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No One Mourns the Wicked
I did not like Sang Yeon one bit, but if death is involved, and since the acting was top-notch, I could not help it: I am a crybaby at my core, I will cry if it gets sad. This show and its depiction of a female friendship that gets lost in a cycle of toxicity throughout childhood years until adulthood … aye, who did not have a toxic friendship break-up in their life? It hit hard. Sang Yeon’s reflections about her mother and brother towards the end, and how they died, also hit me on a more personal level.
SY is not a likable character. She is pathetic, self-destructive, and a saboteur. It honestly got intolerable once we entered the women’s adult years and they ended up working at the same place. She reached a point of no return there for me; at your big age you still act like a child? Her life wasn’t easy, her environment at home not as warm and loving as Eun Jungs’s, however, your circumstances are not an excuse to be a shitty person to someone else. Especially not someone who tolerates you using them as a punching bag all the time. This relationship between SY and EJ was emotionally draining, and once we got to the present bits it turned into this emotional manipulation to evoke sympathy. The “I have cancer”-card was pulled; “I know I should not be here with how I treated you”’s were said. Then leave. Genuinely, I don’t know if I could have been as strong, or forgiving, as Eun Jung. Sang Yeon, at the end of the show, was someone I gladly wanted to be gone. In her self-destruction, she took everyone down with her, ruining friendships and relationships, playing the victim, imposing herself when she knew she wasn’t liked that way, etc. Yet she complained that her life was awful, that she was alone … And whose fault is that? Of course, it’s easy to blame everyone else instead of yourself, and SY was a master at this. Playing the victim and thinking the world revolved around you final boss.
Unfortunately, I am a sensitive being, so if death is depicted, and you realize that at the end of it, they were just two girls again, it still hurt. Maybe because all this pain and loss was dumped on EJ’s shoulders in the end. She may have found some closure, somehow, but it doesn’t change the fact that it needed this drastic outcome for SY to apologize. And I am glad that EJ called her out on it, to be honest. I will never rewatch this show, because I would just get mad all over again, but also because this shit hurt… just a little! Great show, great acting, breezy OST that lightens the heaviness of the subject matter, but it’s one-time-experience.
SY is not a likable character. She is pathetic, self-destructive, and a saboteur. It honestly got intolerable once we entered the women’s adult years and they ended up working at the same place. She reached a point of no return there for me; at your big age you still act like a child? Her life wasn’t easy, her environment at home not as warm and loving as Eun Jungs’s, however, your circumstances are not an excuse to be a shitty person to someone else. Especially not someone who tolerates you using them as a punching bag all the time. This relationship between SY and EJ was emotionally draining, and once we got to the present bits it turned into this emotional manipulation to evoke sympathy. The “I have cancer”-card was pulled; “I know I should not be here with how I treated you”’s were said. Then leave. Genuinely, I don’t know if I could have been as strong, or forgiving, as Eun Jung. Sang Yeon, at the end of the show, was someone I gladly wanted to be gone. In her self-destruction, she took everyone down with her, ruining friendships and relationships, playing the victim, imposing herself when she knew she wasn’t liked that way, etc. Yet she complained that her life was awful, that she was alone … And whose fault is that? Of course, it’s easy to blame everyone else instead of yourself, and SY was a master at this. Playing the victim and thinking the world revolved around you final boss.
Unfortunately, I am a sensitive being, so if death is depicted, and you realize that at the end of it, they were just two girls again, it still hurt. Maybe because all this pain and loss was dumped on EJ’s shoulders in the end. She may have found some closure, somehow, but it doesn’t change the fact that it needed this drastic outcome for SY to apologize. And I am glad that EJ called her out on it, to be honest. I will never rewatch this show, because I would just get mad all over again, but also because this shit hurt… just a little! Great show, great acting, breezy OST that lightens the heaviness of the subject matter, but it’s one-time-experience.
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