InspectorMegre

A great way to destress

I aw this in Korean on https://moviekhhd.biz/watch?id=9230 I dont speak Korean but I understood .. the scenes of her very male job and her dance outlet... I lived it myself :) so I can relate!!!!

Someone from India said they watched in on Hitv Android...

as a dancer with plenty of time spent in perfectionist environments, I am THRILLED to see this plot LOL it sounds fun!

I have not watched the entire movie, only the trailer, and it looks amazing! And very very realistic!!!!

This women is middle aged and of lesser athletic ability, so flamenco is PERFECT for her...
She too needs to escape into right brain creativity and expressiveness....
This story happened to me too but not with flamenco LOL Flamenco is a GREAT choice for the movie!!!!

Esp since flamenco is soooooo over the top dramatic, FLASHY, and soapy LOL this is a riot :)

and very plausible bc flamenco has lots of middle aged dancers, it is not a youngster thing for fun...
flamenco is very serious, and although flirty, not lewd, it is more about asserting personal power, in a very flashy and dramatic way - "you must notice me!!!!" and it is mostly solo but you can dance in a group too or even have a partner, and it has amazing complicated steps and music, even Africans appreciate it,

Flamenco has RHYTHM and music and stomping steps... it is perfect for emoting and breaking out - any time you want - it is a solo dance.... and doesnt require jumping or lots of space, and it has no sexy moves so nobody will be alarmed to see you dance in public ...

so you can dance it in the bathroom if you want... ! you can dance it on the street, bearfoot on the grass, in the middle of public areas, ..... anywhere.... and it is relatively easy to do....

and flamenco has lots of time expressing grief and sorrow and loss and pain and hurt and dancing it out .... stomping it all out....

and lamenco is quite easy to dance, it is NOT an athletic dance... there is more technique and attitude... and it doesnt require any expensive stuff except shoes... the skirt, the top, the shawl, you can wear on the street..... the dance itself requires just a tiny bit of space so you can dance it in your cramped tiny apartment...

the music and lively and EMOTIONAL and the dance moves are EMOTIONAL, you get to express EMOTION as much as you can - totally go over the top...

so it makes perfect sense that this woman took up to flamenco

GOOD CHOICE!!!!
If she picked Latin like salsa, ballroom or tango -- which all require male partners and are overly sexualized; or belly dance - which is solo but in a room with just other women - those dances are easy to do and would fit her fitness level and she COULD realistically dance it - but then we would call her ranchy lewd and the plot of this drama would suffer....
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if she picked jazz or swing or soemthing more lively like that then it would be unrealistically aerobic and athletic for a middle aged woman starting from zero....

If she picked zumba at the local community center or senior center LOL then it would be too adjuma lackluster.....

If she picked something very cultural, like hula or Tahitian dance or African dance then it would introduce a whole new layer of dealing with that foreign culture and tradition..

lamenco is often danced as a universal dance, many total strangers teach it as totally unrelated to the culture, solely as "exercise" ... so...... it is PERFECT for the drama

FLAMENCO WAS A PERFECT DANCE CHOICE! wow I am impressed :)

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A MASTERPIECE forever - mesmerizing, hyphnotic, psychological thriller and love story

One of my favorite art pieces ever.
An iconic kdrama about what life and love and friendship really mean. I am not going to include any spoilers because you must NOT watch spoilers before watching this.. It is a mesmerizingly hypnotic story, it is really a thriller quality.

It starts super gloomy and is quite gloomy as the plot is ... about decay - a middle aged man sees his whole life falling apart after living in drudgery misery for years...
In some ways, he is lucky, because if this misfortune had not happened, he would probably have died very unhappy in old age after wasting his whole life.... rotting miserably - drudgery work, drudgery wife ....

The main point of this kdrama for me was ML's utmost integrity and kindness...
and FL responding to it. So this drama is highly highly healing

FL character is sooooooo complex... . yet so simple... and very deep.

The acting is just AMAZING, both ML and FL actors.
It also has a few minutes of the young villain who tortures FL, that is an extremely memorable role for that actor too. I would say one of his best roles.
There are no pretty chaebols in this drama... it is all about ordinary people...

The ending is the start of season 2. Which is impossible because ML actor committed suicide. He will always be remembered for his amazing roles, and esp this one imo.

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Wonderful uplifting inspirational story; true friendship of women; some sexism

I have mixed feelings about this drama after all. At first, I loved it. Then, it got too sexist for my taste. Then it got very deep and insightful. ANd then it got super idealisitcally rosey... So...

. It is not perfect ... Quite often - but not nearly as much in many other asian dramas - FL is shown as clumzy clutz naive and does not communicate... but at least it is less than in most other asian dramas.... FL has some common sense. 2FL is shown as a typical kdrama female, totally at the 6-yr old level... until the very very end.... and even then.... FL is not a very intelligent .... she is not a common sense and capable woman... She tries... from her position of poverty, inadequate upbringing, insecurity, and LACK of social skills, thinking skills, physical skills, common sense, and connections....

So I feel pity for Korean women to be portrayed still in ways that show blatant sexism. At least there is some progress and this drama shows it.
There are very deep insightful moments in this drama and it is overall very inspirational, taking us from the bleak sexist corporate situation today to a better future.
SO LET US GO WITH THAT....

I didnt watch it while it was airing bc the writeup made me think it was about some teenagers starting up and that it was too fluffy :(
My loss...

The drama is super cute in many ways. In some ways it made me cringe bc of clutzy loser female leads... and in some ways, it was very deeply insighghtful as "self help" advice for women who want to become more independent, happy and fullfilled and standing on their two feet.

A very valuable thing was to see women helping other women and being true friends. That is rare for women, since women are conditioned to fight for attention, status and MEN who will bring then that status and presitige and privileges. "A woman is nothing without a man" forces women to fight for male attention and it gets really really ugly in real life...
And in this drama, there is ONE snake like that. That was great, the snake is 10000% realistic ....

The FL was the FL in Potato Lab. but this drama is not mostly mindless stupid stuff like Potato Lab. FL in this drama is still somewhat clumzy and stupid though... but not as much as in Potato Lab. Episodes 9-11 are quite stupid, for most part... hiding her dating, etc... Especially when FL does not communicate about the sociopath bully.... That is UTTERLY DUMB.

It is not funny to see an adult woman so clumzy and stupid, like ... pushing a cart uphil with her friend on it and then letting go of handle and letting her friend roll downhill - and DIE. Seeing mindless stuff like that is NOT cute. It is utterly DUMB and horrifying. Qualifies FL for a psych ward for being mentally disabled. And for some kind of award for being physically disabled, not able to move without tripping and breaking something...

Luckily that kind of stuff does not happen all the time in this drama :) FL still has some common sense and more on her feet. ANd still very cute and pretty and charming :) She is a great actress. Well for this kind of role though :) Potato Lab and this are same acting :)

The plot is overall just ... uplifting
Very realistic work situations...

and a wonderful true mature friendship between 3 women

The ending is ... hm... I would want to see another 1 yr out... how did she work it out with a singer who works mostly in the West.... and makes drunk mistakes with fans... with his good looks and veins popping in his forearms and his lovely dovey love songs.... and fans sending flowers etc. Musicans are known for promiscuity... So .. how did this story go ... ? She was seen in Korea afterward, so what happened.... ML was a little overly goody goody LOL it is very rare to find a man - young or old - who will be that dedicated...

So the story is a little bit of fantasy, to think that a woman can get all that attention and totally dedicated guy even if she keeps pushing him away, even though there is NO communication or very little at best. etc.

Mr. Oh story is also a little bit of fantasy :) esp the way that "little 6 yr old girl" was ... Doting on her for a year and a few before that with Wei Lin... ?

So I take this drama as a little bit of hollywood, a little bit too rosey and WHAT YOU WISH HAPPENED

but it is ok, it is a good start in the right direction

THe thing is not to overdo the fantasy and thus make it seem like something bittersweet and actually feeling hopeless because it IS a fairy tale :) All Hollywood leaves that taste - you feel like you were drunk or something, dreaming about something totally unreachable bc everything happens by "luck" and without real effort, it is clearly a mind-fogging brainswashing lull-to-sleep addictive material

There SHOULD BE dramas that talk about solving problems for real.

Many kdramas have at least some of that flavor and that is why they are so popular
But if they become too... roesy cheesy soapy then.... it is not worth watching

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Soapy soap trash drama, tour of dark side of Korean culture, and a GREAT fashion show

Super DUMB doormat weak FL and very cold cruel controlling manipulative cement ML.
THIS DRAMA IS A WASTE OF TIME. UNLESS YOU WANT TO WATCH A GREAT FASHION AND FURNITURE SHOW, and even then, the ratio of time at the fashion show is not worth it. I fast forwarded through 15 episodes. THIS DRAMA IS SOAPY SOAP ***** T R A S H *****

This drama is a fantastic FASHION AND FURNITURE SHOW and that is why I give it 2 stars. ML clothes and FL clothes are super cool!!! and even some others wore some amazing outfits too. A hanbok parade....

If it werent for the fashion show, this is ZERO stars drama. ....

it terms of content and acting, it is totall bologney, a 100% copy of Boys over Flowers... BUT WORSE bc this is also a copy of Playful Kiss, same FL actress, in role of a super dumb clumzy chick who chases the mean smart popular
rich boy who keeps rejecting her and abusing her...
So this drama is a lot worse than BOF, at least the FL in BioF was very smart and capable and was not chasing the ML

Abusive psychotic cruel male and a submissive STUPID pathetic female, who keeps chasing him even though he abuses her verbally, emotionally, physically, and even CHEATS in her, ... dumb FL,

FL actress who cannot even act, just puckers her lios and opens them and looks anxious and surprised... so many female actresses are forced to act like this and it is UTTERLY DISGUSTINGLY BORING

Yeah FL is cute but she is supposed to be 19 and there she is on super high heels and mini skirts, AT HOME...

PATHETIC STUPIDITY

and PATHETIC PATRIARCHY - the princess gets kicked out literally the next day after she walks around with some guy, meanwhile the prince is photographed kissing his ex and taking her around and then meeting her and talking with her, MANY times.... phew disgusting. That dude kept taking her on dates and flirting with her and meeting up with her AND IF SHE HAS GRABBED HIM, HE WOULD GO. The only reason why it stopped is bc his mother sent her overseas. The prince would have kept a side mistress forever as a "friend" he can go on dates any time he wants.

ML was a super coward, so weak, egoistical, selfish, etc

and FL was written as an enabler, as a doormat who was making him even bigger snowflake

and that impossible magical story used for brainwashing - IF YOU CATER TO YOUR COLD CRUEL MAN FOREVER, ONE DAY HE WILL BECOME NICE TO YOU. WHat trash. The Queen tried to love His Majesty for 20 years to find out he loved another woman that entire time.

This snowlake Prince was so super rude crude abusive and never spoke the truth and always got out, he deserves .... something drastic to shake his pants and get him standing up straight....

Overall, a super disgusting drama, A TOUR OF KOREAN DARK SIDE
this is totally opressive stiffling limiting and overall pathetic piece of "art" aka BRAINWASHING into some super disgusting societal prejudices

Whoever gave it that 7.8 rating is a destructive force
There is absolutely nothing positive about this drama, it teaches sheer bologney

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Masterpiece classic

Overall - a masterful drama and a must watch for any serious art lover. This drama got it all you ever expected and more, this is what I call a "real" or "true" kdrama - social issues addressed, poking at various things, and all with warmth and compassion, individual and community effort. A real masterpiece
YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT WITH VERY GOOD SUBTITLES BC THE DIALOGUES ARE ABSOLUTELY PRECIOUS

THE DIALOGUES IN THIS DRAMA ARE AMAZING, SO COMPLEX AND DEEP. This is a masterful script. This drama packs in about 100 modern 2026 dramas, which are so simple, simplified, a lot more shallow and bland. Bc the Western audience cannot understand anything more than too simple.

This drama is really twisty and the pacing is super great. I really enjoyed watching the acting. Again, the acting in this one drama is worth acting in 100000 current dramas, where actor are super skinny, tired, stationary, poker faced, just boring and scary to watch... lifeless skeletons.

The actors here are phenomenal. And it is before the plasticization and being too skinny and pale. I really enjoyed their faces and bodies - for most part. ML actor must be a model? bc he was so skinny, I was like what??? but at least he was ENERGETIC, he could run, he smiled...

The plot is really interesting, the dialogues are amazing, the process... wow... what a social and medical commentary...

My only criticism is: Until ML ended up on the hospital, I was bothered with FL being rather too cold and standoffish, but then she made it up by helping him heal fast.
The last few episodes were a lot of crying scenes so I had to fast forward carefully so that I would not miss the dialogues.

I loved the ending, which was into the future, so we KNOW for sure how the story went ...

Overall - a masterful drama and a must watch for any serious art lover.

Wow I started watching kdramas a little bit in 2019 and then during COVID I turned into a dedicated watcher lmao

Wow old kdramas are SO MUCH BETTER than new kdramas!!!!!!! This one is a masterpiece. I have seen all eps and this is wow kdrama, so complex, deep, sophisticated, bringing up all kinds of issues, this is a great social commentary - as usual, always expected of real kdramas...

Real kdramas are going extinct, fast, as Koreans and foreigners making money off Koreans are greedily trying to make $$$$$ by selling kdramas in the West and thus new kdramas are WHITEWASHED, super simplified, made bland, to not piss off anyone

Sad. THE GENOCIDE OF KDRAMAS IS IN FULL PROGRESS and I am afraid they t will be extinct soon. The new "kdramas" are not really kdramas, they are Kwood - shallow, shocking, without dialogues, without character arc, without humor and poking fun at stuff, without resolving it with warmth and compassion, individual and community efforts.

At this point I a watching old kdramas and skipping the new ones, and when I see the old ones... I will have nothing left to watch

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A great Chinese counterfeit with Chinese flavor - hilariously funny

This is delightful! it is super crafty... lmao Chinese imported So Ji Sub to be THE hot guy, and then put a Chinese ML who looks like So Ji Sub somewhat but is not that well kept beautiful you know the deal with Korean skin and working out .... THis is 2009 movie but it has guys' bathroom scene just wrapped in a towel - I guess other dramas copied this one? So Ji Sub was SML and did not have to act much.... besides the towel scenes...

On the plus side, Chinese ML is a pretty good actor and is incredibly CHARMING and convincing as a hot lover. Highly recommended. If you want to see a really hot Chinese guy, this ML beats all the anorexic looking androgenous skinny pale boys with make up that are currently the rage in China. Those kids are ... nothing. Watch this drama to see a real one :)
Also this was before being skinny was so fashionable, So Ji Sub looks amazing in that towel, and also Anna actress looks WOW amazing. What a body. Also, the FL actress has nice legs you can see she walks and exercises, the legs are toned.

Also there are lots of Hwood tricks, including the names of the Chinese in the drama - Sophie, Gordon, Anna, .... and the facial gestures that look like Hwood...

BUT as usual, Chinese did a great copycat counterfeit and made it their own, this is actually hilarious and has that off hinge humor like Stephen Chow movies from Hong Kong, and I love it. It is really fun.

I just watched a phenomenal Chinese Counterfeit with real Chinese flavor and it is totally hilarious. Sophie's Revenge 2009 Chinese rom com with So Ji Sub as 2ML. He did not have to act much besides parade around in towel. But Chinese ML is his copy lmao but does not look that well kept, however, is a very good actor and super charming and really a hot lover. A lot better than the girly pale skinny guys with make up in current cdramas... The movie has Stephen Chow from Hong Kong humor, I love it. Link in spoiler
I really dislike most cdramas and cmovies bc they have the pompous overdramatic serious feel of a military parade, BUT once in a blue moon when Chinese make something good it is EXCEPTIONAL

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Great story but to me, poorly filmed

The plot is beautiful and deep
but the filming... I could not take it. THE POINT OF THIS MOVIE IS TO CELEBRATE LIFE and all the connections of the Whole
yet the movie is so.... damp gloomy lifeless.

***The message of the movie is so warm and positive and light, and does not match the TONE of the movie, how it was filmed. *** So .... desolate, slow, and ... somehow... remote... Too soapy melodrama and somehow so ... flat dead.... slow sad.... lifeless...

And the music... ah so over the top and distracting.

So we NEVER get that feeling that the postman actually GOT the message deeply inside him and FELT IT DEEPLY

We see him riding around with his cat - that's the only thing the writer could think about????

So I just read the plot and fast forwarded through the movie.

Filmed properly, this would be a masterpiece.

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Even more fun than #1. More sophisticated humor and plot, better acting

Lmao even better than #1 lmao The comedy is hilarious and the plot is super fun. #2 is more sophisticated humor and plot, and better acting. It is very well done.

Wow his wife
and wow the cat bait taking down 2 NIS guys who cant figure out what she is doing to them - and falling for the same trick over and over and over again..... once, twice, thrice... even saving her life bc he still likes her :( wow was that dumb....

The fun part of this drama is that it actually shows the flaws of what we think should be so flawless, like NIS
The Chief and the young one are shown as selfish and gullible, the Chief is shown as ... well... not very smart
Also, the drama is an advertisement for NIS, since Agent Jun is so skilled

Agent Jun actor in this drama acts a lot more convincing than in #1, I guess he is sold out on the idea that he should be filming this. In #1 he was kinda pretending and acting as if he had to lmao I guess after making money with the #1, he got convinced he should be serious about acting well in #2. It really worked. He is a very great talented actor. He must be quite a sly fox in real life, he seems super crafty and experienced in wheeling and dealing - and acting :)

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Omg heavy ... ! but educational, star-studded thriller melo psych drama

Wow star studded cast and a great thriller psychological drama!

Wow so many kdrama stars in this drama!!! it is a fabulous cast!!!!

Why are some ppl frustrated with the ending?? It is a VERY clear ending - FL AND ML BECOME A COUPLE, MIN DECIDES TO COME BACK TO HIS HYONG, the Team survived, and the murderer is on the run in Korea and plans to cause trouble - and plans to meet them again...
So the ending is crispy crytal clear, nothing is open !!!!! it is very definite and specific

The only issue I found sometimes is the cold arrogant superior ML and dumb emotional overreactive FL - that specific flavor of deep sh.t sexism, the chronic disease in asian dramas...

FL is made the dumbest person around and too much plot is based in her stupidities and her being a nurse to ML who is abusive and cold towards her - and the only other female characer was super stupid too - REALLY DUMB - didnot leave any messages that she got the fingerprints, did not personally go to other ppls offices but went into a parking lot with her brief - HOW STUPID IS THAT????? DUMB DUMB DUMB and FL also was doing similar dumb stuff - so ML had to save her... STUPID SAME OLD SEXIST TRASH
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actors who look alive, not like skeletons and porcelan dolls like in year 2026 where BMI of 13 is desirable and all actors look lifeless and malnourished... !!!!

Also, I loved all the actors with Asian slanted eyes! wow such gorgeous men!!!! ML and Idol I ML are totally totally gorgeous

I really enjoyed seeing physically fit, athletic and muscular people with a properly functioning hormonal system, their complexion is something that so many are trying to achieve.

I cannot stand gaunty skeletons in newer dramas. So bye bye to that.

so FROM NOW ON:
I am wathing only physically fit healthy people on the screen - physically fit appropriate for their age, gender, body type, and general circumstances and health - everyone can be "physically fit" to the best of THEIR ability

If there is no new kdrama with those kinds of actors:
I AM WATCHING OLDER KDRAMAS

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Season 2: study in toxic relationships

Yumi's Cell Season 2 is mostly about YuMi-BaBi relationship and breakuip and it is so... toxic to watch!!!! bc there is no love there, only two adults using each other for attention AND LYING TO THEMSELVES ABOUT IT

It is toxic bc there is no real love there. YuMi "finds solace in BaBi's attention"...

YuMi is just an ordinary, flawed, ignorant person, with some skillZ for life. She uses reason and thinks through stuff, but she put her Inner Self away into the desert and does not trust it, and she locked up her Deep Inner Desires into a jail underground.

is YuMi selfish? Hm... with BaBi, yes.... "finding solace in his admiration" IS SELFISH :) she is just taking from him.
With Woong... ? it is a mutual game. YuMi consented to kiss his as# to get his LustyDinosaur, whatever that blue t-rex was called. With Woong, YuMi was overly giving. But out of selfish reasons, she wanted something from him... and her mistake was to TOTALLY neglect all red flags so that she could get that.

I dont love to hate this show. I just thought a lot about what I saw. it is ugly :( and I wasted 14 hours. I think there was a FASTER way to learn all that.

i think the Cells are genious way to show what is happening under the surface. I felt like a detective, that I was able to see the "dissection" of human behavior. So in that regard, 14 hrs spend on this is not totally wasted. I was practicing my detective skills and learning :)

I predicted totally how both season 1 and 2 would go and how they would end :) and by watching the CELLS PART of the dramas, I learned a lot too

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season 1 is about ONE guy Woong. but BaBi is lurking in the background posing as YuMi's friend while he is breaking with his reporter ex
Meanwhile Woong has a "second wife" an ex from the past that consistently and openly butts in to get him away from YuMi
finally Woong dumps YuMi and she accepts bc Woong went off the deep end with the bankruptcy of his company and did not say a word about it - Woong is a lame proud arrogant selfish he-man man-child AND a fun boy toy, and she keeps kissing his as# to keep the fun boy toy

season 2 is about BaBI taking over YuMi, genuinely loving her... and once in a blue moon, Woong trying to come back and bailing out fast every time.
But the whole thing is slimey as YuMi got with BaBi not out of love, but to use him as a happy pill and to have him treat her like a princess. So she essentially leeches off him. And as soon as she is far from him, he finds another chick who kisses HIS as# and genuinely loves him. And YuMi stops "loving him" as soon as it is clear he cannot be 100% perfectly serving her 100% of the time.

So the cells makes this interesting. The stories are about flawed ignorant unaware people, and the cells show how these people operate.
Season 2 is so cheesy cringe bc both Woong and BaBi stay single and loyal to Yumi FOREVER although she dumped them.

YuMi is like this worm that just chews through men, using them for s.x, attention, etc.


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Season 1 is interesting only bc of the Cells... bc it shows the typical hormone-driven relationships that fall apart, how immature people think, what operates them inside to create those stupid external behaviors - how mismatched immature ppl get together for the sake of s.x and fun and keep it going for a short while until the first problems.

Woong is an arrogant dude and he keeps his "second wife" bc she strokes his ego, and he stays around YuMi only while his ego is stroked and looking grand. So he and YuMi used each other, and YuMi was a lot more giving, in order to keep her fun boy toy.

Season 2 is a study in toxic relationships. YuMi does NOT love BaBi and she gets together with him for convenience, takes him as a happy pill, "loves" him when it is all perfect, and loses any interest as soon as he is less than perfect. He essentially cheated by emotionally attaching himself to another chick, who was kissing his as@ and who genuinely loved him from the start, which YuMi never did. YuMi and BaBi relationship was majorly slimey, and BaBi was a lot more giving. YuMi was there as long as she was THE PRINCESS, and BaBi had to keep kissing her as@ and taking care of her.

The key problem is that YuMi is totally oblivious to her Hunch Cell and her Deep Inner Cell and is fact scared of them, so she keeps operating out of limited / dumb Emotions, Reason, etc

Season 3 is about .... ? hopefully real love for who the people ARE and a real relationship where both give and take and LOVE equally.

But there could be 100000 seasons and NOTHING WILL WORK AS LONG AS THAT HUNCH CELL IS FEARED AND PUT TO LIVE ALONE IN THE DESERT, AND DEEP INNER CELL IS BURRIED IN AN UNDERGROUND PRISON

YuMi is an ordinary clueless ignorant person, living life on automatic pilot. The interesting part is the Cells, we get to see how that all works

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Season 2 was so soap...
Adult men moping after their woman for YEARS AND DECADES and unwilling and unable to have new relationships - and one woman having at least 2 great guys like that forever dedicated to her - wow what a super disgusting lie soapy cringe trope that shows up on most if not all dramas. So those moping men just do not have s.x all their adult life, or for so many years and decades?
WOW WE FOUND WHY S KOREA HAS THE LOWEST BIRTH RATE IN THE WORLD - and why hostess bars and prostitution are so normal in Asia.
The reality was shown by both Woong and Ba Bi. Woong was keeping his "second wife" at work, and Ba Bi found "second wife" as soon as he moved away. And both those "second wives" had NO problem butting in to steal the man from his official girlfriend. On the other hand, men who were told the girl is taken, backed off immediately. THAT IS THE TYPICAL REALITY

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Just watched Yumi's Cells season 1 bc of really great review on byrei.ink - indeed it is a great study on how immature ppl get together for fun and then quickly break up. THE CELLS ARE SOOOO EDUCATIONAL AND DEEP!!!! I rated that 10 bc of its uniqueness and insights. I just fast forwarded through the cringe parts showing the external behaviors of two really dumb immature ppl butting heads without any communication.

Season 1 was about puppy young love based on hormones.

Then I watched 14 episodes of Season 2. And I feel very upset after, because it was about two slimey adults. YuMi using BaBi as her happy pill, to have someone kiss her as# and take care of her ALL THE TIME like she was a princess, and YuMi lost any interest and bailed out as soon as the dude could not deliver that all the time. And BaBi - he needs someone to truly love him, and I guess he wants someone to kiss HIS as# too, so he essentially cheated by emotionally attaching to a chick like that - and probably would have proceeded to switch ships at one point, JUST LIKE he was switching ships and jumping on to YuMi while he was breaking up with his ex.

SO SEASON 2 IS A STUDY IN VERY SLIMEY TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS.

And then this cheesy idea of 2 guys being loyal forever to one woman who used them while it was fun and then dumped them... SO unreal soapy!!!!

There was real stuff... both guys had "second wives", women who openly catered to them and tried to take them away from the official girlfriend YuMi. That is soooo realistic.
YuMi's male suitors behaved in typical ways of real life and backed off as soon as she said she has a boyfriend.

Overall, YuMi is a very ignorant unaware person and also a coward in many ways because she keeps her Hunch away in the desert and is afraid to listen to him, and also DEep Inner Self is burried in an underground prison.

So Yumi's Cells can have 10000000000 episodes where YuMi keeps using men, chewing them up while they are useful to her and then spitting them out.

In Season 1, YuMi has to kiss as# of Woong, to keep her fun boy toy. He is a moody arrogant man-child and a great boy toy
In Season 2, BaBi has to kiss as# of YuMi and make her feel like a princess, or else she loses interest in him. She gets with him not out of love, but for health reasons, to be treated like a princess, and loses interest as soon as he cannot be that loyal doting SERVANT ALL THE TIME. BaBi sold his soul and then could not resist his need for someone who truly loves him and gives to him, so he essentially chated.
BaBi needs someone who gives to him as much as he gives. BaBi did not have a mother and his father is cement, so BaBi needs real love, to be the center of attention.

Yeah BaBi is slimey too... He jumps ships as soon as it is not productive for him to stay.... As soon as "his woman" is "away" - he starts jumping ships...

So Season 2 is just ... ugly toxic muck bc it is clear these ppl are adults adn SHOULD be thinking...
BASICALLY SEASON 2 SHOWS THAT NOTHING WAS LEARNED FROM SEASON 1
and season 3 looks like the same concept


Season 1 is cute bc it is "starter kit"
but Season 2 is infuriating bc there is no progress whatsoever
the story just repeats
And Season 3 looks the same repeat...

Yumi's Cells Season 2 is so nasty because THE DRAMA IS DEAD FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES. It is not about love and aliveness. It is about INTENTIONAL TOXICITY, nobody is trying to become a better person, YuMi just scoots along with BaBi pushing her forward, and BaBi thinks this is the best "love" he can find for himself and BaBi "buys" this love by always being perfect and doting on the princess so that she would bestow her "love" on him.
So yeah, I feel furious after watching Yumi's Cells Season 2. It is a "waste of time" drama unless you want to really analyze toxic relationships.
The Cells is the only thing that is useful and worth watching here, to learn how ppl are able to slide into toxic relationships and maintain them for a long time.

I thought about this a lot. Season 2 is mostly about YuMi - BaBi relationship and fallout. Yumi's Cell Season 2 is so... toxic to watch!!!! bc there is no love there, only two adults using each other for attention AND LYING TO THEMSELVES ABOUT IT
It is toxic bc there is no real love there.

BaBi has no mother and his father is cement, so BaBi tries to "buy love by being perfect. YuMi never loved him really, she just used him to serve her like she was a princess. So as soon as he found someone else to kiss his as@ and love him, as soon as he found a better "investment", he took it.

BaBi's sliminess is that he starts switching ships as soon as his current ship starts sinking. He chased YuMi while breaking up with his reporter ex, and then he got Jeju girl as soon as it was clear that she was kissing his as# and loving him... So much better than uMi who honestly was just cold to BaBi and just enjoyed his taking care of her.

BaBi needs to find someone who will truly love and cherish him as much as he does love and cherish her. BaBi has a great capacity to love but very low ability to RECEIVE - then he falls for the first person who shows him appreciation and love.

YuMi needs to grow up too and pair up with a man who is equal to her. Woong was so much more childish and was essentially a boy toy, and BaBi was like a father/servant/nurse/sugar daddy to her. Seems like YuMi is a rather shallow person who picks the first guy who will give her s.x and attention.

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YuMi is just an ordinary, flawed, ignorant person, with some skillZ for life. She uses reason and thinks through stuff, but she put her Inner Self away into the desert and does not trust it, and she locked up her Deep Inner Desires into a jail underground.

is YuMi selfish? Hm... with BaBi, yes.... "finding solace in his admiration" IS SELFISH :) she is just taking from him.
With Woong... ? it is a mutual game. YuMi consented to kiss his as# to get his LustyDinosaur, whatever that blue t-rex was called. With Woong, YuMi was overly giving. But out of selfish reasons, she wanted something from him... and her mistake was to TOTALLY neglect all red flags so that she could get that.

I dont love to hate this drama. I just thought a lot about what I saw. it is ugly :( and I wasted 14 hours. I think there was a FASTER way to learn all that.

>>>>>i think the Cells are genious way to show what is happening under the surface. I felt like a detective, that I was able to see the "dissection" of human behavior. <<<< So in that regard, 14 hrs spend on this is not totally wasted. I was practicing my detective skills and learning :)

I predicted totally how both season 1 and 2 would go and how they would end :) and by watching the CELLS PART of the dramas, I learned a lot too

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Really fun kdrama about deep subjects

It is a kdrama for young at heart, since the place of the drama is a school, a lot of it is told from the students' perspective, and FL is a very ... naive teacher LOL

The ML actor is fantastic, he was soooo fun. His costuming was superb, the funky uncombed hair and open necktie LOL He was sooo fun to watch.

the issues presented were deep issues though, and involved corporate crime, school bullying, privileged elites, bad greedy parenting, as@ kissing to climb social hiararchy, the hierarchy itself and how even the kids participated in that willingly.

it really is a drama about intentionally creating and maintaining elites. A super deep subject camouflaged under school myths and gossips...

And the underlying story of ML's parents and what it means to be a secret agent, and a little historical lesson on Japanese occupation, etc

WHY was the drama taken off Viki and other places so fast after it finished airing?

Where is the ML actor now, he is really a fun actor, and I didnt see him since this drama. We miss him :) Come back soon

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