DramaAjumma

I agree about who Jae-young is.

I really hate doomsday cults.
I wonder where Cho Kyung-ho learnt to do hypnosis.

Truth be told, it's not like anything I've ever seen from K dramaland. 8 episodes later and I guess it's somewhat clearer what's going on. So much death. So many brainwashed people.

I think one of the commenters here gave you the wrong impression by what was said. It's a really decent drama if you like rom coms.

Episode 8 demonstrates once again what a wonderful show this is because it gets the balance right in terms in presenting different perspectives about wealth and its relative importance in our world as well as in the leads' respective character arcs. The leads' confrontation in Moo-hak's office is more evidence of the quality of the writing here.

I also like how the drama deals with snobbery on multiple levels with gentle mockery . It isn't just about old money vs the nouveau riche but the educated vs the uneducated which was exemplified in the "kiss" jokes. (The one about Keats was especially good). There's also another kind of snobbery (if we can call that) and that's from the grumpy female curator who is obviously someone who has seen better days. She's resentful I suspect because she was from a wealthy family who lost everything. She must think that Da-li is just lucky because she hasn't earned success but she has all these people around her helping her. In her bitter imagination Da-li thinks she is entitled to the job because she's the daughter of the previous owner. This is a running theme in the show and it's certainly the case that Da-li has to prove herself capable of making the gallery an ongoing concern not as her father's daughter but as the new director of the gallery.

I hope they don't turn Tae-jin into an outright villain. I do think he is someone that can help Da-li but only as a friend. Let's hope he realises that too before he completely destroys any good memories they shared together.

That's what I read too.

I love this show so much. Yes, it does have wobbly moments and unlikeable characters but what show doesn't. What it gets right, it does extremely well. The best part of this is how the leads are written as individuals and as a pair. It's obvious that the writer took the trouble to flesh them out because their dynamic is a joy and delight to behold mainly because despite all the nuttiness that goes on they both feel authentic. Personally I think it's a well-written "opposites attract" narrative. There are only so many rom com stories that can be told but this one does a decent job making a case for these two polar opposites.
Hope more people will pick this up.

I think it's better than HomeCha as well. The leads' dynamic here is much more consistent and coherent. Here, I love how the opposites attract plays out and the dialogue sings.

Not so far.

I think the show is trying a bit too hard with the "hitting rock bottom" side of things. I'm sure it's realistic that once you lose everything nobody except the people who truly care about you will stand with you. But I think they're taking it a little too far with the motel incident. They want Da Li to look pitiful and it's a little too extreme. As for losing the money, it was foolish but she was half drunk. I've known people to do silly stuff like this, kids included who flash their money in front of people thoughtlessly. It happened last Christmas when I went to a dinner party at a restaurant with my fitness class and we had to split the bill. Lots of cash changed hands. It's not beyond the pale that people who have had one drink too many throw caution to the wind.

My biggest problem with Da Li is not her lack of common sense which considering how she's been brought up is understandable but her pride. Her insistence first on holding on to the gallery and not wanting to take help from others who can. Considering the fact that she has so little experience handling business even if it's an area of passion for her, she should take any offers of help she can get if it means that the gallery can stay afloat. Even from the dubious ex. She has no money sense and Moo-hak is right to chastise her about how she prioritizes projects with no understanding of how money works.

I've said this before and I say this again. Her father did her a great deal of injustice by not setting a proper income stream for the art gallery if it was that important to him. Especially when he knows where her inclinations lie. This is why galleries are often publicly funded concerns with a great deal of patronage. It's like raising race horses. Only wealthy people can indulge in this kind of activity. Even if he never wanted her to get involved in management or administration of the art industry, he should have set things up properly so that if anything were to happen to him, whoever takes over won't have to clean up after him. I don't have a problem with her being an art nerd that has done nothing but study the subject but the show evidently wants to put her on a particular journey where not only does she not look good but her father as well.

This is one of the least cliche rom coms I've ever seen. Yes, it has tropes but it also subverts them.

I can't believe how reprehensibly irresponsible her dad was. Why did he take out so many loans with no way of servicing them? Philanthropy is well and good but running a gallery is rich person's game or at the very least requires a great deal of patronage. He didn't set things up with the thought that if anything were to happen to him, the gallery would run itself. It was centred too much on him.

Shouldn't this be under spoiler tags?

Everything's so politicized these days. Even a place like MDL can't escape agendas.

I don't think so although it's still hard to say at this point what it is exactly. A slow burn psychological thriller might be the best way to think of this.

This is a genuinely intriguing show. I'm still not entirely sure what to make of it. There's obviously some kind of mind bendy stuff going on but what exactly... I like the unpredictability of it all and it's nice when dramas try and challenge the audience.

The only people who should be rating this are those who are watching it.

Ah... we finally have some idea of what this is really about. The mental health of field operatives.

She's much better in Episode 5

I think the Longest Day in Chang'an comes pretty close.

I like her more than I liked Eun-soo to be honest.