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I know this is the house from their childhood and all but couldn't they just start a new life by moving into that apartment Seo Ji-hwan had bought her? On the other hand these guys are executives at a big company wearing fashionable clothes all the time and having no apparent monetary worries why they end up homeless, just get a house together. Maybe they should make a season 2 and make it like Waikiki where its 4 uncles(+Kang-gil) and their nieces and nephews.

There were some backstories(short summary not full) they added in the character pages but didn't make the final cut(including the deers). Gang-gil's is poetic in the context of what happens this episode. First Yang-hee's is that he was a petty cat burglar at best who was taken in and raised by Seo Sr into a full-fledged gangster and right hand man. Yang-hee in turn raised Gang-gil to be like "a dog who'll never bite it's master". And we see how they all ended XD

I didn't like the idea of Song and the man who has such strong one-sided love but with the open ending I can buy they might go out someday. I really wanted more of Hongki and Yena and the unreleased episode clips released gave one good extra scene.

I love Jae-soo XD

Honestly I initially couldn't figure out why the dad was brought back from the grave(based on some spoilers I read for the original webnovel which might not be accurate) other than to present Ji-hwan's father issues and to push Yang-hee over the edge. Since both occur I'm satisfied.

I'd thought Yang-hee would never be able to go up against his boss but, to go cliche, kill the boss while aiming for Ji-hwan to hurt the boss, the exact switched scenario which would destroy him other than get him jailed for life. Typical redemption style for the dad(resolving Ji-hwan) while also getting these two villains out of everyone's lives forever at last. The minute Chief Oh lampshaded 'will this end only if one of them dies' I knew nobody would. Didn't expect Ji-hwan to do the unconditional love/goodness thing and fall into a coma. This however is consistent in a way and follows the biblical pattern. All I can think is its about how with the many religious allusions Ji-hwan is Buddha(calm and perservering to not sin) and Jesus and is doing atonement for all the gangsters and criminals in Korea... So now hes in a coma and will be resurrected as Yoon Hyun-woo or similar. He did get knocked off his rails in a way from both his father turning the screws and Yang-hee pushing his buttons. Since ep 1 he has been consistently doing this lone-wolf vigilante thingy where he wants to do the heroic act all by himself even if it gets him hurt/killed or arrested by mistake. At least without actually falling prey to the dad he talks and resists and stands his ground.

And seems to leave an opening for at least some more to change heart to keep with the story's thing on reform. The looks on all their faces and their reactions especially Kang-gil is telling. The dad can give his kidneys but I don't like the character much(especially because he slaps his men around did to Jae-soo😠. Kim Roi-ha being a mafia aesthetic however...).

Yang-hee may seem a joke but he tried to kill Ji-hwan twice before and now when he wasn't aiming to and has his pyrrhic victory, even he doesn't know what the hell(he seems doomed tho the police walk in or not, he goes to prison or dies right there or not...). From ep 1 the build up was all about the never-ending Cat vs Dog fight. I honestly felt it could have gone milder and have the typical kidnap arc with Eun-ha managing to put the Meows on a path to being fixed with her lecture but since they made it heavier from the midpoint at least it ties up for every scene of the Meow gang. Cats the ultimate foil. (the original Yang-hee is very different and better at being a gangster underboss. He kidnaps Eun-ha once who recognizes him as the man who took away her oppa and another time he frames Ji-hwan falsely and everyone has to come together to save Ji-hwan. And if they had to change the story they could have made him younger for the rivalry considering the actor isn't that old) I got the impression the prosecutor had a calculated plan on Yang-hee would lead him to whatever they needed for the case(I'm not really sure tho) and had set everything up to turn out that way after needling him like that.

Hes finally breaking out of his tough guy/thug/villain typecast, 'tragedies', and his long stint as a supporting actor and getting the spotlight as a romcom lead so I'm crossing fingers we'll see him do more diverse roles from now

I haven't seen it as often as that, but yes its a very common trope even in JDramas and other

Actually last episodes Ji-hwan did say when talking about all of them getting married that Jae-soo was much older than him(hes supposed to be 39). And of all things Ji-hwan thought his dad jokes partner Man-ho was older too like Jae-soo till Man-ho told him he is much much younger(32) XD

Bulldog is undisputed No. 1. But Miho and Il-yeong's couple like and subscribe is 2 to me. Ji-hwan's deer mimic was too cute too. Though ok I'll give the dad no 3 spot, it was epic.

Jae-soo is the greatest of all, he carried the comedy so far and now showing hes the oldest, so reliable. I was so scared somethig will happen to Il-yeong too and thank god seems he and Miho will progress well. I love that Yena got some good moments and how they brought back the tone to hopeful and balanced it. Something about the preview reminds me even more of Love between Fairy and Devil now. Both are just so similar. I wonder if it'll be coma dreams till near the end or he'll wake up halfway.

Yang-hee is a dead man walking but my god he made the most perfect and satisfying final villain ever. He got under the skin and caused the true unravelling. He is such a volatile psycho(him finally snapping and trying to off the dad was something his escalation was coming to) and that fake creepy smile. The way they built him up, with his complexes and his solitary spiral was epic. Jae-soo should get his pet cat by default when everyone goes to prison. The most efficient of the Cats is definitely going to join Thristy Deer by the end and might help the prosecutor with the case. And I'm guessing since he got proof that while Ji-hwan wouldn't live as his son but he'd still "die" as his son so the father will also reform and reconcile by the end.

Jae-soo is the best😤

True. Jae-soo is solid.

Those are arm covers. He slings it over his shoulders when he isn't wearing them. Man-ho wears them too to hide his arm tattoo.

I think the cat and dog war was chosen to make it funny instead of too serious a story about gangsters. Ko Yang-hee is a pun on goyangi and almost everything of his triples down on being something to do with cats. In the webtoon he is a boring villain in a regular gangster attire with the cat pun alone. Also Ku Mi-ho=gumiho. Thirsty Deer and their company motto bone/flesh are biblical references.

In the beginning the way they showed the story it sounded as if the father had died and those two had a war over who was the next successor and Yang-hee the career criminal left to create his own Meow gang. Some epsiodes later turns out Ji-hwan sent him to jail and knew he was coming out in 9 years... The father right now is the usual final supervillain, having people sign contracts in blood and all fearing being killed for betrayal. The main impact he has however is making Yang-hee flash that psycho smile, like a volacano about to blow up at Ji-hwan and Eun-ha(but he messed up big time already with the prosecutor) but ironically seeming will not cross the boss himself. And the second is bringing up Ji-hwan's father issues and trauma and his past which...

This. When too many things come together when theres only few episodes left it all feels frustrating because of the slow, long build-up. At least much of the romance started off, but two relation match-ups came too late to develop or feel convincing. Though the gangster storyline is the climax the tone doesn't feel right, and things are so different from ep 1... Another drama logic is how Seo Ji-hwan did not deal with things the way he should have nor learned from experience(love always causes idiocy). Though I keep feeling the dad should have been a ghost of his past than this extremely big terrifying presence. The cat may be dumb but he was a threat enough to bring out the conflicts of the past and make Ji-hwan almost become what he hates again. The Taek incident already showed that. And with him the tone stays comical+scary instead of so bloody.

Sometimes even 12 or 8 episode dramas drop the ball by the end episodes, they really need to retire certain overdone formulaic tropes.

Noooooooo not Jae-su!!! Don't hurt him!

(preview also makes it seem like we'll get his story and he and Ji-hwan had a bloody past. Please make the noir short writernim and get rid of the villains fast and not drag this to the last minutes of 16. Totally unecessary, not to mention the more annoying trope than noble idiocy, the trope of plain and simple idicoy by the last few epsiodes, which Jihwan and gang were full of waiting for the inevitable to come knocking)

I thought it was Ji-hwan and Il-yeong who went about recruiting the main Deers themselves....That montage was for a joke but something about it rang true with how Hong-ki and Man-ho said that they were taken in. Dong-hui's story sounds like the factory lady's and after he dropped out, had some sort of record and was forced to leave the area he used to live in, this was probably the only place that he could apply and get housing. The official informant concept in a den of snakes as the risky thing I was talking about but if I recall right in the end Dong-hui never came through and it was Ji-hwan who tipped them off so the spy thread has no relevance anyway for the prosecutor and Dong-hui to be honest about it anymore.

Setting officer Song up with him at the end as a rebound isn't too good for her tho.

I mostly agree. Theres some gaps in the backstory too to not know exactly what the entire scenario was. But the brother was exactly like those milk carton throwers. The mom's conflict and pain was understandable even if she never sent that text but the brother was out for blood, shoved a completely innocent woman and it seemed it was all more about himself than justice for his sister. Its usually guilt with so many years. Or rage as he doesn't want to acknowledge, maybe part of him knows his sister died because she was being a typical teenager with her bf. He yells murder as if Dong-hui had criminal intent and it ends up looking like an over-reaction.

But maybe its narrative- this is the only backstory we are shown where a direct "victim/victim's family" confronts one of the Deers. With the variety of crimes the people working in Thirsty Deer are supposed to have done directly or some indirectly due to gang ties(even if the only ones we're told about are "clean"), its a bit on-the-nose about society with the brother and mother being two different types of reactions.