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I cant decide if I should wait a couple of weeks before watching this again. It's taking a long time for the healing to start and in the meantime watching all the miserable people isn't particularly enjoyable for me.
Hye Yeon is the only one not constantly miserable but I also don't enjoy that her plot, with serious themes is played for comic relief. I guess it also doesn't help that she isn't really connected to the core plot.

I hope they let Hye Yeon have her moment because her reactionary non-apology "apology" can't be the conclusion to this.
She lost her position over this ridiculousness and no-one at work was willing to take a stand for her. The person who was the most understanding to her was the woman who accused her of sleeping with someone to get the job. Everyone else, Ju Yeon included, couldn't wait to do the bare minimum and get themselves as far away from the situation as possible.

Oh I agree with you there. Hyeon O's behaviour after the break up can't really be defended. And Eun Ho should not be expected to be understanding of his motives and look for his good intentions after he broke up with her.

I think it can be easy to hold him responsible for the failure of their relationship when Eun Ho is in such an obvious crisis and its easier to see where she's coming from. But honestly, the failure to communicate and confusion in their relationship is kind of on both of them.

One thing that flashback did was make me side-eye E1 Ji On a bit, because are there no other women in the world?

I think there is an interesting parallel to be drawn betwen Eun Ho and Hey Yeon's careers. Its not that Eun Ho is being singled out at her workplace. The whole industry is toxic af.

Also i think they're basically just building up the eventuality where Ju Yeon's plot diverges from Eun Ho/Hye Ri and he stops being a spectator in his own life

Assuming that there's no weird time jumps happening, Hye Yeon's visitor was neither Ju Yeon or Hyeon O. Ju Yeon was commuting between Seoul and Busan that night where he saw Hyeon O at Eun Ho's. Based on Ju Yeon's taxi fare I assume the distance between the two cities is substantial enough that neither was sleeping over at Hye Yeon's that night. The way they hid his face suggests we know who it is. Lets see I guess. I also slightly suspect that that conversation may be a misdirection, but I can't explain it, lol.

Also, a completely inconsequential but tedious detail- Hui Yeon was Ji Hyuk's younger sister in MMH. They had the same dad.

I guess we'll find out soon enough, but anyone have any speculations about whether Ju Yeon is going to make a spectacularly messy move in his current state of despair because yiiikes.

I assume we're going to get a Hyeon O pov episode soon where they're going to try to explain where he's coming from because no way a ML is going to get such an ambivalent edit with that synopsis.

Did Father Andreas and A Ri not get together? I forwarded a lot of talking, lol. I assumed because it looked like he moved on from being a priest and they went to the wedding together.

In case you still wondered about it, the turtle who tortured Tae Joo and her husband was Kim Gang Wook (the agressive detective in his team who Jang Hae Ryong shot and killed in the second episode). Someone (I forget who, maybe Turtle 3?) tells her that subconsciously she knew from the start that it was him (I think when he says that line about humanity) but she ignored it because she couldn't have had revenge if he was already dead.

He did it because she was secretly reinvestigating Young Goon's mother's murder. They had found DNA that they hadn't been able to test when the murder happened. And she wanted to try testing it with new technology. They wanted to get the evidence from her because it would have shown up as Hae Ryong's DNA.

That part broke me, lmao. Because until then I thought the 'lesson' was that the DNA lover thing wasn't real.

In a drama which had 4 couples (!!!) and a wedding I dont know how they managed to have the least romantic final episode ever. I mean I guess the post cards were cute but I was distracted with how forced that separation was.
Mi Eun really needs to just give other people advice and not talk about her personal life because good grief. And what was that scene? Gang Hoon just randomly shows up in his uniform to stand like a statue grinning. Was he even there? Did So Jin's sister really not see him? The cringy wedding was 100% on brand.

Obviously it was because they don't have the DNA connection, lmao. That over hysterical crying when she realised she'd missed him sure was something.

Everyone tried hard this episode but I think I have mentally checked out this week so I couldn't help laughing everytime there was any emotion. (I guess it also helps that we had quite a good idea of what to expect. And this isnt tragic high-drama). Gang Hoon's DNA lover connection needs work if it took him so long and Father Andrea's help to find So Jin.

Good work, guys, just one more episode to go before we're free! It looks like we're getting some kind of reunion-ish episode where they tie up loose ends, basically.

They completely wasted any potential the second leads had by having them chasing the leads all through the drama before remembering that they probably should pair up the spares. Gang Hoon's dad will be pleased, but imagine the awfully awkward double dates/family dinners, lmao.

Also, I think that they've been pretty clear that (rightly or wrongly) for Eun Ho, Hyeon O is it. Irrespective of all the hurt between them. Otherwise she'd have moved on with Ji On by now. (Ofc I know Hyeon O himself also helps sabotage Ji On).

I've always thought that the Hye Ri/Ju Yeon relationship is (too) perfect because its kind of a fantasy. To me, the only way Ju Yeon has a chance is if the Hye Ri personna manages to cannibalise Eun Ho (which yikes).

I'm not a fan of the parallel love plots because I think it distracts from what's going on with Eun Ho who at this point is my favourite, even though shes such a messy character.

I'm interested in how quickly their relationship shifted back to being warm and almost playful after the first few episodes where they're so adversarial.

I know it won't last, because we're barely halfway through the drama but it should be nice to have a lighter Eun Ho.

I'm reserving judgement on Hyeon O for the time being. Although that could be because my unpopular opinion is that I'm generally meh about Ju Yeon- in fact I think I prefer Ji On to Ju Yeon, lol.

I think it's also important to remember that so far we've only really seen Hyeon O through Eun Ho's pov. And her pov is tainted by their past and the hurt feelings and the baggage they share. I think Hyeon O could communicate better but Eun Ho is also constantly on the defense around him and immediately reacts to what she may think is a slight. I think the pressure of their jobs and the scrutiny they're under has made things even worse. Hyeon O isn't Ju Yeon, but Eun Ho has baggage that Hye Ri has the luxury to not have.

So yeah, I guess I'm waiting to make my mind up. I do hope they don't drag out the love non-triangle (because I don't know what shape you have there) and we get to focus on the healing (of people who aren't Ju Yeon) and maybe the mystery of what happened to Hye Ri.

This is my biggest question about this drama, lol. I don't know whether I'm completely interpreting this wrong or if it's intentional but that relationship really makes me uncomfortable. It's like a tropey, melodramatic teen-romance on steroids. And its like, we're not supposed to get behind this, are we?

It's an Asian drama, so she's not going to cut ties with her mother. In fact, I'd say there is a super emotional reunion coming soon given that the mother has cancer and is starting to have regrets. And since So Jin has been shown as starved for love, she's going to forgive her.
Maybe not satisfying but that's likely what's going to happen.