so you're telling me ssr - the same woman who was a meticulous planner and thought 857943764 steps ahead of the other characters - deliberately fell off that cliff and just...died?? no backup???
lemme get this straight: s1: she feels guilty for not being there for min seol ah. successfully begins to execute revenge & later fakes her death s2: after nearly a season of her children and friends mourning her loss, she reappears s3: spends ep after ep trying to make amends with seok kyeong for abandoning her
she's portrayed as a "pure" figure serving justice but her own children are without their mom (forreal this time), she set up eun byeol to watch her own mom "kill" her, and ro na lost a mother figure after both of her parents were murdered. at this point, what hera palace kid DIDN'T she traumatize
i know i told you guys to shut your brain off and ride through the ridiculousness but even this had me like wtf lol
I'm on ep 3 and finding this hard to keep my interest
decided to just read the recaps for eps 4-15 and watch the finale. this seemed to have all the elements of a drama I'd love: lee bo young, kim seo hyung, strong/empowered yet humanized female leads, family secrets, murder mystery, beautiful ost...but it just couldn't keep my attention
regardless, the final episode had many scenes that had me a bit teary and i guess that serves as some testament to the talent of the screenwriter. such a shame!
Great drama, although I agree with others saying the characters lacked complexity/depth. It was also very evident what was going to happen early on from the introduction of Korn Group at the girls school. It gets boring watching the big bad conglomerate funnel money to a politician storyline (or the other way around) done a million times. Despite that, the unfolding of the 2010 events was well done. Definitely had me emotional
What was missing was character development - what DROVE the characters to do what they did? Why was Jiang Yang…
Couldn't agree more. We should've gotten a motivation and backstory for Zhu Wei and Dr. Chen too.
It was also weird to me that we found out about Jiang Yang's marriage and child off screen just shortly before his child was kidnapped. There was a lack of buildup that was missing in the writing for me but I still enjoyed this drama.
K-Drama 
lemme get this straight:
s1: she feels guilty for not being there for min seol ah. successfully begins to execute revenge & later fakes her death
s2: after nearly a season of her children and friends mourning her loss, she reappears
s3: spends ep after ep trying to make amends with seok kyeong for abandoning her
she's portrayed as a "pure" figure serving justice but her own children are without their mom (forreal this time), she set up eun byeol to watch her own mom "kill" her, and ro na lost a mother figure after both of her parents were murdered. at this point, what hera palace kid DIDN'T she traumatize
i know i told you guys to shut your brain off and ride through the ridiculousness but even this had me like wtf lol
regardless, the final episode had many scenes that had me a bit teary and i guess that serves as some testament to the talent of the screenwriter. such a shame!
the character comes back later in the season with a different wig and without his black entourage but still speaks the same
It was also weird to me that we found out about Jiang Yang's marriage and child off screen just shortly before his child was kidnapped. There was a lack of buildup that was missing in the writing for me but I still enjoyed this drama.