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Oh, I definitely expect more story-wise and I like how they just hinting it for now. Maybe I'm just not as enthusiastic as others here with this start. It's solid. Some parts are intriguing, some annoying, I'm sticking for Yoo Ah In anyway.

There is, a little. It's important for motivating some characters, but doesn't take much screentime comparing with the political intrigue. It takes a form of either fascination, some messy, tangled stories or steady devotion.
/don't know whether to mark it as a spoiler or not, just an outline/





Lee Bang Won and Boon Yi love each other, but it heads nowhere. Lee Bang Won has a wife, who is a terribly underused character.
Moo Hyul has a low-key crush on Boon Yi.
Ddang Se and Yoon Hee have a history. There's also some tension on Yoon Hee - Sambong front, but it's more follower - master/teacher thing.
There are also minor but beautiful arcs, like Yoon Rang and the King.

We do :) I'm also of opinion that being depressed involves being lifeless by definition, that's what I find contradicting in yours. The very idea of expecting a show which premise starts with a suicidal trio of losers to be super energetic is challenging to me. Especially in its first half.
I think of that scene as a device. Her running away empty handed and not just coming back to grab her belongings was stupid to begin with, but the show needed her separated from the rest of the trio or we wouldn't have an orchard trip.

you do realise she's suicidal, depressed and in best case scenario sick from years of stress and overwork? Not to mention convinced she only has a few months to live?
I guess you haven't got to the scenes when she's cheerful with other characters yet.

anyone else is getting Goblin vibes from this? Great visuals, long episodes, nothing much happens, characters part cool, part pitiful. And similarily girly, airy and dreary OST (idk how to describe it better).

what a brat, 11 episodes and an angsty separation and he could let his only sister know that he's alive?

one positve thing about Jung Hee: Yoon Sang Hyun doesn't grunt all the time!

lmao, they aren't subtle with this Zorro/Three Musketeers game. Desperado theme, horse coming out of the blue for a whistle or standing on its back legs having the moon as a background, black clothes and a mask, loose white shirts and so on. But I have no patience for this.
For future reference: when YAI makes a proper appearance? There's a glimpse of him at the end of ep 1 and nothing so far in ep 2.

is it worth watching for Yoo Ah In?

he's such a charming ray of joy in Elegant Lies!

It doesn't even have to involve acting (understood as actively expressing a wide range of emotions). You noticed yourself that her looks are creepy, and she's received as somewhat creepy by her students and new coworkers, so she does a trick even before she says a word (but when she does, it goes even further). And her looks are adjusted for this drama. Maintaining composure and a deadpan face takes an effort too.
/Neither PSH nor JSY couldn't pull it.

no, it's just a doctor joke (I actually hear that sometimes IRL - uhm, now I feel there's something wrong with me...), I hope we won't see each other again = I hope you'll stay healthy and there will be no need to see a specialist. And it's actually explained in the show, but Seo Hyun manages to give it a creepy vibe.
Doesn't he say it to someone else tho? Someone in a office, when he visits to have a lunch with Ho Won but misses her? He very much keeps in touch with her.

Right? It never goes full makjang, but mocks it. It's not my type of acting too, but I acknowledge there are modi in acting and especially in kdramas. They did overact, but on the other hand some actors (like Jung Gyu Won) showed a range I never suspected them to have judging from their recent works. I'm at the point when I can't really pick at anything, because it all fits within chosen modus (and consistence is afterall more important than just having the tightest, most elegant story on a planet). So many things felt silly, but somehow it didn't matter. Running after pills as if they didn't have researchers who made them in a first place. Conveniently forgetting that company initials are incised on a case of a blood pressure thingie and there's no need to stick a label on top of it. Shooting a scene when the President was dying and the mobile was out of his reach, Mo Ga Bi kicked it towards him accidentaly, and next time we see him dead, but cluthing it in his hand, but the possibility was never developed that a dying man was alone for some time with a telephone in his hand (not really a plothole, but an unused plothook). That two overdrawn arcs when first Yeo Chi pretended to be a hobo, then Yoo Bang transformed into Versailles Yoo and they couldn't spill the beans for like, four episodes even though it was so obvious they faking it. Director Mo going full mad queen. And so on.
But then things like Basic Instinct investigation scene reenactment happened and I was in stiches. (Although more often I had this feeling that they may or may not hint to some Asian movie I don't know and it was distracting). I've never seen something like this in a Korean show.
On a sidenote, I'd love to see a Prosecutor Park spin-off made in a similar fashion.

So you hope she won't get a chance to shine in a future because she does a good job here, fitting her role perfectly and bringing just a right type of response for a chilly, extremely intelligent lecturer who researches psychopaths...? Cool.

Easy :) Both Ki Taek and Kang Ho took tests. Ki Taek has his ribs crushed from the bus accident.

On sidenote, I hope they won't abandon those Ally McBeal tidbits altogether.

he explicitly said he had though. He planted his people in a company filled with his father's to oppose him. There's nothing clean about him.

It plays with a viewer sending mixed signals and drawing the tension who's who and how are they all related, but it's not draggy. Also, it's more a matter of power struggles and unraveling of a corrupted system than an investigation of a case itself.

why do you keep changing titles.

so, did you follow it? I was in a same situation and enjoyed it nevertheless. The story is well motivated, it makes sense why things turn out this way even if it's heartbreaking.