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Umm, PSH? He looks amazing here.

It does have a handsome oppa, though?

The anti-Japanese sentiment in Korea is much stronger and more racially targeted than the anti-German sentiment anywhere in Europe or even Israel nowadays. So it's not unreasonable to ask how palpable it is in this drama.

I also don't think the person you're responding to indicated they feel personally responsible for Japanese imperialism anywhere in their question.

I think it’s up to you to interpret that scene.

I'm afraid Myungjoon might be forced to choose between saving Heeae and betraying Rohee at some point in the drama. No one has threatened Heeae so far, but she's an obvious weak point for him and if the people after Rohee get sick of MJ beating up their goons they might just threaten Heeae to get him to cooperate.

I hate the thought of this plot development, but it makes too much sense IMO.

Are you kidding, Park Sunghoon looks better than ever in his emo leather jacket!

I think she may be the dead doctor's mistress, who was mentioned in a conversation between the camera repairman and the greasy doctor in ep. 4.

Right, she's super smart and I love those moments when MJ proposes something thoughtless and she counters with a reasoned counterargument that he clearly hadn't considered, but at the same time her determination to stick with him is fundamentally irrational. She's a child, so it makes sense; he's the first person she met after she lost her memory and she can sense he's a good man who will take care of her.

Is Hyeeun the dead Dr Choi's mistress? Was she lying about being HIV-positive? For some reason when she was opening up to Rohee and Myungjoon in the hospital, I felt like she was telling the truth about her disease, being part of a clinical trial, not wanting to expose Heeae, etc., but at the same time it felt like she was telling them all that to manipulate them and she's more involved with the case that she's letting on. She also seemed to have an idea of who might have paid Heeae's hospital fees when Myungjoon told her about that.

Also, seriously, her apartment is so nice? She seems to be working as a sales rep at a jewellery shop, which is a good job, but IDK if you can afford a nice modern apartment in Seoul on that salary alone. Fortunately for her, MJ is too slow to ask obvious questions about how suspicious she is.

What the hell, why is this drama so good! The end of episode 4 was so thrilling! The big picture is starting to come together little by little. Park Sunghoon remains mega dreamy in his emo all-black getup.

I see, that makes sense! Let's hope it shows up in a more accessible format soon. Thanks again for your work! I really appreciate your subs and your drama impressions on Twitter.

I agree this plot is overused and stereotypical, but very smart girls can actually get derailed in life for all sorts of reasons, including bad luck, pregnancy, bad taste in men, lack of focus, familial obligations, etc. Being good at studying doesn’t mean you don’t have other things going on in your life.

I find the girlboss FL who is mega successful in some commercial venture and cares for nothing but career advancement until she meets an equally successful man who fits her criteria for a life partner to be way more stereotypical and unrealistic than “talented woman who fell on hard times or had to adjust her life plans for some reason.” Not all women want to work in finance and wear pantsuits (OR to be housewives, doctors, fashion designers or idols—there are many other things you can do in life aside from these five jobs, not that cdramas will tell you that). You don’t have to love your job or make it your entire identity.

Thanks a bunch! I really appreciate your work! The first episode was very enjoyable.

By the way, are you watching Malice? It's hard to find reactions to the first episode in English an I'm very curious as to whether it's good.

The first episode was suspenseful, dark and stylish! I really enjoyed it. Some scenes had an almost cinematic quality.

There were only three little details where typical jdrama maximalism prevailed over good taste (the fountain of blood spurting out of Sara's mouth immediately after she was stabbed in the stomach, her classmate still using a crutch 15 years after breaking her leg to leave no doubt in the viewer that the injury ended her athletic career, and the random snowfall when little Kaori got kicked out of the house to emphasise how sad her life was), which is actually a very low number. I'm only pointing it out because these moments struck me as amusing departures from the episode's overall subtle and restrained style of direction.

Anyway, I can't wait to learn more about everyone in the story. They're all hiding secrets and I have no idea how the secrets all fit together at this stage—for example, how does Mahiro's sister factor into it? What about her boss? I wonder if the final twist will be that Rikito didn't actually kill his sister and was falsely convicted, or if he really did it, but for a reason we can't even imagine yet. (I'm not tagging my comment as a spoiler because you can get everything I just said out of the plot summary above.)

Also Mahiro's cousin is kind of a dick, but he keeps it real. Problematic fave!

The first two episodes were outstanding, just pure entertainment from start to finish, and Park Sunghoon looks really hot. What more could you ask for?

GSJ told GYZ the poison he identified in YWS’s bottle was going to help GZY in the first trial, which is already a violation of confidentiality that gives GYZ an edge in the future, and smirked while chastising GYZ, obviously implying he would say more later on. He broke the rules and then wagged his finger at GYZ for wanting him to break the rules again, but the subtext of the scene was clear; he didn’t really give a shit about keeping the secret of the three trials and only ended the conversation about them because GYZ is unreliable and can’t be trusted to keep his mouth shut at this stage.

But there’s no “toxic romance” here as the person you’re responding to is saying. There’s no vulnerability on her side to convince us she’s conflicted about what she’s doing in any way and on his side we have no idea if he’s actually falling for her, which would be stupid instead of romantic because she’s done nothing to deserve it, or putting on an act, which would be simply one of his schemes.

‘Mentally unstable gay villain in unrequited love with a straight person’ is already a cliche because it’s one of the only roles gay people have been allowed to play in media that isn’t brave enough to show actual homosexual acts.

The one with an agenda is you, the person outraged by the gay agenda who insists that we need more gay villains for equality. Your claim implies we’re already getting too many non-villainous gay people in kdramas, which is obvious nonsense... unless you think gay people often kill straight people who don't like them back and the media is silent about this phenomenon due to some homosexual conspiracy?

Um, but the romance *is* the plot?

I don’t think anyone should go to jail for cheating at sports lmao