Tom

There is no such thing as an "objective" rating of how much someone likes something.

Q4 at the earliest, probably.

I hope this won't have any issues finding an OTT. I'm a bit worried we don't know anything yet.

It's highly rated everywhere, not just on MDL. Because it's a great drama. It's not complicated.

Correct - this was meant to be a Mon-Tue drama, hence Viki.

Surely this picture choice is a joke?

Articles on Naver, referenced by Soompi, have confirmed that this will be on Viki. Both them and Netflix often don't announce until a couple of weeks before airing. It was the same with Lovely Runner on Viki recently, and people also went crazy waiting for Netflix to confirm Queen of Tears, which also happened quite close to airing. like a month before. It's not uncommon.

Sounds like a you problem. I loved him in both. 😁

Some predictions about the final 3 episodes:
- Haein will live, but lose her memory
- Eunseong will betray his mother for Haein
- Haein is pregnant and will give birth to Baek Soobin
- Happy ending

Yes, her family is very unlikable in the beginning. And Hyunwoo too I suppose (if you buy that he actually is happy that Haein is dying, which I never did). Lots of character growth coming.

Definitely, but I think it foreshadows her memory loss and not her death. She will be "gone", but the love of Hyunwoo and her family will keep her alive and they will fill up the candy jar again.

I wonder about Eunseong's fate. I don't see a scenario where he will ever give up on Haein, so that sort of suggests he'll have to die (or go to prison for a very long time). But he also seems shook up lately by the lengths his mother has gone to "for him", so maybe he might turn on her to help Haein? The ending for the villain was a bit underwhelming in My Love From the Star, where I think he just got arrested and then we didn't see any more of him. So I wonder how the writer will handle it this time around.

As long as it beats CLOY today, then I can wait for the finale for bigger numbers.

Yeah, the baddies basically facilitated most of the character growth for the Hong family which ultimately will leave them in a much better place in the end.

Ending each episode on a cliffhanger is extremely common in television today, and has been for a while. It's shown that it makes people more likely to tune in next week. The ratings keep going up, so they must be doing something right with the endings. And the good guys are winning all the time here? Hyunwoo outsmarts Eunseong every time. Whenever they go toe to toe, he wins (or punches him in the face). Just as he's now setting him up to go to prison for how he's using the slush fund money. At this point Eunseong is just portrayed as pathetic and desperate, so I'm confused about why people think he is "winning".

It might have been even shorter too:

Writer: You'll get to cry in every episode
KSH: Where do I sign?

Have they? Because Hyunwoo has basically outsmarted Eunseong at every turn so far. Even gave him a well-deserved punch to the mouth for good measure. And I imagine he will do so until the end. Eunseong may have the money, but he walked right into a trap when he started using it.

A drama needs conflict. You are meant to be concerned and frustrated along with the characters, that's part of the deal. Then there are moments of happiness along the way, just as in life. Especially the final stretch of episodes should feel like this; if there's no conflict or nerve, where you worry about what's going to happen and if the characters will make it out alright in the end, then the drama has failed. Too many seem to just want happy fluff and to never be frustrated.

I mean her memory loss has been a part of this since the beginning basically. If you weren't here for it, you might as well have tuned out the minute her brain tumor was revealed.

This bodes very well for Sunday ep - and maybe even better for next Sunday's finale!