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Your judgments of fellow human beings is pretty harsh. Let's give the couple some credit for doing the best they could at the time. The gathering of the anonymous posters told the tale - a lot of them were lonely sad sacks or in troubled relationships themselves. Surely, the whole point of the drama is that generosity and redemption are necessary for a healthy thriving marriage. Compare this couple to the man she had the affair with and his vicious wife - they agreed to make their marriage work, but what a teeming mess of buried resentments, venom and fake appearances. That is a price I would not want to pay.

You could just watch S2 and get caught up, but you would miss out on the early scenes with PiYoung and her mother. At least watch Ep1 so that you can see how the three main women felt about adultery and divorce initially.

Will miss your crackling comments, @Diva70.

I appreciate your takeaway. Personally, I am enjoying the drama and can't wait for S3. I suspect that most of the people here complaining about the ending will be back too.

I thought S1 started out slow - I could have used less of the scenes with Pi Young and her mother. (Just one would have been enough). And there were problems with pacing. However, I became invested in the characters. The drama made me think about my past and present relationships, and how much responsibility I bore.

The writer is famous for being controversial and I haven't seen her previous dramas, but I must say she is skillful, inspiring so much passion for fictional characters. The sheer number of comments here (2663 as of today) speaks volumes.

I will be commenting more on this - watching it for the first time in August 2021. But I had to take a break from my marathon viewing to LOL at Cheon Ji Ho’s ear picking scene in Episode 14. Ear picking with those long bamboo picks is what makes me Korean :)

I have started it! I do love his long, rangy physique and sense of style.

Thank you! I also enjoyed Lawless Lawyer and even Two Weeks. I'll give My Girl another chance thanks to your rec :)

That's right!

Thank you very much!

Hi, where can I watch this now? I’m a fan of Jo Jin Woongjin and I understand that Brutus Lee is hilarious in this.

I imagine it's an amalgamation of all uprisings and massacres since liberation, most recently in Gwangju. Sadly, there are probably other mass graves that have yet to be uncovered.

I just stumbled on this thread now. What happened??

We should. I'm still unable to figure out how to dress up my profile page to write about what I look for in dramas but I will list my recommendations for sure! Would love to know yours!

I'm blown away by how puny this comment page is compared to the one for LMD S2's. This was a bona fide masterpiece, but only 184 comments?

Hmm, which movie did you prefer? Parasite was more digestible for mass audiences - it was funny, for one thing. But Burning is going to stay with me a lot longer.

I'm sorry that I'm just joining this conversation only now. I don't see anything that indicates Ben is more than a sociopath (has no feelings); there is no record of altruism that would motivate him to give lost women a fresh start.

So Ben may be a sociopath, but he is a psychopath who actually kills these women? I see no reason to think otherwise.

Don't forget the missing tangerine! Otherwise, a very astute comment.

It's the opposite for me. When Burning first came out, I had not watched any K-dramas since leaving Korea in 1998! I finally had the courage to watch Burning after two years of catching up on K-dramas under pandemic lockdown. Yoo Ah In is a superstar. Apparently even his name is a thoughtful choice: "Ah In" is the Korean pronunciation for the German word "Ein" (one).

I'm intrigued by the toxic masculinity/women's oppression angles, as well as your multiple theories on what could have happened to Hae Mi.
I'm a feminist but my primary lens is privilege/inequality. Perhaps Ben represents neo-conservative South Korea (it is no coincidence that Jong Soo's hometown is close enough to North Korea to hear their daily propaganda). Ben eliminates messy problematic women, even cleaning up Hae Mi's apartment, the way that local governments redevelop low-income districts.

What do you make of Boil? The well story? Both of Jong Soo's parents?

I am also fascinated by the Great Hunger/Little Hunger theme and Jeon Jong Soo's physical artistry. Although HM is the most marginalized character, she delivers the most haunting scene against the sun drop. Her dance scenes progress from starkly commercial and exploitative to mocking (Ben's party) to the heedless (disco) to the transcendent (JS's patriarchal comment notwithstanding).

I think it's possible to have Ben's lifestyle from just owning a building in Gangnam. The group of friends who come to gatherings do not strike me as Jeffrey Epstein types, and I imagine it takes a lot of work to coordinate a human trafficking network. He doesn't have a Ghislaine Maxwell type who could handle the logistics. Ben is able to find these lonely women on his own.

Thanks for the Schrodinger's cat reference. I hadn't thought of that. Boil and the tangerine mime. Do we only exist if people remember us?