Bionic arms. The hero’s desire to live a hermit life is all because he wears prosthetics. Boohoo. Boofuckinghoo.

His narration in Episode 2 deceived me into imagining that he kept a dark and monstrous secret. Like, he could kill the planet with a sneeze.

His voiceover: On a daily basis, there are about two hundred and sixty thousand people who pass through or work in this place. There is only one thing I wish for. That my true identity is not revealed. I’m attentive to my daily duties without drawing any attention to myself. I don’t have the need to befriend anyone so that no one will remember anything special or odd about me.

By the end of Episode 3, his angst-ridden secret was revealed to be nothing more than a bionic arm. What a crock! He craved isolation and anonymity because he possessed an arm with superhuman strength.

This conceit of this plot is astounding, and the logic is specious. I seriously wonder what the scriptwriter has for brains to come up with a character like this. Isn’t Special Olympics televised in South Korea? Are amputees invisible members of society? Aren’t there war veterans, diabetic patients and cancer survivors with limb losses?

Now, I’ve lost sympathy for the male lead. That voiceover in Episode 2 has turned out to be misleading. It sounds whiny and whining to me. I would edit it to include THIS warning instead —

On a daily basis, there are hundreds, thousands, millions of nameless people with disabilities who struggle and brave this world. Meanwhile, our hero acts like his special power is the only debilitating handicap there is around here.

But I stand corrected, too. In my review of Episode 2, I expressed a wish that the female lead be matched with somebody else. I understood now that the stars must have realigned and conspired to land them for each other. lol.  She was the Coworker from Hell for a reason. She was heaven-sent to get the male lead out of his self-absorption.

Again, I found the female lead insufferably incompetent at work.

Take for instance, the work reassignment. Although her official transfer caught her off-guard, any competent employee would have armed herself with background info before complaining to her Manager and creating a ruckus in public.

Then, upon arriving at their new job site, she created another spectacle of herself.  Sure, she was intimidated but a professional employee would have introduced herself to the team civilly. I don’t care if the new boss was Freddy Krueger, how hard could it be to smile and nod to him when he obviously couldn’t kill her in front of multiple witnesses?

Instead, she ducked and cowered behind a signage stand, like a five-year-old terrified to attend her first day of school.

Infantile behavior.

It was too predictable that her childish behavior would cause this mishap and mark her down as awkward and inept to her newcolleagues.

The antithesis of cute-meet.

Note to scriptwriter: It’s downright degrading to depict grown-ass women behaving like fucking idiots and social misfits for laughs in kdramas. 😒😡

All day long this young lady girl created trouble. By the time the script tried to turn the tide in the 40th minute, and depict her as a long-suffering, brow-beaten and timid employee, it was too little, too late for this particular viewer.

She could NOT convince me when she ha…half…stutt…stuttered tha…that she…she… was the one who deserved an apology because of her mistreatment at the hand of the passenger.

Why?

Because she was the one who VOLUNTEERED to put herself in that situation and demean herself. Her Manager (oh god! She’s a saint!) ordered her to stay out of it.

Her Manager was covering for her by insisting on being given ample time to properly assess the situation. Her Manager was defending her by pushing back the Big Boss’ demand for an apology.

But the girl didn’t see that. Because of her stupid persecution complex (“Here they go attacking me again! I’ve no choice but to say sorry! I’ll always lose out to the big powers.”) she DEFIED her Manager’s order and decided to go it alone. She went over her Manager’s head and chose to apologize to the abusive passenger. Sorrynotsorry.

Your fault, girl. Own it. 

This Episode 3 was an eye-opener to me.

I was supposed to feel sorry for the girl’s forced humiliation at the hand of a rich girl. But to me, both the abusive passenger and the lead female character of this kdrama were similarly obnoxious and spoilt. The major difference between their obnoxious behaviors is a matter of degree. That is, the passenger is worse than the girl but they were both girls I would despise to have around me in my workplace. 😒😡

The passenger is obviously spoilt because she abuses her Elite Status to get what she wants. But the girl is spoilt in her own particular way, too. She gets what she wants whenever she plays her poor-little-misunderstood-girl Victim Card.

I’ve zero sympathy for the lead female character, and I’ve even less for the scriptwriter. 🤦‍♀️

Bae Suzy really dodged a bullet when she rejected this script.