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Oh no, I do it of course, a lot of times actually, but not here, and not for things I watch actually. I do that only for books I read. I don't know why but movies and TV series don't really make me think to "what could come after", only written stories do that.

Well, maybe. ^^ But I don't make theories on what could happen in their future, it's just a fictional story, I only focus on the story told to us.

Yes in the end they are together, they are married and raising their daughter together, but it's a marriage of convenience, they are not in love with each other. Mieko was never interested in men, she just wanted a family because of her own childhood trauma. And it's not that Eiji liked Mieko romantically, but that because she was bearing his child, he was more considerate and focus on her and Makio felt left out and betrayed by the lie on the paternity.
For me it's obvious that with the last scene of Eiji, it's shown that even if he is happy to be a father, he is still totally heartbroken by the lost of Makio.

Not really, it's more complex than that. Eiji never rejected what he is nor pretended to be in love with Mieko. Despite Eiji's dad opposition to their relationship, Eiji and Makio were still together after three years, but Mieko (for her own reasons) suggested to bear their child, thinking it would make Eiji's father accept the whole situation. Both Eiji and Makio accepted, and then everything fell apart of course, because it was a big mistake and it ruined their relationship as Eiji and Mieko betrayed Makio, he run away, etc. But yes, in the end, Makio kind of moved on with his life even if he still have feelings for Eiji, and Eiji his heartbroken and stuck in his "normal" life.

They got married so yes they are together, raising their daughter, but that's just a marriage of convenience.

Eiji's dad is more complex as a character than just an homophobic dad. If he was just that, he would not have accepted that Eiji and Makio were together at all or that they live together for three years nor wouldn't have speak to Makio. That's way to simple and wrong to just label him as homophobic.

Well, the three characters did that big mess together, but, in the end, Eiji is the real miserable one and the only one I feel sorry for.
Yes, Makio felt very betrayed by Eiji and Mieko, but because he ran away, he could move on with his life slowly and even if he still have some kind of lingering feelings for Eiji, he can be sincerely open to someone else, and he is happy to reconnect with his best friend and their child.
Mieko, who was never interested in men, has what she wanted basically, and even if loosing Makio was hard, they reconnected in the end.
But Eiji did all the wrong choices and will have to live with it. Yes, he is happy to be a father, but Makio is the one he wanted to life his life and have a family with. So he will have to keep living is "normal" life but forever heartbroken to have lost his true love and unable to move on because he has his family and social "duties" to take care of.
It's objectively a well done drama with great production, amazing actors, but that story isn't really fulfilling, on the contrary, it's full a frustration and deception.

In episode 2, when In Kyung eat at his place with his grandfather, Jong Ho says he took time off school because of an herniated disc. I don't know if it's suspicious or just a bland backstory for the character. ^^

I really like it when I'm not totally convinced by the start of a show but it keeps becoming better and more interesting. I hope this one will be like this until the end.

Based on your comments, it's always Eiji the "bad guy" in this story, and Makio looks like an angel and a victim the way you describe him.
Eiji and Mieko are as complex as Makio. The three characters are problematic, and equally responsible for what happened in this story.
But in the end, it's objectively true that Makio is an "emotional slacker", as much true as Eiji being a coward who can't stand for what he really want and Mekio being twisted and manipulative.

From his last interview for 1st Look:
"I want to be a cool actor with my own personality. There was a time when I worried about becoming a successful actor. But now I know. ‘Time is on my side’. I just want to take it step by step. So I will eventually become a good person and ultimately a good actor."
And that's why we love him. :)

For sure, and it will be more or less the moral of this drama I guess. However, for me Hwang Tae Yong just didn't really paid attention to others, being the top dog, and he had his own problems to deal with his father, so I'm not sure he purposely put a blind eye to the bullying. He seems really baffled by what's happening to him as Lee Seung Cheon in Park Jang Goon's house.

It's kind of a "The Prince and the Pauper" story like. But even if Lee Seung Cheon is supposed to be the "hero", the good guy, here, I personally root for Hwang Tae Yong. Being poor and having a hard life isn't a reason to discard his own family and take revenge. Looking forward to the story development though.

This is far from being as good as "The Admiral", too bad. I expected it to be better. It felt like the director had watched too many Hollywood blockbusters between the two movies. It was too much for me.
As much as I like Korean historical movies for depicting so well Korea's history and be able to still inspire good patriotism, this movie didn't really felt like a real sageuk.

This is just depressing in the end.
I actually don't relate with or feel really sorry for any of the characters because, as Mieko said in episode 7, they brought all this on themselves. Nobody really forced them to go this far and ruin everything, even if there was the pressure of Eiji's dad. In the end, they chose the problematic path when there were other possibilities. The way Makio left and Eiji just accepted the situation to have a happy "fake" family with Mieko just don't make sense.
Is this story realistic ? Not really, at least not for me. If there are real people who live like that, I just can't understand why.

Based on the trailers I don't see how it's a "black comedy". Just like "Mr. Queen", it seems like a (modern) comedy that use an historical setup. That and the rom/com sageuk are the current trend unfortunately. Waiting for really good and epic sageuk to come back someday.

It was so good so far. So natural. But what happened in episode 6 totally put me off. I expected an "healthy" friendship triangle with a real good romance (and it was the case until that room with view...), but this, no, it's really not okay for me. So disappointed by the story development. I'm really worried for the last 4 episodes now.

Yes, yes, good for you. "than trying to remember all those foreign names all the time" this summarise perfectly the kind of person who do that.

I always hate that, but that comment section is particularly horrible to read with all these people writing "ML", "FL", "SML", etc. Is that so hard to write the characters names ? Or at least the actors names... ?

Based on the trailer I have high expectations. Finally a new serious men romance with depth from Japan. And not a love triangle, despite one of the three main leads being a woman. I really look forward to it.