Beanie level: Errand boy

Ah, the authors of makjang, revenge, time-slip/regression stories really do know how to write their leads. First we had Do-guk, now we have Ji-hyeok. There’s no point in counting, the green flags are just endless.

(Loved the BTS shoutout too. If I were to give myself away in such a situation, it would definitely be with a song that shouldn’t exist yet, lol)
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Ji-hyuk is such a hot mess around Ji-won, and I love every second of his fumbling, mumbling, and weirdness. But the lip bite was too much. I don’t appreciate how much I appreciated it.



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Ohmaygad, they did the meme. I love this drama 🤣🤣🤣

(And I loooove Hee-yeon. She’s such a cutie.)
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Gotta say, the finale did test my patience just a teeeny bit, because as much as I love gat wearing Tae-ha, I prefer Tae-ha that Yeon-woo likes best. Overall, however, I loved this drama. It was so zippy and fun, and knew what it wanted to be. The formula was nothing new nor spectacular, but damn did the leads make it work like a Swiss watch. Their chemistry was natural, effortless and overwhelmingly sweet. You can tell that the actors really clicked together.

I came into this adoring and trusting Lee Se-young – and as always she did not disappoint – but if you’ve seen my other posts (this one’s a dead giveaway too, lol), you know that I fell helplessly in love with Bae In-hyuk. I’m coming out as a die-hard fan of his, awaiting and anxious for his next project, and thanking myself from the past for deciding to watch this drama.

Let’s say goodbye to The Story Of Park’s Marriage Contract with 16x Tae-ha. Because 16x Tae-ha is better than 1x Tae-ha. Ah, I already miss the dimples…






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I thought I was having a stroke when I saw Tae-min wearing this sweater, because I could’ve sworn I’ve seen it before. Turns out I did see it. I saw it two hours earlier.






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    I have seen this sweater too many times today 😂😂
    And I am going to see it again when I watch the drama tonight!!

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    I saw them in the reverse order but it really was funny. Are they sharing a wardrobe department? lol

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      I thought wardrobes, or at least the more important characters’ wardrobes, were the dramas’ stylists’ jobs.

      Recently I saw an interview where the actors were saying that they kept turning up on the set in matching clothes without having arranged it before.

      I was really surprised to hear it. Don’t the directors want their actors to at least not clash with each other and their backgrounds?

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    I had to search for it and it is an Etro sweater (normally a very esteemed “quiet luxury” brand) and can be had for $500-700 depending on where you’re shopping 😆

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This man is rendering my favorites list (which is already unreliable, and everchanging like water currents) a complete mess. He’s unfair. He’s mean. Give me a fan, please.



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Jeez, this is so so silly, but I gotta say, Park Min-young is selling it hard. Even though I finished the webtoon, so most of the plot is still fresh in my mind, I’m having a lot of fun. They had me at punching away the kettle 🤣

But please, PLEASE, burn Na In-woo’s character’s entire closet. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a suit this ill-suited. He looks like he raided his dad’s closet (or grandpa’s for the shirt+cardigan combo) and is playing dress-up. That + his weird acting is making me unable to look at him without laughing.









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    Immediately after posting this my eyes fell on the picture in the cardigan, and wouldn’t you know – I started giggling.

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    Since I now know Na In Woo as the bumbling cast member in 1N2D, I can’t take any of those expressions seriously. The suits and cardi has to go. He needs a makeover in the show.

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    I think his Clark Kent/neutral-loving-nerd vibe is working for the character so far. We’ll see if his wardrobe changes as his character evolves and falls in love.

    The part that got me in the first episode was when PMY’s glasses fogged up when she was eating the noodles. I liked it in that moment as a relatable event most of us have experienced at one time or another, but also later, when it became the reason for NIW’s character to remove his glasses.

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      Exactly, as a fellow glasswearer, this scene is on point but how brilliant! kdrama is using it to get my attention on NIW 😂

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        That soup-fogging-glasses-removing Clark Kent moment was indeed well played.

        I also don’t mind the wardrobe so far as a Clark Kent character. I also wouldn’t mind it improving further down the line when he reveals his superhero self!

        The ML’s clothes also remind me about the complaints we had about the ML’s clothes in that other time-traveling betrayed wife revenge drama.

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          I guess we won’t be surprised anymore if he reveals himself as a superhero, right? Every clue presented seems pointing that way 😂

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Ah, what an absolute gem has fallen into our hands in the last hour of the year. The concept that already sounds fun on paper was made infinitely better with great writing and pacing; actors did an outstanding job (still in love with the fact that PD was not in love with Rowoon, and let him do his job), and as a cherry on top, the directing and cinematography were just gorgeous. What a package! I absolutely loved every minute of it ❤️

(Mondays will feel empty now, eh…)
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9x Tae-ha is better than 1x Tae-ha. Have I mentioned before that I adore Tae-ha? Because I truly adore Tae-ha.

P.S. As you can see, I’m getting better at cutting down on Tae-ha’s pictures! Just gotta keep repeating to myself to laser focus on the best ones (which aren’t though?)…

P.P.S. You’re telling me I only have one week left with Tae-ha? Disbelief, heartache, absolute devastation are just a fraction of what I feel…



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Goodness, how in the world has Tae-ha been holding in these ginormous amounts of lovesick silliness, neediness and cuteness up until now? Must’ve been mad difficult to keep Yeon-woo at a distance for this long when all he wanted was to sneak kisses and lay in her lap.

Needless to say, I’m obsessed 😍
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This back 😮
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Is this episode the most fun ever, or is it THE MOST FUN EVERRRRR???
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Let me just tell you, I had around 30 screenshots when I started. I somehow cut down to 17, and made it into 2 series – smiten/smiling Tae-ha and miscellaneous Tae-ha. Do I have a problem? Undoubtedly. Do I care? Not in the slightest. Seeing all those little minute details in his expressions is cleansing me of the 7 weeks of Moon in the Day, so I’m enjoying it all the more immensely.

(It’s your “fault”, @seeker – your comment put an idea of Bae In-hyuk collages in my head 😅)
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Instances when Kim Young-dae gives the viewers something/anything in the last, 14th episode of Moon in the Day (this is kinda emotional, hee):

– lots of smiles at the start: loving smile (pic. 1), a smile with sort of finality to it (like when a person is resigned to their fate and gives this not fully sad, not happy, a little bit relieved smile – this kind); in a daze, and roused from it (so goddamn unnatural, lolol); gritted teeth, scrunched up nose – fighting through pain (pic. 2); tearful, which turns into crying; eyes widened

– emoting is in one place, and that place is nowhere, but I’ve deduced that he expressing: sorrow, alarm (pic. 3), pain, adoration/love, peacefulness, shock (pic. 4), bashfulness

– KYD’s entire performance got better once Do-ha was out – voice, gestures, expressions, everything (please compare pics 3 and 4, where similar emotions are shown) – meaning the character was poorly written + horribly directed + given to the actor who failed to breathe enough life into him (but I’m blaming largely the first two)

The last lesson to be learned: I have mentioned before that I’m formulating a certain argument in my head, and now that the drama’s finished, let me briefly touch upon it. I believe the problem with KYD’s acting (not sure about other dramas, cause for the life of me I do not remember Stars, which I have watched, but which bored me immensely) lies in his eyes. His eyes were only expressing something when there were teary, and tears obviously indicate intense emotions, which he did deliver on. But the mundane, everyday emotions, emotions that would make him seem more real and human, were swallowed up by the black holes that were his eyes. As you are well aware through my posts, he was very expressive with his eyebrows, but it felt like a cope out, a desperate attempt to try and express something by any means, since his eyes failed on that front. Eyes are said to be window to one’s soul… Well the only thing that we saw through his windows was a brick wall.

I’m aware that this got a liiiitle bit long, but I want to thank the Beanies who supported me in my analyst endeavours, especially the one and only @seeker who stuck with me through thick and thin. I give you all the hearts! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍
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    I’m carefully avoiding all the text in your post until I have time to watch tonight, but without context I would have sworn that last pic was from Sh**ting Stars. Finally a KYD I recognize!

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    👏 👏 👏
    Well done on completing the drama and on your final ‘live’ watch analysis!! I’ve not been watching this drama but I’ve been silently following your posts for insights and a good laugh 😂 so – thank you!

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    I have LOVED this series of posts and am sad they’re ending (NOT sad the show is ending!). Maybe you can continue when KYD’s drama with Shin Min-a is out 🤣

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      Yes, pretty please My Lady will eagerly await the next series of face analysis posts. Bae In-hyuk is no fun – so many expressions- quelle horreur!! Also how does he manage to NOT repeat those expressions. 😳 Aren’t you itching to do an anti-KYD post where we can count how many expressions Bae can bring out. **rubs hands gleefully, hoping for another round of face analytical posts**

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        Now that is an idea! I’d have to opt for making collages, I’m afraid, cause BIH has just too many expressions.

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      Well, I do adore Shin Min-ah… Dammit.

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    Ooww My Lady, I’m so touched. You too have all my hearts ❤ 🧡 💛 💚 💙 💜 🤎 🖤 🤍 💕

    I have really really enjoyed being part of this journey. In fact I was eagerly waiting for this post and hoping that Kim Young-dae puts his game face on for the finale and that Alls Well That Ends Well.

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      Well… Let’s say he performed exactly as I expected him to.

      Happy you enjoyed yourself; it means my posts achieved their purpose 😎

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    It seems that KYD has delivered a “performance” which was to make Do-ha as expressionless as possible. If that was the goal then I would say Mission Accomplished, bring out the Daesang and he is an uncontested winner amongst (a) block of wood, (b) lump of stone, (c) deader than a doornail, (d) president of unalive.com, (e) picnic table in parks.

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      “president of unalive.com” OMG 🤣🤣🤣🤣💀

      @ladykrueger, here’s your 🌱🫘 Beansprout Award 🫘🌱 for making me laugh after every Wednesday and Thursday session of WTF-ing at this show.

      Has my brain completely ceased to function, or was the last part of ep. 14 actually pretty good?

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        Omo … you are inspiring me to collect one more Bean this year. 14 episodes = 14 hours. What is sleep?

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        Why thank you so much, it’s truly an honour! Glad to read you’ve enjoyed my shit posts, hee.

        I will refrain from giving any diagnosis of your brain functions, but no. It was by no means good. I’m just happy they didn’t go for the route of School 2013 (and actually many other reincarnation/doppelganger/twins plot), and tied this mess of a plot with a somewhat acceptable, teeny tiny little bow.

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      “(e) picnic table in parks”
      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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    Your fervor to find something good in KDY’s acting was the highlight of each episode!

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      Thank you! I’m overall a glass half-full kind of person, so KYD got lucky + I was invested enough to interpret and explain his performance.

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    I do think this is perhaps one series of photographs were Kim Young-dae has five different expressions which even I can see. As you know I have struggled with the game of spot the difference before, but I’m very happy with this set. 😊

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Instances when Kim Young-dae gives the viewers something/anything in episode 13 of Moon in the Day (the penultimate instalment, yesssss):

– he cried, and how sadly at that; I feel no connection with any of the characters, but that was a good portrayal of sorrow, despair even, over what he thinks is unattainable to him. He was sobbing, Beanies! That’s huge! Good job! (pic. 1)

– eyebrows furrowing, eyes widening, quite a few smiles – genuine, wistful, pained even; eyebrow twitching, laughter, the most unnatural looking between two people talking that I have ever seen;

– emotions that I’ve deduced he’s expressing based on his only-there-at-times emoting: frantic (pic. 2) alarmed, relaxed, earnest, expectant, happy, wistful; peacefulness quite dissonantly laced with unease (pic. 3), pained fondness (pic. 4)

Today’s lesson to be learned: I know I’ve mentioned directing going to crap before, but jeeeesus, it’s really bad. Like really, reaaaaaally bad. The rapid zoom-ins, weird framing, awkward, Moon Lovers-esque frontal close-ups on faces that make you think the camera’s about to give them a dental exam, that’s to name a few. The drama’s really given up on itself.












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    One would assume an actor with 10,000+ flowers on their mdl profile can well … “act”. I’m afraid Shin Min-ah may just eat him up in the next drama. Sigh. Perhaps you’ll get more opportunity to utilize your face-reading skillz.

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      I haven’t seen today’s episode yet – it sounds like he uses his facial muscles a leeeeetle bit more than previously – but I still think he’s on strike.

      Thank you for these important updates, @ladykrueger! I get more pleasure out of your analysis than the show itself. I think there’s only a tiny handful of us still watching this (and unable to say why, other than sheer stubbornness or curiosity about just how bad it can get).

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        Do you think that you were convinced that he was sobbing effectively in that first image because they made that scene so dark you had to mentally fill in all the details, and so really it was you imagining him sad and not him actually emoting it??? 😉

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        Well, thank you for kind words! It’s for our collective enjoyment that I do this, so happy to hear that you’re having fun.

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      His next project is with Shin Min Ah??? That’s crazy.

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    There was a little but cute smile too. 😆

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+ little squee in the midst of chaos
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I would’ve been more angry with Jung-woo’s noble idiocy, but I’ll keep it in my back pocket for now, cause the preview looked promising.

Lady Park, though, damn! This was definitely HER episode. So cold, cunning and clever. The scene where she was holding the “note”, while the author of the note was… right in front of her (trying to avoid spoiling, lol), and her unfazed gaze. Just… Damn. Her performance’s been just spectacular.






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I love that the matchmaking has been put on the backburner this episode, because these two needed their time to shine. And what a time it was…















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    This season’s must have accessory for kissing! 🥄

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    What an episode it was! and is it just me or did they just level up on the already outstanding cinematography?

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      Yes! And the music, too. Outstanding. We may have hit peak episode (tho I hope not).

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      I’m thinking of making the last pic my new header, because it’s absolutely stunning. This drama is simply gorgeous!

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        I am a photographer, a landscape and environmental portraits photographer at that too, so I am particularly impressed with the last image too, it is extraordinarily pretty. Looks like a painting.

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    Is this The Matchmakers?

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Is it 100% Wookie power already? What do you think? I feel we’re still missing something, but damn he’s making a great case for himself.



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This scene was hysterical 🤣 The way he just continued to lay there all curled up pretty much killed me. And the finger guns…

Wookie is getting dangerously close to 100% Wookie power, and I couldn’t be more happy about it.












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