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Excellent! I wish that everyone could be made to read it before watching the drama. fangirl always writes intelligent reviews, but I had not thought to seek her out for this. Shame on me.

Funny that you mention My Mister. SLA and My Mister are the only two dramas that I have watched more than once. I went through Father Is Strange a second time, but only watched scenes with Lee Yoo Ri's sensational performance. She has since chosen projects that I cannot relate to.

As far as SLA goes -- I have come to the opinion that people either grasp the depth of it, or they don't. There is no way to fix that.

To those who loved this series and are puzzled by the average rating -- I was exploring some episode-recap sites (koalasplayground.com, noonasoverforks.com, and kjtamusings.wordpress.com) and found in them insights and summaries that I enjoyed. . I especially enjoyed reader's long comments following the Ep. 16 recap on koalasplayground.

I have found many thoughtful and enthusiastic reviews all over the web, just by entering "Secret Love Affair reviews" in any search engine.

Just trying to understand the mystery of the 7.7.

The last 20 minutes or so were pretty cool, but it was a long road to get there. Gong Yoo is a great actor, but, for me, he could not overcome the script. I only gave it a 7.0.

Increasingly, the actor I am enjoying the most in this drama is Ahn Eun-jin. She has excellent range and is always on point. I plan to explore her other work.

The actor I like the least is Shin Hyun Bin. I do not understand why Yoo Yeon Seuk's character would fall in love with someone who goes through life with only one dead-pan expression. Much of the problem is the writing for the character, but she does not help at all. She just hits her mark and flatly says her lines. I used to think that the worst Korean actress who seems to be getting steady work is Kwon Nara, but Shin Hyun Bin is pretty close.

I consider Lee Woo Jung to be one of the finest screenwriters in the world, so YES, you should watch this.

If you have read through the comments, you know there is much bewilderment over the average rating of SLA. I feel that the average should be around 9.5. Some people mess up the average by giving it 1.0 due to the affair. Yet, the plot really isn't about that. It is about a woman of 40 suddenly realizing that she made a terrible life-choice error 20 years earlier.

Sadly, there are a lot of marriages like that, all over the world.

I wanted to watch this because I loved Secret Love Affair so much. Same writer, same director, many of the same actors. The usual sites I use do not carry it, so I tried Viki. Unfortunately, the subtitles were not very good. Only a portion of what was said was translated. Any written material that was on screen was not translated. I finally had to give up, except for viewing the final episode to see how things turned out. That is not the same as viewing all the trials of the characters. It is a shame.

If he did, then I missed it as well, and I have watched it three times.

This thread caused me to re-watch it, after not doing so for several years. Cried like a baby again.

Just watched it again, after not doing so for several years. Cried like a baby again. Still a 10 from me.

I agree with everything you wrote except for one small thing. The "hormonal teenage boy" is supposed to be 26. Hard to believe, right? I am only through episode 8, but am wondering why that character was even included in the script.

This is only a slightly-improved version of You're Too Much, the horrible drama that starred Uhm Jung Hwa. There are continuity fails and inconsistent character development. And yet, I keep watching because I am hoping that Lee Bo Young's character has a happy outcome. There are many, many Kdramas that I have enjoyed more.

I liked it so much, I bought the dvd. I would hate to wish to see it again someday and not be able to it streaming anywhere.

I have the same issue. I feel that I am missing something.

The Japanese movie "Departures" is great. It deals with caring for the body prior to burial.

Did you see? A couple of days ago SLA made it to 7.8, but has now dropped down again. I was a wee bit excited there, for a moment.

A couple of days ago, I finished watching Taxi Driver. I did not recognize Lee Je Hoon as the same lead actor from that. I had not seen him in anything since Signal. I guess that the guy has range. Most actors do not.

8.8?!!! I don't understand. 7.8 perhaps. This show is a standard trope -- a Professor Xavier-type head figure, a super-fighter main figure, a female computer genius, and a couple of comic side-kicks. There are so many plot-holes that I was thinking of writing my first full-blown review to go over them all, but talked myself down. If I had been keeping notes along the way, I might have done it.

Every time Lee Je Hoon stepped forward to fight with 4-6 bad guys, I wondered how he knew ahead-of-time that none of them had a gun. If Won Bin had been so cavalier in The Man From Nowhere, he would not have survived to have a career making coffee commercials. :))