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At least no one is calling her a whore like we saw with The atypical Family 😬

You're making excellent points. Also I think the drama's numbers are showing the success of this approach because the ratings have increased with each episode.

It's very interesting that the ratings are climbing. I hope it's reaching the people who need to see it.

I'm kind of struggling with the tone of the drama. I get that they are using standard romcom tropes to explore a serious social problem and draw people into the story so they can see what functional alcoholism looks like. But the contrast between the humor of the drinking scenes and how messed up they really are is bothering me. For example, I feel so sorry for the mother. Being the functional person in a family of alcoholics is a living hell and I don't think her pain is really being portrayed as it should be. Also, a mom of two young children getting hammered every night is very sad and very serious because it will eventually harm the kids even if she thinks she's hiding it from them. I'm not dropping because it's a short drama and I'm curious to see how they are going to deal with all this but I think the show doesn't have enough episodes to do justice to the serious themes.

I'm really enjoying Kang Hyung Suk as the 2ML, who I'd seen before as the gay best friend in Love in Contract. He's a taekwondo black belt plus good looking and charming so I'd love to see him in a lead role eventually. He's pleasing to my eyes and I'm looking forward to his romance

The comments are giving me physical pain, how are people completely missing the point??

It took me a long time to see this because it's hard to find but the Blue ray version finally turned up on Internet Archive. It's hella fun and deserves a higher rating than 6.7. The film looks great thanks to high contrast color grading that makes it look like a live action manga. The action is silly and so is the acting but it's deliberate and you just have to let your brain go into neutral and enjoy the ride. It's fun to see very young Jang Hyuk, Shin Min Ah and Gong Hyo Jin. JH was knocked unconscious during filming and you can see it happen in the behind the scenes video: https://youtu.be/jrxfzO4Q_wI

The Internet Archive also has the 2004 MTV edit of the film with voice overs by Andre 3000, Method Man, Snoop Dawg and a lot of other hip hop artists. Unfortunately it's not as fun as it should be because Andre 3000 does a terrible job voicing Jang Hyuk's character. Better to stick with the original.

You're just not a fan of slice of life dramas. I'm not a big fan of them either and didn't like the Reply series but I liked this one for the focus on unfair treatment of women and relationships between mothers and daughters.

I'm watching this because I'm a Jang Hyuk fan and this is his best known drama but it's so bad. I cannot figure out why it was a big hit. Even the fight scenes are badly choreographed. On the acting level I've seen JH do much better in other dramas like My Country: The New Age and Money Flower.

ETA: I finished and it got much better for me in the second half after Dae Gil meets up with Eon Nyeon and all of the plot threads start to come together. I feel like there was potentially a good drama in here because I did find the slave rebellion and discussions of class and Justice to be really interesting but instead we had to focus on a stupid boring love triangle and badly choreographed fight scenes.

My Mister is better written with a story arc that resolves in a deeply satisfying way at the end. Tangerines is very good but the constant time skips took me out of the story and it kind of ran out of steam in the second half except for plot development in the very last episode that didn't land for me the way it was intended.

I liked the drama but my criticism is that it is a bit emotionally and manipulative and goes too hard on the tragedy. When something bad happens you have people screaming and crying plus dramatic music plus a voice over telling you how to feel. for me it was a bit too much. I still enjoyed the drama and rated it 8.5 but it isn't a masterpiece to me.

Solidly good but not a top 10 for me

I mean that in sad scenes you'd have the actors emoting plus Geum-yeong or Ae-son's voice over and really heavy music and I felt pushed to feel a certain way rather than letting the emotions come organically. I would've preferred fewer voice overs and less music so I could let the interactions do the work. Show not tell.

I just finished and gave it an 8.5. I think it's a solidly good drama made with a lot of love and care with incredible production values but it also felt emotionally manipulative at times and a bit like trauma porn. I also wasn't a fan of the constant jumps back and forth in the timeline. It fell short of greatness for me. But I would definitely recommend it to people especially if they're fans of slice of life (not a genre I usually like so the fact that I liked this says a lot)

Yes on Kocowa

Episode 2: even the students were angry at that girl for reporting a teacher assaulting her to the police 😬 I wonder when things changed in Korea because I know today parents would sue the school. But I'm having fun watching it, I didn't realize fetus Bae Doona was in it.

your link doesn't go directly to the review, try this: https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/k-drama/k-drama/article/3299890/netflix-k-drama-when-stars-gossip-review-space-pregnancy-nonsense-sinks-sci-fi-romcom

I'm watching her right now in Thank You, a 2008 drama, and it's the same there. Head down, stammering, can't look the ML in the eye. But she's a good fit for the role in the drama so it's fine. Not so great in some other roles though.

Omo leave the PLANET laid me out 🤣🤣

I didn't like the drama but I really appreciate how rational and reasonable your post was.