Immediately after I sent this post I remembered that Su-Mi does also try to get Young-Woo disgraced and fired which is a little villainous
Haha, that's true! I'd forgotten about that too!
but I'll agree that some more nuanced takes from the main cast would have been a good thing.
I didn't even need them from the main cast! It would have been fine if everyone in Woo-young's life hates her--but at least a side character could have said something positive about her!
A victory for the mother who cares about her son, and for the person who is able to do the right thing at personal cost; and for the young woman who was once willing to take a huge risk to let Young-Woo's father have the child he wanted.
I get that, but to me it feels like saying that motherhood is more important than anything else. And of course I do think that once you have children, you should make them your priority, but I think it could have been written in such a way that she both chooses her child AND gets what she wants re: her career.
Yeah, the ROK has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, and a TON of it has to do with the intense pressure they put on children re: schooling and getting into the best university and then getting the best job. It's very, very intense and I thought that episode handled it well. I was 100% on the side of Bang Gu-Ppong and frankly would have watched a whole show about him!
Yes, I would say that 95% of Korean dramas are limited series, designed from the start to be a single season. The whole second season thing is becoming more common because of the reach of Netflix, but beyond a few that became big hits outside of Asia (Kingdom, Age of Youth, etc.), it still almost never happens.
I just hope we get Young-Woo and Jun-Ho as a stable couple throughout, I've had quite enough back and forth there XD
Agreed. I think the back-and-forth made a degree of sense, more so than is usual in such situations, but if there is a second season, they should definitely move on from that.
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Haha, that's true! I'd forgotten about that too!
but I'll agree that some more nuanced takes from the main cast would have been a good thing.
I didn't even need them from the main cast! It would have been fine if everyone in Woo-young's life hates her--but at least a side character could have said something positive about her!
A victory for the mother who cares about her son, and for the person who is able to do the right thing at personal cost; and for the young woman who was once willing to take a huge risk to let Young-Woo's father have the child he wanted.
I get that, but to me it feels like saying that motherhood is more important than anything else. And of course I do think that once you have children, you should make them your priority, but I think it could have been written in such a way that she both chooses her child AND gets what she wants re: her career.
Yeah, the ROK has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, and a TON of it has to do with the intense pressure they put on children re: schooling and getting into the best university and then getting the best job. It's very, very intense and I thought that episode handled it well. I was 100% on the side of Bang Gu-Ppong and frankly would have watched a whole show about him!
Yes, I would say that 95% of Korean dramas are limited series, designed from the start to be a single season. The whole second season thing is becoming more common because of the reach of Netflix, but beyond a few that became big hits outside of Asia (Kingdom, Age of Youth, etc.), it still almost never happens.
I just hope we get Young-Woo and Jun-Ho as a stable couple throughout, I've had quite enough back and forth there XD
Agreed. I think the back-and-forth made a degree of sense, more so than is usual in such situations, but if there is a second season, they should definitely move on from that.