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> She probably planned her kidnapping

But in episode 2 we have seen it's not the case. The FL was shocked when she woke up in the basement, cried and screamed to let her go. Why would she do it? She tried to remove or disassemble the fans on the window to escape and staged like she were doing nothing when the kidnapper came. She also had some dried blood on the top of her forehead, under the hair and the split lip, i. e. signs of struggle.

I think it's either the ML's doctor friend or the young female doctor who was flirting with the ML a bit. Thare may be a small chance it's the ML's jealous brother, I think it's unlikely, but it's possible in theory.

The FL had some dried blood on the top of her forehead, under the hair and the split lip, i. e. signs of struggle. She was definitely knocked out. We also saw how the kidnapper moved the FL's car into the lake, so he put her unconcious body inside her own car in their house garage and left the house in that car. The only thing he had to do is to hit her head quickly enough (and maybe administer some sedative after that). This scenario may demand a bit of suspension of disbelief from the audience, but it's plausible -- again, she was sleepy and had just waken up.

But I do agree about the video. Was it enough to make him a suspect and start watching him? Sure, yes. But was it enough to arrest him immediately, because a video appeared in their e-mail at such convinient moment after such a dramatic event? Well, no, it wasn't for the reasons you've mentioned.

But in episode 2 we have seen it's not the case. The FL was shocked when she woke up in the basement, cried and screamed to let her go. Why would she do it? She tried to remove or disassemble the fans on the window to escape and staged like she were doing nothing when the kidnapper came. She also had some dried blood on the top of her forehead, under the hair and the split lip, i. e. signs of struggle.

I looked at the page, and it says Q3, there is no any specific date. Maybe be they re-edited it again.

Well, sometimes Namuwiki makes mistakes. IIRC they put The Sacred Jewel/God's Beads in 2025, and it still hasn't been released (the release date is allegedly December 5. 2026).

That's realistic (at least, in my opinion, it's more realistic than September 18). But what's the source?

I mean, sure, it was a matter of time. But what call was impersonation in the episode? The attacker used AI to pretend to be who?

I agree the video with the ML ordering his wife's kidnapping and/or murder was probably manipulated by AI. But what call was manipulated by AI and how? I don't understand.

I usually use torrents (for many reasons, including many streaming services being blocked in my country), but there were some issues I don't quite understand with that episode yesterday, so downloading finished late, and I had to watch it online. Kissneo released the episode pretty quickly and they did have proper ending trailer and credits and 1080p video,

We don't know if the ML got the loan. I doubt it. The bank manager said it would take at least two weeks. I thought he took the money from his account, filled the bags with something else and put his personal 80M on top to deceive the perpetrator.

In the promo for the next episode the kidnapper threatens to the ML on the phone, "if he disappoints him with another dumb stunt," the ML promises to get the money this time, and we see the scene with him with the father-in-law. watching how two people counting the cash and filling the bag. So I guess the kidnapper will see the trick of the electrocuted ML, let him go and keep demanding the money. The ML will manage to reach the FIL this time and explain the circumstances. Then (and it's my theory) the information about his plans to divorce the FL and quit will appear, so the kidnapping would seem to the FIL and law enforcement as an extortion scheme to start his own independent practice.

I think there are several perpetrators, it's some kind of conspiracy. We saw an unhinged woman (Lee Sang Hee's character) in the trailers. So probably either the female operator of the driving service or the assigned driver (she was a woman too) was in it. and that woman is played by Lee Sang Hee. Or maybe it's even the same woman and there wasn't an assigned driver.

I can't even rule out there wasn't any driving service, just someone changed the number in his phonebook, so the ML actually phoned the perpetrators. It would be someone close, who knew it's wasn't a first time the ML drunk and used the specific service and had access to the phone.

But why didn't she leave with the kidnapper (or the "kidnapper")? Why did they show the scene with her waking up and saying the guy to leave, because she thought it was her husband? Of course, the dialogue like "you finally have come, good. Is he sleeping? Let's go, I am ready" would give everything away. But they can just not show the scene in episode 1 and wait for a while. Her staging her kidnapping doesn't make sense for me.

But I do agree one of two younger doctors can have something with all of it. I doubt it's both of them, because he definitely likes her, and she is very aloof with him and definitely has hots for the ML.

Well, it's obvious from the short flashback and the scene with the FL watching the kid she lost her baby. People criticize her for harsh treating the ML here. But I thinkj the FL's resentment is complicated. It was either his genuine mistake, or, more likely, he made a choice between her life and the child's life and chose her. Maybe against her clear wishes to prioritize the child.

So the FL blames the ML, because she actually blames herself. It's survivor guilt, she can't forgive herself for living at the cost of her child's life, and she can't forgive the ML, because he put her in that position. In my opinion, now she "doesn't want to give him anything he wants," because he didn't give her the most important thing she had ever wanted. And the FL probably also doesn't understand how her husband deals with the trauma. How can he just keep living as he has always lived?

It's just a misfortune. External circumstances were harsh, and both sides have their reasons to act like they act, so the lead couple has a dead marriage. But I guess it's going to revive at the end (or maybe the ML will die).

Anyway it is a enjoyable okayish drama elevated by the talented lead couple's performance. Many such cases. The story can become better if and when we know more about the perpetrator(s), I hope they have enough material for 12 episodes, It looks like a story for 6-8 episodes or even for a movie so far.

Every TV production is unnecessary. People can live without them. It's not food or medicine. You don't have to watch it, you know.

However season 1 didn't even wrap Bale's storyline, and he is the main antagonist. Did Jin Man deal with him? If so, how did he manage to do it? Bale was a very dangerous enemy, the answer can't be simple. Or maybe the answe is no, so Jin Man has to recruit Ji An and deal with Bale together, all the more she has a reason, even two reasons.

And so on and so forth. Like, Ji An did protect the shop, okay. But what is she going to do with that knowledge and experience? How is she supposed to live? Will she choose the life of a civilian or is she gravitating to the world of her uncle, like himself? Has the experience changed her? Or, let's say, it woke her genetic abilities up, so Ji An will become Jing Man's comrade? Is she offended by his risky plot? She has every right to be, because he manipulated her and actually kinda set her up, she could have died. How will it influence family dynamic?

I am not sure it should even end with season 2. Maybe there is even some potential for season 3 in this drama.

It just won't happen. Netflix releases their original K-dramas every 3 weeks. The last one, Notes from the Last Row, was released on June 26th. It means we have only 8 slots more: July 17th, August 8th and 29th, September 19th, October 10th and 31st, November 20th and December 11th.

The East Palace is officially set for July 17th, according rumors, Tantara is going to be released on December 11th. The Scandal. Mousetrap and Our Sticky Love are for three August and September slots (it was told in January they are in 3rd quarter plan), and we also have Dead-End Jpbs, Road and Take Charge of My Heart for three slots in October and November (they were in 4th quarter plan). So here it is: 8 slots for 8 dramas. There are no slots for K-dramas in 2026 anymore.

I doubt that very much. "To be continued" was a funny joke/play of writers with us, but also a reference to final words of Gang Lee's chapters. Heo Mun O has become a prisoner of Gang Lee's narrative, Gang Lee's stories were so intoxicating that the (ex-)professor got hooked on them like on drugs. A new fix is really the only thing he wants deeply inside. But it doesn't really matter what the new story would be, the story of professor Heo Mun Oh himself and his people ended.

Oh, yeah, I forgot to add to my commentary. The last line "to be continued" was the most predictable ever, and people did predict it after the trailer had been released. But it was still nice and funny, and it was a right choice. You don't have to subvert expactations of the audience or outsmart the audience all the time, it would be just bad writing. Sometimes you should leave some breadcrumbs to let people guess and get some satisfaction.

After finishing the drama I still think it has been the best K-drama of the year so far (we'll see about the 2nd half of the year, there are some strong contenders). But it turned out not as great as I hoped for.

I mean, of course, Gang Lee mixed fiction and truth, it was obvious, but a viewer would doubt if he just lies/makes things up, if he exagerrates reality, if he interpretes some things wrong or all of it and for what ends he does it.

Before the drama started I thought its poster would be a reference to Gustave Flaubert and Vladimr Nabokov (and some other writers, of course), because Choi Min Sik's character looks like omniscient and omnipresent God, which what the writer is for their universe, in Flaubert and Nabokov's opinion. So I expected one twist more at the end with Mun O being the true author and manipulator. Maybe even the enitre story about Gang Lee being made up. Who knows, if Hyeon Suk existed in that way in that "real" reality.

My biggest disappointment are Lee Gang's motive and goal. "Is that it? Are you for real?" I mean Lee Gang is a more dangerous obsessive sociopathic manchild than Heo Mun O himself. Most of us had more unpleasant and disappointing encounters with people (including adults/older ones) in our childhood and youth and heard some unpleasant things. To have chip on your shoulders for 12 years and destroy the man's life because of some line he said instead of being grateful for the lesson the power of narratives and storytelling? But somehow it's overlooked or even implied as okay. Well, maybe they should show seeds of self-destruction in Gang Lee similar to Mun O.

But anyway it's a great drama and the best Choi Min Sik role in years, he is just magnetic. I agree
Choi Hyun Wook is charismatic and talented, but his character was your typical dark sinister handsome antagonist with sociopathic smirks, pretty common for K-content, at the end I thought it was a bit cliched. But it's not the actor's fault, he did what he was asked to, it's just his character wasn't written complex enough. That aforementioned final twist that never was showing Mun O and Gang Lee under different angle might drastically upgrade Hyun Wook's character and explain that cliched choice for Gang Lee depiction... by Mun O, for example. I do expect people writing me nasty commentaries for the previous line, because I "offended" their oppa (I didn't really) though, it wou;dn't be the first time here.

I agree about your last line. I did think about it because of the last poster. I thought it's a reference to Gustave Flaubert and Vladimr Nabokov (and some other writers, of course), because Choi Min Sik's character looks like omniscient and omnipresent God, which what the writer is for their universe, in Flaubert and Nabokov's opinion. So I expecter one twist more at the end, and it just didn't happen.

I think the answer is it doesn't really matter, that's neither a real story, nor an interesting one. At least, in the drama's creators' opinion. Like Hyen Suk said herself.

Personally I agree with that angle. But I also think they had had sex once, at the moment before she left, it was a final step to liberate herself and close that chapter of her life story (pun intended). I mean it's a cliche in the Western mass culture with the female character freeing herself from the bad husband through her act of sex with another man. And the drama plays with literary cliches and tools.

Anyway it doesn't really matter, and Mun Oh has never been her real husband in his head in the first place, longing for the woman who barely remembered him from the school.

It's a great drama In my opinion it has been the best K-drama of 2026 so far. I haven't finished it yet though, and probably nobody has at the moment. It was released about 4 hours ago, and the drama has 6 episodes, most ot them are longer than 1 hour.