RamenKingAndI

Episode four was what I wanted form this drama. I hope hope it keeps bringing it.

I think a lot of people wrote her character off as weird and over the top, not realizing her personality was partially born from her climbing to the top in a male-dominated field. Her confident, wacky, and unpredictable behavior ensures she is seen and keeps her peers from easily dismissing her a weak. It's no coincidence that the writers chose to have the senior female lawyer exhibits similar traits.

There was so much foreshadowing in episode three that the ending did not come as a surprise, but I like the turn this will--fingers crossed--take for the plot. While it makes sense that he wants to get in, get his gold, and get out as quickly and seamlessly as possible, I've still been having a hard time believing that the violent bad ass we saw in Italy has mostly sat back, played advisor to the the lawyer, and used petty tricks to keep people away from the building. I'm hoping that from this point onward we will see his cutthroat side again.

Mixed feelings about this drama aside, I'm loving the teamwork between Seo Hae and Tae Sul. The contrast of her brawn with his scientific brain and how they use both to get out of sticky situations is interesting, especially when you find out there is some truth behind some of the science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itRi5aziaWU

Wow! Thank you for the video. So after watching it, I decided to see if their was a butane version, and apparently there is! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itRi5aziaWU

Can someone tell me if the science of the butane in the Coke bottles checks out? haha.

Maybe we disagree on this because I'm looking at this more from the perspective of the victim and taking into consideration which situation I would find easier to recover from. I know from personal experience what it's like to find out your boyfriend is a cheating and manipulative douche canoe, and I'd MUCH rather deal with that again than be held hostage in a relationship I'm miserable in because I'm afraid if I dump the guy he's going to kill himself.

Once you get past the initial feelings of betrayal, ditching a crappy ex is actually a freeing experience, but in the other situation you're choosing between being miserable in a relationship or ending it and potentially having someone's suicide weighing on your conscience for for the rest of your life.

Maybe it's b/c I like the sister and do not want her marriage to fall apart, but I think the husband is either bisexual or straight and got really drunk and kissed the chef in college. In the scene where he met his wife, he seemed genuinely interested in her, so without further proof of the contrary, I have a hard time believing he isn't attracted to women.

Yes, 2ML benefited from marrying the 2FL, but don't forget that he initially rejected her, which is what lead to her suicide attempt. He only agreed to marry her after she tried to kill herself and he was emotionally blackmailed into marrying her. If he was truly after the perks of being her husband, he never would have rejected her in the first place.

2ML is a douche--no arguments there--but being a liar and a cheater is not as awful as holding someone hostage with the thought that they will be responsible for your death if they decide to leave you.

Oh yeah, I agree that it is pretty messed up, but I'm still undecided on whether it is something that could be forgiven or not. For me, a lot of it depends on how far their relationship went in the past, the husband's current feelings, and whether he was aware that the chef was lying about being over his feelings for the husband.

If the chef is his ex and he introduced the chef to his wife knowing that the chef still had feelings for him, that-- to me--is worse than him introducing his wife to his friend who he drunkenly made out with once when he was college.

Personally, I find the chef to be skeevy. He's the one who lied about being over the husband and seemed to go out of his way to befriend the wife, so I'm going to wait to find out more before fully hating on the husband.

The reason why I wonder if he might be bisexual is because of the scene where he first met his wife. The way that scene was portrayed made me feel as though he had genuine interest in her.

I don't doubt that the husband had feelings for the chef and was physically attracted to him in the past--that's pretty clear--but being sexually attracted to a man doesn't mean he cannot also be sexually attracted to a woman. I kind of get the feeling that the chef, who clearly still has feelings for the husband, is gaslighting the husband into thinking he cannot be attracted to both, that instead he's faking his marriage to further deny he has/had feelings for the chef.

I could 100% be wrong, especially since boy love is portrayed more in K-dramas than bisexuality, but I get the sense there is more to the situation.

2ML may be a piece of crap for cheating on his fiancée, but he didn't try to commit suicide in order to force someone to be in a relationship with him. That's a whole extra level of crazy and crosses into emotional abuse. 2ML will get over his heartbreak like a normal person, but 2FL needs professional help for her mental health issues.

I'm wondering--perhaps a bit hopefully because I like the sister--if her husband is bisexual, but he has been gaslighted by the chef into thinking he's just in denial about being 100% gay for so long that he cannot confidently say to himself, let alone to his wife, that he loves her.

It's amazing, too, when you compare their scenes together to the scenes where we saw her relationship with Lee Jae Shin. Her happiness with Hyun Seung is palpable. Even though both relationships were/are secret office romances, Hyun Seung gives her a sense of stability and reliability that she, on some level, probably sensed she never had with Jae Shin.

I'm wondering if maybe the husband is bisexual, and the chef is gaslighting him into believing he's 100% gay. The scene where he met his wife on the blind date makes me think he was/is genuinely interested in her, but because he has been attracted to a man in the past and has since tried to suppress it, he hasn't been able to say with 100% certainty that he loves and is attracted to his wife.

The director is growing on me. I used to think it was incompetent and riding on LJS's abilities, but in this episode he showed that he has a pretty solid business acumen. His friendship with LJS is complex, but rather than using LJS as a tool, I think the director genuinely wants to reward LJS's talent. I give him a pass to date CHS's sister...assuming he doesn't do anything dumb when his own sister goes batshit cray-cray.

We had glimpses of her where she was portrayed as a strong, intelligent, and a bit manipulative. I had hoped that she would turn out to be a more dynamic character, but nope, hysterical woman trope here we come.

Every time someone says "BM Seo," I think "Bowel Movement Seo" and it makes me snicker.

I have mixed feelings about this one. The original was near perfect to me, but I was slightly disappointed in the ending because it left an unresolved plot hole involving the killer and glossed over how the leading couple developed their relationship the final time around, despite their age difference. I'd be interested in a remake if I somehow knew they would handle the ending better.

I have a soft spot for dramas featuring attractive male leads who kick bad guy ass while modeling a custom fitted suit, so I'm enjoying this one.

That being said...I could do without all the screen time going to the quirky building tenants. Maybe they will grow on me, but so far they feel like an unnecessary plot device and a rip-off of the Lawless Lawyer's rag-tag team of gangsters. I think I would have preferred it if the conflict over the building didn't bring in a slew of extra characters for comedic relief who also serve as a means to humanize the male lead so that viewers "forget" that he's done some really bad shit working for the Italian mob.