Might be that I’m not paying close attention anymore, but does anybody understand what’s happening in Cheat on Me, If You Can? It’s sort of flying over my head at this point. Who’s the young guy who tried to assault Mi-rae?
That is Mi Rae fiance, I think. Its pretty clear the whole fiasco with the murder and everything else ties back to Yeo Joo’s mystery….whatever traumatized her, hurt her has sort of followed her like a shadow till now. There are two political parties hell bent on using Yeo Joo or silencing Yeo Joo and somehow they are all very close to Yeo Joo that one or both don’t want her dead but in control….they are trying to outsmart her and each other. Yeo Joo’s cheating husband, his anchor friend/mistress, Mi Rae all got caught up in the cross hair of it all. I am just waiting for Su Ho to catch up on it. Yeo Joo is lonely, she has the exterior of this unfeeling, monster, psychotic writer but the women is traumatized and is hiding. I am 100% sure she is being willfully ignorant to her husband’s cheating cause she is scared on some level to let go of the one person who held on to her when her mask slipped, her vulnerability got outed. She needs one person in her corner firmly. I am counting on Su Ho.
Thank you for the quick summary! It’s helpful. I feel like I’m not keyed into this show at all this point, so I’ve (quite literally) lost the plot.
I am only watching this because I like Cho Yeo-jeong and Kim Young-dae. I would like their characters together, romantically, as friends, or just as a proper mentor-mentee relationship. I like their hijinks and I think these are the better characters in this show, perhaps because they are well-acted (although Go Joon is doing fine as well; it’s his character than sucks). The weird cheating angle is really really grating on me, the cop characters are just bumbling idiots at this point, HSW and his assistant/secretary are slime, and Mi-rae is just so poorly-acted and such a weak character. The spy angle is also not working for me anymore. As for the mystery at the heart of this show, I think they’ve been too tight-lipped. We’re 75% done and I still feel frustrated and too out of the know. I feel like a good mystery does a good job of revealing things and maintaining secrets. This show hasn’t struck the right balance.
I feel like this show never needed the cheating husband angle to the who dunnit mystery involving the writer who writes elaborate crime novels with a deliciously complicated past. I think its safe to say at this point with confidence that Yeo Joo is no killer. I don’t know if its the acting but all I see during some of the moments is a hurt, little young girl who has a wall up. And this girl is crazy smart. I think she is well aware of a lot of things and just willfully chooses to be ignorant. So, I have no interest in the cheating husband and his new college student. The show didn’t need any of it. I think they’d start peeling back the layers starting next week and we’ll circle back to the opening week now. But where the writing shines is with Yeo Joo and Su Ho and where it has failed miserably is with the husband, mistress and his buddies. The cops are bumbling fools, they are so fixated on Yeo Joo that they are not even trying to dig deep. So even I am starting to get impatient but I want to know what happened badly. One more thing, Yeo Joo’s book was named “The Secret Prayer Room” ….it gives me serious cult with sex abuse scandal vibe. But we’ll have to wait and find out.
@gem28 You’ve read my mind regarding this show. I watched this week’s first episode and I kept on thinking, “How come this show couldn’t be just about our mysterious writer?”
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Maq
January 14, 2021 at 6:29 PM
Might be that I’m not paying close attention anymore, but does anybody understand what’s happening in Cheat on Me, If You Can? It’s sort of flying over my head at this point. Who’s the young guy who tried to assault Mi-rae?
gem28
January 14, 2021 at 9:19 PM
That is Mi Rae fiance, I think. Its pretty clear the whole fiasco with the murder and everything else ties back to Yeo Joo’s mystery….whatever traumatized her, hurt her has sort of followed her like a shadow till now. There are two political parties hell bent on using Yeo Joo or silencing Yeo Joo and somehow they are all very close to Yeo Joo that one or both don’t want her dead but in control….they are trying to outsmart her and each other. Yeo Joo’s cheating husband, his anchor friend/mistress, Mi Rae all got caught up in the cross hair of it all. I am just waiting for Su Ho to catch up on it. Yeo Joo is lonely, she has the exterior of this unfeeling, monster, psychotic writer but the women is traumatized and is hiding. I am 100% sure she is being willfully ignorant to her husband’s cheating cause she is scared on some level to let go of the one person who held on to her when her mask slipped, her vulnerability got outed. She needs one person in her corner firmly. I am counting on Su Ho.
Maq
January 14, 2021 at 9:32 PM
Thank you for the quick summary! It’s helpful. I feel like I’m not keyed into this show at all this point, so I’ve (quite literally) lost the plot.
I am only watching this because I like Cho Yeo-jeong and Kim Young-dae. I would like their characters together, romantically, as friends, or just as a proper mentor-mentee relationship. I like their hijinks and I think these are the better characters in this show, perhaps because they are well-acted (although Go Joon is doing fine as well; it’s his character than sucks). The weird cheating angle is really really grating on me, the cop characters are just bumbling idiots at this point, HSW and his assistant/secretary are slime, and Mi-rae is just so poorly-acted and such a weak character. The spy angle is also not working for me anymore. As for the mystery at the heart of this show, I think they’ve been too tight-lipped. We’re 75% done and I still feel frustrated and too out of the know. I feel like a good mystery does a good job of revealing things and maintaining secrets. This show hasn’t struck the right balance.
gem28
January 14, 2021 at 9:40 PM
I feel like this show never needed the cheating husband angle to the who dunnit mystery involving the writer who writes elaborate crime novels with a deliciously complicated past. I think its safe to say at this point with confidence that Yeo Joo is no killer. I don’t know if its the acting but all I see during some of the moments is a hurt, little young girl who has a wall up. And this girl is crazy smart. I think she is well aware of a lot of things and just willfully chooses to be ignorant. So, I have no interest in the cheating husband and his new college student. The show didn’t need any of it. I think they’d start peeling back the layers starting next week and we’ll circle back to the opening week now. But where the writing shines is with Yeo Joo and Su Ho and where it has failed miserably is with the husband, mistress and his buddies. The cops are bumbling fools, they are so fixated on Yeo Joo that they are not even trying to dig deep. So even I am starting to get impatient but I want to know what happened badly. One more thing, Yeo Joo’s book was named “The Secret Prayer Room” ….it gives me serious cult with sex abuse scandal vibe. But we’ll have to wait and find out.
korfan
January 15, 2021 at 3:00 AM
@gem28 You’ve read my mind regarding this show. I watched this week’s first episode and I kept on thinking, “How come this show couldn’t be just about our mysterious writer?”