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Was it really a redemption arc though? She was selfish to the end.

It still bothers me but I finished show now and changed my review score to 7.5.

On episode 2 and it is driving me mad. In no universe is it ok to lell huge big lies to everyone around you including work, old friends, romantic interests and family. I know lying is the main plot driver of almost all kdramas but this is sociopathic and insane. They even lie to each other but then believe everything the other says. Make it make sense!

Every time the mother of the ML was on screen I wanted to reach thru it and murder her. Oh my gosh of this is in any way shape or form on even a little way a true representation of a Korean person then I can't.

Show had way too many gory operation scenes for me that added nothing to the plot and were just boring time wasters. I dropped it.

I don't see how you can point to all those flaws and say this show is a 9. Your description places it at as average at best, yet you give it a 9. It just makes the whole excessive meaningless imo. Was the OST the best you've ever heard and could not have in anyone's imagination been better and thus you gave it the highest score possible?

Do they suggest handing out perfect 10s to the worst drama ever made?

I've watched hundreds of kdramas and this is amongst the worst I've ever seen, so it statistically doesn't even rate one star.

Thank you for the honest review. I envy you for having had the sense to quit this drama when you did, as this show is possibly the worst I have ever seen, and I've seen them all. If any show ever deserved a one point rating, it is this one.

I love this actress. She was so good in Artificial City and Daily Dose of Sunshine. Can't wait to see The Queen Who Crowns.

Thank you for acknowledging that you are AI

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Way many more commercially successful dramas are shot in and around Seoul than in New York these days, so that comparison doesn't even come into play.

Yes, but this is a public official, and Korea is in the midst of the largest South Korean political upheaval in decades. This is just tone deaf in that it assumes that public deception at this scale is defensible. So how will the coworkers around him be depicted responding when they learn the truth of being hoodwinked right under their noses? We have a clue already in the way that the underling made an unspoken acknowledgement of the relationship while taking the photo and making them tilt their heads toward each other and making a heart emoji with their hands.

I get that it's a setup for a metaphoric story (you don't have to resort to personal insults) and that the viewer is supposed to just go along with any framing to explore deeper truths, but it's still too much to overlook.

And then, to top it all off, while they are parading around together in public without disclosing their relationship, she suddenly falls off of a cliff, which is a new level of absurdity, and yet even then he still doesn't disclose to anyone, colleagues or rescue units, that she is his wife, which by then would be a critical detail to disclose to everyone. Come on man!

He is well known public figure and yet employing his own wife in another public role while hiding their relationship? How on earth does that work. So ridiculous. Suspension of belief is part of many stories but the things we are asked to overlook and just accept in this drama is completely nuts.

The premise of this show is as absurd as anything I've ever witnessed. Lies and public deceptions on top of more lies and public deception and then the whole thing is treated as just kind of normal and harmless? Why is lying and absurd levels of public deception so tolerated in Korea that it becomes the central plot point of so many of their dramas?

Because democracy and the future of Korea was seen hanging in the balance so eveything got preempted by events of national importance.

They can't know this for sure. Events could still upend things.