Thanks!

OH MA GAH!

That sounds horrible! How can you watch this show??

I'm getting Dr. Jin flashbacks. Cue the nightmares.

Thanks for recapping!

Thank you!~ Whoohoo.

Thank you for the recap....i'm all giddy while reading it

Hah thank you for the warning :D I guess I will do a lot of skipping when the subbed eps are out^^

I really just care for the Soon Shin - Jun Ho couple by now so the rest... I really don't care anymore. I just don't want to have to yell at my laptop anymore because of Yeon Ah or Mi Ryung. Takes too much energy :P

Mi ryung and yeon ah are the match made in heaven.

If not for the LSS and JH moments, I imagine a weecap that goes like this:

Highlights: None.
Lowlights: All of it.
Comments: No words. Watch at your own peril. Comment if you must.

Short recaps are good!

Except subbed dramaland world sucks at the moment with no subs available unless you have darky access.

Aigoo, this show.

Hey guys!

Dramacrazy doesn't work anymore and I live in Australia so I can't watch the show on drama fever. Anyone know some sites?

I thought Yeon Ah was being tricked the second time she pulled the same trick of giving SS wrong information. That would have been more amusing than watching SS walk into that empty set. -.-

No one will be listening to Yeon Ah from now on, I hope?

I almost screamed at Jo In Sung (now SS's manager?) for listening to Yeon Ah.

Then I realized that under normal circumstances you would not expect a top level actress to be so petty about a new, younger actress who's clearly not competition for her.

Thank you for the recaps! <3

The best part of episode 36 of mine is when Soon Shin teases Junho about his height which ends up into cuteness overload between the two.

Thanks......Already dropped this show.....the cute was cute but it's too late to make me feel giddy with the couple.....

First of all, let me just say Yeon A, you crazy bitch!!!! I hope you get discovered for the conniving, wicked bitch that you are and your star crashes down to oblivion!Grrr...

Anyway, so much cute in these two episodes. First, there's the hug. What I love about the hug was that it was not the usual suave hero hug where you see the lead guy swooping the lead girl off her feet. It felt more intimate and warm.

That basically sums up all SJH/LSS moments. Everything about their interaction gives me warm fuzzy feels and I instantly light up when I see them smile at or because of each other--it's like witnessing first-hand 2 close friends fall in love with each other. More than that, I feel like most cute scenes are adlibbed by the actors themselves (like the scene where LSS was teasing SJH about his height) coz it just feels so natural and real to be scripted. Especially since IU, though good in this drama, still has a long way to go before she can be called a great actress, and there are scenes where she feels awkward, especially the casual scenes (she delivers the heavy scenes pretty well, but I guess that's because there's a clear direction as to how you should act), but her acting is most natural when JJS is doing the scene with her. Maybe that's due to JJS leading her --or maybe she just finds him really funny!lol

And finally, LSS starts to have some awareness of her feelings towards SJH. I totally understand how this only happened now--especially with the crap she had to go through. Now that it has somewhat simmered down, she finally has the time to consider other things apart from her messed up family. She's obviously always been thinking about SJH, but since SJH always seem to be connected with her family issue or acting, she tends to push him aside or outright deny him. So its only understandable why she's only opening up to him now that she has started to come to terms with her personal issues.

Sadly, this might not mean a happy end yet for our OTP due to the possibility of an affair between their parents. Even if this doesn't actually happen, SJH's mom is already very wary of SMR and her husband's friendship. Plus the fact that YA has been badmouthing LSS to her, so she already has a bad (and totally wrong) impression of LSS to begin with. I'm still praying though that there won't be an actual affair, coz that they can still manage to either convince SHJ's mom, or rebel against her.But if the affair will actually happen, SJH's filial piety will be questioned and he will be forced to back out from pursuing any relationship with LSS.

For now though, lets just focus on the cute and worry about the 2nd part of angst wave when they come, hopefully, much later in the story.

PS: did anyone notice how JJS song and the song that LSS sang in the recording studio both have darling in the lyrics? Maybe that's gonna be their pet names later on when they're finally together!lol

JJS is ..... (*running out of words..because he is just so great!) he is my only reason to still continue watching this drama. thanks for the recap!

watching IU and JJS together really make me smile. their chemistry is beyond amazing. every scene there were together really cute, beautiful and natural even when the angst happen. i dont care people keep complaining the show is slow or they just drop it i just endure it. its always like that in family drama. i watch it for JJS amazing acting. he is so natural and i feel like to support him by watching this people said a boring show. even its not increase the audience rating because i'm not korean. i just want his acting to be recognize (of couurse they do) by all. IU really good in here. she improve so much. when SS and JH together i couldnt help myself to LOL with their antic. i think i have found a really good onscreen couple here.

35 episodes in and I finally stop clinging onto the show, which I did just for those small and infrequent sweet moments.
Gahd. Why didnt I stop sooner?
Oh I know why, it's cos of the actors.
*sighs*

Does anyone know if it's released in UAE? English subs? Towajuseyo yorobuun ><

I like this recap the best...

Yeon Ah is a bitch. The end.
hahahaha...

Mi Ryung is the mama bitch.

I have to say this about Chan Woo's character..he is really a guy with a back spine and so responsible. Do these kind of guys still exist today??
I like the way his dad was trying not to smirk and the camera zooming in on that:)

The cute was, without a doubt, precious!! BUT........

Chan Mi - world’s worst friend - no empathy, sympathy or sense. Always putting feet in mouth. Revels in making situations worse. Why have an enemy when you have dense, indiscreet Chan Mi by your side?

In Sung - world’s worst employee, manager -blabbermouth, easily swayed, no sense. Why have a skilled, able worker when you can have inept, clueless In Sung by your side?

Two things about YA’s maliciousness - 1) hopefully, once she’s found out, the coterie around SS will take careful steps to protect her and her fledgling career, 2) it’s bound to blow up in her face, because she’s not just messing with SS, but with Gabi, Gabi’s employees, the director, the actors and everyone involved in the film. The fallout will be incredible.

Why the episdes are so short ? :p they last only 15min xD
Despite the angst the yelling the nagging the annoying voice the annoying B , I'll not drop it !

How can i drop it when JJS is such a cutie dork amazing earnest thing , how come that every time he is on screen it doesn't feel like he is acting , seriously he is killing me !

Where did they hide him for so long !!!
( i'm soo loonking forward to the face reader in which he seems to get the" playboy " role and The King's Wrath a cold blood assassin .. ehh we will see how does his natural acting work there)

The restaurant scene when he was on verge of crying , when SS said she is a fan now and she'll always be ( i understood it like that , i don't care if it's wrong i like how i understood it :p) how does he go throught "shocked dissapointed sad depressed to surprised she's mocking me pleased happy and in love" in just 1 min and it's all written on his face and eyes ..

And i finally understood why JH is so protective of SS ( even before he began to like her) , his family was always looking down on him and stepping on him and his dream , and SS is like that , when he said to her that looking at her he see his old self i didn't get it , but when i saw how his sister reacted to his album .. i got it !!

Then again that restaurant scene , IU/SS was so darn cute and I just felt that on that moment JH feel in love with her all over again.

Back to that hug ehh one of the most unawkward hug if not the most unawkward hug in K-drama land.

When JH/JJS was about to pinch her cheek i thing JJS realised in his head " ahh it's IU the fan will kill if i do more , let's not do this " but he should have ** kyaaa i'm fangirling about him **

At the end of episode 35 when she asked the assistant about JH and why he's not here , I was like soo you do realise when he's not around haa , you feel unconfortable when not here haaa !!

And with tha video call when she finally said ' i feel nerverous when you're not around ' i was like finally your head and heart are trying to connect

In the park i liked the fact that this time when JH asked her what's wrong she didn't say " i'm fine" she aswered and talked about how she felt * they should have drank together 10 episodes earlier*

The teasing about the height it cannot be a script scene at least the get up and sit down ..because of how they laugh it can not be a scripted scene !

I seriously feel sorry for IU , she is only 20 and by the end of the drama she would have spent 8 months with JJS, and he seems the funny loveable adorable kind of guy that you love him more each time you see him , and we get the feeling through their scene that they're very conforatble with each other , and she is at that age when you get attached easily ..she'll feel depressed for a periode of time because she'll not see him regulary * I know i'll really miss him if does not do an other drama in the 3/4 months after YTBLSS*

My fangirling end here :p

mi ryung flirt with dr shin is better than dr shin suddenly be soon shin's real father...
if that happen, totally makjang

I can't understand how anyone can waste time watching this nonsense... Kill the script-writer !

At this point I'm ignoring the bad bits and rewriting them in my head in one cosmic *does not exist, but I'll make it fit* moment. And then using the recaps to skim for the parts I like.

TT I usually don't do this, but this show is so bipolar in the cute v. sucky, I kinda feel forced towards it. (No insult meant towards anyone who is bipolar, BTW, because I know the low points in this show are worse than the low points in being bipolar.)

this show is so freakin predictable that it's ridiculous. It's like they took all the most cliche themes from drama history and just stuffed it into one drama...but then...it's still so FRUSTRATINGLY ANNOYING. Especially Yeon Hwa and Mi Ryung. Seriously, they were meant to be mom and daughter. I really thought that this drama would make Mi Ryung...you know, that typical drama character who goes from immature and evil to mature and understanding..BUT NO. I'm guessing it's going to happen, but it's taking way too long. -_____-

In reality, this drama could have already ended, but it just seems like the writer's dragging things out by adding obstacle after obstacle with the same story over and over again.

Plus the side stories are so pointless and there's really no tying story to bring everything together right now so it's like I'm watching 6 different dramas in one... which makes it feel even more dragged out.

It's getting so annoying now, and the only reason I'm still watching is because the main couple is so.damn.adorable. :.sigh.:

-end of rant-

The stupid, it burns. So before I watched I thought about what the plot set up that we will never see, the hidden drama.

First, read wikipediamor another wiki on the show. It is supposedly a THREE TYPES OF MODERN WOMEN drama. Anyone get that after 36 episodes? Or, did they pick up it was a four screeching menopausal women drama? Yes yes.

But go with the three women plot. Eldest, the most man needing woman in a current drama, getting by on looks and nice, needs a spine. Finds herself a classic self pitying Korean man. Needs a spine and a personality. Sow actually reached big plot point, but so hidden and ruined by making eldest sister so spineless, need and personality free, doesn't ven register with audience over screaming menopause.

Second sis, wants to be eldest son, including livng with her mom, should be hilarious. Like Castanza in Seinfeld, she is completely stubborn and what she wants is not so much the oh, but the whole package, including the mother in law. With a whole gender/sexuality thing going on, which i could do without but it gives more material, and a real life actress who fits the role. The screeching killed the plot. The mutual contract barely touched the theme. Terrible directing, lousy writing. What a waste of good actors and a set up.

Third sis and lead, becoming professional and completing new into one of those even after death boy girl relationships that set Kdrama apart and what the audience takes abuse to see. Blah. About 90 seconds, just enough love heroin for the audience to watch a few minutes.

Then I watched the evil unfold. So what did writer and director give us?

Major conflict. Master manipulator deletes family dinner info from cell phone. First, most likely third daughter would take phone. Second, master manipulator would not do because will get caught. This is not master manipulator, it is retard screeching at strangers on the street. Third, assumes NO communication between about ten different people. Fourth, good mom knows crazy mom is crazy and evil, was TOLD she was set up (cold medicine, come now, look, no cold) and knows the daughter she raise for 20 years would not blow her off, and knows SHE NEVER HEARD BACK on her own plans. So, NO CONFLICT FOR HUMANS.

Second conflict. For no reason (hmmm, what is the lazy screen writer going to do) worthless assistant is given charge of third sister, who he has always undermined. So, this makes hero a moron incapable of being successful in the career that our script writer god says the hero mastered. Assistant can't even get to first day of shooting on time? With no repercussions? Then, doesn't know and verify schedule? And third sister doesn't know and verify? Not on this planet.

Here is what I am wondering as a newcomer who likes the multigenerational arcs and the intense and convincing even without touch relationships of kdramas, why do most of you tolerate and make excuses do such evil and inept writing and directing? Clearly the writer has contempt for the characters she created and for the audience she mocks with plot devices that, from how to show to show wnd en within shows, replace the character of the characters she wrote with new characters.

Notice how the fictional director and writer were above nepotism in the dumb party scene? Way to stroke yorsces guys. Too bad you are to lazy or incompetent to come up with a conflict that makes sense in the human world or find the humor in your own set ups. All you have going for you are some actors with charm and two or three scenes a show where the dialog doesn't much matter.

In "I Hate Luv Stories"at the end, for the plot conflicts, the actors just say "blah blah blah", "blah blah blah." If Kdrama started doing this it could save a lot of suffering, eliminate the need for subbing, and save writers and producers from the evil hate they have for their audience and their characters.

The good thing about this drama is, I'm learning much more Korean than usual. This is basically what keeps me through those boring, aggravating, tearing my hair out part.(Any part where an ajummha involved)

I try to analyze what they are saying and figure out the corresponding words in English. During the cuteness, I just get caught up in the moment (which I love) and completely forget about what they're saying and end up depending on the subtitles.

The subject matter is so boring that I end up focusing more on the words and trying to understand, what for example, Chicken Ajummha is saying rather than what she means.

Otherwise. I would definitely be fast-forwarding, a lot.

On a completely different topic, I think JH actually realized he liked SS really early on. Before the 20th episode. MR said something about him caring too much, or YH. Anyways, I distinctly remember something about him realizing that he likes SS. Plus wasn't there the whole “How can you be so oblivious to someone’s feelings? " 'I… you… I… don’t know what to do about you, that’s what!' ” from a recent weecap?

Maybe I'm just missing something.