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1000% agree - it's too much of a slow burn, not much happened this episode, and we already know she's going to turn to Shogi, so the "payoff" of this episode is too slow for it to be a week by week drop.

Before I heard about the homophobic plotline, I would have said it's an intriguing drama, but it moves slow, and it doesn't quite know its tone - sometimes it's serious but then uses a romance rose colored filter. sometimes it takes itself too seriously, like it's social commentary like Parasite. Just feels like it's trying to be too much. The only interesting thing is the backstory of the lesbian character. Everything else feels very black and white - he's evil, she's evil, they're evil, the son likes the maid, etc. etc.

After hearing about the upcoming "reformed gay character" plotline, I'm dropping this. It was barely worth my time before, and now I'm a definite no. If you choose to watch it, that's your prerogative, but just know that Netflix measures the success of shows in views - dropping the show is a sign that you, as an audience, are not OK with this kind of damaging representation (and it's more than just a subplot in a TV show, it relates to how people perceive and treat a minority - that gayness can be cured or "reformed"!) being produced. This is apparently a pattern with this writer - this writer's previous work (Strong Woman DBS) also contained homophobia, and she's still booked and busy as we can see.

And attacking commenters who bring up the scandal is just plain immature - it's not about being emotionally invested in the actors AT ALL it's about how the actual plot of the show will soon be homophobic.

the concept alone of "going back to normal" really underscores how fucked up this drama is going to be

Ignore them, they lack reading comprehension skills lol

I don't think he's dead - I think it's a way for him to get out of working at GK. What I do wonder is where this story is going. They've introduced SO many concepts - Jo Eun and her revenge, JoEun and love, and now this whole thing with Jungwhan mired in GK's corporate espionage/scandal fabrication/corruption/killing to influence politics . The questions I feel like they're going to unravel next: Why did he date Joo Eun? As we've seen, it isn't a real scam - she was left with the house (he didn't run away with the deposit). He maybe sought her out for two reasons - 1) like his boss said, he needed to get married or 2) it's part of a broader scam where Sophia Chung hired him, but I doubt that. Did he actually lik her? Is he going to go back and find her? Will he and Joo-eun take down GK together? Where the f is this story going.