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Dumb Mi is hopeless basket case. Cannot even run away or hit or bite her kidnapper JH... step on him with high heels.. .anyting... !!! SCREAM!!! isnt the priest sometwhere there? WHAT IDIOTIC SCRIPT AND IDIOTIC JM. So she is supposed to inherit Dream Group???? SHE IS *D U M B*
It is useless to watch any JM scenes, she is 100% * D U M B*

I FEEL SORRY FOR BH, TO BE STUCK WITH SUCH DUMB DUMB DUMB MORON. And it is BH's fault - he and JM should have been at the city registry office to register their marriage on paper All these wows alone in the church are STUPIDLY USELESS NOW

ALSO BH AND JM BLABBING TO EVERYONE WHERE THEY WENT AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING - TOTAL TOTAL MORONS

They deserve the bad stuff happening to them

In stark contrast , LawyerMom is super smart :) that scene running into Lapdog omg she wa sooo charming and sooo effective :) and super cute :) wow .. go for it :)

@JieJie check out the fashion start of ep 102 - LawyerMon has a gorgeous white jacket over black dress wow.
And i love that asymmetrical cream heart-like / cranes// mantaray/ginco biloba on blue print on the LA lady, OMG wow that is such a beaautiul adaptation of traditional patterns and clothing, so elegant!
and I love GoldDigger; big flowers bouse - wow so glam!!!! - and golden yellow skirt with it :) lol GoldDigger has a knack to add one thing and ruin the whole thing, imo lol I would use ... maroon or dark plum purple/brown skirt. It would also be stunning with dark brown or dark green or black slinky skirt. With dark green, the woman would literally look like a flower it would be so cool! And it would go well with her horse races black hat with lace too... and the diamond red lipstick from SR :) Ah femme fatale look

ANd HY's black dress with white collar and a bun and her skinny stooped over body TOTALLY makes her look iike Popeye's Olive Oyl lmao

imo Nam Sang is PERFECT in her Pearl in Red role JJ./Chloe
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Eun Jun is PERFECT as Seo Rim :) and was PERFECT in Queen;s House.
She is just really bad as a dumbo

I agree with everything you said
Chairman and HS are dead so there is no more revenge for FL ... but .... she needs to remember .. and pay her karmic debt ...

and yes why is ML keeping FL alive and as his woman... ? We are all dying to find out!!!! Something is weird and we need more info. The last 2 episodes will be amazing :)

Try currently airing daily Our Happy Days - it is a great family drama, no ridiculous plots

I loke Our Happy Days, currently airing 100 ep. daily - there is NO HYPED DRAMA and ridiculoous plots in that drama :) It is a great family drama

Hi from Pearl in Red!
One question: did drama The Love in Your Eyes have the plot that the guy with the eyes could see what the old owner could see with the eyes? Then the plot was stolen in Spring of Youth very shabby 2025 college drama

Definitely! HJ is entering into a wild villain phase and it is IRONIC that his serial killer monster mother UNDERSTANDS true love lmao and is trying to stop him from marrying someone who doesnt love him
It is IRONIC that his monster mother understood and described the situation so accurately and is pushing for her son having a spouse who loves him - his mother saw that he wants to "own" his spouse, who is marrying him only out of interest - and his monster mother wants him to have true love. ..

Anything is possible!!!!!! This is wild, isnt it :)

Yeah the root problem is that the writers DO think we the audience are dumb. And .. it might be true :) lmao
NamSangJi as JMi? imo, no. It has to be a very "common girl coming from poor uneducated background" vibe.

Thanks for the recomm, I will watch Su Ji and U ri - I am a fan of FL actress too.
I like Recipe for Love, that is another classic in the making. There are so many amazing actors there... the characters seem real, dont they? Uncle in that drama is an amazing actor.
Our Happy Days too is a classic family drama masterpiece in the making.

Yaah JH actor here is a novice for sure... and still cannot act well,, which is such a pity bc that role is so rich and a good actor in it would totally trasnform entire drama... In Queen's House, ML actor too seemed a novice, but by the middle of the drama, he was acting well.

btw I am watching Sold Out on U for research. It is frustrating bc I am sure ML can act - he sometimes tries - and is clearly bored with this 1-dimensional John Wayne role, but they won't let him act.. @!*%#!
I have seen that in so many dramas!!! Younger actors and even older actors with skilZ just do not have any desire to act those unnatural roles.. But they are pushed into it.

I think the drama that nailed the gender balance and has a solid FL and reasonably realistic ML is Our Happy Days. The more I watch it, the more I am convinced is a total keeper and a masterpiece, and has the potentioal to become a classic. One amazing family drama to remember, like Once Again, etc. - but imo actually better.

The charm of Our Happy Days is that characters are seemingly "ordinary" but are unique and have so many paradoxical layers, and it is all acted so well !. It is very rich and powerful.
For example:
THe china-doll serious SFL is also a hot badmighton player and dances with the zeal of a hot rock star...give her some dance training and you got ... Tina Turner enrgy :) SFL is jealous petty and insecure AND ALSO so strong to see the truth and see that the porrige came from FL and acknowledge and respect that...

The FL is a childish bunny, super cute and naive chick, but also - an amazing communicator, politician, direct and honest, humble, polite, kind,considerate, AND also razor sharp in cutting out all bs :) She is merciless ... but never upsets people bc she is so ... respectful and humble... . and she SOLVES PROBLEMS at their root and in the process earns respect and even makes friends, not enemies- FL is an extermely powerful character and a great leader . That scene of SFL and FL on the rooftop is a power scene. WOW. Those two gained respect and appreciation of each other and THEY ShOW IT. They are very powerful female role models.

ML is this serious quiet dude who can be sharp and cold AND ALSO - he is super communicative, direct, very political, and very emotional and caring, and even makes a great charmer flirt. ANd he expresses it. He is a great leader too. **** He never saves FL... he never meddles.. He helps FL. ***** WOW that is a powerful male role model. He treats FL with respect and tact. Even when he flirts with her and takes advantage of her naivette, he is tactful, proper and respectful. Also, he lets her take the lead in their relationship and is not afraid to be vulnerable. FL teasing him was some very masterful scenes...

ML and FL actors here togther are really a great combo, they play off each other so well, it is a a plasure to watch. SML and SFL too.

SML character is also complex and acted so well - such a great love boy charmer to SFL, and a meanno to the employees etc... A mix of his mother and father.... who are very shady but also relatively decent people to some degre.... and in love with each other...
SML's father is a masterful actor, his role is so complex and he is so good at it. SML's mother has a very nasty dumb role lmao but she too seems real in it.

ALL CHARACTERS ARE VERY COMPLEX ... and actors portray that complexity so well, the characters seem real. This is a really good drama.

and then the old fashioned deep relationship betwen Grandma and Grandpa ... he took the photo without asking!!!!!! but returned it with an apology...

Then we see the simple minded Natural Secretary and his family and their care for each other... etc

FL's family that went from toxic "we keep secrets" to "we are all on the same page" (edit: by ep. 29, then again out and back in again :) WOW THAT WAS A PROFOUND AND POWERFUL TRANSFORMATION in ep 29!!!!!

AND ALL OF THIS WAS DONE IN VERY SIMPLE WAYS, WITHOUT RIDICULOUS PLOTS AND BLOODY OVERDRAMATIC PLOTS AND CRAZY TWISTS... THIS DRAMA LETS THE PEOPLE LIVE AND TRY IN SEEMINGLY SIMPLE WAYS...

BUT IT IS ALL PROFOUND AND VERY POWERFUL!!!!!!!

SO THIS DRAMA IS A CLASSIC IN THE MAKING, IMO. It has amazing depth, the story flows in ways that are fun and relatively comfortable to watch and seemingly simple but POWERFUL TRANSFORMATIONS AND INSIGHTS. This drama has a potential to become a classic - and to be honest, even better than the existing classic Once Again.

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This drama overcame the old time "dumb loser woman-child saved by stoic dedicated male" - as kdramas tend to portray, in an attempt to capitalize on and further deepen the audience's SEXISM - and the audience is deeper conditioned to see only STUPID BUT KIND FEMALES WHO GET TAKEN CARE OF BY AN EXAMPLARY AND DEDICATED MAN. This is the classic premise of sexism and the classic trope used - FL is super dumb loser, makes mistakes, and ML keeps saving her. This is exploiting the lowest impulses of dominance and societal prejudices.

SO SUCH SCRIPTS ARE BASED ON DUMB DAMSEL IN DISTRESS FL MAKING MISTAKES AND KNIGHT-IN-SHINING-ARMOR ML SAVING HER.
It is super boring and awful, and very limited. And any dog can write a script like that. Super dumb.

ALSO SUCH SEXIST SCRIPTS LEAD TO LIMITED AND AWFULL BORING ACTING. FL is just anxious clutz and ML is just this "Superman" who is always at her service. Both are total caricatures and so 1-sided.

There are other baits, like ... ML is cold but taking care of FL melts his frozen heart... Ah what a bologney... the delulu story of immature women... "I will continue to be a flawed loser and will not have to move one finger to grow and here is this sugar daddy who will take care of me and adore me forever." Common...

IT IS DISGUSTING THAT THE SAME SEXISM CONTINUES EVEN WITH NEW DRAMAS AND YOUNG ACTORS. Like... Sold Out on You, Practical Guide to Love, etc etc Dynamite Kiss was a prime example Which is ok at the START of a drama, but then the drama better show them growing - and it did not....
DYNAMITE KISS and PRACTICAL GUIDE TO LOVE WERE TOTAL TRASH. Sold Out on You has some good messages about healthy life in a small town, natural self-healing and getting off drugs, but the ML is John Wayne/Clint Eastwood Good Bad Ugly grumpy cold poker face, and he suddenly decides to becime a psychiatric nurse and rehab FL-addicted to sleeping pills. Common. It is 100% infuriating to see a young and very capable male actor being forced to act a role from 1950s.

And, MBC has a history of really pushing this sexist plot of dumb loser FL and good guy ML who saves her. the previous drama "The Woman Who Swallowed The Sun" did it and the current iFirt Man tried to do it - lucikly to a less degre and finally changed


KBS tried to fix this so it tried the concept of a capable FL and even a villanous capable FL, e.g the first attempt were Our Golden Days and A Graceful Liar, now it is Pearl in Red


IN ANY CASE, THE OLD SCHOOL SEXIST KDRAMA SHOWS THE MAN AS AN SUGAR DADDY ESCORT NURSE WHO TAKES CARE OF ALL FL's NEEDS, including money, s.x, company, adoration, housework, ..... -
JUST LIKE LITTLE GIRLS FANTASIZE ABOUT MARRYING THEIR FATHER. THAT kind of plot.
So females are conditioned to be woman-child, men low in status feel proud and JUSTIFIED as the heroes saving these incapable stupid woman, and men (and a few women( who are really in power are laughing on their way to the bank and counting the money they swidled from these stupid fools.

Currently dramas are at least allowing FL to be successful in her career. But in person, she is still a moron clutz, IMMATURE.... and making mistakes that ML fixes.

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BUT I SEE THAT OUR HAPPY DAYS IS DIFFERENT. Someone smart is running this drama.

When FL has some brains, it opens a whole wide world for creating the script. The plot can be a lot a lot a lot more interesting bc FL has more options, now the plot is UNLIMITED.
Also, when ML is a live human being with a heart and self awareness and ability to relate, the script can be a lot a lot a lot more interesting bc ML has more options, now the plot is UNLIMITED.
And if you have both ML and FL like that, wow the sky is the limit bc it is COMPLETELY UNPREDICTABLE how they will react, act, and relate.... It really becomes like ... playing God, creativing super unique characters and circumstances and situations.....
ALSO, a more dimensional character allows the actors to really act and have fun withi it.

I have seen so many actors totally bored with their unnatural 1-dimensional roles. Sure it makes them money and it is clear they are doing it just as a job, just to cross it of their chores list.

When you see an actor who is really into their role, experimenting, creating the character, bringing the character to life, having fun with their role, it is a totally wonderful magic experience - for the actor, and for the audience. It doesnt have to be a "fun" role, it can be a serious role, but it is clear the actor is committed to it and it is real to them.

Actors really energetic and having fun in their role of course the most familiar, classic, obvious example is ML in Bon Appetit Your Majesty - and bc of his high energy and enthusiasm, the role made him into a star. Currently airing such roles include SML, SFL, FL in Our Happy Days, ML in Our Happy Days when he is able to relax and act :(

I really wish that ML actor go out to eat something good and go exercise, and then to RELAX. He is sooo amazing in acting WHEN HE RELAXES. I am not sure what he is worried about, is someone pushing him too much - director, camera, money pressure, pressure to be perfect perssure to ... ??? what?? In any case, that actor is so cute and so warm and fuzzy and cuddly and NATURAL in acting naturally normal everyday complex characters- but he can do it only when he relaxes. RELAX :) And whoever is pushing him and pressuring him - STOP IT. Let the man be. He can do it. Do NOT make ML into a poker face chaebol and avery super serious reserved person. It ruins the drama.

THE CHARM OF THIS DRAMA AND ML CHARACTER IS THAT HE IS A QUIET SERIOUS SHARP GUY BUT ALSO A VERY WARM AFFECTIONATE AND COMMUNICATIVE GUY. It is a paradox that makes that character interesting!!!!

i beg to differ :) FL and SFL made a truce and even kinda became friends... At least they earned respect of each other and got on the same page... And in all that:
FL demonstrated amazing MATURITY, ability to communicate, ability to solve problems, to move things forward in a very direct, honest, and kind way that brings people together... FL is a great leader...
ML demonstrated he watches monitors and cooperates without meddling and micromanaging... he too is a great leader...
SFL demonstrated amazing sharpness, she is so smart and so politically savvy and also an honest and decent person...

FL's family came together.... etc etc etc etc
Se got more insight into how Natural Secretary thinks, how their family is, etc How FL's family is... How Grandpa-Grandma are and their household... Grandpa just took that photo without asking!!!!! luckily he returned it and apologized.. but - do you see their dynamic?

it was LOTS of profound changes and moving forward and LOTS of profound insights

**** SO THE PLOT AND CHARACTERS SIGNIFICANTLY DEEPENED. **** And all in very seemingly small actions that do not scream of overdramatic... but are POWERFUL

THIS DRAMA IS POWERFUL and some of its power is that it is REALISTIC AND ACHIEVABLE IN REAL LIFE

and she is responsible for not hearing about it earlier, since she did not want to hear about it, so they were afraid to tell her :) But that is toxic. Glad the family is now on the same page. That was a MASTERFUL script and acting and imo very profound family healing.
This drama impresses me with solving such big issues but without super high octane bloody hyperdone overdramatic drama and ridiculous plot. This drama just lets people live their lives and solve their problems.
IT IS INCREDIBLY INTERESTING, FASCINATING.

the more I think about it, the more in awe I am.
This is a masterpiece in the making, a great family drama , a CLASSIC

Dumb Mi is bettr in ep 100 than she was in ep 1, for sure, but ... is it enough yet?? It is not .... 100 episodes should have produced a bigger transformation.

I think the Dumb Mi actress has difficulty with this super dumb and unnatural role...
DumbMi script started and kept maintaining this very dumb, proud, insecure woman-child, prude and arrogant to BH - bc he is nice to her to she takes him for granted - and meek and submissive to HY and authorities - bc they are imposing to her... Then she shows off by stating all her naive and stupid opinions, e.g. dismissing all signs of HY crime, etc - basically a person so dumb and so uneducated and ignorant, WITHOUT ANY ABILITY OR WILLINGNESS TO LEARN

Dumb Mi is an epitome of a very poor, uneducated, simple , ignorant and dumb person... i think the actress just could not relate.

I have seen too many DumbMis in real life... they are actually common. THE POWERLESS INSECURE NAIVE WOMEN WHO ARE SUPPOSEDLY GOOD PPL... and the other side of it, powerless insecure women who ar mean and destructive - YOUNG GoLDDIGer here - are also super common...
And all those middle school girl fights and pettiness is super common with ppl like that...
So the drama probably thought those kinds of ppl will "buy" this drama...

I saw DumbMi being angry and cussing and HY.... clutching her fists and announcing threats... But ... not really more than that. Dumb Mi in real life CAN go into extreme emotions. But here,... I dont think the actress could relate to show that AND/OR she wasnt asked to act that...

The only plan DumbMi ever made (to marry JH), she made alone, under 100% incorrect assumptions ( that HY will keep her promises, etc - and all her actions totally flopped.
So yeah, Dumb Mi is written as someone .... dumb lmao
Lately she seems somewhat improving as she is praised for her manager work at Dream Group and Chairman is talking to her as someon who will run the company.
But ... I am not convinced yet that Dumb Mi is there yet.

Dumb Mi is a classical old school dumb loser woman-child as kdramas tend to portray, in an attempt to capitalize on and further deepen the audience's SEXISM. Dumb Mi is clearly there to assure that th audience is conditioned to see only STUPID BUT KIND FEMALES WHO GET TAKEN CARE OF BY AN EXAMPLARY AND DEDICATED MAN. This is the classic premise of sexism and the classic trope used - FL is super dumb loser, makes mistakes, and ML keeps saving her.

SO SUCH SCRIPTS ARE BASED ON DUMB DAMSEL IN DISTRESS FL MAKING MISTAKES AND KNIGHT-IN-SHINING-ARMOR ML SAVING HER.
It is super boring and awful, and very limited.
And any dog can write a script like that. Super dumb.

ALSO SUCH SEXIST SCRIPTS LEAD TO LIMITED AND AWFUL BORING ACTING. FL is just anxious clutz and ML is just this "Superman" who is always at her service. Both are total caricatures and so 1-sided.

There are other baits, like ... ML is cold but taking care of FL melts his frozen heart... Ah what a bologney... the delulu story of immature women... "I will continue to be a flawed loser and will not have to move one finger to grow and here is this sugar daddy who will take care of me and adore me forever." Common...


IT IS INFURIATING THAT THE SAME SEXISM CONTINUES EVEN WITH NEW DRAMAS AND YOUNG ACTORS. Like... Sold Out on You, Practical Guide to Love, etc etc Dynamite Kiss was a prime example, the ML doing sexual harassment at work and outside, and THE AUDIENCE THOUGHT IT WAS SEXY. !!!!! The FL was a slimey liar loser and a super weak woman-child who never communicatd and bailed out any time, and the audience thought she was cute. !!!!! Heck both FL and ML were super toxic and immature. Which is ok at the START of a drama, but then the drama better show them growing - and it did not....
DYNAMITE KISS and PRACTICAL GUIDE TO LOVE WERE TOTAL TRASH.

The gray masses of audience are stupid, that is the bottom line. So using them as cash cows and serving them cheap script and taking their money for it is a totally viable profitable business model... It is a chicken and the egg issue, the audience already has stupid tendencies, and the drama uses and abuses that and CONDITIONS the audience in the stupid tendency to sexism.

Basically ppl are led on like sheep and conditioned to be like sheep. So many ppl DO behave like sheep and dont think for themselves - and often it is not their fault bc they have low IQ and/or have been traumatized and wounded forever during growing up, so they lack the ability toeven see they are being manipulated and controlled from the outside....

. The evil powers in control EXPLOIT the lowest tendencies in people and CONDITION ppl to accept sexim, racism, slavery, dominance, etc
AND SO ALL THOSE LOSERS FANTASIZE ABOUT MOVING UP AND/OR DISSING OTHERS

and now you have 50,000 ppl watching Perfect Crown and thinking it is entertaining...

(Sold Out on You has a poker face cold ML who saves loser FL, and the plot is CRINGE and h acting is CRINGE .... The drama at least pushes some meaningful messages - you can heal your addiction to polls in natural ways, move out of the city and live more healthy life witih good food, fresh air, exercise, and a GREAT COMMUNITY, big corporations can be stopped from doing wrong, etc)
But the ML-FL plot is the same old sexist trash, pokerfaced cold grumpy John Wayne/Clint Eastwood Good Bad Ugly suddenly decides to be a psychiatric nurse to a FL who is a loser in her own life, addicted to sleeping pills. it is 100% infuriating to see a young and very capable male actor being forced to act a role from 1950s.

And, MBC has a history of really pushing this sexist plot of dumb loser FL and good guy ML who saves her. the previous drama "The Woman Who Swallowed The Sun" had a suuuuuuuuuuuuuuper dumb FL, I mean really dumb. REALLY dumb. Someone wh did not even have ability to self reflect in any way.....or think logically about anything... and ML was quite dumb too. His only advantage is that he had morals.


KBS tried to fix this so it tried the concept of a capable FL and even a villanous capable FL, e.g the first attempt were

1. Our Golden Days, where FL was a competent professional and spoke up her mind in her romantic life - and the AUDIENCE USED TO SEXISM totally trashed her and called her unbearable brat So Our Golden Days which had script to show male privilege, women fighting it, and other social issues - elderly having to work, families sacrificing for their loser parents JUST bC they ARE PARENts to the point of sacrificing their lives and children - AND THE SEXIST AGEIST AUDIENCE DID NOT CARE -
so the drama recoiled back to the classic "dumb and kind FL" tropes -
but luckily SFL was capable and outspoken and that side story turned gold - AND THEN IT WAS SHUT DOWN to make it the same old sexist trope..

2. and A Graceful Liar, where FL was shown as more active, having an initiative - to go out and cheat and steal.... ,
BUT she was really the same old dumb loser, except that this one was super greedy and mean and entitled and went around causing damage like crazy - led to killing of her father, total mess in other ppl's lives like her first husband, brought the only moral character Ha Neul down into the toxic mud to "help her" and turned him a moron like the others, etc
AND THE AUDIENCE CREATED THAT, tHEY WANTED BLOODY REVENGES AND MORALLY GRAY FL.
This FL was NOT morally gray. She was a dumb loser moron who did crime without thinking. She had zero depth and zero character. "A GRACEFUL LIAR" WAS EVIL TOXIC TRASH

then the recent tendency to cater to the lowest sides of women and let them have as many men as possible doting on them - what was that drama about AI boyfriends... ?

IN ANY CASE, THE OLD SCHOOL SEXIST KDRAMA SHOWS THE MAN AS AN SUGAR DADDY ESCORT NURSE WHO TAKES CARE OF ALL FL's NEEDS, including money, s.x, company, adoration, housework, ..... -
JUST LIKE LITTLE GIRLS FANTASIZE ABOUT MARRYING THEIR FATHER. THAT kind of plot.
So females are conditioned to be woman-child, men low in status feel proud and JUSTIFIED as the heroes saving these incapable stupid woman, and men (and a few women( who are really in power are laughing on their way to the bank and counting the money they swidled from these stupid fools.

Currently dramas are at least allowing FL to be successful in her career. But in person, she is still a moron clutz, IMMATURE.... and making mistakes that ML fixes.

And the audiences still like that, and also still ask for bloody revenges. Clearly the audience is at fault for keeping this circus going on.

In First Man, the lucky thing is that BH actor is a masterful actor so at least we have that, and he made BH into a very noble and capable man instead of just a blind person - so the drama is not a disaster bc BH character is written as quite ... flat one sided. Luckily BH actor made BH into a more evolved person and saved the drama from collapse.... and luckily the script writer allowed BH to stand up to DumbMi and STOP her...

and Dumb Mi was an excuse to create boring trashy script based on the sexist tropes. Basing the script mostly on Dumb Mi TOTALLY destroyed the drama, kept is slow and boring. The actress for DumbMi had trouble acting this unnatural dumb plot... Luckily she had a chance to act complex smart brat Seo Rim so that saved the drama somewhat.

FIRST MAN IS SOME IMPROVEMENT ON MBC's HISTORY, but whoever sits in that office has to realize it is time to move on.
When FL has some brains, it opens a whole wide world for creating the script. The plot can be a lot a lot a lot more interesting bc FL has more options, now the plot is UNLIMITED.
Also, when ML is a live human being with a heart and self awareness and ability to relate, the script can be a lot a lot a lot more interesting bc ML has more options, now the plot is UNLIMITED.
And if you have both ML and FL like that, wow the sky is the limit bc it is COMPLETELY UNPREDICTABLE how they will react, act, and relate.... It really becomes like ... playing God, creativing super unique characters and circumstances and situations.....
ALSO, a more dimensional character allows the actors to really act and have fun withi it.

I have seen so many actors totally bored with their unnatural 1-dimensional roles. Sure it makes them money and it is clear they are doing it just as a job, just to cross it of their chores list.

When you see an actor who is really into their role, experimenting, creating the character, bringing the character to life, having fun with their role, it is a totally wonderful magic experience - for the actor, and for the audience. It doesnt have to be a "fun" role, it can be a serious role, but it is clear the actor is committed to it and it is real to them.

Actors really energetic and having fun in their role of course the most familiar, classic, obvious example is ML in Bon Appetit Your Majesty - and bc of his high energy and enthusiasm, the role made him into a star. Currently airing such roles are ML in Scarecrow, ML in Reverse, SML, SFL, FL in Our Happy Days, ML in Our Happy Days when he is able to relax and act :( Uncle and somewhat FL's dad and ML's dad in Recipe for Love, FL in Sold out On You in ep 1 selling scenes, etc if you look into old dramas, main female villain in Glory whowas then FL in Nice Not to Meet You, etc.... In First Man, it is BH actor, he is soooo natural, BH is as if he were a real person.

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I think the drama that nailed the gender balance and has a solid FL and reasonably realistic ML is Our Happy Days. That drama, the more I watch it, the more I am convinced is a total keeper and a masterpiece. One amazing family drama to remember, like Once Again, etc.

ANYONE WITH BUSINESS BACKGROUND ESP IN S KOREA

- what is Mat Story trying to do?? - and repeatedly... and the same people... what is it????

are they using that Y village "failure" as some kind of tax writeoff "loss" - does that concept exist in S Korea??? :) or somehow channel slush funds through that... based on my kdrama knowledge lmao or steal and sell rights to new cabbage varieties... ? or are they just keeping that field to keep the land bc there is ... a resort or shopping mall or mine or something coming there... ? etc etc etc If this is not far from Seoul, developers could be coming any minute...

The question is, how do those higher ups stay high when the village branch keeps failing, and why would ML be someone to remove BECAUSE he was successful in research and developing new varieties... ?

And that middle manager who came to the village AGAIN in that black car, how is he able to spend his days just doing yoga, clearly he receives a paycheck only bc he assists in the crime of the higher old guy Boss.

WHAT IS GOING ON?

Also, we expect loan sharks to show up any minute... :( Wow that family is a mess. Mom is a complete moron. Dad was so old school removed from his entire family that he has no clue about his wife. At least he has some clue about kids now.

How is dad's relationship with the 2 smaller ones progressing? We werent shown that yet Dad was the ace regarding Eldest :) Mom fails the course...

Ah this drama is a breath of fresh air!!! I love it!! It should be a LOT higher rated.
I love how the village has common sense. Bo Mi and her mom coffee shop owner are such powerful, down to Earth women.

The eldest son is a mommy boy, he is too weak, and his mother is a narcissistic moron weak dumb snowflake chasing money and social status, as so many kdrama parents are portrayed to be....

So yeah Eldest Son does not deserve Bo Mi.
Middle Son is so mature in some ways lmao - "is mom better, can we come home?" line is PRECIOUS.

he and that mystery Mat man were my first choices

i will rewatch FL visiting the murder scene.
restaurant owner said that she saw JH was there on that day although his alibi said he was in Germany - so she is lying or he is lying