I also have heard good things about Moon. As for Its ok I’m not a fan of mental heath dramas and I hear it ends sad. I’m hearing so many people say that about Tears. Although the ratings were off the chart, many beanies were not impressed. Thanks for the suggestions

I've been missing some notifications for last 2 weeks or so - very few, with no obvious pattern to it. They do not reappear later - I only find out someone replied to/tagged me after scrolling down the whole thread. And some are simply few hours late, but that's probably normal lag issue on weekends...

@kdrama-bunny I want to apologize for my critical comment about Yoo in-ah. It was petty and mean and did nothing but be critical of you for liking her. I do not want to be that kind of person and I’m sorry

Having read Lee Soo-yeon's interview and knowing her habits of conveying her POV on controversial topics primarily through her protagonist, in this case Ja-yoo, I would venture to say that LSY sides with BF's overall stance on synthetic meat even if she doesn't portray all of her actions in a good light. The conservative, anti-environmentalist POV put forward by the demonstrators and BF's critics and supposed "victims" provides a realistic snapshot of actual mainstream Koreans above a certain age, I believe they aren't included by the writer to stand for the "right way of thinking", but to represent realistic and understandable resistance/conflict that would arise in the real world if and when a company like BF comes along. The writer is saying that these people have valid concerns and complaints, but she stops short at either endorsing or debunking their viewpoints. Judging by the Korean audience's sometimes irrational reactions whenever corporate is pitted against civilians even in a fictional world, my guess is that the writer chose to not make her personal stance too stark to avoid backlash.

Side effect of mandatory military service on k-drama fans: Immediate need to watch the first post-service drama

I haven't watched the drama, so I'm not sure which category it belongs to and thus why people wanted more depth from good (I mean, evil) ol' scheming minister (?) guy. Were there other problems with the show - pace, writing etc? Or perhaps his motivation wasn't written in/performed very convincingly? Or good guys were just too interesting and he looked bland in comparison - there can be many reasons. Sometimes it's almost an intuitive thing - viewers feel that SOMETHING is off/lacking, but cannot properly articulate, what exactly, and in the end it becomes a case of "X wasn't all that".

No worries. It’s really a common thing, especially among females. lol. No, it can’t be 99 out of 100. 20 out of hundred, the most. Maybe some of your patrons are drunk or on drugs? In my state’s public libraries there are lots of people doing drugs in the bathrooms. That’s why they closed them.
Most people don’t realize what it is, and it’s the least of their health issues, but I’ve stumbled on it while studying psychology.

*Hyun. Kim Soo Hyun. He isn’t the best Korean actor in his age category, but I love him and watch everything with him… as long as I like the story he is in, and can stand other actors -I’m in. Queen of Tears I watched until episode 12, and it was fine. After ep.12 it was mostly on fast forward, the plot got annoying, but I finished it.
There is another drama on Netflix with KSH - It’s Ok Not To Be Ok (2020). Many people loved. I did not. The story is a romance with the dark fairy tale elements and mental patients hospital. The FL lead is very beautiful and talented, but I didn’t like her attitude as a character and the actress.

First of all, another excellent recap, @solstices, thoughtful discussion of the episodes.
I find this show interesting on a number of levels, even though there it definitely has its comic book sci-fi elements which seem kind of cliched to me. Speaking of those, I wouldn't mind a holographic projection of Han Hyo-joo in my living room. (I don't think my wife would like it, though.)

I kind of feel by adding the issue of medical equality to the range of themes it is already trying to tackle might be too much, especially since there are only 2 more episodes.
Also, these episodes seemed to suggest that in her drive to save humankind, Ja-yoo had victimized farmers and fisherman. Here, the show's politics veer toward the conservative and anti-environmental politics.
Just to start on a brief rant: in real life the villain is not a corporation trying to produce a blood-free meat substitute, but giant corporate farms that produce actual meat. The show could have easily balanced its perspective by making the "Dorson" coporation a huge agribusiness firm, but instead, it has the giant corporate monopoly producing a meat and fish substitute.

In real life, I guess you could make an argument that fisherman themselves weren't responsible for overfishing and depleting the oceans, but still, they haven't exactly been wise stewards. As for farming--it is no longer the domain of individual farmers, but rather ruthless global agribusinesses, which use all sorts of technology in nefarious ways such as gene modification to promote use of particular products and anti-biotics to encourage animal growth (promoting bacterial immunity and causing human "superbugs" that are untreatable)
In fact, here in the U.S., its not being alarmist to think that we will soon be suffering from a human avian flu pandemic, because of the disease promoting chicken "farms" holding 10s of thousands chickens at a time, and shipping millions of chickens a year around the country and then the avian flu propagated by those conditions jumping to dairy farms that hold 10,000 cows at time, and then the cow variant of the avian flu jumping to humans.
What bugged me is that the show actually mentioned avian flu as something that the farmers sacrificed for, rather than something the corporate farming industry actually encouraged! Let me tell you, faced with the avian flu pandemic, I'd prefer the world of "Blood Free" especially if they expanded that holographic tech to include some other kdrama actresses!

Congrats on your return to work. I am also impressed with the forward planning re posting here, it looks like you are implementing your newly developed self care strategies well ☺️