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The Producer Eom plotline is getting really tiresome. This guy gets anxiety attacks when he sees her and has told her a thousand times that he wants nothing to do with her, but she keeps engineering accidental meetings with him, enlisting their families and coworkers to trap him into marriage, spying on him and spreading rumours about the women he's seen with to create trouble? Not only is this absolutely psychotic behaviour but also it's just not that realistic. 99.99% of people would have got the message and left him alone by now. Of course there are obsessive female stalkers and clingy female abusers in this world, but they're really not as common as kdrama makes them seem, especially in situations like this where there's no intimate relationship or dependence tying their chosen targets to them. (I also get the sense the drama doesn't judge Producer Eom quite as harshly as she should be judged for her borderline-criminal behaviour.)

Anyway, poor Joon-soo and Ah-ri, especially since I'm pretty sure Ah-ri is pregnant. (There's no way a daily kdrama, or indeed almost any kdrama, would show a one-night stand unless it led to pregnancy and marriage...) They have an uphill battle ahead of them.

My review: PSH looks great in a black bomber jacket.

That would be amazing.

To clarify the romance situation for anyone confused by the discrepancy between the tags and the comments, there's no explicit romance, but it's clearly implied the main characters like each other and the ending is open to a hopeful/romantic interpretation.

Kang Dong-won and Bae Doona are the most galaxy-brained pair I could imagine and Song Kang-ho is the It Ajussi right now, but then again, what else could we expect from Koreeda? The cast and director are both reasons to be super excited for this film.

Uh... awkward question, but... who's gonna be the FL? Is the FL going to me the ML's love interest? I had assumed Lee Chung-ah's character would be both the female lead and the love interest, but the way this drama has been marketed/covered in the press recently is making me confused because of the focus on Gong Hye-won.

I'm not complaining about the presence of two female leads by any means, but I've had enough of romance between men in their late 30s and women in their mid-20s recently, so I'm hoping the romantic subplot will be between the two mature characters.

I'm a little tired of psychopath dramas TBH, but I'm really excited for this cast. Jin Seo-yoon deserves more big roles and I hope after Tell Me What You Saw and this drama her career will gain some momentum.

At this point I'm more interested in seeing how Joon-soo and Ah-ri get thrown together and in Ah-ri and Byeo-ri's relationship than in Bo-ra and Dae-ro's storylines TBH, but I'm invested in multiple characters/situations (I really like Hae-shim, for example). This is a good daily drama in the Brilliant Inheritance mould--kinda like the more low-key weekend family dramas like Once Again and Never Twice--in that there's no true villain and over-the-top makjang plot twists, at least not yet, so it's relaxing and fun to watch.

I'm a fan of Kwak Dong-yeon too, but lol, dial it down. He's only 23 and he's already had a lead role in a weekend family drama. It's only a matter of time before he gets a lead role in a short drama.

What I love about this drama is how Jae-sang reacts to waking up in an alternate timeline where he's married to his ex and has a child with her like it's a nightmare conjured by Satan to torture him and barely 3 episodes later he's already like ~don't mind me, I'm just having sex/going on dates/cuddling with my wife and thinking about how I would die for my daughter~.

It must be so difficult to promote a drama at a time like this. I hope he and his family are doing okay :(

She excels in comedic roles and has an interesting, charming appearance that always makes her stand out from the rest of the secondary cast. I wish she would get a bigger, more challenging role one of these days.

Do we know when this is supposed to air?

I can’t imagine anything more boring than this synopsis, so I hope there’s more to the plot than different people working at the same hair salon.

I got to the episode where Wakaba starts dating Mr Shindo (when it’s already clear to everyone, including her, than she likes Sota) and got a bad feeling about the whole thing, so I decided to spoil myself and checked the synopsis, and yep, just as I suspected: she goes as far as to agree to marry the rich lawyer and needs him to Dump Her Nobly at the altar because she's too much of a delusional doormat to choose Sota, the guy she likes, over the guy she clearly has no interest in... and this foolery goes on until episode 10? The leads only confess their feelings to each other in THE FINAL EPISODE? All the worst things about romantic jdramas in one place! I’m so relieved I didn’t invest too much time in this trainwreck.

"oh an ex-prosecutor is using his connections to let the culprit run free? no problem, we'll just use our own connections to make sure we secure the culprit."

WTH and KSH were so annoying lmao. When they were standing around calculating age differences and class years I wanted to reach through the screen and beat them up.

The scene was also a callback to Simok's earlier conversation with Kang Won-chul, when Simok caught himself slipping into the same mindset you're describing and consciously pulled back.

You... don't like women? Could have stayed quiet about it at least...

It’s a very fitting ending that gives closure and peace to the main characters, but it’s not exactly happy.

TBH I was hoping JTBC would pick this up after the good job it did with Miss Hammurabi (this writer's first script, which was based on his book). TvN has been a little hit or miss lately with its maximalist aesthetics and hamfisted direction.

Nevertheless, I am super excited! I love legal dramas and Miss Hammurabi was one of the best for me, plus the director also worked on Children of Nobody, which was good.

I don't think there are that many good people in the police and prosecution lol. The first episode was about the prosecution abusing its authority and the first real case we'll get into is cop-on-cop crime. And both YJ and SM's bosses are clearly very cold-blooded.