InspectorMegre

Dr Choi is like Edison - he did really stupid shady stuff, risking a lot, to GAIN a lot - if he could remove his competitor, then he stays the king of the roost. EDISON SUCCEEDED in ruining Tesla. Tesla ended up as a very poor and unknown lone man doing experiments in his cheap underground NYC flat. But eventually, 3-phases electric was used and Edison ... flopped, his company flopped, and he was pushed out of his company. . Dr. Choi didnt have even little success :)

BUT MANY SUCH PREDATORS DO SUCCEED. Historical dramas are full of kings who took over :) same with CEOs, presidents, professors, various "theorists" etc Many of them just ruin the competition and take over.

So this is not "petty jealousy" this is stuff worth of lot of MONEY, POWER, PRESTIGE, .. making it big

Exactly! I came here to post that question too - the text and the doll are 2 different things from 2 different people? The text is blackmailing ML and the doll is backmailing FL... ? what is that black box inside the doll ?

Hyun Nam is too emotional to be in this line of work

The title for this drama is soooo accurate - the disasters are just snowballing bigger and bigger, multiplying out of control, and creating a huge avalanche

Imo it was hilarious that YouTubeMom was so hit by one of the many snowballs that she did not even get the money back from the kidnapper, although she offered

yup snowball effect, like in Mad Concrete Dreams too

There is absolutely nothing majorly physical that would disgust you :) since you are so homophobic ...
THere is one light peck on the lips, super fast, and a few seconds of holding hands. That's it.
If you cannot handle that.. then... hm.... why are you so afraid? that you might turn into one of them? Relax.

and let them be. We are supposed to be making contact with aliens, and you cant see one girl give a quick peck to the other girl...?

Exactly the point of watching this is to see how JN overcomes her selfish parents - both mom and dad are jerks -
and yes how she develops her new families - with1stWife's family, with ML and his dad and uncle (ML's mom will ... either change or disappear), with her 2 friends from the coffee shop. JN already has a very strong support system.

JN's mom will create chaos and JN will overcome it and "win" - and in that process... perhaps lose her mother. Dramas always do redemptions but here... I am not sure FL's mom is capable of a redemption

Review Edison and Tesla story. Edison made sure to do shady to Tesla and ruin his reputation

Yup, I agree, NMH is a better husband than ML.

I thought it was autistic or somehow "mentally disassociated" ML and I .... still think that holds to a great degree

After thinking about this - this drama can be watched on many different levels. On the most crude level, it is a comedy or a thriller. But the scenes are very carefully picked with dialogue and content, so that each scene has LOADS of information...
So...
If you look deeper... this is a great family and business drama too as it has much social commentary about keeping appearances and failing in it... including: divorce with kid... family that is together to "pose" for the public but has no real connection between family members' what parents think their duty is... what love is - or not, what are signs of dedicated versus manipulative love..... cheating... manipulation... blind loyalty.... complications with the public image and one's livelihood, like lgbt, scandals, etc all the red signs...
what happens when parents dont talk with their kid ...
what happens when parents dont love each other anymore - ML-FL pair just keeps bickering and working together for their kid and to keep their jobs .. that's all there is between them
lack of secrets in overpopulated Seoul lol

Thats NOT the problem :) the problem is that the audience cannot tell.. and the drama sells well

if we are both thnking about YoutubeMom - well, her thick lips protrude out of all that hair, at least that is visible - and her lips look WEIRD

]the artificially thick lips of YoutubeMom are ... so weird

yup kwood

This is all cool but as someone said, a cookie cutter repeat with a slightly different twist
So many recent "kdramas" copy Hwood and have main characters be villains and/or shady ppl and then drama makes them look human and likeable. Very sneaky way to condition ppl to accept crime as "normal"

FL here is kinda Robin Hood but ... her way involves killing ppl.

Also just like Hwood, recent "kdramas" do NOT catch criminals who matter. All dramas we watched recently - Judge Returns, etc etc etc - the criminals might get away for a second, but come back, and more come, The message is that crime and exploitation by elites is ok.

ANd then the police is ah so busy bothering small fish but NEVER goes against who really matters. That Detective and his speech - "so Kingfisher violated the law so that's why we have to catch him and have him punished" =

BUT NEVER DID HE SAY - OK LETS CATCH GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE ETC CORRUPTION AND THE DRUG RINGS THAT SUPPLY THEM MONEY TO STAY IN POWER. But that is the biggest theft and violations of the law out there!!!!

That is now the common trait in these newfangled Kwood dramas. The crime is somehow justified and normalized, the audience is brainwashed to ignore it. The trend is to make 2006 american movie Idiocracy about year ... 2035? i think? be the reality now..

If you are reading this before you watched the episode, it is at your own risk...
and ... if you are reading this after watching - then - why dont you answer the question I asked - why did ML say that in the taxi?

I can now it summarize - ML is made so "unalive" poker faced, he does not express emotion even to his wife. He feels like her caring but burdened eunuch servant, not a lover and husband.

Ok seems like they lived separately for a while and perhaps he doesnt feel lovey-dovey - BUT THAT IS THE POINT - HE DOES NOT FEEL ANYTHING FOR HIS WIFE, except a caring feeling out of ... duty? He does not seem to feel love and wanting to come together, nor does he seem to feel sadness bc they are separated, ... he feels NOTHING. He does not even smile at his wife.

When a man is that deeply cemented, he is mentally ill. Then the audience is dragged there with him. So, for the makers of this drama, the drama WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH BETTER if ML was less unalive

Yeah sure Jason Bourne made a lot of money.. So if this drama wanted to be like that, .. I hope they got the money they expected. Bc.... international watchers might not be here to watch Jason Bourne :) Perhaps this was Kwood trick, to use one feature that international audience can latch on and PAY MONEY TO WATCH and then to add warm, humane aspects of a true kdrama and package it as an authentic kdrama...

The drama is not terrible. But it could have been a lot better with a few small but significant tweaks. RULE OF THE THUMB: TOO MANY POKER FACED ROLES AND THE AUDIENCE FEELS LIKE THEY ARE IN A CASINO, CRIME DEN, OR JAIL PSYCH WARD

Ok so I was right, PrettyLadyDoctor wanted ML. . I was wondering why he was looking at her with those squinty "oh yummy you are cute!" eyes - well at least at the end, he did NOT want her but probably knew what was going on.
I saw correctly that GoodFriendDoctor was concerned that she liked ML - but not bc he liked her, as I thought, but bc they were scheming together. Note taken for the next time not to eliminate a huge possible cause like that.
I saw correctly how immature ML's wife is. She does not accept that her husband has a kind of job where he might be unreachable when working. That patient, VIP or not, would have been dead/disabled if ML left the surgery to operate on their kid. First of all, by law in many countries, surgeons canNOT operate on family. Second, by the time he left that surgery even early and showed up at his daughter, it might have been too late. Third, even if he left early, could he save her? Forth, even if he did, it would be such bad karma, her life at the expense of killing someone else. But FL has no maturity to accept. I am glad she has maturity to stand up to the VIP selection.
I suspected Chairman was involved in crime a lot more than he is? It is not clear yet - did Chairman know about prettyladydoctor and GoodfriendDoctor?

Oh thank you so much! I thought that MS's mom threatened lmao So there are TWO videos... That was a big miss on my part :) I was tricked by the camera lol

lmao you are right, indeed she cannot die yet :)

The bottom message here and the learning for the audience - IF the drama is done well - is HOW TO ESCAPE A NARCISSISTIC PARENT AND HOW TO RECOVER FROM THE TRAUMA

Indeed FL's mom possession of Accupuncturist, losing the house, refusing 1stWife's family, meddling into JN's life... etc etc etc will create zillion episodes

and I predict that JN has to fully in clear conscience distance herself from her mother
ML will have to do similar with his mother :)