thecoycellist

"Healthy adult communication is not an option" Honestly have you ever seen a kdrama where healthy adult communication was actually employed? Most plottwists in kdramas consist of some kind of misunderstanding and/or a crime/childhood connection plotline pulled out of someone's ass. Kdramas don't really exist to make realistic moral judgments on the world. Frankly most of them fail in that regard. So if most people didn't watch this show only so they could clutch their pearls and faint over the immorality of it, why is that so surprising? You can appreciate art, or whatever the writer was trying to achieve without having to shit on every single aspect of it. Yes it had some dumb parts. Yes nobody was likeable. But do we really have to waste our breath talking about all the ways it was bad when we could try to make the most of something we, after all, BOTHERED to watch?

Yeah, DG and KA's story was probably dropped because there was really nowhere to go for it if they wanted to keep the good-ish ending. Still, I would've liked to see a bit more of them.

I agree that EK wasn't trying to ruin BD's business! It was just weird that everyone was like "well she needed the money so what did you want her to do" and nobody was really against that she sold her out in the first place

I watched those and loved both. Well, Dinner Mate a bit more than KSS honestly. But yes, she's amazing at romcom too!

She was great! I would just like to see her in stuff that I can really enjoy :( Of course this was enjoyable too, because of the acting prowess she displayed, but I'd love to see her in a show where the story and her acting uplift each other, instead of her (and her fellow actors) having to carry the story.

For the sake of my blood pressure, SJH please start reading scripts before accepting them 🙏🏻

The ending, while in a lot of ways satisfactory, it does leave some loose ends. Keum-ah and Dae-geun’s relationship being one of them. For a love that transcended over 24 years, they sure dropped it quickly. NC and ES’s fling got more attention than them, which was already a sensitive issue with the age gap and all.

Other than these, I just can’t imagine that NC and Keum-ah will be able to live happily, and that what happened won’t happen again, because really, that newfound respect the grandfather has for NC will only last so long.

I actually liked EK and ES’s ending. I did say the only way for EK to come out of this was if she was “exiled” which she did herself. I didn’t like how the insider trading was brushed aside, because it was a much bigger issue than adultery. I mean, I guess EK was threatened into doing it, but she still did it, and she should’ve paid for that in some way or another. I did like that CW and EK reunited at the end, but with EK congratulating BD with the “red balloon” stuff, I think it’s pretty ambiguous whether they would end up together or not.

Anyway, in some ways it did feel like EK was let off too easily, and also that EK’s character took a sudden turn for the weaker with all the flailing about she did once everything started unraveling, but that made her character oddly realistic and relatable. After all, when we act out of impulse, we rarely think about the consequences. I also find what she said around the end very peculiar, as she said “I would’ve never done something to ruin my life”. Her life. Not BD’s. Not CW’s. But hers.

YES he's genuinely so attractive

Yeah having ES see her was probably the first time someone called her out in a genuinely concerned way instead of going straight to ripping her hair out

I have no idea but given how ES was there I don't think it was a fantasy, cause so far they've been pretty irrational and putting ES in it was grounding. But tbh I was too preoccupied with that atrocious wig to really dwell on the circumstances 😭

I think it's just weirdly put together. EK does tell BD around the end of the ep that she "even dressed up and ordered coffee as her" so it did happen. Also the couple's thing BD and CW went to could've lasted the whole day, so EK would've had time to make the roundtrip

The problem with EK having engaged in insider trading is that it equals jail time😭 according to the promo CW actually seems to have chosen her over BD, but that house of cards is not gonna stand for long. She should've just left BD's company alone. I have no idea how she's going to come out of that one

the gate is a paid actor at this point! my favorite character for real

what on God's green earth is this show even supposed to be at this point😭😭😭

He *loves* his underwear

Of course! I was cringing a little during that scene too tbh

Isn't the guy who was taking pics of them DG's ex wife's ex bf?

That's literally how generational trauma works

It's certainly not justification but it's good enough as explanation. I mean their childhood is obviously a pity grab to make them less "evil" but I think it's also blurring together so much because at their grown age they still live with their parents. They haven't had the chance to develop identities outside of who they are as their parents' children/what they saw and were subjected to as children, so in a way it's keeping them at the age they were "traumatized" too, so blaming their parents - while it's not particularly mature - does make sense. Especially in the case of ES

I truly wonder what ending EK is going to get because at this point the only way I see this go for her is moving to a desert island or having everyone collectively suffer amnesia. There is literally no way for her to get out of any of this

that scene was so incredibly embarrassing 😭😭