in the car, but he refuses.
(back to an earlier episode, when she's surprised to see the necklace in the car)
33:08 - End of backstory! Back to the car.
Transition with the pendant again. Well done!
It's raining BUT he's back from the grandma's.
So what he did at the grandma's NOW is overshadowed by his backstory with the grandma's instead. Brilliant!
Next, breakup scene. (end of previous episode)
His ‘Be sick’ line takes on a whole new meaning.
Since we know he's looking after sick grandmas.
Great writing!
35:00 - He returns to his car. Pendant in close-up.
He unhooks it and puts it away!
And yes, this pendant, we now understand, was a symbol of his enduring love for her. That's why it was hanging in the Ep3 car, after he'd gone to fetch her from the fridge van.
We don't see him crying, but tons of water are falling on the windscreen, lol!
35:56 - HyeonO in hospital, grandma's leg broken.
It's confusing. Is it a flashback? From the sister, it looks like he's just arrived. So it wasn't between the time he left EunHo and came back? Shit!!! What's going on?!!
38:00 - Media, day. It's raining!
Teaser scene, about the 9pm news anchor, CUT
Transition to HyeonO in the hall.
Answer on the TV screen: it won't be him but...
Clown Jae Yong, looooool!
He's just lost his girlfriend, and now his dream job.
The scriptwriter is in torture mode.
39:17, magic shot of the director. He's tiny on the left, giant portrait of clown Jae Yong.
39:30 - EunHo hears the company rumours.
40:14 - Revelation from the unpleasant press chief. (the one who sponsors young Shim)
It's HyeonO who doesn't want to be a 9pm presenter.
WWHHHAAAATTTT?!!!!!!
40:50 - Flashback.
Yeah, I predicted this, in a previous episode.
When EunHo got into trouble with the boss. She leaves upset.
Then we saw HyeonO enter the office.
The scene here. Of course, it was to help her.
To present the lunchtime news.
The deal is that Shim JinWa does the 9pm news with HyeonO.
BUT: the boss can't. It would create too much chaos in the company to choose two announcers to present the news.
SO, HyeonO sacrifices himself. T T ... For EunHo. T T
42:50 - Chief Shin-Joong tells EunHo the facts.
Some of the previous media plots were confusing, but this one is clear!
43:25 - EunHo + HyeonO
What's more, she yells at him. lol!
I won't recap the dialogue, but it's spicy and needs re-watching.
He can't get a word in edgewise.
Too bad! She leaves without his opinion. Tcham!
46:00 - Despite everything, she sheds a tear.
AhaAAhh, it tortures her.
She cries in the lift and...
46:45 - Flashback EunHo + HyeonO
She: why are you dating me?
Talks about the ‘why is HyeonO dating this loser’ rumours.
The ‘embarrassing’ kind of thing, lol.
He doesn't answer, but when she's gone...
He types a message. Teaser. We don't see but...
In the car, EunHo gets the message.
‘Because I love you’.
49:20 - Media N. HyeYeon arrives.
Paparazzi rumour about her and Ju-Yun.
51:15 - She gets kicked off the news because of this. Ouch.
51:40 - Ju-Yun arrives, informed of the rumours.
52:30 - HyeYeon reads 297 unpleasant comments on the internet.
Curious to see their texts...
Ju-Yun arrives.
53:02, another surprising shot of the director.
Later, her apology letter. A bit incisive but not too much.
I suppose, not apologetic enough, and justifying her attitude as normal.
Or joking that she'll never have anyone over for a drink again. lol!
01:00:08 - Car park, night.
Ju-Yun is looking for Hyeri. Still missing.
01:01:20 - EunHo and Hyeri's ring.
She's putting it on! Sure enough, Hyeri comes back. ahah.
And then... She's on the bike... Start smiling....
01:02:55 - Car park, daytime. Ju-Yun arrives.
And.............. Sees Hyeri!
The thing is now:
Her hair style is almost identical to EunHo's.
She says hello and cliffhanger!!!
Introducing a mystery: is it really Hyeri?
A Hyeri who forgot EunHo? Or a mix of the two ones? Or EunHo roleplaying?
And THIS drama had a scene that made me laugh to this point. Why? How? I've no idea, because it's so silly. It's the end of the bowling scene. First it becomes absurd along the way, with balls going anywhere, but the last shot: when the guy throws the ball and it explodes the wall and we see outside. This gag made me laugh like crazy.
Else, thanks for reading. I called that "visual screenplay", and "TV illusion" for first episodes, because each line of dialogue has a different pic. Else, once you remove all pics and multiple lines per character, it's accurate to korean screenplay format.
Just their modesty being on assault by the directing!
She doesn't believe in selfish love and relationships are transactional for her. You see, I'm sure if I spend time on it and nitpick more, I could turn FL in a toxic monster. 😄😄😄! But I don't care about that. 😉
Rewatch the breakup scene, the dialog has a logical flow leading to this. But it's the somewhat magic of this drama, ML lines often surprise me. Even I could expect it a bit, I was still surprised by the how and now.
Of course, I love to be surprised. 😄
Then what she says to him imply she mostly see their relationship like a capitalization.
It should hurts a bit. But in fine, he breaks-up because he thinks it's the best for her.
Anyway the breakup scene was good.
But we would need to copy-paste all the parts to see the whole scene in one go.
It's mostly he's bad at expressing anything + can't get rid of some others problems.
If you go in this way, then FL is selfish and toxic. She profits of his help, not a little thing as she's enough happy to drop Hyeri disorder during this time. Then throws him away.
Yep about EH-HO relationship. Instead to see one character or the other does bad.
It's still failure because unresolved personnal issues. For EH of course, we know that a lot. But about HO it's still unclear. Maybe next episode will speak more about him.
I'm mostly interested by stories, and dramatic stakes.