InspectorMegre

100% agree. Imo what you wrote is the best review of this drama. You accurately observed and described and in a very concise way. Great review!

I used Google translate and it said this is what you wrote: "It's quite fun and lighthearted. I know most people want her to end up with the second male lead because he's more handsome, but I'm sorry to Team Jisoo, but she sees the male lead differently. She waits for him, thinks about him, expects something from him, and agrees to make plans with him. The other guy always meets her by chance; their encounters are more spontaneous and relaxed. But I don't see that explosive chemistry you all talk about with the second lead just because he's more handsome. Even though the male lead isn't more handsome, I feel like they have better chemistry, and if they're not together, it's because the male lead is quite slow."

Nothing so mysterious.... She buys debt bc it is easy... It is a lot less work and a lot more profit bc they kill or threaten ppl to just give them property for cheap... Giving loans to ppl means the job of a loan shark, you keep collecting every month etc... But Yo Na's job is to COLLECT ONCE... it leaves less traces and allows use of loopholes, bc when they buy the loan, they can put TOTALLY NEW RULES on the loan - and they request that the loan be paid in full immediately. Then they force the owner to sell for super cheap. Then they make tons of money by redevelopment and/or resale. You cannot see that?

Who cares how she treats snails when she murders people and destroys families and businesses in most vile ways and makes a living by crime and murder??? regardless of how she treats that snail, she kills people in most vile ways, so to me she is just insane and I am not interested in her one iota. To me, the character is BORING and also THE ACTING IS BORING bc the character is so 1-dimensional. I just pray she transforms. But I do not really care bc she and her colleabues and entire Global thing are just cancereous rot, they ARE EVIL incarnate pions. They ideally need to be gone - but that is impossible - so they need to be in check.

To me, the family of ML is what is interesting and I root for them, bc they are the backbone o the society, they are the worker bees, without them, there is no country of S Korea and there is no prosperity. So I am VERY interested that they learn more about business and life.. right now thy are total moron dumbos, ML is literally low IQ and dumb, and FL and daughter are spoiled naive brats

Koreans themselves are trying... Second Shot at Love was about recovering female alcoholic and her family, and her already-recovered guy helping; and Positively Yours had nonalcoholic beer and making sure the pregnant lady does not drink -watching out for pregnant women repeats in all kdramas now
S Koreans are going extinct bc their birth rate is the lowest int he world, so they have to try to reduce alcohol at least for women and esp pregnant women :)

Of course not everyone is a drug user LOL
But ... Common!!!!! In San Fran ppl shoot heroin on the street!!!!
and I just did a search on "dispensaries selling marijuana in san francisco bay area " , there are tons of dispensaries in the Bay area.
I drove through the downtown on the highway and most of those big billboards were advertising online sales of pot, and YES a very proud official too...
Humbolt county is just up north and they just grow pot.

Most cities in the USA has at least one pot shop on every corner. I saw them in NYC, Honolulu,

Ah not to mention the billboards in San Fran, Los Angeles, NYC about syphilis epidemics, AIDS, Hepatitis C - all STDs and all epidemics. Not to mention NYC subway totally plastered with Tinder advertisements, entire subway cars and entire entry/exit area stalls - yeah you pass through the stalls plastered with Tinder adds!!!!!

I SAW ALL OF THE ABOVE WITH MY OWN EYES AND EVEN TOOK SOME PICTURES OF IT

The USA Is a total disarray and decadence. Like old ROme before it fell apart

yeah the plot is worthy of a daily.... ML is dumb, his partner in crime is dumb, and ML's family is dumb. Only the music gives it the hype

yeah yeah sure LOL I would say then - he is THE DUMBEST lol
His copartner in crime is super dumb LOL His wife is dumb for not checking up on him, his daughter is selfish entitled dumb to think her dad can never have problems, never needs help. and can always provide for her. Mother and daughter are soooo spoiled, they see the guy delivers, and they didnt connect the dots and did not ask questions.

Mother in law is NOT dumb. She is extremely greedy and selfish calculated.
Daughter in law is NOT dumb. She fought even in that basement.
The global corp is NOT dumb.

The dead detective is smart AND dumb naive too, he found out all info and knew that they would be on his trail and was not careful enough

Ok I speak no Spanish so I used google translate, so I think this is what you wrote:
" How does the protagonist use SML to get attention? She literally treats him like a friend, and their encounters are always casual or because she goes to buy coffee where he works. I think the only favor she asked of him was to be a bartender, and it wasn't even a favor, it was a job. I don't understand how she's abusive and uses him."
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SO THIS IS MY ANSWER TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
****SML butts his way in, he barges into FL's personal space and uses any chance he has to touch her and tease her about romantic things - he keeps POKING her ****** for example... he invites her drinking, to the playground, to lay next to her, to ride a motorcycle with him, to talk to her in the cafe, to lean over to kiss her, to wipe her lips, to talk to her how he likes spending time with her, to take her to hospital, etc etc etc etc HE POKES HER AND TEASES HER AND GETS VERY CLOSE TO HER AND INTO HER PHSYCAL SPACE. HE USES EVERY CHANCE HE HAS TO TOUCH HER AND TO PROVOKE HER HORMONES. He is flirting with her. AND SHE PRETENDS SHE DOES NOT SEE IT.

SHE IS A MORON AND SHE IS ABUSIVE, PUTTING HIM INTO THE FRIEND ZONE YET ENJOYING ALL THE ROMANTIC THINGS LIKE RIDING A MOTORCYCLE WITH HER LEGS AROUND HIM AND HUGGING HIS WAIST, eating with him and he giving her full attention...

THEY NEVER TALKED ABOUT HIM. IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT HER, HE GIVING HER ATTENTION. She never gave him any attention. They are not equal. She is the center of attention in their relationship. So essentially she is abusing and using him to get his attention, and he is abusing and using her - and HIMSELF - by trying with someone who is so obviously not interested.

He is a predator and he is nice as long as he has hopes that his hunt will succeed. He is also deeply wounded and insecure and lacks self respect, to chase someone who is in love with someone else. FL is INCONSIDERATE and thus toxic, pretending she does not see him flirting, yet allowing him to keep flirting with her. THAT IS TOTALLY AWFUL, to control him like that, to have him on the string like that. SHE IS TERRIBLY TOXIC BY NEVER PUTTING CLEAR BOUNDARIES.
He is insecure and toxic, keeping his hopes high bc she never rejected him clearly. But all she is doing with ML is indirectly a rejection of SML. SML is trying to win a game he already lost. :)

Instead of telling him that he lost, FL stays silent and keeps him around and has fun. She is a total slimeball.

Overall, FM-SML relationship is highly toxic and immature, both of them using each other

FL will never be swayed, she has already decided, long tine ago :) SML can try to butt his way in, but it is all in vain. He WILL be causing trouble but he has no chance for real.
FL-SML relationship is toxic bc they are using each other. She likes his flirting and attention to her but has no intent to date him, so she is stringing him and he is consenting. She is slimey dishonest and he has no respect for himself.

I thought "sister or ex" bc she looks almost his age...
I just read someone said she is his mother. She might be - in which case she looks awfully young and/or had him very young. The energy of "possesing and controling him as the younger subordinate" is definitely there :) so she is definitely someone with some power over him :)

She was never really interested in SML. He felt like a fling from the start. She was interested in ML from the 1st time she met him, she already knew she was in love. She said it too :)
But she uses SML for attention. It is so slimey and abusive. She strings him around. And he doesnt respect himself and allows it. That kid needs to grow up. He and FL are really toxic

In ep 5, I became a fan of SML and the actor who acts him. SML won me over by being responsible, staying in the room and not jumping on FL, and also by being lively. The actor won me by great acting, he is super talented. And yeah, very handsome.
In ep 5, I was disappointed in the ML and the actor who plays him; it was stiff and unnatural. The actor looked really bored with the too-simple role given to him. I don't blame him. They trash wrote ML to be too ... boring. I was bored with ML in ep 5. HE WAS LIKE A DOG ON A LEASH, AND I KNOW HE CAN RUN AND HAVE FUN. Disappointing!
He picked up in ep 6. He is so nice when he smiles.....
The ML's main character flaw is that he cannot stand up and say difficult things that have to be said if he feels that the other party is not open to it. So he cannot bring up the kissing time bc FL was pretending it never happened. She annoyed me so much with that. FL is written as ... childish.

FL does not admit her hormones and desires so - although she is sure she wont date SML - she uses him for attention. That is very toxic. And SML doesnt respect himself and goes along with it. He is so startved for real human contact to the point that he is willing to be the third wheel strung around.. I wish him to grow up asap. He has the potential to be a great man one day. ML and FL treat him like a younger brother..

Well - this is already end of ep 6 - the lovers need to get together already if we are going to finish 12 eps on time. Thre is only 6 eps left and a lot still has to be resolved, incl. SML story. That woman feels very close to hm and having power over him, like his sister or his still-possessive ex.

but ppl smoke pot like crazy, there are shops on every corner and you can order online and have it delivered, when you drive through San Francisco, adds for pot are on those huge billboards ... entire area of N Caliornia Humbolt county is all pot growing, and they snagged it from small growers into corporate.. so it is HUGE...
And I think the stats are that 60% of populatoon and about 10% are into hard drugs, that's 30 million ppl. so we dont count kid, so it is about 30% of adults. So each needs about 1-3 grams per day of whatever, so that is like 30-90 tons of HEAVY drugs PER DAY.... These are super rough numbers but they are scary . A lot of it is manufactured at home, you can cook meth at home like in Made in Korea drama. And then cocaine comes from S AMerica on boats with bananas - I will never eat a banana ever !!! - etc. Scary . No wonder USA is starting WW3 when so many ppl are drugged out!!!!!

scary... it's a LOT of booze...

ML is so dumb, if the music were less fancy, I would think this was a daily...

what a killer.... She doesnt have to act much

why root for the bad guys... ??

Hm, I dont feel like you, I dont feel like i have seen everything. I am alarmed that I havent seen ENOUGH :) There is a lot of good stuf that I still need to discover!!! I just recently discovered 2006 movie Idiocracy.... There must be other good stuff out there too!!!! So I dont have time to waste on something trashy or mediocre... If I am watching it, I must get return on time investment :)

I am not looking for new I am looking for EXCELLENT. Excellent story, acting, camera/production, music, ... and there is tons of EXCELLENT stuff out there. Excellent stuff helps me understand how humans work and how storytelling works. I like to look at things here like an alien, to study from the side, to see how humans operate. I also like to see how humans are manipulated with the storytelling and art. The purpose of REAL art is to transform you into a better human being. Many fake art pieces are used for manipulation and propagating false ideas. Audience reaction is super interesting too.
I am trained in improv comedy and storytelling, and I am a dancer, teacher and performer and trained to judge dance competitions, and I make a living by helping ppl and solving problems. And I am psychic SO I GOT SHARP EYES :) and I like to see EVERYTHING :) and I do see a lot lol lol lol I am Inspector Megre :)

Oh yeah in the process I am always intrigued with good ideas and new rising acting stars, that is fun to discover. I do like artistic experiments.

SOME EXPERIMENTS ARE MASTERPIECES, like 10 LOVE TRACKS. Omg those 10 mini dramas are superb. Except 2, I dotn like 2 out of 10. One of them is a genius masterpice. Onion Soup

Some experiments are .. so so.. like Defects and S-Line.
IN DEFECTS, WHO ALL KIDS CAME FROM, SOMEONE WAS CLONED, WHO WAS IT? FL? or her daughter? I was trying to remember today

I have not become "mean" lol I have become very SKILLED in looking at visual arts. Watching in great detail helped me to SEE how the thing is made. And to make decisions faster. I have seen enough tropes LOL

So I realized that I canot stand the dark camera (like Witch) or choppy fast scenes jumping all over (Love Phobia) and esp if it is done with bombastic sensationalistic feel ( Genie, Confidence Queen, In Our Radiant Season, Siren's Kiss ) - then - cross it out.
I also learned which actors to avoid (Crushology FL)
and I think I am gonna have to learn which directors and writers to avoid too LOL
And I learned why I am gonna avoid Confidence Queen FL actress - bc of plastic surgery, she cannot move facial muscles, only eyes so the camera has to make up for it by making bombastic scenes so that the focus is NOT on her facial expressions.

Then comes the piece like Shinning that is all about facial expressions and that is a treat, something I like to watch. It is not new, it is just REAL - you are watching live intelligence - that is interesting!!! like you can watch a kitten playing for a long time and never get bored - it is just ALIVE. This is hard to explain... like watching trees or blue sky or campfire- it is not "new" but it is ALIVE and ever changing its expressions, it is like a show . So you can watch that all day long and never get bored one second. God's art is perfect :)

For human made art, not everything is so perfect... THOSE LESSONS CAN BE PAINFUL, like watching entire The Nice Guy to realize that FL actress is totally useless and I should never ever watch her. Sure enough, comes In Radiant Season, and I see that face doing the same kind of stupid acting, and I am like ... DROP FAST lol Never again will she steal 12 hrs of my time.

Or watching entire Honour knowing that it started very weak - and watching the entire thing to end with the SAME bad message and even worse ... But I had to watch it to make sure. Now I can say with certainty it is trashy manipulative piece, and WHY.

I like dramas taht keep me busy trying to figure out the magic - like Our Miss Hong - every scene was packed with details that were so funny, then with the music, then put together into a sequence so you could easily transfer from scene to scene and do time jumps... it was MASTERFUL!!!!
The Nice to Not Meet you was also filmed in a way that was amazing.
Our Universe too!!!! In the earlier episodes they had a cameraman who was taking amazing shots!!!! I was very impressed..

NOW LET US TALK ABOUT EXCELLENT. We did not talk about that. That is the stuff that needs to be talked about.

Excellent doesnt have to be complicated. It just has to be REAL. I am watching daily First Man bc the FL there is just an excellent actress and I want to see that, and a lot of the crew is excellent too.

THE NUANCES. I love to watch the NUANCES in acting, and how you can express a whole range of emotions and thoughts and states of consciousness.
It is fascinating!!!
So it is not "new" it is just the same old but shown well. Like improv comedy. It never repeats... And it doesnt have to be flashy ...

My favorite acting piece ever was an improv performance I saw where a man and woman quietly acted father and daughter going to get a haircut and waiting for the barber and while waiting, talking about mom who left... and the barber didnt show up so they found him dead inside and looked at his vallet.... It was QUIET, UNASSUMING, but everything they said, every sentence, was worth 100000 books - like ... Oh here is the postcard from mom. When is she coming back? Oh in the barber's vallet is a picture of a nude woman... There was no loud laughter or anything but it was incredibly funny, tragic, sad, and overall MESMERIZING. I sat at the edge of my seat. I still remember that performance.

So I want to see stuff like that.

I just made my favs list. I will think some more about which dramas I really liked and why.

I am so interested in the storytelling, i want to see great storytelling. And acting it out.

It is like being a book worm - you are always looking for interesting books to read. And you skip what you dont like. Bc there is soooo much good stuff you still havent read.

is it watchable online?

Hm... I think the Mop Head and the SheVillain **should** get and stay together .... maybe after she gets out of jail... LOL they totally deserve each other and are actually a great couple, and she behaves normal with him. Her LapDog is ... too toxic and mentally off and enabled all her crime. LapDog gotta be removed so that he live a better life. Yeah he might try to remove JH or Professor

Hi, I need help with remembering the ending of this. I watched the drama but I cannot rewatch to remind myself. I remember concluding that all kids are variants of cloning .... who was it??? The villain? Thanks