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As you can see, I’m in a writing slump, too. I’m up to date with this kdrama. It’s the only show I can bear to watch after a long day at work.
Maybe because I get — or I *think* I get — the creative vision of the director.
Maybe because I find it entertaining to watch Park HyungSik’s aegyo. Unlike Song Kang who couldn’t do aegyo to save his life in “My Demon,” PHS is a natural.
Maybe because I appreciate the genius of a scriptwriter who reinvents something as formulaic as a romcom and gives it new spin. This show isn’t about finding true love because obviously, HaNeul and JungWoo are the OTP from way back in high school. Instead, the show demonstrates that when there’s a thin line between love and hate, even the best intentions can be misconstrued or misunderstood.
Maybe because I enjoy the wholesome-ness of the main actors, and Dr. Bin.
Maybe because I like the predictability of the show. All’s well that ends well.
Let’s enjoy the show.
@pkml3 I’m glad you’re enjoying this show too!
I need to catch up. I got bedazzled by Wedding Impossible.
What I like and also am uncomfortably familiar with is that love/hate line. How even compatible people can misunderstand each other due to their respective interpretations of words or events; and how that can make or break a promising relationship. How communication needs to be thorough and not open to interpretation. I find that very realistic, especially given the psychology of the leads.
Totally agree about PHS aegyo is so natural!
I am enjoying this show and have rewatched all episodes esp ep10 like 3x already. 😅
#packmule3, I am enjoying this drama because I like the casting of the OTP. To me, they seem to complement each other. And as they say in K Dramas, they look good together. I actually look forward to this drama.
I am also enjoying Ghost Doctor. Apart from Full House, I have not watched anything else that Rain has done but I find him charismatic. He also plays well off of Kim Bum and Uee. In fact, I like the casting combination of the three leads.
I have been partial to medical shows since I was a young adolescent watching Dr. kildaire and Ben Casey. I date myself here and remember the “fashion” trend of the Ben Casey blouse. I subsequently liked shows like Chicago Hope, ER, House and the early days of Grey’s Anatomy.
What I also like about watching K drama medical shows is learning about the medical system in South Korea. It is interesting to see that there are hospitals attached to universities but also hospitals that are private or proprietary. In New York City where I live there are great teaching hospitals in Manhattan but some hospital deserts in the other boroughs where there may be only one good hospital per a million people. If you live in Manhattan you are in luck because you have hospitals attached to major medical schools as well as Memorial Sloan Kettering, a major cancer hospital. The Bronx has Montefiore/Einstein that is quite good. Brooklyn, until recently had SUNY Downstate near Kings County Hospital. QueenbandvStaten Island has Northwell and Richmond University Hospital that now has affiliation with Mt. sinai. Staten Island is also in close proximity to Rutgers University Medical/Robert Wood Johnson in New Brunswick. New Brunswick is home to Johnson and Johnson and New Jersey is home to lots of pharmaceutical companies. My college roommate was a chemistry major and hoped to work in that industry. I remember that when I was in college, every evening we were down wind from the Squibb plant that sent out an intense polluted aroma from the factory (we knew when the company was working). The same can be said when I was a kid and we went to see Brooklyn relatives and we passed the Pfizer plant where they were making penicillin.
I am still enjoying this show. I like how the writer reveals bits and pieces of characters and events like an onion being peeled. KM’s backstory and tragic bromance with JW was unexpected but understandable. I appreciate that the writer painted a morally weak person who let resentment/pride/greed lead him down a corrupt path and in the end he accepted the consequences of his choices and apologized but didn’t ask for forgiveness. Instead he gave JW the advice to forget him rather than waste his life resenting him. JW’s conflict and pain over the loss of his only support before he met HN and the anger/resentment were so well acted by PHS.
HN did give the police enough of the dirt she dug up on KM/Haesung for them to find more before she got in the car accident.
I liked the fake out where it seemed that JW’s big decision for how they can spend more time together turned out to be a charity surgery, but maybe all along it was also a proposal. Only a few more days and we’ll find out. What a great showcase of JW’s kindhearted character (despite growing up with so little love) that he wanted to do something meaningful with the money that was so easy to lose and so hard to get back.
I also liked that they humanized his character by having him yell at HN for putting her life at risk for him. He may be a green flag but he’s still mortal and makes mistakes.
@pkml3 Did my comment get stuck in moderation? Did I write something wrong?
I approved it. Didn’t see anything wrong with it. No banned words or topic.
I don’t know why some posts get stuck in moderation. I understand if posts are flagged when the poster misspelled her name or wrote a trigger word. But sometimes there’s nothing wrong about the posts but it still gets moderated. Mine are flagged too (e.g., I gave an unknown email) so the site is an equal opportunity moderator.