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YES! I was just about to post that. That was the single funniest scene I've seen on TV this year. His deadpan acting was spot-on too.

That scene at Jay's house with his family was unreal. I can't even imagine the creativity of the writer who came up with that. I'll say it now, if they can keep it up for at least 3/4 of this series, they're WRITER OF THE YEAR, hands down. We've seen more great TV in 8 episodes than almost all of 3 Bold Siblings.

After stumbling and bumbling thru 3 Bold Siblings, it's really great to see a drama that is as quickly paced as this. And this writer is really clever as well, for example in Episode 3 (aired last night on KBS America) there were 2 scenes where they were tweaking us along: 1) in the food cart, the TK's Mom shows YD a pic of her son....and when we expect her to say OH! (seeing a pic of TK), she really just sees a baby pic. 2) In the food cart TK is outside, about to head in, when we see a cut of YD looking up at someone entering the cart - but it's just 2 other customers....she and TK just miss each other. All these little build up's are very well done!
Maybe, just maybe, they can keep up the pace for 47 more episodes and we can see the lead characters actually experience living with each and meeting the challenges of being a couple, something we were largely denied in TBS and It's Beautiful Now.
And YD's mom (Kim Hye Ok) is a terrific actress - her role as the would-be controlling mom in IBN who felt she was being ignored, drove me NUTS. She has this type of role down pat, and she will drive us crazy too.

I agree with the posters below: If Bravo My Life was the standard, this show falls short, as did the finale of It's Beautiful Now & 3 Bold Siblings, for that matter. This wasn't a bad show, but it could have been a lot better - the actors great work was undercut by the script which even at the end, seemed to lack a clear direction for the last week of air. And the little boy who played Him Chan in BML was so good, but the girl who did MiRinAe was just as good or better. And the MIL actress was superb in showing just what a hateful person she was. KBS America here is one-week behind, so the replacement show airs next Monday. Thanks to all for the fun discussion.

i hope so!

I haven't seen any, I'm just speculating that the only hint of marriage we may see is from some made up pics they will flash by us at the end of the series, as has been done with other series finale's I've seen (usually behind-the-scenes pics). I can't imagine a time jump to the middle of a wedding ceremony, but hey, who knows?

I have a sinking feeling that end scene at the beach we've been speculating about will just be them going there, once they realize they can be together. Maybe we will get snapshots from the wedding in the photo-montage they always do just before the credits at the series finale.

I hope I'm wrong.

Well it's over. Some random thoughts:
• It was nice they brought back some characters for a final appearance: Ms. Choi, the PR2 team lead; SR’s friend from Mint Comm; and they even managed to find a scene for SooBin to appear in (the wedding, in case you blinked and missed it).
• Speaking of SooBin, I don’t know what happened to that actor, but man this was a mystery to me. There were at least 2 family crisis meetings he was not a part of, presumably because he was busy at the café. Yet, he was missing from both recent café scenes (JH breaks up with NS & CYH ‘discovers’ SeRan). Weird.
• SJ telling the family the date of the wedding, but that the location was ‘secret’. So, they hold it in front of a restaurant, on a public street. Can’t get much more secret than that.
• At least this series finale wasn’t the dumpster fire that It’s Beautiful Now gave us and it flowed much more logically. A nice sense of closure, with YS driving off to nowhere and his family packing to leave with the time jump at the end for the family portrait with the baby after the world tour ended.
• Finally, there has been a lot of talk about the punishment for the villains in the show. Sure, SeRan, YS, and the crazy Ex- and the equally crazy mother of JW pretty much sucked. But what about the real villain in the show, who got off with only Karma to bite her: YS’s Mom. She stole her son’s chance for a future, let his stepfather abuse him, and lied to him about the relatives who took him in, to poison his mind. She set the ball rolling for everything. Where was the White Truck of Doom when SHE was crossing the street?

Thank you everyone for the insightful comments, it's been interesting.

YY and SJ must have been wearing dry-suits under their clothes, right? I can't imagine how cold the seawater would have been on an already cold day anyhow. In real life, hypothermia would have a real danger. Just walking into the sea as SJ did would have taken his breath away from shock.

LOL, I just realized the real neurosurgeon in this, is the same neurosurgeon from Bravo, My Life!

Way back, I think they mentioned he "hurt his arm playing basketball"

SooBin seems to have gone MIA again. I guess he's "working at the cafe"?

Question for the group: I finally watched 43 in its entirety. In the last scene (tennis court), did SJ deliberately set up to have the manager take the ex's picture, to prove she's lying about her health? Did he even know what she looked like?
I'm guessing not, and I can see a scene where he's viewing the pics on his PC at home, and TJ walks in, sees the pic and we're off and running...

Am I wrong?

For the first time, I FF'd thru most of an episode (43). I will be very curious after the series ends, to see the post-mortem comments here.

Let's be honest, the writing has been shaky since Ep 1. They didn't know how to play the lead characters off each other, making for weird, and unconvincing chemistry. Then with the MooRim couple taking off in popularity (probably to their shock), they floundered around again in trying to catch up to their character development. Ever since the KBS awards (where MooRim won a Best Couple award) it seems they realized the show had gotten beyond them and they've been struggling to control it, hence the heavy-handed cliche stuff we're seeing now. We still get moments of brilliant, romantic, and funny scenes, but they are few now. I've got a feeling the original story-line as proposed by the producers to KBS was nothing like what we have been seeing lately.

My take away from this weekend, however, is that TJ/SJ actually make for a pretty good investigative team....Maybe a spin-off series with them as undercover detectives??? LOL, in Hollywood I wouldn't put it past them, maybe not so much in SK.

I keep asking myself: How is it that they shovel all this dreck at us, and yet can come up with that brilliant scene where TaeJu assumes the role of Mother-in-Law and approves of MY/SR?

I just don't get it....SMH

For those asking about when SangJun's fathers death: per episode 1 (watched it last night), the latest date stamp was 2002, then a scene 2 years later (2004) had SJ & TJ reunite while she was at med school and he was a patient at the hospital. They started dating (not revealed how long after, but seemed shortly) and at that point, SJ revealed his Dad died 3 years ago (approx 2001), so he died about 22 years ago. I don't know how old Ji Woo is.

OK, a question for the group:
In 39 we see MY-ex eating a steak dinner in her hotel room via room service. She seems to have a good appetite, and I'm getting hungry just thinking about it. Was this scene to show us that she's NOT sick and faking any illness?

I guess the poor sweet-potato vendor lost his 2 best customers, we haven't seen him lately?

Thank you! This whole time, I'm trying to figure out why someone with real-world experience in successfully running one of their stores is in Food Development, when she should be in Operations/Management where she can use her experience. SMH.

Great, ANOTHER villain. Just what this show did not need.

She is the living definition of a "loose cannon". I feel sorry for her husband.