Justice for Tae-hee!!! She's gonna be a divorced woman without parents in a hot minute. Where's her happiness gonna come from??

"Mom returning to her bedroom" is Standard Operating Procedure for our hopelessly, psychotically egocentric mom.

The moms in this show has always been annoying.

One reason I still semi-admire the writer is that she throws out red herrings - but they seem so obvious that everyone jumps to immediately conclusions. So, while it was clear that Yeom had a special bond with Tae Hui and probably believed that he was her father - it didn't surprise anyone that Dragon Mom would manipulate Yeom just as she has manipulated everyone else. And really - is it any worse than Granny ripping a baby from his mother and using that leverage over Jin Bum and his wife all these years?? Not much difference to me.

Everyone thinks she will get a come-uppance (prison) but I think she's destined for the loony bin - whether an official one, or the villa, she'll live out her life surrounded by white coats, not prison guards.

Another prediction - Yeom will try to commit suicide, but Tae Hui will stop him - too many hints that her life is his reason for living.

... narcissistic move to separate HS from her family and friends?) His excuse is that when he is in Korea, he sadly thinks of his dead parents. (But won’t he think about them overseas?)

Secret poet Pilip? Is the writer now using a random plot generator? And what ever happened to Rubi’s internet revenge posts against Taesan?

HS’ mom is still against HS marriage to TH even after Hyo Sung said he changed his mind about him. When Mom demanded HS to come over immediately, and TH tried to push his way in, she bluntly rebuffed him. By putting aside money, Mom puts together some common sense reasons why rich families are difficult families. The financial and cultural divide is something MS and TH have never discussed. If she marries into Taesan, she will lose control of her life. (Is Hyo Sung right that Mom really knows all the bad news about Taesan? Yes she does.) But HS seems rebellious when Mom correctly states that HS is immature despite financially supporting the family. Mom demands she hold off any wedding (but she is leaning towards disapproval.) Her life’s mission is not to have her children looked down upon by others.

Tae Hee gets the DNA results and she is .... shocked?! Yeom is not her father (Yeom has been played all along as some commentators have suspected). The Evil Mom’s betrayal comes after he testified to the prosecution that he was fully to blame and Evil Mom had nothing to do with it. At that moment, Yeom, the family fixer, was neutered by Sook Hyang. Episode 44 ends with another birth secret cliffhanger.

Your points regarding the law, the evidence, physics, etc. regarding the accident are bang on.

I loved your point about Tae-hui being so disappointed when she found out that her family actually is her real family.

We must all be watching different versions of the drama. 😂 Hyo Shim most definitely agreed to marry him (when she visited him in prison) and the poor guy just watched a traumatic video of his parents last moments/being murdered, so was just deflecting her "what wrong" question when he asked where they should live/should we go to California. He didn't seem particularly serious about it, and was just understandably devastated that night. That was my take.

I try not to remember the scenes with Hyo Shim's mom (they are all awful) but I do recall her asking Hyo Shim to invite Tae Ho over again for a marriage talk (and that comes with pollock) before she found out he was a chaebol. Anyway, I think that whole scene of her interviewing him is meant to be cheeky/ironic and I applaud the man for lasting that long in her presence. I can't imagine anybody else managing her!

... to tell him not to go to the police right now because it could “mess up” TH’s marriage plans. Just like TH does not get that his weaseling into HS’ family’s graces is like a fox trying to sneak into a hen house irritates HS’ Mother to no end, Grandma apparently is clueless about all the Taesan bombs being detonated around her. Does she just assume a poor woman like Sun-Soon is ignorant of the Taesan mess? Yes, what mother would want their daughter to marry into such a quagmire? Jin Bum finally stands up to Grandma’s demand by stating that she favored his brother and undermined his decisions to make him look like a failure. He squarely blames everything on Grandma’s behavior including creating his Evil Wife. For the sake of “protecting the company,” she destroyed her own family.

Even though Yeom confessed, Evil Mom gets another interrogation. It is a weak threat that he will recant to the prosecutor. Evil Mom tries to buy him with the Noble Idiot card.

Oh No! TM brings said Tae Hee fried chicken from Hyo Do’s place! But Tae Hee had more on her mind that insensitive chicken: she overheard Mom giving Yeom the order to kill Jun Bum and his wife. We end with the full version of the accident which does not shift the blame one inch: Evil Mom, Yeom and Jin Bum all conspired to cause the accident with intent to harm/kill.

The biggest adult changeling this week was HS’ Mom, who between hysterics, made some logical and key points on her children’s life issues which seem to mount higher and higher than a Buffalo blizzard. The children and their in-laws became enthralled with TH after learning about his status and wealth. I wonder how much leech DNA is in Carrot’s genome. This week I did not find TH charming or funny (as what director/writer tried to convey). There is no romance in the couples just dunk and cover moments, week after week.

TH does tell HS that he will go without her. He asks her to go with him, she says she is busy and he says he will go alone then

The slap she received from her mom was probably what finally motivated her to tell Tae-min.

I had a different take - I think she finally confessed when Tae Min told her that nothing had changed between them - she was still his sister. She had previously feared that he would throw her out if he found out that Yeom was her father (which she believed at one point).

Although Tae Hui provided the evidence required to prove intent, according to the preview Hyo-sung find Yeom's old cell phone - so perhaps that will be the real key, sparing Tae Hui the agony of testifying - and being grilled by defense attorney - in a trial. Not that I expect a trial - I've always believed that Dragon Mom will finally descend into a catatonic phase of insanity and end her life at the villa, surrounded by white coats.

I don't know... I still see Mirim and Hyojun as a comic relief couple and I'm not happy about that.

I don't care about Lost Dad's story. Finding him in the last episodes does nothing unless the writer uses pixie dust to reveal that the entire series was Lost Dad's dream.

He must have called her noona when they were younger and in their hometown.

It feels like the lead, Tae Ho is just fluff while Tae Min is carrying the load of the drama.

There have always been two male leads in this drama and it is unfortunate that the first half was spent in romantic nonsense - many articles and previews tried to create a love triangle that simply was not believable to the viewer.

So, Tae Ho is the "romantic" male lead, but Tae Min has always been the "lead" in terms of leadership, sacrifice, devotion to family, devotion to a company and its thousands of employees. Regardless, I hate the writer for how he treated Su-kyung - it was unbelievably cruel and his "love" for Hyo Shim doesn't excuse it.

I admit that I was hoping Yeom wasn't the murderer. Lee Kwang Gi is a great actor.

I think he called her Noona, because he was full of emotions.

"Noona" was just added as a way of emphasizing that Mr. Yeom's attachment to Dragon Lady long predated her involvement with her husband.

Tae-hui is in fact Jin-beom's daughter. The claim that he could not have a child was just one more lie by our Dragon Lady to get Mr. Yeom to believe that Tae-hui was his child.

Tae-hui does not slap back because Korean kids do not slap their parents

"I think Hyo-shim should go and LIVE HER OWN LIFE without either of these men."

The shaman and I agree.

Tae Ho can have Hyo Shim with my good wishes because I never warmed up to the character and I hated every scene with her and Tae Min. I also hope he's headed back to Cali, but pretty sure that's not the plan.

Tae Ho is still a man-child. Fluffy and cute when w/Hyo Shim and full of hate/revenge regarding the past when she's not with him. He is still living a bi-polar life (has he ever told Hyo Shim about his plans for revenge/"justice"??). I think that will be the message in the end - in order to have a happy life with Hyo Shim, he will need to let go of the past.

Of all the series (relation)ships, I think most are sunken wrecks.

HS and TH. I never saw the real connection between the two. They are too different socially, financially and personality. HS was never given a chance to casually date men to find what she wants in life. HS gave in to TH because he was her support to leave the house to live her own life, but TH just replaced her mom as a needy, impatient and controlling person due to his traumatic loneliness. I don’t think they are compatible to stay together long term.

Hyo Sung and Hee Joo. He got married to leave the house, but he feels guilty about leaving HS the adult in a dysfunctional household. He was determined to raise his kids differently than his father, but his wife turned into an expensive helicopter mom. They stay together for their kids future and not their own.

Hyo Joon and Mirim. Another incompatible pair: he lacks the drive and confidence to succeed because he has been pampered his entire adult life. She is smart professionally but dumb socially. She works (we think because we don’t see it) at a major law firm. They never dated. They are forced by circumstance to be bickering roommates.

Hyo Do and Tae Hee. Thank goodness Tae Hee left this marriage of convenience because HD was constantly taking advantage of her work ethic and later attempt to tap into her wealthy status. HD is one of those guys who has “quick rich” ideas but no competence to find his easy life of leisure while Tae Hee is rich but does not want a life of leisure because she wants self-respect and self-esteem as her own person. They had no common personal goals to even consider a real relationship. Any ship of theirs sank at the dock.

Tae Min and Soo Kyung. Another ship that sank before it left the harbor. They could have been a power couple but their marriage started with end game resentment against each other. It was doomed to fail.

Jin Bum and Sook Hyang. A nuclear waste dump of a marriage. Her motivation was that of a golddigger who latched on to an insecure, drunken and foolish chaebol heir. Her toxic behavior of gaslighting JB into alcoholism and mental instability was abusive control. For JB this is not a marriage but a harsh prison.

“ Despite Ha Joon's radiant smile, his simpering aegyo just doesn't do it for me” me either, though lord knows I want to like it

From those two, I think Hyoshim is better with jokester Taeho who makes her laugh and who she can scold than with Taemin who is way too serious and who in case of a problem would give her a silent treatment. I also can't imagine Taemin with a vacuum cleaner 😄😄
(he could do the curry though... maybe 😆).

Anyway I honestly don't care much anymore, Hyoshim seems to be happy with Taeho and love him, so be it.

I'm afraid Tae Min does nothing for me as he behaved abominable for the first 40 episodes. Even at his best, he was busy lecturing people, going on a monologue about himself (yawn). He is driven by one thing: duty, particularly filial duty and he only improved from his insufferable v.1 because his parents "changed", so we have v.2, which is much better but a bit too late for me. Someone like that would be awful to be romantically inclined with (as HS and SK can attest to). I'll take the emotionally intelligent, kind, caring, emphatic, jokey Tae Ho anytime. Anyway, I find him adorable, as Hyo Shim does.

Yes, you are right to point out that mom is not only a totally infantile narcissist but a hypocrite of the first order. Unlike the more normal Chaebol family/'commoner' set-up this Chaebol family is far more likely to treasure Hyo-shim than mistreat her: That was fully demonstrated when Grandma went to her oldest son to ask him to hold off on turning himself in until after Tae-ho gets married. If she saw Hyo-shim as a cheap gold digger then she would not have done this. Instead, she sees Hyo-shim as someone that Tae-ho has to have in his life.

I agree that this may not look like 'independence' but what does independence mean? It means being in charge of one's life. Hyo-shim is choosing the direction of marrying into the Kang family against her mother's wishes. One of the most revealing things about these episodes is that we finally see that it was never really about money with her mom: It was about controlling Hyo-shim (And Hyo-jun- he is studying for the Bar at her commend). Once you understand the fundamental narcissism of the mom you can see that it drove the dysfunction in this family (and was probably the real reason that Dear Old Dad left in the first place).

The one thing that has been consistent in this show is that writer-nim is dependent on surprises to keep our interest. Amnesia? Why not.

The neglect of Tae-min and his marriage was a nearly criminal act by this writer. Had writer-nim followed through with that and reduced the mom's tantrum scenes this would have risen to being one of the best weekenders. Really, would anything having been wrong with also giving Tae-min a happy ending?

Mi-rim was also criminally neglected. Properly speaking she should be seen as adding an element to Hyo-shim's family that would be analogous, though different, to what Hyo-shim brings to the Chaebol family: Hyo-shim brings them heart, but just as you suggest Mi-rim brings to the Lee family a true voice of reason, which they desperately need after being dominated by their irrational mother for so long.