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Tuning in for Cosmic's weekly AGL recap!

Completely agree here. Manager Gu is truly the best, I love that guy! Tae-seok is sick. The actor is doing an incredible job playing him. Haneul really locked in this week and I love it! Jung-Won has been standing on business for majority of the drama, I honestly don't expect her to reconcile with Taeseok at all! As I said, I don't really hate Hye-ra (I never did), and I'm neutral on her. Nan-Suk, despite her heartlessness, does seem to have some care for her own blood to an extent, as seen with Haneul. Again, I skip Sehun's scenes now. Dude is a massive idiot, along with his wife (Young-chae is 2x more annoying which doesn't help.) Even Nan-suk was amused by how fucking gullible he is.

Manager Hwang was wild for that 💀 dude YOU KILLED HER DAUGHTER!!!!! Why are you still trying to get with Mi-hyang?! I feel like if they wanted Hye-ra to save Jung-won, it could've gone so much better, idk... that whole scene was unnecessary. Ah, at the end of the day it's a daily drama. I'm glad that Semi and Jung-won are getting closer, though. I think the Haneul thing was just lip service... just a puppy crush lol

Tae-seok DESERVED THAT! PERIOD! Like I said, I predict that he'll die at the end. There is NO WAY that he's surviving, especially if he kills more people once he manages to escape (which he will!) As for his view on Hye-ra... yeah, pretty much. He was obsessed with her because he wanted to own like a trophy. Sick man. That "flower" is gonna end up poisoning him! And the whole car accident set-up thing is confusing af. I've been trying to understand it, but...

I think Tae-seok will tell Se-hun somehow. I think they did the accident trope already with Jung-won, kinda. I think Min-jung is gonna end up being used as a double spy/mole by Hye-ra! I'm excited! And see- I didn't even know that Lee Do-hyun was a woman. She's good at writing morally grey characters. Really underrated. I'm getting close to finishing Secrets and Lies, and it is SO fun to watch! Then I'll get started on Witches Game. If A Graceful Liar ends well, it's going into my top daily dramas list. (I plan to watch Family Secrets too! It has one of my favorite veteran actresses in it, Shin Eun-Kyung!)

I need SBS daily dramas back ASAP!!!! That MIL, FYI, soon gets what's coming to her when Yu-kyung shows up! (I'm not at *THAT* point yet, but based on what I read on NamuWiki, karma is sweet... 😭)

Dear Inspector Megre,

I am not watching this drama (I never even heard about it till today, also I don't usually watch rom-coms.) But I see you're still up to your old tricks and stupid shenanigans! I must say that I'm impressed, you managed to be racist, xenophobic, sexist, and still a nasty and miserable incel. You have not developed at all. You are disgusting, but I hope you get the mental help you need. Well, you could grow as a person too. All you do is harass people, trash actresses, and trash everything else. Doesn't this depressing existence make you at least a little sad? Don't you reflect on your words and actions? Why must you be so pathetic? I think your mother would be very disappointed in you.

Anyways... much love to the actors. I saw Lee Yi-Dam in Artificial City and she was great there. So I think I'll check this drama out in the future.

Understandable!

Yeah! Like, will one twin die? Disappear? Go into a coma? Do they just mutually decide to swap places? So many questions...

Oh no. But then again, I don't really want him with Seo-Rin or Hong-Ju either! 😂

I doubt Hye-Ra actually thought she'd have gotten pregnant or knew it was Tae-Seok's kid (she obviously DIDN'T know, seeing how shocked she was when she got the DNA results.) Just assumed it was Ki-Bum's kid since she slept with him later on. She really got some action that day, huh? 😂 Common soap opera trope.

I'm not disagreeing on the part about Hye-Ra lying and leaving Jung-Won for a better life (deadbeats suck, no matter the gender lol.) Honestly she should've tried harder to find Jung-Won, but I think it was hinted that Tae-Seok also somewhat inhibited/damaged her search somehow (if it really did happen.) Again, it's not a black & white situation nor is it presented as such... as for the reconciliation? Eh... it took Hye-Ra nearly losing Jung-Won for her to get her shit together. Whatever, I honestly think they're better off working together because as much as I love JW, she's VERY IMPULSIVE! And so reckless. Hye-Ra would rein her in a bit... 🤔 I was hoping their relationship would be left open-ended, maybe standing somewhere and they pass by each other on the street...

Just how many daily dramas are you watching? Lol

I agree, and we could sympathize with her (Hee-Kyung.) Hye-Ra was definitely ambitious and greedy, just like Jung-Won. She didn't wanna be poor and attached to a "criminal". Obviously it's more complicated than that, since Tae-Seok was obsessed with her and viewed her as a possession/trophy (in these recent episodes, we get a REALLY interesting view of his psyche), and Hye-Ra somewhat fed into it. Hye-Ra isn't just a villain and that's one of the (few) things I likeabout her- like she has NUANCE! We need more of that in daily dramas!

KBS daily dramas do seem to be making a comeback now, though. Which is great because they're barely on anymore... it's only the KBS and MBC dailies. SBS dailies aren't on, tvN's are dead, jtbc barely had any... no more morning dramas either. I've mostly been watching older ones myself... I miss those days. 😔

Young-Chae's real dad might show up and change things.

I think that Baek-Ho and Jang-Mi will end up together too! I love their chemistry so far and I think they'd make a great couple. I'm neutral on Jun-Ho, but if he becomes a villain... then NO!

Completely agree. I loved how ruthless the revenge was in Gracious Revenge too, with the FL (Carrie Jung, played by Choi Myung-Gil) kidnapping the villain's child and then raising her for revenge.

Not incredibly slow, it kinda gets faster in the second half, but they don't kiss for real till the last episode. The FL is mainly focused on revenge (and for good reason!)

No disagreement there then. Lol plus this screenwriter usually has ML and FLs end up together, so I'm not worried. Just a rare possibility that they might not- but it's slim to none!

Some dramas do have the FL end up with the 2nd ML (this is more common if the actual ML is a villain, though. Like in The Promise and Elegant Empire.)

Nan-Suk too... although I want her to win 😂

Hmmm. Hmmm... still disagreeing with you on BBQ Aunt kid's death but Ki-Bum's death *was* indirectly caused by Hye-Ra- kinda. I feel like the writer doesn't know what to do with her... but then also she said that she was gonna come back for Jung-Won? Then that weird truck accident happened 💀

No? 🤔 Did you forget how Jung-Won was trying to turn everyone against Hye-Ra, manipulated Se-Hun (low-key why he turned evil, but anyway...) and used the media to harm her reputation? And the clear guilt that Hye-Ra experienced? Or how Young-Chae pretended to be Su-Ah? Or the fake pregnancy... a lot happened, man. Lmao, one positive thing came out of it- JW and HR both have near-death experiences to relate to now! Narrative parallels doing their thing yet again...

Min Hee-Kyung is definitely Hye-Ra's evil older sister. Evil but more sympathetic.... if you like older, villain FLs, I recommend watching Red Shoes.

If you're asking about the romance, there's not much of it, but we get some sweet moments throughout the drama! And the ML & FL have a slow-burn type of relationship. Hope this helps!

So none of this was Tae-Seok's fault at all... like not even a little? Can we not ignore the general plot here, at least? Lmao, also how did she cause BBQ Aunt's kid's death? This one came outta nowhere lol

Oh, BOO! You mean to tell me the nuthouse wouldn't work on Hye-Ra? The last real villain she played took a one-way trip to Crazyville... and got redeemed. 😂 At least here we saw her suffer a lot. As for the poison... that was so lazy on the writer's part, I gotta agree with you on that one lmaoooo

You'd despise Min Hee-Kyung from Red Shoes if you hate Hye-Ra this much... she's unimaginably worse!

At least with HR we have some clues: her not wanting to be with a criminal/"murderer" of a husband, and the fact that she'd regretted leaving JW to an extent. I'm curious about TS's backstory, though.

No disagreeing there. Hye-Ra is both a participant *and* a victim. It's very... complicated? But I kinda blame the writer for this confusion since they never completely clarified or deeply explored Hye-Ra and Tae-Seok's past enough. Maybe we'll see more in the upcoming episodes?