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lmao it's always like that... people are supposed to be poor but wearing luxury items from head to toe. marketing departaments can't be stopped in kdramas

Park young gyu as the dad is always amazing lol he's still funny even being the biggest jerk ever

Guys, that list is not official or anything, it's just what they copy-pasted from season 1 lol it is probably wrong, stop worrying

She probably survived, as there was no coffin or dead body scene. Or maybe she's dead and Jia is gonna be playing her twin with a butterfly tattoo or some crazy stuff like that. Also, we'll have a timeskip now, right? Can't wait to see all the kids going mad in season 2! The possibilities are endless

I really doubted they'd have the guts to kill a main character off, that's so bold in nowadays kdramas lol

Ooh so we can probably expect bloody stuff or sexy time

I don't really think she killed min seol ah, but she will probably turn evil for quite some time thinking she did. Then there'll be a twist later on or something. I still think it was one of the kids or the maid

ep. 16 found it really funny how yoon hee starting to turn evil was symbolized by her getting the black seo jin clothes lol that was some star wars-level shit

episode 21 is gonna be such a massive cliffhanger, just by how much they've been upping the stakes on the last few episodes...

a short summary from the wikipedia article: "Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen" ("Hell's vengeance boils in my heart"), commonly abbreviated "Der Hölle Rache", is an aria sung by the Queen of the Night, a coloratura soprano part, in the second act of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte). It depicts a fit of vengeful rage in which the Queen of the Night places a knife into the hand of her daughter Pamina and exhorts her to assassinate Sarastro, the Queen's rival, else she will disown and curse Pamina.

Mozart's Queen of night aria

Was reading about that song "Queen of night aria" by Mozart (yes, THAT opera song that plays all the time...) and thought that it may have inspired the drama's plot lol

Music suits the drama concept very well for me. It sounds really old korean-folky, and well, we have this drama about this middle-aged dude trying to start again as a reporter. It also brings back those Shin Won Ho human drama feels for me. This idea was made even more clear for me when, in ep 4, they played that old-school song(I'm pretty sure it's not an OST, I might be wrong though) while Jun Hyuk wrote the message.

soo yeon's suicide scene felt like a horror film. kinda reminded me of kiyoshi kurosawa's pulse suicide scene.

the two first episodes were simply perfect! expecting a lot from this one from now. the writing is some of the best in quite a while. directing too...

Just a short reminder for anyone coming up with theories about this drama: the korean title means night and day(the poster too, reflects that).

a random birth secret, the leads will stop dating for no reason, someone will suffer a car crash... you know the usual

It's not the most fantastic drama ever, for sure. But it's pretty consistent at what it does - and I can't help but enjoy the production. Those big logos are so cool when compared with what you get in most dramas lol

tbh I just feel like they give anything with idols/cute young actors/made by studio dragon high grades. some of these dramas are plainly terrible but all these people will just go and give them straight 10's. it's a shame, but I still hope the drama community can mature and learn to enjoy different things.

The only similarity between this and sky caslte for me is how they both treat makjang as a metatext of sorts... but beyond that, there's nothing similar at all. While Sky castle was more of a deconstruction of makjang, trying to question the main themes through the plot itself, Penthouse, much like the last Kim Soon Ok drama, Last Empress, is more focused on the structure of makjang itself: it's about taking it to extremes, forcing it till it becomes really unbelieveable - in a sense, its baroque style feels kinda like old epic literature. But when you apply this old, "operatic"(ironically, everyone is focused on becoming damn opera singers) style to the current social problems, it feels... funny. Maybe because we can't accept that, although the drama is completely over-the-top, it's still commenting on lots of social themes with those things. Gentrification here is a theme as is in many of the dramas from the last two years, but honestly? Here it's where it might be the most efficient at portraying this problem: back in the writings of Karl Marx, there were many instances where Marx many times compared capitalism with vampirism. Watching this, you can't not feel that Joo Dan Tae is a Dracula-esque figure of sorts, he even has his own castle(s) and, just like Dracula, used his magic powers to enchant his "Mina" figure (Soo Ryun). I'll stop here for now as I've already written a lot, and I'll probably save it for when I have to write a full review. Hope you guys start enjoying the silly exploitative nature of this drama if you can! Nothing wrong with not liking it either.