I am with you @missvictrix. I started this drama as a backup, since all my other current dramas were slowing down or ending. This is truly a well written story. I have been engrossed in the mystery and the characters development. The first few episodes actually gave me anxiety while watching Jang Nara's trust start to crumble. I could feel her hurt and loss. That happens very rarely while watching dramas. Here's to hoping this will continue in the second half.

Yasssss, thanks for the recap. I so agree about Jang Na Ra, she is excellent this role. Honestly, the women are doing all the heavy lifting and they are doing it beautifully. Lee Chung Ah is also excellent here, I love everything about her character. I love her strength, her pride, and her confidence. She is not here for shenanigans. Lurve it.

So, since you didn't even mention Lee Sang yoon's name, except as "her husband" etc., he's a non-entity? As most females in most kdramas are only there to drive the plot forward, is this Lee Sang yoon's role in this drama?
Wow.

I'm still not totally convinced that Sungjoon actually had an affair. I think something else is going on, but he can't tell Jungsun. But I don't know what it is... that's what's sucking me in.

I like all the actors in this a lot. I'm glad Lee Sangyoon is in a much better drama than his last (About Time) although his role here is almost secondary. Thanks for the review!

I'm glad the we have potential mistress revealed, those shots trying to conceal it started to irritate me the second time they tried to pull it off. I'm not convinced the husband has an affair and I'm not exactly happy about it, I hope whatever he did has similar gravitas, because I would hate it, if all that angst would go to waste.
And I love all the women in that show, they are really well written so far, my fav is Hyuna, but Jang NaRa has really magical presence on-screen.

Finally, we have second reviews from @missvictrix. TQVM. I really wished someone would recap or review. Most of my friend refuse to watch VIP as it themed 'affair'. Now you reviewed I can pour my heart to spazzing here. But really, there are so much depth in this drama. The layer of secret and revelation to be told make me restless the whole hours. This is not thriller drama, but I was kept in angst, anxiety, anger, hurt and betrayal the whole time watching it. I occasionally felt Sung Joon doesnt really have much words to say. The portrayal of him being not defensive break my heart at the same time for both of him and Jung Sun. I feel as Jung Sun might be feeling - 'screamed back at me so I can get angry at you and I can hate you back of betraying me.' Urrgghhh!!! I don't know how the stories will be unfold. I half-heartedly wish the affair is real and I hope to see Jung Sun overcome the betrayal, and yet I half-heartedly hope there are more to it, the truth behind it. it would 60:40 to it. Heeeee. Anyway, Cha Jin Oh and HYun-ah ship have sailed.

Thank you, missvictrix, for this interesting review!
I agree with all you wrote.
I'm loving this drama, and the way the last episode ended was really unexpected. I've thought about it for days! I'm still not sure about the affair, probably Sung-joon is doing something that could put an end to his marriage as well.

I like all the women, they all are layered characters.
Lee Sang-yoon is probably my favorite kdrama actor, and in some scenes it seems his acting suffers because he can't give us hints, but in other scenes he's great, like during the Tifone exibit, when it was clear that he cared about his wife.

Just here to reiterate what a few others said: this drama was definitely not on our list to watch (typically hate hate HATE "cheaters" dramas), but it has rapidly become our "must watch" of the current cycle. Not normally a Jang Nara fan, but she's stellar in this, as are the potential cheaters.*

*SPOILER: We've seen the "reveal" but we're not convinced we're not being misled like we were in the episodes leading up to it. Would be a little bit of a downer for the male lead to not actually be cheating at all, I could go my whole life without seeing anyone else contract Noble Idiot again.

Who do you think sent that text message about the husband's affair using her own computer? That could be no one else outside of their team.

The most surprising plot twist for me concerns the male rookie..that was funny.

I'm not going to spoil the latest episode but I hope you continue writing about it @missvictrix. I honestly picked this up in a whim. Figured I'd give it a try cause I like Jang Nara, so I am surprised at how captivating this story is. I'm keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that it continues to be fire!

@missvictrix I hope you will continue recapping VIP. It has aroused so much interest such that the socmed account of Lee Sang Yoon is getting hate comments. 😆

Thank you for the review @missvictrix , the last episodes are even better and I'm eager to read your next review!

I’m really disappointed this isn’t being reviewed, because unlike a lot of meh romcoms, this drama really deserves a place for discussion.

Spoilers ahead for up to episode 11:

have already given my "OMG I hate Sung-jun and Yuri and want them to suffer and this drama is giving me high blood pressure because I am so angry about how the cheater and his bimbo 'ho are getting all the good stuff while heroine Jung-sun has to watch them and suffers more because of them" post, but I wanted to give a shout out to some of the things that delighted me rather than infuriated me in these last two episodes.

First, I loved Hyeon-ah's courage in outing Director Bae on social media. She is probably my favorite female character on the show. I also loved how the other women supported her. I love that ambitious Mi-na decided to risk her career and join the whistle blower lawsuit. I loved how Hyeon-ah, MI-na (and her husband!), and Jung-sun worked to find other prior employees who would testify/provide evidence of Bae's sexual harassment. I love that the socially savvy woman from the other department - is her character named Kang Ji Young? - took the risk of offending the Powers That Be to express what looked like sincere sympathy for Hyeon-ah's horrible experience with Bae. I wasn't expecting the character, who has been fawning over and fake-complimenting Yuri (solely because she's the VP's daughter and thus powerful in the workplace), to say anything positive to Hyeon-ah.
These women rock!

Second, I love the 4 women partying at Hyeon-ah's rooftop apartment deck, which has been beautifully decorated for the evening, to celebrate Mi-na's pregnancy. The fact that these strong, accomplished, competent women - who haven't relied on their looks, tears and/or sex to get where they are, but have risen because of their own excellence - are celebrating at the same place Yuri lived, and where she and Sung-jun carried out their sordid affair, is not coincidental, IMO. I wondered why the writers would have Hyeon-ah move into the place that Yuri vacated, and I think the juxtaposition of these talented, intelligent women's lives with the tacky, classless, amoral Yuri is intentional. Or at least I hope it is. Hyeon-ah, perhaps more than Jung-sun, is really the complete opposite of Yuri. She has a mother who has used her and caused her to lose all of her money, while Yuri had a supportive, loving mother. Hyeon-ah loved Sung-jun, but remained silent, as a friend to both him and to Jung-sun, when he chose Jung-sun. She never tried to break up their engagement or marriage. Hyeon-ah is a beautiful, sexy, unmarried woman, but she has never used men to get ahead in life. When she is bullied, she doesn't cry - she defends and protects herself with elegance and razor-sharp commentary, ie her brilliant response to the jerk ex-boyfriend at the Tifone event, her defense of herself when Bae tries to rape her, her decision to go public with the accusations...

This is actually so interesting. I was initially so invested in Jang Nara's relationship with her husband but after a while, I became so much more interested in the other women at the office. The're so compelling.

The Ms Oh's description of poverty still gets to me