InspectorMegre

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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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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A story of true love for EVERYONE, straight or gay; great script - and voila! well acted too

Super cute, realistic, and very funny story of true love. A true rom-com.

A rare jdrama that has good acting.
The script is great. This is a story of true love as it is in real life, to normal nice people. It is sexy in good taste, it is caring without soapy, it is very very very GENUINE and realistic and HEALTHY. It does not have false prudishness like most straight kdramas have, and it does not have overdone lewdness and twisted sexuality - esp. associating s.x with violence and games - like so many BL dramas have.

>>>> I recommend this drama to anyone - straight or not, young or old, first timers or married for 100 yrs. <<<<<

The drama shows what true love looks like, acts like and thinks like......

A super cute story of true love. So different than most BL dramas which honestly are too lewd and/or playing games. This drama too has a very common plot of a convinced gay male who runs into a closeted gay male and kinda shocks him and cajoles him into it, however, it lacks the sexualization and predatory feeling that so many BL dramas have. This drama is UNIVERSAL, you could play it with straight ppl too.

The plot is actually a mimic on the common straight plot from kdramas - a popular charmer suave guy falls in love with a clumzy insecure not-popular shy loser chick who is KIND good person. In the straight context, this plot is super sexist. The female is the dumb one and the male is the smart one who runs her life bc she is so incompetent she cannot survive on her own. Such dramas glorify the man as the "higher" one.

In this gay drama, the main protagonist is an insecrure clumzy unpopular shy target of love.
But how it is done is so ... well done. It does not put anyone down, nor does it make the "more suave" person more "interesting" or "higher" in status

I would encourage everyone to read the review that is on the top of MDL reviews, by TsangYang. It says it all :) I just filled in some holes.

This drama reminds me of BL kdrama Heesu from Class 2 which talks about two gay male high schoolers in love and one of them getting out of the closet. Heesu drama also has positive female models and does not portray life as "planet inhabited by gay males" as most BL dramas do. Hessu drama is balanced, just like this drama.

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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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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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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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Amnesia galore... a drama with great actors spoiled by cheap script

This drama was soooooo .... full of tropes....
and amnesia kept repeating and kept repeating... omg... that was soooo boring..

The acting was great except for the FL, that actress is young and is not quite competent of acting deeper stuff or real love,
and the actor who was her father was ... terrible. Well. his role was terrible too.

ML actor is great and I remember the drama just for him. he can act well.

This is a great review of it. This person loved this drama a lot more than I did.
https://crabbyfordramas.wordpress.com/2023/06/17/young-lady-and-gentleman-weekend-drama-recaps/

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A daily that started as decent and then stagnated

Lucia, the FL, behaved in ways that led to death of her daughter, then she takes revenge against others, without any self reflection.
Then she enjoys revenge and goes on a power trip and does many manipulative nasty things
but she is so dumb and so unfit for revenging that she keeps making serious mistakes, yet she always gets out unscratched by sheer luck

There is some good acting in here, some veterans like the CEO, some good villains like the Lawyer, some new actors coming up, like Mr Moon,

but overall, this is not the best drama out there but not the worst either - simply bc the script does not have the most tight and interesting story. If the script were more interesting, this crew would definitely make a better drama.

Character of Lucia is not quite .... intelligent, let us put it that way LOL which is ok. But the problem is that THERE IS NO CHARACTER GROWTH. THat is why I think this is a mediocre drama overall.

So perhaps this is my personal bias, perhaps someone dumb would enjoy watching Lucia and never be annoyed that she is the same person and as dumb in ep 82 as in ep 1.

The music at the start was terrible, so loud and hyperactive, but seems like around ep 70ish they changed the music to fit better with the scenes, which helped a lot

This drama is like a psychological thriller, the characters keeps scheming to outdo each other

To make the drama really interesting and quality, there has to be some inner struggle, character growth, change and improvement in people.
We never saw Lucia self reflect... We never saw Stella or anyone else self reflect.... Mr Moon did some but not enough..... Written later - Stella did self correct SOMEWHAT but we never saw her self reflect..

NOBODY HAS GROWN OR CHANGED FORWARD FROM EP 1 TO EP 82

FL WENT BACKWARDS

Lucia got a glo over and is a little more composed but she has not changed much, really. She is a little bit more confident.. but she has also become an evil person, lying and manipulating others under the pretense of "love." What she is doing to SeRi, pretending to love her while cursing her in the back. is pure evil. Lucia's inability to self reflect is a severe fault.

Later Lucia accepted Se Ri just bc she was a bio daughter LOL
Lucia is a mother for sure... but ... a really dumb one.

The whole drama was like a cartoon - the good guys kept winning by sheer luck, getting unscratched doing some reaaaaaly stupid stuff.

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1950s sexism drama. Great for those who do not think and love to watch some s#x. The plot is awful.

This drama takes the worst of kdramas combined with the worst of the West. It goes backwards to 1950s (to be precise: 1200s) concept so prevalent in older kdramas - a stupid kind and sexy damsel in distress saved by a strong, loving, loyal, rich, controling, entitled cruel man who turns all soft bc of her.

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I watched this to the end so that I can trash this trash on Dramabeans bc the requirement is to watch a drama to the end in order to comment on it.

ML is chasing FL although she doesnt want him and keeps lying. She wants him but she doesnt want to work for it, so if he insists on falling into her lap, she might consider it, but will bail out and quit at the slightest inconvenience.

He has been chasing her from like ep 1, she kept pushing him away and lying, and she trepidly consented in ep 11,12... and then brazenly lied again and quit fast in ep 13.

Yeah this game is getting old..... To lie so brazenly to someone you "love" is NOT love. To keep chasing someone who does not respond is also not love, it is a mating obsession.

This drama is not a silly frilly rom com, Where is comedy, and where is romance. It is a toxic soapy melodrama trash with too much TMI skinship to the point of sexual harassment at work - and seems like that got the 8+ rating to this drama. which is disappointing. It is Kollywood cesspool.

This is a trashy daily drama material, a makjang melo with unreasonable toxic plots. But even daily kdramas are getting sophisticated these days. Queen's House 100 ep daily is a LOT better than Dynamite Kiss (well after first 20-30 episodes LOL while FL is 100% dumb and naive and blind)

This is a comment of someone else who sums it up well:
https://kisskh.at/778830-kiss-me-for-no-reas
I would just add to that comment that FL lied AGAIN to ML's face, looking him in the eye and hurting him intentionally.

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FL is a pathetic loser, poor and choosing to stay home and not really participate in life, she is insecure, illogical, VERY WEAK, powerless "victim" (altough she has so many chances to NOT be powerless and the choice to stay powerless is hers... we are in year 2025, not 1950 or 1200.... ) and then FL decides to lie to somehow get ahead, and KEEPS LYING EVEN WHEN SHE HAS CHANCES TO CONFESS AND THERE IS NO NEED TO LIE AND LIES ARE HURTING PPL.... Then she keeps doing stupid things and he keeps saving her. In DK, she trips/falls or drowns or gets cut or somehow injured LITERALLY several times per episode, and he is always there to save her.

This kind of plot is prevalent in many kdramas and it is 10000 % sexism. The FL is a powerless weak clutz damsel in distress, and ML is a controlling knight in shining armor hot stud sugar daddy.

THE AUDIENCE ON MDL PAGE FOR DK LOVES IT. They totally defend FL and feel sorry for ML. The amount of blindly illogical comments I saw there is astounding.

I think it helps bc DK is full of s@xual scenes, they kiss or try to at least once per episode, and there are explicit bed scenes, so all of that portrays ... well... very cheap script and going in the direction of Hollywood cesspool... s@x and violence.

****** So imo this drama takes the worst of kdramas combined with the worst of the West. ******

The drama is mediocre at best.
By ep 8, the female lead has ZERO growth. There are only 14 episodes, so chances are that FL stays a damsel in distress till the end. Maybe she will have a job, and that will be her accomplishment.
ML at least learned about hormones.

ML is a bull in a mating season, all hormones and no brains. FL is a super weak person and a slimey liar who keeps lying and lying although she has plenty opportunities to confess. BUT she is eager to kiss and jump into bed. She also trips falls drowns about 10 times per episode and he saves her. She thanks him saying he is like a father to her.

This is 1950s messages about dumb women who need a man to save them. It is extreme sexist brainwashing. A small child in adult female body, and a smart rich sugar daddy who takes care of her. Without him, she dies. Literally. He saved her life at least once.

This drama has high ratings which shows many very young ppl voted on it. THe drama in reality is blah

but it has plenty kissing and racy TMI scenes...

so ... it will be popular :) for sure :) but .... it is meaningless soapy delusional trash :) Designed to make every loser out there feel like they would deserve such a dedicated, hot, rich and handsome guy like ML.

The only positive note: ML actor acts pretty well and has progressed into complex ML roles

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The plot:
ML was a controling psycho at the start, then used FL, then played with her bc she kisses hot and he wanted to bag her, then was sad when she ghosted, ... then ... later.... angry when he discovered she was married... he just discovered homones and that he cannot control neither the hormones nor roping of this woman.... he is NOT used to not being in control!!!!!! then... SHE IS AH SO CARING AND NICE.... and ML got to develop some feelings for her, and that combined with his controlling entitled nature, turned him into a BULL IN MATING SEASON, all hormones no brains.... I have seen till ep 9 and that is the situation

ML is genuinely in love after ep....?. I forget which. At first, he was just a controlling cold predator, got interested in her kiss, and he started bagging her... but then .... she disappeared and he realized HE WANTS HER BC SHE KISSED HIM HOT .. and he did not get to finish eating his pray. So he genuinely gets mad bc he wants to finish eating his pray and then gets sad bc it did not happen... and his pray is right there in front of his nose.... and this feeling of infatuation even becomes some kind of caring feeling and then a more genuine love feeling.

As they say, the path to men's heart is food LOL or ... s@x.... or ... god forbid, character LOL on top of other things

So anyways, he did show genuine care towards her but it was always bc she was yummy and he was curious JUST BC OF THAT.

SO ML turns out to be a bull in mating season, all hormones and no brains.

This is the situation before ep 9.

SO IT CATERS TO ALL IMMATURE, WEAK WOMEN THINKING ONE DAY THEY TOO CAN ROPE IN THIS KIND OF "STRONG POWERFUL RICH HANDSOME" GUY WHO WILL KEEP SAVING THEM.

NO MATTER HOW MUCH JERK HE IS, HE WILL OVERNIGHT BECOME THE BESTEST MAN IN THE WORLD *** FOR HIS WOMAN ***
there is nothing wrong with liking this concept, and practicing it in real life, that is what love is supposed to be, BUT this drama makes it happen WITHOUT ANY CHARACTER GROWTH.
ML is 12 yrs old and just discovered hormones, and FL is 3 yrs old small insecure weak powerless child. AND IT STAYS THAT WAY. Ep 9 starts with that and there is only 12 episoded.

ZERO CHARACTER GROWN IN ANYONE, EP 1-8. **** ZERO. **** THAT IS A MAIN PROBLEM WITH THIS DRAMA

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I will quote review from Oppa_: " FL lied — and that is wrong. But she lied because she felt she had no power. Meanwhile, the ML acted out of entitlement, confidence, and the authority he held over her. Those are not the same type of wrongdoing. One is a survival tactic; the other is a conscious use of power."

But this is only the tip of the iceberg.

The iceberg itself is enslavement and exploitation of women that went on for thousands of years. FL and ML in that drama are symbols of that era and that thinking.

The Asian flavor of it is a chaste damsel in distress.. Western version is a Barbie Doll s@x toy damsel in distress.. So Western media always uses and abuses filling the movies and series with explicit s#x... This drama has too many s@xual scenes - kissing or trying to, and some bed scenes that are TMI imo. This cheap stuff sells...

This drama imo combines the worst of asian version of patriarchy and Western media cesspool...

Patriarchy ruled the earth for thousands of years and basically enslaved women, 50% of population, into being slaves, working for free stuck inside home, without any money and power to control the resources. This is done so that 50% of population (males) has control of 100% of resources. THE BASIS OF JUSTIFYING THIS IS THAT A WOMAN IS TOO DUMB AND WEAK AND POWERLESS AND EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE TO EVEN SURVIVE.

Early humans were matriarchal societies, apparently, so this patriarchy started somehow... I am sure this started somehow relted bc a man has 7 times more muscle power than a woman of the same size....
indeed a man fights better with lions and indeed can haul a deer home and build a house fast... and indeed can fight intruders and indeed can provide some good s@x... so probably some horny woman let her darling take over the bed and then out of complacency let him "take care of it all for her" ... or maybe some strong guys defended their clans and thus became leaders....

and then the guys took over and matriarchy was GONE. Women became slaves. Glorified slaves LOL Glorified domestic animals... praised for producing children (aka more soldiers, work labor, and connections and influence) and for working non-stop to maintain males who just show up to rule and enjoy the privileges

IN THE PATRIARCHAL WORLD, A WOMAN IS INDEED OFFICIALLY POWERLESS... SHE IS PROPERTY OF HER FATHER AND THEN HUSBAND.... AND SURVIVES ONLY IF A MAN IS HER FRONT.

AND WOMEN RESORT TO CUNNING AND S#X TO GET WHAT THEY WANT AND NEED. bc that is the only path available. And men are thus afraid of women... and there is a huge distrust on both sides... And women fight other women in this never-ending fight to find the male who will be THE BEST ONE to protect them...

So basically we are talking animal behavior, just more complex.

But it is actually a LOT more worse bc... both men and women are manipulated and exploited. Men are taught to be cruel and heartless and emotionless bc... they too are used as pions... they are the soldiers and henchman of the elites... they are the dogs that work for the elites... without blinking an eye, they destroy and die ... at war or corporate desk.... they are bland, empty WORKER / SOLDIER ROBOTS .... ...

and women are slaves who act and do all the care, kindness and nurturing, and restore and maintain these robots... Women are slaves who act as psychiatric nurses, who do all the work producing, raising and maintatining robots, who do all the daily care, feeding, chores, that is necessary to produce and grow new robots and support and maintain the operating robots.

IT IS LIKE A FARM, OWNED AND RUN BY SOME EVIL PPL who make sure that all the robots and slaves never communicate and always distrust and harass and cheat each other, trying to rise to the top levels of robots and slaves... never letting each other escape, always dragging each other down back into the hell...

Basically, someone owns a tank of crabs, uses them as food, and fuels their instinct to drag each other down into the cauldron

And meanwhile, someone on the top pulls all the strings and abuses this army of animals they roped in to work on their behalf, That someone on the top is wealthy and privileged and manipulates the masses - since these robots and slaves are totally easy to manipulate. DK audience comments demonstrated that soooo well...

And DK is all about that. It hits all those key point of patriarchy,
As you said, ML is controlling, cruel, rich, entitled, etc totally devoid of feeling
and FL is irrational, dumb, spaced out, powerless, loser, emotional, etc AND SHE SOFTENS THE HEART OF THAT MAN AND THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER.

That is the dream, the illusion of all slaves and robots stuck in this hierarchy All those loser women fantasize they can stay a flawed character and get a super sugar daddy to take care of them and adore them no matter how immature and flawed they are,

and all robots fantasize how they will get a stupid but sexy and kind slave who will take care of them and provide fun - s#x, attention, care, etc that will recharge them and keep them going

STUPID MEN LIKE DUMB WOMEN. THEY ARE EASY TO CONTROL

DK plays on all these tropes and that's why I called it 1950s but it is really... 1200s attitudes LOL

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