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I disagree. It's funny BECAUSE it's butts. It would never be funny if it was an arm or a back.

Oddly enough, Netflix did not recommend Behind Your Touch to me, despite recommending every other K-drama they have. So thank you kisskh for bringing it to my attention. I'm only one episode in, but I'm already sold. I just hope the series nails the landing, because so many K-dramas just screw up the ending.

I love Lee Min Ki. He always stands out from the other actors around him. The first couple of K-dramas I saw him in, he played a man on the autism spectrum, and he was so dour. Then I saw him in My Liberation Notes, and he was so animated. It's soooo good to see him in a comedy. He tends to have "resting serial killer face" so he easily does intense roles. But I love that he's also quite funny.

Having watched 25-21, I really cracked up over the parody scenes. And the butt touching is hilarious. Also, I wonder if the hair blowing when second male lead walked into the vet's office with the kitten was from Extraordinary Attorney Woo.

I thought the main leads had an interesting story, but it went on too long. And I hated the God character. I do find Seo In Guk incredibly attractive, and that kept me coming back, even with his green highlights in his hair.

The second leads triangle plot didn't belong in this story. Plus that love triangle was so wrong. She should have dumped both men. She had way more chemistry with her first love. She had zero chemistry with Cha Woo Ik. But the fact that both felt like they owned her, really put me off.

The brother was annoying. How old was he supposed to be? He acted like a teenager instead of an adult.

I was also annoyed that Kevin's lines had no subtitles. Some of us can't hear, and we need subtitles for everything, not just the Korean. Although reading the comments, I don't think I missed anything, but still.

Also, do Korean hospitals just let their patients wander around everywhere unattended? In hospitals I've been in, you're hooked to all this monitoring equipment and can't get out of bed without a nurse attending. Plus, you can't walk around the hospital. You are put in a wheelchair and taken to your exams.

And what is with all the "sleeping together" while wearing more clothing that I would wear to go out and play in the snow? This is like the 10th K-drama I've watched where the leads sleep together wearing 5 layers of thick clothing.

Also, some of the male characters were wearing wayyyyyy too much makeup. Cha Woo Ik looked like a plastic manikin. A few pores and some stubble would have been sexier. Although Kevin had a bit too much stubble.

Some of the writing was way too wonky. I still don't understand the staring contest in the cafe between Seo In Guk and Kang Tae Oh, and then them saying the other was handsome. That was really weird.

I agree. Plus those white pants of Cha Joo Ik were AWFUL. They didn't fit him at all. They fit so bad, that I actually found it distracting, and he was ALWAYS wearing them.

Conversely, I was also distracted by the green highlights in Seo In Guk's hair. The difference being that I found it sexy.

Leads had feelings for each other before the show starts, and they get together within the first few episodes. The show is mostly about finding out about everyone's backstory.

There are a couple love triangles, however, the 3rd person is always told no, so it never actually becomes a triangle.

OK, I just finished it. I liked it. Yes, it was slow, but I enjoyed the slow pace. Everyone had the ending I predicted. The lovers were not kept apart too long at the end (cause I hate that "lovers move away for a year" trope).

And I still want to live in that bookstore.

I just started watching this show and I'm on episode 3.

Question: If he gives her his phone, how is she supposed to call him? I just didn't get that.

I want to live in that bookstore and go to the story time meetings.

Also, someone please tell me they do NOT do that stupid "break the lovers up for a year because one of them moves away" thing? I really hate that trope.

I'm really enjoying this show. I love slice of life Asian shows, because it gives me a chance to see different cultures. I love the characters. There are no bad guys, and I like that.

BUT. I wish Netflix had given it a different title in English. "The Full-time Wife Escapist" is a stupid title. The Japanese translates as "It's a shame to run away but it's useful" and that's a great title, because the leads even discuss that phrase in the first or second episode, and the characters often run away from each other.

BUT. As cute as the setup is, it would be gross in real life. "Because This Is My First Life" used the same plot. Hire your roommate to clean your house and fake marry her so that nobody thinks anything kinky is going on. In real life, if you read that some guy fake married a younger woman, but was really paying her to clean his house, you'd be totally grossed out.

I'd love to see a gender switched version, where Yuri fake marries a younger guy just to have him clean and cook for her. How would viewers feel if he tried to kiss her or visa versa, when they are employer and employee? Somehow, I think viewers wouldn't go for that.

BUT. Yeah, the bad hugs are cute, but I don't know anyone who could keep pulling off bad hugs for as long as they did.

Is this really happening? Or is it just wishful thinking on our part?

It's not heavy. The political stuff is just the backdrop for shenanigans. It's mostly about the male Chef having to deal with suddenly being a married woman.

I LOVED IT! This is the first K-drama I've watched in the past few months that I didn't drop. It starts off strong and never drags, and it has an actual good conclusion.

I noticed that it uses Chekov's Gun to good effect. If a person or thing is shown, it's important and gets used later in the show. I love when that happens. I kept wondering why certain characters or things were introduced, and there was definitely a payoff later. And the jokes were great. The acting was great.

I noticed that viewers seem to be split on the ending, but I thought it was perfect. I was surprised that the Queen was in her own body the whole time, and not swapped into the Chef's body, like he thought. She seemed to know everything that had happened in Joseon. That's good for the King, but I do understand that the King now felt something was missing. However, it's not like the Queen was completely someone else. She still retained memories of what the Chef was like. However, the comment at the very end with the King asking why the Queen was using honorifics made me realise that the English subtitles definitely lost something in the translation, because that change in the way the Queen spoke did not come across in English.

If I had one quibble, it would be that the Chef was not going to be bounding out of the hospital after 2 months in a coma. But since I'd already accepted the idea that he went back in time to a Joseon era Queen, I couldn't really complain about it not being realistic.

OK, I have a second quibble. I had no idea what was going on with all the government shenanigans, but I rarely do with political shows, so I just let that part flow over me.

OK, I have a third quibble. I thought the Queen's cousin and the King's brother were both weak characters. They were supposed to be strong warriors, but they both looked like they were always going to cry at any second.

But I loved, loved, loved the Queen and her henchwomen, I mean ladies in waiting. What a fun trio.

Well Netflix did another 3 seasons called Midnight Diner Tokyo Stories, and they wrapped up everyones storyline. Except we never really find out anything about the owner of the diner.

Yes, I got confused on the two men, too.

Thank you. I thought that exchange meant something, but I didn't know the actors.

It does make the father's concern pretty legit.

I also felt like there were so many characters whose stories were not developed. I'd love another season.

Although I wish some of the side characters had more story lines. I felt like so many of the actors were underused. I kept waiting for more. Still, very sweet, enjoyable story.

What was his role? Was he the "actor" on the poster in the elder mother's room?

Yes.

Ah, now this is more like it. I'm tired of dysfunctional, dystopian societies and murder. Give me food and gorgeous clothes, and low stakes stories, and no rivalries. This is like an all girls Midnight Diner. I love it.

Unfortunately, being American, I think I'm missing a lot of the cultural references. Why did the dad cry when he ate the eggplant?