The thing is @unit HyoShim is such a duffer that she will stay in a funk in any self-damaging situation until she is literally threatened with consequences. TaeHo seems to have understood that well. So he gives her threats to prod her into taking action. The feminist in me bristles at some of the things he does or says, but then one part of my mind also says that HyoShim is too dumb to be left to her own devices. The idiot needs to be told that she can let the restaurant staff get her water 😒

All in all, this was the best episode yet. The writers finally decided to start the story at halfway mark 🙄 What made me sit up was HyoShim finally seeing her mother for what she is and telling her like it is! The old hag will not let HyoShim get away from her clutches easily, and TaeHo will have to use all his charm/threats to make sure that HyoShim doesn't give in to her.

I felt really sorry for TaeMin this week. He has to contend with a manipulative mother as well as the vengeful Anchorwoman. TaeHo has also told him that HyoShim is his girlfriend. All this on top of his father being hospitalized. And he has a whole ass company to run. I'm surprised the guy is still standing!

I'm still on the lookout as to which week installment I'll resume from. But it seems like there's no exact improvement.

I'm not charmed by the Tae-cousins. They're both being pushy. But I do like Soo-kyung taking away Tae-min's attention even if it's for one minute. But I don't like the angle they're going with her character. She's becoming the exact replica of what he's running away from - his mother. She might have the tuff to stand firm against Sook-hyang should she get married to Tae-min, it doesn't excuse what she's becoming. Tae-min deserves better, she deserves better characterization.

I knew the boy's language would change the moment he knew she was Tae-san Group's daughter. I don't think I'll like this leech-y guy.

I kinda agree with @kdramatipsy about Tae-ho's actions. I felt the same way about one of the romances in Our Blues. Should Hyo-shim be left alone, she won't sit herself up properly by the time she gains independence. I look forward to Tae-ho's threats in the event where her family wants to squeeze her once again.

The romance here is lacking a lot. For a weekender, it is really suffering.

I have just finished watching and this show... le sigh. There is hardly a character I don't dislike by now, especially Hyodo is taking the cake lately and I want Taehee to kick him out (and have a love line with that sweet customer).
I was again this close to dropping the show, but I'm still going to give it a chance next weekend, because Hyoshim is apparently FINALLY going to move out.
And I admit I liked the scenes between Hyojun and Mirim. 🙂

Last week I wrote that I was watching a different drama from @quirkycase because she fully supports the TH/HS pairing. And now @unit weighs in with a completely different perspective, one that I happen to share.

Is TH’s goal to help her become 'independent" from her family? Or is it to separate her from her family so that he has her all to himself? He's trying to take over her life in a way that TM never did - buying her clothes, the facial, an incredibly UN-professional modeling contract, not letting her cook the meat and then the final threat. He wants her dependent upon him - not a good foundation for an "independent" life.

There are so many hints that this pairing is headed for trouble, first and foremost that Dating A Client Is Forbidden. If I understood the subs correctly, the TS Fitness CEO is okay with "flirting" but NOT dating. Her co-workers have warned her. Her mother warned her. Her oldest brother warned her.

However, episodes 24 and 25 delivered on so many other fronts. Tae Min finally turns away from Hyo Shim - he loves her but finally understands that between Mother Villain #1 and apparently Villainess-in-Training (and I am very upset by that turn of events), the best way he can love her is to leave her alone. However – I’m glad because I never understood that insta-love the writer created.

My favorite couple Hyo-jun and Mi-rim have entered The Friendzone - a mutual support relationship.

Finally – much more information about the Kang family past history 3-4 years ago.

Ratings for Sunday’s episode (No. 25) were 18.8 – finally eclipsed the previous high of Episode 2. I think writer-nim knows what she is doing.

@unit, thanks for the low lights . 🙃
I said something a few weeks ago about Madam Jang offering Hyo-shim the position of mistress . Aigoo
Ms. Choi, I had hoped she wasn’t a 2FL wench, aigoo.
Mom still wants to keep Hyo-shim on a short leash.
Tae-min tells Mr Yeom to “get out “ .
The female Gym assistant should have been fired, sorry but not sorry
Hyo-do , if you break Tae-he’s heart…
Hyo-Joon is still unlikeable , writer -nim is not doing too well , eh ?
I want Gu On’s mom to show up.
I can’t really say the Hyo-shim looks happy with Tae-Ho . I dunno.
Tae-min and Choi were the perfect slimy chaebol couple with Choi calling the dogs off of the little people once she got her way.
Tae-min as the fixer . Hyo-shim kneeling for Choi. Aigoo.
Hyo-shim’s Hopeless Life. Aigoo. I’m

Barely watchable now. FFing through 75% of it. This should be the point where our annoying characters should start resembling human beings and showing us that they're capable of being family you can count on. Does the writer actually think Hyo-do and Tae-hee can be an item when he's looking at her like a bag of easy money after all that time they've spent together? I suspect the writer will try to "redeem" him by having him stay with her after the family is torn to pieces for Tae-ho's parents' murder.

Will Hyo-shim's blowup at her mom really result in anything? Getting beat up by loan sharks for loans my bro and mom had taken out should have been a breaking point. Finding out her mom took all her savings which drove her to get dangerously drunk should have been a breaking point.

I'm just here for the Hyo-jun and Mirim scenes since their relationship is the most healthy so far and the least stressful. He actually cared that she was upset about her audition and offered to help her. I still think they should give up their dreams for the sake of all the actors, directors, and lawyers out there. I did find it hilarious that the scene Mirim's practicing involves a lawyer ex-bf.

Tae-ho annoys me on the romance department since he and Tae-min are both being suffocating, but TH is also the only one who tries to deprogram Hyo-shim from being her family's slave.

Will Phillip turn into Hyo-shim 2.0 for his family? I hope Rubi's boyfriend's mom throws water at her.

I skipped watching the episodes and just dropped by for the recaps. The characters are becoming unlikeable. I am still a softie for Ha Joon/Tae Ho since I'd like to think he still has HS best interest in mind.

We are now at the exact midpoint of this show- with our two mothers still neck and neck in the worst possible mother race. Unit has noted Soo-kyung’s continuing manipulation of Tae-min but we should also note that her (actually desperate) offer to Hyo-shim is based upon the conviction that Hyo-shim is exactly the same kind of person as her history tells us that she herself has always been. Meanwhile Hyo-shim’s mom insists that Hyo-shim give up on dating until after Hyo-jun passes the Bar Exam- at which point Hyo-jun will set her up with another lawyer (which would be good for Hyo-jun’s legal career). Both of these awful moms literally want to prostitute Hyo-shim. But do give Tae-min’s mom credit for at least offering very generous terms.

Hyo-shim is not buying whatever either mom is pushing. Please note that neither our Anchor Lady nor Tae-min was consulted about the mistress idea: They would have been just as adamantly opposed as Hyo-shim is.

But we do have to thank Tae-min’s mom for giving us a real insight into Tae-mins character. Her conversation with Tae-min after Hyo-shim has stormed out told us a lot. His mom never allowed him to have fun, date, etc.- and thus have learned to read Hyo-shim. His overly romanticized notions are the product of both his ignorance and also his yearning for what he has not had in his life. He is as much a victim of the filial piety idea as Hyo-shim. But saying that does not mean that Tae-min is therefore right about all that he thinks he has missed. For instance, he may have wanted to be an artist but did that mean that he had enough talent to actually be a success as an artist? One of the most pernicious ideas of or times is that if one has a dream of doing something then, perforce, one automatically must be equipped with sufficient talent to achieve that goal. This irrational belief was thoroughly de-bunked in the excellent drama DO YOU LOVE BRAHMS, where Park Eun-bin’s character has a dream of being a professional violinist but in fact does not really have the talent for it. I suspect that the same is likely true of Tae-min. Fortunately, his uncle and almost certainly his grandfather recognized his true talents- which is why he finds himself doing what he is truly talented at. If Tae-min is not living his own life in his own eyes it seems to me that the sole reason may be that he was cursed with a bad dream.

One of the most positive things in these episodes was the emergence of Ms. Choi as a true 2FL for this show. When she storms into TS Fitness it was not because of something that Hyo-shim had done but rather a stupid stunt by one of her co-workers. Objectively she had every right to be furious and to take action. This was not some Chaebol Heiress tantrum- what had happened was truly damaging to her professionally. Which makes what happens next very revealing as to her actual feelings for Tae-min. Taemin asks her to drop the (perfectly legitimate) lawsuit but she exacts a price: Tae-min has to sit down with her for a truly serious conversation. That is how much she values and wants Tae-min. It also shows that she is indeed a quick thinker and Tae-min seriously needs to wake up from his dream of Hyo-shim to the far better reality of Ms. Choi. I have said this before but these two people really need to have a very long and in-depth conversation with each other.

We actually had a genuinely funny moment in Episode 24: Mi-rim returned from another audition- which turned out to be for an adult film- and failed that audition too. Here’s a thought: She helps Hyo-jun pass the Bar Exam and then sets up her own law office dealing with film and TV business- and brings on Hyo-jun to handle the contract side of things, where his natural perfectionism would actually pay off while she handled the intellectual property and litigation matters. They are still an important part of the production of shows and films- and make money by the barrel full. Every three of four years they could buy another building (unless they want a really big one- that would take longer). Just an idea for writer-nim.

Does it seem like Hyo-do’s attitudes and behavior are actually a reflection of what he saw his mom doing. But that does not excuse his “I love you” to Tae-hui.

I haven’t watched all of it but prolly won’t get to finishing it until later.
If this is the writer’s idea of romance, I am sorry for their partner. Either the HS/TH mess or the HS/TM mess or the Hyo Do/Tae Hui mess
I agree with @kdramatipsy. HS seems either slow or clueless and needs someone to open her head and put thoughts in there. If TH isn’t this aggressive, nothing will ever change. And while romance is whatever, she definitely needs a kick in her backside to get some power back in her home situation.
I just wish she does it on her own steam and isn’t handed everything on a platter. Empowerment.

This is an unpopular opinion, please don’t yell at me, but I feel so sorry for TM. Everyone else wants to run his life. The women in his life are horrors. His mother is…. Words escape me. And I really do not like Anchorwoman Choi anymore. Life with her will be tedious for poor TM. He really shouldn’t be blackmailed into marrying her.

I don't see why the hate against TH. Men are meant to be hunters. He's just basically going after HS because he likes her. But his ways are a normal guys ways whereas TM isn't. TM thinks it's mutual and he thinks whatever he does it's acceptable. TH has never hurt HS. TM did multiple times knowing what his evil mother can do. HS and TH complement each other because both want just normal lives. TH can give HS the financial support and emotional support whereas HS can give TH the care and love he craves without a family. TH was angry and he just wanted an answer from HS. Do you still care for me? If you do come. If you don't I'm leaving. That to me is a very normal gesture for mam who has just been dumped in 24 hours after the relationship started.

Totally agree with you. I for one am relieved that the plot is finally moving. I was getting rather tired of her staying silent to everything and bottling everything up. I'm glad I watched Ep 25 realising that THAT happens at the end of the episode.