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I agree with your interpretation. For many, many years, Hyun-nam had been too weak to leave her husband. Even at his funeral she wore the dress he demanded her to wear. She knows that she's free but she is only starting to realise what it truely means. She cried for him but also for herself, saying goodbye to her past life. In my opinion, this role had an unusual depth and was fairly convincing.

I feel the same. It's always the same role: deaf mother of a child who was murdered, and she's desperately seeking justice while being ignored. There is so much potential in that role that could make an interesting story because of the unique struggles but all you see is a bunch of very dramatic scenes with the deaf mother trying to communicate, and that's it. I really don't like it if such unimportant characters get unique traits which don't get explored further. It's just distracting.

Im Ji-yeon was incredible in this drama. Her character was so crazy, full of herself and evil. She felt like a real person and was so easy to hate. I also liked Yeom Hye-ran whose character had a bit more depth than her usual funny, slightly crazy ajumma characters. She really nailed the suffering mother who could not leave her abusive husband.

My favourite actor in this drama was Jung Sung-il, though. He didn't have that much screentime and his character didn't say much but Jung Sung-il's facial expressions told a whole story. He was as phenomenal as Im Ji-yeon.

I really enjoyed this drama because of the great actors. The story itself was okay. A bit too long for my taste. I sometimes didn't know what the FL was actually trying to achieve.

Yes, there is no romance but a solid/professional friendship between ML and FL. If I remember correctly, ML makes some comments that could be interpreted as "he's testing if she's interested as well" but they are rare, and nothing goes beyond that. This drama is definitely not a romcom or something like that.

How many episodes did you watch?

Regarding Venezuela, I can recommend an article in the Miami Harald: "Gripped by desperation, some escape Venezuela crisis by killing themselves, report says".

Let's assume that every country counts the suicides the same way (which is not the case in real life), we still have to consider the circumstances. In Western country, one can quickly get institutionlised or even imprisoned for simply expressing suicidal thoughts. In Western countries, one's family will not get any money from one's life insurance if one commits suicide. One might get excommunicated by one's church, which brings great shame on one's religious family. One's family might get stigmatised and shunned by neighbours and other people.

As you can hopefully see, these are just a few obvious examples of why it might be preferable to cover up a suicide by claiming it was an accident or murder. In Western countries, many people die of an overdosis or drink themselves to death. Who can tell whether it was an accident or intention?

From the aforementioned article on Venezuela: "Suicide cases are routinely labeled something else, said Briceño León."

Back to the initial topic, Patrick Star was talking about actors and Western media coverage, not about normal people.

From what I understood, the ML's lover is not his actual mother cause he's not born yet or so. Whatever that means.

That doesn't mean anything. If you live in a Western country, you probably know that we don't like to talk about death and that we cannot accept that people make their own decisions. We prefer people to suffer or to take drugs (while simultaneously condemning them because they cannot live without drugs), so we feel better about ourselves without too much hassle. Just because our media prefers not to talk about suicide and just because those suicide hotline numbers get spammed everywhere whenever someone's not happy or on drugs, does not mean that our actors live happy lives and die only in accidents or due to cancer. We just don't learn about their struggles, their decision and their suicide.

Maybe because many people cannot distinguish between an actor and his role. Lee Kyung Young IS the bad guy because he portrays bad guys on screen. They wouldn't be upset if he were like that in real life as well. Other actors, especially beautiful young men and women, are expected to be pure angels in real life "as seen in the dramas". Otherwise, their so-called fans turn against them, and all hell breaks loose.

I hope that Yoo Ah-in will get clean and will be allowed/able to proceed his career as an actor after jail time.

A "humble request" is not necessary for me. "Hey, I think your comment reveals too much information. Could you please mark it as a spoiler? Click the 3 dots, click the Spoiler box, click save. Thanks." First the problem, then the solution. The other way round is also fine. I don't care that much about the specific phrasing.

Otherwise, you might come across like one of those toxic people who, unfortunately, gained more power especially during the past two years. They usually have in common that they rarely tell you the problem they identified but presume that you know because they feel that the world revolves around them, their personal needs and problems. To them, it's mainly about themselves and maybe also about problems, usually other people's assumed problems. They are not interested in solutions. Yes, people like these make me angry, which is why I usually try to avoid them unless they pay me.

In this particular case, I was able to guess the problem, though, but that's rather luck.

Have a nice day.
Another "spoiler" cause practice makes perfect. ;)

I'm so happy that this drama had only 8 episodes. The story telling was amazing. No annoying fillers or unnecessary side stories. I watched so many interesting dramas which got extremely boring as of 1/2 or 2/3 because 16+ episodes had to be completed. Let's hope that more dramas will opt for quality before quantity. :)

Agree. I found him fairly relatable to a certain degree, which is why I felt he was the most interesting character in this drama. Despite the violence, he had soooo many chances to stop.

I felt the same about Beom-seok but I really enjoyed the unusual story. In other dramas, Beom-seok would have learnt from his mistake, and everybody would have been friends again, which would have been rather predictable.

Well, I did get slightly offended cause your comment felt relatively impolite. However, if you (or somebody else) think that my comment revealed too much information, I'm happy to mark it as a spoiler. No problem.

As for me, I read the comment section below dramas before watching them. I mainly look for specific questions such as mine to figure out if a story is complete nonsense or if the main character is grooming minors. Unfortunately, I cannot know what hidden comments contain before clicking "Reveal spoiler".

Done, even though I don't think that I revealed anything relevant. At least not more than other people in this comment section who didn't use the "Spoiler" tag.

Ah, ok, that makes sense. I thought, since the apartments are in high demand, that somebody checks whether the buyers are in fact parents and whether they actually live in those apartments. Otherwise, a rich couple could buy multiple of those "family" apartments and rent it out for profit.

You are right about the realism in this drama. I don't expect much but I don't appreciate it if the writing is "too cheap". The stories have been somewhat complex and intriguing so far. Not many dramas/movies dare to touch these sensitive topics, which is something I like a lot about this drama. I think the writers are pretty good which is why I wished they had put a bit more effort into the details.

Anyways, thanks a lot for explaining these things to me. At least, the story about the children make a bit more sense to me. I'm looking forward to the next episode(s). :)

Thanks for the explanation. That's what I figured, too. However, at the beginning, it was said that he had about 30 apartments. He's even a celebrity/influencer/public figure. I doubt that nobody ever noticed that these apartments were such "government" apartments for couples.

Furthermore, the couples were supposed to claim to have a biological child and basically immediately file for a missing report after they got the apartment. Since the couples have at least one "family" picture in their apartment and probably sent it to the police (for the report), there is no way that the police don't realise that the missing children look alike.

Also, when the bad guy tells ML and FL that they have to fill in a birth certificate(?) to claim the pregnants child were theirs, the family photo with the older children would not make any sense. Also, if nobody checks whether couples do have a child, I don't see any reason why the baby could not be the "real" baby of multiple couples. Or simpler: Why bother dealing with existing children if one could simply forge everything? Stockphotos or some AI would have been much simpler and less stressful.

I think you are right about the writers's idea but it still does not make much sense to me. It's almost as if the police does not exist anymore in this drama.

Maybe "Her Private Life"?

Maybe you should read my comment again. I didn't realise that those were two different couples. They looked exactly the same on my (small) screen. Same height difference, same faces, same hair cuts. I watched the part twice.

"You score higher for the eligibility of getting an apartment by the government scoring system if you have children."
Ok, but the bad guy got the apartments in the end, which didn't make much sense if the government gave those apartments to couples with children only.

Good looking bad guys are my weakness. ;)