"Ra El waltzing and sashaying in different outfits to seduce the guy, had sex with him, and then I also had to watch the guy's wife (Han So Ra) having sex with a manservant (for what purpose am I shown this? What has her sex life got to do with the revenge plot?)"
I totally agree with your review. All the sex scenes were actually unnecessary. They did that early to pull us in but it was so dumb. Even the ones they spoke about where the instructors slept with the other wives... all just so the President's wife can be like, "Girl you cray. Let's not be friends anymore." Whatevs. I also laughed at your "sashaying in different outfits" line. She wore a few outfits, acted a bit crazy, and then reverted back to the normal long sleeve, long skirts and I was just like, "I guess the moody fashion show's over!" Not to mention how the daughters got the short end of the stick and what was the purpose of having that other daughter in all the family pics? I forced myself to finish watching this. I was so done already listening to constant orchestra/symphony OST and was plugging my ears with the tango music.
I've already commented on the other post but I wanted to say that I totally agree with your review. I'm so over these women being victimized and there's literally no justice for them. While of course, IRL, it's still hard for women to actually "prove" they were victimized, one would hope that writers who write these fictional characters and dramas will help change the narrative. When will enough be enough?
I also agree with the whole "because she's a victim, she should be falling apart" stereotype. Women deal with trauma in different ways.
Do you know what this drama needs? People like us editing the sh*t out of this storyline being like, "Ya' no, ... and no...., and oh, hell no!!" Lol!
I'm still going to watch this because I like the ML and I don't mind the age gap of younger men going for older women because gawd knows, we've seen enough of older men with younger women crap. I've dropped a couple of kdramas when there was too much of an age gap between older men and women whose characters were actually minors in the drama. Men and minors never sit well with me.
But I'm a fan of both these leads so I'll stick it out!
I agree with your review but I'm still going to stick to watching this as I'm a fan of Hwang In-Youp. To be honest, I'm so over kdramas portraying "strong" women as heartless bitches to other "lower" class women. I've basically given up on hoping kdramas will evolve for women characters. I do feel like this storyline is giving us a clear insight into how the FL is now and how she was before.
In a dog-eat-dog world and male-dominated society, you can tell that she's a completely different person from her "past" self as the ML first remembered her as. Like another commenter posted, we're already seeing a glimpse of how the ML is changing and reminding her of who she was before. On another side note, we have yet to see kdramas evolve storylines where strong women can encourage and uplift other women to be strong just like her, without a being cold-hearted bitch.
I often wonder, "What is going on behind the scenes IRL for these writer(s)?" Are writers(s) kind of forced to change their storylines to what the "bosses" like? Somewhere out there, there's a female writer with a great female heroine character for a Kdrama, and then there's a madman, furiously editing all her work! Lol! Anyways, as a viewer in the "western" world so to speak, maybe the writer(s) write about how it really is on their side of the world and in their eyes, what they think the audience would like.
I've also given up on hoping that Kdramas will start giving power back to women who've been victimized. Sigh.
I agree with everything you said except one thing! Whoever wrote this story must of been a cheater and used the…
I thought the same thing too! I was thinking that either the writer was writing from experience, (being a cheater), or that the writer has no clue at all what it's like to be cheated on! Honestly, I've never seen a show where it glamorized a cheating couple so much unless they really were in horrible previous relationships. I kept thinking that every relationship could've been saved with proper communication and talking it through or with at least some kind of professional couples therapy! Lol!
I totally agree with your review. All the sex scenes were actually unnecessary. They did that early to
pull us in but it was so dumb. Even the ones they spoke about where the instructors slept with the other wives... all just so the President's wife can be like, "Girl you cray. Let's not be friends anymore." Whatevs. I also laughed at your "sashaying in different outfits" line. She wore a few outfits, acted a bit crazy, and then reverted back to the normal long sleeve, long skirts and I was just like, "I guess the moody fashion show's over!" Not to mention how the daughters got the short end of the stick and what was the purpose of having that other daughter in all the family pics? I forced myself to finish watching this. I was so done already listening to constant orchestra/symphony OST and was plugging my ears with the tango music.
I also agree with the whole "because she's a victim, she should be falling apart" stereotype. Women deal with trauma in different ways.
Do you know what this drama needs? People like us editing the sh*t out of this storyline being like, "Ya' no, ... and no...., and oh, hell no!!" Lol!
I'm still going to watch this because I like the ML and I don't mind the age gap of younger men going for older women because gawd knows, we've seen enough of older men with younger women crap. I've dropped a couple of kdramas when there was too much of an age gap between older men and women whose characters were actually minors in the drama. Men and minors never sit well with me.
But I'm a fan of both these leads so I'll stick it out!
In a dog-eat-dog world and male-dominated society, you can tell that she's a completely different person from her "past" self as the ML first remembered her as. Like another commenter posted, we're already seeing a glimpse of how the ML is changing and reminding her of who she was before. On another side note, we have yet to see kdramas evolve storylines where strong women can encourage and uplift other women to be strong just like her, without a being cold-hearted bitch.
I often wonder, "What is going on behind the scenes IRL for these writer(s)?" Are writers(s) kind of forced to change their storylines to what the "bosses" like? Somewhere out there, there's a female writer with a great female heroine character for a Kdrama, and then there's a madman, furiously editing all her work! Lol! Anyways, as a viewer in the "western" world so to speak, maybe the writer(s) write about how it really is on their side of the world and in their eyes, what they think the audience would like.
I've also given up on hoping that Kdramas will start giving power back to women who've been victimized. Sigh.
Anywhoooo, great review!