9.0/10 - Oh, my drama!! So intense!!!!!!!

I've said it before that while there are flavors of romance between Ji An and Dong Hoon it's been more friendship/camaraderie between them. I'd be fine with them being just friends. Except this episode is so beautiful. Seeing Dong Hoon give the bar guy free consultations for his building, and he'd been setup and doing it for quite a while, was so sweet. Dong Hoon loves his work! Ji An gives him a hard time for being such a good guy, but you can see how touched she is by it. Their conversation as Dong Hoon walk Ji An home is so wonderful. I felt like it was one of the first real conversations they had. One for the sake of just being comfortable and talking together. Of course there's shadow cast by Loan Shark stalking Ji An.

I didn't mention it in my last episode review just encase of spoilers (I just don't like to label for spoilers), but if you're reading this you should have watched last episode. Ji An's running to share that chilling conversation as to why Joon Yeong is having an affair with Yoon Hee with Yoon Hee was epic. Getting hit by the car was a bit too much, but the affect was grand. Having a murder tell her what a idiot she was for having an affair with Yoon Hee must have been one heck of a slap to the face. Then to have Ji An tell her "to get it together!" Ha-ha, Yoon Hee was living in a dream world. Once she woke up she could see more of the truth of what Yoon Hee was doing. It's interesting that for a while Yoon Hee was fired up to win. Ignoring his calls and letting him know it was over. Yoon Hee's panic never felt like the loss of love. Maybe he does feel something, but I don't think it's love. I felt like it was a man who realized that he had lost the toy he had stolen from anther man. A toy that had become done with him. Yoon Hee doesn't know it's Dong Hoon that is getting the pay phone removed, but she believes that Yoon Hee was tragically trying to end their relationship. Maybe she can now see that he wanted her because she was Dong Hoon's wife. Even she can admit that she could never see them getting married. A concern that Dong Hoon new from the beginning. It was all powerful. Her wraith broke down fast, but I do believe she was in love in away. Realizing the kind of man she had been in love with. Blind enough to help bring down her own husband. A man she knows is good. Joon Yeong tries to act heroic and make himself shine in a better light. Switch things off onto her. I'm just happy she sees who he really is.

It's interesting hearing the other directors say that Dong Hoon has no flaws. That even after Dong Hoon says he doesn't want the role of director that he still wants to be out in the field doing real work they will promote him. I get it though. I wouldn't want to be a director, I'd want to be in the thick of the work. I wonder if it's a reflection on Korean society. You're a senior and they're supposed to get respect and advance. Is that why the get laid off after 20 years and no one will higher them? It's unseemly to have an older person working along side younger? That's just silly. That creates huge problems. I feel like I am missing something. The best workers tend to be the ones more matured and experienced.

So Dong Hoon's son is abroad at a private school. That's interesting. Seems that despite the distance the son and Dong Hoon/Yoon Hee have a good relationship. I thought the kid would be older even after seeing only young pictures. The whole thing about them having a kid feels so weird. Just the way the writing pretty much screamed that the kid was dead. Then, oh yeah, we need to include him. Surprise he's alive! Feels like bad writing.

It was interesting seeing both sister-in-laws, brothers, and mom all together. I doo feel bad for Yoon Hee. Dong Hoon's mom and eldest brother's wife just constantly poke at her. Oh, you're a working woman we can't make you work more or help us! Oh, poke. Poke. Only Gi Hoon defends Yoon Hee. I feel like if Dong Hoon just said one thing his mother would ease up, thus the other wife would too. Yoon Hee feels outside of his family. They'r so tight it seems like they don't let anyone in, but clearly the other wife is on the same footing.

The Loan Shark has been totally adding the smell of blood. He's stalking Ji An and figuring out the importance of Dong Hoon to her. This boy is jealous! It is no longer about his dad. He believes that Ji An is his. He's twisted about her and plans to do whatever he wants with her. He's obsessed and his obsession is being twisted by his already dark soul. Clearly this man/boy is gonna add blood to the water soon. Okay. So I know I'm kind of mucking up my shark anthologies/metaphors, but I think it gets my point across.

Yoo Ra (the actress) won everyone's hearts over in the last episode saying that she was happy that others found happiness even after failing. Basically saying she was a failure too and that she was happy to see it's okay for her being happy as one. This episode we get to see that maybe Gi Hoon may have been horrible to her. Maybe Yoo Ra had a crush on him, but his rudeness may have been what broke her. So that she doesn't want to act again because she's afraid everyone will chew her out. I feel like they've setup a darker story about Gi Hoon. Under the surface he's been a mean and not nice guy. Maybe he got carried away with Yoo Ra. Even a simply hug was extremely hard for him to give.

When confronted with information, or at least Joon Yeong's opinion, that Dong Hoon really likes Ji An she is happy. For money she still has to spy on him and help Joon Yeong. She's going to come to a fork in the road. She was finally willing to show her on fangs to Loan Shark in order to protect Dong Hoon. Romance may be blossoming now. I still don't understand why Ji An owes Loan Shark anything now! He broke in!!!!!! Not to mention that he beat up Ji An's friend!! (Who hasn't been developed more! I mean with this kind of writing they shouldn't just have him there to be the tech guy. Lazy!! Bad!) I'm at the edge of my seat with where the next episode is going to go.

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