LA_Drama Fan

I'm really curious to see how Grandma reacts to InOk trying to order her to do something. I can't imagine she's going to let the woman she's held in contempt for years order her around?

I'm telling you, if YD takes off that Baby Bjorn and lets Granny hold the baby for a while, Granny will put YD on the family register HERSELF, just to piss off InOk.

I always approach a TV show knowing I have to suspend my common sense and reality. But with this show, that is an UNDERSTATEMENT.

I forgot to add something obvious:
Granny (The Real Cupid has Come) - YD, want to get on your grandma's side forever? Let her hold Haneul. Since JM won't let her hold Olive, you will have the inside track here. All Granny wants to do is hold one of her great-grandkids. Otherwise, Granny, in her own way is doing everything she can for YD while keeping her gruff exterior in place, including calling TK and doing the Sargent Schultz impression "I KNOW NOTHING, I SEE NOTHING!" Talk about a redemption arc!

We need to find out the circumstances between DW and her mom. I don't think we ever heard?

It's hard to get over what this show 'could have been'. SIGH

I'll make this quick. This wasn't the deepest episode, but at least it didn't leave me screaming at the monitor.

Ep 36 - Quicksand

Most notable scenes -

SooJung offers to help raise Olive...but HW declines as his 'wife' demands only he do that work. Jesus, READ THE ROOM, PEOPLE. For me, JM is vying for most loathed character behind the trio of InOk, SJ & JH. Her demands on having almost no one interact with her child except her father takes the cake. Meanwhile she's merrily working her heart out. Let your Sister-in-Law help raise your child, since she can't have one of her own! JM, what is your problem with SJ??? Am I missing something here?

Hee's speech to TK. I can't believe I'm typing this. I've gone from hoping Hee was the one for Uncle, to despising her conniving ways, and now, she's almost angelic for trying to help YD and TK reconcile. Telling TK that it's OK to be angry, hurt and hateful , as long as he is true to his love for her, was pretty moving and insightful. It made him think (and me too). If they are brought back together, it will be courtesy of her. This was actually a very believable moment for me, in their relationship. He can now try to process his feelings for her in a more nuanced way, instead of bouncing from 'i love you' to 'you tortured me' etc. As we see in the last quarter of the show, he doesn't seem to mind the quicksand trap he's stepped in as he's being dragged deeper back into love with her.

The Damsel-in-Distress (over and over again). Once again it's TK to the rescue, this time snatching her from the now openly threatening JH and bringing her to safety at his place, however temporary a respite it is. He was able to see JH's increasing derangement and now has no excuse to not pursue some form of legal protection for YD. They have to do something, all her stuff is still at hers & Hee's apartment. It's kind of a cheap plot trick to bring them together again, but what do you expect at this point? This ain't exactly Gone With the Wind.

and finally, the youngest couple:
Take one very intelligent, sexually frustrated rich girl, add in a handsome single father with the IQ of a donut and things probably won't work out great. And they don't after she hears his feelings for her expressed clumsily, at best, and she must face that every attempt by her to bring them closer get deftly rebuffed by him. She's given it a try for a year, with little to show for it, beyond holding hands and the occasional kiss, it seems. He has no idea that this is the best offer he'll ever get from a woman, and she needs to stop thinking so much about everything in relationships and realize WHO she's dating and adapt to his reduced cranial activity. We've got wayyy too many episodes left for them to break things off now, so here's hoping they can figure things out, maybe with SK's help. But with SK's birth mom hovering in the background, there will be even more turbulence ahead on their flight ahead.

I'll give the show a chance next week, why not? With liberal use of the FF feature, that is. The previews look ridiculous, if they are to be believed, which I don't anymore.

Can the Real Brain Trust bring us back from the brink of being tossed on the dustbin of K-dramas? Stay tuned, friends. We shall see.

No, they are not. She thinks too much and he's too dumb to figure anything out. She tries to take the relationship forward and he keeps stepping away. And it snapped apart today as they can't figure out why there is a distance between them.

How is he even getting in???? Their front gate is big and locked!

I think they need to stop demonizing mothers (and esp. MILs) in these series. I can't think of a Kdrama I've seen where the Mom was a kind, caring person. The only one I can think of is InOk V1.0. But after her mandatory software update, InOk V2.0 is just another screaming tyrant. How about more series where adoption is seen as a noble thing, single parenting is not stigmatized, etc. The government really needs to think about solutions to the problem beyond expanding the work-week to give employees the chance to accumulate OT to take as leave later.

Look, I don't know what the solutions are, I'm just a retired American. But I know you don't go fanning the flames of the problem to make it go away.

Maybe a TV series where family is defined by thinking beyond bloodlines and more by the love they share? Oh, wait they tried that here. And that's going REALLY WELL.

I can say this much: 36 is infinitely more watchable than the last 2 episodes, but that aint saying much. And I did FF thru anything with the creeps in it. This one didn't upset me like the last 3 did. I'm not sure what I'd put down for highs and lows, but the leads interaction was believable (for a change). I'll come up with something later on. I need to digest this one a bit. Right now, there was only 1 high, and that was from Hee, of all people!

To us, this seems obvious and logical. On the other hand we've also been screaming for: Protection Orders, Police, Lawyers, Marriage Registration, firing SJ, etc. The braintrust behind this show has tossed logic to the wind, however.

Of course, but I can't imagine him ever doing that about anything. She runs that house with an iron fist. But he's so clueless about everything, who knows? His stupidity is boundless.

OK I'm awake enough to watch the YT clips and previews. I'm not ready to toss DW under the bus yet, he may have had no choice if BN ordered him to bring the baby. We'll see.

With SK's birthrate sinking, and young women declining to have kids, why does KBS broadcast crap like parents dragging their fully-grown children home over child-raising issues? What kind of image is a public-broadcasting network trying to project? Between that an their repeated depiction of hard-studying young people continually losing out to get a job, I really question KBS's direction at times.

when they screwed up Its Beautiful Now, I was so deep in it I couldn't give it up and only watched for my favorite couple, who were reduced to a minor role. I'll do the same for the youngest couple on THRC, until they screw up their storyline. And frankly, the only reason I like them is that YM reminds me of someone I used to know years ago.

when they screwed up Its Beautiful Now, I was so deep in it I couldn't give it up and only watched for my favorite couple, who were reduced to a minor role. I'll do the same for the youngest couple on THRC, until they screw up their storyline. And frankly, the only reason I like them is that YM reminds me of someone I used to know years ago.

If they really pull that crap, I'll be in it for the youngest couple only. TK/YD/SJ/JH go to the FF zone.

When the entertainment value of the comments section on MDL > the actual show, something is wrong.

I really wouldn't mind that storyline. They BOTH need to get away from their families. He's already emotionally-distanced himself from them. Make it physical too. I'm sure there are lots of town in SK that can use a talented OBGYN, he just needs to drop the fertility specialist thing and go back to the basics. She can teach anywhere. This is one of the few ways they can salvage their relationship believably for me.

Put me in the "new writer" category, I absolutely agree with Angelwg. This has all the feeling of a quick change and replacement with a scratch-team of writers that has no investment with the origins of the series and is relying on a bunch of tropes (which were openly disdained by the original writer) to get them across the finish line. I mentioned after ep31 that the show had a different feel to it.
That, or the producers put a bunch of money in front of the writer and said, "Hey! We want it to go THIS way instead".

Oh gosh no! If that happens, then there is no doubt in my mind they've switched writers, and the new team has no idea what they're doing, so they fall on all these dumb old tropes that the original writer made fun of so much.