summerfancy
US
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Disappointing
I left this drama with a bad taste in my mouth. Although the ending was acceptable, I was not happy with it because I really didn’t see how Ji-Hun was better than Derek…other than the fact that he was a cop who caught spies while Derek was a spy. Both men kept their careers a secret from FL. I can understand Derek doing so (after all, FL did exactly what he feared she’d do once she found out), but I don’t understand why Ji-Hun felt the need to hide his from her. There’s nothing shameful in being an Interpol agent. If FL had such a gigantic issue about her husbands lying to her about what they did for a living, then she shouldn’t have ended up with either one of them.
Yeah, I’m a Derek fan, and I think his character got the shaft in this drama. He was royally screwed by his mother AND his wife. The wife insisted that he leave the life he’d been trained from childhood to live and then she goes bat crap crazy when her world starts falling down around her ears. Derek, of course, gets the blame. Hey, sister, you were the one that insisted he stop being a spy to save your marriage. Did you think it was going to be easy? Not only that but he has to leave the spy game with the help of his wife’s ex who just happens to still be in love with her. We, the viewers, are constantly told that Derek is selfish, cold and calculating with a fake smile yet he basically gives up everything for this wife of his. Yeah, he runs away in the end, but I don’t blame him one bit. He gave FL the opportunity to disappear with him and start a new life, but she refused because she had to find Sophie’s killer…so don’t tell me that she was ‘abandoned’, ok? In my opinion, she abandoned him. Derek’s character was the most interesting yet he’s the one that gets shafted the most. We’re constantly told he’s a scumbag, but I just don’t see it, and I would have preferred his character being redeemed with his marriage healed and happy once again. If the scriptwriter wanted her to end up with her ex, they went about it the wrong way, and I disliked the feeling that she was actually cheating on Derek despite her and Ji-Hun not exchanging anything but hugs.
FL – although she’d supposed to be a strong, independent, professional woman, I no longer felt sympathy for her once she went bat crap crazy on Derek in episode 15. She totally forgot that he’d been instrumental in bringing down his own mother, that she’d forced him to choose between the two of them, that he was in the hospital because he’d taken the hit by Tinker’s car instead of her. Everything is suddenly all Derek’s fault. Pardon me, but I think it was her prying into Sophie’s death that started this whole ball rolling. It wasn’t as if Sophie was her best friend either yet she was obsessed with finding this woman’s killer. If she hadn’t started prying, she could have remained in blissful ignorance so some of the responsibility for her situation in episode 15 was hers. I wanted her to suffer long and hard when she thought Derek was dead. Not only that but she’s partnering up with her ex-husband who’s obviously still in love with her. Love and regret are dripping out of Ji-Hun’s eyes and yet she makes her current husband turn himself over to this man. That’s just clueless, showing no respect for Derek’s feelings. I mean how humiliating to have to turn yourself over to your wife’s ex! By the end, I disliked this woman because she threw all the blame on Derek when she instigated this whole mess and then insisted on Derek giving up his spy career. She was not abandoned. He gave her the opportunity to start a new life with him, and she turned him down. She claims in episode 16 that out of love, she tried to accept him as he was – that’s total BS. As soon as she found out he’s a spy, she insisted on him leaving his career and turning himself in. That’s not accepting him; that’s an attempt to forcibly change him since she threatened that if he didn’t, their marriage was over. This woman is just full of self-righteous baloney.
Just an aside, there was more chemistry between Derek and Ji-Hun than FL with either of these two leads.
The supporting cast wasn’t as memorable as I would expect from a Korean drama. The most interesting supporting character was Doo Bong. Young Goo was cute, but I wasn’t crazy about his crush on the cynical, tough girl Seo-Ra.
That’s about all I have to say about this train wreck. The action, story line felt slow, the only twist was who ‘Mrs. Big’ was, and I definitely was not satisfied with the ending.
Yeah, I’m a Derek fan, and I think his character got the shaft in this drama. He was royally screwed by his mother AND his wife. The wife insisted that he leave the life he’d been trained from childhood to live and then she goes bat crap crazy when her world starts falling down around her ears. Derek, of course, gets the blame. Hey, sister, you were the one that insisted he stop being a spy to save your marriage. Did you think it was going to be easy? Not only that but he has to leave the spy game with the help of his wife’s ex who just happens to still be in love with her. We, the viewers, are constantly told that Derek is selfish, cold and calculating with a fake smile yet he basically gives up everything for this wife of his. Yeah, he runs away in the end, but I don’t blame him one bit. He gave FL the opportunity to disappear with him and start a new life, but she refused because she had to find Sophie’s killer…so don’t tell me that she was ‘abandoned’, ok? In my opinion, she abandoned him. Derek’s character was the most interesting yet he’s the one that gets shafted the most. We’re constantly told he’s a scumbag, but I just don’t see it, and I would have preferred his character being redeemed with his marriage healed and happy once again. If the scriptwriter wanted her to end up with her ex, they went about it the wrong way, and I disliked the feeling that she was actually cheating on Derek despite her and Ji-Hun not exchanging anything but hugs.
FL – although she’d supposed to be a strong, independent, professional woman, I no longer felt sympathy for her once she went bat crap crazy on Derek in episode 15. She totally forgot that he’d been instrumental in bringing down his own mother, that she’d forced him to choose between the two of them, that he was in the hospital because he’d taken the hit by Tinker’s car instead of her. Everything is suddenly all Derek’s fault. Pardon me, but I think it was her prying into Sophie’s death that started this whole ball rolling. It wasn’t as if Sophie was her best friend either yet she was obsessed with finding this woman’s killer. If she hadn’t started prying, she could have remained in blissful ignorance so some of the responsibility for her situation in episode 15 was hers. I wanted her to suffer long and hard when she thought Derek was dead. Not only that but she’s partnering up with her ex-husband who’s obviously still in love with her. Love and regret are dripping out of Ji-Hun’s eyes and yet she makes her current husband turn himself over to this man. That’s just clueless, showing no respect for Derek’s feelings. I mean how humiliating to have to turn yourself over to your wife’s ex! By the end, I disliked this woman because she threw all the blame on Derek when she instigated this whole mess and then insisted on Derek giving up his spy career. She was not abandoned. He gave her the opportunity to start a new life with him, and she turned him down. She claims in episode 16 that out of love, she tried to accept him as he was – that’s total BS. As soon as she found out he’s a spy, she insisted on him leaving his career and turning himself in. That’s not accepting him; that’s an attempt to forcibly change him since she threatened that if he didn’t, their marriage was over. This woman is just full of self-righteous baloney.
Just an aside, there was more chemistry between Derek and Ji-Hun than FL with either of these two leads.
The supporting cast wasn’t as memorable as I would expect from a Korean drama. The most interesting supporting character was Doo Bong. Young Goo was cute, but I wasn’t crazy about his crush on the cynical, tough girl Seo-Ra.
That’s about all I have to say about this train wreck. The action, story line felt slow, the only twist was who ‘Mrs. Big’ was, and I definitely was not satisfied with the ending.
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