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How old? Like 40 years old?

Huh? Hasn't he always looked fine? I don't remember any drama where he hasn't.

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Thanks a lot for your detailed reply. I have to admit that I forgot half the nonsense scenes you mentioned, for example, the animal ML's brother buried. Now that you mentioned it, I remember, of course. Yeah, a stupid filler scene. I can ignore that one.

However, now I'm remembering one scene that really upsets me in hindsight: when the psychopath sent ML's brother the cute pictures ML's brother took together with Yu-na, and basically threatened him. However, afterwards nothing really happened. I would have expected the psycho to target ML or someone else in ML's brother's life but noooo. The whole Yu-na story felt like a filler because it didn't add anything relevant to the overall story nor did it tell us anything new about the characters. In the last (or 2nd last) episode, in the flashback scene with psycho cutie, ML's brother also emphasised that he didn't want to harm any children but Yu-na's death hadn't particularily affect him in earlier episodes even though she was completely innocent and didn't have anything to do with the orphanage.

And so on ...

I completely agree with you regarding the writing but after watching lots of dramas, I have to admit that my expectations are super low, so I happily ignore a looot of things as long as the drama is somewhat entertaining. This drama still one of the better crime dramas out there, in my opinion. Despite the silly scenes, the story was more or less straight-forward.

Make-up. In almost all scenes, I'm just thinking: Can they please make him a bit less perfect, so he looks more relateable?

I'm afraid nobody knows if you'll enjoy this. Just give it a try and decide for yourself. :)

I didn't want to spoil anything. ^^

Isn't this the whole point of this story? Cold-hearted woman warming up to warm-hearted man?

Which plot twists do you mean? Ryu Sung-hoon was carving statues, and we saw those at the crime scenes in the early episodes, so it wasn't that much of a surprise to me that he was involved in the murders.

I also don't remember any particularily dumb moments from the detectives. I just wondered if the whole police department consisted of 5(?) guys only.

The only thing that reeeeeally bothered me was how they portrayed ML (Ryu Sung-joon) as a psycho in the first episodes where he threatened the forensic pathologist(?) with the scalpel, just to drop this disturbing behaviour and make him a normal guy.

Oh, and they somehow seem to have forgotten to mention how the kidnapped people escaped the dungeon(?). Or I accidentally skipped an episode.

In my opinion, it was a good watch. One of the few Kdramas that doesn't end end after 13 episodes and bores us with 3 filler episodes. If you like crime stories, you might like it.

Regarding the "happy ending", that depends on your definition. The children's suffering doesn't magically get undone but the bad guys get punished.

While there aren't any relevant gore or overly disturbing scenes for thriller or sageuk fans, it might be too much for people who mainly watch fluffy romcoms.

Ji Sung is a phenomenal actor. Even if I didn't like a drama, I've never been disappointed by his performance. Secret is my favourite drama. Crazy Ji Sung is best Ji Sung. XD

Yeah, they are both single parents, they obviously like each other, their children like each other. I'm wondering if we get more information on their relationship in the next episodes. Maybe there is a reason why they are not dating each other.

It is quite common for people with traumas to be wary of relationships. For example, if your partner cheats on you, you usually cannot trust them anymore, but you also cannot trust your next partner either because they COULD cheat on you as well. Obviously, it's not the new partner's fault that the ex cheated. This cannot be approached or healed with reason, though, because it's about emotions. Human emotions.

In my opinion, that scene where ML talked about his daughter was excellent: an intimate scene, great writing, perfect acting. FL loved her dad dearly, and he died around this time, so she remembers the good time, and she misses him. We could see how much she was already suffering. And then there is her "enemy" in front of her, telling her how much he loves her daughter, and she's shocked because she realises that her "enemy" has not just a family but a family similar to the one she once had. She immediately identifies with his daughter even thought she doesn't know her. Of course, as a very proud person, she cannot allow herself to cry in front of ML or anybody who could harm her. In one scene, we can see that she checks his CV, and the camera rests on the line about his daughter. That's no coincidence.

Afterwards, she treats ML a bit less hostile, and obviously gives him a chance as her(?) employee. She knows: If she fires him, his daughter will also suffer, so I'm sure she'll be much nicer to him in the next episodes. And thanks to the nice ML, she'll learn to trust people again, especially the nice hot ML.

Her treating ML nicely immediately would rob us of many interesting scenes such as the one in the restaurant and of character development. It's good story telling so far.

I think she already likes him but doesn't allow herself to do that. The scene where they met in the archive was quite telling. Or just wishful thinking on my side. ^^

The resource bottleneck also exists in communism.

If an actor wants to be famous, he needs to act in movies that gain people's attention. This means that a role in a movie is a resource to generate fame.

If the number of actors who want to be famous is greater than the number of movies gaining people's attention, there must be somebody who decides gets the main role. That somebody could easily request something in return (sex, for example).

It doesn't need money to exploit people. There are other currencies such as time, sex, attention, main roles, and so on.

For everybody who knows how fiction works, it is very obvious the writers wrote FL this way, so people become annoyed by her. The rules of fiction demand that hot MLs must not be treated badly. Obviously, the story will be about ML "healing" FL, and FL will become a better person who will treat the good looking ML better. Being annoyed by FL (intended) is different from "sick of the narrative" (makes no sense if you want to watch dramas based on this narrative).

If the writers had written the story as you'd preferred it, this drama would consist of 2 episodes: "I don't like you, ML." - "Sorry, FL." - "Thanks, now I like you. You are hot, nice, perfect. Let's be a couple." - "OK." - Happy Ending.

The business partner might have hired him but he's not working for the business partner. He enters FL's office (without being invited), he touches her stuff (without being asked to). Yes, that's his job but FL didn't ask for it. ML knows that but he keeps pushing because he wants to keep this job, which probably pays better than working at some restaurant. He's not some poor slave who cannot escape and is being mistreated by the evil FL. It's his own decision to work for FL even though she doesn't want him (for now).

Ep1 was a bit draggy but ep2 was really promising, in my opinion.

I wished I had discovered this drama later. Now I have to wait for the next episode. :(

I couldn't enjoy the main couple because FL looked way too cute and young for ML. I'm probably too old to enjoy relationships where one partner resembles a child. I mainly kept watching this drama because of ML's brother-in-law who was such an interesting character, and the actor did an excellent job. This drama had a crime story that was surprisingly interesting and quite dark for a romcom. All in all, it was a decent watch albeit a bit draggy because whenever something relevant happens, the characters are like "no, let me sit here for 1-2 episodes, then let me tell them, so the story can proceed".