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genre: country blues:
My baby left me this morning
I did all your dishes
I washed all your clothes
I cooked for you
And I said it straight
You're dumb
You're not talented
Because
I left you first
I never said I love you
But baby can't you see
I love you so much

that scene where HO was visiting the psychiatrist was quite brilliant writing. It was glaringly obvious that also HO himself was in need of therapy.

I was happy to see Ji On back in the picture. The three guys drinking together was funny and gave me a flashback to Mr. Sunshine.

Ep's 9 and 10 were so beautiful and deep. I love this drama, it's extraordinary. If Eun Ho just goes back to the toxic and abusive ML, I'll be disappointed. I guess he'll achieve some major character development in the last episodes. For a lonely person with no self-esteem to stay in an abusive relationship is of course a very realistic scenario. This happens to people in real life all the time. But I hope for a more open ending, where we see Eun Ho taking some kind of a new step towards healing. Maybe I trust the writer too much. But I don't think this will end in a conventional manner in which they just continue their relationship and supposedly live happily ever after.

I enjoyed the quality of discussions here, though. This was good about watching whilst this is airing. How women stay with abusive spouses is all very realistic and most of us could see that (thank god for small mercies). Am going to watch the last episodes but bracing myself for a disappointment.

You're right. In reality people don't really change that much. A person can learn to communicate a little better perhaps but being nasty comes from his contempt of himself (bc he was abandoned as a kid) and that wound won't ever heal.

Sorry for the typos. My favorite Ahn Nae Sang duality examples are The Guest (main villain) and Unlock My Boss (funny dad). Kim Chang Hwan, Bad Prosecutor (main villain) and It's Okay Not To Be Okay. Sung Dong Il, Jang Ok Jung versus If You Wish Upon Me. One of my fave chameleons is Jo Sung Ha (Save Me versus Sungkyungkwan Scandal). These veterans really get to portray every possible kind of human, we're so lucky they're not typecasted.

PS. I thought the "grey" in the heading meant you would highlight incredibly versatile veteran actors like Ahn Jae Sang, Jo Sung Ha, Kim Sang Hwan and Sung Dong Il. But maybe later, right! Really looking forward to more!

I loved this article. These actors deserve all the praise and more. They are some of the greatest actors indeed. Oh Man Suk and Bae Jong Ok are also acting teachers! Shows how good your choices are. Looking forward to your next article! Lee Mi Sook had a double role in Wok of Love and it took me a while to even to notice that: she was so different in those two roles!

Absolutely true. 10 mins is enough to see the ingredients.

The point still being he has a criminal family.

Didn't HO's grandmas run an illegal gambling joint, at least when he was young. Wouldn't this be the reason why he couldn't tell EH about his family. If people got a whiff of that, he would immediately have lost his career. As happened this very week with Knowing Bros' Jinho. He didn't run a gambling site but went to one.

I was also thinking that this could have worked better as a film. I'm just now watching Innocence, and Doubt could have been as exciting as that one as a film.

The pacing is still very slow. I think it's better to wait until it's finished and then binge. Can't finish otherwise. My view of Doubt is influenced by having watched so many great crime and thriller dramas recently. (If you're looking for very good ones I'd recommend Escape From the Trilateral Slopes, The Bad Kids, The First Shot). I absolutely loved Black Out but this isn't anything as grabbing. Just my opionion, no attacks please.

If you like Family By Choice, you will definitely like Our Beautiful Summer.

I've also been thinking about Welcome to Samdalri, that was for me as well another one that didn't really grab me. I didn't like Shin Hye Sun's acting in it either. But she's again the very best in Dear Hyeri. I don't know what it was about these 2 dramas. I guess I found them trying to be audience-pleasing rather than relying on a solid artistic vision. Thrillers and crime dramas can be very emotional and healing, strongly agree. First Responders is a good example of that.

no, it's difficult to watch him

Me too, I've watched Something in The Rain twice. Jung Hae In was so fantastic in STR, Snowdrop and DP, this wasn't really his best role. I love Jung So Min always, and managed to finish because of them.

Two adult women fighting each other and tearing each others hair counts as "humour" here... for me that's a 10 on the cringe factor scale 1-10. Everybody understands humour differently, I like the kind of humour that was present in Bitter Sweet Hell and Killer Paradox. I don't know about the healing...there are so many better dramas out there. I barely managed to finish this one, esp. the last 2 episodes irritated the hell out of me.

I completely agree with what you said