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I loved this. It gave me Sweet Homes vibes. Also, genuinely scary since the 'monster' is us and our resentments, rather than something we know doesn't really exist. Also reminded me of those stories about medieval Europe where some sort of rye fungus gets into the bread.

Fashion King, Record of Youth and NWABU - all are kind of bad. Let's hope this one breaks the curse.

One of the stories was - literally - My Best Friend's Wedding, including the bitchy attempt to derail which backfired, due to the sweetness of the actual bride - but I enjoyed the rest. My faves were the manager/star 'couple' and the youngest and oldest romantic couples.

"I have to disagree he looks like he lost weight and became much better looking here, hell he even looks younger."

Maybe you shouldn't combine drinking and typing.

How has he lost weight since the last time you saw him since you haven't - apparently - seen him before?

He was the brother (of the FL, the lover of the crown princess) in 100 days. If you don't remember him from that, though, how has he 'lost weight'?

And if you think he's too 'fat' here are you sure you're alright? https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BODcxY2UwMGQtNzg3NC00ZjBhLWEyNDUtY2FlYWIwNGFhMmMzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjc1MzY4ODg@._V1_.jpg

No, the drama avoided reference to it but clearly that was the deal. The CEO of the day would get a daughter on his talisman, then the resulting daughter would become the talisman of his son, ad infinitum.

I remember when this drama was first floated I saw the older man/younger woman tags and queried it then and, for me, it remained one of the more jarring elements of this drama.

The director/writer chose to make a big thing of this - a clearly 30-something - actress being a 'child' in the beginning episodes (with lines like 'where's your mommy?') and very young - 20 - in all the remaining ones. The thing is, it was so easily avoidable. Just drop the references to her age - it added nothing to the plot in any case.

Then they doubled down by making this 30-something woman, who has been raised exclusively among grim/stoic/depressed adults, act like a 9-year-old on a sugar high for the first half of the drama.

Another thing was the inconsistent and badly-meshed genres, the pacing and the - illogical - plot. Plus the weird elements (each daughter born then mated with her half-brother?) and the uneven pacing.

I think all the cast did the best with the drivel they were given - but you can't polish a turd.

He was very nice-looking in historical dress in 100 Days. In this, I think wardrobe has him in too much makeup some of the time.

Well, that's better than the plot suggested in the orginal MDL description which is "girl with a heart of gold immediately starts macking on the boy she knows her best friend has a crush on" which would make her not so golden-hearted. Not that I think you can have dibs on anyone in a general sense.

I've had co-workers like Kim Yu Mi - they are almost always disliked/barely tolerated by others but, mysteriously, perceive themselves as 'popular'.

I think it must have been a translation error because later in the episode (when they're eating) it becomes clear that his Mum is still back in the U.S, so couldn't have collected him from an airport in Thailand.

"Set in 1999 – a year before the end of the 20th century, the story centers around Na Bo-ra (Kim Yoo-jung), a 17-year-old high school student with an athletic and bright personality. Bo-ra's best friend Yeon-du (Roh Yoon-seo) has a crush on Baek Hyun-jin (Park Jung-woo), a boy from the same school whom she knows only by name. Yeon-du, who has to go U.S. for a heart surgery, asks Bo-ra to keep eye on Hyun-jin and find out everything about him while she is away. Initially, Bo-ra decides to get close to Hyun-jin’s best friend, Poong Un-ho (Byeon Woo-seok) in order to record every move of Hyun-jin. But then she finds her first love: a sweet, pure but heartbreaking relationship.

Years later in the 21st century, news about her first love revives her teenage romance that she once thought had forgotten."

Source: Wikipedia

It was her constant "promise you'll always be with me" that cemented it for me. That and her treating her son, in some ways, like a surrogate spouse. I know at least two women like her IRL - neither care whether their son/surrogote son is gay - they do want to be the most important person, always, in their lives.

I saw Mummy dearest as less about homophobia (though there was some of that, too) and more about that exceptionally clingy/controlling/possessive way that (some) women - particularly single mums - get about their sons. It's not sexual, but has that intensity.

I've never seen an 'age gap' tag used except when two people have a relationship. Ever. It might be - primarily - a revenge drama but you can be sure that SHK will be macking on one of the younger male cast members. And many people will watch the drama for just that reason.

Yes. I'm sure she will have a son who she thinks is 'more fitting' for kinghood than the naughty princes.

They're both good actors. Let's hope the drama is well written and directed without too many silly/twee/tropey elements.

I had the drunk woman trope explained to me once but still don't understand it. Apparently, if a woman can be vomiting/falling down/coma like drunk in the company of a man and he doesn't molest her it proves he is a good guy, which makes the whole thing 'cute' and 'fluffy'.

I suspect it's more that alcohol companies are big sponsors so anything writers can do to frame frankly dangerous drinking as a desirable behaviour is encouraged.

I assume it was cashing in on the popularity of HCCC but with a much lower budget - for actors and the writer in particular. The fact that the best most people can say about it is that it's 'fluffy' or to simper over the idols in it is all you need to know.