Finally, this drama is ending.
1. gifs from moonlightsdream’s tumblr
I’m crossing my finger that JongHo’s loyalty and support don’t become a plot twist in the end. If he’s a good guy, I want IK to reciprocate his feelings and marry him. I don’t want her to end up like Jo in the movie.
gifs from dailyflicks’ tumblr
2. gifs from mostlyfate’s tumblr
Why is that I find him looking at her with amusement more romantic than him gazing at her with desire?
Maybe because I take his amusement as an indication that he’s into her despite her acting stupid and causing him more headache than he expected.
3. gifs from seawherethesunsets’ tumblr
IK’s ploy was too obvious. By drawing comparisons between Choi Doil and IJ’s ex-husband, IK was warning her sister that Choi Doil is a NO GOOD, con artist like her ex, and that she shouldn’t fall for the same scam twice.
But Choi Doil wasn’t bothered. He simply smiled and simped harder. (simp = to ingratiate himself; to try too hard to impress the girl). He wanted his flattery to make IK even cringe more. lol.
4. gifs from bleuhappiness’ tumblr
Note: we can identify the things that the mysterious hand flicked from the birdcage.
the car = the staged car accidents causing the deaths of Director Shin and the bank informant
the toy soldier = the toy that Mr. Park stole from Won SangWon, the ex-CEO and brother of Mrs. Park
the red rectangular object = the bricks IJ used to stuff the luggage
the yellow ball/marble = we’re still looking for the significance.
As for significance of the kimchee being served the sister at the “Last Supper”? I don’t know.
We know their mom, Mrs Oh, prepared for them kimchee before she left with the money. IK seems to love her mother’s kimchee. Even IJ couldn’t fault the taste of her mom’s cooking although she ordered IK to throw it all away because she didn’t want to be reminded of their selfish mom.
But we can’t forget that there was another person who made kimchee for IK. It’s JongHo.
In the end, the three sisters will escape the dollhouse that the mad puppetmaster, Mrs. Park, has made for them. In Episodes 8/9, she referred many times to writing her a play in which she made the sisters act a part.
IJ: Why was this all necessary?
Mrs. Park: I told you. I like secret plays. It’s my way of playing with dolls in this boring world. In this play, you were the lead. They’re great actors, right? Did you know. You get surprised so easily. I love it when you make that face. You’re like a little child looking for her mom.
IJ: Since when did I start playing the part of the lead?
Mrs. Park: From the day I first met you. The interview was your audition. I told you, right? I liked you from the first moment I saw you. A poor girl who seemed so hopeful. It was touching. What will happen if she becomes an outcast? Will she lose her spirit, get depressed, or be in pain? Hwayoung developed your character. A friend to an outcast. That was her character.
IJ: You made her act in your play, too?
IJ couldn’t believe that because as poor people/outcasts, the two of them bonded against people like Mrs. Park. As I said before, Mrs. Park was gaslighting her here.
Mrs. Park: Hwayoung is my favorite character. I taught her everything she knew.
IJ: Then, why did you kill her?
Mrs. Park: Whenever I see someone, I can see their death within them. Hwayoung seemed perfect for that. A poor woman who loved luxury items. A woman who believed her life would change after a series of plastic surgeries. Someone who died a meaningless death after getting caught embezzling money.
IJ: That’s not what Hyayoung Unnie was.
And then, Mrs. Park told her what she had planned for her death scene. When IJ foiled her plan, she changed her tune.
Mrs. Park: I’m an artist. I’ll just imagine that I filmed a 70B won blockbuster.
And when Choi DoIl entered the scene unexpectedly, she again had to improvise.
Mrs. Park: You two fought over the money; then she ended up shooting you, and jumped to her death. It’s a nice ending, wouldn’t you say?
If the opening scene is anything to go by, the sisters should escape this whole thing alive. From being “little” women, they’ll grow bigger , wiser, and more formidable than Mrs. Park could ever imagine.
5. gif from heartensun’s tumblr
He actually used the word “some” to describe their relationship. Explanation of the word “some” is here. Bitch Talk: On “Some” Relationships
Let’s enjoy the show!
Hmm…why are the last 2 eps pushed back a day? I thought this was a Sat-Sun release? On Netflix, Ep11 doesn’t drop till Sunday 9Oct and the finale is 10Oct (Monday). And it’s been preproduced so they shouldn’t have any reason to delay it? 🤔. Does it have anything to do with the whole ban from Vietnam due to historical distortion? And they had to do some clever editing in the end? 🤔.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/vietnam-requests-netflix-remove-little-women-k-drama-war-distortion-2989141
Whatever.
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@nrllee,
On Netflix USA, there’s no program schedule change. The show is still on for Sat Oct 8 and Sun Oct 9.
Hmm…@packmule3. I will be watching a day later then.
As for the Vietnam War controversy, I view it as part of the growing pains of K-entertainment industry. They are no longer producing content solely for their Korean viewers; they’ve gone international when they hooked up with Netflix.
It’s up to their producers to determine how much influence they will grant foreign/outside interests on the creative process of their native writers, and to manage reasonable expectations of cultural sensitivity. Moving forward, historians of Country XYZ can be hired as consultants in the future when mentioning Country XYZ.
However, I must stress that Korean POV be given precedence over any foreign and international viewpoint. It’s THEIR kdrama, not Vietnam’s. Vietnam can write its own show depicting Koreans as the ruthless murderers that they were during the War if they’re so aggrieved by this. Why don’t they?
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The “Bookkeeper of the future” is back.
The Captain of the Titanic is now rearranging the deck chairs. 😂😂
@pm3, I was surprised at first, but then such a development fits perfectly with the over-the-top sensational storytelling. I will try to go with the flow, just to see what will happen at the end. I am still curious about an explanation.
To be honest, I wasn’t surprised because @nrllee has warned us that this writer would copycat “Squid Game” and do a plot twist/BIG reveal at the end.
That’s why I went straight to the end to see what rabbit 🐰 she’ll put out of her hat as cliffhanger this time. When the door opened and everybody in the courtroom turned around, I facepalmed. I didn’t have to hear the sound of her heels tapping on the floor 👠 or see her heels (I was expecting the Orchid pair of shoes actually!) to know who was coming out that door.
This drama has been makjang all the way. It’s an over-the-top, sensationalized (as you said), melodramatic (even this word is too subdued), outlandish, HISTRIONIC rubbish.
I wonder what the effects are on the mental health of viewers who watch makjang like this drama, day-in and day-out. There’s no way a steady diet of makjang shows can’t lead to an exaggerated emotionality or some sort of maladaptive thinking. 😂
I’ll need to floss my brain (like I floss my teeth) after this whole series is done.
So she (writer) did copycat Squid Game? 🤦🏻♀️ I guess we did leave that option open because Mrs P doesn’t exactly have a green thumb (the hand manipulating everything in the opening credits). She didn’t do any tending of plants at all. The Father Tree did it all for her.
At least with Squid Game there was a clear message in the end. It was very obvious. Here I have serious doubts that there would be any message. The protagonists are morally ambiguous. I don’t align with any of them. Not even Choi Do-il. Give me Alcott’s Little Women any day.
Ep 11
Hospital apple scene – the extended version. Mr P wins pre polls(?) by a margin of over 28%. Mr P says, “it’s time to start over again.” (Huh?). He gazes at the plate of apples Mrs P has peeled for him with a resigned look. Camera pans in on the tray the plate of apples is sitting on…and there it is…the blue orchid. Mr P picks up a fork and pokes it into an apple slice. Mrs P looks apologetic (?). As explained by @packmule3, apple in Korean sounds like “sorry”.
Scene change. Mr P walking to an abandoned building with the blue orchid in his hand. Gazes up at the temporary steel stairwell built alongside the building to get up to the roof. He is a solitary figure as he trudges up those stairs. Dead man walking. Voiceover (Mr P) – I know why you married me…scene flicks back to hospital and plate of apples are all eaten. Mr P picks up the orchid from the tray. Voiceover continues (Mr P) – you knew I would die for you anytime without hesitation. Mr P stands up and mutters to Mrs P, “I’ll get going now.” Mrs P looks almost sad/reluctant to see him go. “Stay a while longer.. I am not done eating yet”, she says. He nods. Voiceover (Mrs P as she looks up at Mr P with a slice of apple on her fork) – why did you marry me? You know I wouldn’t have died for you? Scene change. Mr P back on the roof with his orchid, brings it up to his nose and smells it (maybe to dull his senses?), gives a wan smile and heads resolutely to the edge of the roof.
Back at the Park manor. IH has sent Mrs P a package. She opens it and it’s the picture of the 3 children that she requested IH to paint. Mrs P lets out a sob. Voiceover (Mr P) answering her question above – because when I was 12, my dream was to live with you in this house. I dreamed of marrying you, becoming owner of this house and having everything in this world. Mrs P runs her fingers over the face of PJS in the painting, breaks down and cries. Voiceover (Mrs P) – then you should’ve made it happen at any cost.
O my goodness this flicking back and forth is annoying me. We’re back to the hospital again and we see Mrs P saying to Mr P, “…because you failed, my father and I are in danger now.” Mr P walks over and lays his hand on her head, “you and the General will be safe.” Gives her one last smile, picks up his coat and orchid in hand walks out. Voiceover (Mr P) – I told you I will protect you at all cost. Scene change. Back to the rooftop. Voiceover (Mr P) – even if I had to jump off the highest place in the world. And he takes a dive off the roof…camera stays on the rooftop view of the city lights…ominous thud is heard after a few seconds. We see the orchid fall to the ground as well (maybe he let go of it mid flight?). RIP Mr P.
Mrs P at home summons Ms Go (Mean Lady). She’s testing Ms Go. If she will stay true to the cause. Ms Go affirms that she knows the martyrdom of Mr P was necessary to “save everyone else”. She tells Mrs P she’s willing to accept whatever fate is dealt her way. Mrs P tells her she’s never seen anyone as mean as she is so she’s giving her carte-blanche to do as she pleases. No questions asked. Ms Go asks if that means she can kill IJ and IK. Mrs P says they need to wait for a bit because if they are killed now, it would make her the main suspect behind the murders so they need to bide their time.
IJ staring at the laptop with the zero balance. Bangs on the door. “Ms OIJ? Are you home?” It’s the police. She gets a phone call from a restricted number? But she hangs up. What’s the bet that that was Choi? 😑 Instead she dials IK and tells her the police are here for her. IK tells her hang tight (and she’ll be right there) because they may NOT be cops? Huh? IJ says they are breaking in. IK tells her to try to buy time (how??) but to stay on the phone with her. IJ says she no longer has the money with her and blames Choi for taking it all. 🙄😑. Police break in. Read IJ her rights, cuff her and take her away. IJ drops her phone in the process.
Choi driving his mom. They are being followed. Choi tries to lose them. Other car gets the better of them and rams into them. Both Choi (with bloodied head) and his mom are knocked unconscious.
IK visiting IJ in jail. IJ tells her the 70bil is gone. She’s afraid she’s the scapegoat and she doesn’t even have the money to show for it. She blames Choi. IK informs her that Choi was in a serious accident en route to the airport. But she can’t find out which hospital he’s been taken to? IJ asks hopefully if that means he didn’t betray her after all? Duh. 🙄. Then IJ mentions how Mrs P told her to expect payback. IJ asks IK to find out if Choi survived the accident or not otherwise she will worry about him 🥰. IK nods.
Burial of Mr P. Mrs P shovels some dirt onto the coffin in the ground. Mystery old man Jang SaPyeong is there too. Mrs P plays the grieving widow.
IK at their old home. Watching news on her phone. On the 10th of last month, Jin, a bookkeeper in her 30s withdrew 2bil won from the bank. A few days later she committed suicide in her apartment, disheartened by her circumstances. A woman is seen leaving the yoga studio where Jin was a member (footage of IJ with the backpack), carrying a backpack with all the cash. She is OIJ, a coworker of Jin’s. Footage of Interviews of girls in the company. Everyone knew they were close. They seemed like they were scheming something. At Ms Jin’s funeral, everyone else was grieving but Ms Oh didn’t shed a single tear. All she cares about is money. Footage of Singapore apartments. Where only the richest people live. Newsreader confirms Ms Oh owns a 9th floor apartment. Girls continue piling on “evidence” that IJ was acting strange after Unnie’s death.
Mean lady, mean journalist lady Jang (why do all the women I dislike have the surnames Jang? Imma looking at you Ms Winter 😑) and Mrs P discuss how they need more than hearsay/office gossip to convince everyone that she murdered Unnie. Mean journalist says she will make sure that after the trial is over that everyone will think that IJ is the devil incarnate. Mrs P vetoes her. She wants to control the narrative. She wants everyone to believe that IJ and IK were the people who masterminded PJS’s downfall and death. That the sisters used priest Won to set the trap (murder video) because they wanted the money. Mrs P offers Jang the anchor position if she would be willing to twist the facts enough to get the public to buy her narrative. She reminds Jang of her pledge to the JR society and for her to be willing to do all it takes (like Mr P) to further the cause.
Lawyer and IJ talk. You’re looking at 20 years in prison. IJ is stunned. All I did was take some money out of a locker? I would be 50 when I get out? The lawyer suggests, if she was just concealing criminal profits, then it would be a 7year sentence. IJ insists she even returned most of the 2bil? And someone else has the 70bil now. Not her. Lawyer replies that a crime is committed as soon as the criminal act is completed and the court doesn’t care if you return the money or not. IJ lists all the items she bought…ice cream, lip gloss, a winter coat…that’s all I bought? Lawyer informs her that the prosecution’s case against her is for embezzlement. IJ insists she only profited from the proceeds, she didn’t do any of the embezzlement. 🤦♀️. Even the lawyer rolls his eyes. He explains this is a high profile case and the spotlight is on them. He explains to her that her act of happily taking money that didn’t belong to her had got the public all riled up. And the court is likely to soothe public sentiment by ruling against her. He advises her to plead guilty.
Trial. IJ admits to taking the money. Prosecutor shows a document on the screen, “this company makes software for bookkeepers. Bookkeeper from the future. CEO Jin (Unnie). Director OIJ.” IJ, “I just let her use my name…”. Another witness is being questioned. A picture of Unnie is put up on the screen. IK looks intently at the photo and frowns? Court is in recess. IJ talks to her lawyer and asks if she can get Choi to testify on her behalf. Lawyers looks at his notes and says, “Choi Do-il is testifying on behalf of the prosecution though?” IJ is stunned.
IJ led out of the courthouse into a mob of reporters. It looked like someone was trying to pass her a note but someone knocks that person’s hand out of the way and the note drops to the ground. It’s picked up again by the original person (don’t recognize who this person is).
IK at home searching for something on her laptop. JongHo asks her what she is looking for. IK finds Unnie in one of the photos from the Bank case. So she’s met her before. At the Bobae Bank victim’s meeting back in 2018. Footage of meeting. Unnie is speaking. She saved up 200mil won and gave it to her mother for an apartment. Bank went under and her mother lost all the money and took her own life. Unnie blames the money for causing her mother’s demise. Money is evil she says. IK and JongHo can’t work out why Unnie would go against this statement and embezzle money from the company. IK thinks it wasn’t the money she was after. Flashback to the victim’s meeting. Unnie gives IK a tip off about Mr Kim CheolSong (this was the nephew that died in the car crash – I forget?).
IK meeting with another one of the victims (?). I think this is a flashback? Or not? Who tells her that Unnie was a bit odd. Everyone else just wanted their money back but Unnie was different. Unnie believed everyone is controlled by money. Unnie had asked him what someone must do to live humanely free from money’s influence? This sounds like Squid Game…I can’t even…🙄😑. Here we go, writer is trying to summon up some sort of moral high ground message for us after taking us on a wild goose chase. Voiceover (IK) – she was planning revenge.
IK visiting IJ in jail (telling her what she’s found out so far). IJ adds to her story. “IK, I think I was the one who introduced you to Unnie.” Flashback. Unnie at the funeral home for death of her mother. She asks IJ to attend her mother’s burial on her behalf because she has to go to Singapore for a business trip. IJ is shocked but after some convincing agrees. They see IK on the TV reporting the Bobae Savings Bank fall out. IJ mentions to Unnie that IK is her sister and how strong her sense of justice is. IK believes that Unnie is the one who told Won SangWoo (priest) about her tenacity. IJ has a minor meltdown and decries how she was a puppet caught up in everyone’s plans…err..no…you freely walked into it and went along with it because of your stupidity? 🙄😑. Sorry girl, I ain’t sorry for you at all. IJ feels the “injustice” of it all and vows to go down fighting. She tells IK that she wants to prove it was Mrs P who killed Unnie and have her put behind bars too. IJ says the evidence is the Closed Room. She tells IK to look up the photos in her cloud storage. She also reveals Mrs P’s MO. That she likes to set the scene for her murders. That Unnie’s murder was a copy of the scene where Mrs P’s mother died. She tells IK about IH’s reveal about the art project. IK finds it on the internet.
IK hunts down Unnie’s father and finds out the furcoat that Unnie died in was disposed off and burnt by the dad. JongHo isn’t convinced. He searches up the fur coat and finds that it was actually sold off online a week after Unnie’s death? How? He just happens to find it after a cursory search? Whatever 🙄. Somehow he’s found it because Unnie’s dad’s phone number is listed as the seller’s number. Wow…I should try that next time. But you know…every online auction place I know hides those numbers…it’s never displayed or searchable like that? Pacifist JongHo assures he he will find the buyer. And he texts the buyer (how?? This is a major privacy breach?).
Mean journalist Jang in an exclusive with someone else trying to discredit the video footage of Mr P killing the priest. Showing footage from a dashcam that it was the Priest who pulled the gun on PJS first and the killing was in self defense. Story was Priest and Unnie were working together and embezzled the 72bil won. IK and IJ wanted to frame PJS with the crime because they wanted to keep all the money for themselves. Footage of IK meeting Unnie at the Victim’s meeting is played. IK and JongHo having a meal watching this all play out on the TV. Another table of men exclaim how they knew it was the Oh sisters all this time and they were greedy money grubbing lowlife. IK bristles. JongHo grabs her hand in his and stops her from making a scene. Our pacifist calms her down.
Mrs P is dining with old man Jang SaPyeong (see…surname Jang again 😂). Jang is amazed by her leadership. She tells him he needs to step up now that PJS is gone. JSP is the last surviving member of the Vietnam Unit? She wants him to run the Foundation (which I guess is just the shopfront for their cult to lure the poor who want to make something of themselves?). She wants JSP to “handle IK” (get rid of her?). Turns out JSP was the most formidable member of the Unit…and knows torture methods. Mrs P wants IK to suffer more pain than she has thus far experienced. JSP wants to know one thing, if PJS really killed the priest? She dodges by saying her brother was insane and didn’t abide by the same rules they did…just like their mom. They head to the orchid room. JSP has brought his orchid. Mrs P plants it back onto the tree on one of the highest branches. JSP gives a satisfied smile and takes a pic of the orchid on the tree with his phone.
IK confronts journalist Jang in the carpark accusing her of lying. IK brings up the fact that Jang received a scholarship from WonRyeong Foundation back in 1997 and that she had poor beginnings too. Jang accuses her of being an accessory to the crime her sister had committed. That she is just as greedy as anyone else. They exchange more barbs and Jang leaves in her car. As IK is pondering what to do next, a black van screeches in from behind and she is abducted.
JongHo returns to the Oh residence…O look, he’s got the fur coat. How? Never mind. He wonders where IK is. He tries to ring her. His call can’t be connected. He furrows his brow with worry.
Mrs P comes to gloat at IJ in prison. She takes out a lip gloss purposefully and waves the colour in front of IJ. IJ recognizes it as the lip gloss she gave IK. Then Mrs P pulls out IK’s notepad and reads from it and shows IJ the handwriting. The penny drops for IJ. IJ screams and threatens Mrs P, “if you hurt IK, I won’t sit back.”
Mrs P mentions IJ’s parents in the Philippines and IH. IJ is fighting back tears and then in pure frustration takes up the chair she’s sitting on and hits the clear partition between them multiple times. Screaming hysterically whilst Mrs P watches disinterestedly. A guard emerges and tries to calm IJ down. Mrs P asks, “was the 70bil worth it? All this pain?” IJ pleads for her to leave her sisters alone. Mrs P replies, “you still owe me 70bil won. You will keep hearing bad news whilst still in prison. And you can do nothing about it. I will make sure you stay alive for 20years.” IJ is taken back to her cell where she sobs.
At the Police station. JongHo reports IK missing.
IK captured. Tape over her mouth. She wakes up. She’s in a room in WonRyeong University. JSP enters. He’s wondering why Gardening News never featured the blue orchid they came to film. He’s picking up all his “tools” of torture as he speaks. He accuses her of being a spy, then brings a scalpel up to her neck. Camera pans on her hands which slacken. Did she faint?
Trial. Choi walks into court and sits in the public seating area and avoids eye contact with IJ. Mrs P glances across at Choi from the public seating. Choi testifies. He claims IJ was the one who asked him for help and requested him to help her withdraw the 70bil from the account in Singapore. Cross examination by defending lawyer who asks him why IJ got him to withdraw her 70bil. Choi claims it was because IJ told him she was afraid because she found out Unnie had deposited that amount in her account and was afraid of the consequences. Lawyer asks him why he then deposited the money into a paper company in the Virgin Islands. Choi revealed the money was then moved across to another paper company in Panama…the owner of which was Mrs P. Mrs P’s face isn’t so happy now as the crowd murmurs. The man with a plan strikes again. Choi takes out a usb drive stating it has all the transactions of the company over a decade relating to a slush fund in Panama owned by Mrs P. Prosecution objects stating that the evidence may have been illegally obtained. Judge asks where the evidence was obtained? Choi states it is his job to manage the accounts using transaction records lawfully issued by banks so I guess it means he acquired if legally? 🤔. Usb is given to scribe (?) who plugs it into her laptop and the records flash up on the monitors. It clearly shows the money being moved. Defence asks, “are you saying that Ms OIJ was unaware that the 70bil had been embezzled, and had rather withdrew the money to avoid being involved in the embezzlement?” Choi replies, “we never share such confidential tasks with a low level employee like Ms OIJ.” Give the man a best unofficial boyfriend award 🥇. Yet again, he takes all the heat off her and absorbs all the blame. IJ looks puzzled. 😂😂😂 KGE is so good at playing dumb. Choi continues, “the reason HwaYoung (Unnie) targeted her was because she was naive and financially illiterate which allowed her to open accounts using her (IJ) name.” IJ looks pissed at Choi’s assessment of her 😂😂😂. Choi, “when the culprits Jin HwaYoung and Shin HyeoMin suddenly died, OIJ became scared and returned the 2bil she had. Even risked losing her job in the process. She also withdrew the 70bil and insisted I take it.” O Choi…👏👏👏🔥. Defence, “are you aware that your testimony may subject you to criminal punishment in the organized embezzlement and establishment of slush funds for Orchid E&C?” Choi…ever the cool dude (even with the faint scars on his face from the car accident) replies after a pregnant pause, “yes I am.” IJ gives him a look but he avoids eye contact and exits the witness seat. Leaving Mrs P and Ms Go looking daggers at him as he saunters pass their seat and sits down on his. IJ is confused with the turn of events. Her lawyer leans over, “my guess is one year in the first trial and probation in the second trial.”
Outside Mrs P is mobbed by reporters asking for her side of the story with Choi’s revelation. She gets into her car without a word and drives off. Mrs P didn’t know that Choi had moved the funds into her account. She claimed she has so many accounts she can’t keep an eye on them all. She thinks he may have fabricated it so she needs to head back and do some research. Ms Go wonders why Choi didn’t keep the money and if he’s doing this all for IJ. Bingo. Mrs P asks what sort of nonsense she’s spouting. 😂.
IJ and defense lawyer in holding room? Lawyer gets a call and walks out of the room to take it. Choi walks in. He sits across from her and smiles softly. What was that? IJ demands. 😂😂😂. Do you think I am an idiot? Financially illiterate? She’s mad. Choi smiles at her petulance. Financially illiterate is NOT the same as an idiot. You got that right lover boy. IJ, “you left without a word then show up out of nowhere and put up a show? That’s treating me like an idiot!” Choi sighs, “I am sorry, something came up.” IJ, “ why didn’t you let me know you were okay?“. Aww… Choi defends himself, “you ignored my calls and texts and when I tried to send someone but you were in solitary confinement.” Flashback to the call that IJ ignored when the police came knocking and the failed note pass as she mobbed by reporters. Lawyer walks in on them. Choi walks out. As IJ is being led away she sees Choi apprehended by Police and charged. He turns to give her one last longing look before he is cuffed and led away.
Mrs P talks to reporter Jang. Who gives her all her options of getting out of jail. Why doesn’t she speak to an attorney instead of a reporter? A man comes running to Jang to interrupt her and tells her IK is on the news? Another exclusive? JongHo sees it too (on someone else’s phone) and runs to the broadcast studio. It’s the furcoat reveal. CCTV footage of Mrs P wearing the coat out on the night of Unnie’s murder and then the same coat being found on Unnie. There’s only 8 of these coats made. IK brings up the Closed Room art project. And the rare blue orchid. All the deaths have the blue orchid left at the scene. Mrs P shakily tries to dial JSP. But who should show up as an “expert” of the orchid at the exclusive? Yeah JSP. Mrs P gasps in horror as she watches on. JSP reveals the Park residence has a tree that the blue orchids thrive on. Flashback to “torture scene”. JSP cuts IK’s tape so she can speak. She somehow manages to convince him that PJS’s dream (greed and power) was not what the original General envisaged for helping impoverished children realize their dreams. And they even killed the General’s son – the priest. So I guess he decides to side with IK. Back to the studio. JSP took a photo of the tree and it’s now displayed for all to see on Tv.
IK finishes her exclusive, walks out of the broadcast building and sees JongHo. She runs into his arms. JongHo tells her he really thought he lost her this time. She apologizes. He promises to hold her tighter from now on and never let her go. Whatever.
IJ back in court. IJ’s final testimony. She admits that when she first saw the 2bil, she thought it was shining. She admits that many people would doubt that she didn’t have anything to do with the embezzlement and why Unnie would just give her the money like that. She admits to wondering herself. She realizes that the moment she saw the money, it seemed to be a compensation for all the poverty she had experienced in her life. She thought Unnie would’ve felt the same way about the money. Because they were alike. She pleads for the judge to punish her for the thrill and greed she felt when she was in possession of the money. She almost lost her life because of the money. And the lives of those she loved most. She now values her life much more than she values the 70bil. Wow…that’s it? That’s the punchline? The money moment? Why do I feel so…err…underwhelmed? 🤷🏻♀️. She demands for those who laundered the money be brought to justice. Door to the courtroom opens. Stilettos walking. Her face is blurred. The courtroom is silent except for the stilettos. Everyone gasps with surprise as they turn to see who it is… IJ turns round…and it’s Unnie! With a bandage conspicuously on the side of her neck? IJ and Unnie lock eyes.
END
@packmule3 ep11 recap must’ve gone to your trash/junk folder.
It went through this time, @nrllee. 🙂
Thanks for the recap. I’ll post it on the blog in a while.
@packmule3 no rush. This drama is so underwhelming. I am only watching it to the end just because. Hate watching… 😂. Not sure I will have the enthusiasm to recap the final ep. Will see how I feel. 🤪
For all the twists and turns, some things never change: we can always count on the villain to start monologuing at the crucial moment.
😂😂
I agree with your pithy observation, @Snow Flower. 👍
Ep12 Finale
Finale? Is it? I really hope so…but from reading some spoilers…it sounds like writer wants the audience to demand for an encore with S2…and I will NOT be watching that. I was impatient so I blitzed through the ep as quickly as I could so I will not be doing a recap. It’s close to an hour and a half long too 🙄😑
Notes
1. Unnie testifies. Admits to colluding with Mrs P and embezzlement. Absolves IJ of any criminality in the matter. Used IJ’s name to deposit funds because she needed to be able to access the account post “death”. Refused to reveal to prosecutor who died in her place? How can she even get away with this? Gave IJ the 2bil because she wanted IJ to be free of her poverty. Her motive in all of this? Revenge against Mrs P.
2. IJ is acquitted of embezzlement of the 70bil. But…because she took the 2bil, she has been sentenced to 1yr6 months with 2yrs of probation.
3. There’s a time jump for that time IJ spent in prison? I am confused…or was there not? Or was she just released to serve her sentence at a later date? I don’t know.
4. Unnie and IJ meet. Unnie reveals she saw IJ’s delight in Singapore (all her dreams and wishes) and vowed that if she were ever reborn, she would want to come back as IJ. Unnie came back into the picture when she found out IJ was coming to the Orchid Festival and fake Unnie (Mrs P) had suddenly showed up in Singapore as well. Goodness knows how. I thought she was locked up in her room? How anyone could mistake IJ to be HwaYoung is beyond me. Maybe everyone has prosopagnosia. 😂. O @packmule3 you were right about the white car that blocked the truck of doom in Singapore that saved IJ. Unnie was in it. It was Unnie in the hospital that IJ saw. And Unnie left the canvas shoes. I guess she was wearing sensible shoes to drive? 😂. Unnie was returning to her Singapore apartment (don’t ask me why she got there later than IJ because she had local knowledge and she did leave the hospital earlier than IJ did 🤷🏻♀️), saw IJ throwing paper aeroplanes from the balcony. Was about to head up but then saw Mrs P arrive instead. She was the one who reported the illegal paper aeroplanes (littering) to the security guard. Unnie passes out after she tells the guard to do something about it. Paramedics are called and she’s taken away. She claims she was only released from hospital a few days ago. And had to do major catch up about what had happened whilst she was out of action? And hurried back to the trial when she came to? Wait…so what happened to IJ’s sentence for taking the 2bil? 😑🙄🤷🏻♀️
5. Choi was acquitted for lack of evidence. Spent no time in prison at all. He asks IJ to fly out to Netherlands with him to find IH (before Mrs P does). How can she though? I thought she committed a criminal offence and is supposed to be rotting in jail for 1.5-2years? Unless she had already served her sentence in which case Unnie’s meeting with her after IK picked her up from jail happened 1-2years later? Why wasn’t Unnie and Mrs P charged for embezzlement during that time then? The timeline makes no sense.
6. Lady who died in Unnie’s behalf. Was someone who wanted to commit suicide anyway? Huh? This is just all wrong. Woman conveniently wanted to die without anyone knowing. So for 2 years they mirrored each other. Same orchid tattoos. Same length hair, same physique. How??? Don’t you look at someone’s face to confirm the person that died is who they think she is? 🙄😑. They are not twins? Video footage of Unnie’s apartment conveniently had this woman (face is all bandaged up so everyone assumed it was Unnie because she had plastic surgery done? 🙄😑) sedated by Mrs P and she’s the one who made it look like she committed suicide. This writing makes zero sense. So it’s okay that she died because she wanted to die anyway? 🤦♀️
7. Unnie kept a digital copy of the ledger which she released to the public. But she loaded it up to BookKeeper of the Future. So you need to download the app before you can access it…so of course everyone downloads the app…this doesn’t sound right to me. Profiteering? 🤦♀️
8. JSP is given an overdose of the blue orchid liquid…stabbed in the neck by Mrs P in the private ward of her father…with a nurse watching…said nurse just runs out and does nothing after she is told to just hurry along.
9. Somehow Unnie gets kidnapped by Mrs P and is kept in the Orchid Room to lure IJ? 🙄😑. IJ alerts the police. Why doesn’t she just wait for them? She heads there herself? 🤦♀️. Somehow she manages to get her hands on a grenade?? Which she found in a locker?? Threatens to detonate it when she confronts Mrs P with the captured Unnie. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️. Flashback tells us that Choi Snr conveniently slipped it into her hands in the carpark before he was apprehended by Police. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️. Everyone should carry at least one bomb in their life. Really? Says who?
10. IK is kidnapped by Park goons as she visits WonRyeong to talk to JSP about the memoirs. Find him hanging in the room (Park goons still there). With a blood trail…and a sword on the ground. JongHo uses a sword (which was on the ground) to try to save her. He decides it’s a good idea to plunge the room into darkness by stabbing a power point with the blade? What?? That’s how you get electrocuted? 🤦♀️. He’s too late. IK is taken. He dials IJ but he gets Choi instead because he has IJ’s phone.
11. Mrs P rigged the sprinklers (runs twice a day) in the Orchid Basement to deliver hydrochloric acid instead of water. How??? This is makjang to the next level. Mrs P accidentally killed her mom. She pushed her mom in the closed room. Mom hits head on corner of the table (which was rounded by the way…so maybe “blunt” force trauma 🙄). Mom was still alive. Told her to get out of the room, tell nobody and forget it happened. She returns later to find her mom hanged herself. She decides to remove her mom’s bloodied clothes and dress her mom up in her best clothes whilst she was hanging there. Don’t ask me how she got her mom’s top off whilst she was still hanging in the closet. It had no buttons. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️. IJ tries to psychoanalyze Mrs P. I am over it. Too weird and it beggars belief.
12. Choi and JongHo take out goons who kidnap IK. Mainly Choi. JongHo came later and rescued the damsel in distress. Choi gets stabbed by Ms Go who demands to know if he’s doing this because he’s in love with IJ. Man says, “you shouldn’t be doing this if you suspected that I am in love with her.” And proceeds to twist her arm so the knife stabs into her instead. That sounds like an affirmation to me 😂👏.
13. Mrs P presses remote button for sprinklers and leaves. Unnie is burnt with the “acid rain” as Mrs P watches from a corner of the room with glee. IJ chucks grenade into a hinged manhole (?)…which explodes. Uses lid of manhole as an “umbrella”, runs to Unnie and shields them both from the acid rain. Whips a knife out of her pocket and cuts Unnie’s rope ties. And they both run out of the room under the cover of the metal shield. Mrs P is trapped in the opposite corner though. Choi bursts into the room just in time to grab a failing Unnie and help the 2 ladies out of danger. Mrs P runs out of her corner in spite of the acid rain, fights with IJ. IJ breaks free and Mrs P falls back into a pool (?) of acid? Wow that filled up fast, it’s no puddle…because she practically sinks down and her skin is mottled with burns. Tree and orchids wither and die…
14. IK gets memoirs from a little girl from WonRyeong School who was instructed by JSP to pass them onto her. She reads the memoirs. I fast forwarded this part. It details how he came upon the orchid in Vietnam.
15. Gen Won dies. Not sure if it was because of the blue orchid drops Mrs P added to his nebulizer or not.
16. Choi heads to Greece. He can’t convince IJ to come with him. 😑🙄🤷🏻♀️. He will be out of contact for a while. No phone or internet. But he tells her he will “see her again”.
17. Unnie is in jail. 12 years.
18. Great Aunt left IJ the apartment by the Han river. Mumbo jumbo about how a house will accept souls that belong to them. 🙄 whatever. IJ’s soul searching still involves a house/apartment. The house “accepted her” so she’s now a different person? Apparently it means she has to pay tax on this gift.
19. IK wins some Reporter’s award. She’s scouted by some rival news company. She turns it down…for JongHo…whom she confesses to. She wants to go with him to the US. And we get a kiss 💋. Whatever.
20. Choi helped IH and HR run away. He asked about HR’s Panama account. Which she can’t access till after her 18th birthday? So this is the account Choi shuffled the money (70bil) into? Which Mrs P couldn’t track down? 🤦♀️😑🙄. Money is divided. Choi gets same amount as IK, IJ gets 3x more? HR and IH get a share too.
And that’s how it ends…😑
What? The 70bil of illegally gained money is just divided up amongst the sisters, HR and Choi and this is okay? 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️. Final grade for this drama is an F for me. It’s NOT okay to take money that doesn’t belong to you? You didn’t earn it?
@nrllee, yes, quite. All of the reasonably good people get money that’s not theirs, except perhaps HR who must be the heir to something, rained down upon them and the state revenue department will never catch on. 🙄 Good thing, because you just know that IJ would not be able to pay the property taxes, the new mortgage, maintenance fees and still be able to buy furniture for Great Aunt’s home. In most K-dramas she wouldn’t even be able to get a job after a jail sentence. Give her a few billion and she will still end up at square one.
Mrs Park would have been a great Bond villain. Just happened to have a stash of hydrochloric acid delivered for just such an emergency.
As to Choi, IJ doesn’t deserve him. What does she say as he leaves? Stay healthy? Tsk.
@Fern. Were you confused with the timeline? I thought the judge sentenced IJ to 1.5years for taking the 2bil? The next we see her is when she’s being picked up by IK and JongHo outside prison? So I just assumed there was a passage of time? They pick her up and then head to Great Aunt’s house where Unnie is and they have a heart to heart? If there was a time jump, then how did Unnie and Mrs P remain without charge for 1.5 years after those revelations by Choi? Unnie still had the bandage on her neck? I mean, if that’s from the accident in Singapore, how is she still feeling the effects of it after 1.5 years? 🤷🏻♀️ If on the other hand, we assume that there was no time jump, and IJ hadn’t served time yet, how was she even allowed to get a plane ticket to fly out of the country to find IH? With Choi? 🤦♀️ The whole thing makes no sense.
I kept wanting to fast forward the episode because it felt like it kept going on and on and on. IJ refuses to sell the gifted apartment from Great Aunt because her soul was bonded to the house? It “felt” like it was hers and she therefore was the rightful owner? Unnie benefits from her BookKeeper From The Future software? That poor woman who wanted to commit suicide anyway? Nameless? Poor thing. What was she doing in Unnie’s apartment anyway? Were they living together? 🤦♀️🤷🏻♀️ And what was PJS’s part in the whole death of Unnie? The CCTV footage of him being there on the night she died? Was he just there to pick up Mrs P after she killed fake Unnie?
This drama has no moral message. It’s morally ambiguous. Full of plot holes. It’s grandiose and trying so hard to ride on the success of Parasite and Squid Game but it failed miserably. How can the protagonists happily spend the 70bil on a good conscience? Even in SG, the man who won the money in the end never spent a single cent of it because he knew firsthand how people died in pursuit of the same prize. It was unconscionable. The 70bil didn’t materialize out of thin air. It’s blood money. This writer is on my ban list. Her sense of morality is skewed…in a bad way.
Yes, I was indeed confused with the timeline. I thought I missed some bit of dialogue and that IJ was released immediately and not charged given the aftermath. I thought ‘Oh, okay. Whatever.’ You are right, too, that if she was on parole, she wouldn’t have been able to travel legally. I also missed why Mrs P wasn’t arrested immediately and her accounts frozen. As she left the trial she said, ‘…some sort of misunderstanding?’
The use of a person who wanted to commit suicide was appalling. And how would you get someone who wanted to commit suicide to wait two years? Suicidal people are usually desperate. It doesn’t seem realistic.
The mother and father were still travelling the world as though the news in SK would have been unavailable to them, or they simply don’t give a toss about what their children are up to. The daughters by the end were just rolling their eyes and about how the mother was out of touch with the youngest daughter’s taste in clothing.
You are also right about the 70 billion being blood money. The show doesn’t address the questions of who actually owns that money and what happened to all of the rest of the Parks’ money? Only Choi must know where it’s squirreled away. As he leaves the country, Choi tells IJ he will live without phone or email for a while because if someone offers him an easy job, he would be tempted to return to his old ways. But since he kept the 70 billion and acted to distribute it, and accepted part of it as well, to me he is as morally ambiguous as the others. He didn’t keep it (good) and didn’t give it all to IJ (also probably good because she is legitimately foolish with money.) I get how he might be able to deposit it into HR’s secret trust fund, but then why bother if he was going to take it out again so soon?
The question about the timeline comes back into play because if it had been stuffed into HR’s trust fund and there HAD been a time jump, would she have reached 18 by then and could do what she wanted with the money? I was confused by that, so I just kept assuming that there hadn’t been a time jump and IJ had the out of jail free card.
I have a lot of questions about the logic throughout and about the morality of IJ. I don’t think she learned much. She is still not someone I would trust to handle money well. She seemed horribly ungrateful to Choi. I’m not saying that she should feel obliged to have a dating relationship with him if she doesn’t reciprocate his feelings, but she never even expresses her gratitude for the many times he has saved her and her sisters. He should have risen to precious best friend status at least. Instead, she takes him to the airport and says to stay healthy. Harrumph.
@Fern I am glad I wasn’t the only one confused about the timeline. Yes to all your points above. I kept going back to the verdict and then to IK picking IJ up from the prison gates to check that I didn’t miss anything. But it just made no sense. Because when IK picked her up, she said something like, “it must’ve been hard.” And JongHo brought her some special food? Which seemed like something she wouldn’t have had in jail so he brought it for her? So she was incarcerated? It seemed like time stopped for everyone else though? Who knows? How did she “sneak off” the plane? That’s impossible to not be seen by stewardesses etc who stand at the exits? 😑The acid rain was…so over the top. And the grenade? What? I just kept rolling my eyes.
@nrllee,
That food Jongho brought IJ is like tofu. It’s customarily given to people released from jail. 😂
I think it has something to do with convicts not getting enough protein in jail and tofu has protein??? Or maybe an idiomatic expression? I can’t remember now…
@packmule3 I thought it was tofu but then thought it was an odd dish to offer someone. It wasn’t exactly a delicacy? Thanks for letting me know the significance.
@nrllee,
Yes! I’m angry that this writer used a SUICIDAL person as a PLOT DEVICE!
I just can’t wrap my head around that. What is this writer thinking? That a suicidal person’s life is a throwaway because she plans to kill herself? How callous.
This writer has a weird POV on suicides.
1. When Park JaeSung jumped off the room, the suicide was framed as heroic. He was doing it for a cause.
🤬🤬Great way to encourage more suicides, you twerp of a writer! 🤬🤬
2. Then when Unnie needed a body double, a suicidal person was killed in her place, so she was free to live it up in Singapore.
A suicidal person needs help. Why do you think we have disclaimers on shows with suicide content, encouraging viewers to seek help if they’re in mental distress? But this freaking writer makes use of a depressed person (that includes Unnie, too) and a person with suicidal ideation to explain away Unnie’s Back-From-the-Dead Trope. I’ve seen her use “deus ex machina” over and over again to save her dumb plot, but she just didn’t know when to stop.
🤬🤬Way to trivialize mental health, you crappy writer. 🤬🤬
3. And where’s the justice for this poor dead lady?
If Unnie already had the CCTV even back then, then why didn’t she share it with the police so they’d go after the murderer? The footage showed who the murderer was.
I said there’s no way in hell this writer could resurrect Unnie “without making it look forced and clumsy.” She’s no genius like Agatha Christie.
The writer’s name is Chung Seo Kyung. I’ll remember that name. This makjang of hers is trash. 🗑🚮🗑🚮🗑🚮
I became dumber just for watching it.
Re. the timeline, @Nrllee and @Fern,
If this writer got the concept of “self defense” wrong when it’s so easy to learn, then I’m not at all surprised that she didn’t care to straighten out her timeline. She just throws whatever at us to see which one sticks.
I’m just going to assume that IJ got a suspended sentence, either conditional or unconditional.
Conditional suspended = IJ doesn’t serve her jail sentence, provided that she doesn’t embezzle again, get involved in criminal activities, stay out legal trouble, blah blah. If she does, then she goes back to jail and do the time. Her suspended sentence may or may not be considered equivalent to her probation.
Unconditional suspended = IJ gets no jail time. She’s released with no conditions. Her criminal record isn’t expunged.
So in the end, there was a hostage-taking, hydrochloric acid, grenade, and a witch dissolving in acid rain like the Wicked Witch of the East melted with water in that Oz book.
I’m shaking my head.
@nrllee and @packmule3, why is the general public liking this so much?
@packmule3, the question of damage to the soul you mentioned in Quick Takes would have extended to those who accepted part of the 70 billion, perhaps modulated only if they would each use it to benefit humanity somehow? I saw in a comment on another site that IH was a bad sister to divide it up because it should all have gone to IJ – as though it belonged to IJ? It made me wonder what would have been the most just and clean way to divide up the Park family money, given the crimes committed to get it. Surely the Justice Department would appoint someone to oversee that?
When I saw the waterfalls in the indoor gardens where IH and HR were walking towards the end, all I could think of was the HCl falling down from the orchid room scene before. (Was that Singapore?)
In the jail visit scene, how was it that Unnie and IJ seemed to have only minor burns? Why did Unnie have a full head of long hair? I would think that her hair and scalp would be the most affected – her hair wouldn’t grow back over the burns. It was as though Mrs P was conned by her HCl delivery company and sold diluted acid?
@Fern, the teens were in the “Cloud Forest” biodome in the “Gardens by the Bay” garden park in Singapore. Man-made waterfalls.
Agree about the 70B won split. 🤦🏼♀️ So in the end,
money and greed: good
family: bad.
The family has split up. It doesn’t exist anymore. Parents are living somewhere in the world and don’t care about children. IH has also cut ties with older sisters. IK is leaving to study abroad with Jongho. Only IJ is staying behind to live in that apartment which she wanted for all three of them to live together.
But no worries. They all have MONEY. Money that affords them to do as they please and live as they want so all’s good. All’s well that ends well. Too bad for the poor people. Let them stay poor. /sarc
🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
@Fern why is the public liking it? Because they have had the wool pulled over their eyes? Dazzled by the camera work? The glamorous scenes? The poverty to riches fairy tale? 🤦🏻♀️ They left their brains at the door when they went down the rabbit hole? 😂
I was wondering the same about Unnie’s acid burns. 😑
@packmule3 thanks for explaining the legal jargon. Writer didn’t reveal any of that to us to explain the time elapsed which is her bad.
I could be wrong, @nrllee. The writer didn’t relay any of that in the script so it’s possible that IJ did stay in prison for a 1 1/2 years in jail, and life stood still for IK, JangHo, Choi Doil, IH, Hyerin, Mrs. Park, the police, Jang SaPyeong, and everybody else. That’s just *my* interpretation of the timeline.
As for the general public liking it, nothing has really changed. 🙂 Two thousand years ago, the Roman populace was entertained by the brutal spectacle of men killing men, men and women being fed to the animals, and Christians and slaves being slaughtered at the Colosseum. It was called “the bread and circuses” policy.
Even back then, the general public aren’t known to be thinkers or moralists or do-gooders. As long as they’re entertained and titillated, and their bellies aren’t growling in starvation, they don’t need to think about the “meaning of life,” moral code, and civic duties. The politicians liked them stupid that way.
Same here. That people praise this kdrama tells me how superficial — and ignorant, sad to say — they are. They might as well just advertise that they follow the Kardasshians. hahaha.
But when I think about this…the disturbing part here is, not their drama taste, but the fact that these silly people VOTE. Can you imagine if they vote for politicians the way they admire their kdramas??
Sigh.
Thank you for the location information, @packmule3. 🍪💐🍪
Annyeong 😲
What a makjang show! So glad that’s over. I hear/read you @PM3, NRLLEE and fern.
What a crazy ride! –For entertainment purposes!
The bad guys are annihilated. horray! The Little Women are free! horray! InJoo got her apartment. IK’s heartbeat is racing for JH. the Alpha waves is because JH is beside her. happy for IK. they got a kiss 😘 and IH is somewhere in singapore? with HR. i was hoping they’d be somewhere in paris painting on canvasses 💗
when DOil said “i’ll see you again” – how sweeeeeeet. who doesn’t want to go to Greece after all that death-defying journey they all went through? and for Injoo to take him to the airport without even a parting hug? DOil’s parting words hit me… yes, please, come again 😄 ya IJ, you need to show more gratitude. sigh.
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with so many accounts, Mrs P can’t keep track of it all. i guess, she couldn’t differentiate it either that the account is under HR.
the time gaps are weird. i was confused as well when IJ exited the prison. but that tofu thing in cubes, so fancy. if she was only gonna eat one, why so many? and when Unnie was at the house, it’s like they just saw each other and not a year passed? or maybe, IJ just didn’t serve her time?
i was also trying to figure out how they divvied up with money? did anyone get the screen shot? coz it was basically divided into 5 parts with inJoo getting 27bil? i thot DOil got 10bil? and the rest, prob the same as Doil? so far from the 60-40% deal they made in the beginning. makes DOil a very nice man. if you don’t look at it as blood money.
what happened to their Aunt’s debt? and to DOil’s dad and his mom (after the accident)?
i actually loved the IK and JH ending 💗 i feel like the IJ and Doil ending is open ended like there’s gonna be a S2?? waaaaah?
Mrs P’s ending ending was whoah! what JSP said before his last breath basically sums the show – you’re crazy! waaahhaha! so she accidentally killer her mom? and hanged her in the closet and dressed her? so she’s a serial killer then. so why did Mr P go to unnie’s house again on the night she supposed died? she must have hated IJ so much to go after her like that – to her demise. like the wicked witch of Oz per @PM3. and yes that was crazy of unnie to use a suicidal girl to replace her. ???*&^%$ unbelievable.
how did IJ carry that manhole lid (drainage cover) like it was cardboard over her head? Unnie should have more scars than that! but IJ so brave in saving her unnie. when they had the confrontation after IJ got out of jail, that shove that IJ gave her needed to be stronger. that shove was wimpy.
i did like DOil’s response to that mean lady before he killed her.
thanks for the madcap @nrllee. to show how crazy this show is.
i need to remember Doil’s smile – at the airport. LOL the most non crazy person in the show is JH haha. that face. so cute!
@nrllee and @packmule, I wondered if IJ’s final sentencing was left out of the translation – perhaps mentioned very quickly. A fluent Korean speaker could let us know.
I’m glad to leave this behind, although I appreciate several of the actors very much. I wonder what they will say about the moral side in interviews?
It looks like the message of the drama is “It’s OK to steal from the rich.” Rather simplistic and definitely not right.
Grooming a suicidal person for personal revenge purposes is definitely not right
Things I liked in the drama:
1. Orchids
2. KGE’s teal dress in Singapore
3. Wi Ha Joon
Off to binge Squid Game!
@SnowFlower let me know what you think of Squid Game when you finish it. You will be able to pick out parallel themes with this drama. But that’s where it ends really. Little Women had no ethos at all. The “slush fund” was established by “bad people” but money just doesn’t materialize out of nowhere. It had to come from somewhere. Hardworking people slaving to get by, investing their money in companies, who mismanage these funds and siphon them off for their own use. It’s not right to profit from it. Just like my eyebrows were raised when Unnie pretty much “forced” everyone to download her BookKeeper software so that they could view the secret ledgers 🤦♀️😑. Profiteering to the end. She even boasted behind bars that she received offers from people wanting to “buy” the software from her. 🤦♀️🙄. No morals. Nobody learnt any lesson in the end. Even IK who was supposed to be the one championing the rights of the little people ended up with a tidy sum from the 70bil. It didn’t look like she was going to “give it back”? So her character regressed. Never going to watch anything from this writer again.
Phew! What a read! 😆😆😆 I came by after seeing a tweet claiming this drama as a great masterpiece. I wanna read what our wise BoDs thought about it. Well, well well… reading how the writer treated suicidal as her plot devices after watching how a girl struggles to deal with her trauma in the Lucky Girl Alive, I can only shake my head. It takes a lot of courage and efforts to not succumb to depression, psychological trauma and thus, suicide. What was she thinking??!! Imma gonna put a ban tag on this one. 😑
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@nrllee, I finished Squid Game and I found it very thought-provoking. I did figure out the two major reveals, but maybe because I was already primed by your comments on Little Women. SG is much better written and it is consistent in its ethos. I liked the ending too. I don’t think a second season is necessary though.
@SnowFlower yes Squid Game was intense but I liked how the writer penned the final message. The twist was there for a specific purpose. And the message was driven home. I am glad you agree that it didn’t need a S2. I felt that it had delivered it’s message already and any further tweaking would only detract from it.