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I agree my comment aged pretty badly. Especially since we had two horrible suicides including one of Astro since I wrote this comment.

I hope this drama does not disappoint like Dr Cha. So far I am cautiously hopeful.

Skip it if you like dramas to be adequate portrayal of the industry they are set in. Watch it if you like politics in office. There is zero romance

I had the same thoughts

Yeah… this drama writing fails on so many technical fronts 1) poor character arc 2) cliche writing with no effort from the writer 3) poorly researched medical cases 4) no effort done to understand how women who get cheated on feel 5) insensitive making sad / unhappy things as comedy. jeez 🙄

I have a huge problem with drama writers who show no integrity and just write so that they can get the viewership ratings. This is similar to journalists who write tabloids just for publishing sensational stories.
For me this author absolutely comprised on character arcs and growth and just gave us a cliche story going round and round, so we stick around till the last moment to see if she got divorced or not. The ending was just sandwiched as an FYI.
Very unsatisfactory story. I am giving it a 1 star because in principle I don’t like writers who do not respect their own craft and are sell outs just so that people stick around.

Do what I am gonna do, wait until tomorrow and watch the last 15 mins on Netflix. Then you decide to watch. I gave up watching after 4th episode

I agree with you. I had rated it 9 but upon rewatching I realised how problematic this is. It also promotes being skinny. There is a dialogue where the heroine asks the other girls mom why you are being nice to me and the mom says beucase you are pretty and that negated the whole drama for me. I don’t know why I did not notice this first time around. My new rating will probably be 3

Same here very cliche

Very cliche and generic templatised drama. Any industry would fit this drama. I thought this drama would focus on advertising industry but it was office politics all around. What I expected was 1) how big accounts make or break an agency 2) celeb endorsements 3) signing on influencers 4) web analytics 5) micro segmentation 6) how to sell to people and targeting them 7) some big wins and how consumer products are influenced and so on I can go on…
A better alternative if one wants to understand this world would be Mad Men, or The movie documentary about the Nike shoes (Michael Jordan).
If someone wants to watch more content based drama on marketing/ advertising with romance, I would say the girl love Thai drama GAP is also good. At least they talked some technical stuff like creating marketing profiles, about turning around a business, about consumer demographics.
This drama is just politics round and round and round it goes.

I think if it was a noona romance then it would have been a journey of love. But this is a journey of love AND REDEMPTION. Makes me think it’s a mother son duo where they mend their fraught relationship. He might have grown up an orphan and she bereft and bereaved.

That’s usually the losers they show in dramas. In real life it’s a mix of many things. In liberal western countries men just push it all to women and they bear the consequences of dealing with it alone. In conservative countries where literally women do not have children out of wedlock she is shamed terribly if she cannot give birth. They are called names like in literally all Indian languages there are very specific derogatory terms for infertile women.
So yes I agree with you. Either the men run away without taking any responsibility in more “free” society or in “conservative” society expose women to terrible physical hardships just because they want to own kids to carry their lineage. It’s almost a lose lose situation for women. 😔

She got very flustered the director and that stress caused her to have a massive stroke. Which is why she is in a wheelchair and unable to move her arm properly. All her muscles got weakened which she was she was unable to talk properly too. They did not put it that clearly. Stroke is quite common in youngish people (thirty to mid forty five) due to severe stress and is very disabling. Older people appear to do better

Yes it may be notoriously hard to get divorce in Asia. In South Asia, the civil court discourages divorce and it India for example the case drags for years because the courts keep delaying hearings. There is also a cooling off period before you seek divorce.
In East Asia more legally complicated than the west.
In Islamic Asia (Pakistan etc) the men seek divorce called talaq, through religious courts but it’s harder to get divorce for women under a practice called Khula where there are very specific stipulations for women to seek divorce.
In a nutshell, Asia is harder to get a divorce in.

Why is the plot going around in concentric circles and why has he not been divorced yet. Such a waste of fine acting potential.

Think he will be the long lost son. I love a cool mother son duo. Where the mom is a fighter toad and the son is her sidekick. Similar to movies with Liam Neeson where he as a father is always off rescuing his daughters.

For some reason I keep seeing Lee Do Hyun in stuff that I personally am emotionally invested in.
I am a mathematic/ finance analyst and he was in Melancholia. A drama I really enjoyed due to the maths. Especially due to lots of info about Ramanujam who was my favourite mathematician (after newton) while growing up.
I was bullied in school (I was a nerd 🤷‍♀️) by a vicious group of girls and I found my catharsis in Glory.
I am a newish mom to a little child and have been in company of many women (grandparents), aunts and mothers. And I can say it’s a hard journey and moms make so many mistakes. And he is in such a poignant hard hitting drama about a mother and her relationship with her adult child.
At this point I really like the artistic choices he has made as an actor and really liked all of the last few dramas he has been in.

If they had a bad mother, it would be triggering. Unless the person is someone who lives through shared experience as a form of catharsis. I am one who likes to see people in the same boat as me as see how they overcome it but others maybe folks who don’t want to witness it second hand.

Feelings about it. I thought so too which is why I skipped this nonsense of a drama.

Seems like you hate watched it since you wrote such a long review and have strong feel