Hyo Shim’s mother is scum. To raid HS’s savings over time to pay for her sons’ dumbassery was beyond the pale. From the previews, it looks like HS is continuing to sacrifice and pay for the ungrateful asses. I’m starting to lose sympathy for Hyo Shim. If you let people walk over you, gurl, they gon wipe their feet on you. And at some point the sympathy has turned to exasperation.
Tae Min just can’t take a hint as far as Hyo Shim. It’s gotta be so awkward for her to keep saying no. It was presumptuous to buy the diamond ring when she won’t even have dinner with him.

Hyo Do seems to love wearing bonnets lol.

Dumpster diver grandma is wearing on me. She is so dramatic and I am over it.

I just love how Tae Ho teases Hyo Shim. However, when he goes back to his room from the hospital, it really brought home how alone he is.

Tae Hui using knowledge about grandma to extort more money from her mom just made her as tacky as her mom. I’m really disappointed in her. She had so much promise initially. But she keeps it a secret from TH who is broken up about it just so she can fund her lifestyle. Just as evil as her mom.

To me the second brother is beyond redemption. All of what the obnoxious acquaintance said was true. He isn’t just a parasite, he is an ungrateful parasite. I believe he should be left to deal with the consequences of his actions, instead of having all the women jump in to clean up after him.
I loved the moment between the cousins this week. It doesn’t look like their relationship has been ruined yet and I hope it gets better, a lot better. It will help TM break free of the grip his mom has on him

@quirkycase, thanks for the highlights.
Poor Hyo-shim ! Good old Mom comes through again ! Mom also told Hyo-shim not to tell oldest brother, nope, Hyo -shim, it ‘s up to you 🙄

As far as Hyo-Joon is concerned he can rot in jail. Really . If you pick up a weapon to hit someone as the attacker, you deserve to be locked up.
Tae-min is an artist ! Perhaps a suppressed one , but an artist. I would love to see him paint a portrait of Hyo-shim. His perception of her is way off, he seems oblivious that she is not interested.
Tae-min’s confession was a disaster. Calls her out, confesses, her reaction was a absolute nonreaction. 😐
They established that Hyo-shim is a woman and Tae-Min is a man.
Plus he tried to push some jewelry on to her. He is in la-la land.
Meanwhile,he tries to friendzone Ms.Choi, who has her own ideas and will be interacting with the gym crew.
I like Ms Choi , so far , I hope she doesn’t morph into a MeanGirl 2FL . Hyo-shim has enough woes without a jealous woman , especially since Hyo-shim isn’t interested in her man.
Once again I got chumped by the previews. Tae-hee , you should have told Tae-Ho oppa the truth about halmoni being alive.
Tae-Ho could request a DNA test on the body. BTW, whose body was recovered ?
Tae-min is awful free when it comes to supporting Tae-hee’s shopping sprees. Are they that well off ?
Tae-hee actually misses Hyo-do. What are their ages supposed to be , she calls him ahjussi.
Rooftop halmoni looked suspicious as hell having her “daughter” show up.
Hyo-‘shim and Tae-Ho share another meal getting that much closer to one another.
Ru-bi is embracing her oppa outside . She better be careful, if mother finds out 🤯

Oooh, episode 15 made my blood boil, first Lawyer Oppa and then Mom. Is he that stupid? He has been studying LAW for so long and he does THAT?? No wonder he can't pass the exam. 🙄 And Mom, I can't with that woman anymore.
We also seem to be back to square one, family is causing trouble and Hyoshim ends up at loan sharks. (And I'm starting losing patience.)

Perhaps what Hyoshim needs right now is not a suitor (even if he is as cute as Ha Joon), but a good Unni, Uri Aspiring Actress, who will stand by her and kick everybody's else arbehind.

But but but…the scene in the art gallery with Tae-ho and Tae-min telling each other how they were sorry to one another for their past behaviors…so earnestly and intently?? Even as a light-watcher, I paused and watched twice as my heart melted knowing that what was coming up ahead for them was even more angst and love-torment…

…Bring on the runway show with Hyo-shim as STAR!!!

Mom is beyond redemption. She knows she can do anything and get away with it coz HyoShim is too decent to abandon her. The saddest thing is that it's so bloody realistic. In patriarchal societies, women are expected to keep sacrificing and it's not even considered a sacrifice but their duty. There's a reason women get physically ill after an age - the resentment keeps festering inside and takes the form of an ailment sooner or later.

I'm waiting for the day HyoJun fails the exam for the 5th and last time. He will have no option than to face reality then. Hope he doesn't get a love line with MiRim. She deserves better.

Ruby is going to get pregnant, isn't she? If that happens it will kill her mother.

Got a bit of a whiplash when TaeHo woke up after fainting at his Halmeoni's funeral, and immediately started flirting with HyoShim on the phone. Would have been better if he had mourned Halmeoni's death with HyoShim, instead of having a perky teottbokki date with her.

And finally, TaeMin telling HyoShim that only HE will speak today 🙄 Still he is one of the few people in the show I genuinely feel sorry for. He is emotionally lost, and thinks HyoShim is the light at the end of the tunnel while she has zero interest in him as a man.

I thought HS's mother couldn't get any worse. But she upped her awfulness this week. Hyo Shim should just leave them all behind asap.
Also Hyo Jun better pay back his sister for all the money she spent supporting his useless ass and this money she is scrambling around to get for his settlement.
I am very disappointed with Tae Hee this week. She can be smarter than this. She is just proving to everyone she is no better than her mom.
Hyo Shim definitely is uncomfortable around Tae Min. I don't understand why TM don't just leave her alone. He knows she does not like him back. Why is he being so clingy? Soo Kyung is a better match for him.
I hope its not TM whom HS called in that last scene. I prefer it to be Tae Ho.

@quirkycase, thanks for the update. I haven't had the time to watch full episodes in several weeks and rely upon these weekly updates. A couple of comments:

Then, there’s the chaebol drama. Halmeoni receives a message via an acquaintance (who pretends to be her daughter to the neighbors) that Tae-ho will pay the price if she shows her face againThat "acquaintance" is good ole' Grandaddy's former concubine (name: Madame Seo) and the viewer (or, should I say - THIS viewer) still doesn't know why Halmeoni trusts her. Frankly, I'm more interested in the upcoming chaebol battle for control of TaeSan Group while waiting for other characters to show some signs of growing up (including doormat Hyo Shim).

Tae-hee spotted Halmeoni out and about, so she knows the death is a ruse. . I know what she threatened her mom, but Tae Hee took those photos BEFORE she got the news regarding the death of her grandmother and she seemed truly devastated by the news. Soooo. . . . I have an open mind on what she truly believes, because if grandmother is alive, she needs to throw Mom under the bus and tell Tae Min and Tae Ho. Otherwise, her actions (or failure to act) are irredeemable. 😒😒

Thanks for the highlights! I stopped watching a few episodes back and planned to just watch the wannabe-actress scenes until Hyo-shim decides to live her own life....but it looks like she's still being the self-sacrificing daughter who will grumble here and there but not draw the line. And then the camera will zoom into her aggrieved expression.

Also, this drama has been weird with not having any family dinners with all the siblings.

Episode 14 now sees Tae-ho asking Hyo-shim to wait on him. Meanwhile Tae-min is still fixated on her even as she is giving him the Heisman. But he bought a diamond ring anyway.

We saw more of TV Lady and she was in top form: Her deductions regarding Tae-min’s unrequited love, etc. were so spot on- she is one smart lady and yet far from being cold you could feel her anger right through the screen. She has Tae-min totally pegged and he knows it. She is still hiding behind the statement that she wants him because he is the best but that is obviously only a half-truth or even just a quarter truth. There is no way that flames would be shooting from her eyes if hers was simply a cold calculation. Just as we need to see more of Aspiring Actress we also need to see more of TV Lady.

Aspiring Actress confirmed what we already knew: She is a lawyer- and apparently a really, really good one. Her career change is not an unusual decision: A number of years ago a lady named Deborah Arron published a book whose title is Running from the Law: Why Good Lawyers Are Getting Out of the Legal Profession. Her choice to pursue a different dream is not at all weird, even though she is obviously not that well suited to be an actress. In contrast I think that our FL’s middle brother Hyo-joon is better suited for anything except the law and his evident frustration obviously stems from the fact that it was never his dream- but rather his mother’s dream that he become a lawyer. After watching his idiotic behavior in Episode 15 I will take this one step further: He should absolutely never, ever become a lawyer because he would be an absolute disaster for his clients and would be a quick failure. Ego has no place in the practice of law, period.

It seems to me that there is an important secondary theme in the Weekender: The evils that arise from parents imposing their dreams on their children and selecting their professional futures for them: Hyo-shim’s SIL has determined that her daughter must become a Dermatologist and her son a Golf Pro, Hyo-shim’s mother has forced Ha-joon towards the law, Tae-min’s family took him away from Art and forced him to run the Conglomerate. The evident anger in Ruby, Ha-joon and Tae-min may all be rooted in the fact that their dreams having either been thwarted or in the case of Ruby and Ha-joon they were never even permitted to have one. Her nephew Phillip on the other hand has already reached the conclusion that he is simply not going to comply, and he has the silent support of his father in this. It may seem odd but, once he successfully fails at Golf Phillip will be free to go his own way and both he and his father know it.

I would also point out that Tae-min’s resistance to TV Lady has nothing to do with her as a person but rather with the fact that she is inextricably conflated in his mind with his family’s plans for his future, so he really does not see her as herself. Instead, he sees her as the symbol of his of what his family has imposed upon him. So long as he has that chip on his shoulder, he will blindly pursue Hyo-shim no matter what Hyo-shim actually wants. I am reminded that Immanuel Kant believed that our real freedom came not in our actions but in our attitude towards the events in our lives. It is a shame that he does not view Ms. Choi as the silver lining to his cloud: That because of his sacrifice for his family and all the people who work for his company he gets to marry a smart, beautiful sexy woman who actually desires him. Surely that can’t be bad?

At a fundamental level Tae-min is actually not paying attention to what either Hyo-shim or TV Lady want, need or even think. He is treating them both as symbolic objects.

It turns out that Hyo-shim’s mom embezzled the money that Hyo-shim has saved up to move out and start her own gym. So, in this episode she wins the most despicable mom award. Any chance that Aspiring Actress could suggest a trip to the police station? She is one person who seems to want to help Hyo-shim. I am hoping that Aspiring Actress will finally at some point acknowledge her complete lack of acting ability and that her true talent lies in being a really good lawyer- but perhaps not as one who practices as a part of a big law firm. Just as most people should not be a lawyer, there are those who absolutely should.

Dear writer-nim,

We are 1/3 of the way in and there are no signs of her actually even taking baby steps towards the advertised "living her own life". I am getting as frustrated as Hyo Shim.

I am really only watching this because Ha Jun was cast as the male lead, but so far, he doesn't really have that much screen time, especially compared to the SML. That look of frustration on Hyo Shim every time Tae Min makes her spend time with him and never listens to a word she says? That's the look I have at the moment.

Tae Ho and Hyo Shim have such good chemistry together but we get at most 2 minutes of screen time per episode at the moment. Can we have some plot development please?

The one trope I really, really cannot stand is the rich chaebol stalking, badgering and harassing a woman into being his girlfriend (eventually breaking her down into his obedient wife). Tae Min is following that blueprint with HS. But Tae Ho is also following a similar tact: he is using HS's unselfish need to help other people to manipulate her in helping him overcome his "needy" state (back injury, loneliness, etc.) Tae Ho may be doing this initially to take HS away from Tae Min. I am 1000 percent in the Shaman camp: HS should run way from both of them.

Ugh Hyo-Shimmm...just walk out already! I can't believe she's just letting everyone walk all over her. Girl, I know you're being filial and all that but how much lower should you go to get some acknowledgment from Mom? Her mom is too much for me. She berates Hyo Shim, and when she's pointed out her mistake she flips things around ... Hyo Shim needs to take some lessons on standing up for herself. Please get close to Mi-rim..I hope you guys become really good friends.

I'm starting to lose patience with this show...the only reason why I'm sticking to it is to fast-forward to the budding romance between Hyo-Shim and Tae Ho. And what is up with Tae Min? Just drop it already. There's no reason to insisting on pursuing Hyo Shim just because he's trying to one-up his cousin.

This show is so frustrating!

I'm officially out of the SLS with Tae-min. No offense to Hyo-shim but Tae-min deserves something better than Hyo-shim. Hyo-shim might represent the symbol of something his family had no control over, but should he get married to her, his life might get the more worse than it is. Tae-min does not need that kind of wife. He needs someone with spine and spunk cue to Anchorwoman Choi Soo-kyung. I'm looking forward to when he sees her as an individual and not a part of a conglomerate. The moment he is able to make that separation, he'll realize that a future with Soo-kyung is worth it.

I'm tired of Hyo-shim. I'm almost done. I'm not watching this for her either. Any sympathy I had for her earlier has morphed into pity, and this pity has no iota of compassion or fellow feeling in it.

Her mom on the other hand is insufferable. She just keeps hitting the low point everytime. And, how did she have access to Hyo-shim's savings, was tapping into the account and Hyo-shim wasn't aware of it. She didn't even get any debit alert for each tamper by mom. Did Hyo-shim open the account in mom's name? Or she left the bankbook in mom's possession and was simply sending money into it. Her mom is annoying, very annoying. And she had the nerve to tell Hyo-shim not to involve Hyo-sung, as if she was a part of the 'we' who would sort out Hyo-jun's bail.

And about Hyo-jun, I thought he was her younger brother, alongside Hyo-do. So he's her older brother and is insufferable and insufferable can get.

I want Madam Cha to put the landlady in her place. She's too overbearing.

I'll go back to tolerating Hyo-shim on my screen(during family problems) whenever she takes the bull by the horn, not once but for forever.

On the other hand, it'll be fun having her model for Tae-san group. Finally Tae-ho will know who the woman Tae-min has designs for is.

If this was a Western show, I'd cheer for HyoShim to ditch her toxic mom and move out and tell them all they are on their own. That would teach them all a lesson. My blood was especially boiling at two of the characters this week. The beyond awful mom who has no remorse, zero, none whatsoever and despite demanding and demanding more from her daughter she shows zero appreciation for her. I think I'd shoot someone in he situation. There is nothing worse than an ungrateful leech.

And the brother! He is as bad as the mother. He sat in his chair waiting to be released with all the grace of a sulking toddler and never once seemed to wonder or be interested in who paid for that huge settlement. If that was me, it would be at the top of my mind, and I would throw myself on my knees in front of my sister and vow to take on as many part-time jobs as I could to repay this. Or sell my kidney.

I think I only saw them interact together once, and he was rude AF to her. The woman who pays his bills. If it was me, I'd dump a bucket of water on his head and tell me to FO, and that the free meal was over.

Watching this show made me realize that among the buffet of toxic behaviours we can observe in this show, entitlement and ungratefulness top my list.

That was an interesting discovery in and of itself.