Martelli

Am I the only one that has not recognized her in this picture? :D

Hmm, this was enjoyable for some part, because it truly depicted how human mind works - a man is not interested in his wife anymore because she is boring (became like that due to him), but then suddenly has feelings for her when she changes to be herself again and someone else is interested in her. I also liked the gradual change of FL and how her son started respect her more.
However, it has also a lot of cliches like the FL and ML cannot be together for some stupid reason, so let's make a couple of them only in the last episode (suddenly that reason goes away). Moreover, there were so many ppl that just could not be honest with their feelings, and the ML was acting like a jerk most of the series (even though he claimed he liked FL the whole time). I also could not see why FL just accepted so many wrongdoings from her husband till the end, like I would not care about his career etc. at all, he used his son only as an excuse all the time.
And the last two episodes turned into me watching the childish behavior of FL + ML.

It is quite refreshing how certain stuff were not made typical drama scenes here, e.g. how normally I suppose FL would find about her husband's infidelity later in the drama, but instead in the ep.6 she sees them, and when ML tries to prevent her from seeing the "couple", she pushes him away to take a look at what's happening. Usually this would stop at her eyes being covered and the character would act as if she was not able to see anything :D

Although I might not have liked the first half of the first episode that much, it has started to grow on me as I am watching it further. It is nice to see the character development of FL, the relationship between ML and FL, and also how housewives do not really get much respect from others (from her own son either, which I have found strange, but I guess the father figure was just too influential). And I like the dancing guy with the headphones :D
But I do not understand why FL tried to hold on to her husband and did not want to lose him. I mean I get it that she has spend her "best years" with him and loved him, but c'mon, she should have stopped loving him because of how he treated her especially during their last few years together and all...

hahaa, you know, different people have different views on what is too much for them and what is not, just to surprise you, I have seen about 97% of the drama with my eyes open. The rest does not have to bother you.
I am starting to regret I was agreeing with you and commenting on it, because you are somehow misunderstanding it as the opposite, and I do not want to spend my energy on arguing with you, especially when I have agreed with you in the first place :D Omg...

me too!

I would like to watch it, but hopefully something else would be happening there besides just them being drunk all the time :D

I don't know about it, I see such comments all the time, like he is too old to play a student etc. :D

Not sure why they overly respect their seniors to the point it is ridiculous. You should respect older and more experienced ppl etc., but not just because of their age or rank, the respect should be earned. They just hardly have their own opinions when confronted with sunbaes.
I believe she and others would let their faces being kicked because...well, how can you decline a senior's request? Tho the creep seemed more like on the path of becoming a drop-out rather than a real college senior...

Oh, how could I forget the ridiculous amount of product placement here! Towards the end it became like a shopping channel with slimming aids, let's drink this water to become slim and fit, let's take these pills LOL

As for the violent stuff, I just close my eyes for that moment :D
But I was not trying to say I like the blurring, on the contrary, I thought it was absurd how there were graphic scenes at one point, and then all of the blurring came. It was funny when you should see some cool fighting scenes of guys dropping and catching their knives, but you could just imagine it because of the blur :D

actually this is an often cliche maybe, but why when someone is cornered, they are not really defending themselves, but just saying stupid stuff like "yes, I did it all....is that what you wanted to hear?". I am tired of always hearing it :D

Oh yes, the bangs :D I have thought they would save their eyesight and just put them aside a bit, but no :D

However, in ep. 9 it turned into a bunch of metaphors (I am not sure why Koreans like them in all situations), and I lost my respect for the Mad Dog detective, because of the bribe he took (to pay his daughter piano lessons, what a great reason to take the side of a gang boss!), and then bribed the witness to convict Jung Moon Lee. Although I felt sorry for the girl not being able to fulfill her dreams, I believe this is really not a correct way, and not enough of a reason, since anyway it could later have negative impact on her as well (if she lived, like what if he changed his mind later and the gang would come after him). Moreover, his daughter should have left the next day, a serial murderer was somewhere out there, but he just did not escort his daughter from school to be safe, but just waited for her at home (which means he had the time to do that) and then left.
Also the ridiculous twist of Tae Soo admitting he killed the woman's husband and some driver, because he liked her? I thought he was paid to kill him like with other people, but suddenly he kills because of personal stuff? I have found this strange, I expected him to feel guilty because he saw her at the funeral crying like that, and then turned himself in, and he might have later started to like her....
Moreover, I did not get how the 3 bad guys did not like the plastic female detective and the prosecutor, but suddenly they turned their backs on Mad Dog because of their story (which was not even confirmed, said the FL). I think the plot twist could have been done differently.
This is what made me give the lower rating in the end, otherwise it would be around 8.5.
But I liked how the story came together in the end (and I am happy they did not omit the mention of one girl not being killed by the murderer in the beginning, because I was waiting for that :D ). But the ending looked like there could be season 2, but reading the comments here, it seems it was not that good and with different actors.

I would give this drama a higher rating if it stayed the same way as up to ep. 8. The idea of treating criminals as beasts is great in my opinion, sorry but I would not have a humanistic opinion for this, like let's treat a serial murderer like another human being. I also liked the slight humor in the dialogues.
The FL was annoying, also having the face of a carp (I am sorry but I cannot take inspectors looking and talking like that seriously). It's up to everyone to have a plastic surgery, but I do not think when someone ends up looking like this, they could be cast for whatever roles. Also somebody could tell her that she could speak in another way besides whispering (because that is how her way of speaking sounded all the time).
However....

Yeah, I don't like graphic violent scenes, but in first episodes you could see them slashing people with hammers and stuff, and suddenly they blur the knife while they are just holding it...

my husband just smirked at the plot, saying "this might be gooood" :D

Instead of joining efforts to turn her back to human, I believe the biggest challenge is to prevent her from being eaten :D Will she - the fried chicken - be just stored somewhere, so they have the time contained in 12 episodes to analyze stuff? This seems soo ridiculous, and I am just probably overthinking it :D

Oh, this was a rollercoaster ride, getting me angry most of the times. While Ki Young is a strong FL in the beginning, after having her baby, she is getting weaker and weaker, and while she renewed her relationship with her mother, for some reason she could not ask her to babysit Dan for a while, but rather neglected him because of work. But at certain moments, her mom could suddenly stay for several days.
Then always when the ML would even remotely want to do something good for once, she is always with Eun Cha. This part was simply ridiculous. Myung Yi is simply despicable, but I would say most of the characters were, the relationships of most people were absurd. And why Dan is suddenly calling Myung Yi mom at the end, when all she did was screaming at him, making him cry and telling him she hates him?
I have finished it just to see this ridiculous thing to end. Also the ML lead went fully crazy in this. Oh my....
So the best wedding is actually no wedding, but a divorce, plus having two dads rotating for the task of a dad to Dan? LOL

Although this drama raised some issues to awareness, it's funny for me how FL claimed she wanted to just have a normal life and not a scrutinized relationship, but then goes for the most handsome guy at school. I believe it's true and also normal what Woo Young said to her, we all have some types we are attracted to and there is nothing wrong with that, like she was almost offended when he said he liked her because she was pretty. Yet, I do not think she would be charmed by guys like Sung Woon.
Also the girls were always super offended when the guys were having these sexist remarks (yes, they were really stupid), but at the same time, they were the same as them (making remarks to Yoon Byul as how she cannot seduce Woo Young, first she would need to change her style etc.). It is funny how girls criticize guys for having some "standards" for beauty, but I think girls are often making it worse for themselves, critizing one another even more.