Oooh. *I* am natively really fond of fart and/or butt jokes, so you don't have to cajole me into laughing at your jokes at all!!! AND I've been known to drink too much and then sit leaning on things which you seem to find adorbs...Pick me, Tae-ho!!! PICK ME!!!

HyoShim isn't really a pushover. She stands her ground when dealing with the world at large, including a couple of chaebol suitors. It's her family she lets walk all over her and that's what make her character so relatable. However, the latest reveal of her mother spending 10 years worth of her savings has shaken her up. If this doesn't make her revolt, then she deserves what's happening to her. Because being kind means letting people face the consequences of their actions and learning their lessons - letting them get away with wrongdoings is just encouraging them to do more of it.

HyoJun is becoming more and more unbearable with every episode. The jerk can't bring himself to thank those who went out of their way to help him. Instead, he blames everyone for his misfortunes except himself. He is delusional enough to tell himself that he is studying law only coz his mother has forced him to do so - the mother he looks at with utter contempt 🙄 So he directed a few short films? Ha! Isn't managing people one of the prerequisites of being a director? This guy offends everyone he speaks to. It's silly as a plot point to keep MiRim around him, but better him helping her become an actress than her helping him become a lawyer.

TaeHee has finally decided to support herself and is actively working towards it, but HyoDo still wants to be spoonfed and be 'successful' without putting in any hard work. He was lucky that his earlier decency towards a homeless girl earned him enough points that TaeHee was willing to put up with his lazy ass. But of course his victim-of-a-less-than-perfect-childhood self couldn't do something as menial as actual work. He is going to get scammed again, isn't he?

I feel sorry for the eldest brother. He is stuck between a rock and a hard place. It isn't easy for a man when his mother and wife are both overbearing, and he is trying to keep both of them happy. Though his wife isn't wrong in nagging him about always giving in to his mother's unreasonable tantrums.

The good thing this week was some development between TaeHo and HyoShim. And TaeHo proving himself at work! I whooped when he told TaeMin he isn't going to discuss anything about HyoShim with him. Enough of TaeMin walking around believing he owns HyoShim just because he likes her.

PS. If there's one thing TaeHo needs to learn from TaeMin, it is to sleep shirtless!

I absolutely adore the Tae Ho and Hyo Shim scenes, they just gel so well together. Ha Jun totally nailed the "rendered speechless while watching her walk in slow mo" scene, comedy piggy back scene and his hilarious expression as he sat on a bench with the passed out Hyo Shim on his lap. Too bad they gave us crumbs again in episode 17. More please, more! Tae Ho is dialling up his charm level to 11 now but she's got too much on her plate.

I liked how Hyo-shim firmly rejected Tae-min without any drama.
And while I liked that Tae-min told her for how long he has been yearning for her, how long she's been living rent-free in his head - in secret of course, - I wished he just gave her that information and stopped pursuing. Like giving himself that closure to that chapter of his life. At least what was in the case was not a ring.

Hyo-shim's mother's unapologetic tantrum rang longer than I could bear. Hyo-shim, a brat. You empty her account and you're raving at her to go find the settlement money - the insolence. How many times will I say I'm done😩.

Whenever I think Hyoshim's family reached the bottom of awfulness, the next episodes prove me wrong.
And now also Aspiring Actress stopped being awesome. 왜? Why??
I'm now mainly watching for Ha Joon, UEE... and Ha Joon and UEE together. (And smexy Taemin when he isn't too obsessive.)

@unit, thanks for the highlights !
Hyo-shim has about as many drinking episodes as the Chairman ‼️
Drinking to blackout is not good Hyo-shim 🤔
Tae-Ho treats Hyo-shim as a person, (although his aegyo is off putting)
Tae-Min treats Hyo-Shim as property ?
Marking his territory like a Tom cat 🐱, Throw an old 🥾 at him to chase him off.
Speaking of cats and catty behavior, Ms Choi shows her claws and fangs.
Tight clothes and touching 🙄 she insinuates Hyo-shim is unprofessional.
She might become rabid with 2FL Syndrome possibly with an Evil enhancement .
Landlady ahjumma bugs the heck out of Rooftop
Ga On triggers her father by singing Trot
Ru-bi making plans with her oppa
Hyo-Do is breaking Tae-Hui’s heart
Hyo-shim should sell Hyo-Do’s watch and keep the cash. Kick his ass if he says anything .
Hyo-Joon was a director so now the lawyer/actress/waitress swoons⁉️ 🙄 Her character’s likability just took a severe blow 😟
Chairman rages against his wife’s antics
Oldest Oppa gets a empty office with zero staff, not suspicious yet🙄

I do hope the seemingly endless trouble for Hyo-shim lets up.

A more unlikable bunch of people I have rarely seen in a drama. Let's start with the queen of the bunch, the mother. I have never seen a more unappreciative, selfish, overbearing, annoying parent. I almost felt pity for the second son, but not quite. He is just as unappreciative as his mother. The wanna actress should stay away from him. He is just a male version of his mother.

And the youngest brother isn't much better. I thought they would make a cute couple, but he just dropped her like a dirty sock. After all she did for him. All he wants is for success to be handed over to him on a silver platter and he is not willing to put in the work. I guess being ungrateful runs in that family. They must have learned this from the horrible mother.

Tae Min needs to read the room, he is borderline delusional. I do feel sorry for Tae Ho. He is lonely, feels as he has no family, and is trying to befriend her. I'm sure he would like to be more than that, but at least he is doing it correctly, by offering friendship, unlike his cousin.

Dumpster Granny is beyond annoying, and I totally relate to Rooftop Granny, wanting her to GTFO. I might have to start FF during her scenes.

My favourite relationship right now is Rooftop Granny and the little girl. She is adorable, and they have a great rapport. What is that song she sings, that her father objects to? I would love to hear the full version. It sounds like a vintage song, the type Frank Sinatra would sing.

Still too few Hyo-shim and Tae-ho scenes. I feel like Hyo-shim deserves someone much better, but I enjoy see Hyo-shim show a few smiles after when Tae-ho is involved because most of her expressions are tired/stress/sad. Uee and Ha Joon have such cute smiles too. Why isn't the show focusing on that?!

And holy moly - the writer this week was trying to make me feel bad for Hyo-jun and Hyo-do by giving them monologues of self-pity that do not take any responsibility for their actions. Eff your tears and the "woe is me!"

They've set the bar so low that when Hyo-jun said "I need to study and pay back Hyo-shim", I was impressed he knew he had to pay her back. Then I mentally slapped myself. The drama is setting the bar low for guys and is trying to convince us that beautiful, driven, successful women will accept it.

I really liked Mirim and was angry when they had her look at Hyo-jun with new found respect because he directed a few short films years ago. At least check to see if his work was any good. No, Mirim. Run away.

Hyo Shim's mom is exhausting to be around. All these unnecessary drama. She just need to talk to her children. No need for all these emotional blackmail.
Tae Ho was all cute to Hyo Shim. Hyo Shim is not immune to his charms but Soo Kyung and her co-trainers just has to mess with her mind.
The preview for next week get me all excited about them.
Hyo Jun should just stop forcing himself to pass the test. His heart is not into it if he dreams to be a director. Aspiring actress and Hyo Jun should just conquer the film industry together. Or aspiring actress can be his legal advisor if she fails to land a role.

Wow this week, episode 17 in particular, made me dislike every single character! Hoping this means the upcoming character arcs will be emotionally resonant as well bc right now I’m just grinding my teeth!

HS’s mom definitely took the cake, but the two younger brothers were in hot pursuit. The youngest in particular was so mean to Tae Hee and so entitled about selling the gift she gave him.

I was also annoyed with TM for not realizing that he was potentially endangering HS or least her employment by even indirectly exposing her to his mother. This is a lady who he knows locked up his own grandmother!

I even got annoyed with HS. Totally understand getting v drunk when you realize your mother had unrepentantly stolen your life savings, but it’s also dangerous and she didn’t seem to realize she was lucky to get home safely the first time. Which made me realize two things. 1) Is she unconsciously (literally!) looking for someone who will show up for her and take care of her like TH? 2) The reason I’m frustrated with her is I want her to show she’s learning from experience and thus give me hope that her LYOL moment is coming soon.

And my final thought. You can see how the older brother ended up married to who he did because marrying someone who would enforce boundaries for him was the only way he was going to have any separation from his family.

Whew! And of course I’ll be tuning in this weekend to see what happens next.

Thanks @unit for the wrap-up and to DB for experimenting with this format for a weekender. My rambling thoughts:

1. I really like Ha Joon, but I'm not feelin' the cheesy jokester. He's going to hurt Hyo Shim before he helps. That's okay in a 50 episode drama, and I'm glad the actor is getting applause for his role, but Doormat Hyo Shim is . . .not relatable to me. Not sure if Korea viewers relate either - ratings are pretty dismal so far.
2. For the 1st time, I notice the books in Drunk Father's study - all with ENGLISH titles. And the various statuettes/busts (Plato? not sure) - this man was an intellectual that was beaten with a golf club by his own father and apparently "disliked" by his own "mother" (what kind of mother would allow this?)
3. The Wife From Hell (Hee Joo) actually serves one positive purpose - describing in detail how her mother-in-law is expletive trash, Queen Manipulator (while her own parents both had cancer and handled it on their own). Her husband shouldn't divorce his wife - he should divorce his mother!!! But apparently, Hyo Shim gets that privilege.
4. Tae Hee is growing on me. She improved from Negative 10 to Negative 8. Hyo Do - I don't even see the negative floor for him yet.
5. Hyo Jun and Mi-ran: I hope they strike a Grand Deal - she will help him pass the bar and he will help her develop as an actress. Mutual support as friends. Crossing fingers.
6. Finally - really, truly sorry to see writer-nim do what many feared w/r/t the character of Soo Kyung. Earlier episodes reflected some nuance and complexity - we don't know her "history" as a child. Jealousy is understandable - but cruelty and spite? Reprehensible.

Continues to be interesting but not addictive. Yet.

The writer has let me down and is apparently taking the lazy route by turning TV Lady into the B***h version of a 2FL. What a pity: There is so much more dramatic potential with other approaches, but I am sure that they are harder to write. What makes this approach not just lazy but crazy is, of course, that objectively speaking she and Hyo-shim are not in fact in competition for Tae-min except in Tae-min’s fevered imagination. It would have been smarter to have Ms. Choi befriend her and the two of them work at getting Tae-min to see reality.

Tae hui is opening a store- and youngest brother continued to be a brat. Could he be any stupider? Poor Tae-hui- she should be feeling like a prize idiot right now for ever getting involved with him. It is actually hard to believe that she is not feeling that way and I do not understand this one bit. The fact is that he is so self-absorbed that he cannot see anything but his own ego- I have actually grown very tired of his infantile tantrums and it is high time that Tae-hui did too.

Could middle brother be any worse? He has expressed, finally, some sense of obligation to his sister but he still is not taking responsibility for his own life. At least her oldest brother feels some shame and some sense of responsibility. These episodes did clarify what we all suspected: That the middle brother never had any desire to be a lawyer- that was simply his mother’s dream. He was actually upset that his chance to avoid that fate was taken away from him by his family raising the settlement money- going to jail was actually his way of escaping form that fate. Oddly enough he has the right of it: Unless you really want to do it being a lawyer is a life of utter misery. Most people should not even want to do it. Only those who want to do it and have the attitudes that support and fit that work should take that path. Middle brother would be so much happier if he had stood up to his mother before and told her he was going to go into a more suitable field. His family would be happier if he had only had the courage to do that. Apparently, he was briefly a movie director and is still remembered by his friends from those days. He should have stayed on that path.

At the end of Episode 17 we finally learned just how much Mommy Dearest embezzled from Hyo-shim: Roughly eighty-five thousand dollars. I have a suggestion for Hyo-shim: It is time for a trip to the police station. Sending mom to prison for a few years would be a sure-fire way of getting her off Hyo-shim’s back. During that time Hyo-shim could set up a new life for herself that is separate from her family. As portrayed Mom is essentially a sociopath and there is no reforming her.

“ he blames Mi-rim for butting in when she should have allowed him to go to prison” in this one thing I’ve got to agree with him. He should’ve had to face the consequences of his own action.

I am skimming through recaps and waiting the live your own life part

Finally finished watching this week’s episodes.

I want to tie up HS’s mom and punch her for a couple hours, I have so much rage inside me right now.

I was disappointed with Tae Hui last week. I am disappointed with the terrible actress this week. Her way of consoling HS was “what can we do? We need to get Hyo Jun out”?!?! WTAF?

Ru Bi and her mom are beyond redemption, I just want them to go away.

Quick question. TM was sleeping nekkid when he was called to drop HS home. Did he dress up, make his bed, then go over? Cos his bed was all made up when he got back.

I simply loved the way TH ended up asking HS out. Almost petulant “I’d like to eat and drink with you. I have no one and am emotionally dependent on you also can I call you all the time” well played TH LMAO. I also loved how tender he was at the end. Really liking this couple. 🤗

The gym scene where TH was trying way too hard was cute and it was nice to see HS smiling. Not sure why SFL got jealous of that since she isn’t interested in TH right? But jealousy, it seems, is the route the writer has decided to take. Smh at the laziness

Something Hyo Jun said gave me pause. He said that she should’ve left him in jail so he had an excuse for dumping law. Now he will have to take the exam, fail, and humiliate himself.