wrote this on MDL:
i love kim hee ae. i just love looking at her. i don’t even like secret affair but shes so regal. i don’t want to watch her get back with him, though, i can’t do it. if it’s a remake i’m guessing they stay faithful to it. the director’s last project was misty (which i hated) and the writer’s isnt too promising but lets cross our fingers.

love a woman that lashes out on a world that tells her she can’t when she’s mad. btw doctor foster (so effectively both) are based on medea . i am going to write a comment with spoilers which will “spoil” the play (but not really because it’s been out for literally centuries.) part of it pertains to the greek tragedy ONLY but is imperative to understanding all adaptations. it is incorporated into all endings. so if you dont want to read it dont

peeve: kinda sad this is 19+ because there’s ‘sex scenes’ like..teenagers know what the fuck is going on. this gets as wild as regular tv. film sex scenes go all out (koreans rly be wylin too and i looove it) it’s disappointing that it has this tag even though teens will see it anyway

(posting my comment in post)

honestly i coudl talk abt the impact o the play all day and how i felt when i read the 2015 play (flabbergasted? lol it’ nto great and in the UK it was like a big thing bc the only black person was an afro brazilian maid 🙂 )…still

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    dr. foster is based off of medea, a greek tragedy, adapted into a play by euripides, that’s about a vengeful woman. it’s a complicated story and i have only read the 2015 stageplay (which isn’t amazing imo, but it’s short and online.) i warned you above so. in the play medea murders the new wife (glauce) of her ex-husband (jason), glauce’s father (creon), as well as the two sons she had with jason. after, she runs off to a new place (i 4got) with her kid’s bodies

    in all the adaptations i know of thereafter it’s either up to the viewer/reader to decide if she really kills he kids/went on a murderous rampage or she just flees with her children (this one i prefer.) so really she can’t get back with her husband. in the plays they are already divorced but the shows she is suspecting an affair which leads to her revealing some crazy shit. at some point in the play(s) she apologizes for “going crazy” basically and making a big deal of the situation but other adaptations may interpret that as forgiving him whilst they are still married.

    either way, medea is supposed to gain back her life in the end. the feminist reading is that it’s about a mother existing in a patriarchal society; there are relentless expectations that limit her from realizing herself fully but any acts of pushing back are seen as unhinged/crazy or she looks barbaric. personally, i read her acts from dr. foster (lmao i havent seen it all and probs never will cos adhd but i know what happens——here is a review comparing the show to the 2015 retelling that i enjoyed reading https://dramaqueensreview.com/2015/10/20/from-doctor-foster-to-medea-almeida/) as cracks in herself. she does go insane or does crazy shit but how could she survive and be sane under these conditions? is she not allowed anger? so if she forgives him truly and ends up with him it would be a sincere misreading and degradation of what this piece meant—though obviously euripides wasn’t a feminist—and has come to mean.

    “Sooner would I stand
    Three times to face their battles, shield in hand,
    Than bear one child!”
    – forgot about this line and saw it referenced on wiki, from the og play (but i think it might be at the end of the 2015 play but it’s really not a memorable play, just interesting and the first time i heard of this story)

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