Sooo Minwoo is a complete buffoon if he actually thinks his little blackmail scheme will work LOL that woman is going to spit him out and get him blacklisted in the entire country after she gets what she wants
Monogamy doesn't mean you're never attracted to anyone else, ever. It means that you don't act on that attraction…
I just think it's perfectly valid, when you've been with someone for less than two years and they're very doting and enthusiastic, to set a boundary when you realise, not just that they thought someone else was pretty or amazing or whatever, but that they actually didn't trust themselves to stay close to that person in case they... what? Gave in? Of course it can happen, but it's not the same as thinking someone is pretty/sexy/smart/amazing whatsoever. Some people might be ok with that, in the long run, and get over it, and for others it can be a deal breaker. And I find it problematic how it's seen as almost inevitable, from some comments I've read, to have such an experience with your partner. The reason I bring it back to men is exactly because although men and women alike can exhibit that behaviour it's one of those two sexes that is more often considered as prone to temptation than the other, thus enforcing this false idea of the inevitable situation described above.
Monogamy doesn't mean you're never attracted to anyone else, ever. It means that you don't act on that attraction…
Except that in this context we take attraction to mean something deeper than just thinking other girls/guys are cute or sexy and admiring them. To say that is "forbidden" or whatever is impossible and I'd say unhealthy to all parties involved. But in this case, I saw comments commenting on sth that people could actually call emotional cheating in the vein of "everyone would have broken up with their boyfriends if they were never expected to be swayed by other people". Is it actually that much to demand of your partner to not be swayed, as portrayed in the drama? Again, different people have different red lines when it comes to dating, but I find it lowkey insulting to insinuate it's something to be expected when it comes to dating men.
Jfc, some comments are pathetic. Do you really have that little respect towards men that you'd never believe even one of them can go through a monogamous relationship without ever being attracted to a third person?
Hi everyone I have a bone to pick with this drama. My first issue is the portrayal of Africa once again as a country.…
THANK YOU, especially for pointing out the sexual harrasment! I came to the comments to see if that was being discussed. I felt really uncomfortable in that scene, even so when realizing that she was seeing nightmares with the same image! Later on we see that they knew each other from before and that STILL isn't an excuse - in that moment the viewer thinks they're strangers and that he almost flashed her as a form of punishment for something she wrote accidentally. Honestly kind of disturbing
It was a small satchel she made along with the princess at her house outside the palace. The princess then told…
Thanks!! I was so certain they must have shown us that one before... I agree with your interpretation! Or it might mean that just as she didn't fully give herself up for the king, she'd rather keep something she made and held dear just for herself :)
A question about ep. 17: What was the yellow ribbon that Duk Im kept and that her friends asked her about, which was kept as a keepsake later on? I can't remember if we'd seen that in a previous episode and keep wondering about its significance
If that person wrote this story and as you are watching the show you can tell how good this is, right? So why…
Anyone has a right to rate according to any part of the production and I really don't get why ratings on mdl are treated as the end all, be all of review since we've seen time and time again that people massively rate up and down according to their ships outcome or a million other things and that it rarely even corresponds to what the ratings in Korea are like, it's just a corner of the internet. About the rest of your comment, all I'm saying is: watch or don't watch it, don't try to make it seem like people are just butthurt over something trivial - and not necessarily you in specific, but others on this platform as well. I also have to mention that something can be a crime even if you don't serve time for it, from both a legal and an ethical point of view.
I started watching this kinda late and still am not up to date with all the episodes, but skimming through the comments here I honestly don't get why some people feel the need to downplay the fact that the writer's a sleazebag and a sexual harasser by saying he was "drunk" and "obviously not a serial rapist" as a means of justifying themselves watching the show. No one can judge you watching the show when there's actual convicted criminals like Lee Kyung Young who keep getting roles literally everywhere so that they're almost impossible to avoid, especially since we're not Korean and often don't know about these people's past, but it's also perfectly valid for someone to want to boycott a production that hired a sexual offender. Just don't try to portray the writer as some misguided fool who did a mistake while drunk and the people speaking up against the show as some naive idiots who get their panties in a twist "without reason" and because of "political correctness", that's actually disgusting.
For me, the finale was heavily imbalanced, both in and of itself and compared to the rest of the series. Throughout the show we've never had an abundance of difficult cases or cases gone wrong, not even spread out on an entire season, and the show always gave off positive and wholesome vibes even when things didn't go as planned, but now we had almost all of our protagonists deal with medical disasters in the course of just one episode, when I feel that, instead, their personal lives needed to be at the forefront and their issues resolved, since we're talking about the final episode. In general, I always had the feeling that HosPlay was an imbalanced show - although I had fun watching our protagonists interact, that felt somehow disconnected from their work in the hospital and I wasn't able to connect with most of the secondary characters. The first few episodes of S2 were the only ones that absolutely hit the mark for me out of both seasons - by the end, I felt it fell short again. I see the previous works of the director and screenwriter referenced all the time when talking about HosPlay and I have to say, for me Prison Playbook did everything better, story-wise, character-wise, impact-wise, you name it.
This show got me hooked, up until the last episode. It was everything IOTNBO failed to be, with a fraction of the budget - a rather realistic (from what I can tell, at least) depiction of mentally ill people coming together through their individual hardships and actually working on bettering themselves with the help of a professional. The romance delivered. And even though I cringed through some of our main characters' shenanigans they kept me glued to my screen. And yet the finale kind of let me down. I've seen lots of triumphant comments and I'm happy that so many people enjoyed it, but I've got to share my mini essay as well!
The worst for me is that, for once, the obligatory "breaking up and getting back together" could actually make sense: there's two people who each have their own challenges to face and they don't feel stable enough to co-exist, but instead would rather take the time to work on themselves and meet again later on in a healthier context. But did we actually see that? Min Kyung does tell Hwi Oh that the reason she's leaving is because she doesn't feel she can date someone right now, let alone someone who knows of her past. That could actually be character development from what other characters previously inferred about her - that she is "too dependent on men" - and now might be her chance to "figure herself out". However, why not actually see more of that talk? Why could they not discuss this further and have that be a sign of maturity? Obviously Min Kyung is also in love with Hwi Oh - wouldn't this make for another great instance of communication, like the ones we've seen interspersed throughout? The ending is ambiguous in many ways - is Hwi Oh talking to her just in his head or have they actually kept contact? Have they agreed that they'll meet again at some point or was he just left hanging? But how could that be since we see them making up on the streets and apparently realising that they're too into each other? I guess everything can be explained with a "that's the point, they don't make sense because they're c r a z y " but I think the show did a pretty good job of showing where their issues lied and there were always reasons behind their actions, so I feel like the writer took the easy way out, maybe because of shortage of time.
It can also be that for me part of the last sequence of events didn't really make sense. You're telling me that Min Kyung, a woman who has been shown to be an overly suspicious conspiratorist due to her trauma, would actually drink from a cup brought to her by the same person who inflicted said trauma? Of course, one could say that she's been getting better due to her treatment and interactions with Hwi Oh and the neighbors, but I doubt that kind of behaviour is easy to shed off overnight.
And lastly, I feel that Hwi Oh wasn't explored properly in the end. Supposedly Min Kyung went traveling in order to find herself in some way, but how did his issues progress? We see him capturing his nemesis and getting his job back, yes - also being with the colleague for whom he felt so much guilt over, now apparently healthy - but didn't his anger management issues preceded the whole fiasco with the Yang case? He was shown as always having a short fuse and being impulsive. At what point did those character traits cross into "embitterment disorder" territory and was he in the end able to power through it because he felt the injustice he suffered was reversed? Was that really all there was to it? I just wasn't fully convinced.
As a whole I think the amount and duration of the episodes definitely had to do with a lot of the above not being properly explained, in my opinion, but still the whole show set the bar too high for me for the ending to feel so meh. I might just have had different expectations than what the creators were going for.
Can you please rewatch the episode?! He was surprised to find an MP3 player with his fav music on it. But he never…
I don't need to rewatch the episode as I understood what happened - that's why I wrote "suspected", since he did, in fact, connect the music to the one he was playing to his unborn child, and in any case my comment was more written in jest because it was a funny moment for me :)
So... You mean to tell me that the reason HH suspected JBR to be his son was because the random mp3 player he found lying around HAD to be his, and of course WHO ELSE else rather than his own son would happen to be listening to one of the most widely known pieces by one of the most famous composers of the Western canon...
The worst for me is that, for once, the obligatory "breaking up and getting back together" could actually make sense: there's two people who each have their own challenges to face and they don't feel stable enough to co-exist, but instead would rather take the time to work on themselves and meet again later on in a healthier context. But did we actually see that? Min Kyung does tell Hwi Oh that the reason she's leaving is because she doesn't feel she can date someone right now, let alone someone who knows of her past. That could actually be character development from what other characters previously inferred about her - that she is "too dependent on men" - and now might be her chance to "figure herself out". However, why not actually see more of that talk? Why could they not discuss this further and have that be a sign of maturity? Obviously Min Kyung is also in love with Hwi Oh - wouldn't this make for another great instance of communication, like the ones we've seen interspersed throughout? The ending is ambiguous in many ways - is Hwi Oh talking to her just in his head or have they actually kept contact? Have they agreed that they'll meet again at some point or was he just left hanging? But how could that be since we see them making up on the streets and apparently realising that they're too into each other? I guess everything can be explained with a "that's the point, they don't make sense because they're c r a z y " but I think the show did a pretty good job of showing where their issues lied and there were always reasons behind their actions, so I feel like the writer took the easy way out, maybe because of shortage of time.
It can also be that for me part of the last sequence of events didn't really make sense. You're telling me that Min Kyung, a woman who has been shown to be an overly suspicious conspiratorist due to her trauma, would actually drink from a cup brought to her by the same person who inflicted said trauma? Of course, one could say that she's been getting better due to her treatment and interactions with Hwi Oh and the neighbors, but I doubt that kind of behaviour is easy to shed off overnight.
And lastly, I feel that Hwi Oh wasn't explored properly in the end. Supposedly Min Kyung went traveling in order to find herself in some way, but how did his issues progress? We see him capturing his nemesis and getting his job back, yes - also being with the colleague for whom he felt so much guilt over, now apparently healthy - but didn't his anger management issues preceded the whole fiasco with the Yang case? He was shown as always having a short fuse and being impulsive. At what point did those character traits cross into "embitterment disorder" territory and was he in the end able to power through it because he felt the injustice he suffered was reversed? Was that really all there was to it? I just wasn't fully convinced.
As a whole I think the amount and duration of the episodes definitely had to do with a lot of the above not being properly explained, in my opinion, but still the whole show set the bar too high for me for the ending to feel so meh. I might just have had different expectations than what the creators were going for.