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oh yeah, for her I would agree she is willfully ignorant. She knows "something is up", but decides to avoid problems and not find out what.

Wait... you mean the mental coach Park Seung Ha when you talk about FL? Coz I was talking about Cha Ga Eul. Cha Ga Eul has literally no way of knowing about the drugs since she was not in contact with the swimmer and there are no drugs issues with skaters hahaha

I would not call her ignorant. She is young and emotionally closed, but not ignorant. Compared to him from the past, she is more mature and handles the situation better than he did in the past.

He stands out, but on the shallow terms - catching the attention. But I feel like most of the depth and emotional impact is from her. I guess it depends on what someone is focusing on while watching. For me, she is far more interesting than he is, even if he is "fun to watch".

Rather than her voice, for me it's the overall delivery of her lines. I don't find high pitch voices annoying, but I do find how Yu Deng Deng speak as annoying. Only when she goes high pitch AND dynamic AND energetic - it's just too much for me. When her character gets excited I want to turn down the volume a bit.

Spoiler free thoughts after 4 episodes - 𝗖𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻?

First of all - I hate Park Seung Ha more than Goo Tae Man. I take an evil asshole over an incompetent person who thinks they are good. How awful of a psychiatrist and coach she is - amazing. The amount of unethical behavior - amazing. How blind she is to how awful she acts - amazing.
Currently favorite character is a side one - Go Young To. Seems the most chill and mature - I vibe with it. Overall, I like "the team" a lot. Hope we will get more scenes with them scheming and planning. The con artists vibes they give are amazing.

So now, to the actually important business: plot and main characters.

Big yes to more or less everything. Big picture wise, I think they are doing great job balancing the over the top behavior of the ML, with more serious and dramatic scenes and developments. He knows when to turn the 🤡 off. Not to mention, the 🤡 side of him makes perfect sense - he is not just an eccentric for no reason.

Then we have Cha Ga Eul. Not gonna lie, I started the show for Lee Yoo Mi. Been a fan since 365: Repeat the Year and her role of Kim Se Rin (she was my favorite). Damn, the girl DELIVERS! She is, no doubt, the star of the show. The character is complex both internally and externally (in terms of the situation she is in). I think that's the overall positive aspect of the drama - it's rich in different contexts and factors that influence the characters, and the solution is not easy to find, since no one solution can solve all the problems.

I also have to say, Goo Tae Man is not easy to figure out from the 4 episodes. I legit more often than not have no idea what his plans and motivations are 🤣 I want him to have like a whole ass redemption arc, but I don't think it's possible. But when he is not abusive, he is fun 🤡

Random thought for the end - another not romance driven show, that makes me ship characters hard 🙃
Also, Lee Moo Gyeol the MVP of the newest ep.

To end on a good quote from episode 4:
𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵. 𝘖𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵'𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦.

for me, she was more interested in him, but not in a romantic way. More like person tp person - she is a curious one after all. What I'm saying - I saw curiosity and not love from her.

Her love makes sense on paper with all the getting to know each other, him protecting her etc. But it was not translated well on screen - I did not see her growing her feelings, but her not having them, and the next time they met, her loving him...

the great moments were really great. So many amazing quotes.
but the overall plot... could have been improved...

The poster is a disservice tbh. Because the quality of the show is rather good for short bl, while the poster is... well... mediocre at best.

I have to say, while some scenes were questionable and made me laugh (law student taking a child he does not know to sleep in his room? He should know how risky and "illegal" it would look for other people lol), I still had a great time. I appreciate how they showed both sides of the "opening sequence".

For sure NOT a must watch lol More like binge watch if you have NOTHING to watch and need palate cleanser, while also skipping 50% of the scenes.

writing it was actually not easy, coz I truly did not have many thoughts about the show when I finished it 🤣

fsdfkhgjf how they added comedy to end the kiss was PERFECTION!

I didn't hate him, but damn the writing for his character was WEAK, barely existing. The dude had one mode - panic mode, and nothing came after it. He went from "nah" to "I love you" and they failed to deliver how and why and what was his though process and how he was able to accept his feelings etc.

When they went "newborn babies are fine coz their brain ain't fully developed"... so how developed the brain has to be? Coz technically speaking it's not fully developed until we are like 25 🤣 But from the last few scenes we see the parasite travels rom hand to Crown Prince's head when he is 7... a bit of a random age if you ask me. As random as "it hates warm temperature" so it can be active during winter on this specific day of the year... when the temperature of the day before it does not really change... 🤣

getting Dae Ryuk's help should have been the focus not reconnecting with his mother and excusing her behaviour. < psychological help does not exist in that universe I guess 🙃

Ma Eum prioritizing mom quite a few times was honestly gross. I liked her character before that, she had some flaws, but it made her more human, but this episode was just too much for me to ignore.

And 100% agree about Dae Ryuk just "healing" in a few seconds at the end. Dude was struggling for years, one conversation with the mom would at best make it (at least initially) worse, not better.

Exactly. They made his issues too severe for this conclusion to make any sense.

I am honestly amazed how awful episode 14 was. I knew from the start they will not be able to handle Dae Ryuk story well, but I thought they will just give him half-assed happy ending. But they just... went far beyond everything I could have imagine 🙃

a whole emotional ride of my thoughts as I watch episode 14, because everyone is a 🤡 in this show.

I'm starting to get pissed about Shin Dae Ryuk story and how they treat it. For fuck sake, took them so long to vocalize he has psychological issues? And it comes from a side character that';s been gone for some time, and not Ma Eum, who literally saw Dae Ryuk have panic attacks and break down more than once?

Bitch literally saw his personal drawings of his mother chaining him up in the house as she left, and she still thought it's not that much of an issue, that Dae Ryuk has such artistic block 🤡 Before her finding out his part with the mom I could excuse her being so dumb about him, the signs were there, but she would not be the first person to be blind to psychological struggles of others. But for fuck sake, you KNOW about the abuse and you still think he is just edgy artists?

Ma Eum is all cute, fun and positive, but damn she has no brain. She knows about the abuse and she went there to treat the mother for the coffee 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤣🤣🤣

Ma Eum be like: He gets nervous when people touch him.
Mom be like: Why?
Dae Ryuk be like: Coz you tied me up like a dog.
Mom: You... remember that?
Me be like: BITCH IT'S NOT EXACTLY A SMALL EVENT YOU FORGET 🙂

Bitch legit just went she had to tied him when she left to work. Bitch... there are locks on the door. You can put cheap locks on windows too that a child would not open. The fuck you are talking about. This shit so wild I fucking cannot.

AND ME EUM RUN AFTER THE MOM THE SHE LEFT AND DID NOT STAY WITH DAE RYUK 🤡 this show is full of clowns lol

Mom has Alzheimer? Well... no sympathy from me lol Also them using her Alzheimer as an excuse for her not finding him sooner is such a joke. It's not like she woke up one day with severe memory loss. That's not how it works 🤣 I hate everything about how they deal with this plotline right now. And then the fire excuse, HOW ABOUT CHAINING THE DOOR TO THE KITCHEN? OR TURNING OFF THE GASS OMG SDJHGFSDJFD YOO I FUCKING CANNOT 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Ah yes, lets love childhood trauma by making sure the dude now thinks everything was his fault, he was wrong and the mother did what she had to do. HEALTHY AS FUCK 🤣 I do not give a fuck about the "context" of the past events. You do not chain your child like a dog at home. There is NO VALID EXCUSE. Whenever she had good intention or not, this is abuse.

Ps. I really like Lim Dong Hee. That one episode that was focused on his story and struggle was my favorite for sure and I wish he had more prominent part in this show. Overall, I feel like the side characters have more complexity and more interesting stories to tell than the main ones... which is a bit ridiculous 🤣

The previews were PAINFULLY misleading since episode 1. They always exaggerate issues and relationships. I stopped watching them coz they are useless in figuring out what will happen next anyway.

I have to say, I love everyone's reaction to Goo Joon Young trying to find some shit on Heo Kwan Young. Everyone went: the fuck you think you are doing and the fuck you think you are? The CEO or something? I love how they point out this is not his responsibility and too much for him to do alone as just an employee.

But also... they knew the evil dude is trying to ruin them since episode 1, they never not once tried to figure out why. So now, EPISODE FUCKING 13, they decided to start to fight back? 🤡 A bit late, no?

Last thing from the episode, when they showed Shin Dae Ryuk's past, I went "damn", but also "We knew". Ma Eum was literally the only person on the planet who thought he was just quirky shy boy. We all knew he has serious issues and legit trauma he did not work through at all...