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I am really enjoying this, but do have one minor, petty complaint. The Foley (Sound Effects) team used an old in-joke SFX a couple of times for the big battle at the end of episode 6. The "Wilhelm Scream" is an outtake from a 1951 Western film and features a cowboy's anguish as he falls off of his horse after getting shot. There's actually 5-6 different takes, all very similar, which seem to be part of every SFX Foley artists' library. You can look it up.

You have likely heard it dozens of times in various movies & tv series. It was cute when I first learned about this in-joke a very long time ago (I can't help but think of a Stormtrooper getting shot by Chewbacca the Wookie back in the original Star Wars), but now it's pretty tired and frankly I'm sick of it. I'd rather never hear it again.

OK. We can consider this a "teachable moment" which may perhaps benefit others. My work here is done. 😇

My advice is to take it slowly, watch at 1:1 speed, and remove any distractions.

It is my opinion that if you find the early episodes boring, then you are also likely to miss out on noticing details which make watching the show a rich & engaging experience. Later episodes include callbacks to moments from the beginning which provide insights into the minds of the characters, and also contrast how they perform in crisis mode vs. how they were comporting their mundane lives beforehand.

75 minutes

I dropped it too. But recently picked it up again and now I'm hooked. It's so funny and PEB is an amazing actress!

He was a pedestrian and he was struck by a passenger car (and not by a White Truck of Doom).

Thanks for the explanation which was new to me and much appreciated.

The gwi may seem like the most fearsome threats, but it’s the living who keep the palace haunted.

I too found that to be jarring. Of course the SK president saw & knew. He and his team are either corrupt, incompetent, or both.

He will need to bulk up first. During production of The East Palace, he lost 7000 kilograms of body mass and afterwards "was skin and bones to the extent of looking pointy."

— Her "corpse" was moved to an automobile trunk and then placed in cold storage.
— She escapes and willingly enters the villain's car.
— SMD operatives rescue her and take her to their secure facility for her protection and to use her as bait to lure her dad.
—Dad & "uncles" rescue her from the SMD facility

So far, in season 1, she never actually gets kidnapped. Not even once!

"When Gucheon was first dragged into the palace, he was quite chubby."

How did he get chubby during his military service? Was he laying in his bunk all day, reading scripts & eating chocolates?

"When we started filming The East Palace, it hadn't been long since I was discharged from the military, so I had put on quite a bit of weight."

No one wears a kimono in this drama. Han Su (aka "Taekwondo") wears a martial arts dobok (gi).

A "one-person protest by the Association's president" is almost but not quite a 'wholeass association'. So he recruited some protesters to echo his chants.

Just like dogs chomping on fake-bones, journalists can't resist reporting on incidents remotely resembling actual news.

BREAKING NEWS!!
"Nothing has been decided regarding the production of Teach You a Lesson Season 2 at this time."

I assume it gets better once his motivations grow beyond his own self-interests. Like, if he starts to give a damn about his would-be victims (the apartment residents) and focuses his enmity entirely towards the cabal of corrupt public figures & chaebols.

He isn't the total scumbag we took him for back in episode 1.

This isn't anything at all like Prison Playbook!